Exodus 15:23

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When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. That is why the place is called Marah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 33:8 : 8 They journeyed from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness. They traveled three days' journey in the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
  • Ruth 1:20 : 20 She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

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    24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, 'What are we to drink?'

    25Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them.

  • Exod 15:22
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    22Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into the Desert of Shur. They traveled for three days in the desert without finding water.

  • Num 33:8-10
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    76%

    8They journeyed from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness. They traveled three days' journey in the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

    9They departed from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

    10They journeyed from Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.

  • Exod 17:1-3
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    1Then the entire assembly of the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sin, traveling from one place to another as directed by the LORD. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

    2So the people quarreled with Moses, saying, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied to them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"

    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Num 21:14-17
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    14Therefore, it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: 'Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon.'

    15The ravines of the valleys that extend to the settlement of Ar and rest along the border of Moab.

    16From there they went to Beer. This is the well where the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

    17Then Israel sang this song: 'Spring up, O well—sing to it!'

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    14They journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

  • Exod 17:6-7
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    6The LORD continued, "I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

    7And he named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

  • Ps 106:32
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    32By the waters of Meribah, they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;

  • Num 20:13
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    13These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD and where he showed himself holy among them.

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    24All the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water because they could not drink the water from the river.

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    4Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness, for us and our livestock to die here?

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    2There was no water for the community, so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.

  • Isa 48:21
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    21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow from the rock for them; He split open the rock, and water gushed out.

  • Exod 15:27
    69%

    27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

  • Exod 16:2
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    2The entire assembly of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Ps 78:44
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    44He turned their rivers to blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

  • Ruth 1:20
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    20She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

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    23The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.

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    11Does a spring pour forth both sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

  • Lam 3:15
    68%

    15He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

  • Num 21:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4They journeyed from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient along the way.

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  • Num 20:10-11
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    68%

    10He and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, "Listen now, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?"

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    7From there, they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.

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    21The fish in the Nile died, the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and blood was everywhere in Egypt.

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    67%

    16For when they came up from Egypt, Israel traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and arrived at Kadesh.

  • Deut 1:27
    67%

    27You grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.'

  • Exod 6:9
    67%

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