17:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Go 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. 17:6. 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: 17:7. And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not? 17:8. And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim. 17:9. 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. 17:10. 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. 17:11. And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame. 17:12. And Moses’s 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. 17:13. And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword. 17:14. 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. 17:15. And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying: 17:16. Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation. Exodus Chapter 18 Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His counsel. 18:1. And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt: 18:2. He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back: 18:3. And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father saying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country. 18:4. And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao. 18:5. And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his wife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God. 18:6. And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her. 18:7. And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent, 18:8. Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.