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Summary
Exodus 17:6

17:3. So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying, "Why did you make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?"

17:4. Moses cried to the Lord, saying, "What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me."

17:5. The Lord said to Moses, "Go before the people, and take with you of the ancients of Israel: and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the river, and go.

'''17:6. "Behold I will stand there before you, upon the rock Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink." Moses did so before the ancients of Israel,'''

17:7. and he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"