17Exodus 17

1All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.Select Exodus 17:1

2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”Select Exodus 17:2

3The people were thirsty for water there; and 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?”Select Exodus 17:3

4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”Select Exodus 17:4

5Yahweh 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.Select Exodus 17:5

6Behold, 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.Select Exodus 17:6

7He 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?”Select Exodus 17:7

8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.Select Exodus 17:8

9Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”Select Exodus 17:9

10So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.Select Exodus 17:10

11When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.Select Exodus 17:11

12But Moses’ hands were heavy; and 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.Select Exodus 17:12

13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.Select Exodus 17:13

14Yahweh 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.”Select Exodus 17:14

15Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.Select Exodus 17:15

16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”Select Exodus 17:16