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They journeyed through an inhospitable wilderness
    and pitched their tents in untrodden wastes;
    they stood firm against their enemies and turned back their foes.
When they were thirsty they cried out to you,
    and water was given to them out of unyielding rock,
    a refreshment for their thirst out of hard stone.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 11:4 The author fails to mention that it was either Moses or Aaron who called upon the Lord for their people.