出埃及记 17
1 以色列全会众都遵耶和华的吩咐，按着站口从汛的旷野往前行，在利非订安营。百姓没有水喝，
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 所以与摩西争闹，说：“给我们水喝吧！”摩西对他们说：“你们为什么与我争闹？为什么试探耶和华呢？”
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 百姓在那里甚渴，要喝水，就向摩西发怨言，说：“你为什么将我们从埃及领出来，使我们和我们的儿女并牲畜都渴死呢？”
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 摩西就呼求耶和华说：“我向这百姓怎样行呢？他们几乎要拿石头打死我。”
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5 耶和华对摩西说：“你手里拿着你先前击打河水的杖，带领以色列的几个长老，从百姓面前走过去。
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 我必在何烈的磐石那里，站在你面前。你要击打磐石，从磐石里必有水流出来，使百姓可以喝。”摩西就在以色列的长老眼前这样行了。
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 他给那地方起名叫玛撒，又叫米利巴；因以色列人争闹，又因他们试探耶和华，说：“耶和华是在我们中间不是？”
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 那时，亚玛力人来在利非订，和以色列人争战。
And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.
9 摩西对约书亚说：“你为我们选出人来，出去和亚玛力人争战。明天我手里要拿着 神的杖，站在山顶上。”
And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men: and go out and fight against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill having the rod of God in my hand.
10 于是约书亚照着摩西对他所说的话行，和亚玛力人争战。摩西、亚伦，与户珥都上了山顶。
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 摩西何时举手，以色列人就得胜，何时垂手，亚玛力人就得胜。
And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.
12 但摩西的手发沉，他们就搬石头来，放在他以下，他就坐在上面。亚伦与户珥扶着他的手，一个在这边，一个在那边，他的手就稳住，直到日落的时候。
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 约书亚用刀杀了亚玛力王和他的百姓。
And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.
14 耶和华对摩西说：“我要将亚玛力的名号从天下全然涂抹了；你要将这话写在书上作纪念，又念给约书亚听。”
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 摩西筑了一座坛，起名叫“耶和华尼西”，
And Moses built an altar: and called the name thereof, The Lord my exaltation, saying:
16 又说：“耶和华已经起了誓，必世世代代和亚玛力人争战。”
Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.
