Marah

And you get a little glimpse of what that looks like.

And so then, after that, they make it to Marah, which has water, but they found it to be too bitter to drink, and so they complained about that.

Here we finally have water, but now we can't even drink it.

But Moses knew what to do.

such a host of men and women and children with their flocks would need much water and they found very little they saw in the distance some springs of water and ran to drink of it for they were very thirsty but when they tasted they found it bitter so that they could not drink it then the people cried to Moses and Moses cried to the Lord and the Lord showed Moses a tree and told him to cut it down and throw it into the water Moses did so, and then the water became fresh and pure and good, so that the people could drink it.

This place they named Marah, a word which means bitterness, because of the water which they found there.

After passing Marah they came to another and more pleasant place, where they saw twelve springs of fresh water, and a grove of seventy palm-trees around them, and there they rested under the cool shade.

but soon they were in a hot desert of sand which lies between the waters of elam and mount sinai and again they were in great trouble for there was no food for such an army of people then moses called upon god and the lord said i will rain bread from heaven upon you and you shall go out and gather it every day The next morning, when the people looked out of their tents, they saw all around the camp, on the sand, little white flakes, like snow or frost.

They had never seen anything like it before, and they said, just as anybody would say, What is it? In the language of the Israelites, the Hebrew language, what is it is the word manha.