Exodus 17:14

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Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."

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Amalek was a desert people who attacked Israel after the exodus from Egypt; their defeat near Rephidim led God to decree their eventual removal from memory. Massah, Meribah, Horeb, and the Nile recall Israel’s earlier testing, provision, and deliverance under God’s rule.

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Exodus 17:14 mentions Amalek, Egypt, Massah, Meribah, Mount Horeb and Nile.

Amalek · Someone35
Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Nile · René Hourdry

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