1 Daarop het die hele vergadering van die kinders van Israel, volgens die bevel van die HERE, van plek tot plek uit die woestyn Sin getrek en laer opgeslaan in R fidim. En daar was geen water vir die volk om te drink nie.
2 Toe twis die volk met Moses en sê: Gee julle vir ons water om te drink. Maar Moses antwoord hulle: Wat twis julle met my? Waarom versoek julle die HERE?
3 Maar die volk het daar gesmag na water, en die volk het teen Moses gemurmureer en gesê: Waarom het u ons dan uit Egipte laat optrek om my en my kinders en my vee van dors te laat omkom?
4 Toe het Moses die HERE aangeroep en gesê: Wat moet ek met hierdie volk doen? Dit skeel maar min of hulle stenig my.
5 En die HERE het Moses geantwoord: Trek voor die volk uit, en neem van die oudstes van Israel met jou saam; en neem jou staf waarmee jy die Nyl geslaan het, in jou hand en gaan weg.
6 Kyk, Ek sal daar voor jou by die rots op Horeb staan; dan moet jy die rots slaan, en daar sal water uit kom, dat die volk kan drink. En Moses het so gedoen voor die oë van die oudstes van Israel
7 en die plek Massa en M,riba genoem vanweë die twis van die kinders van Israel en omdat hulle die HERE versoek het deur te sê: Is die HERE in ons midde of nie?
8 Daarop het Amalek gekom om teen Israel by R fidim te veg.
9 En Moses het aan Josua gesê: Kies vir ons manne en trek uit, veg teen Amalek. M"re sal ek op die top van die heuwel staan met die staf van God in my hand.
10 En Josua het gedoen soos Moses aan hom gesê het, om te veg teen Amalek. Maar Moses, A„ron en Hur het op die top van die heuwel geklim.
11 En telkens as Moses sy hand ophou, was Israel die sterkste; maar as hy sy hand laat sak, was Amalek die sterkste.
12 Maar die hande van Moses het swaar geword; daarom het hulle 'n klip geneem en dit onder hom neergelê, dat hy daarop kon sit. En A„ron en Hur het sy hande ondersteun, die een duskant en die ander anderkant. So het sy hande dan vas gebly tot sononder.
13 En Josua het Amalek en sy volk met die skerpte van die swaard 'n neerlaag toegebring.
14 Toe sê die HERE vir Moses: Skrywe dit as 'n aandenking in 'n boek en prent dit Josua in, dat Ek die gedagtenis van Amalek onder die hemel heeltemal sal uitdelg.
15 En Moses het 'n altaar gebou en dit genoem: Die HERE is my banier.
16 En hy het gesê: Waarlik, die hand op die troon van die HERE! Oorlog het die HERE teen Amalek van geslag tot geslag.
1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.
2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?
3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?
4 And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.
5 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.
6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.
7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.
12 But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down.
13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.
14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.
15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:
16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.