“You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 17 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.