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  1. 1 The entire Israelite community set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin[a] as the Lord had commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 So the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

    Moses said to them, “Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the Lord?”

    3 But the people were thirsty for water there, so they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you ever bring us up out of Egypt to let us, our children, and our livestock die of thirst?”

    4 Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me!”

    5 The Lord said to Moses, “Go in front of the people, and take the elders of Israel with you. Also take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Watch me. I will stand there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. You are to strike the rock. Water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” Moses did that in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He named the place Massah[b] and Meribah,[c] because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” – Exodus 17:1-7 (EHV)

    Footnotes:
    [a] Exodus 17:1 Sin is a geographic name like Sinai. It is not the English word sin.
    [b] Exodus 17:7 Massah means testing.
    [c] Exodus 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.

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