Numbers · Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
Numbers 20 Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
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- Fully vowelled Arabic, read right to left.
- No deuterocanonical books.
- Verse divisions occasionally differ from English Bibles (e.g. 1 Timothy 6:21–22, 3 John 14–15).
1 وَأَتَى بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلْجَمَاعَةُ كُلُّهَا، إِلَى بَرِّيَّةِ صِينَ فِي ٱلشَّهْرِ ٱلْأَوَّلِ. وَأَقَامَ ٱلشَّعْبُ فِي قَادَشَ. وَمَاتَتْ هُنَاكَ مَرْيَمُ وَدُفِنَتْ هُنَاكَ.
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 وَلَمْ يَكُنْ مَاءٌ لِلْجَمَاعَةِ فَٱجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى مُوسَى وَهَارُونَ.
2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 وَخَاصَمَ ٱلشَّعْبُ مُوسَى وَكَلَّمُوهُ قَائِلِينَ: «لَيْتَنَا فَنِينَا فَنَاءَ إِخْوَتِنَا أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ.
3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
4 لِمَاذَا أَتَيْتُمَا بِجَمَاعَةِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَى هَذِهِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ لِكَيْ نَمُوتَ فِيهَا نَحْنُ وَمَوَاشِينَا؟
4 Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5 وَلِمَاذَا أَصْعَدْتُمَانَا مِنْ مِصْرَ لِتَأْتِيَا بِنَا إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْمَكَانِ ٱلرَّدِيءِ؟ لَيْسَ هُوَ مَكَانَ زَرْعٍ وَتِينٍ وَكَرْمٍ وَرُمَّانٍ، وَلَا فِيهِ مَاءٌ لِلشُّرْبِ!».
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 فَأَتَى مُوسَى وَهَارُونُ مِنْ أَمَامِ ٱلْجَمَاعَةِ إِلَى بَابِ خَيْمَةِ ٱلِٱجْتِمَاعِ وَسَقَطَا عَلَى وَجْهَيْهِمَا، فَتَرَاءَى لَهُمَا مَجْدُ ٱلرَّبِّ.
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 وَكَلَّمَ ٱلرَّبُّ مُوسَى قَائِلًا:
7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
8 «خُذِ ٱلْعَصَا وَٱجْمَعِ ٱلْجَمَاعَةَ أَنْتَ وَهَارُونُ أَخُوكَ، وَكَلِّمَا ٱلصَّخْرَةَ أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِهِمْ أَنْ تُعْطِيَ مَاءَهَا، فَتُخْرِجُ لَهُمْ مَاءً مِنَ ٱلصَّخْرَةِ وَتَسْقِي ٱلْجَمَاعَةَ وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ».
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 فَأَخَذَ مُوسَى ٱلْعَصَا مِنْ أَمَامِ ٱلرَّبِّ كَمَا أَمَرَهُ،
9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
10 وَجَمَعَ مُوسَى وَهَارُونُ ٱلْجُمْهُورَ أَمَامَ ٱلصَّخْرَةِ، فَقَالَ لَهُمُ: «ٱسْمَعُوا أَيُّهَا ٱلْمَرَدَةُ، أَمِنْ هَذِهِ ٱلصَّخْرَةِ نُخْرِجُ لَكُمْ مَاءً؟».
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 وَرَفَعَ مُوسَى يَدَهُ وَضَرَبَ ٱلصَّخْرَةَ بِعَصَاهُ مَرَّتَيْنِ، فَخَرَجَ مَاءٌ غَزِيرٌ، فَشَرِبَتِ ٱلْجَمَاعَةُ وَمَوَاشِيهَا.
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 فَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِمُوسَى وَهَارُونَ: «مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّكُمَا لَمْ تُؤْمِنَا بِي حَتَّى تُقَدِّسَانِي أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، لِذَلِكَ لَا تُدْخِلَانِ هَذِهِ ٱلْجَمَاعَةَ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتُهُمْ إِيَّاهَا».
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 هَذَا مَاءُ مَرِيبَةَ، حَيْثُ خَاصَمَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ ٱلرَّبَّ، فَتَقَدَّسَ فِيهِمْ.
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
14 وَأَرْسَلَ مُوسَى رُسُلًا مِنْ قَادَشَ إِلَى مَلِكِ أَدُومَ: «هَكَذَا يَقُولُ أَخُوكَ إِسْرَائِيلُ: قَدْ عَرَفْتَ كُلَّ ٱلْمَشَقَّةِ ٱلَّتِي أَصَابَتْنَا.
