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12 [a]But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you did not have confidence in me, to acknowledge my holiness before the Israelites, therefore you shall not lead this assembly into the land I have given them.

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  1. 20:12–13 What lay behind Moses and Aaron’s lack of confidence is not made explicit in the text. Holiness: an allusion to the name of the place, Kadesh, which means “holy, sanctified, sacred.” Meribah means “contention.” Cf. Ex 17:7.

12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy(A) in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”(B)

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