25. So Moses cried out in prayer to God. God pointed him to a stick of wood. Moses threw it into the water and the water turned sweet.
26. That’s the place where God set up rules and procedures; that’s where he started testing them.God said, “If you listen, listen obediently to how God tells you to live in his presence, obeying his commandments and keeping all his laws, then I won’t strike you with all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians; I am God your healer.”
27. They came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They set up camp there by the water.