Numbers 20 (NET)

Numbers 20:1¹Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:21Exod 15:20Num 33:36Num 26:59Num 27:14Deut 1:22-23Deut 2:14Deut 32:51Exod 2:4Exod 2:7

Numbers 20:2²And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 16:19Num 16:42Exod 15:23-241 Cor 10:10-11Exod 16:12Exod 16:2Exod 16:7Exod 17:1-4Num 11:1-6Num 16:3

Numbers 20:3³The people contended with Moses, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 17:2Num 14:1-2Num 16:31-35Exod 16:2-3Num 11:1Num 11:33-34Num 16:49Job 3:10-11Lam 4:9Num 14:36-37

Numbers 20:4⁴Why have you brought up the Lord ’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 17:3Ps 106:21Acts 7:35Acts 7:39-40Exod 14:11-12Exod 16:3Exod 5:21Num 11:5Num 16:13-14Num 16:41

Numbers 20:5⁵Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 16:14Deut 8:15Ezek 20:36Jer 2:2Jer 2:6Neh 9:21

Numbers 20:6⁶So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:5Num 16:19Num 16:22Num 16:4Num 16:451 Chr 21:16Exod 16:10Exod 17:4Josh 7:6Matt 26:39

Numbers 20:7⁷Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 20:8⁸“Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:17Acts 2:1-4Isa 43:20John 16:24Rev 22:17Exod 14:16Exod 17:5-6Exod 17:9Exod 4:2Exod 4:20

Numbers 20:9⁹So Moses took the staff from before the Lord, just as he commanded him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 17:10

Numbers 20:10¹⁰Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 106:32-33Acts 14:9-15Acts 23:3-5Acts 3:12-16Dan 2:28-30Deut 9:24Eph 4:26Gen 40:8Gen 41:16Jas 3:2

Numbers 20:11¹¹Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:4Exod 17:6Deut 8:15Num 20:81 Chr 15:131 Sam 15:24Hos 13:5Jas 1:20Matt 28:20Ps 78:16

Numbers 20:12¹²Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:37Num 27:14Ezek 36:23Num 20:24Deut 3:23-27Deut 32:49-51Deut 34:4Isa 8:13Josh 1:2Luke 1:20

Numbers 20:13¹³These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 17:7Ps 95:8Deut 33:8Deut 32:51Ps 106:32-48Ezek 20:41Ezek 36:23Ezek 38:16Isa 5:16

Numbers 20:14¹⁴Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardships we have experienced,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 11:16-17Deut 23:7Deut 2:4-25Gen 32:3-4Gen 36:31-39Josh 9:9Mal 1:2Obad 1:10-12Exod 18:8

Numbers 20:15¹⁵how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 26:6Exod 12:40Gen 46:6Acts 7:15Gen 15:13Acts 7:19Exod 1:11-14Exod 1:16Exod 1:22Exod 5:14

Numbers 20:16¹⁶So when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:19Exod 23:20Exod 33:2Exod 3:2-9Exod 2:23-24Exod 14:10Exod 6:5

Numbers 20:17¹⁷Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 2:27Deut 2:1-4Deut 2:29Num 21:1Num 21:22-24

Numbers 20:18¹⁸But Edom said to him, “You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 20:19¹⁹Then the Israelites said to him, “We will go along the highway, and if we or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 2:28Deut 2:6Exod 12:38

Numbers 20:20²⁰But he said, “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful force.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 1:11Judg 11:17Ezek 35:5-11Gen 27:41Gen 32:6Judg 11:20Num 20:18Obad 1:10-15Ps 120:7

Numbers 20:21²¹So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 11:18Deut 2:29Deut 2:27Deut 2:4-8Deut 23:7Judg 11:24

Numbers 20:22²²So the entire company of Israelites traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 20:1Num 20:14Num 21:4Ezek 47:19Ezek 48:28Num 13:26Num 20:16Num 33:36-38Num 34:7

Numbers 20:23²³And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom. He said:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 33:37

Numbers 20:24²⁴“Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:8Deut 32:502 Chr 34:28Num 27:13Num 31:2Gen 15:15Gen 25:17Gen 35:29Gen 49:29Gen 49:33

Numbers 20:25²⁵Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up on Mount Hor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 33:38-39

Numbers 20:26²⁶Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors and will die there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 20:24Exod 29:29-30Heb 7:11Heb 7:23-24Isa 22:21-22

Numbers 20:27²⁷So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 20:28²⁸And Moses removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:6Exod 29:29-301 Chr 22:11-121 Chr 22:171 Chr 28:5-92 Pet 1:15Acts 20:25-29Deut 31:7-8Deut 32:49-50Deut 34:5

Numbers 20:29²⁹When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 34:82 Chr 35:24-25Acts 8:2Gen 1:10