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Numbers 20:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, "
Numbers 20:23
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21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
23 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
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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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