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 إِنَّ آبَاءَنَا ٱنْحَدَرُوا إِلَى مِصْرَ، وَأَقَمْنَا فِي مِصْرَ أَيَّامًا كَثِيرَةً وَأَسَاءَ ٱلْمِصْرِيُّونَ إِلَيْنَا وَإِلَى آبَائِنَا،
15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
16 فَصَرَخْنَا إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ فَسَمِعَ صَوْتَنَا، وَأَرْسَلَ مَلَاكًا وَأَخْرَجَنَا مِنْ مِصْرَ. وَهَا نَحْنُ فِي قَادَشَ، مَدِينَةٍ فِي طَرَفِ تُخُومِكَ.
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 دَعْنَا نَمُرَّ فِي أَرْضِكَ. لَا نَمُرُّ فِي حَقْلٍ وَلَا فِي كَرْمٍ، وَلَا نَشْرَبُ مَاءَ بِئْرٍ. فِي طَرِيقِ ٱلْمَلِكِ نَمْشِي، لَا نَمِيلُ يَمِينًا وَلَا يَسَارًا حَتَّى نَتَجَاوَزَ تُخُومَكَ».
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 فَقَالَ لَهُ أَدُومُ: «لَا تَمُرُّ بِي لِئَلَّا أَخْرُجَ لِلِقَائِكَ بِٱلسَّيْفِ».
18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
19 فَقَالَ لَهُ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ: «فِي ٱلسِّكَّةِ نَصْعَدُ، وَإِذَا شَرِبْنَا أَنَا وَمَوَاشِيَّ مِنْ مَائِكَ أَدْفَعُ ثَمَنَهُ. لَا شَيْءَ. أَمُرُّ بِرِجْلَيَّ فَقَطْ».
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 فَقَالَ: «لَا تَمُرُّ». وَخَرَجَ أَدُومُ لِلِقَائِهِ بِشَعْبٍ غَفِيرٍ وَبِيَدٍ شَدِيدَةٍ.
20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
21 وَأَبَى أَدُومُ أَنْ يَسْمَحَ لِإِسْرَائِيلَ بِٱلْمُرُورِ فِي تُخُومِهِ، فَتَحَوَّلَ إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْهُ.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
22 فَٱرْتَحَلَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلْجَمَاعَةُ كُلُّهَا، مِنْ قَادَشَ وَأَتَوْا إِلَى جَبَلِ هُورٍ.
22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
23 وَكَلَّمَ ٱلرَّبُّ مُوسَى وَهَارُونَ فِي جَبَلِ هُورٍ عَلَى تُخُمِ أَرْضِ أَدُومَ قَائِلًا:
23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
24 «يُضَمُّ هَارُونُ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَدْخُلُ ٱلْأَرْضَ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتُ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، لِأَنَّكُمْ عَصَيْتُمْ قَوْلِي عِنْدَ مَاءِ مَرِيبَةَ.
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 خُذْ هَارُونَ وَأَلِعَازَارَ ٱبْنَهُ وَٱصْعَدْ بِهِمَا إِلَى جَبَلِ هُورٍ،
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
26 وَٱخْلَعْ عَنْ هَارُونَ ثِيَابَهُ، وَأَلْبِسْ أَلِعَازَارَ ٱبْنَهُ إِيَّاهَا. فَيُضَمُّ هَارُونُ وَيَمُوتُ هُنَاكَ».
26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
27 فَفَعَلَ مُوسَى كَمَا أَمَرَ ٱلرَّبُّ، وَصَعِدُوا إِلَى جَبَلِ هُورٍ أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِ كُلِّ ٱلْجَمَاعَةِ.
27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
28 فَخَلَعَ مُوسَى عَنْ هَارُونَ ثِيَابَهُ وَأَلْبَسَ أَلِعَازَارَ ٱبْنَهُ إِيَّاهَا. فَمَاتَ هَارُونُ هُنَاكَ عَلَى رَأْسِ ٱلْجَبَلِ، ثُمَّ ٱنْحَدَرَ مُوسَى وَأَلِعَازَارُ عَنِ ٱلْجَبَلِ.
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 فَلَمَّا رَأَى كُلُّ ٱلْجَمَاعَةِ أَنَّ هَارُونَ قَدْ مَاتَ، بَكَى جَمِيعُ بَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَلَى هَارُونَ ثَلَاثِينَ يَوْمًا.
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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