The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus

 1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of ^aSin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and ^bpitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

 2 Wherefore the people ^adid chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye ^btempt the Lord?

 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people ^amurmured against Moses, 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 Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

 5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy ^arod, ^bwherewith 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 ^asmite the ^brock, and there shall come ^cwater out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

 7 And he called the name of the place ^aMassah, and ^bMeribah, because of the ^cchiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

 8 ¶Then came ^aAmalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

 9 And Moses said unto ^aJoshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the ^brod of God in mine hand.

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

 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

 12 But Moses’ hands ^awere heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur ^bstayed 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 ^adiscomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

 14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a ^abook, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of ^bAmalek from under heaven.

 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it ^aJehovah-nissi:

 16 For he said, ^aBecause the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.