Exodus 17:1-8

¹Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

²So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

³But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt — to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

⁴Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

⁵And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

⁶Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

⁷He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

⁸After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

— Exodus 17:1-8

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Cross References for Exodus 17:1-8

• 1 Corinthians 10:4
• Numbers 20:9-11
• Nehemiah 9:15
• Deuteronomy 8:15
• Psalm 105:41
• Psalm 78:15-16
• John 4:10
• Isaiah 41:17-18
• Psalm 114:8
• Psalm 46:4

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