OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 17:1

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All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the LORD’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

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Verse 1. Mansions, at Daphca, (Numbers 33:12,) and perhaps at Aluz. Calmet.—Raphidim, the 11th station mentioned by Moses, which was afterwards called Massa, “temptation,” because the people murmured in this place. Menochius.

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