Jehovah did not reject the murmurers. Instead, he directed Moses to do three things: take his rod, gather the people, and “speak to the crag before their eyes that it [might] indeed give its water. ”
( वचन ८) मोशेने पहिल्या दोन आज्ञा मानल्या पण तिसरी आज्ञा मानायला मात्र तो चुकला.