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Exodus 17:15

World English Bible

Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.

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Exodus 17:15 in other translations

And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi;

Exodus 17:15 · American Standard Version

Exodus 17:15 in context

  1. 13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
  2. 14Yahweh 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.”
  3. 15Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.
  4. 16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”