Exo 17:2-7 | NASB1995 | STEP | Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said , “ Give us water that we may drink .” And Moses said to them, “ Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?”

Exodus 17:2-7

2 Therefore the people ^aquarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, ^b“Why do you quarrel with me? ^cWhy do you test the Lord?” 3 But the people thirsted there for water; and ^{▼▼ Lit the people}they ^egrumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill ^{▼▼ Lit me}us and ^{▼▼ Lit my}our children and ^{▼▼ Lit my
,} ⁱour livestock with thirst?” 4 So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A ^jlittle more and they will stone me.” 5 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of ^kthe elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which ^lyou struck the Nile, and go. 6 “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at ^mHoreb; and ⁿyou 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. 7 He named the place ^{▼▼ I.e. test
,} ^pMassah and ^{▼▼ I.e. quarrel
,} ^rMeribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they ^stested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us, or not?”