Editing Aaron's rod (section)

==Christian use==
[[Hebrews 9:4]] states that Aaron's rod was kept in the [[Ark of the Covenant]].<ref name="Jewish Encyclopedia"/>

The account of the blossoming of Aaron's rod contained in [[Pope Clement I|Clement]]'s [[First Epistle of Clement|first letter to the Corinthians]] (ep. 43) is in haggadic-midrashic style, and may probably be ascribed to Jewish or, more strictly speaking, Jewish-Hellenistic sources. According to that account, Moses placed upon each of the twelve staffs the corresponding seal of the head of a tribe. The doors of the sanctuary were similarly sealed, to prevent anyone from having access to the rods at night.<ref name="Jewish Encyclopedia"/>

The miraculous flowering of the rod was also considered a type of the [[Incarnation of Christ]] and his [[Virgin birth of Jesus|Virgin Birth]], and appears in scenes of the [[Annunciation to Mary]].<ref name="schiller54">{{cite book |last=Schiller |first=Gertrud |title=Iconography of Christian art. Vol.1, Christ's incarnation, childhood, baptism, temptation, transfiguration, works and miracles |author2=Selgman, Janet |publisher=Lund Humphries |year=1971 |volume=1 |location=London, England |page=54 |language=en-uk |oclc=59999963 |author-link=Gertrud Schiller}}</ref>

In the Ethiopian fourteenth-century text of the [[Kebra Nagast]], Aaron's rod is broken in three and probably a symbol of the Trinity: "The rod of Aaron which sprouted after it had become withered though no one watered it with water, and one had broken it in two places, and it became three rods being [originally only] one rod."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Budge (Sir) |first=Ernest Alfred Wallis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MpIGQQAACAAJ |title=The Queen of Sheba & Her Only Son Menyelek: Being the History of the Departure of God & His Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem to Ethiopia, and the Establishment of the Religion of the Hebrews & the Solomonic Line of Kings in that Country : a Complete Translation of the Kebra Nagast with Introduction |date=1922-01-01 |publisher=M. Hopkinson |language=en}}</ref>