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岩からの水

17 さて、主の命令に従って、イスラエルの民はシンの荒野をあとにし、レフィディムへ旅を続けました。ところが着いてみると、また水がありません。 再び、彼らの不満が爆発しました。「水はどこだ? 水をくれーっ!」彼らは騒ぎたてます。モーセは、「静かに! いいかげんにしなさい。いったいどこまで主が忍耐してくださると思っているのだ」と、彼らをしかりました。 しかし、のどの渇きに苦しむ彼らに効果はありません。「何だと? おまえこそ、なぜわれわれをエジプトから連れ出したんだ! 子どもたちや家畜もいっしょにこんな所まで連れて来て、あげくの果てに死なせようなんて、あんまりではないか。」

モーセは主に願いました。「どうしたらよいのでしょう。この人たちは、今にも私に石を投げつけて殺しかねない有様です。」

5-6 主はモーセに言いました。「長老たちを連れ、あなたが先頭に立ってホレブ山(シナイ山)まで人々を導きなさい。わたしはその岩の上であなたに会う。岩をあなたの杖、ナイル川を打ったあの杖で打ちなさい。すると水があふれ出て、みなに十分行き渡るだろう。」モーセが言われたとおりにすると、水が吹き出しました。 モーセはその場所を、マサ〔「主を試みる」の意〕、また、メリバ〔「議論」あるいは「争い」の意〕と名づけました。この場所で人々が、「主はわれわれを助けてくれるのか、どうなのか」と言い争い、主が自分たちを生かすかどうか試みたからです。

アマレクとの戦い

さて、アマレクの戦士たちがイスラエル人に戦いを挑もうと、レフィディムへやって来ました。 モーセはヨシュアに、アマレク軍と戦うために人々を召集するよう命じました。そして、「私は明日、神の杖を持って丘の頂に立つ」と言いました。

10 ヨシュアとその部下はアマレク軍と戦うために出て行き、一方、モーセとアロンとフルは丘に登りました。 11 モーセが手に持った杖を差し伸べている間は、イスラエル軍が優勢に立ちましたが、腕を下げるとアマレク軍が優勢になりました。 12 モーセの腕はしびれて、とうとう棒のようになってしまいました。もうこれ以上、杖を持っていることができません。アロンとフルは、石を転がして来てモーセを座らせ、両側に立って、日が暮れるまで二人がかりで彼の腕を支え続けました。 13 こうして、ヨシュアの率いるイスラエル軍は、アマレク軍をみごとに打ち破ったのです。

14 主はモーセに言いました。「このことを書き記して永遠に残る記録としなさい。いつまでも忘れないようにするのだ。またヨシュアに、アマレク人はわたしが完全に滅ぼし、記憶にさえ残らないようにする、と伝えなさい。」

15-16 モーセは祭壇を築き、それをアドナイ・ニシ〔「主は私の旗」の意〕と呼びました。モーセは言いました。「主の旗を掲げなさい。こののち何代にもわたって、主がアマレク人と戦ってくださる。」

Water From the Rock

17 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin,(A) traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim,(B) but there was no water(C) for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water(D) to drink.”(E)

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”(F)

But the people were thirsty(G) for water there, and they grumbled(H) against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die(I) of thirst?”

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone(J) me.”

The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff(K) with which you struck the Nile,(L) and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb.(M) Strike(N) the rock, and water(O) will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah[a](P) and Meribah[b](Q) because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

The Amalekites Defeated

The Amalekites(R) came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.(S) Moses said to Joshua,(T) “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff(U) of God in my hands.”

10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur(V) went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning,(W) but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.(X) 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite(Y) army with the sword.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write(Z) this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out(AA) the name of Amalek(AB) from under heaven.”

15 Moses built an altar(AC) and called(AD) it The Lord is my Banner. 16 He said, “Because hands were lifted up against[c] the throne of the Lord,[d] the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites(AE) from generation to generation.”(AF)

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 17:7 Massah means testing.
  2. Exodus 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.
  3. Exodus 17:16 Or to
  4. Exodus 17:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

17 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

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.

10 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.

11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

12 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.

13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 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.

15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

16 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.