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11 Moses lifted up his arm. He hit the rock twice with his stick. Water poured out from the rock. The people and their animals drank the water.

12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘You did not trust me enough to show the Israelites that I am holy. So you will not lead them into the land that I have promised to give to them.’

13 The place where this happened was called ‘Meribah’, because the Israelites quarrelled with the Lord there.[a] But he showed them there that he was their holy God.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:13 The word Meribah means ‘to quarrel’. God showed the people that they could trust him to give them what they needed.