Exodus 17:3-5

International Standard Version

³ But the people were thirsty there for water, so they^[a] complained against Moses: “Why did you bring us up from Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

⁴ So Moses cried out to the Lord: “What am I to do with these people? Just a little more and they’ll stone me.”

⁵ Then the Lord told Moses, “Go over in front of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.