Exodus 15:23
And whe they came to Marah, they could not drinke of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of the place was called Marah.
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- Num 33:8 : 8 And they departed from before Hahiroth, and went through the middes of the Sea into the wildernesse, and went three dayes iourney in the wildernesse of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
- Ruth 1:20 : 20 And she answered them, Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara: for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternes.
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- Exod 15:24-252 verses83%
24Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drinke?
25And he cried vnto the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were sweete: there he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he proued them,
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22Then Moses brought Israel from the redde Sea, and they went out into the wildernesse of Shur: and they went three dayes in the wildernesse, and found no waters.
- Num 33:8-103 verses76%
8And they departed from before Hahiroth, and went through the middes of the Sea into the wildernesse, and went three dayes iourney in the wildernesse of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
9And they remoued from Marah, and came vnto Elim, and in Elim were twelue fountaines of water, and seuentie palme trees, and they pitched there.
10And they remoued from Elim, and camped by the red Sea.
- Exod 17:1-33 verses76%
1And all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from the wildernesse of Sin, by their iourneyes at the commaundement of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drinke.
2Wherefore the people contended with Moses, and sayde, Giue vs water that we may drinke; Moses sayde vnto them, Why contende yee with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
3So the people thirsted there for water, & the people murmured against Moses, & said, Wherefore hast thou thus brought vs out of Egypt to kil vs and our children and our cattel with thirst?
- Num 21:14-174 verses74%
14Wherefore it shall be spoken in the booke of the battels of the Lorde, what thing he did in the red sea, and in the riuers of Arnon,
15And at the streame of the riuers that goeth downe to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth vpon the border of Moab.
16And from thence they turned to Beer: the same is the well where the Lord said vnto Moses, Assemble the people, and I wil giue them water.
17Then Israel sang this song, Rise vp wel, sing ye vnto it.
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14And they remoued from Alush, and lay in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drinke.
- Exod 17:6-72 verses73%
6Behold, I will stand there before thee vpon the rocke in Horeb, and thou shalt smite on the rocke, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drinke; Moses did so in the sight of the Elders of Israel.
7And he called the name of the place, Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted the Lorde, saying, Is the Lorde among vs, or no?
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32They angred him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was punished for their sakes,
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13This is the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel stroue with the Lorde, and hee was sanctified in them.
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24All the Egyptians then digged rounde about the riuer for waters to drinke: for they could not drinke of the water of the riuer.
- Num 20:4-52 verses71%
4Why haue ye thus brought the Congregation of the Lorde vnto his wildernesse, that both we, and our cattell should die there?
5Wherefore nowe haue yee made vs to come vp from Egypt, to bring vs into this miserable place, which is no place of seede, nor figges, nor vines, nor pomegranates? Neither is there any water to drinke.
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2But there was no water for the Congregation, and they assembled them selues against Moses and against Aaron.
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21And they were not thirstie: hee led them through the wildernesse: hee caused the waters to flowe out of the rocke for them: for he claue the rocke, and the water gushed out.
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27And they came to Elim, where were twelue fountaines of water, and seuentie palme trees, and they camped thereby the waters.
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2And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses & against Aaron in the wildernesse.
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44And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke.
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20And she answered them, Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara: for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternes.
- Num 5:23-242 verses68%
23After, the Priest shal write these curses in a booke, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,
24And shal cause the woman to drinke ye bitter and cursed water, and the cursed water, turned into bitternesse, shal enter into her.
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15So Miriam was shut out of the hoste seuen dayes, and the people remooued not, till Miriam was brought in againe.
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11Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?
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15He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.
- Num 21:4-52 verses68%
4After, they departed from the mount Hor by the way of the red Sea, to compasse the land of Edom: and the people were sore grieued because of the way.
5And the people spake against God and against Moses, saying, Wherefore haue ye brought vs out of Egypt, to die in the wildernesse? for here is neither bread nor water, & our soule lotheth this light bread.
- Num 20:10-112 verses68%
10And Moses and Aaron gathered the Congregation together before the rocke, and Moses sayd vnto them, Heare nowe, ye rebels: shall we bring you water out of this rocke?
11Then Moses lift vp his hande, and with his rod he smote the rocke twise, and the water came out aboundantly: so the Congregation, and their beastes dranke.
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7From thence they departed vnto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Iotbath a land of running waters.
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22Also in Taberah, & in Massah and in Kibrothhattaauah ye prouoked ye Lord to anger.
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21And the fish that was in the ryuer dyed, & the riuer stanke: so that the Egyptians could not drinke of the water of the riuer: and there was blood throughout all the lande of Egypt.
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14For ye were disobedient vnto my worde in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the assemblie, to sanctifie me in the waters before their eyes. That is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin.
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16But when Israel came vp from Egypt, and walked through the wildernesse vnto the redde Sea, then they came to Kadesh.
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27And murmured in your tentes, & sayd, Because the Lorde hated vs, therefore hath hee brought vs out of the land of Egypt, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, and to destroy vs.
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9So Moses told the children of Israel thus: but they hearkened not vnto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.
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11And the name of the starre is called wormewood: therefore the thirde part of the waters became wormewood, and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
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9For when they went vp euen vnto the riuer of Eshcol, and sawe the land: they discouraged the heart of the childre of Israel, that they woulde not goe into the lande, which the Lorde had giuen them.
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22And they rose earely in the morning, when the sunne arose vpon the water, and the Moabites saw the water ouer against them, as red as blood.
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15He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
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15And when the children of Israel sawe it, they sayde one to another, It is MAN, for they wist not what it was; Moses sayd vnto them, This is the breade which the Lorde hath giuen you to eate.
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11And they sayde vnto Moses, Hast thou brought vs to die in the wildernes, because there were no graues in Egypt? wherefore hast thou serued vs thus, to carie vs out of Egypt?