EX-17:1  And all the congregation of the children of Israel

journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys,

according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in

Rephidim:

and [there was] no water for the people to drink.

EX-17:2  Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said,

Give

us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide

ye

with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

EX-17:3  And the people thirsted there for water; and the people

murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore [is] this [that] thou

hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and

our

cattle with thirst?

EX-17:4  And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do

unto

this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

EX-17:5  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people,

and

take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith

thou

smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

EX-17:6  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.

EX-17:7  And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,

because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because

they

tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

EX-17:8  Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

EX-17:9  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 mine hand.

EX-17:10  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.

EX-17:11  And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that

Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek

prevailed.

EX-17:12  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.

EX-17:13  And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the

edge

of the sword.

EX-17:14  And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this [for] a

memorial

in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will

utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

EX-17:15  And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it

Jehovahnissi:

EX-17:16  For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn [that] the

LORD

[will have] war with Amalek from generation to generation.

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