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THE EAKGEST STREAM OF WATER IN THE SINAI PENINSULA 



The rock in the background is presumably the one which Moses was directed to smite. 



"And all the congregation of the Children of Israel journeyed from the Wilderness of 

 Sjn, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephi- 

 dim_: and there was no water for the people to drink. . . . And the people murmured 

 against Moses, and said, 'Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to 

 kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?' And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying. 

 'What shall I do unto this people? They be almost ready to stone me.' And the Lord said 

 unto Moses, 'Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy 

 rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold I will stand 

 before thee there upon the rock in Horeb ; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall 

 come water out of it, that the people may drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the 

 elders of Israel." Exodus xvii : i, 3-6. 



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