Numbers 20 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Veneruntque filii Israël et omnis multitudo in desertum Sin, mense primo, et mansit populus in Cades. Mortuaque est ibi Maria, et sepulta in eodem loco.
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 Cumque indigeret aqua populus, convenerunt adversum Moysen et Aaron:
2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3 et versi in seditionem, dixerunt: Utinam periissemus inter fratres nostros coram Domino.
3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
4 Cur eduxistis ecclesiam Domini in solitudinem, ut et nos et nostra jumenta moriamur?
4 Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5 quare nos fecistis ascendere de Ægypto, et adduxistis in locum istum pessimum, qui seri non potest, qui nec ficum gignit, nec vineas, nec malogranata, insuper et aquam non habet ad bibendum?
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 Ingressusque Moyses et Aaron, dimissa multitudine, tabernaculum fœderis, corruerunt proni in terram, clamaveruntque ad Dominum, atque dixerunt: Domine Deus, audi clamorem hujus populi, et aperi eis thesaurum tuum fontem aquæ vivæ, ut satiati, cesset murmuratio eorum. Et apparuit gloria Domini super eos.
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 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
8 Tolle virgam, et congrega populum, tu et Aaron frater tuus, et loquimini ad petram coram eis, et illa dabit aquas. Cumque eduxeris aquam de petra, bibet omnis multitudo et jumenta ejus.
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 Tulit igitur Moyses virgam, quæ erat in conspectu Domini, sicut præceperat ei,
9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
10 congregata multitudine ante petram: dixitque eis: Audite, rebelles et increduli: num de petra hac vobis aquam poterimus ejicere?
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 Cumque elevasset Moyses manum, percutiens virga bis silicem, egressæ sunt aquæ largissimæ, ita ut populus biberet et jumenta.
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 Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron: Quia non credidistis mihi, ut sanctificaretis me coram filiis Israël, non introducetis hos populos in terram, quam dabo eis.
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 Hæc est aqua contradictionis, ubi jurgati sunt filii Israël contra Dominum, et sanctificatus est in eis.
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
14 Misit interea nuntios Moyses de Cades ad regem Edom, qui dicerent: Hæc mandat frater tuus Israël: Nosti omnem laborem qui apprehendit nos,
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 quomodo descenderint patres nostri in Ægyptum, et habitaverimus ibi multo tempore, afflixerintque nos Ægyptii, et patres nostros:
15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
16 et quomodo clamaverimus ad Dominum, et exaudierit nos, miseritque angelum, qui eduxerit nos de Ægypto. Ecce in urbe Cades, quæ est in extremis finibus tuis, positi,
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 obsecramus ut nobis transire liceat per terram tuam. Non ibimus per agros, nec per vineas; non bibemus aquas de puteis tuis: sed gradiemur via publica, nec ad dexteram nec ad sinistram declinantes, donec transeamus terminos tuos.
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 Cui respondit Edom: Non transibis per me, alioquin armatus occurram tibi.
18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
19 Dixeruntque filii Israël: Per tritam gradiemur viam: et si biberimus aquas tuas, nos et pecora nostra, dabimus quod justum est: nulla erit in pretio difficultas, tantum velociter transeamus.
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 At ille respondit: Non transibis. Statimque egressus est obvius, cum infinita multitudo, et manu forti,
20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
21 nec voluit acquiescere deprecanti, ut concederet transitum per fines suos. Quam ob rem divertit ab eo Israël.
21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
22 Cumque castra movissent de Cades, venerunt in montem Hor, qui est in finibus terræ Edom:
22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
23 ubi locutus est Dominus ad Moysen:
23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
24 Pergat, inquit, Aaron ad populos suos: non enim intrabit terram, quam dedi filiis Israël, eo quod incredulus fuerit ori meo, ad aquas contradictionis.
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 Tolle Aaron et filium ejus cum eo, et duces eos in montem Hor.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
26 Cumque nudaveris patrem veste sua, indues ea Eleazarum filium ejus: Aaron colligetur, et morietur ibi.
26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
27 Fecit Moyses ut præceperat Dominus: et ascenderunt in montem Hor coram omni multitudine.
27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
28 Cumque Aaron spoliasset vestibus suis, induit eis Eleazarum filium ejus.
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 Illo mortuo in montis supercilio, descendit cum Eleazaro.
29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
30 Omnis autem multitudo videns occubuisse Aaron, flevit super eo triginta diebus per cunctas familias suas.
30 Not in this translation
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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