1 And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 Now there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 And the people contended with Moses, and said, "Would that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
4 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
5 And 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."
6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,
7 and the LORD said to Moses,
8 "Take the rod, 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; so you shall give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?"
11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
12 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
13 These are the waters of Mer'ibah, where the people of Israel contended with the LORD, and he showed himself holy among them.
14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us:
15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers;
16 and when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us forth out of Egypt; and here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
17 Now let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, neither will we drink water from a well; we will go along the King's Highway, we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed through your territory."
18 But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
19 And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."
20 But he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with many men, and with a strong force.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
22 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
23 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,
24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Mer'ibah.
25 Take Aaron and Elea'zar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Elea'zar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there."
27 Moses did as the LORD commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Elea'zar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Elea'zar came down from the mountain.
29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.
Versículos relacionados com Numbers, 20:
Numbers 20 narrates the death of Miriam, sister of Moses, and the lack of water for the community of Israel, who ends up generating a series of conflicts. Moses and Aaron go to the tabernacle to seek God's guidance, and he instructs Moses to speak to the rock to give the people water. However, Moses, annoyed by the complaints of the people, ends up hurting the rock with his rod, which displeases God. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in numbers 20:
Psalm 106:32-33: "With the water of the strife they made them angry, and badly succeeded Moses because of them. For they exacerbated their Spirit, so that he spoke hastily with his lips." This psalm refers to the episode narrated in numbers 20, in which the people of Israel complain about the lack of water and Moses ends up acting impulsively and hurting the rock with their stick.
Isaiah 48:21: "They had no thirsty when he took them through the deserts; he made water flow from the rock to them; he is striking the rock, and the water gushed." This verse refers to the time when the Israelites wandered through the desert and God, through Moses, brought water from the rock to satisfy the thirst of the people.
John 4:13-14: "Jesus answered, 'Those who drink from this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks from the water I will never have thirsty. On the contrary, the water that I will become a source of Water gushing for eternal life '". This verse refers to the living water that Jesus offers, which symbolizes eternal life and the full satisfaction of spiritual needs.
1 Corinthians 10:4: "And everyone drank from the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and this rock was Christ." This verse refers to the rock that was wounded by Moses so that the water would spark and satiate the thirst of the people of Israel in the desert. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, makes a connection between the rock that satiated the physical thirst of the people in the desert and Christ, who quenches the spiritual thirst of all those who believe in him.
Revelation 21:6: "And said to me, 'It is done. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. To whom I thirst I will give free drinking from the source of the water of life.'" This verse refers to the New Jerusalem, the heavenly city that God will create at the end of time. In this city, all who are thirsty will be able to drink free of charge from the source of the water of life, which symbolizes eternal life.
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