Exodus 15:23
Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter.(That is why its name was Marah.)
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- Num 33:8 : 8 They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.
- Ruth 1:20 : 20 But she replied to them,“Don’t call me‘Naomi’! Call me‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
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24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
25He cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the LORD made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.
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22The Bitter Water Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the wilderness of Shur, walked for three days into the wilderness, and found no water.
- Num 33:8-103 verses76%
8They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.
9They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.
10They traveled from Elim, and camped by the Red Sea.
- Exod 17:1-33 verses76%
1Water at Massa and Meribah The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the LORD’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.
2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
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14This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon
15and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab.”
16And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the LORD spoke to Moses,“Gather the people and I will give them water.”
17Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well, sing to it!
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14They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exod 17:6-72 verses73%
6I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.
7He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”
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32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,
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13These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.
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24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.
- Num 20:4-52 verses71%
4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
5Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”
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2And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.
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44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.
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20But she replied to them,“Don’t call me‘Naomi’! Call me‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
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- Num 21:4-52 verses68%
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