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- Marah (Hebrew: מָרָה meaning 'bitter') is one of the locations which the Exodus identifies as having been travelled through by the Israelites, during the Exodus. [ 1][ 2] The liberated Israelites set out on their journey in the desert, somewhere in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Jan 4, 2022 · The first mention of Marah (Mara) in the Bible is in Exodus 15. The Israelites had just escaped Egypt, with Pharaoh’s army in hot pursuit. The Red Sea threatened before them and angry slave drivers behind them.
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Marah is 50 km from the place they crossed the Red Sea at the Straits of Tiran and 7 km inland from the Red Sea. b. Marah is also 35 km due south of Jethro's hometown of Midian, located today by archeologists at modern Al-Bad.
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Marah ( Hebrew: מָרָה meaning 'bitter') is one of the locations which the Exodus identifies as having been travelled through by the Israelites, during the Exodus. [ 1][ 2] The liberated Israelites set out on their journey in the desert, somewhere in the Sinai Peninsula.
Jan 26, 2015 · The narrative of Marah is short but much more complicated than it looks because two different accounts have been spliced together. P tells a straightforward etiological story—explaining the name Marah—and ends with the non-miraculous solution of moving on to Elim, which has plenty of water.
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.
Immediately following the Splitting of the Sea, the Torah recounts how our ancestors came to a place they would ultimately call Marah, which means “bitter.” Indeed, the water there was bitter and undrinkable.
MARAH. ma'-ra, mar'-a (marah, "bitter"): The first camp of the Israelites after the passage of the Red Sea (Exodus 15:23 Numbers 33:8 f). The name is derived from the bitterness of the brackish water. Moses cast a tree into the waters which were thus made sweet (Exodus 15:23). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
