Bitter Water Made Sweet
22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Gen. 16:7;25:18;1 Sam. 15:7Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to [Ruth 1:20]Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.15:23 Marah means bitterness24 And the people ch. 16:2;17:3grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25 And he ch. 14:10;17:4cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,15:25 Or tree and he [2 Kgs. 2:21;4:41] threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There the Lord15:25 Hebrew he made for them a statute and a rule, and there he ch. 16:4;Deut. 8:2,16;Judg. 2:22;3:1,4;Ps. 66:10tested them, 26 saying, See Lev. 26:3-13;Deut. 7:12-15"If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the Deut. 28:27,60diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, ch. 23:25;Ps. 103:3;147:3;Hos. 6:1your healer."
27 Then Num. 33:9they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.