Numbers 20:2-12

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Summary

• The people complain; God provides water from the rock.

• Moses disobeys God and strikes the rock (instead of just speaking to it). Because of this, he will not be able to enter the land of Canaan.

Details and/or Comments

• This is about 40 years after they left Egypt. After 40 years of God providing, they still didn't trust him!

Scripture

Numbers 20:2-12 – Water from the rock.

Scripture Passage	Comments and Links
Num 20:2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. Num 20:3 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! Num 20:4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? Num 20:5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to 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.	More complaining! No water; no trust in God to provide. Complaining, Ungratefulness
Num 20:6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them. Num 20:7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Num 20:8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink. Num 20:9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.	Moses told to speak to the rock, and it will bring forth water.
Num 20:10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you? Num 20:11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.	Moses hits the rock in anger; water comes, … Miraculous Events
Num 20:12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.	… but there will be consequences. Consequences that Cannot Be Undone

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