(KJV) Exodus 17¹

⥃Water from the Rock ^{[ Numbers 20:1–13 ]}

[1] And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin², after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim³: and [there was] no water for the people to drink. [2] Wherefore the people⁴ did chide with Moses, and said, Give us⁵ water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore⁶ do ye tempt the Lord? [3] And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore [is] this [that] thou hast⁷ brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? [4] And Moses cried⁸ unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost⁹ ready to stone me. [5] And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on¹⁰ before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod¹¹, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. [6] Behold, I will¹² stand before thee there upon the rock¹³ in Horeb¹⁴; and thou¹⁵ shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people¹⁶ may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. [7] And he called the name of the place Massah¹⁷, and Meribah¹⁸, because of the chiding¹⁹ of the children of Israel, and because they tempted²⁰ the Lord, saying, Is the Lord²¹ among us, or not?

⥃The Defeat of the Amalekites

[8] Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.²² [9] And Moses said unto Joshua²³, Choose²⁴ us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod²⁵ of God in mine hand. [10] So Joshua²⁶ did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses²⁷, Aaron, and Hur²⁸ went up to the top of the hill. [11] And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.²⁹ [12] But Moses’ hands³⁰ [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands³¹, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. [13] And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.³² [14] And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial³³ in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will³⁴ utterly put out the remembrance³⁵ of Amalek from under heaven. [15] And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH–nissi³⁶: [16] For he said, Because³⁷ the Lord hath sworn [that] the Lord [will have] war³⁸ with Amalek from generation to generation.