Exodus 17:3-5

Modern English Version

³ But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why is it that you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

⁴ Then Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

⁵ The Lord said to Moses, “Pass over before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. And take in your hand your rod with which you struck the Nile, and go.