Exodus Chapter 15 verse 23 Holy Bible
And 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.
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And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.
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And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.{Marah means bitter.}
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and 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.
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Exodus 15 : 23 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - And when they came to Marah. It is not clear whether the place already bore the name on the arrival of the Israelites, or only received it from them. Marah would mean "bitter" in Arabic no less than in Hebrew. The identification of Marah with the present Ain Howarah, in which most modern writers acquiesce, is uncertain from the fact that there are several bitter springs in the vicinity - one of them even bitterer than Howarah. (See Winer, Realworterbuch, ad voc. MARAH) We may, however, feel confident that the bitter waters of which the Israelites "would not drink" were in this neighbourhood, a little north of the Wady Ghurundel.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) The waters of Marah . . . were bitter.--The extreme bitterness of the springs at the southern extremity of the wilderness of Shur is witnessed to by all travellers. (Burckhardt: Travels in Syria, p. 777; Robinson: Palestine, vol. i., p. 106; Wellsted, Arabia, vol. ii., p. 38, &c.) There are several such springs, that called Ain Howarah being the most copious, but scarcely so bitter as some others.Therefore the name of it was called Marah.--"Marah" means "bitterness" both in Hebrew and in Arabic. It appears to be a form of the root which we find also in mare and amarus.
