Numbers 20:1-3

Modern English Version

Moses Strikes the Rock

20 Then the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came to the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people dwelt in Kadesh, and Miriam died there and was buried there.

² And there was no water for the assembly, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. ³ The people argued with Moses, and spoke, saying, “O that we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!