13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.


In Context

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?|

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.

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.|

13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: |Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

Numbers 20:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:13This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:13These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord and where he showed himself holy among them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:13This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:13These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:13These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have 'striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.