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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 17
1 All the congregation of the children
of Israel traveled from the wilderness of
Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim;
but there was no water for the people to
drink.
2 Therefore the people quarreled with
Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses said to them, “Whydo youquarrel
with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
3 The people were thirsty for water
there; so the people murmured against
Moses, and said, “Why have you brought
us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children,
and our livestock with thirst?”
4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What
shall I do with these people? They are
almost ready to stone me.”
5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before
the people, and take the elders of Israel
with you, and take the rod in your hand
with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there
on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the
rock, and water will come out of it, that
the people may drink.” Moses did so in the
sight of the elders of Israel.
7 He called the name of the place Massah,† and
Meribah,‡ because the children
of Israel quarreled, and because they
tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among
us, or not?”
8 Then Amalek came and fought with
Israel in Rephidim.
9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for
us, and go outtofight with Amalek.
Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with
God’s rod in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses had told
him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
hill.
11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel
prevailed. When he let down his hand,
Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they
took a stone, and put it under him, and he
sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on
the other side. His hands were steady until
sunset.
13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 Yahweh 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 memory of Amalek from under the
sky.”
15 Moses built an altar, and called its
name “Yahweh our Banner”.§
16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will
have war with Amalek from generation to
generation.’ ”
† 17:7 Massah means testing. ‡ 17:7 Meribah means quarreling. § 17:15 Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi
Word English Bible
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