If - Then

So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they  went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. And when the came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them. And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.-Exodus 15:22-26***Months before 80-year-old Moses and his 83-year-old brother Aaron led their fellow Israelites away from Egypt,  across the divinely parted Red Sea and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the will of the Lord God, the Israelites were living enslaved in Egypt, according to the command of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. The Lord God brought upon Pharaoh and Egypt 10 plagues, including bloody waters, frogs, lice that went upon man and beast, swarms of flies, death of the Egyptian's livestock, hail that smote man and beast, boils that broke out in blisters upon man and beast, pestilence, hail that caused death to man and beast, locusts, darkness, and the death of everything firstborn among the Egyptians. During their 40-year journey from Egypt to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam, the older sister of Aaron and Moses, died and was buried in Kadesh in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried. When 120-year-old Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, John the Baptist was conceived by elderly Zacharias (Zechariah) and Zacharias's elderly wife Elisabeth (Elizabeth), descendants of Aaron and Aaron's wife Elisheba. Months thereafter, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Judah was the 4th son born to Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Levi, the tribal ancestor of Miriam, Moses, Aaron, Elisheba, Zacharias, Elisabeth, and John the Baptist, was Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son.-Genesis 12:1-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 23:12-23, Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, 1 Chronicles 1:1-28, 2:1-17, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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Marah = mimmarah = marar = the bitter spring in the Sinai peninsula

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