Exodus 17:1
Water 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.
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- Exod 16:1 : 1 The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.
- Exod 19:2 : 2 After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- Num 33:12-14 : 12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin and camped in Dophkah. 13 And they traveled from Dophkah, and camped in Alush. 14 They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exod 17:8 : 8 Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.
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- Num 33:14-163 verses86%
14They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai.
16Wanderings in the Wilderness They traveled from the desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
- Exod 17:2-87 verses80%
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?”
4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
5The LORD said to Moses,“Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.
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?”
8Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.
- Exod 15:22-243 verses79%
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.
23Then 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.)
24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
- Exod 16:1-22 verses78%
1The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.
2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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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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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.”
- Exod 19:1-22 verses76%
1Israel at Sinai In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the desert of Sinai.
2After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- Num 33:10-112 verses74%
10They traveled from Elim, and camped by the Red Sea.
11They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
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7From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams.
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14For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”
- Num 20:10-112 verses74%
10Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them,“Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?”
11Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.
- Num 20:4-52 verses73%
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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9So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.
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16When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.
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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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40But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
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21They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’
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1Wanderings from Egypt to Sinai These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.
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19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
- Num 21:4-52 verses72%
4Fiery Serpents Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.
5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”
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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.
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22Aaron’s Death So the entire company of Israelites traveled from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
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8“Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”
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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.
- Deut 1:1-22 verses71%
1¶ The Covenant Setting This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab.
2Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.
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18Then Israel went through the wilderness and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory(the Arnon was Moab’s border).
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6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.
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19Then the Israelites said to him,“We will go along the highway, and if we or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”
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1The Journey from Kadesh Barnea to Moab Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness on the way to the Red Sea just as the LORD told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.
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15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
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1Balaam Refuses to Curse Israel The Israelites traveled on and camped in the rift valley plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.