17 ¹ All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according tro the commandment of Yahweh, and camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 17 ² Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put Yahweh to the proof?" 17 ³ But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" 17 ⁴ So Moses cried to Yahweh, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me." 17 ⁵ And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go. 17 ⁶ Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 17 ⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put Yahweh to the proof by saying, "Is Yahweh among us or not?"