Water from the Rock
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w All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
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x Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you y test the Lord?"
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But the people thirsted there for water, and z the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"
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So Moses cried to the Lord, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready a to stone me."
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And the Lord said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with b which you struck the Nile, and go.
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c Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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And he called the name of the place d Massah and e Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"
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Cross References
Exodus 16:1
They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Numbers 33:12
And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Numbers 33:14
And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
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Cross References
Numbers 20:3 - 4
And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:16
You shall not put the Lord your God to the test...
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the...
Psalms 78:41
They tested God again and again and provoked th...
Psalms 95:8 - 9
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on...
Isaiah 7:12
But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not ...
Matthew 4:7
Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, 'You s...
1 Corinthians 10:9
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of ...
Hebrews 3:8 - 9
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, ...
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Cross References
Exodus 15:24
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?
Exodus 16:2
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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Cross References
Numbers 14:10
Then all the congregation said to stone them wi...
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed, for the peopl...
2 Chronicles 24:21
But they conspired against him, and by command ...
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the...
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the...
John 8:59
So they picked up stones to throw at him, but J...
John 10:31 - 33
The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
John 11:8
The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews wer...
Acts 7:58
Then they cast him out of the city and stoned h...
Acts 14:5
When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and J...
Acts 14:19
But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and hav...
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was ...
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they w...
Joshua 9:25
And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever ...
1 Kings 21:13
And the two worthless men came in and sat oppos...
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Cross References
Exodus 7:20
Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.
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Cross References
Numbers 20:8 - 11
"Take the staff, and assemble the congregation,...
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through the great and terrifying wi...
Nehemiah 9:15
You gave them bread from heaven for their hunge...
Psalms 78:15 - 16
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them ...
Psalms 78:20
He struck the rock so that water gushed out and...
Psalms 105:41
He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it fl...
Psalms 114:8
Who turns the rock into a pool of water, the fl...
Isaiah 43:20
The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and ...
Isaiah 48:21
They did not thirst when he led them through th...
1 Corinthians 10:4
And all drank the same spiritual drink. For the...
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Cross References
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness.
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Cross References
Numbers 20:13
These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through them he showed himself holy.
Psalms 81:7
In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Psalms 95:8
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness.
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