21. Miriam answered them, “Sing to the Lord,for He triumphed gloriously!The horse and his riderHe has hurled into the sea.”
22. Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Wilderness of Shur, and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
23. 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.
24. So the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
25. And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he had thrown it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.
26. He said, “If you diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I have afflicted the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”