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Wisdom 11:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

4 When they thirsted, they called upon you,
    and water was given them from the sheer rock,
    a quenching of their thirst from the hard stone.
5 For by the things through which their foes were punished
    they in their need were benefited.(A)

First Example: Water Punishes the Egyptians and Benefits the Israelites

6 Instead of a river’s[a] perennial source,
    troubled with impure blood(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:6–8 River: the Nile; the contrast is between the first plague of Egypt (Ex 7:17–24) and the water drawn from the rock in Horeb (Ex 17:5–7; Nm 20:8–11).
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