10. Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. He said to them, "Listen, you rebels! Should we produce water from the rock for you?"
11. Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice. Out flooded water so that the community and their animals could drink.
12. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn’t trust me to show my holiness before the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I am giving them."
13. These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites confronted the Lord with controversy and he showed his holiness to them.
14. Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "This is what your brother Israel says: ‘You know all the adversity that has happened to us.
15. How our ancestors went down to Egypt and lived in Egypt for a long time. The Egyptians oppressed us as they had our ancestors,