Numbers [In the desert] 20:1-10

¹The children of Israel God prevails, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

²There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses Drawn out and against Aaron Light-bringer.

³The people quarreled with Moses Drawn out, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Adonai !

⁴Why have you brought Adonai ’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

⁵Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt Abode of slavery, 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.”

⁶Moses Drawn out and Aaron Light-bringer went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The kavod Yahweh ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· appeared to them. (RY:2, LY:3)

⁷Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

⁸“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron Light-bringer your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”

⁹Moses Drawn out took the rod from before Adonai , as he enjoined him.

¹⁰Moses Drawn out and Aaron Light-bringer gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Sh'ma ·Hear obey· now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”