1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the mouth of YHWH, and they encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.
2And the people strove with Moses, and said: "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said to them: "Why do you strive with me? Why do you test YHWH?"
3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: "Why is this that you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill me and my children and my cattle with thirst?"
4And Moses cried to YHWH, saying: "What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me."
5And YHWH said to Moses: "Pass on before the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your staff, with which you struck the river, take in your hand, and go.
6Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people shall drink." And Moses did so in the eyes of the elders of Israel.
7And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tested YHWH, saying: "Is YHWH among us, or not?"
8And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9And Moses said to Joshua: "Choose for us men (ish), and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
10And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11And it came to pass, when Moses raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on this side and one on that side; and his hands were steadfast ad(עד) the going of the sun.
13And Joshua weakened Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14And YHWH said to Moses: "Write this for a memorial in the book, and set it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens."
15And Moses built an altar, and called its name YHWH-Nissi;
16and he said: "For a hand is upon the throne of Yah; YHWH shall have war with Amalek from generation to generation."