1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore 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 test Yahweh?"

3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"

8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name "Yahweh our Banner". 16 He said, "Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’"

1 以色列全体会众都照着耶和华的吩咐， 一站一站， 从汛的旷野起程， 在利非订安营。在那里人民没有水喝。

2 因此人民与摩西争吵， 说： "给我们水喝吧。"摩西对他们说： "你们为什么与我争吵呢？你们为什么试探耶和华呢？"

3 人民在那里渴望得水喝， 就向摩西发怨言， 说： "你为什么把我们从埃及领上来， 使我们和我们的儿女， 以及我们的牲畜都渴死呢？"

4 摩西向耶和华呼求， 说： "我要怎样对待这人民呢？他们几乎要用石头打死我了。"

5 耶和华回答摩西： "你要到人民的面前， 要带着以色列的几个长老和你一起， 手里要拿着你先前击打河水的杖。

6 看哪， 我必在何烈山那里的磐石上站在你面前； 你要击打磐石， 就必有水从磐石流出来， 使人民可以喝。"摩西就在以色列的长老眼前这样行了。

7 他给那地方起名叫玛撒， 又叫米利巴， 因为以色列人在那里争吵， 又因为他们试探耶和华， 说： "耶和华是不是在我们中间呢？"

8 那时亚玛力人来了， 在利非订和以色列人争战。

9 摩西对约书亚说： "你要为我们选出人来， 出去和亚玛力人争战； 明天我要站在山顶上， 手里拿着 神的杖。"

10 于是， 约书亚照着摩西吩咐他的行了， 去和亚玛力人争战； 摩西、亚伦和户珥都上了山顶。

11 摩西举起手来的时候， 以色列人就得胜； 摩西把手放下来的时候， 亚玛力人就得胜。

12 可是摩西的两手疲乏了， 他们就搬块石头来， 放在摩西下面， 他就坐在上面； 亚伦和户珥， 一边一个， 扶着摩西的两手； 这样， 他的两手就稳住， 直到日落的时候。

13 约书亚用刀打败了亚玛力王和他的人民。

14 耶和华对摩西说： "我要把亚玛力的名号从天下完全抹掉； 你要把话写在书上作记念， 也要告诉约书亚。"

15 摩西筑了一座祭坛， 给它起名叫"耶和华尼西"。

16 摩西又说： "向耶和华的旌旗举手， 耶和华必世世代代和亚玛力人争战。"