In Context

1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, |Give us water to drink.| Moses said to them, |Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?|

3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, |Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?|

4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, |What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.|

5 Yahweh said to Moses, |Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.| Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 17:4 in Other Translations