Signs for Moses

4 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen^(A) to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

²¹ But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men^(A) on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’ ²² Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”^(B)

²³ The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short?^(C) Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.^(D)”

¹² But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy^(A) in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”^(B)

¹³ These were the waters of Meribah,^[a](A) where the Israelites quarreled^(B) with the Lord and where he was proved holy among them.^(C)