The Death of Miriam

20 And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came ^(A)into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And ^(B)Miriam died there and was buried there.

¹⁶ And ^(A)when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and ^(B)sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

⁸ Your fathers did this, ^(A)when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

³⁶ And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the ^(A)wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

Israel's Refusal to Enter the Land

¹⁹ “Then we set out from Horeb and ^(A)went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And ^(B)we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Caleb's Request and Inheritance

⁶ Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(A)Kenizzite said to him, “You know ^(B)what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(C)sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.