17:1Therefore all the multitude of the sons of Israel, having set out from the desert of Sin by their stages, according to the word of the Lord, encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. 17:2And they, quarrelling against Moses, said: "Give us water, so that we may drink." 17:2To them Moses answered: "Why do you quarrel against me? 17:2Why do you tempt the Lord?" 17:3So the people thirsted there for lack of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: "Why did you make us go out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children, and our beasts with thirst?" 17:4But Moses cried out to the Lord, saying: "What shall I do with this people?
17:4Yet a little while, and they will stone me." 17:5And the Lord said to Moses: "Go before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel: and the rod with which you struck the river, take in your hand, and go. 17:6Look, I will stand there before you, upon the rock of Horeb: and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink." 17:6Moses did so before the elders of Israel: and he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the quarrelling of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying: "Is the Lord among us, or not?"
17:8And Amalek came, and was fighting against Israel in Rephidim. 17:9And Moses said to Joshua: "Choose men: and having gone out, fight against Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod of God in my hand." 17:10Joshua did as Moses had spoken, and fought against Amalek: but Moses and Aaron and Hur went up upon the top of the hill. 17:11And when Moses was raising his hands, Israel was conquering: but if he had let them down a little, Amalek was overcoming. 17:12But the hands of Moses were heavy: so taking a stone, they put it under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur were holding up his hands on each side.
17:12And it came about that his hands did not grow tired until the setting of the sun. 17:13And Joshua put Amalek to flight, and his people, with the edge of the sword. 17:14And the Lord said to Moses: "Write this as a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Joshua: for I will blot out the memory of Amalek under the sky." 17:15And Moses built an altar: and he called its name The Lord My Exaltation, saying: "Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord, will be against Amalek, from generation to generation."