Exodus 15:23
When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
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- Num 33:8 : 8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
- Ruth 1:20 : 20 She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
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22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
- Num 33:8-103 verses76%
8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.
10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
- Exod 17:1-33 verses76%
1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
- Num 21:14-174 verses74%
14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."
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17 Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it:
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14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exod 17:6-72 verses73%
6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
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32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
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13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
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24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.
- Num 20:4-52 verses71%
4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."
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2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
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44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
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23 "'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
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- Num 21:4-52 verses68%
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- Num 20:10-112 verses68%
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21 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
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15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
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15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."
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11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?