◄ Exodus 15:22 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea into the desert of Shur. For three days they walked through the desert, but found no water.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Moses ordered Israel to set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

Contemporary English Version
After the Israelites left the Red Sea, Moses led them through the Shur Desert for three days, before finding water.

New American Bible
Then Moses led Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they marched out to the wilderness of Shur. After traveling for three days through the wilderness without finding water,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.

wilderness of Shur.

Genesis 16:7 And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

Genesis 25:18 And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

1 Samuel 15:7 And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

three days

Exodus 3:18 And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days' journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

Context
The Waters of Marah
22And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.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.…
Cross References
Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

Genesis 20:1
Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

Genesis 25:18
And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

Numbers 33:8
And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara.

1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

1 Samuel 27:8
And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.

Psalm 77:20
Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 78:52
And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalm 78:53
And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalm 136:16
Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Exodus 15:21
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