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Numbers 27:14
Numbers 27:14 is verse 14 of Numbers chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7.
King James Version
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
World English Bible
because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
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Numbers 27:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
13 After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
14 for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
15 So Moses appealed to the LORD,
16 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 20:8“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
Numbers 20:9So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.
Numbers 20:10Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
Numbers 20:11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
Numbers 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
Numbers 20:13These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.
Deuteronomy 1:37The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
Deuteronomy 32:51For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
Deuteronomy 32:52Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”
Psalms 106:32At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
Psalms 106:33For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
Numbers 20:1In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Numbers 20:24“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”