⁶ I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.^(A) Moses did this, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

⁸ Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and in their presence command the rock to yield its waters. Thereby you will bring forth water from the rock for them, and supply the community and their livestock with water. ⁹ So Moses took the staff from its place before the Lord, as he was ordered. ¹⁰ Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, where he said to them,^(A) “Just listen, you rebels! Are we to produce water for you out of this rock?” ^11 (B)Then, raising his hand, Moses struck the rock twice^[a] with his staff, and water came out in abundance, and the community and their livestock drank.

⁶ So the Lord sent among the people seraph^[a] serpents, which bit^(A) the people so that many of the Israelites died. ⁷ Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining against the Lord and you. Pray to the Lord to take the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people, ⁸ and the Lord said to Moses: Make a seraph and mount it on a pole, and everyone who has been bitten will look at it and recover.^{[b] 9} Accordingly Moses made a bronze serpent^[c] and mounted it on a pole, and whenever the serpent bit someone, the person looked at the bronze serpent and recovered.^(B)