Numbers 20:1-13
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And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came k into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And l Miriam died there and was buried there.
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m Now there was no water for the congregation. n And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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And the people o quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished p when our brothers perished before the Lord!
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Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
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And q why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."
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Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and r fell on their faces. s And the glory of the Lord appeared to them,
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and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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t "Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So u you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
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And Moses took the staff v from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
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Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, w "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?"
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And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, u and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because x you did not believe in me, y to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."
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z These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through them he showed himself holy.
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Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
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Numbers 12:1
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
Numbers 26:59
The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.
Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
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Exodus 17:1
All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
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Numbers 16:19
Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.
Numbers 16:42
And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?
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Numbers 11:1
And the people complained in the hearing of the...
Numbers 11:33
While the meat was yet between their teeth, bef...
Numbers 14:37
The men who brought up a bad report of the land...
Numbers 16:32 - 33
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed th...
Numbers 16:35
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed th...
Numbers 16:49
Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, b...
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Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?
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Numbers 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
Numbers 16:4
When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.
Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
Numbers 16:45
Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
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Leviticus 9:23
And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.
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Exodus 17:5
And the Lord said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
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Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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Numbers 17:10
And the Lord said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.
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Psalms 106:32 - 33
They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account.
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Numbers 20:8
"Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
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Numbers 27:14
Because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
Deuteronomy 1:37
Even with me the Lord was angry on your account and said, 'You also shall not go in there.
Deuteronomy 3:26
But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
Deuteronomy 32:51
Because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.
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Ezekiel 20:41
As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 36:23
And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezekiel 38:16
You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
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Numbers 27:14
Because you rebelled against my word in the wil...
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah and ...
Deuteronomy 32:51
Because you broke faith with me in the midst of...
Deuteronomy 33:8
And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi your Thummim...
Psalms 81:7
In distress you called, and I delivered you; I ...
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on...
Psalms 106:32
They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and ...
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