Exodus 17:1-3

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Water From the Rock

17 The Israelites left the western Sinai desert.^[a] They traveled all together from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. ² So they turned against Moses and started arguing with him. They said, “Give us water to drink.”

Moses said to them, “Why have you turned against me? Why are you testing the Lord?”

³ But the people were very thirsty, so they continued complaining to Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Did you bring us out here so that we, our children, and our cattle will all die without water?”