King James Version
Exodus • Chapter 17
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And all the congregation of the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sin according to the command of the LORD, and they encamped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.
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And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?"
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And the people thirsted there for water, and the people confronted Moses and said, “Why is this that you have brought us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
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And Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, "What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me."
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And the Lord said to Moses, "Go before the people and take with you the elders of Israel, and your staff with which you struck the Nile, take it in your hand and go."
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Here I am standing before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will 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 quarrel of the children of Israel and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
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And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose for us men and go out to fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
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And Joshua did as Moses had said to him to fight against Amalek, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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And it was when Moses raised his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
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And the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on 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 defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and put it in the ears of Joshua, for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."
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And Moses built an altar and called its name The Lord is My Banner.
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And he said, "For the hand is against the throne of Yah, war for Yahweh against Amalek from generation to generation."