Exodus 17:2-4

Modern English Version

² Therefore the people contended with Moses and said, “Give us water so that we may drink.”

And Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

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.”