Exodus 17:3-5

Darby Translation

³ And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

⁴ And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me!

⁵ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel, and thy staff with which thou didst smite the river, take in thy hand, and go.