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The whole community of Israelites left the desert of Sin. They pitched camp at Rephidim where there was no water for the people to drink.
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Tormented by thirst, the people complained to Moses, 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt,' they said, 'only to make us, our children, and our livestock, die of thirst?'
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Moses appealed to Yahweh for help. 'How am I to deal with this people?' he said. 'At any moment now they will stone me!'
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Yahweh the said to Moses, 'Go on ahead of the people. Take the staff with which you struck the River, and go. I shall be waiting there for you on the rock. Strike the rock, and water will come out for the people to drink.'
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This is what Moses did.
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War with the Amalekites