“And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
Why have you taken us out of Egypt, to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; and there is no water to drink — the people invert the exodus narrative, treating it as a failure rather than liberation. Kadesh's sterility is total: no cultivated abundance, no water source. The wilderness is defined by absence and lack. Yet the text earlier described Kadesh as the site where spies returned with fruit (Numbers 13:23-26); the people's perception shapes their experience.
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