22 Then Mosheh lead the Israelis away from the Red Sea and they moved into the wilderness at Shur. They went through the wilderness for three days and finally found some water, 23 but it was so bitter that they couldn’t drink it. So they named that place ‘Marah’ (which means ‘bitter’), 24 and the people grumbled about Mosheh saying, “So what will we drink then?” 25 So Mosheh cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink.

Yahweh made a statue at that place, and a rule, and he tested Mosheh there, 26 saying, “If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and you do what’s right in my eyes, and you listen to my commands and you keep all of my laws, then I won’t inflict you with any of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians, because I’m Yahweh your healer.”

27 Then they moved on and came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.