1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every
one of them aa rod according to the house of their
fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod
of Levia: for one rod shall
be for the head of the house of their fathers.
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3a the rod of Levi Now Levi
would have had 'his rod' before the captivity of Israel came, some hundreds
of years old would it be by this date. This 'rod of Levi' must have been
handed down to the firstborn heir of the house of Levi as the staff
representing the rightful leadership of the house or tribe of Levi. And that
rod, that wood staff, would have
been long dead for those hundreds of years. Indeed if it would now blosom,
that would be a miricle, for the life would have not any longer been in the
wood except by the power of God. Each of the other leaders of the twelve
tribes, those princes, actually wrote their name on their own rod. Only Aaron
was to write his name of the rod of Levi, his ancient father's staff, which
would have been hundreds of years old.
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