Numbers 20

 

Numbers 20

 

1 Then came the children of God Prevails (Israel), the whole congregation, into the desert of Flat (Zin) in the first month: and the people abode in Holy (Kadesh); and Rebellion (Miriam) died there, and was buried there.

 

2 There was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Drawn (Moses) and against Light Bringer (Aaron).

 

3 The people strove with Drawn (Moses) saying: If only we had died when our brethren died before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah)!

 

4 Why have you brought up the congregation of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

 

5 Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us 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!

 

6 So Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell on their faces: and the glory of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) appeared to them.

 

7 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses), saying:

 

8 Take the rod, and gather the assembly together, you, and Light Bringer (Aaron) your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock. This is the way you shall give the congregation and their beasts drink.

 

9 So Drawn (Moses) took the rod from before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), as he commanded him.

 

10 Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them: Hear now you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

 

11 Drawn (Moses) lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

 

12 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron): Because you did not believe me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of God Prevails (Israel), therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

 

13 This is the water of Place of Strife (Meribah); because the children of God Prevails (Israel) strove with I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), and He was sanctified in them.

 

14 Then Drawn (Moses) sent messengers from Holy (Kadesh) to the king of Red (Edom): From your brother God Prevails (Israel): You know all the travail that has befallen us:

 

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:

 

16 How when we cried to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), He heard our voice and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Holy (Kadesh), a city in the uttermost of your border:

 

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.

 

18 And Red (Edom) said to him: You shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.

 

19 Then the children of God Prevails (Israel) said to 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 He said: You shall not go through. And Red (Edom) came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

 

21 Thus Red (Edom) refused to give God Prevails (Israel) passage through his border: wherefore God Prevails (Israel) turned away from him.

 

22 The children of God Prevails (Israel), even the whole congregation, journeyed from Holy (Kadesh), and came to The Mountain (Hor).

 

23 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses) and Light Bringer (Aaron) in The Mountain (Hor), by the coast of the land of Red (Edom), saying:

 

24 Light Bringer (Aaron) shall be gathered to his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of God Prevails (Israel), because he rebelled against my word at the water of Place of Strife (Meribah).

 

25 Take Light Bringer (Aaron) and God Has Helped (Eleazar) his son, and bring them up to mount The Mountain (Hor):

 

26 And strip Light Bringer (Aaron) of his garments, and put them on God Has Helped (Eleazar) his son: Light Bringer (Aaron) shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.

 

27 So Drawn (Moses) did as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) commanded: and they went up into The Mountain (Hor) in the sight of all the congregation.

 

28 Then Drawn (Moses) stripped Light Bringer (Aaron) of his garments, and put them on God Has Helped (Eleazar) his son, and Light Bringer (Aaron) died there in the top of the mount: and Drawn (Moses) and God Has Helped (Eleazar) came down from the mount.

 

29 And when all the congregation saw that Light Bringer (Aaron) was dead, they mourned for Light Bringer (Aaron) thirty days, even all the house of God Prevails (Israel).