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Bitter Water Becomes Sweet
In the wilderness of Shur, the Lord gave Israel drinkable water at Marah and tested whether they would listen to him.
Moses led the Israelites on from the Red Sea into the wilderness of Shur. For three days they travelled in the wilderness and found no water.
Then they came to Marah. But they could not drink the water there because it was bitter, and that is why the place was called Marah. The people complained against Moses and asked what they would drink.
Moses cried out to the Lord. The Lord showed him a tree, and Moses threw it into the water. Then the water became sweet. There the Lord made a statute and an ordinance for the people, and there he tested them.
The Lord said that they were to listen carefully to his voice, do what was right in his eyes, pay attention to his commandments, and keep his statutes. He said, in this setting, that he was the Lord who heals them.
After that they came to Elim. There were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
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A children’s retelling of Exodus 15:22–27. You can read the Bible passage together too.
This retelling stays within Exodus 15:22–27 and does not merge this episode with the separate water-from-the-rock accounts elsewhere.
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