¹⁷ Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.^(A)

¹⁸ “When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this?’^{(B) 19} say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’^(C)