Numbers 20:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.

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  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.
  • Exod 17:6 : 6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.
  • Num 20:8 : 8 Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord. 14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?
  • 1 Sam 15:19 : 19 Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?
  • 1 Sam 15:24 : 24 And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
  • 1 Kgs 13:21-24 : 21 And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord, 22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers. 23 Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back. 24 And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.
  • 1 Chr 13:9-9 : 9 And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping. 10 And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.
  • 1 Chr 15:2 : 2 Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever.
  • 1 Chr 15:13 : 13 For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.
  • Ps 78:16 : 16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.
  • Hos 13:5 : 5 I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
  • Lev 10:1 : 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.
  • Jas 1:20 : 20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

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  • Num 20:7-10
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    86%

    7 And the Lord said to Moses,

    8 Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.

    9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.

    10 Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

  • Exod 17:1-7
    7 verses
    85%

    1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

    2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

    3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

    4 And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

    5 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

    6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

    7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

  • Ps 78:20
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    20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    78%

    15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

    16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

  • Isa 48:21
    78%

    21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • Ps 105:41
    76%

    41 His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

  • Num 20:12-13
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    12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.

    13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

  • Num 20:2
    76%

    2 And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.

  • Ps 114:8
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    8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • Exod 7:19-20
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    19 And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.

    20 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;

  • Num 21:16-17
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    16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

    17 Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

  • Exod 15:24-25
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    24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

    25 And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;

  • Num 27:14-15
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    14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

    15 Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Deut 8:15
    72%

    15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

  • 1 Cor 10:4-5
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    4 And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

    5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

  • Exod 14:16
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    16 And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land.

  • Ps 106:32
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    32 They made God angry again at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled because of them;

  • Num 14:11
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    11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

  • Exod 15:22
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    22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15 And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Exod 2:17
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    17 And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

  • Exod 16:2
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    2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

  • Num 20:4
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    4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

  • Exod 7:24
    69%

    24 And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water.

  • Exod 4:9
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    9 And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.

  • Num 20:24
    69%

    24 Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

  • Ps 78:44
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    44 So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

  • Exod 14:26
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    26 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen.

  • Num 17:11
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    11 This Moses did: as the Lord gave orders, so he did.

  • Exod 32:11
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    11 But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

  • Exod 9:23
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    23 And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 14:21
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    21 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

  • Num 17:9
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    9 Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them, and every man took his rod.