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Exodus 23-27
Finding good water in the wilderness...
Today we finish another chapter with bitter-sweet drinks and a bit of paradise. Then there is the complaining and fear of life without the taskmasters.
The first place they came to was named maRa (bitter) after the taste of its water which was maReem (bitter), Marah is what the place is called in English. Of course, they grumbled against Moshe (Moses) and he cried out to the Almighty regarding this problem. "God showed him wood." Then Moshe throws that wood in to the water. It becomes drinkable. The English says "log" because you cannot throw a tree into the water. The Hebrew word, depending on context, means tree or wood.
Then Elohim (God) makes a new rule to test them. It is a long promise (below) telling them to keep his commands and do what is right. If they do that, then none of the plagues that Egypt experienced would happen to them. He finishes that off with, "Anee YHVH rof'Aycha" (I am Ye'oh-Vah your healer)
On to Elim
Very little is spoken of the place that they went to next. Just this blurb.
But we do have the place itself to admire. Here is what Elim looks like today.
Image from this video.
We are given a short description of twelve wells and seventy palm trees. Then that they had camped there near the water. That's it!
Today's reading
English
When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses saying, "What shall we drink?" And he cried to YHVH, and YHVH showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
There YHVH made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of YHVH your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am YHVH, your healer."
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
Hebrew
Next week, more grumbling...
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