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The Book of Exodus, Chapter 17, Verse 13

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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.
King James Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
American Standard Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New English Translation
So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his army with the sword.
World English Bible
Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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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.
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And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
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For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn [that] the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from generation to generation.
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When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, [and] that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
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Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
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And her two sons; of which the name of the one [was] Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
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And the name of the other [was] Eliezer; for the God of my father, [said he, was] mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
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And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
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And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
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And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of [their] welfare; and they came into the tent.