Numbers 20:1WEB
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
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Numbers 20:1WEB
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Numbers 20:2WEB
There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
Numbers 20:3WEB
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:4WEB
Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:5WEB
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
Numbers 20:6WEB
Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:7WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:8WEB
“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
Numbers 20:9WEB
Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:10WEB
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
Numbers 20:11WEB
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
Numbers 20:12WEB
Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:13WEB
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:14WEB
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
Numbers 20:15WEB
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
Numbers 20:16WEB
When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:17WEB
“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
Numbers 20:18WEB
Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
Numbers 20:19WEB
The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
Numbers 20:20WEB
He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
Numbers 20:21WEB
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
Numbers 20:22WEB
They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
Numbers 20:23WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:24WEB
“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
Numbers 20:25WEB
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
Numbers 20:26WEB
and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
Numbers 20:27WEB
Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 20:28WEB
Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
Numbers 20:29WEB
When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.