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He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test. <a href="/nlt/exodus/15.htm">New Living Translation</a> So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the LORD set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him. <a href="/esv/exodus/15.htm">English Standard Version</a> And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, <a href="/bsb/exodus/15.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them, <a href="/kjv/exodus/15.htm">King James Bible</a> And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, <a href="/nkjv/exodus/15.htm">New King James Version</a> So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, <a href="/nasb_/exodus/15.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. <a href="/nasb/exodus/15.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. <a href="/nasb77/exodus/15.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. <a href="/lsb/exodus/15.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He set for them a statute and a judgment, and there He tested them. <a href="/amp/exodus/15.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Then he cried to the LORD [for help], and the LORD showed him a tree, [a branch of] which he threw into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There the LORD made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, <a href="/csb/exodus/15.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. The LORD made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah, and he tested them there. <a href="/hcsb/exodus/15.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there. <a href="/asv/exodus/15.htm">American Standard Version</a> An he cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them; <a href="/cev/exodus/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Moses asked the LORD for help, and the LORD told him to throw a certain piece of wood into the water. Moses did so, and the water became fit to drink. At Marah the LORD tested his people and also gave them some laws and teachings. <a href="/erv/exodus/15.htm">English Revised Version</a> And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them; <a href="/gwt/exodus/15.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD set down laws and rules for them to live by, and there he tested them. <a href="/gnt/exodus/15.htm">Good News Translation</a> Moses prayed earnestly to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood, which he threw into the water; and the water became fit to drink. There the LORD gave them laws to live by, and there he also tested them. <a href="/isv/exodus/15.htm">International Standard Version</a> Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree, which he threw into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD presented to them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them. <a href="/msb/exodus/15.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them, <a href="/net/exodus/15.htm">NET Bible</a> He cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them. <a href="/nheb/exodus/15.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Then 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; <a href="/wbt/exodus/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which he cast into the waters, and the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, <a href="/web/exodus/15.htm">World English Bible</a> Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/exodus/15.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And he cries to YHWH, and YHWH shows him a tree, and he casts [it] into the waters, and the waters become sweet. He has made a statute for them there, and an ordinance, and He has tried them there, <a href="/ylt/exodus/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and he crieth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah sheweth him a tree, and he casteth unto the waters, and the waters become sweet. There He hath made for them a statute, and an ordinance, and there He hath tried them, <a href="/slt/exodus/15.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And he will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will show him a tree, and he will cast into the waters, and the waters will become sweet: then he set to him a law and judgment, and there he tried him.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/exodus/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But 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, <a href="/cpdv/exodus/15.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> So he cried out to the Lord, who showed him a tree. And when he had cast it into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. In that place, he established instructions for him, and also judgments. And he tested him there, <a href="/nabre/exodus/15.htm">New American Bible</a> he cried out to the LORD, who pointed out to him a piece of wood. When he threw it into the water, the water became fresh. It was here that God, in making statutes and ordinances for them, put them to the test. <a href="/nrsvce/exodus/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> He cried out to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he put them to the test.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/exodus/15.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And Moses prayed before the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and when he cast it into the water, the water became sweet; there the LORD taught him laws and ordinances, and there he tested him, <a href="/hpbt/exodus/15.