1. Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.
2. Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.
3. And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
4. Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here?