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Marah

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Exodus 15:23: the place whose water was too bitter to drink, and which the text names for that reason. No coordinate is recorded. Numbers 33:8–9 lists it as the camp after three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, beyond the sea, and before Elim.

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EXO 15:22–26, engwebp
²²Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
²³When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
²⁴The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
²⁵Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
²⁶He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”
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NUM 33:1–8, engwebp
¹These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
²Moses wrote the starting points of their journeys by the commandment of the LORD. These are their journeys according to their starting points.
³They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
⁴while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. The LORD also executed judgments on their gods.
⁵The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
⁶They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
⁷They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.
⁸They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
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NUM 33:9–15, engwebp
⁹They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
¹⁰They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
¹¹They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
¹²They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
¹³They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
¹⁴They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
¹⁵They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Marah” by name and 4 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Ain Hawarah (confidence 384 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 2 other identifications are listed too.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Ain Hawarah
OpenBible.info confidence 384 of 1000 (current scholarship)
29.34604, 32.94284
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Marah” (CC BY 4.0)
Bir Mara
OpenBible.info confidence 125 of 1000 (current scholarship)
29.96667, 32.7
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Marah” (CC BY 4.0)
Uyun Musa
OpenBible.info confidence 106 of 1000 (current scholarship)
29.87694, 32.65833
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Marah” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — Through the wilderness of Shur to the water at Marah, The journeys from Rameses through the sea to Marah

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Exodus 15:23 Open that verse

When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

Numbers 33:8 Open that verse

They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

Numbers 33:9 Open that verse

They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

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Entry: Marah (place-marah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/marah
Current wording: Exodus 15:23: the place whose water was too bitter to drink, and which the text names for that reason. No coordinate is recorded. Numbers 33:8–9 lists it as the camp after three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, beyond the sea, and before Elim.
Cited evidence: EXO 15:22–26, engwebp / NUM 33:1–8, engwebp / NUM 33:9–15, engwebp
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