9 So Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as He commanded him.
10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels. Will we bring out water from this rock for you?”
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and he struck the rock twice with his rod, and plenty of water came out, and the assembly drank, and their livestock.
12 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you will not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
13 This is the water of Meribah because the children of Israel argued with the Lord, and He was sanctified among them.
14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom,“Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that has found us,
15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians distressed us and our fathers.