Numbers 20:2-13

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

3The people quarreled with Moses saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before Adonai!

4Now why have you brought the community of Adonai into this wilderness, for us and our livestock to die here?

5Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this evil place—a place without grain, fig, grapevine or pomegranate—and there’s no water to drink!”

6So Moses and Aaron went from before the assembly to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of Adonai appeared to them.

7Adonai spoke to Moses saying,

8“Take the staff and gather the assembly, you and your brother Aaron. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give out its water. You will bring out water from the rock, and you will give the community something to drink, along with their livestock.”

9So Moses took the staff from before the presence of Adonai, just as He had commanded him.

10Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock. He said, “Listen now, you rebels! Must we bring you water from this rock?”

11Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with the staff. Water gushed out and the community and its livestock drank.

12But Adonai said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in Me so as to esteem Me as holy in the eyes of Bnei-Yisrael, therefore you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given to them.”

13These are the waters of Meribah where Bnei-Yisrael contended with Moses, and where Adonai showed Himself holy among them.