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17 Abisirayeli bose bava mu butayu bwa Sini,+ bagenda bashinga amahema nk’uko Yehova yabategekaga,+ amaherezo bagera i Refidimu bashingayo amahema.+ Ariko aho ngaho nta mazi yo kunywa abantu bari bafite.
2 Nuko abantu batonganya Mose+ bavuga bati: “Duhe amazi yo kunywa.” Mose arababwira ati: “Murantonganyiriza iki? Kuki mukomeza kugerageza Yehova?”+ 3 Ariko abantu bagira inyota nyinshi kandi bakomeza kwitotombera Mose+ bavuga bati: “Kuki wadukuye muri Egiputa? Ese washakaga kutwicisha inyota, twe n’abana bacu n’amatungo yacu?” 4 Hanyuma Mose atakira Yehova ati: “Aba bantu ndabagenza nte? Harabura gato bakantera amabuye!”
5 Nuko Yehova abwira Mose ati: “Jya imbere y’abantu, ujyane na bamwe mu bayobozi b’Abisirayeli, witwaje inkoni yawe wakubitishije Uruzi rwa Nili.+ Uyifate mu ntoki ugende. 6 Nanjye nzahagarara imbere yawe ku rutare rw’i Horebu. Uzakubite urwo rutare, na rwo ruzavamo amazi abantu bayanywe.”+ Nuko Mose abigenza atyo abayobozi b’Abisirayeli babireba. 7 Aho hantu Mose ahita Masa*+ na Meriba*+ bitewe n’uko Abisirayeli bamutonganyije kandi bakagerageza Yehova+ bavuga bati: “Ese Yehova ari kumwe natwe cyangwa ntari kumwe natwe?”
8 Hanyuma Abamaleki+ baraza bagaba igitero ku Bisirayeli i Refidimu.+ 9 Nuko Mose abwira Yosuwa+ ati: “Dutoranyirize abagabo ujyane na bo kurwanya Abamaleki. Ejo nzahagarara hejuru ku musozi, mfashe mu ntoki inkoni y’Imana y’ukuri.” 10 Yosuwa akora nk’uko Mose yamutegetse,+ ajya kurwanya Abamaleki. Mose, Aroni na Huri+ na bo barazamuka bajya hejuru ku musozi.
11 Iyo Mose yazamuraga amaboko, Abisirayeli baratsindaga ariko yayamanura Abamaleki bagatsinda. 12 Amaboko ya Mose amaze kuruha, bamuzanira ibuye aryicaraho. Hanyuma Aroni na Huri bafata amaboko ye, umwe ari ku ruhande rumwe undi ku rundi, ku buryo amaboko ye yahamye hamwe kugeza izuba rirenze. 13 Nuko Yosuwa atsinda Abamaleki n’abari bifatanyije na bo, abicisha inkota.+
14 Yehova abwira Mose ati: “Ibyo ubyandike mu gitabo bizabe urwibutso kandi ubwire Yosuwa uti: ‘nzatsemba Abamaleki kandi ntibazongera kwibukwa ukundi munsi y’ijuru.’”+ 15 Nuko Mose yubaka igicaniro* maze acyita Yehova-nisi,* 16 aravuga ati: “Yehova azarwanya Abamaleki iteka ryose+ kubera ko barwanyije ubutegetsi bwa Yah.”+