Exodus 15:22-27

International Standard Version

God Provides Water for the People

²² Then Moses led Israel from the Reed^[a] Sea and they went to the desert of Shur. They traveled into the desert for three days and did not find water. ²³ When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter. (That is why it’s called^[b] Marah.)^{[c] 24} Then the people complained against Moses: “What are we to drink?” ²⁵ Moses^[d] cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which he threw into the water, and the water became sweet.

There the Lord^[e] presented to them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them. ²⁶ He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what he sees to be right, listen to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then I won’t inflict on you all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, because I am the Lord your healer.” ²⁷ Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and 70 palm trees, and they camped there by the water.