10. The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”
11. So Moses did as the Lord commanded him – this is what he did.
12. The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!
13. (17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?”