Numbers 20
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Numbers 20:2-8

2Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.

3They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord!

4Why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

5Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”

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

7The Lord said to Moses,

8“Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

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