1 And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place.
2 And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:
3 And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.
4 Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?
5 Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?
6 And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared over them.
7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
8 Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.
9 Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him,
10 And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock?
11 And when Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rook twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank,
12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them.
13 This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
14 In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us:
15 In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
16 And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,
17 And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders.
18 And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed against thee.
19 And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is just: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass speedily.
20 But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,
21 Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.
22 And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount Her, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:
23 Where the Lord spoke to Moses:
24 Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.
25 Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount Hor:
26 And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and die there.
27 Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount Hor before all the multitude.
28 And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.
29 And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with Eleazar.
30 And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty days throughout all their families.
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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