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They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>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 the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>So Moses cried out to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>He called the place Massah<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1991a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and Meribah,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1991b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> because the Israelites quarreled and tested the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, saying, “Is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> among us or not?”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Amalek Attacks Israel and Is Defeated</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But Moses’ hands grew weary; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; so his hands were steady until the sun set. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Write this as a reminder in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>And Moses built an altar and called it, The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is my banner. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>He said, “A hand upon the banner of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>!<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-2000c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 17:7">Exodus 17:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Test</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 17:7">Exodus 17:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Quarrel</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Exodus 17:16">Exodus 17:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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