Numbers 20:4–21

⁴and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts? ⁵and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none to drink. ⁶And Moses and Aaron go in from the presence of the assembly unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and fall on their faces, and the honour of Jehovah is seen by them. ⁷And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁸‘Take the rod, and assemble the company, thou and Aaron thy brother; and ye have spoken unto the rock before their eyes, and it hath given its water, and thou hast brought out to them water from the rock, and hast watered the company, and their beasts.’ ⁹And Moses taketh the rod from before Jehovah, as He hath commanded him, ¹⁰and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, ‘Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?’ ¹¹and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts. ¹²And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, ‘Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.’ ¹³These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have ‘striven’ with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

¹⁴And Moses sendeth messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, ‘Thus said thy brother Israel, Thou—thou hast known all the travail which hath found us; ¹⁵that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers; ¹⁶and we cry unto Jehovah, and He heareth our voice, and sendeth a messenger, and is bringing us out of Egypt; and lo, we are in Kadesh, a city in the extremity of thy border. ¹⁷Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land; we pass not over through a field, or through a vineyard, nor do we drink waters of a well; the way of the king we go, we turn not aside—right or left—till that we pass over thy border.’ ¹⁸And Edom saith unto him, ‘Thou dost not pass over through me, lest with sword I come out to meet thee.’ ¹⁹And the sons of Israel say unto him, ‘In the highway we go, and if of thy waters we drink—I and my cattle—then I have given their price; only (it is nothing) on my feet I pass over.’ ²⁰And he saith, ‘Thou dost not pass over;’ and Edom cometh out to meet him with much people, and with a strong hand; ²¹and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.