Exodus 15:22-27
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh Provides Water at Marah
22 And Moses caused Israel to set out from the Red Sea,[a] and they went out into the desert of Shur, and they traveled three days in the desert, and they did not find water. 23 And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore it was named[b] Marah. 24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them. 26 And he said, “If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do what is right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, then I will not bring about on you any of the diseases[c] that I brought about on Egypt, because I am Yahweh your healer.
27 And they came to Elim, and twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees were there, and they encamped there at the water.
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- Exodus 15:22 Literally “sea of reed”
- Exodus 15:23 Literally “its name was called”; the Hebrew word for “bitter” is pronounced “marah”
- Exodus 15:26 Hebrew “disease”
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.
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- Exodus 15:22 So MT; LXX reads Red
- Exodus 15:23 Lit. why one calls its name
- Exodus 15:23 Marah means bitter in Heb.
- Exodus 15:25 Lit. He
- Exodus 15:25 Lit. he
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