Bmidbar (Numbers) - Chapter 20

20:1 The B'nai Yisrael, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 20:2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Mosha and against Aaron. 20:3 The people strove with Mosha, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Mar-Yah! 20:4 Why have you brought the assembly of Mar-Yah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? 20:5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to 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."

20:6 Mosha and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tabernacle, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Mar-Yah appeared to them. 20:7 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 20:8 "Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink."

20:9 Mosha took the rod from before Mar-Yah, as he commanded him. 20:10 Mosha and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?" 20:11 Mosha lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

20:12 Mar-Yah said to Mosha and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the B'nai Yisrael, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the B'nai Yisrael strove with Mar-Yah, and he was sanctified in them. 20:14 Mosha sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:

"Thus says your brother Yisrael: You know all the travail that has happened to us: 20:15 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: 20:16 and when we cried to Mar-Yah, 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.

20:17 "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."

20:18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

20:19 The B'nai Yisrael 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 its price: let me only, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet."

20:20 He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. 20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Yisrael passage through his border, so Yisrael turned away from him.

20:22 They travelled from Kadesh: and the B'nai Yisrael, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. 20:23 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, 20:24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the B'nai Yisrael, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. 20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; 20:26 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."

20:27 Mosha did as Mar-Yah commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 20:28 Mosha stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: and Mosha and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 20:29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Yisrael.