and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank,
and their livestock.
020:012 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe
in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land
which I have given them.
020:013 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel
strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
020:014 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says
your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has
happened to us:
020:015 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in
Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us,
and our fathers:
020:016 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent
an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold,
we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
020:017 Please let us pass through your 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 your border.
020:018 Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come
out with the sword against you.
020:019 The children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway;
and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give
the price of it: let me only, without [doing] anything [else],
pass through on my feet.
020:020 He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him
with much people, and with a strong hand.
020:021 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
why Israel turned away from him.
020:022 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel,
even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
020:023 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border
of the land of Edom, saying,
020:024 Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter
into the land which I have given to the children of Israel,
because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
020:025 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
020:026 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son:
and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there.
020:027 Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor
in the sight of all the congregation.
020:028 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar
his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain:
and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
020:029 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept
for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.