Numbers 20:1–13

¹And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. ²And there was no water for the assembly, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. ³And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah! ⁴And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? ⁵And why have ye made us to go up out of Egypt, to bring us 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. ⁶And Moses and Aaron went from before the congregation to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to them. ⁷And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁸Take the staff, and gather the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock, and shalt give the assembly and their beasts drink. ⁹And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him. ¹⁰And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels: shall we bring forth to you water out of this rock? ¹¹And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts. ¹²And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to hallow me before the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them. ¹³These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.