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"‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

Why have you brought up the Lord 's community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

"Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink."

So Moses took the staff from before the Lord , just as he commanded him.

Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

So when we cried to the Lord , he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

So the entire company of Israelites traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.

And Moses removed Aaron's garments and put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities."

The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he would take away the snakes from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.

So they defeated Og, his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, and they possessed his land.