1 Tendo partido toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel do deserto de Sim, pelas suas jornadas, segundo o mandamento de Jeová, acamparam em Refidim; não havia ali água para o povo beber.2 Contendeu, pois, o povo com Moisés e disse: Dá-nos água para bebermos. Respondeu-lhes Moisés: Por que contendeis comigo? porque tentais a Jeová?3 Ali o povo teve sede de água, e murmurou o povo contra Moisés, dizendo: Por que nos fizeste sair do Egito, para nos matares de sede a nós, a nossos filhos e ao nosso gado?4 Clamou Moisés a Jeová: Que farei a este povo? por pouco me não apedreja.5 Respondeu Jeová a Moisés: Vai-te adiante do povo, e leva contigo alguns dos anciãos de Israel; toma na mão a tua vara com que feriste o rio, e vai-te.6 Eis que estarei ali diante de ti sobre a rocha em Horebe; ferirás a rocha, e dela sairá água, para que beba o povo. Assim fez Moisés à vista dos anciãos de Israel.7 Chamou ao lugar Massá e Meribá, por causa da contenda dos filhos de Israel, e porque tentaram a Jeová, dizendo: Está Jeová no meio de nós ou não?8 Então veio Amaleque e pelejou contra Israel em Refidim.9 Disse Moisés a Josué: Escolhe-nos homens, e sai, peleja contra Amaleque; amanhã estarei eu no cume do outeiro, tendo na mão a vara de Deus.10 Assim fez Josué como Moisés lhe dissera, e pelejou contra Amaleque; e Moisés, Arão e Hur subiram ao cume do outeiro.11 Quando Moisés levantava a mão, prevalecia Israel; mas, quando ele abaixava a mão, prevalecia Amaleque.12 Porém as mãos de Moisés eram pesadas; tomando, pois, uma pedra, puseram-na por baixo dele, e nela se assentou. Arão e Hur sustentavam-lhe as mãos, estando um de um lado e o outro do outro; assim ficaram firmes as mão s até o pôr-do-sol.13 Josué desbaratou a Amaleque e a seu povo ao fio da espada.14 Então disse Jeová a Moisés: Escreve isto para memorial num livro, e faze-o ouvir a Josué; porque eu hei de extinguir totalmente a memória de Amaleque de debaixo do céu.15 Moisés edificou um altar, e pôs-lhe este nome, Jeová-Nissi;16 e disse: Jeová jurou isto: Jeová fará guerra contra Amaleque de geração em geração.

1 Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward from the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the Lord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.2 And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?3 So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.5 And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.6 Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:7 And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?8 And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.9 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men: and go out and fight against Amalec: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill having the rod of God in my hand.10 Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur went up upon the top of the hill.11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.12 And Moses' hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass that his hands were not weary until sunset.13 And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.15 And Moses built an altar: and called the name thereof, The Lord my exaltation, saying:16 Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.