Numbers 17:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Into the tabernacle of witness; into the most holy place, which he might safely do under the protection of God's command, though otherwise none but the high priest might enter there, and that once in a year. Yielded almonds; this being, as Josephus with great probability affirms, a staff of an almond tree, as the rest also were.

Numbers 17:8

8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.