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1And after a few days he came to the place, and the shepherd sat in the place of the angel, and I stood by him, and he said to me; “Gird yourself with a towel and serve me.” And I girded myself with a clean towel made of sackcloth. 2And when he saw me girded and ready to serve him he said: “Call the men whose sticks have been planted, according to the order in which each gave his stick.” And I went into the plain and called all of them, and they all stood in their stations. 3And he said to them: “Let each pull out his own stick and bring it to me.” 4And they first gave them up who had had them dry and cut, and they were found to be still dry and cut, and he commanded them to stand apart. 5Then they gave them up who had them dry, but not cut, and some of them gave up their sticks green and some dry and cut as it were by moth. Those then who gave them up green he commanded to stand apart, and those who had given them up dry and cut he commanded to stand with the first ones.a 6Then those gave them up who had them half dry and cracked, and many of them gave them up green and without cracks, and some green and with buds, and with fruit on the buds, as those had had who had gone crowned into the tower. But some gave them up dry and moth-eaten, and some dry but not eaten, and some remained half dry and with cracks. And he commanded each of them to stand apart, some in their own station and some apart.b