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Occasionally the Koran will give added information to the biblical account (as well as garbling details from time to time, sometimes outrightly rejecting key elements).
“Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.”
-Exodus 17.6“And when [Moses] prayed for drink for his people, We said: Strike the rock with your staff So there gushed from it twelve springs; each tribe knew its drinking place”
-The Cow 2.60
“and you will hear the cursives of the wind”
-Brian Turner, from “Here, Bullet”
