1 And all the congregation of the children of Yisrael journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of YAHUAH,
and pitched in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Mosheh, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Mosheh said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye
tempt YAHUAH?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against
Mosheh, 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?
4 And Mosheh cried unto YAHUAH, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they
be almost ready to stone me.
5 And YAHUAH said unto Mosheh, Go on before the people, and take with thee of
the elders of Yisrael; 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 Mosheh did so in the sight of the elders of Yisrael.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the
chiding of the children of Yisrael, and because they tempted YAHUAH, saying, Is
YAHUAH among us, or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Yisrael in Rephidim.
9 And Mosheh 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 YAHUAH in mine
hand.
10 So Joshua did as Mosheh had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Mosheh,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Mosheh held up his hand, that Yisrael prevailed:
and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Mosheh' 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.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And YAHUAH said unto Mosheh, 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 Mosheh built an altar, and called the name of it YAHUAH-Nissi:
16 For he said, Because YAHUAH hath sworn [that] YAHUAH [will have] war with
Amalek from generation to generation.