Exodus 17:3-5

21st Century King James Version

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

⁴ And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, “What shall I do unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me!”

⁵ And the Lord said unto Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod with which thou smotest the river, take in thine hand and go.