1. In the first month, the entire Israelite community entered the Zin desert and the people stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.
2. Now there was no water for the community, and they assembled against Moses and Aaron.
3. Then the people confronted Moses and said to him, "If only we too had died when our brothers perished in the Lord’s presence!
4. Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this desert to kill us and our animals here?
5. Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place without grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates? And there’s no water to drink!"
6. Moses and Aaron went away from the assembly to the entrance of the meeting tent and they fell on their faces. Then the Lord’s glory appeared to them.