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Numbers Chapter 20

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In Numbers chapter 20 the Israelites rebel against God and Moses after the spies had reported that the land was hard to enter. The people are commanded to kill the spies, and they do so, but God punishes them by withholding water. The chapter illustrates the serious consequences of disobedience and the need for faithfulness.

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(1) Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
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Deuteronomy 1:22Deuteronomy 1:23Deuteronomy 2:14Numbers 13:21Numbers 27:14Numbers 33:36Deuteronomy 32:51Numbers 20:16Psalms 29:8Numbers 12:1Numbers 12:10Numbers 12:15

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Esther 3:7Numbers 27:14Numbers 14:2II Chronicles 24:25Luke 16:22Genesis 8:5

(2) And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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Exodus 15:23Exodus 15:24Exodus 17:1Exodus 17:2Exodus 17:3Exodus 17:4Numbers 11:1Numbers 11:2Numbers 11:3Numbers 11:4Numbers 11:5Numbers 11:6

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(3) And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
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Numbers 14:1Numbers 14:2Exodus 16:2Exodus 16:3Exodus 17:2Job 3:10Job 3:11Numbers 11:1Numbers 11:33Numbers 11:34Numbers 14:36Numbers 14:37

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Exodus 9:6Numbers 14:2Numbers 16:49Numbers 27:3Joshua 10:11II Samuel 2:23

(4) And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
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Numbers 11:5Exodus 5:21Exodus 17:3Psalms 106:21Acts 7:35Acts 7:39Acts 7:40Numbers 16:13Numbers 16:14Numbers 16:41Exodus 14:11Exodus 14:12

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Genesis 47:17Exodus 9:4Deuteronomy 5:25II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(5) And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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.
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Numbers 16:14Deuteronomy 8:15Nehemiah 9:21Jeremiah 2:2Jeremiah 2:6Ezekiel 20:36

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Jeremiah 24:2

(6) And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
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Numbers 14:5Numbers 16:4Numbers 16:22Numbers 16:45Exodus 17:4Joshua 7:6I Chronicles 21:16Psalms 109:3Psalms 109:4Matthew 26:39Numbers 12:5Numbers 14:10

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Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Deuteronomy 31:15II Samuel 16:19Numbers 14:5Judges 5:27

(7) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(8) Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
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Numbers 21:15Numbers 21:18Exodus 4:2Exodus 4:17Exodus 7:20Exodus 14:16Exodus 17:5Exodus 17:9Genesis 18:14Joshua 6:5Joshua 6:20Psalms 33:9

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Numbers 20:11Exodus 17:6Numbers 20:10Deuteronomy 32:13Deuteronomy 32:31Judges 20:47

(9) And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
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Numbers 17:10

(10) And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
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Deuteronomy 9:24Psalms 106:32Psalms 106:33Matthew 5:22Luke 9:54Luke 9:55Acts 23:3Acts 23:4Acts 23:5Ephesians 4:26James 3:2Numbers 11:22

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Exodus 17:6Numbers 20:8Deuteronomy 32:13Deuteronomy 32:31Judges 20:47I Samuel 14:4

(11) And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
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Numbers 20:8Leviticus 10:1I Samuel 15:13I Samuel 15:14I Samuel 15:19I Samuel 15:24I Kings 13:21I Kings 13:22I Kings 13:23I Kings 13:24I Chronicles 13:9I Chronicles 13:10

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Numbers 20:8I Corinthians 10:4Exodus 7:20

(12) And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
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Numbers 11:21Numbers 11:22II Chronicles 20:20Isaiah 7:9Matthew 17:17Matthew 17:20Luke 1:20Luke 1:45Romans 4:20Numbers 27:14Leviticus 10:3Deuteronomy 1:37

(13) This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
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Deuteronomy 33:8Psalms 95:8Psalms 106:32Psalms 106:33Psalms 106:34Psalms 106:35Psalms 106:36Psalms 106:37Psalms 106:38Psalms 106:39Psalms 106:40Psalms 106:41

