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NUMBERS ยท Chapter 20
20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh;
and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered
themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
20:3 And the people find fault with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would
God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
20:4 And why have all of you brought up the congregation of the LORD
into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
20:5 And wherefore have all of you made us to come up out of Egypt,
to bring us in unto 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.
20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their
faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
20:7 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
20:8 Take the rod, and gather you the assembly together, you, and Aaron
your brother, and speak all of you unto the rock before their eyes; and
it shall give forth his water, and you shall bring forth to them water
out of the rock: so you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink.
20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before
the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, all of you rebels; must we fetch
you water out of this rock?
20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he stroke the
rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank,
and their beasts also.
20:12 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron, Because all of you believed
me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
all of you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have
given them.
20:13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel
strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has befallen
us:
20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt
a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent
an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in
Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border:
20:17 Let us pass, I pray you, through your country: we will not pass
through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of
the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not
turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your borders.
20:18 And Edom said unto him, You shall not pass by me, lest I come
out against you with the sword.
20:19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high
way: and if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it:
I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.
20:20 And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against
him with much people, and with a strong hand.
20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
wherefore Israel turned away from him.
20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed
from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
20:23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the
coast of the land of Edom, saying,
20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter
into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because all
of you rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
Hor:
20:26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his
son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
20:27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount
Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar
his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar
came down from the mount.
20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned
for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
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