Numbers 19:14   (Read all of Numbers 19)

"This is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent: Anyone who enters the tent and anyone who is in it will be unclean for seven days,

Numbers 19:16   (Read all of Numbers 19)

"Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:17   (Read all of Numbers 19)

"For the unclean person, put some ashes from the burned purification offering into a jar and pour fresh water over them.

Numbers 19:18   (Read all of Numbers 19)

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

Numbers 19:19   (Read all of Numbers 19)

The man who is clean is to sprinkle those who are unclean on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify them. Those who are being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and that evening they will be clean.

Numbers 19:20   (Read all of Numbers 19)

But if those who are unclean do not purify themselves, they must be cut off from the community, because they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, and they are unclean.

Numbers 19:21   (Read all of Numbers 19)

This is a lasting ordinance for them. "The man who sprinkles the water of cleansing must also wash his clothes, and anyone who touches the water of cleansing will be unclean till evening.

Numbers 20:1   (Read all of Numbers 20)

In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Numbers 20:3   (Read all of Numbers 20)

They quarreled with Moses and said, "If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord!

Numbers 20:4   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Why did you bring the Lord's community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

Numbers 20:7   (Read all of Numbers 20)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 20:8   (Read all of Numbers 20)

"Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink."

Numbers 20:9   (Read all of Numbers 20)

So Moses took the staff from the Lord's presence, just as he commanded him.

Numbers 20:10   (Read all of Numbers 20)

He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?"

Numbers 20:11   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

Numbers 20:12   (Read all of Numbers 20)

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."

Numbers 20:14   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "This is what your brother Israel says: You know about all the hardships that have come on us.

Numbers 20:16   (Read all of Numbers 20)

but when we cried out to the Lord, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. "Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

Numbers 20:18   (Read all of Numbers 20)

But Edom answered: "You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword."

Numbers 20:21   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.

Numbers 20:22   (Read all of Numbers 20)

The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

Numbers 20:23   (Read all of Numbers 20)

At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Numbers 20:25   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Get Aaron and his son Eleazar and take them up Mount Hor.

Numbers 20:26   (Read all of Numbers 20)

Remove Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar, for Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will die there."