Verse 8
Numbers 20:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
8
Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.
Original Language Text
hebrew
קַ֣ח אֶת הַ/מַּטֶּ֗ה וְ/הַקְהֵ֤ל אֶת הָ/עֵדָה֙ אַתָּה֙ וְ/אַהֲרֹ֣ן אָחִ֔י/ךָ וְ/דִבַּרְתֶּ֧ם אֶל הַ/סֶּ֛לַע לְ/עֵינֵי/הֶ֖ם וְ/נָתַ֣ן מֵימָ֑י/ו וְ/הוֹצֵאתָ֨ לָ/הֶ֥ם מַ֨יִם֙ מִן הַ/סֶּ֔לַע וְ/הִשְׁקִיתָ֥ אֶת הָ/עֵדָ֖ה וְ/אֶת בְּעִירָֽ/ם
English Translation
Take the staff and gather the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give forth its water; and you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their livestock.
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Chapter 20 Context
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And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert of Sin, in the first month: a...
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And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:
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And making a sedition, they said: Would God (Elohim) we had perished among our brethren before the L...
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Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle sho...
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Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched place which cannot...
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And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat u...
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock be...
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Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him,
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And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and...
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And when Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rook twice with the rod, there came forth wate...
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the ch...
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This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord,...
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In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brothe...
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In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians a...
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And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt....
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And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the f...
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And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed against thee.
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And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle drink of thy...
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But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite mu...
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Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Isr...
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And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount Her, which is in the borders of th...
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Where the Lord spoke to Moses:
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Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the chil...
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Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount Hor:
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And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aa...
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Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount Hor before all the multitude.
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And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.
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And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with Eleazar.
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And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty days throughout all their f...
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