017:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. 017:006 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 017:007 He called the name of the place Massah,{Massah means testing.} and Meribah,{Meribah means quarreling.} because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?" 017:008 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 017:009 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand." 017:010 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 017:011 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 017:012 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron 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. 017:013 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 017:014 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." 017:015 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi} 017:016 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'" 018:001 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt. 018:002 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, 018:003 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,{"Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land". 018:004 The name of the other was Eliezer,{Eliezer means "God is my helper."} for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword." 018:005 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God. 018:006 He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her. 018:007 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came