Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
The Name gives the statute of the red heifer: it is burned, its ashes are mixed with living water, and the water purifies anyone who has touched the dead, while making the one who sprinkles it impure until evening. At Kadesh Miriam dies and there is no water. Moshe is told to speak to the rock; he strikes it twice with his staff, water flows, and he and Aharon are told they will not bring the people into the land. Edom refuses to let Israel pass. Aharon goes up Hor HaHar, his garments are put on his son Elazar, he dies there, and the people mourn him thirty days. When the people speak against G‑d and Moshe, burning serpents bite them, and Moshe makes a copper serpent on a pole: whoever is bitten looks at it and lives. At Be'er the Name gives them water and they sing to the well; they defeat Sichon and Og and camp on the plains of Moav across the Jordan from Yericho.