for the drinking of the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt Jehovah?
And one called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel, and because of their testing of Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in our midst, or not?
And Moses said to Aaron, Take the firepan, and put fire on it from the altar, and lay on incense, and go, hurry to the congregation, and atone for them, for the wrath has gone out from the presence of Jehovah; the plague has begun.