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Exodus 15:22
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses leads the Israelites out from the Red Sea into the Desert of Shur immediately after Miriam’s victory song and before their arrival at Marah.
The words — The text highlights וַ/יַּסַּ֨ע (va/i.ya.Sa'), meaning "and he led out," and אֶל־ (el-), meaning "into," framing the movement from the sea toward the desert.
The thread — The Desert of Shur appears in Genesis 16:7 as the route to a spring where Hagar was found and in Genesis 25:18 as a geographic marker near the border of Egypt toward Asshur for Ishmael’s descendants.
Why it lands — The passage records a three-day march without water, requiring the reader to confront the immediate physical trial that follows deliverance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Genesis 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
- Genesis 25:18 Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
- Exodus 3:18 The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
- 1 Samuel 15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.