17. You will bring them in and plant themon the mountain of Your possession; Lord, You have prepared the placefor Your dwelling;Lord, Your hands have established the sanctuary.
18. The Lord will reign forever and ever!
19. When Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
20. Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with their tambourines and danced.
21. Miriam sang to them:Sing to the Lord,for He is highly exalted;He has thrown the horseand its rider into the sea.
22. Then Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Wilderness of Shur. They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water.
23. They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter — that is why it was named Marah.
24. The people grumbled to Moses, “What are we going to drink? ”
25. So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable.He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there.
26. He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”