1
Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.
2
There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.
3
The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD !
4
"Why then have you brought the LORD'S assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here?
5
"Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink."