14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of (A)Joshua, that (B)I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses (C)built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne[a] of the Lord! (D)The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

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  1. Exodus 17:16 A slight change would yield upon the banner

14 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in the scroll and recite it in the hearing of[a] Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.”

15 And Moses built an altar, and he called its name Yahweh Is My Banner. 16 And he said, “Because a hand was against the throne of Yah,[b] a war will be for Yahweh with Amalek from generation to generation.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 17:14 Literally “and put in the ears of”
  2. Exodus 17:16 Or “indeed a hand on the throne of Yah”; the phrase is unclear