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And Moshe prayed before LORD JEHOVAH, and LORD JEHOVAH showed him wood and he cast it into the water and the waters became sweet there. He taught him the Law and judgment and there he tested him,<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/exodus/15.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them; <a href="/sep/exodus/15.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree, and he cast it into the water, and the water was sweetened: there he established to him ordinances and judgments, and there he proved him, <a href="/parallel/exodus/15-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVae3PiKqhs?start=3915" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/exodus/15.htm">The Waters of Marah</a> …24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” 25<a href="/hebrew/6817.htm" title="6817: way·yiṣ·‘aq (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To cry, cry out, call. A primitive root; to shriek; to proclaim.">And Moses cried out</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">and the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/3384.htm" title="3384: way·yō·w·rê·hū (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms:: 3ms) -- Or yara; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water; transitively, to lay or throw; figuratively, to point out, to teach.">showed him</a> <a href="/hebrew/6086.htm" title="6086: ‘êṣ (N-ms) -- Tree, trees, wood. From atsah; a tree; hence, wood.">a log.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7993.htm" title="7993: way·yaš·lêḵ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To throw, fling, cast. A primitive root; to throw out, down or away.">And when he cast it</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">into</a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ham·ma·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">the waters,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ham·mā·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">they</a> <a href="/hebrew/4985.htm" title="4985: way·yim·tə·qū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To become or be sweet or pleasant. A primitive root; to suck, by implication, to relish, or be sweet.">were sweetened.</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām (Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">There</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: śām (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">the LORD made</a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">for them</a> <a href="/hebrew/2706.htm" title="2706: ḥōq (N-ms) -- Something prescribed or owed, a statute. From chaqaq; an enactment; hence, an appointment.">a statute</a> <a href="/hebrew/4941.htm" title="4941: ū·miš·pāṭ (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Judgment. ">and an ordinance,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: wə·šām (Conj-w:: Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">and there</a> <a href="/hebrew/5254.htm" title="5254: nis·sā·hū (V-Piel-Perf-3ms:: 3ms) -- To test, try. A primitive root; to test; by implication, to attempt.">He tested them,</a> 26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/numbers/20-8.htm">Numbers 20:8-11</a> “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.” / So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded. / Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” ... <a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2-3</a> Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. / He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. <a href="/2_kings/2-21.htm">2 Kings 2:21-22</a> and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’” / And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha. <a href="/2_kings/4-41.htm">2 Kings 4:41</a> Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot. <a href="/psalms/78-15.htm">Psalm 78:15-16</a> He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. / He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers. <a href="/psalms/81-7.htm">Psalm 81:7</a> You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah <a href="/psalms/106-32.htm">Psalm 106:32-33</a> At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them. / For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips. <a href="/isaiah/48-21.htm">Isaiah 48:21</a> They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out. <a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Isaiah 55:1</a> “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! <a href="/jeremiah/2-13.htm">Jeremiah 2:13</a> “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. <a href="/ezekiel/47-8.htm">Ezekiel 47:8-9</a> And he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Dead Sea, the water there becomes fresh. / Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish. <a href="/john/4-10.htm">John 4:10-14</a> Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” / “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? / Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?” ... <a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37-39</a> On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. / Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” / He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">1 Corinthians 10:1-4</a> I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. / They all ate the same spiritual food ... <a href="/hebrews/3-8.htm">Hebrews 3:8-9</a> do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,cried<a href="/exodus/14-10.htm">Exodus 14:10</a> And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.<a href="/exodus/17-4.htm">Exodus 17:4</a> And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.