Holy Scripture

Exodus 17:6

A church father on this verse
“The people of the fathers thirsted, Moses touched the rock, and water flowed out of the rock. Did not grace work a result contrary to nature, so that the rock poured forth water, which by nature it did not contain?”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Mysteries 9.51

Source: Septuagint

Original

6Behold, I stand there before thou come, on the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out from it, and the people shall drink. And Moses did so before the sons of Israel.

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

5And the Lord said to Moses, Go before this people, and take to thyself of the elders of the people; and the rod with which thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and thou shalt go.

— Exodus 17:6 —

7And he called the name of that place, Temptation, and Reviling, because of the reviling of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?

8And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

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