Exodus 17:6-7
17:6 I will be standing
before you there on
the rock in Horeb, and you will strike
the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.”
And Moses did so in plain view
of the elders of Israel.
17:7 He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Numbers 20:13
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.
Numbers 20:24
20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors,
for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you
rebelled against my word
at the waters of Meribah.
Deuteronomy 33:8
Blessing on Levi
33:8 Of Levi he said:
Your Thummim and Urim belong to your godly one,
whose authority you challenged at Massah,
and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.