<a href="/psalms/50-15.htm">Psalm 50:15</a> And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.a tree<a href="/2_kings/2-21.htm">2 Kings 2:21</a> And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.<a href="/2_kings/4-41.htm">2 Kings 4:41</a> But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.<a href="/1_corinthians/1-18.htm">1 Corinthians 1:18</a> For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.a statute<a href="/joshua/24-21.htm">Joshua 24:21-25</a> And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD… proved<a href="/exodus/16-4.htm">Exodus 16:4</a> Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.<a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2,16</a> And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no… <a href="/deuteronomy/13-3.htm">Deuteronomy 13:3</a> Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/15-4.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/exodus/10-11.htm">Casteth</a> <a href="/exodus/14-10.htm">Cried</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-23.htm">Decree</a> <a href="/exodus/13-9.htm">Law</a> <a href="/exodus/15-24.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/exodus/14-15.htm">Order</a> <a href="/exodus/13-10.htm">Ordinance</a> <a href="/genesis/33-19.htm">Piece</a> <a href="/genesis/42-16.htm">Proved</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-18.htm">Regulation</a> <a href="/genesis/48-11.htm">Shewed</a> <a href="/genesis/48-11.htm">Showed</a> <a href="/exodus/13-10.htm">Statute</a> <a href="/genesis/8-21.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/genesis/42-16.htm">Tested</a> <a href="/exodus/15-7.htm">Threw</a> <a href="/exodus/10-15.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/exodus/15-23.htm">Water</a> <a href="/exodus/15-23.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/exodus/7-19.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/22-31.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/exodus/37-3.htm">Casteth</a> <a href="/exodus/17-4.htm">Cried</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-17.htm">Decree</a> <a href="/exodus/16-4.htm">Law</a> <a href="/exodus/16-2.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/exodus/16-32.htm">Order</a> <a href="/exodus/29-9.htm">Ordinance</a> <a href="/exodus/25-19.htm">Piece</a> <a href="/numbers/20-13.htm">Proved</a> <a href="/nehemiah/11-23.htm">Regulation</a> <a href="/exodus/27-8.htm">Shewed</a> <a href="/exodus/25-40.htm">Showed</a> <a href="/exodus/27-21.htm">Statute</a> <a href="/exodus/25-6.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/exodus/17-7.htm">Tested</a> <a href="/exodus/24-6.htm">Threw</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-23.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/exodus/15-27.htm">Water</a> <a href="/exodus/15-27.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/exodus/25-5.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Exodus 15</div>1. <a href="/exodus/15-1.htm">The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance</a> 22. <a href="/exodus/15-22.htm">The people want water in the desert</a> 23. <a href="/exodus/15-23.htm">The waters at Marah are bitter, </a> 24. <a href="/exodus/15-24.htm">they murmur, </a> 25. <a href="/exodus/15-25.htm">Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction</a> 27. <a href="/exodus/15-27.htm">They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/exodus/15.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/exodus/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/exodus/15.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>And Moses cried out to the LORD Moses' action of crying out to the LORD demonstrates his role as an intercessor for the Israelites. This reflects a pattern seen throughout the Exodus narrative, where Moses often turns to God in times of crisis (<a href="/exodus/14-15.htm">Exodus 14:15</a>, <a href="/numbers/11-2.htm">Numbers 11:2</a>). It highlights the importance of prayer and reliance on God in leadership and personal challenges. This act of crying out is a model of faith and dependence on divine intervention.and the LORD showed him a log The LORD's response to Moses' plea is both practical and miraculous. The log, or tree, symbolizes God's provision and guidance. In biblical typology, wood often represents humanity or the cross of Christ, suggesting a foreshadowing of redemption and transformation through Christ's sacrifice (<a href="/galatians/3-13.htm">Galatians 3:13</a>). The act of God showing Moses the log emphasizes divine revelation and the importance of obedience to God's instructions.And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened The transformation of the bitter waters at Marah into sweet, drinkable water is a miracle that underscores God's power over creation and His care for His people. This event is reminiscent of other biblical miracles involving water, such as the parting of the Red Sea (<a href="/exodus/14-21.htm">Exodus 14:21</a>) and Jesus turning water into wine (<a href="/john/2.htm">John 2:1-11</a>). It serves as a physical manifestation of God's ability to bring life and blessing from bitterness and hardship.There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance This phrase indicates the establishment of a covenantal relationship between God and the Israelites. Statutes and ordinances are legal terms that refer to God's laws and commands, which are central to the covenant. This moment at Marah is a precursor to the giving of the Law at Sinai (Exodus 20), emphasizing the importance of obedience and faithfulness to God's commands as a condition for His continued