1 Segundo uma ordem do Senhor, toda a assembléia dos israelitas partiu, por etapas, do deserto de Sin. Acamparam em Rafidim, onde não havia água para o povo beber.

2 E vieram então contender com Moisés: "Dá-nos água para beber" disseram eles. Moisés respondeu-lhes: "Por que procurais contendas comigo? Por que provocais o Senhor?"

3 Entretanto, o povo que ali estava privado de água e devorado pela sede, murmurava contra Moisés: "Por que nos fizeste sair do Egito? Para nos fazer morrer de sede com nossos filhinhos e nossos rebanhos?"

4 Então dirigiu Moisés esta prece ao Senhor: "Que farei a este povo? Mais um pouco e irão apedrejar-me."

5 O Senhor respondeu a Moisés: "Passa adiante do povo, e leva contigo alguns dos anciãos de Israel; toma na mão tua vara, com que feriste o Nilo, e vai.

6 Eis que estarei ali diante de ti, sobre o rochedo do monte Horeb ferirás o rochedo e a água jorrará dele: assim o povo poderá beber." Isso fez Moisés em presença dos anciãos de Israel.

7 Chamaram esse lugar Massá e Meribá, por causa da contenda que os israelitas tiveram com ele, e porque tinham provocado o Senhor, dizendo: "O Senhor está ou não no meio de nós?"

8 Amalec veio atacar Israel em Rafidim.

9 Moisés disse a Josué: "Escolhe-nos homens e vai combater Amalec. Amanhã estarei no alto da colina com a vara de Deus na mão."

10 Josué obedeceu Moisés e foi combater Amalec, enquanto Moisés, Aarão e Hur subiam ao alto da colina.

11 E, quando Moisés tinha a mão levantada, Israel vencia, mas logo que a abaixava, Amalec triunfava.

12 Mas como se fatigassem os braços de Moisés, puseram-lhe uma pedra por baixo e ele assentou-se nela, enquanto Aarão e Hur lhe sustentavam as mãos de cada lado: suas mãos puderam assim conservar-se levantadas até o pôr-do-sol,

13 e Josué derrotou Amalec e seu povo ao fio da espada.

14 O Senhor disse a Moisés: "Escreve isto para lembrar, e dize a Josué que eu apagarei a memória de Amalec de debaixo dos céus".

15 Moisés construiu um altar que chamou de Javé-Nessi.

16 "Já que a mão, disse ele, foi levantada contra o trono do Senhor, o Senhor está em guerra perpétua contra Amalec".

1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

4 And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

5 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

9 And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.

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

11 Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.

12 But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down.

13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.

14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.

15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:

16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.