Numbers [In the desert] 20:7-16

⁷Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

⁸“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron Light-bringer your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”

⁹Moses Drawn out took the rod from before Adonai , as he enjoined him.

¹⁰Moses Drawn out and Aaron Light-bringer gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Sh'ma ·Hear obey· now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

¹¹Moses Drawn out lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

¹²Adonai said to Moses Drawn out and Aaron Light-bringer, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel God prevails, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

¹³These are the waters of Meribah Quarreling; because the children of Israel God prevails strove with Yahweh M’Kaddesh Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes you holy who was set apart by them. (LY:4)

¹⁴Moses Drawn out sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom Red, saying: “Thus says your brother Israel God prevails: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

¹⁵how our fathers went down into Egypt Abode of slavery, and we lived in Egypt Abode of slavery a long time. The Egyptians people from Abode of slavery mistreated us and our fathers.

¹⁶When we cried to Adonai , he sh'ma ·heard obeyed· our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt Abode of slavery. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.