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"Then
all the
congregation of the
sons of
Israel
journeyed by
stages from the
wilderness of
Sin,
according to the
command of the
LORD, and
camped at
Rephidim, and
there was
no
water for the
people to
drink. Therefore the
people
quarreled with
Moses and
said,
"Give us
water that we may
drink." And
Moses
said to them,
"Why do you
quarrel with me?
Why do you
test the
LORD ?" But the
people
thirsted
there for
water; and they
grumbled
against
Moses and
said,
"Why,
now, have you
brought us up from
Egypt, to
kill us and our
children and our
livestock with
thirst ?" So
Moses
cried out to the
LORD,
saying,
"What shall I
do to
this
people ? A
little
more and they will
stone me." Then the
LORD
said to
Moses,
"Pass
before the
people and
take with you
some of the
elders of
Israel; and
take in your
hand your
staff with
which you
struck the
Nile, and
go.
"Behold, I will
stand
before you
there on the
rock at
Horeb; and you shall
strike the
rock, and
water will
come out of it, that
the
people may
drink." And
Moses
did
so in the
sight of the
elders of
Israel. He
named
* the
place
Massah and
Meribah
because of the
quarrel of the
sons of
Israel, and
because they
tested the
LORD,
saying, "Is the
LORD
among us,
or not?"
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