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[[Image:Aarons_Rod.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Aaron's Rod bears fruit]]

[[Image:Aarons_Rod.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Aaron's Rod bears fruit]]

'''Aaron's Rod''' refers to the staff which, in the hands of [[Aaron]], the high priest, was endowed with miraculous power during the plagues that preceded the [[Exodus]]. In this function the staff of [[Moses]] was equally potent. Upon two occasions, however, the singular virtue of spontaneous power, when not in the grasp of its possessor, was exhibited by Aaron's Rod. At one time it swallowed the rods of the [[Egypt|Egyptian]] magicians, and at another it blossomed and bore fruit in the [[Tabernacle]], as an evidence of the exclusive right to the priesthood of the tribe of [[Levi]]. In commemoration of this decision it was commanded that the rod be put again "''before the testimony''" ([[Numbers]] 17:10). [[Hebrews]] 9:4 tells that the rod was later kept in the [[Ark of the Covenant]], confirming that the rod was preserved in the Tabernacle as a relic of the institution of the Aaronic priesthood.

'''Aaron's Rod''' (Hebrew: '''מטה אהרן''') refers to the staff which, in the hands of [[Aaron]], the high priest, was endowed with miraculous power during the plagues that preceded the [[Exodus]]. In this function the staff of [[Moses]] was equally potent. Upon two occasions, however, the singular virtue of spontaneous power, when not in the grasp of its possessor, was exhibited by Aaron's Rod. At one time it swallowed the rods of the [[Egypt|Egyptian]] magicians, and at another it blossomed and bore fruit in the [[Tabernacle]], as an evidence of the exclusive right to the priesthood of the tribe of [[Levi]]. In commemoration of this decision it was commanded that the rod be put again "''before the testimony''" ([[Numbers]] 17:10). [[Hebrews]] 9:4 tells that the rod was later kept in the [[Ark of the Covenant]], confirming that the rod was preserved in the Tabernacle as a relic of the institution of the Aaronic priesthood.

==In Rabbinical literature==  

==In Rabbinical literature==