3. And as it turned into sedition, they said: "If only we had perished among our brothers in the sight of the Lord.
4. Why have you led away the Church of the Lord, into the wilderness, so that both we and our cattle would die?
5. Why did you cause us to ascend from Egypt, and why have you led us into this most wretched place, which is not able to be sown, which does not produce figs, or vines, or pomegranates, and which, moreover, does not even have water to drink?"
6. And Moses and Aaron, dismissing the multitude, entered the tabernacle of the covenant, and they fell prone on the ground, and they cried out to the Lord, and they said: "O Lord God, listen to the outcry of this people, and open for them, from your storehouse, a fountain of living water, so that, being satisfied, their murmuring may cease." And the glory of the Lord appeared over them.
7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
8. "Take the rod, and gather the people, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall bestow waters. And when you have brought forth water from the rock, the entire multitude and their cattle shall drink."
9. Therefore, Moses took the rod, which was in the sight of the Lord, just as he had instructed him.