SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND TAKE OF EVERY ONE OF
THEM A 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.
Through the boy's mind there darted the flash of a thought, a sad
thought. He himself was a Rod on whom no man's name seemed to be
written, orphan that he was, with no knowledge of his parents!
Suddenly he hesitated, for he had caught sight of the name of
Aaron in the verse that he was about to read, and did not wish to
pronounce it in his aunt's hearing.
"This chapter is most too hard for me to read out loud, Aunt
Boynton," he stammered. " Can I study it by myself and read it to
Ivory first?"
"Go on, go on, you read very sweetly; I can not remember what
comes and I wish to hear it."
The boy continued, but without raising his eyes from the Bible.
3. AND THOU SHALT WRITE AARON'S NAME UPON THE ROD OF LEVI: FOR
ONE ROD SHALL BE FOR THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS.
4. AND THOU SHALT LAY THEM UP IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE
CONGREGATION BEFORE THE TESTIMONY, WHERE I WILL MEET WITH YOU.
5. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT THE MAN'S ROD, WHOM I SHALL
CHOOSE, SHALL BLOSSOM: AND I WILL MAKE TO CEASE FROM ME THE
MURMURINGS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEREBY THEY MURMUR AGAINST
YOU.
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