Exodus:17

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* And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin , by their stages , according to the commandment of the LORD , and encamped in Rephidim ; and there was no water for the people to drink . * Wherefore the people strove with Moses , and said : 'Give us water that we may drink .' And Moses said unto them : 'Why strive ye with me ? wherefore do ye try the LORD ?' * 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 ?' * And Moses cried unto the LORD , saying : 'What shall I do unto this people ? they are almost ready to stone me .' * And the LORD said unto Moses : 'Pass on before the people , and take with thee of the elders of Israel ; and thy rod , wherewith thou smotest the river , take in thy hand , and go . * 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 . * And the name of the place was called Massah , and Meribah , because of the striving of the children of Israel , and because they tried the LORD , saying : 'Is the LORD among us , or not ?' * Then came Amalek , and fought with Israel in Rephidim . * And Moses said unto Joshua : 'Choose us out men , and go out , fight with Amalek ; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand .' * 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 . * And it came to pass , when Moses held up his hand , that Israel prevailed ; and when he let down his hand , Amalek prevailed . * 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 . * And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword . * And the LORD said unto Moses : 'Write this for a memorial in the book , and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven .' * And Moses built an altar , and called the name of it Adonai-nissi . * And he said : 'The hand upon the throne of the LORD : the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation .'

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