¹击磐出水（民20:1-13）

¹And all the company of the sons of Israel journey from the wilderness of Sin, on their journeyings, by the command of Jehovah, and encamp in Rephidim, and there is no water for the people to drink;

²因此人民与摩西争吵，说：“给我们水喝吧。”摩西对他们说：“你们为什么与我争吵呢？你们为什么试探耶和华呢？”

²and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.` And Moses saith to them, `What? — ye strive with me, what? — ye try Jehovah?`

³人民在那里渴望得水喝，就向摩西发怨言，说：“你为什么把我们从埃及领上来，使我们和我们的儿女，以及我们的牲畜都渴死呢？”

³and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, `Why [is] this? — thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.`

⁴摩西向耶和华呼求，说：“我要怎样对待这人民呢？他们几乎要用石头打死我了。”

⁴And Moses crieth to Jehovah, saying, `What do I to this people? yet a little, and they have stoned me.`

⁵耶和华回答摩西：“你要到人民的面前，要带着以色列的几个长老和你一起，手里要拿着你先前击打河水的杖。

⁵And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Pass over before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel, and thy rod with which thou hast smitten the River take in thy hand, and thou hast gone:

⁶看哪，我必在何烈山那里的磐石上站在你面前；你要击打磐石，就必有水从磐石流出来，使人民可以喝。”摩西就在以色列的长老眼前这样行了。

⁶Lo, I am standing before thee there on the rock in Horeb, and thou hast smitten on the rock, and waters have come out from it, and the people have drunk.` And Moses doth so before the eyes of the elders of Israel,

⁷他给那地方起名叫玛撒，又叫米利巴，因为以色列人在那里争吵，又因为他们试探耶和华，说：“耶和华是不是在我们中间呢？”

⁷and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife` of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying` Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?`

⁸与亚玛力人作战那时亚玛力人来了，在利非订和以色列人争战。

⁸And Amalek cometh, and fighteth with Israel in Rephidim,

⁹摩西对约书亚说：“你要为我们选出人来，出去和亚玛力人争战；明天我要站在山顶上，手里拿着　神的杖。”

⁹and Moses saith unto Joshua, `Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I am standing on the top of the hill, and the rod of God in my hand.`

¹⁰于是，约书亚照着摩西吩咐他的行了，去和亚玛力人争战；摩西、亚伦和户珥都上了山顶。

¹⁰And Joshua doth as Moses hath said to him, to fight with Amalek, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, have gone up [to] the top of the height;

¹¹摩西举起手来的时候，以色列人就得胜；摩西把手放下来的时候，亚玛力人就得胜。

¹¹and it hath come to pass, when Moses lifteth up his hand, that Israel hath been mighty, and when he letteth his hands rest, that Amalek hath been mighty.

¹²可是摩西的两手疲乏了，他们就搬块石头来，放在摩西下面，他就坐在上面；亚伦和户珥，一边一个，扶着摩西的两手；这样，他的两手就稳住，直到日落的时候。

¹²And the hands of Moses [are] heavy, and they take a stone, and set [it] under him, and he sitteth on it: and Aaron and Hur have taken hold on his hands, on this side one, and on that one, and his hands are stedfast till the going in of the sun;

¹³约书亚用刀打败了亚玛力王和他的人民。

¹³and Joshua weakeneth Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.

¹⁴耶和华对摩西说：“我要把亚玛力的名号从天下完全抹掉；你要把话写在书上作记念，也要告诉约书亚。”

¹⁴And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Write this, a memorial in a Book, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I do utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens;`

¹⁵摩西筑了一座祭坛，给它起名叫“耶和华尼西”。

¹⁵and Moses buildeth an altar, and calleth its name Jehovah-Nissi,

¹⁶摩西又说：“向耶和华的旌旗举手，耶和华必世世代代和亚玛力人争战。”

¹⁶and saith, `Because a hand [is] on the throne of Jah, war [is] to Jehovah with Amalek from generation — generation.`