Numbers 17:6 (BSB)

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff was among them.

From Numbers 17. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 17:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 17:1-7: Here we have, I. Orders given for the bringing in of a rod for every tribe (which was peculiarly significant, for the word here used for a rod sometimes signifies a tribe, as particularly Num 34:13), that God by a miracle, wrought on purpose, might make it known on whom he had conferred the honour of the priesthood. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 17:6: And Moses spake unto the children of Israel,.... What the Lord had bid him say unto them concerning the rods, which they hearkened unto and observed: and everyone of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one; every prince of the several tribes, and so a rod for every tribe, as well as for each prince: according to their father's houses, even...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 17:6: the rod of Aaron was among their rods--either one of the twelve, or, as many suppose, a thirteenth in the midst (Heb 9:4). The rods were of dry sticks or wands, probably old, as transmitted from one head of the family to a succeeding.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 17:6: And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods. (c) Though Joseph's tribe was divided into two in the distribution of the land, yet here it is but one and Levi makes a tribe.