Numbers 20:1

Numbers 20:1 (JE and P). The Death of Miriam at Kadesh. As the narrative is now arranged, this must be assumed to have occurred at the close of the forty years-' wanderings. Zin, which is identified with Kadesh, was reached, according to P, immediately before the final advance towards Canaan (cf. Numbers 33:36). But according to JE the arrival at Kadesh took place before the penal wanderings (Numbers 13:26); the omission of the years here is perhaps due to the compiler's effort to conceal the discrepancy.