And they came to Marah, and they could not drink [the water] of Marah, for it was bitter; therefore he named the name of that place, Bitterness.

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

all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.

And the children of Israel said to them, Would we had died smitten by the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to slay all this congregation with hunger.

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do you revile me, and why do you tempt the Lord?

And the people thirsted there for water, and there the people murmured against Moses, saying, Why is this? Have you brought us up out of Egypt to slay us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard [them] and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.

If only we would have died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we would have died in this wilderness! And why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? Our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord.

Our fathers in Egypt understood not Your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of Your mercy; but provoked [Him] as they went up by the Red Sea.

Yet He saved them for His name's sake, that He might cause His mighty power to be known.

And Moses turned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, why have You afflicted this people? And why have You sent me?

And Israel said, Why did you harm me, inasmuch as you told the man that you had a brother?

And if You do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with You, that I may not see my affliction.