Numbers 17:12

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10 And the Lord said to Moses, “Bring ^aAaron’s rod back before the Testimony, to be kept ^bas a sign against the rebels, ^cthat you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die.”

11 Thus did Moses; just as the Lord had commanded him, so he did.

12 So the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Surely we die, we perish, we all perish!

13 ^aWhoever even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord must die. Shall we all utterly die?”

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Numbers 17:12-13

A new section should begin with these verses. They are connected retrospectively with Num. 16; and form the immediate introduction to Num. 18. The people were terror-stricken by the fate of the company of Korah and by the plague. Presumption passed by reaction into despair. Was there any approach for them to the tabernacle of the Lord? Was there any escape from death, except by keeping aloof from His presence? The answers are supplied by the ordinances which testified that the God of judgment was still a God of grace and of love.

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