Shmot (Exodus) - Chapter 17

17:1 All the congregation of the B'nai Yisrael travelled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Mar-Yah's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 17:2 Therefore the people quarrelled with Mosha, and said, "Give us water to drink."

Mosha said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Mar-Yah?"

17:3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Mosha, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

17:4 Mosha cried to Mar-Yah, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

17:5 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Yisrael with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. 17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Mosha did so in the sight of the elders of Yisrael. 17:7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the B'nai Yisrael quarrelled, and because they tested Mar-Yah, saying, "Is Mar-Yah among us, or not?"

17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Yisrael in Rephidim. 17:9 Mosha said to Yoshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand." 17:10 So Yoshua did as Mosha had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Mosha, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 17:11 It happened, when Mosha held up his hand, that Yisrael prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 17:12 But Mosha's hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. 17:13 Yoshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 17:14 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yoshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." 17:15 Mosha built an altar, and called its name Mar-Yah our Banner. 17:16 He said, "Mar-Yah has sworn: 'Mar-Yah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"