Exodus 17:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.

⁵ And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.

⁶ Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel: