Numbers · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Numbers 20 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 En el primer mes, toda la comunidad de Israel llegó al desierto de Zin y acampó en Cades. Allí murió Miriam y allí fue sepultada.
1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 Como no había agua para la comunidad, el pueblo se reunió contra Moisés y Aarón.
2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 El pueblo discutió con Moisés y dijo: «¡Ojalá hubiéramos muerto cuando nuestros hermanos murieron delante del Señor!
3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
4 ¿Por qué trajeron a la comunidad del Señor a este desierto? ¿Para que muramos aquí nosotros y nuestro ganado?
4 Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5 ¿Por qué nos hicieron salir de Egipto y nos trajeron a este lugar terrible? Aquí no hay grano, higos, uvas ni granadas. ¡Ni siquiera hay agua para beber!»
5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
6 Moisés y Aarón se alejaron de la comunidad y fueron a la entrada de la Tienda de reunión. Allí se postraron rostro en tierra, y la gloria del Señor apareció ante ellos.
6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.
7 El Señor dijo a Moisés:
7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
8 «Toma la vara y reúne a la comunidad, tú y tu hermano Aarón. Delante de ellos, ordenen a la roca que dé agua. Así sacarás agua de la roca para ellos y darás de beber a la comunidad y a su ganado».
8 “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
9 Moisés tomó la vara que estaba delante del Señor, como él le había ordenado.
9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
10 Moisés y Aarón reunieron a la comunidad delante de la roca. Moisés les dijo: «¡Escuchen, rebeldes! ¿Acaso tendremos que sacarles agua de esta roca?»
10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
11 Entonces Moisés levantó la mano y golpeó la roca dos veces con su vara. Salió mucha agua, y bebieron la comunidad y su ganado.
11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
12 Pero el Señor dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: «Como no confiaron en mí ni mostraron mi santidad delante de los israelitas, ustedes no llevarán a esta comunidad a la tierra que les he dado».
12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
13 Estas son las aguas de Meribá, donde los israelitas discutieron con el Señor y él mostró su santidad entre ellos.
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
14 Desde Cades, Moisés envió mensajeros al rey de Edom con este mensaje: «Esto dice tu hermano Israel: Tú conoces todas las dificultades que hemos sufrido.
14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
15 Nuestros antepasados bajaron a Egipto, donde vivimos durante muchos años. Los egipcios nos maltrataron a nosotros y a nuestros antepasados.
15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
16 Clamamos al Señor, y él oyó nuestra voz. Envió un ángel y nos sacó de Egipto. Ahora estamos en Cades, una ciudad en el límite de tu territorio.
16 When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
17 Por favor, déjanos pasar por tu tierra. No atravesaremos campos ni viñas ni beberemos agua de los pozos. Iremos por el camino principal sin desviarnos ni a la derecha ni a la izquierda hasta que hayamos pasado por tu territorio».
17 “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
18 Pero Edom respondió: «No pasarán por mi territorio. Si lo hacen, saldré contra ustedes con la espada».
18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
19 Los israelitas respondieron: «Iremos por el camino principal. Si nosotros o nuestro ganado bebemos de tu agua, pagaremos por ella. Solo pedimos que nos dejes pasar a pie».
19 The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
20 Pero Edom insistió: «No pasarán». Y salió contra ellos con un ejército grande y poderoso.
20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
21 Como Edom se negó a permitir que Israel pasara por su territorio, Israel se alejó de allí.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
22 Toda la comunidad de Israel salió de Cades y llegó al monte Hor.
22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
23 Allí, en el monte Hor, junto a la frontera de Edom, el Señor dijo a Moisés y a Aarón:
23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
24 «Aarón se reunirá con sus antepasados. No entrará en la tierra que he dado a los israelitas, porque ustedes se rebelaron contra mi orden en las aguas de Meribá.
24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
25 Lleva a Aarón y a su hijo Eleazar al monte Hor.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
26 Quítale a Aarón sus vestiduras sacerdotales y pónselas a su hijo Eleazar. Allí Aarón morirá y se reunirá con sus antepasados».
