Exodus 17:6
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6 I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:4
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4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.(A)
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Numbers 20:9-11
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9 So Moses took the staff from before the Lord, as he had commanded him. 10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Listen, you rebels; shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”(A) 11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff; water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank.(B)
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Nehemiah 9:15
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15 For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:15
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15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous[a] snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock.(A)
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Psalm 105:41
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41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.(A)
Psalm 78:15-16
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15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(A)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
John 4:10
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10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”(A)
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Psalm 114:8
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8 who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.(A)
Psalm 46:4
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4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.(A)
John 7:37-38
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Rivers of Living Water
37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,(A) 38 and let the one who believes in me drink. As[a] the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart[b] shall flow rivers of living water.’ ”(B)
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Isaiah 43:19-20
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19 I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.(A)
20 The wild animals will honor me,
the jackals and the ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people,(B)
Isaiah 41:17-18
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17 When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the Lord will answer them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.(A)
18 I will open rivers on the bare heights
and fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water
and the dry land springs of water.(B)
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