6 Look! I am standing before you there on the rock in Hoʹreb.* And you must strike on the rock, and water must come out of it, and the people must drink it.”+ Subsequently Moses did so under the eyes of the older men of Israel.

8 “Take the rod+ and call the assembly together, you and Aaron your brother, and YOU must speak to the crag before their eyes that it may indeed give* its water; and you must bring out water for them from the crag* and give the assembly and their beasts of burden drink.”+

4 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters.+ The well of wisdom is a torrent bubbling forth.+

14 Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all,+ but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water+ bubbling up to impart everlasting life.”+

4 and all drank the same spiritual drink.+ For they used to drink from the spiritual rock-mass+ that followed them, and that rock-mass*+ meant* the Christ.+