1 En toe die kinders van Israel, die hele vergadering, in die woestyn Sin kom, in die eerste maand, het die volk in Kades gebly. En Mirjam het daar gesterwe en is daar begrawe.
2 En daar was geen water vir die vergadering nie. Toe het hulle teen Moses en A„ron saamgekom.
3 En die volk het met Moses getwis, en hulle het gespreek en gesê: Ag, het ons tog maar gesterwe toe ons broers voor die aangesig van die HERE gesterf het!
4 En waarom het julle die vergadering van die HERE in hierdie woestyn gebring, dat ons en ons vee daar sou sterwe?
5 En waarom het julle ons uit Egipte laat optrek om ons in hierdie slegte plek te bring? Dit is geen plek van graan of van vye of van wingerdstokke of van granate nie; ook is daar geen water om te drink nie.
6 Daarop gaan Moses en A„ron van die vergadering af weg na die ingang van die tent van samekoms, en hulle het op hul aangesig geval; toe verskyn die heerlikheid van die HERE aan hulle.
7 En die HERE het met Moses gespreek en gesê:
8 Neem die staf en laat die vergadering byeenkom, jy en jou broer A„ron, en spreek julle die rots aan voor hulle oë; dan sal hy sy water gee. So moet jy dan vir hulle water uit die rots laat vloei en die vergadering en hulle vee laat drink.
9 Toe neem Moses die staf voor die aangesig van die HERE weg soos Hy hom beveel het.
10 En Moses en A„ron het die vergadering voor die rots laat byeenkom, en hy het vir hulle gesê: Hoor tog, julle wederstrewiges, moet ons vir julle water uit hierdie rots laat vloei?
11 Daarop tel Moses sy hand op en hy slaan die rots twee maal met sy staf; en daar het baie water uitgekom, sodat die vergadering gedrink het en hulle vee.
12 Toe sê die HERE vir Moses en A„ron: Omdat julle in My nie geglo het om My voor die oë van die kinders van Israel te heilig nie, daarom sal julle hierdie vergadering nie in die land inbring wat Ek aan hulle gegee het nie.
13 Dit is die waters van M,riba waar die kinders van Israel met die HERE getwis het en Hy Hom onder hulle as die Heilige laat ken het.
14 Daarna het Moses uit Kades boodskappers na die koning van Edom gestuur: So sê jou broer Israel: Jy weet self al die moeilikheid wat ons oorgekom het.
15 Ons vaders het na Egipte afgetrek, en ons het baie dae in Egipte gewoon, en die Egiptenaars het ons en ons vaders sleg behandel.
16 Toe het ons die HERE aangeroep, en Hy het ons stem gehoor: Hy het 'n Engel gestuur en ons uit Egipte uitgelei. Hier is ons nou in Kades, 'n stad op die grens van jou grondgebied.
17 Laat ons tog deur jou land trek: ons sal nie deur lande of wingerde trek nie en die water uit die putte nie drink nie; ons sal die koningsweg hou; ons sal nie regs of links uitdraai nie, totdat ons deur jou grondgebied getrek het.
18 Maar Edom antwoord hom: Jy sal deur my nie trek nie, anders sal ek jou met die swaard tegemoettrek.
19 Toe sê die kinders van Israel vir hom: Ons sal met die grootpad trek, en as ons van jou water drink, ek en my vee, gee ek die prys daarvoor. Laat my net te voet deurtrek -- verder niks nie.
20 Maar hy antwoord: Jy sal nie deurtrek nie. En Edom het uitgetrek hom tegemoet met baie manskappe en met 'n sterk hand.
21 So het Edom dan geweier om Israel toe te laat om deur sy grondgebied te trek. Daarop het Israel van hom af weggedraai.
22 En die kinders van Israel, die hele vergadering, het van Kades af weggetrek en by die berg Hor gekom.
23 En die HERE het met Moses en A„ron by die berg Hor, op die grens van die land Edom, gespreek en gesê:
24 A„ron sal by sy volksgenote versamel word, want hy mag nie kom in die land wat Ek aan die kinders van Israel gegee het nie, omdat julle teen my bevel wederstrewig was by die waters van M,riba.
25 Neem A„ron en sy seun Ele sar, en laat hulle op die berg Hor opklim;
26 en trek A„ron se klere uit en trek dit sy seun Ele sar aan; en A„ron sal daar by sy volksgenote versamel word en sterwe.
27 Toe het Moses gedoen soos die HERE beveel het: hulle het op die berg Hor geklim voor die oë van die hele vergadering.
28 En Moses het A„ron se klere uitgetrek en dit sy seun Ele sar aangetrek. En A„ron het daar gesterwe op die top van die berg, maar Moses en Ele sar het van die berg afgeklim.
29 En toe die hele vergadering sien dat A„ron gesterf het, het die hele huis van Israel A„ron beween dertig dae lank.
1 In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth.
2 And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!
4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?
5 Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.
6 Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord.
7 And the Lord said to Moses,
8 Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.
10 Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?
11 And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.
12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.
14 Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:
16 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;
17 Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land.
18 And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.
19 And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our feet, nothing more.
20 But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.
21 So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.
22 And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor.
23 And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
24 Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.
25 So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor;
26 And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people.
27 So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of all the people they went up Mount Hor.
28 And Moses took off Aaron's robes, and put them on Eleazar, his son; and there on the top of the mountain death came to Aaron: then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
29 And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.