Exodus 17
1 And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journey from the wilderness of Sin, on their journeys, by the command of YHWH, and encamp in Rephidim, and there is no water for the people to drink;
Afei, Awurade hyɛeɛ maa Israelfoɔ no firii Sin ɛserɛ no so kokɔɔ nkuro nkuro so, kɔduruu Refidim. Wɔduruu hɔ no, na nsuo a wɔbɛnom biara nni hɔ.
2 and the people strive with Moses, and say, “Give us water, and we drink.” And Moses says to them, “Why do you strive with me? Why do you try YHWH?”
Ɛha nso, nnipa no nwiinwii bio tiaa Mose sɛ, “Ma yɛn nsuo nnom!” Mose ka kyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ, “Monyɛ dinn! Adɛn enti na mo ne me regye akyinnyeɛ? Adɛn enti na mopɛ sɛ mosɔ Awurade hwɛ?”
3 And the people thirst for water there, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, “Why [is] this [that] you have brought us up out of Egypt to put us to death, also our sons and our livestock, with thirst?”
Na osukɔm a ade wɔn no enti, wɔteateaam sɛ, “Adɛn enti na woyii yɛn firii Misraim? Adɛn enti na wode yɛn baa ha? Yɛn, yɛn mma ne yɛn anantwie nyinaa bɛwuwu!”
4 And Moses cries to YHWH, saying, “What do I do to this people? Yet a little, and they have stoned me.”
Mose su frɛɛ Awurade sɛ, “Ɛdeɛn na menyɛ saa nkurɔfoɔ yi? Wɔpɛ sɛ wɔsi me aboɔ.”
5 And YHWH says to Moses, “Pass over before the people, and take with you from [the] elderly of Israel, and take your rod in your hand, with which you have struck the River, and you have gone.
Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose sɛ, “Fa Israelfoɔ mpanimfoɔ no bi ka wo ho na fa poma a wode bɔɔ Nil mu no na di wɔn anim fa wɔn kɔ.
6 Behold, I am standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you have struck on the rock, and waters have come out from it, and the people have drunk.” And Moses does so before the eyes of [the] elderly of Israel,
Mɛhyia wo wɔ ɔbotan a ɛwɔ bepɔ Horeb ho. Sɛ woduru hɔ a, fa wo poma no bɔ ɔbotan no mu sɛdeɛ wode bɔɔ Nil mu no na nsuo bɛfiri mu aba ama obiara anya bi anom amee.” Mose yɛɛ deɛ Awurade kaeɛ no wɔ Israel mpanimfoɔ no anim maa nsuo tue firii ɔbotan no mu.
7 and he calls the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the strife of the sons of Israel, and because of their trying YHWH, saying, “Is YHWH in our midst or not?”
Enti, Mose too beaeɛ hɔ edin Masa a aseɛ ne Sɔhwɛbea ne Meriba a aseɛ ne Akyinnyegyebea ɛfiri sɛ, ɛhɔ na Israelfoɔ ne Mose gyee akyinnyeɛ, sɔɔ Onyankopɔn hwɛeɛ, bisaa sɛ, “Awurade bɛhwɛ yɛn so anaasɛ ɔrenhwɛ yɛn so?”
8 And Amalek comes, and fights with Israel in Rephidim,
Afei, akofoɔ a wɔfiri Amalek bɛto hyɛɛ Israelfoɔ no so wɔ Refidim ne wɔn koeɛ.
9 and Moses says to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I am standing on the top of the hill, and the rod of God in my hand.”
Mose ka kyerɛɛ Yosua sɛ, “Yi asraafoɔ ma yɛn na yɛne Amalekfoɔ nkɔko. Ɔkyena mɛgyina bepɔ no apampam a Onyankopɔn poma no kura me.”
10 And Joshua does as Moses has said to him, to fight with Amalek, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur have gone up [to] the top of the height;
Enti, Yosua ne ne dɔm kɔtoaa Amalekfoɔ akodɔm no ne wɔn koeɛ. Saa ɛberɛ no ara, Mose ne Aaron ne Hur foro kɔɔ bepɔ no apampam pɛɛ.
11 and it has come to pass, when Moses lifts up his hand, that Israel has been mighty, and when he lets his hands rest, that Amalek has been mighty.
Mmerɛ dodoɔ a Mose kura poma no mu kyerɛ soro na Israelfoɔ no redi nkonim na sɛ ɔbrɛ poma no ase a, na Amalekfoɔ no nso redi Israelfoɔ no so.
12 And the hands of Moses [are] heavy, and they take a stone and set [it] under him, and he sits on it, and Aaron and Hur have taken hold on his hands, one on this [side] and one on that [side]; and his hands are steadfast until the going in of the sun;
Mose brɛeɛ a na ɔntumi mma poma no so bio enti Aaron ne Hur piree ɛboɔ bi too hɔ ma ɔtenaa so. Wɔgyinagyinaa Mose benkum ne nifa memaa ne nsa mmienu no so kɔsii sɛ owia kɔtɔeɛ.
13 and Joshua weakens Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.
Ɛbaa saa no, Yosua ne ne dɔm dii Amalekfoɔ no so, kunkumm wɔn wɔ akofena ano.
14 And YHWH says to Moses, “Write this, a memorial in a Scroll, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens”;
Afei, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose sɛ, “Twerɛ yei ma ɛnna hɔ afebɔɔ ma wɔnkae daa na ka kyerɛ Yosua sɛ, mɛtɔre Amalekfoɔ nyinaa ase.”
15 and Moses builds an altar, and calls its name YHWH-Nissi,
Mose sii afɔrebukyia hɔ na ɔtoo no edin Awurade Nissi a aseɛ ne Awurade ne mʼakofrankaa.
16 and says, “Because a hand [is] on the throne of YAH, war [is] to YHWH with Amalek from generation [to] generation.”
Mose kaa sɛ, “Ɛfiri sɛ wɔapagya wɔn nsa akyerɛ Awurade ahennwa enti, Awurade ne Amalekfoɔ bɛdi ako afiri awo ntoatoasoɔ so akɔsi awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ so.”
