Water from the Rock

¹The entire community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD directed. They set up camp at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. ²The people confronted Moses and demanded, "Give us water to drink!" Moses answered them, "Why are you fighting with me? Why are you testing the LORD?" ³The people were thirsty for water and murmured against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?" ⁴Moses cried out to the LORD, "What am I supposed to do with these people? They're about ready to stone me!" ⁵The LORD told Moses, "Walk out ahead of the people and bring some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the staff you used to strike the Nile, and go." ⁶"Look, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it so that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷He named the place Massah and Meribah because the children of Israel quarreled and tested the LORD by asking, 'Is the LORD among us or not?'