Chapter .xvij.
And all the company of the children of Israel went on their
journeys from the wilderness of Sin at the commandment of the
LORD, and pitched in Raphidim: where was no water for the people
to drink. And the people chode with Moses and said: give us water
to drink. And Moses said unto them: why chide ye with me, and
wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? There the people thirsted for
water, and murmured against Moses and said: wherefore hast thou
brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our
cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the LORD saying, what
shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. And
the LORD said unto Moses: go before the people, and take with thee
of the elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the
river, take in thine hand and go. Behold, I will stond there
before thee upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock,
and there shall come water out thereof, that the people may drink.
And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel. And he called
the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the chiding of
the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD saying:
is the LORD among us or not? Then came Amalek and fought with
Israel in Raphidim.
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