Exodus 17:1-7

Legacy Standard Bible

Water from the Rock

17 Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by ^[a]stages from the wilderness of ^(A)Sin, according to the ^[b]command of Yahweh, and they camped at ^(B)Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. ² Therefore the people ^(C)contended with Moses and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “^(D)Why do you contend with me? ^(E)Why do you test Yahweh?” ³ But the people thirsted there for water; and ^[c]they ^(F)grumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to put ^[d]us and ^[e]our children and ^[f](G)our livestock to death with thirst?” ⁴ So Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A ^(H)little more and they will stone me.” ⁵ Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of ^(I)the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which ^(J)you struck the Nile, and go. ⁶ Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at ^(K)Horeb; and ^(L)you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷ So he named the place ^[g](M)Massah and ^[h](N)Meribah because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they ^(O)tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us or not?”