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1 以色列全會眾都遵耶和華的吩咐,按着站口從汛的曠野往前行,在利非訂安營。百姓沒有水喝,
All the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails] traveled from the wilderness of Cin [Clay], by their journeys, according to Adonai’s order, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 所以與摩西爭鬧,說:「給我們水喝吧!」摩西對他們說:「你們為甚麼與我爭鬧?為甚麼試探耶和華呢?」
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses [Drawn out], and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses [Drawn out] said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Adonai?”
3 百姓在那裏甚渴,要喝水,就向摩西發怨言,說:「你為甚麼將我們從埃及領出來,使我們和我們的兒女並牲畜都渴死呢?」
The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses [Drawn out], and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
4 摩西就呼求耶和華說:「我向這百姓怎樣行呢?他們幾乎要拿石頭打死我。」
Moses [Drawn out] cried to Adonai, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5 耶和華對摩西說:「你手裏拿着你先前擊打河水的杖,帶領以色列的幾個長老,從百姓面前走過去。
Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel [God prevails] with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 我必在何烈的磐石那裏,站在你面前。你要擊打磐石,從磐石裏必有水流出來,使百姓可以喝。」摩西就在以色列的長老眼前這樣行了。
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb [Desert]. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses [Drawn out] did so in the sight of the elders of Israel [God prevails].
7 他給那地方起名叫瑪撒,又叫米利巴;因以色列人爭鬧,又因他們試探耶和華,說:「耶和華是在我們中間不是?」
He called the name of the place Massah [Testing], and Meribah [Quarreling], because the children of Israel [God prevails] quarreled, and because they tested Adonai, saying, “Is Adonai among us, or not?”
8 那時,亞瑪力人來在利非訂,和以色列人爭戰。
Then Amalek [Man who licks up] came and fought with Israel [God prevails] in Rephidim.
9 摩西對約書亞說:「你為我們選出人來,出去和亞瑪力人爭戰。明天我手裏要拿着上帝的杖,站在山頂上。」
Moses [Drawn out] said to Joshua [Yah Salvation], “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek [Man who licks up]. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
10 於是約書亞照着摩西對他所說的話行,和亞瑪力人爭戰。摩西、亞倫,與戶珥都上了山頂。
So Joshua [Yah Salvation] did as Moses [Drawn out] had told him, and fought with Amalek [Man who licks up]; and Moses [Drawn out], Aaron [Light-bringer], and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 摩西何時舉手,以色列人就得勝,何時垂手,亞瑪力人就得勝。
When Moses [Drawn out] held up his hand, Israel [God prevails] prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek [Man who licks up] prevailed.
12 但摩西的手發沉,他們就搬石頭來,放在他以下,他就坐在上面。亞倫與戶珥扶着他的手,一個在這邊,一個在那邊,他的手就穩住,直到日落的時候。
But Moses [Drawn out]’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron [Light-bringer] and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
13 約書亞用刀殺了亞瑪力王和他的百姓。
Joshua [Yah Salvation] defeated Amalek [Man who licks up] and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 耶和華對摩西說:「我要將亞瑪力的名號從天下全然塗抹了;你要將這話寫在書上作紀念,又念給約書亞聽。」
Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua [Yah Salvation]: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek [Man who licks up] from under the sky.”
15 摩西築了一座壇,起名叫「耶和華尼西」,
Moses [Drawn out] built an altar, and called its name Adonai our Banner.
16 又說:「耶和華已經起了誓,必世世代代和亞瑪力人爭戰。」
He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Adonai will have war with Amalek [Man who licks up] from generation to generation.’”

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