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Now Miriam died there and was buried there.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Why then have you brought the L<font size="1">ORDS</font> assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> appeared to them; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke to Moses, saying,<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Water of Meribah</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>So Moses took the rod from before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, just as He had commanded him; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, Listen now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>But the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Moses and Aaron, Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Those <i>were</i> the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and He proved Himself holy among them.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>From Kadesh Moses then sent messengers to the king of Edom: Thus your brother Israel has said, You know all the hardship that has befallen us; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>But when we cried out to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, He heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt; now behold, we are at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the kings highway, not turning to the right or left, until we pass through your territory.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Edom, however, said to him, You shall not pass through us, or I will come out with the sword against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Again, the sons of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway, and if I and my livestock do drink any of your water, then I will pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet, nothing <i>else.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>But he said, You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with a heavy force and with a strong hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Now when they set out from Kadesh, the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Death of Aaron</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Aaron will be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up to Mount Hor; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron will be gathered <i>to his people,</i> and will die there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>So Moses did just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>After Moses had stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on the mountain top. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/20-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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