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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 encamped in Rephidim : and there was no water for the people to drink .
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Wherefore the people contended with Moses , and said , Give us water that we may drink . And Moses said to them, Why chide you with me? why do ye tempt the LORD ?
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And the people thirsted there for water ; and the people murmured against Moses , and said , Why is this that thou hast brought us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst ?
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And Moses cried to the LORD , saying, What shall I do to this people? they are almost ready to stone me.
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And the LORD said to Moses , Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel : and thy rod, with which thou smotest the river, take in thy hand , and Go .
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Behold, I will stand before thee there on the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock , and water shall come 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 chiding of the children of Israel , and because they tempted the LORD , saying, Is the LORD among us , or not?
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Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim .
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And Moses said to 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's hands were heavy; and they took a stone , and put it under him, and he sat upon it: and Aaron and Hur supported 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 the LORD said to Moses , Write this for a memorial in a book , and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for 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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For he said , Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation .