diff --git a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/quickstart.adoc b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/quickstart.adoc
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--- a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/quickstart.adoc
+++ b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/quickstart.adoc
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The CQL shell, or cqlsh, is one tool to use in interacting with the database. We
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-docker run --rm --network cassandra -v "$(pwd)/data.cql:/scripts/data.cql" -e CQLSH_HOST=cassandra -e CQLSH_PORT=9042 nuvo/docker-cqlsh 
+docker run --rm --network cassandra -v "$(pwd)/data.cql:/scripts/data.cql" -e CQLSH_HOST=cassandra -e CQLSH_PORT=9042 -e CQLVERSION=3.4.5 nuvo/docker-cqlsh 
 
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 Note: The cassandra server itself (the first docker run command you ran) takes a few seconds to start up. The above command will throw an error if the server hasn't finished its init sequence yet, so give it a few seconds to spin up.