Exodus 17
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Summary
The children of Israel murmur for want of water. They are wroth with Moses, and the Lord commands Moses to smite a rock with his staff, and water will gush out of it. He does so and the children of Israel drink of the water. Amalek fights against Israel in Rephilim, and Aaron and Hur lift up Moses’s hands and Israel prevails.
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Wally Breitenstein, “Exodus 14–17,” in Exodus, Old Testament Minute Commentary Series, ed. Taylor Halverson (Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2021).
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See Biblical Chronology- 1446 BC
Further Reading
S. Kent Brown, “The Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 30, no. 3 (1990): 111–126.
Paul Y. Hoskisson, “The Plan of Salvation in the First Six Books of the Old Testament,” in The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009), 48–66.
Donald W. Parry, “Sinai as Sanctuary and Mountain of God,” in By Study and Also by Faith, ed. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks, 2 vols., (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: FARMS, 1990), 1:482–500.
Noel B. Reynolds, “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 4–23.
John W. Welch and Greg Welch, 1 Nephi and the Exodus (Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999).
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