17. You will lead your people to your own mountain. You will let them live by the place that you, Lord, prepared as your home. It is the Temple, Lord, that you yourself built.
18. “The Lord will rule forever and ever!”
19. Yes, it really happened! Pharaoh’s horses and riders, and chariots went into the sea. And the Lord brought all the water of the sea down on top of them. But the Israelites walked through that sea on dry land.
20. Then Aaron’s sister, the woman prophet Miriam, took a tambourine. She and the women began singing and dancing.
21. Miriam repeated the words, “Sing to the Lord! He has done great things. He threw horse and rider into the sea ….”
22. Moses led the Israelites away from the Red Sea and into the desert of Shur. They traveled for three days in the desert. They could not find any water.
23. Then they came to Marah. There was water at Marah, but it was too bitter to drink. (That is why the place was named Marah.)