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

² Então o povo contendeu com Moisés, dizendo: Dá-nos água para beber. Respondeu-lhes Moisés: Por que contendeis comigo? por que tentais ao Senhor?

³ Mas o povo, tendo sede ali, murmurou contra Moisés, dizendo: Por que nos fizeste subir do Egito, para nos matares de sede, a nós e aos nossos filhos, e ao nosso gado?

⁴ Pelo que Moisés, clamando ao Senhor, disse: Que hei de fazer a este povo? daqui a pouco me apedrejará.

⁵ Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: Passa 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 eu estarei ali diante de ti sobre a rocha, em Horebe; ferirás a rocha, e dela sairá agua para que o povo possa beber. Assim, pois fez Moisés à vista dos anciãos de Israel.

⁷ E deu ao lugar o nome de Massá e Meribá, por causa da contenda dos filhos de Israel, e porque tentaram ao Senhor, dizendo: Está o Senhor no meio de nós, ou não?

⁸ Então veio Amaleque, e pelejou contra e Israel em Refidim.

⁹ Pelo que disse Moisés a Josué: Escolhe-nos homens, e sai, peleja contra Amaleque; e amanhã eu estarei sobre o cume do outeiro, tendo na mão a vara de Deus.

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

¹¹ E acontecia que quando Moisés levantava a mão, prevalecia Israel; mas quando ele abaixava a mão, prevalecia Amaleque.

¹² As mãos de Moisés, porém, ficaram cansadas; por isso tomaram uma pedra, e a puseram debaixo dele, e ele sentou-se nela; Arão e Hur sustentavam-lhe as mãos, um de um lado e o outro do outro; assim ficaram as suas mãos firmes até o pôr do sol.

¹³ Assim Josué prostrou a Amaleque e a seu povo, ao fio da espada.

¹⁴ Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: Escreve isto para memorial num livro, e relata-o aos ouvidos de Josué; que eu hei de riscar totalmente a memória de Amaleque de debaixo do céu.

¹⁵ Pelo que Moisés edificou um altar, ao qual chamou Jeová-Níssi.

¹⁶ E disse: Porquanto jurou o Senhor que ele fará guerra contra Amaleque de geração em geração.

¹ It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

² and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.

³ You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

⁴ and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.'"

⁵ They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.

⁶ Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you."

⁷ Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."

⁸ So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

⁹ The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:

¹⁰ but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹¹ The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

¹² He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

¹³ They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.

¹⁴ He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.

¹⁵ He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.

¹⁶ He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

¹⁷ He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

¹⁸ He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar,

¹⁹ and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:

²⁰ and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:

²¹ and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.

²² Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

²³ Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.

²⁴ There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.