10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together(A) in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”(B) 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water(C) gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy(D) in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”(E)

13 These were the waters of Meribah,[a](F) where the Israelites quarreled(G) with the Lord and where he was proved holy among them.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 20:13 Meribah means quarreling.

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