The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.

The Waters of Marah and Elim

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.

When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.)

If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.

Social Responsibility

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.

“‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.

“‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

“‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

“‘If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.

He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.

“‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

“‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

If a priest’s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions.

Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.

But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—

“‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,

This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.

But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”

But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel.

Then they turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army marched out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

“If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself

The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,