(14) And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
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Judges 11:16Judges 11:17Genesis 32:3Genesis 32:4Deuteronomy 2:4Deuteronomy 2:5Deuteronomy 2:6Deuteronomy 2:7Deuteronomy 2:8Deuteronomy 2:9Deuteronomy 2:10Deuteronomy 2:11

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Judges 11:17II Samuel 8:14

(15) How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
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Genesis 46:6Acts 7:15Genesis 15:13Exodus 12:40Numbers 11:5Numbers 16:13Exodus 1:11Exodus 1:12Exodus 1:13Exodus 1:14Exodus 1:16Exodus 1:22

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Joshua 24:7Genesis 43:32

(16) And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
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Exodus 2:23Exodus 2:24Exodus 3:7Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:9Exodus 6:5Exodus 14:10Exodus 3:2Exodus 3:3Exodus 3:4Exodus 3:5Exodus 3:6

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Numbers 34:6Joshua 15:5Joshua 15:11Ezekiel 47:17Ezekiel 48:28II Samuel 24:16

(17) Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
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Numbers 21:1Numbers 21:22Numbers 21:23Numbers 21:24Deuteronomy 2:1Deuteronomy 2:2Deuteronomy 2:3Deuteronomy 2:4Deuteronomy 2:27Deuteronomy 2:29

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Numbers 21:22II Samuel 15:23Acts 12:20I Samuel 9:4Esther 8:8Judges 11:29

(18) And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
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II Samuel 8:14

(19) And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
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Deuteronomy 2:6Deuteronomy 2:28

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Genesis 47:17Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(20) And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
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Numbers 20:18Genesis 27:41Genesis 32:6Judges 11:17Judges 11:20Psalms 120:7Ezekiel 35:5Ezekiel 35:6Ezekiel 35:7Ezekiel 35:8Ezekiel 35:9Ezekiel 35:10

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II Samuel 8:14Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(21) Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
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Deuteronomy 2:27Deuteronomy 2:29Deuteronomy 2:4Deuteronomy 2:5Deuteronomy 2:6Deuteronomy 2:7Deuteronomy 2:8Deuteronomy 23:7Judges 11:18Judges 11:24

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I Samuel 13:18Numbers 34:6Joshua 15:11Judges 11:18Ezekiel 47:17II Samuel 8:14

(22) And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
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Numbers 20:1Numbers 20:14Numbers 20:16Numbers 13:26Numbers 33:36Numbers 33:37Ezekiel 47:19Ezekiel 48:28

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Exodus 19:18Exodus 19:20Numbers 21:4Numbers 33:37Deuteronomy 32:50

(23) And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
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Exodus 19:20Numbers 21:4Numbers 33:37Deuteronomy 32:50Numbers 34:3II Samuel 8:14

(24) Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
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Numbers 27:13Numbers 31:2Genesis 15:15Genesis 25:8Genesis 25:17Genesis 35:29Genesis 49:29Genesis 49:33Deuteronomy 32:50Judges 2:10II Chronicles 34:28Numbers 20:11

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(25) Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
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Numbers 33:38Numbers 33:39

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Numbers 20:28Exodus 19:20Deuteronomy 32:50

(26) And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
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Exodus 29:29Exodus 29:30Isaiah 22:21Isaiah 22:22Hebrews 7:11Hebrews 7:23Hebrews 7:24

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Deuteronomy 32:50II Kings 7:4

(27) And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
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Exodus 19:20Deuteronomy 32:50

(28) And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
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Numbers 20:26Numbers 33:38Numbers 33:39Numbers 33:40Numbers 33:41Numbers 33:42Numbers 33:43Numbers 33:44Numbers 33:45Numbers 33:46Numbers 33:47Numbers 33:48

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Exodus 19:20Deuteronomy 32:50Joshua 24:33Exodus 34:2Genesis 31:25Genesis 31:54

(29) And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
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Genesis 1:10Deuteronomy 34:8II Chronicles 35:24II Chronicles 35:25Acts 8:2

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Judges 10:4Judges 12:9

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