The Rock Struck Twice
Numbers 20:2–13 · World English Bible
Numbers 20:2There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
Numbers 20:3The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying,
We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
Numbers 20:4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
Numbers 20:5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
Numbers 20:6Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD’s glory appeared to them.
Numbers 20:7The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 20:8Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.
Numbers 20:9Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Numbers 20:10Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them,
Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?
Numbers 20:11Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
Numbers 20:12The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
Numbers 20:13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.