Exodus 15:24
Good News Translation
The people complained to Moses and asked, "What are we going to drink?"

New Revised Standard Version
And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Contemporary English Version
The people complained and said, "Moses, what are we going to drink?"

New American Bible
As the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?

Exodus 14:11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?

Exodus 16:2,8,9 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. . . .

Exodus 17:3,4 So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst? . . .

Numbers 11:1-6 In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp. . . .

Numbers 14:1-4 Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night. . . .

Numbers 16:11,41 And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him? . . .

Numbers 17:10 And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest they die.

Numbers 20:2-5 And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron: . . .

Numbers 21:5 And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Philippians 2:14 And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations:

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

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Exodus 17:3 So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

Psalm 78:19,20 And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? . . .

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Context
The Waters of Marah
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. 24And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?25But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,…
Cross References
Exodus 5:21
And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.

Exodus 14:11
And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?

Exodus 16:2
And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:22
But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Psalm 106:13
They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.

Exodus 15:23
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