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Exodus 15:24

Moses
Discouragement and depressionDoubt

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

23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

25 And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

26 saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

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Compare

BSB
So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
KJV
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
WEB
The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
ASV
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
DARBY
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
BLB
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
ÅB
Da knurret folket mot Moses og sa: Hva skal vi drikke?
OTB
Så klaget folket til Moses og spurte: “Hva skal vi drikke?”
B1930
Da knurret folket mot Moses og sa: Hvad skal vi drikke?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Exodus 16:2

    And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

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  • Numbers 20:2–5

    Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

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  • Exodus 14:11

    They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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  • Psalms 78:19–20

    They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

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  • Numbers 14:1–4

    Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

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  • Exodus 17:3–4

    But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

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  • Numbers 11:1–6

    Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

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  • Numbers 17:10

    The LORD said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling against Me, lest they die.”

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