Exodus 15:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ When they came to Marah, they could not drink its waters for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah [bitterness].

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Common English Bible

²³ When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink Marah’s water because it was bitter. That’s why it was called Marah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And they arrived at Marah. They were unable to drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter. Therefore, he also established a name befitting the place, calling it 'Marah,' that is, bitterness.

Exodus 15:23 Krydshenvisninger

Numbers 33:8

And they set out from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.