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Chapter 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. |
| 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? |
| 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?
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| 4 | And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people?
they be almost ready to stone me. |
| 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. |
| 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 chiding of the
children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD
among us, or not? |
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8 | Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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13 | And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with
the edge of the sword. |
| 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. |
| 15 | And Moses
built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: |
| 16 | For he said,
Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation. |
