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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 17 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Exodus 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/16.htm" title="Exodus 16">◄</a> Exodus 17 <a href="../exodus/18.htm" title="Exodus 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Gives Water from a Rock</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_1"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.1" class="v1_17_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.17.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Israelites left the desert and moved from one place to another each time the <span class="nd">Lord</span> ordered them to. Once they camped at Rephidim,<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.17.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> but there was no water for them to drink.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.2" class="v1_17_2">2</span>The people started complaining to Moses, “Give us some water!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_2">Moses replied, “Why are you complaining to me and trying to put the <span class="nd">Lord</span> to the test?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.3" class="v1_17_3">3</span>But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, “Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.4" class="v1_17_4">4</span>Then Moses prayed to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, “What am I going to do with these people? They are about to stone me to death!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.5" class="v1_17_5">5</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> answered, “Take some of the leaders with you and go ahead of the rest of the people. Also take along the walking stick with which you struck the Nile River. </span><span class="v1_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.6" class="v1_17_6">6</span>When you get to the rock at Mount Sinai,<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.17.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> I will be there with you. Strike the rock with the stick, and water will pour out for the people to drink.” Moses did this while the leaders watched.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.7" class="v1_17_7">7</span>The people had complained and tested the <span class="nd">Lord</span> by asking, “Is the <span class="nd">Lord</span> really with us?” So Moses named that place Massah, which means “testing” and Meribah, which means “complaining.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">Israel Defeats the Amalekites</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.8" class="v1_17_8">8</span>When the Israelites were at Rephidim, they were attacked by the Amalekites. </span><span class="v1_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.9" class="v1_17_9">9</span>So Moses told Joshua, “Have some men ready to attack the Amalekites tomorrow. I will stand on a hilltop, holding this walking stick that has the power of God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.10" class="v1_17_10">10</span>Joshua led the attack as Moses had commanded, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur stood on the hilltop. </span><span class="v1_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.11" class="v1_17_11">11</span>The Israelites out-fought the Amalekites as long as Moses held up his arms, but they started losing whenever he lowered them. </span><span class="v1_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.12" class="v1_17_12">12</span>After a while, his arms were so tired that Aaron and Hur got a rock for him to sit on. Then they stood beside him and supported his arms in the same position until sunset. </span><span class="v1_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.13" class="v1_17_13">13</span>That's how Joshua defeated the Amalekites.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.14" class="v1_17_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.17.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Afterwards, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.15" class="v1_17_15">15</span>Moses built an altar and named it “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Gives Me Victory.” </span><span class="v1_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.17.16" class="v1_17_16">16</span>Then Moses explained, “This is because I depended on the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.17.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> But in future generations, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will fight the Amalekites again and again.”</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Rephidim: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The last stopping place for the Israelites between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai; the exact location is not known.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Sinai: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Horeb,” another name for Sinai.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">This … <char style="nd">Lord</char>: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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