Filled with anger, Moses ignored what God told him to do. Instead of speaking to the rock, he struck it. This was not the first time Moses’s anger got him into trouble (Ex. 2). Striking the rock instead of speaking was one thing, but the fact that Moses struck it with the staff that he took “from the LORD’s presence” (Num. 20:9) was another. He struck the rock with the same staff that he used to initiate the plagues and command the Red Sea to part. The staff was not just a walking stick; it was an