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Numbers 20:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. "

Numbers 20:13

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11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

12 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.

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Exodus 17:7

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"He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”"

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Numbers 27:14

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"because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)"

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Psalms 106:32

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"They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;"

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Deuteronomy 32:51

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"because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel."

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Joshua 11:5

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"All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel."

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Exodus 14:22

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"The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left."

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Numbers 20:1

"The children of Israel, 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."

Numbers 20:2

"There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron."

Numbers 20:3

"The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!"

Numbers 20:4

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

Numbers 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.”"

Numbers 20:6

"Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD’s glory appeared to them."

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