Numbers 20:1-10

¹And the sons of Israel and all the multitude came into the desert of Zin, in the first month. And the people dwelled in Kadesh; and Marie was dead there, and buried in the same place.

²And when the people had need to water, they went together against Moses and Aaron;

³and they were turned into dissension, that is, rebelty and striving, and said, We would that we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

⁴Why have ye led out the church of the Lord into wilderness, that both we and our beasts die?

⁵Why have ye made us to go up from Egypt, and have brought us into this worst place, which may not be sown, which neither bringeth forth fig trees, nor vines, neither pomegranates; furthermore and it hath not water to drink?

⁶And when the multitude was left, Moses and Aaron entered into the tabernacle of the bond of peace, and they fell down low upon the earth, and they cried to God, and said, Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure, a well of quick water, that when they be filled, the grutching of them cease. And the glory of the Lord appeared upon them;

⁷and the Lord spake to Moses, and said,

⁸Take the rod of Aaron, and gather together the people, thou, and Aaron thy brother; and speak ye to the stone before them, and it shall give out waters. And when thou hast led water out of the stone, all the multitude shall drink, and their beasts thereof.

⁹Therefore Moses took the rod that was in the sight of the Lord, as the Lord commanded to him,

¹⁰when the multitude was gathered before the stone; and he said to them, Hear ye, rebels, and unbelieveful; whether we may bring out of this stone water to you?