1 Tendo partido toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel do deserto de Sim, pelas suas jornadas, segundo o mandamento de Jeová, acamparam em Refidim; não havia ali água para o povo beber.

2 Contendeu, pois, o povo com Moisés e disse: Dá-nos água para bebermos. Respondeu-lhes Moisés: Por que contendeis comigo? porque tentais a Jeová?

3 Ali o povo teve sede de água, e murmurou o povo contra Moisés, dizendo: Por que nos fizeste sair do Egito, para nos matares de sede a nós, a nossos filhos e ao nosso gado?

4 Clamou Moisés a Jeová: Que farei a este povo? por pouco me não apedreja.

5 Respondeu Jeová a Moisés: Vai-te adiante do povo, e leva contigo alguns dos anciãos de Israel; toma na mão a tua vara com que feriste o rio, e vai-te.

6 Eis que estarei ali diante de ti sobre a rocha em Horebe; ferirás a rocha, e dela sairá água, para que beba o povo. Assim fez Moisés à vista dos anciãos de Israel.

7 Chamou ao lugar Massá e Meribá, por causa da contenda dos filhos de Israel, e porque tentaram a Jeová, dizendo: Está Jeová no meio de nós ou não?

8 Então veio Amaleque e pelejou contra Israel em Refidim.

9 Disse Moisés a Josué: Escolhe-nos homens, e sai, peleja contra Amaleque; amanhã estarei eu no cume do outeiro, tendo na mão a vara de Deus.

10 Assim fez Josué como Moisés lhe dissera, e pelejou contra Amaleque; e Moisés, Arão e Hur subiram ao cume do outeiro.

11 Quando Moisés levantava a mão, prevalecia Israel; mas, quando ele abaixava a mão, prevalecia Amaleque.

12 Porém as mãos de Moisés eram pesadas; tomando, pois, uma pedra, puseram-na por baixo dele, e nela se assentou. Arão e Hur sustentavam-lhe as mãos, estando um de um lado e o outro do outro; assim ficaram firmes as mão s até o pôr-do-sol.

13 Josué desbaratou a Amaleque e a seu povo ao fio da espada.

14 Então disse Jeová a Moisés: Escreve isto para memorial num livro, e faze-o ouvir a Josué; porque eu hei de extinguir totalmente a memória de Amaleque de debaixo do céu.

15 Moisés edificou um altar, e pôs-lhe este nome, Jeová-Nissi;

16 e disse: Jeová jurou isto: Jeová fará guerra contra Amaleque de geração em geração.

1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people did 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 tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured 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 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 Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses 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 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 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 the LORD said unto Moses, 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 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: 16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.