1. The Israelites, the whole community, arrived in the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed at Kadesh. It was here that Miriam died, and here that she was buried.
2. Since the community had no water, they held an assembly against Moses and Aaron.
3. The people quarreled with Moses, exclaiming, “Would that we had perished when our kindred perished before the Lord!