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Num 20:1 — Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		An. Ex. Is. 40.
Then		This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt. (Compare Num 33:38, with Num 20:28 of this chap. and Deu 1:3.) This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (Deu 13) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years. Deu 1:22,23; Deu 2:14
into		Num 13:21; Num 27:14; Num 33:36; Deu 32:51
Kadesh		This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron. (See Num 34:3,4. Jos 15:1,3.) Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic. Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin, (in Gittin, chapter 1.) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel. Num 20:16; Psa 29:8
Miriam		Num 12:1,10,15; Num 26:59; Exd 2:4,7; Exd 15:20; Mic 6:4

Correlating Passages

Then

	Num 33:38	And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the fifth month.
	Num 20:28	And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
	Deu 1:3	And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
	Deu 13:1	If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
	Deu 13:2	And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
	Deu 13:3	Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
	Deu 13:4	Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
	Deu 13:5	And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
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	Deu 1:22	And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
	Deu 1:23	And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
	Deu 2:14	And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

into

	Num 13:21	So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
	Num 27:14	For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
	Num 33:36	And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh.
	Deu 32:51	Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Kadesh

	Num 34:3	Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
	Num 34:4	And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
	Jos 15:1	[This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward [was] the uttermost part of the south coast.
	Jos 15:3	And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
	Num 20:16	And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
	Psa 29:8	The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

Miriam

	Num 12:1	And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
	Num 12:10	And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.
	Num 12:15	And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
	Num 26:59	And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
	Exd 2:4	And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
	Exd 2:7	Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
	Exd 15:20	And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
	Mic 6:4	For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

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