Numbers 17:10-12 - The Memorial
10 The Lord said to Moses, "Bring Aaron's staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die." 11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him -- this is what he did.
12 The Israelites said to Moses, "We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!