Exodus 15:22-27
Desert ... Shur ........ desert <07793 04057> [wilderness of Shur.]
This lay on the eastern shore of the Heroopolitic gulf of the Red Sea, and is still called the desert of Shur, according to Dr. Shaw.
three days <07969 03117> [three days.]
Marah ............ Marah ............ Marah <04785> [Marah.]
Marah ............ Marah ............ Marah <04785> [Marah. i.e., bitterness.]
drink <08354> [What.]
cried out <06817> [cried.]
tree <06086> [a tree.]
ordinance <02706> [a statute.]
tested <05254> [proved.]
diligently obey <08085> [If thou.]
do .......... attention <06213 0238> [and wilt.]
diseases <04245> [diseases.]
Lord .......................................... Lord <03068> [for I am.]
Elim <0362> [Elim.]
This was on the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, and, according to Dr. Shaw, two leagues from Tor, and near 30 from Corondel, which he conjectures to be Marah, where there is a small rill, which is brackish. He found but nine of the wells, the other three being filled up with sand; but the 70 palm trees had increased into more than 2,000.
