OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 20:11

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Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

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Verse 11. The rock. This rock was a figure of Christ, and the water that issued out from the rock, of his precious blood, the source of all our good; ( Challoner.) while the striking twice with the rod, denoted the cross, composed of two pieces of wood. Saint Augustine q. 35. Worthington.

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