Liber Numeri

Numeri, chapter 20, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 20 Vulgate

   1 Veneruntque filii Israel et omnis congregatio in de sertum Sin mense primo, et mansit populus in Cades. Mortuaque est ibi Maria et sepulta in eodem loco.
   2 Cumque indigeret aqua populus, convenerunt adversum Moysen et Aaron
   3 et versi in seditionem dixerunt: "Utinam perissemus inter fratres nostros coram Domino!
   4 Cur eduxistis ecclesiam Domini in solitudinem, ut et nos et nostra iumenta moriamur?
   5 Quare nos fecistis ascendere de Aegypto 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?"
   6 Venitque Moyses et Aaron, relicta congregatione, ad introitum tabernaculi conventus corrueruntque proni in terram, et apparuit gloria Domini super eos.
   7 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen dicens:
   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, potabis congregationem et iumenta eius"
   9 Tulit igitur Moyses virgam, quae erat in conspectu Domini, sicut praeceperat ei.
   10 Et congregaverunt Moyses et Aaron populum ante petram, dixitque eis: "Audite, rebelles; num de petra hac vobis aquam poterimus eicere?"
   11 Cumque elevasset Moyses manum percutiens virga bis silicem, egressae sunt aquae largissimae, ita ut populus biberet et iumenta.
   12 Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron: "Quia non credidistis mihi, ut sanctificaretis me coram filiis Israel, non introducetis hos populos in terram, quam dabo eis"
   13 Hae sunt aquae Meriba, ubi iurgati sunt filii Israel contra Dominum, et sanctificatus est in eis.
   14 Misit nuntios Moyses de Cades ad regem Edom, qui dicerent: "Haec mandat frater tuus Israel: Nosti omnem laborem, qui apprehendit nos,
   15 quomodo descenderint patres nostri in Aegyptum, et habitaverimus ibi multo tempore, afflixerintque nos Aegyptii et patres nostros,
   16 et quomodo clamaverimus ad Dominum, et exaudierit nos miseritque angelum, qui eduxerit nos de Aegypto. Ecce nos in urbe Cades, quae est in extremis finibus tuis, positi
   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 regia, nec ad dexteram nec ad sinistram declinantes, donec transeamus terminos tuos"
   18 Cui respondit Edom: "Non transibis per me, alioquin armatus occurram tibi"
   19 Dixeruntque filii Israel: "Per tritam gradiemur viam et, si biberimus aquas tuas ego et pecora mea, dabo, quod iustum est: nulla erit in pretio difficultas; tantum velociter transeamus"
   20 At ille respondit: "Non transibis!" Statimque egressus est obvius cum infinita multitudine et manu forti
   21 nec voluit acquiescere Israeli, ut concederet transitum per fines suos; quam ob rem divertit ab eo Israel.
   22 Cumque castra movissent de Cades, venerunt in montem Hor,
   23 ubi locutus est Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron in monte Hor, qui est in finibus terrae Edom:
   24" Congregabitur, inquit, Aaron ad populum suum. Non enim intrabit terram, quam dedi filiis Israel, eo quod rebelles fuistis ori meo ad aquas Meriba.
   25 Tolle Aaron et Eleazarum filium eius cum eo et duces eos in montem Hor.
   26 Cumque nudaveris patrem veste sua, indues ea Eleazarum filium eius: Aaron colligetur et morietur ibi"
   27 Fecit Moyses, ut praeceperat Dominus, et ascenderunt in montem Hor coram omni congregatione.
   28 Cumque Aaron spoliasset vestibus suis, induit eis Eleazarum filium eius. Illo mortuo in montis supercilio, descendit cum Eleazaro.
   29 Omnis autem congregatio videns occubuisse Aaron flevit super eo triginta diebus tota domus Israel.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
   2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
   3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
   4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
   5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
   7 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
   8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
   9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
   10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
   11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
   12 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
   13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
   14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
   15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
   16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
   17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
   18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
   19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
   20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
   21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
   22 ¶ And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
   23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
   24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
   25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
   26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
   27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
   28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
   29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.