blessing and presence.and there He tested them The testing at Marah is part of a broader theme of testing throughout the Israelites' journey in the wilderness (<a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2</a>). It serves to reveal the hearts of the people and their willingness to trust and obey God. This test is not for God's benefit, but for the Israelites to understand their dependence on Him. It foreshadows the testing of faith seen in the New Testament, where believers are called to endure trials as a means of spiritual growth and maturity (<a href="/james/1-2.htm">James 1:2-4</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> The leader of the Israelites, chosen by God to lead His people out of Egypt. In this verse, Moses acts as an intercessor between God and the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who responds to Moses' cry and provides a solution to the problem of bitter water. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_log.htm">The Log (or Tree)</a> The object shown by God to Moses, which, when cast into the water, miraculously transforms the bitter water into sweet, drinkable water. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_waters_of_marah.htm">The Waters of Marah</a> The location where the Israelites encountered bitter water, which was undrinkable until God intervened. 5. <a href="/topical/s/statute_and_ordinance.htm">Statute and Ordinance</a> The divine laws or decrees given by God to the Israelites, signifying His covenant and expectations for His people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_provision_in_times_of_need.htm">God's Provision in Times of Need</a> Just as God provided a solution to the bitter waters, He is faithful to provide for our needs when we call upon Him. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_intercession.htm">The Role of Intercession</a> Moses' cry to the LORD highlights the importance of intercessory prayer and seeking God's guidance in difficult situations. <a href="/topical/t/testing_and_growth.htm">Testing and Growth</a> The testing at Marah was meant to strengthen the Israelites' faith and trust in God. Similarly, our trials can lead to spiritual growth. <a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_commands.htm">Obedience to God's Commands</a> The statute and ordinance given at Marah remind us of the importance of obeying God's commands as a response to His faithfulness. <a href="/topical/t/transformation_through_obedience.htm">Transformation through Obedience</a> The transformation of bitter water to sweet symbolizes how God can transform our lives when we obey His instructions.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_exodus_15.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Exodus 15</a> <a href="/q/what_happened_at_marah_in_the_bible.htm">What happened at Marah in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/can_wood_make_bitter_water_drinkable.htm">In Exodus 15:23–25, how could throwing a piece of wood into bitter water make it potable, and is there any historical or scientific basis for this claim? </a> <a href="/q/meaning_of_'the_lord_is_my_banner'.htm">What does 'The Lord is My Banner' mean?</a> <a href="/q/is_'honey_from_the_rock'_a_literal_miracle.htm">In Psalm 81:16, does the claim of satisfying Israel with “honey from the rock” suggest a literal miracle, and how do we address it scientifically?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/15.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) The Lord shewed him a tree.--There are trees which have the power of sweetening bitter water; but none of them is at present found in the Sinaitic peninsula, and the Arabs are not now acquainted with any means of rendering the bitter waters of Howarah and the neighbouring springs palatable. Perhaps in ancient times there were forms of vegetable life in the peninsula which do not now exist there. Moses would scarcely have been "shown a tree" unless the tree had some virtue of its own; but, on the other hand, the tree alone is scarcely to be credited with the entire effect. As in so many other instances, God seems to have made use of nature, as far as nature could go, and then to have superadded His own omnipotent energy in order to produce the required effect. (Compare our blessed Lord's method in working His miracles.)He made for them a statute and an ordinance.- God took advantage of the occasion to draw a lesson from it. He promised that, as He had healed the waters, so, if the Israelites would henceforth faithfully keep His commandments, He would "heal" them (<a href="/exodus/15-26.htm" title="And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases on you, which I have brought on the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals you.">Exodus 15:26</a>), keeping them free from all the diseases of Egypt, and from the far greater evil involved in their own corrupted nature and infirmity.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/15.