Numbers 20

¹ Then camecame the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, even the whole congregationcongregation, into the desertdesert of Zin in the firstthe first monthmonth; and the people abode in KadeshKadesh; and MiriamMiriam dieddied there, and was buriedburied there.

² And there was no waterwater for the congregationcongregation: and they assembled themselves against MosesMoses and against AaronAaron.

³ And the people chid with MosesMoses, and spokespoke, saying, O that we had died when our brethrenbrethren died beforebefore the LORDthe LORD!

⁴ And why have ye brought the congregationcongregation of the LORDthe LORD into this wildernesswilderness, that we and our cattle should diedie there?

⁵ And why have ye conducted usus from EgyptEgypt, to bringbring usus to this evilevil placeplace? it is no placeplace of seedseed, or of figsfigs, or of vines, or of pomegranatespomegranates; neither is there any waterwater to drinkdrink.

⁶ And MosesMoses and AaronAaron went from the presence of the assemblyassembly to the doordoor of the tabernacletabernacle of the congregationcongregation, and they fellfell upon their facesfaces: and the glory of the LORDthe LORD appeared to them.

⁷ And the LORDthe LORD spokespoke to MosesMoses, saying,

⁸ Take the rod, and convene thou the assembly, thou, and AaronAaron thy brotherbrother, and speakspeak ye to the rockrock before their eyeseyes; and it shall givegive forth its waterwater, and thou shalt bring forth to them waterwater out of the rockrock: so thou shalt givegive drink to the congregationcongregation and their beasts.

⁹ And MosesMoses took the rod from beforebefore the LORDthe LORD, as he commandedcommanded him.

¹⁰ And MosesMoses and AaronAaron assembled the congregationcongregation beforebefore the rockrock, and he saidsaid to them, HearHear now, ye rebelsrebels; must we fetch you waterwater out of this rockrock?

¹¹ And MosesMoses lifted his handhand, and with his rod he smotesmote the rockrock twice: and the waterwater came out abundantly, and the congregationcongregation drankdrank, and their beasts also.

¹² And the LORDthe LORD spoke to MosesMoses and AaronAaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctifysanctify me in the eyeseyes of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, therefore ye shall not bringbring this congregationcongregation into the landland which I have givengiven them.

¹³ This is the waterwater of MeribahMeribah; because the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael strove with the LORDthe LORD, and he was sanctifiedsanctified in them.

¹⁴ And MosesMoses sentsent messengersmessengers from KadeshKadesh to the king of EdomEdom, Thus saithsaith thy brotherbrother IsraelIsrael, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen usus:

¹⁵ How our fathersfathers went downdown into EgyptEgypt, and we have dweltdwelt in EgyptEgypt a longlong time; and the EgyptiansEgyptians afflicted usus, and our fathersfathers:

¹⁶ And when we cried to the LORDthe LORD, he heardheard our voicevoice, and sentsent an angelangel, and hath brought usus forth from EgyptEgypt: and behold, we are in KadeshKadesh, a citycity in the uttermost of thy borderborder:

¹⁷ Let usus passpass, I pray thee, through thy countrycountry: we will not passpass through the fieldsfields, or through the vineyardsvineyards, neither will we drinkdrink of the waterwater of the wellswells: we will gogo by the king's highhigh-wayway, we will not turnturn to the right handright hand nor to the left, until we have passedpassed thy bordersborders.

¹⁸ And EdomEdom saidsaid to him, Thou shalt not passpass by me, lest I come out against thee with the swordsword.

¹⁹ And the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael saidsaid to him, We will go by the highway: and if I and my cattlecattle drinkdrink of thy waterwater, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feetfeet.

²⁰ And he saidsaid, Thou shalt not go through. And EdomEdom came out against him with many people, and with a strong handhand.

²¹ Thus EdomEdom refused to givegive IsraelIsrael passage through his borderborder: wherefore IsraelIsrael turnedturned away from him.

²² And the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, even the whole congregationcongregation, journeyedjourneyed from KadeshKadesh, and camecame to mountmount Hor.

²³ And the LORDthe LORD spokespoke to MosesMoses and AaronAaron in mountmount Hor, by the coast of the landland of EdomEdom, saying,

²⁴ AaronAaron shall be gatheredgathered to his people: for he shall not enterenter into the landland which I have givengiven to the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, because ye rebelledrebelled against my word at the waterwater of MeribahMeribah.

²⁵ Take AaronAaron and Eleazar his sonson, and bring them up to mountmount Hor:

²⁶ And stripstrip AaronAaron of his garmentsgarments, and putput them upon Eleazar his sonson: and AaronAaron shall be gatheredgathered to his people, and shall diedie there.

²⁷ And MosesMoses did as the LORDthe LORD commandedcommanded: and they ascended mountmount Hor in the sightsight of all the congregationcongregation.

²⁸ And MosesMoses strippedstripped AaronAaron of his garmentsgarments, and putput them upon Eleazar his sonson; and AaronAaron dieddied there on the top of the mountmount: and MosesMoses and Eleazar came downdown from the mountmount.

²⁹ And when all the congregationcongregation sawsaw that AaronAaron was dead, they mourned for AaronAaron thirtythirty daysdays, even all the househouse of IsraelIsrael.