Exodus 15:24 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 15:24

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The people murmured - They were in a state of great mental degradation, owing to their long and oppressive vassalage, and had no firmness of character. See Clarke’s note on Exo 13:17.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּלֹּ֧נוּ	vai.yi.Lo.nu	and they grumbled	H3885 →
הָעָ֛ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מֹשֶׁ֥ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
לֵּאמֹ֖ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
נִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃	nish.Teh	will we drink	H8354 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 16:2
And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:10
  And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
- Psalms 106:7
  Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:25
  They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
- Exodus 14:11
  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?
- Psalms 106:13
  Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Through
Exodus 14:11
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?
leads to
- Psalms 106:7–8
  Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
- Numbers 14:1–4
  Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- Exodus 16:2–3
  And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

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