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Exodus 15:23

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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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Exodus 15:23 in other translations

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Exodus 15:23 · American Standard Version

Exodus 15:23 in context

  1. 21Miriam answered them,
    “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
    The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
  2. 22Moses 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.
  3. 23When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
  4. 24The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
  5. 25Then 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.