Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said
unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to
morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine
hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek:
and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came
to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when
he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy;
and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and
Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the
other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down
of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge
of the sword. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial
in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly
put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an
altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: for he said, Because
the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.
When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all
that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the
LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; then Jethro, Moses' father in
law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, and her
two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have
been an alien in a strange land: and the name of the other was Eliezer;
for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from
the sword of Pharaoh: and Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his
sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at
the mount of God: and he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am
come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and
kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came
into the tent. And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had
done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the
travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered
them. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done
to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of
the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath
delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know
that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they
dealt proudly he was above them. And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took
a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the
elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
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