Psalm 95:1-9
1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior. 2 Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods. 4 For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his. 5 For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6 Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us. 7 For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. 8 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts: 9 as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works. Numbers 20:1-13 1 And the sons of Israel, and the entire multitude, went into the desert of Sin, in the first month. And the people stayed at Kadesh. And Miriam died there, and she was buried in the same place. 2 And when the people were in need of water, they came together against Moses and Aaron. 3 And as it turned into sedition, they said: "If only we had perished among our brothers in the sight of the Lord. 4 Why have you led away the Church of the Lord, into the wilderness, so that both we and our cattle would die? 5 Why did you cause us to ascend from Egypt, and why have you led us into this most wretched place, which is not able to be sown, which does not produce figs, or vines, or pomegranates, and which, moreover, does not even have water to drink?" 6 And Moses and Aaron, dismissing the multitude, entered the tabernacle of the covenant, and they fell prone on the ground, and they cried out to the Lord, and they said: "O Lord God, listen to the outcry of this people, and open for them, from your storehouse, a fountain of living water, so that, being satisfied, their murmuring may cease." And the glory of the Lord appeared over them. 7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 8 "Take the rod, and gather the people, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall bestow waters. And when you have brought forth water from the rock, the entire multitude and their cattle shall drink." 9 Therefore, Moses took the rod, which was in the sight of the Lord, just as he had instructed him. 10 And having gathered the multitude before the rock, he said to them: "Listen, you who are rebellious and unbelieving. Would we be able to cast out water from this rock?" 11 And when Moses had lifted up his hand, striking the stone twice with the rod, very great waters went forth, so much so that the people and their cattle were able to drink. 12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe me, so as to sanctify me before the sons of Israel, you shall not lead this people into the land, which I will give to them." 13 This is the Water of Contradiction, where the sons of Israel were quarreling against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
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