8 And it came about the next day that when Moses went into the tent of the Testimony, look! Aaron’s rod for the house of Leʹvi had budded, and it was bringing forth buds and blossoming flowers and was bearing ripe almonds.

5 Also, they have become afraid merely at what is high, and there are terrors in the way. And the almond tree carries blossoms,+ and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry bursts, because man* is walking to his long-lasting house+ and the wailers have marched around in the street;+