| 1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from
the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of
Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to
drink. 2 Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water
that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? Wherefore
do ye tempt Jehovah? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the
people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up
out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people?
They are almost ready to stone me. 5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on
before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and they rod,
wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6 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. 7 And he called the
name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the
children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah
among us, or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses
said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow
I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. 10 So
Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass,
when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his
hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a
stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up
his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; And his
hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua
discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And
Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it
in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
Jehovah-nissi; 16 And he said, Jehovah hath sworn: Jehovah will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.
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