^{2 Ref} Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?

^{3 Ref} And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

^{4 Ref} And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me.