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It becomes clear that they are not spiritually free. Reaching Marah, the place of a well of bitter water, bitterness and murmuring, Israel receives a first set of divine ordinances and the foundation of the Shabbat. The shortage of water there is followed by a shortness of food. Moses throws a log into the bitter water, making it sweet.
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and ...
When they came to Marah, they could not drink the bitter water, so they grumbled against Moses. God showed Moses a piece of wood to throw into the water, and the water became sweet. Moses strikes the rock (painting by Tintoretto) The Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin and grumbled in hunger against Moses and Aaron.
The Biblical text mentions two very similar episodes that both occur at a place named Meribah.The episode recounted in Exodus 17 features the Israelites quarreling with Moses about the lack of water, and Moses rebuking the Israelites for testing Yahweh; [6] verse 7 states that it was on this account that the place gained the name Massah, meaning testing, and the name Meribah meaning quarreling ...
When they came to Marah, they could not drink the bitter water, so they grumbled against Moses. [25] God showed Moses a piece of wood to throw into the water, and the water became sweet. [ 26 ] God told Moses that if he would diligently hearken to God and obey God's commandments, then God would give the Israelites none of the diseases that God ...
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Moses prepared himself in the desert for his vocation, freed his people from slavery, and proved his divine mission by great miracles; Jesus Christ proved by still greater miracles that He was the only begotten Son of God. Moses was the advocate of his people; Jesus was our advocate with His Father on the Cross, and is eternally so in heaven.
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