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And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin , by their journeys , according to the commandment of Jehovah , and encamped in Rephidim : and there was no water for the people to drink .
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Wherefore the people stove with Moses , and said , Give us water that we may drink . And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah ?
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And the people thirsted there for water ; and the people murmured against Moses , and said , Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt , to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst ?
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And Moses cried unto Jehovah , saying, What shall I do unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses , Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel ; and they rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand , and go .
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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 .
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And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah , because of the striving of the children of Israel , and because they tempted Jehovah , saying, Is Jehovah among us , or not?
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Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim .
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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 my hand .
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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.
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And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand , that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand , Amalek prevailed.
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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 .
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And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword .
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And Jehovah said unto Moses , Write this for a memorial in a book , and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven .
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And Moses built an altar , and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi ;
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And he said , Jehovah hath sworn: Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation .