Numbers 20 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And the children of Yisra’ĕ

² Now there was no water for the congregation and they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon.

³ And the people contended with Mosheh and spoke, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before יהוה!

⁴ “Why have you brought up the assembly of יהוה  into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

⁵ “And why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim, to bring us to this evil place? – not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

⁶ Then Mosheh and Aharon went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the esteem of יהוה  appeared to them.

⁷ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

⁸ “Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aharon. And you shall speak to the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water. And you shall bring water for them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their livestock.”

⁹ And Mosheh took the rod from before יהוה  as He commanded him.

¹⁰ And Mosheh and Aharon assembled the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”

¹¹ Then Mosheh lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod. And much water came out, and the congregation and their livestock drank.

¹² But יהוה  spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, “Because you did not believe Me, to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹³ These were the waters of Meriḇ

¹⁴ And Mosheh sent messengers from Qaḏ

¹⁵ that our fathers went down to Mitsrayim, and we dwelt in Mitsrayim a long time, and the Mitsrites did evil to us and our fathers.

¹⁶ ‘And we cried out to יהוה, and He heard our voice and sent the Messenger and brought us up out of Mitsrayim. And see, we are in Qaḏ

¹⁷ ‘Please let us pass over, through your land. We shall not pass over through fields or vineyards, nor drink water from wells, we shall go along the sovereign’s highway. We shall not turn aside, right or left, until we have passed over your border.’ ”

¹⁸ But Eḏ

¹⁹ And the children of Yisra’ĕ

²⁰ But he said, “You do not pass over.” And Eḏ

²¹ So when Eḏ

²² And the children of Yisra’ĕ

²³ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in Mount Hor near the border of the land of Eḏ

²⁴ “Aharon is to be gathered to his people, for he is not to enter the land which I have given to the children of Yisra’ĕ

²⁵ “Take Aharon and Elʽ

²⁶ and strip Aharon of his garments and put them on Elʽ

²⁷ And Mosheh did as יהוה  commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation.

²⁸ And Mosheh stripped Aharon of his garments and put them on Elʽ

²⁹ And when all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead, all the house of Yisra’ĕ