Numbers 20:24

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”

for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.

Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre,

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;

So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

“The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.

because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”