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2 So the people contended with Moses, and they said, |Give us water to drink!| Moses said to them, |Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?| 3 But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said, |Why in the world did you bring us up out of Egypt--to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?| 4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, |What will I do with this people?--a little more and they will stone me!| 5 The LORD said to Moses, |Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go. 6 I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.| And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel. Exodus 17:2-6, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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