Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

Then Moses and Aaron were come before the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Get you vp from among this Congregation: for I wil consume them quickly: then they fell vpon their faces.

And Moses said vnto Aaron, Take the censer and put fire therein of the Altar, and put therein incense, and goe quickly vnto the Congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord: the plague is begunne.

Then Aaron tooke as Moses commanded him, and ranne into the middes of the Congregation, and beholde, the plague was begun among the people, and hee put in incense, and made an atonement for the people.

And when hee stoode betweene the dead, and them that were aliue, the plague was stayed.

So they died of this plague fourtene thousande and seuen hundreth, beside them that dyed in the conspiracie of Korah.

And Aaron went againe vnto Moses before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the plague was stayed.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Speake vnto the children of Israel, and take of euery one of them a rod, after the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the familie of their fathers, euen twelue rods: and thou shalt write euery mans name vpon his rod.

And write Aarons name vpon the rod of Leui: for euery rodde shalbe for the head of the house of their fathers.

And thou shalt put them in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, before the Arke of the Testimonie, where I wil declare my selfe to you.

And the mans rod, whome I chuse, shall blossome: and I will make cease from mee the grudgings of the children of Israel, which grudge against you.

Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, and al their princes gaue him a rod, one rod for euery Prince, according to the houses of their fathers, euen twelue rods, and the rod of Aaron was among their roddes.

And Moses layde the rods before the Lord in the Tabernacle of the Testimonie.

And when Moses on the morow went into the Tabernacle of the Testimonie, beholde, the rod of Aaron for the house of Leui was budded, and brought forth buddes, and brought forth blossoms, and bare ripe almondes.

Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord vnto all the children of Israel: and they looked vpon them, and tooke euery man his rodde.

After, the Lord said vnto Moses, Bring Aarons rod againe before the Testimonie to bee kept for a token to the rebellious children, and thou shalt cause their murmurings to cease from me, that they dye not.

So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him: so did he.

And the children of Israel spake vnto Moses, saying, Behold, we are dead, we perish, we are all lost:

Whosoeuer commeth neere, or approcheth to the Tabernacle of the Lord, shall dye: shall we be consumed and dye?

But there was no water for the Congregation, and they assembled them selues against Moses and against Aaron.

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God we had perished, when our brethren died before the Lord.

Why haue ye thus brought the Congregation of the Lord vnto his wildernesse, that both we, and our cattell should die there?

Wherefore nowe haue yee made vs to come vp from Egypt, to bring vs into this miserable place, which is no place of seede, nor figges, nor vines, nor pomegranates? neither is there any water to drinke.