Reading for July 14th

Israel complains and God responds.
In 15.22-17.7 God provides water and food in response to the legitimate complaints of Israel as they enter into the dry desert of the Sinai Peninsula.
Similar complaints about food and water later (see Num 11.1-9, 31-35; 20.1-13) provoke God's anger and punishment.

Read Exodus 15.22-16.8
In verse 23: The place name Marah means "Bitterness," a wordplay on the bitter water there.
In verse 25: Traditional cultures believed that certain kinds  of wood or trees had the ability to "heal" poisonous water and make it sweet and drinkable.
In 16.1: The wilderness of Sin is in the Sinai peninsula just off the west of Egypt.
In verse 5: They gather together twice as much on the sixth day in order that they may rest on the seventh day.
The seventh day is the day of sabbath rest when no work is to be done (vv. 22-30; see the commandment in 20.8-11).
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