Exod 17
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And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of
Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of YHWH, and encamped in Rephidim:
and there was no water for the people to drink.
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Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.
And Moses said to them, Why strive you with me? Wherefore do you tempt YHWH?
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And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and
said, Wherefore have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and
our cattle with thirst?
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And Moses cried to YHWH, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready
to stone me.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you of the elders
of Israel; and they rod, wherewith you smote the river, take in your hand, and go.
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Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall 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.
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And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of
the children of Israel, and because they tempted YHWH, saying, Is YHWH among us, or
not?
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Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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And Moses said to 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.
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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.
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And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when
he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
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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.
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And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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And YHWH said to 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.
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And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it YHWH-nissi;
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And he said, YHWH has sworn: YHWH will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.