Numbers 20:2-13

2There was no water for the community, so they assembled against Moses and Aaron.

3The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.

4Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

5Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It’s not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!”

6Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

7The Lord spoke to Moses,

8“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”

9So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence just as he had commanded him.

10Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that abundant water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

12But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me to demonstrate my holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them.”

13These are the Waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and he demonstrated his holiness to them.