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 25, 26. - The Lord shewed him a tree. - Several trees or plants belonging to different parts of the world, are said to possess the quality of rendering bitter water sweet and agreeable; as the nellimaram of Coromandel, the sassafras of Florida, the yerva Caniani of Peru, and the perru nelli (Phylanthus emblica) of India. But none of them is found in the Sinaitic. peninsula. Burckhardt suggested (Travels in Syria. p. 474) that the berries of the ghurkud (Peganum retusum), a low thorny shrub which grows abundantly round the Ain Howarah, may have been used by Moses to sweeten the drink; but there are three objections to this. 1. Moses is not said to have used the berries, but the entire plant; 2. The berries would not have been procurable in April, since they do not ripen till June; and 3. They would not have produced any such effect on the water as Burckhardt imagined. In fact there is no tree or shrub now growing in the Sinaitic peninsula, which would have any sensible effect on such water as that of Ain Howarah; and the Bedouins of the neighbourhood know of no means by which it can be made drinkable. Many of the Fathers believed that the "tree" had no natural effect, and was commanded to be thrown in merely to symbolise the purifying power of the Cross of Christ. But to moderns such a view appears to savour of mysticism. It is perhaps most probable that there was some tree or shrub in the vicinity of the bitter fountain in Moses' time which had a natural purifying and sweetening power, but that it has now become extinct. If this be the case, the miracle consisted in God's pointing out the tree to Moses, who had no previous knowledge of it. The waters were made sweet. Compare the miracle of Elisha (<a href="/2_kings/2-19.htm">2 Kings 2:19-22</a>). There he made for them a statute and an ordinance. See the next verse. God, it appears, after healing the water, and satisfying the physical thirst of his people, gave them an ordinance, which he connected by a promise with the miracle. If they would henceforth render strict obedience to all his commandments, then he would "heal" them as he had healed the water, would keep them free at once from physical and from moral evil, from the diseases of Egypt, and the diseases of their own hearts. And there he proved them. From the moment of their quitting Egypt to that of their entering Canaan, God was ever "proving" his people - trying them, that is - exercising their faith, and patience and obedience and power of self-denial, in order to fit them for the position which they were to occupy in Canaan. He had proved them at the Red Sea, when he let them be shut in between the water and the host of the Egyptians - he proved them now at Marah by a bitter disappointment - he proved them again at Meribah (<a href="/exodus/17-1.htm">Exodus 17:1-7</a>); at Sinai (<a href="/exodus/20-20.htm">Exodus 20:20</a>); at Taberah (<a href="/numbers/11-1.htm">Numbers 11:1-3</a>); at Kibroth-hattaavah (ib, verse 34); at Kadesh (ib, 13:26-33), and elsewhere. For forty years he led them through the wilderness" to prove them, to know what was in their heart" (<a href="/deuteronomy/8.htm">Deuteronomy 8</a>.), to fit them for their glorious and conquering career in the land of promise All these diseases. See <a href="/deuteronomy/7-15.htm">Deuteronomy 7:15</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/28-27.htm">Deuteronomy 28:27</a>. Kalisch correctly observes that, though the Egyptians had the character in antiquity of being among the healthiest and most robust of nations (Herod. 2:77), yet a certain small number of diseases have always raged among them with extreme severity He understands the present passage of the plagues, which, however, are certainly nowhere else called "diseases." There is no reason why the word should not be taken literally, as all take it in the passages of Deuteronomy above cited. <a href="/commentaries/exodus/15-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>And [Moses] cried out וַיִּצְעַ֣ק (way·yiṣ·‘aq) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6817.htm">Strong's 6817: </a> To shriek, to proclaim to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the LORD, יְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel and the LORD יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel showed him וַיּוֹרֵ֤הוּ (way·yō·w·rê·hū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3384.htm">Strong's 3384: </a> To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach a log. עֵ֔ץ (‘êṣ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6086.htm">Strong's 6086: </a> Tree, trees, wood And when he cast it וַיַּשְׁלֵךְ֙ (way·yaš·lêḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7993.htm">Strong's 7993: </a> To throw out, down, away into אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the waters, הַמַּ֔יִם (ham·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> Water, juice, urine, semen [they] הַמָּ֑יִם (ham·mā·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> Water, juice, urine, semen were sweetened. וַֽיִּמְתְּק֖וּ (way·yim·tə·qū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4985.htm">Strong's 4985: </a> To become or be sweet or pleasant There שָׁ֣ם (šām) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> There, then, thither [the LORD] made שָׂ֥ם (śām) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set for them ל֛וֹ (lōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> a statute חֹ֥ק (ḥōq) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2706.htm">Strong's 2706: </a> Something prescribed or owed, a statute and an ordinance, וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט (ū·miš·pāṭ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4941.htm">Strong's 4941: </a> A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style and there וְשָׁ֥ם (wə·šām) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> There, then, thither He tested them, נִסָּֽהוּ׃ (nis·sā·hū) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5254.htm">Strong's 5254: </a> To test, to attempt <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/exodus/15-25.htm">Exodus 15:25 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/exodus/15-25.htm">OT Law: Exodus 15:25 Then he cried to Yahweh (Exo. 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