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Numbers 16
⁴⁵ “Get away from all these people so that I can instantly destroy them!” But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground.
⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, “Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar. Lay incense on it, and carry it out among the people to purify them and make them right with the LORD. The LORD’s anger is blazing against them—the plague has already begun.”
⁴⁷ Aaron did as Moses told him and ran out among the people. The plague had already begun to strike down the people, but Aaron burned the incense and purified the people.
⁴⁸ He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.
⁴⁹ But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Korah.
⁵⁰ Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
Numbers 17
¹ Then the LORD said to Moses,
² “Tell the people of Israel to bring you twelve wooden staffs, one from each leader of Israel’s ancestral tribes, and inscribe each leader’s name on his staff.
³ Inscribe Aaron’s name on the staff of the tribe of Levi, for there must be one staff for the leader of each ancestral tribe.
⁴ Place these staffs in the Tabernacle in front of the Ark containing the tablets of the Covenant, where I meet with you.
⁵ Buds will sprout on the staff belonging to the man I choose. Then I will finally put an end to the people’s murmuring and complaining against you.”