Psalms 105:41

105:41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out;

a river ran through dry regions.

Deuteronomy 8:15

8:15 and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents ¹  and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow ²  from a flint rock and

Deuteronomy 9:21

9:21 As for your sinful thing ³  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ⁴  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

¹ tn Heb “flaming serpents”; KJV, NASB “fiery serpents”; NAB “saraph serpents.” This figure of speech (metonymy) probably describes the venomous and painful results of snakebite. The feeling from such an experience would be like a burning fire (שָׂרָף, saraf).

² tn Heb “the one who brought out for you water.” In the Hebrew text this continues the preceding sentence, but the translation begins a new sentence here for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

⁴ tn Heb “burned it with fire.”