Exodus 17:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ So the people thirsted for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt like this, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

⁴ And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do to this people? For they are almost ready to stone me.”

⁵ And the LORD answered Moses, “Go before the people; and take the elders of Israel with you. And take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river; and go.