The whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed from the wilderness of Sin by stages, at the LORD’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.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 put the LORD to the test?”The people thirsted there for water and grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to make me and my children and my livestock die of thirst?”Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”The LORD said to Moses, “Go on before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.Look, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.He named the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and put the LORD to the test, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out and fight Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand at the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”Joshua fought Amalek as Moses had told him, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.Whenever Moses raised his hand, Israel prevailed; whenever he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.Moses’ hands grew heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, and his hands were steady until sunset.Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.The LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in the book and recite it in Joshua’s hearing, for I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”Moses built an altar and named it “The LORD Is My Banner.”He said, “For a hand is upon the throne of the LORD; the LORD will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
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Holy Bible, BibliaTodo New Translation (BTNT). Published by BibliaTodo Bible Society, an imprint of BibliaTodo LLC.