This [is] the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them. (20:13) com1

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: (20:14)

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: (20:15)

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: (20:16)

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 (20:17)

And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword (20:18)

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 (20:19)

And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand (20:20)

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him (20:21)

And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor (20:22)

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, (20:23)

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 (20:24)

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor: (20:25)

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 (20:26)

And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation (20:27)

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 (20:28)

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house of Israel (20:29)

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