“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.”
The Israelites, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there — Miriam, sister to Moses and Aaron, prophetess and leader, dies at Kadesh without fanfare or lamentation. Her death marks the beginning of the end: an entire generation is passing. Kadesh, the site of earlier rebellion and the forty-year sentence, becomes her grave and a threshold to the final phase of wilderness wandering.
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