KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 20:1
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
WEB World English Bible
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
ASV American Standard Version
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel come in,—all the company—to the wilderness of Zin, in the first month, and the people abide in Kadesh, and Miriam dieth there, and is buried there.
Surrounding context — Numbers 20
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?
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיָּבֹ֣אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeבְנֵֽי־H1121 · benson: childיִ֠שְׂרָאֵלH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelכָּל־H3605 · kolallהָ֨עֵדָ֤הH5712 · e.dahcongregationמִדְבַּר־H4057 · mid.barmouthצִן֙H6790 · tsinZinבַּחֹ֣דֶשׁH2320 · cho.deshmonthהָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹןH7223 · ri.shonfirstוַיֵּ֥שֶׁבH3427 · ya.shavto dwellהָעָ֖םH5971 · ampeopleבְּקָדֵ֑שׁH6946 · qa.deshKadeshוַתָּ֤מָתH4191 · mutto dieשָׁם֙H8033 · shamthereמִרְיָ֔םH4813 · mir.yamMiriamוַתִּקָּבֵ֖רH6912 · qa.varto buryשָֽׁם׃H8033 · shamthere
Cross-references
Numbers 13:21So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.Exodus 15:20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.Numbers 33:36And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh.Numbers 26:59And the name of Amram’s wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.Numbers 27:14For 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.Psalm 29:8The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.Exodus 2:4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.Deuteronomy 1:22-23And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.Micah 6:4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.Deuteronomy 32:51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.Exodus 2:7Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?Numbers 12:15And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].Numbers 20:16And 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:Numbers 12:10And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.Numbers 12:1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.Deuteronomy 2:14And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
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