Exodus 17:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² Therefore, the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, so that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?”

³ So the people thirsted for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt like this, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

⁴ And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do to this people? For they are almost ready to stone me.”