Exodus 17:2–7

^2dTherefore the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.”

So Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you ^etempt the Lord?”

³And the people thirsted there for water, and the people ^fcomplained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our ^glivestock with thirst?”

⁴So Moses ^hcried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to ⁱstone ¹me!”

⁵And the Lord said to Moses, ^j“Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which ^kyou struck the river, and go. ^6lBehold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.”

And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷So he called the name of the place ^mMassah ²and ³Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they ⁴tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”