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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

14 Then the Lord told Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to[a] Joshua: ‘I’ll certainly wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven.’” 15 Moses built an altar and named it “The Lord is My Banner.” 16 “Because,” he said, “a fist has been raised in defiance[b] against the throne of the Lord, the Lord will wage war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 17:14 Lit. put it in the ear of
  2. Exodus 17:16 The Heb. lacks in defiance