Numbers 20:1

And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The 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.

In Context

2And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:

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Cross References

Genesis 14:7And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.

Exodus 2:7And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe ?

Numbers 12:1And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

Numbers 12:15Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days : and the people moved not from that place until Mary was called again.

Numbers 13:26And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

Numbers 20:28And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:1

At this chapter begins the history of the fortieth year (which was the last year) of the Israelites' wandering in the wilderness. And since the beginning of their second year, when they were sentenced to perform their quarantine in the desert, there to wear away the tedious revolution of forty years, there is little recorded concerning them till this last year, which brought them to the borders of Canaan, and the history of this year is almost as large as the history of the first year. This chapter gives an… Read the whole commentary →

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