These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 20
Tanakh 29 verses
- 1 And the children of , even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people abode in Kadesh; and died there, and was buried there.
- 2 And there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against and against .
- 3 And the people strove with , and spoke, saying: ‘Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before !
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And why have ye brought the of into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle?
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And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of , to bring us in unto 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.’
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- 6 And and went from the presence of the unto the door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces; and the of appeared unto them.
- 7 And spoke unto , saying:
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Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.’
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Exodus 4:17 Exodus 17:5-6 Isaiah 43:20 Numbers 21:18 Exodus 7:20 Exodus 14:16 Exodus 4:20 Joshua 6:20 Isaiah 48:21 Exodus 17:9 Revelation 22:1 Psalm 78:15-16 Mark 11:22-24 Revelation 22:17 Numbers 21:15 Psalm 33:9 Isaiah 41:17-18 Joshua 6:5 Exodus 4:2 John 16:24 Acts 2:1-4 Matthew 21:21 Luke 11:13 Acts 1:14 Nehemiah 9:15 Psalm 114:8 Numbers 20:11 Psalm 105:41 John 4:10-14 Genesis 18:14 -
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And took the rod from before , as He commanded him.
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- 10 And and gathered the together before the rock, and he said unto them: ‘Hear now, ye rebels; are we to bring you forth water out of this rock?’
- 11 And lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
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And said unto and : ‘Because ye believed not in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of , therefore ye shall not bring this into the land which I have given them.’
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Deuteronomy 1:37 Numbers 27:14 Numbers 20:24 Ezekiel 20:41 Ezekiel 36:23 Matthew 17:20 2 Chronicles 20:20 Romans 4:20 Leviticus 10:3 Deuteronomy 34:4 Matthew 17:17 1 Peter 3:15 Ezekiel 38:10 John 1:17 Numbers 11:21-22 Luke 1:20 Isaiah 7:9 Deuteronomy 3:23-27 Deuteronomy 32:49-51 Numbers 11:15 Joshua 1:2 Isaiah 8:13 Luke 1:45 - 13 These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of strove with , and He was sanctified in them.
- 14 And sent messengers from Kadesh unto the of : ‘Thus saith thy brother : Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us;
- 15 how our fathers went down into , and we dwelt in a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers;
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and when we cried unto , He heard our voice, and sent an , and brought us forth out of ; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.
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Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land; we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells; we will go along the king’s highway, we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.’
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- 18 And said unto him: ‘Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.’
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And the children of said unto him: ‘We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof; let me only pass through on my feet; there is no hurt.’
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And he said: ‘Thou shalt not pass through.’ And came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
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Thus refused to give passage through his border; wherefore turned away from him.
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- 22 And they journeyed from Kadesh; and the children of , even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.
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And spoke unto and in mount Hor, by the border of the land of , saying:
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- 24 shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of , because ye rebelled against My at the waters of Meribah.
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Take and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor.
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And strip of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.’
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- 27 And did as commanded; and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
- 28 And stripped of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and died there in the top of the mount; and and Eleazar came down from the mount.
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And when all the congregation saw that was dead, they wept for thirty days, even all the house of .
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