26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
27 Moisés hizo lo que el Señor había ordenado. Los tres subieron al monte Hor a la vista de toda la comunidad.
27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
28 Moisés le quitó a Aarón sus vestiduras sacerdotales y se las puso a su hijo Eleazar. Aarón murió allí, en la cima del monte. Luego Moisés y Eleazar bajaron del monte.
28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
29 Cuando toda la comunidad supo que Aarón había muerto, todo Israel guardó duelo por él durante treinta días.
29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Eleazar
Aaron's son who succeeded him as high priest and served alongside Joshua.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 6:23; Numbers 20:25-28
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Places
Kadesh Barnea
Usually placed near Tell el-Qudeirat (location debated; approximate). It was Israel's wilderness base — the spies departed from here, and Moses struck the rock nearby.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 13:26; Numbers 20:1; Deuteronomy 1:46
Cross references (26)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Numbers 13:21; Exodus 15:20; Numbers 33:36; Numbers 26:59; Numbers 27:14
- 2 Numbers 16:19; Numbers 16:42; Exodus 15:23–24; Exodus 16:12; Numbers 16:3
- 3 Exodus 17:2; Numbers 16:31–35; Numbers 14:1–2; Exodus 16:2–3; Numbers 11:33–34
- 4 Exodus 17:3; Psalm 106:21; Exodus 14:11–12; Numbers 16:41; Numbers 11:5
- 5 Numbers 16:14; Jeremiah 2:6; Ezekiel 20:36; Jeremiah 2:2; Nehemiah 9:21
- 6 Numbers 14:5; Numbers 16:22; Numbers 16:19; Numbers 16:4; Numbers 16:45
- 8 Exodus 4:17; Isaiah 43:20; Exodus 17:5–6; Revelation 22:17; John 16:24
- 9 Numbers 17:10
- 10 Psalm 106:32–33; James 3:2; Matthew 5:22; Genesis 41:16; Luke 9:54–55
- 11 1 Corinthians 10:4; Exodus 17:6; Deuteronomy 8:15; Numbers 20:8; Psalm 78:16
- 12 Deuteronomy 1:37; Numbers 27:14; Ezekiel 36:23; Numbers 20:24; Deuteronomy 3:23–27
- 13 Psalm 95:8; Exodus 17:7; Deuteronomy 33:8; Deuteronomy 32:51; Psalm 106:32–48
- 14 Judges 11:16–17; Deuteronomy 23:7; Genesis 32:3–4; Deuteronomy 2:4–25; Obadiah 10–12
- 15 Genesis 46:6; Deuteronomy 26:6; Exodus 12:40; Acts 7:15; Genesis 15:13
- 16 Exodus 14:19; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 23:20; Exodus 3:2–9; Exodus 2:23–24
- 17 Deuteronomy 2:27; Deuteronomy 2:1–4; Numbers 21:1; Numbers 21:22–24; Deuteronomy 2:29
- 19 Deuteronomy 2:28; Deuteronomy 2:6; Exodus 12:38
- 20 Amos 1:11; Judges 11:17; Numbers 20:18; Genesis 32:6; Ezekiel 35:5–11
- 21 Judges 11:18; Deuteronomy 2:29; Judges 11:24; Deuteronomy 2:27; Deuteronomy 23:7
- 22 Numbers 20:14; Numbers 21:4; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 13:26; Numbers 34:7
- 23 Numbers 33:37
- 24 Genesis 25:8; Deuteronomy 32:50; Numbers 27:13; Numbers 20:10–12; Numbers 31:2
- 25 Numbers 33:38–39
- 26 Numbers 20:24; Isaiah 22:21–22; Exodus 29:29–30; Hebrews 7:11; Hebrews 7:23–24
- 28 Deuteronomy 10:6; Exodus 29:29–30; Deuteronomy 32:49–50; 1 Chronicles 22:11–12; Deuteronomy 34:9
- 29 Deuteronomy 34:8; Genesis 1:10; 2 Chronicles 35:24–25; Acts 8:2
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