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MARAH

(Heb. mārâ)

An Israelite encampment in the wilderness of Shur three days after they crossed the Red Sea (Exod. 15:23; Num. 33:8, wilderness of Etham). Here the water was “bitter” (Heb. mārâ) or brackish, but the Lord instructed Moses to cast a tree into the water, making it sweet. Sanh. 56b cites Marah as the location where the earliest instructions were given for keeping the sabbath. The most accepted location for Marah is ʿAin Hawârah, 72 km. (45 mi.) SE of the Gulf of Suez ca. 11 km. (7 mi.) inland.

Pete F. Wilbanks






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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