Sunday Sermonette: Rock Stars

With Numbers 20 we start killing off the generation of Moses. As important as this chapter is to the plot, much of it is vague and a bit mysterious. First Miriam dies, and that ' s it. No further information, no ceremony, no nothin ' . At least she is one of the very few (two, unless I ' m forgetting something?) women the since the Exodus to even have a name. Then there is the terrible crime committed by Moses and Aaron that apparently results in Aaron ' s death. It ' s a bit hard to discern.20 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.3 They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before theLord!4 Not explicit, but this apparently refers to the innumerable people God has already killed in Exodus -- for complaining, including the 14,700 he just got done killing because they complained. Seems like they ' re taking a chance complaining again!Why did you bring theLord’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink! ”6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of theLord...
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