Yahweh Sweetens the Water

^22 (A)Then Moses ^[a]had Israel set out from the ^[b]Red Sea, and they went out into ^(B)the wilderness of ^(C)Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. ²³ And they came to ^(D)Marah, but they could not drink the waters ^[c]of Marah, for they were ^[d]bitter; therefore it was named ^[e]Marah. ²⁴ So the people ^(E)grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵ Then he ^(F)cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him ^(G)a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.

There He ^(H)set for them a statute and a judgment, and there He ^(I)tested them. ²⁶ And He said, “^(J)If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear ^(K)to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, ^(L)I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, ^(M)Yahweh, am your healer.”

²⁷ Then they came to ^(N)Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.