Desert, Journey of Israel Through The

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• Numbers 33:8 OT

  They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

• Exodus 15:23 OT

  When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

• Exodus 15:24 OT

  The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

• Exodus 15:25 OT

  Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

• Exodus 15:27 OT

  They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.

• Numbers 33:9 OT

  They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

• Numbers 33:10 OT

  They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

• Exodus 16:1 OT

  They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

• Numbers 33:11 OT

  They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

• Exodus 16:2 OT

  The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

• Exodus 16:3 OT

  and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole…

• Exodus 16:8 OT

  Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against…

• Exodus 16:12 OT

  “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

• Exodus 16:13 OT

  In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

• Exodus 16:4 OT

  Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

• Exodus 16:16-31 OT

  “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’ ” The children of Israel…

• Numbers 33:12 OT

  They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

• Numbers 33:13 OT

  They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

• Exodus 17:1 OT

  All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

• Numbers 33:14 OT

  They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 17:2 OT

  Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

• Exodus 17:3 OT

  The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

• Exodus 17:5 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

• Exodus 17:6 OT

  Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.