20:11. water came out! Moses is supposed to speak to the rock, but he hits it. So why does the miracle still work?! We might surmise that it means that God makes it happen so as not to humiliate Moses. Or the explanation may be that the miraculous power is in the staff, which is the one that miraculously blossomed. Whatever the reason, though, the fact remains: for the first time in the Bible, a human has changed a miracle. This is an all-important step in a gradual shift in the balance of control of miraculous phenomena in the Tanak. Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Isaac perform no miracles. But
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