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^(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."

Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting and ⁽ⁱ⁾fell on their faces. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to them;