Exodus 15:24 “So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?””

Exodus 15:24

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

World English Bible

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

American Standard Version

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drinke?

Darby Translation

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

Young's Literal Translation

And the people murmur against Moses, saying, 'What do we drink?'

Bible in Basic English

And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

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Cross references

“And the people murmured against Moses, saying,”

Exodus 16:2 Exodus 14:11 Numbers 20:2–5 Numbers 14:1–4 Numbers 11:1–6 Numbers 16:11

Exodus 16:2 · BSB

And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 14:11 · BSB

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

Numbers 20:2–5 · BSB

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 14:1–4 · BSB

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

Numbers 11:1–6 · BSB

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 16:11 · BSB

Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who is he that you should grumble against him?”

“What”

Matthew 6:25 Psalm 78:19 Psalm 78:20

Matthew 6:25 · BSB

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Psalm 78:19 · BSB

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 78:20 · BSB

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

25And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

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