Study Desk

Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the ^(a)wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.

^(b)There was no water for the congregation, ^(c)and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.

^(d)The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, "^(e)If only we had perished ^(f)when our brothers perished before the Lord !

^(g)Why then have you brought the Lord's assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die ^[a]here?

Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? ^(h)It is not a place of ^[b]grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink."