Bilangan 17:2

17:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, ¹  one from every tribal leader, ²  twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff.

Bilangan 17:10

The Memorial

17:10 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 ³  before me, that they will not die.” ⁴ 

[17:2]  ¹ tn Heb “receive from them a rod, a rod from the house of a father.”

[17:2]  ² tn Heb “from every leader of them according to their fathers’ house.”

[17:10]  ³ tn The verb means “to finish; to complete” and here “to bring to an end.” It is the imperfect following the imperative, and so introduces a purpose clause (as a final imperfect).

[17:10]  ⁴ tn This is another final imperfect in a purpose clause.