23When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.


In Context

20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

21 Miriam answered them, |Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.|

22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

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

24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, |What shall we drink?|

25 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 15:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:23When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah. )

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:23And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara, because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:23And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah; for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:23and they come in to Marah, and have not been able to drink the waters of Marah, for they are bitter; therefore hath one called its name Marah.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.