[The Pentateuch]

And all the company of the children of Israel went on their journeys from the wilderness of Sin at the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Raphidim: where was no water for the people to drink. And the people chode with Moses and said: give us water to drink. And Moses said unto¹ them: why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ⟨image 127⟩ye tempt the Lord? There the people thirsted² for water, and murmured against Moses and said: wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

ANd all the companye of the childern of Israel went on their iourneys from the wildernesse of Sin at the commaundment of the Lorde, and pitched in Raphidim: where was no water for the people to drynke. And the people chode with Moses and sayde: geue us water to drynke. And Moses sayde vnto¹ them: why chyde ye with me, and wherfore do ⟨image 127⟩ye tempte the Lorde? There the people thyrsted² for water, and murmured agenst Moses ād sayde: wherfore hast thou broughte us out of Egipte, to kyll us and oure childern and oure catell with thyrste?

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And Moses cried unto the Lord saying what shall I do unto this people? they be all most ready to stone me. And the Lord said unto Moses: goo before the people, and take with the of the elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand and goo. Behold, I will stand there before the upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out there of, that the people may drink. And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel And he called the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord saying: is the Lord among us or not?