1. Then the entire community of the Israelites came to the desert of Zin on the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; Miriam died and was buried there.
2. There was no water for the community, and they were gathered before Moses and Aaron.
3. And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we died when our brothers were dying before Yahweh!
4. Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here?
5. Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranate trees, and there is not water to drink.”
6. And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of assembly. They fell on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.
7. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,