The LORD said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 17:5 in context
Exodus 17:2–8
2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
3
The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
4
Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5
Selected verse
The LORD said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7
He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”
8
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Continue with Exodus 17
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open Exodus 17Full chapter · AI-generated narration