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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links and a discussion forum 2013 December 15
Image 1: The Waters of Marah: Calvary Triptych, Left Wing (detail) - (1465-1468)
Hugo van der Goes (c. 1430/1440 - 1482)
Early Netherlandish Style of the Early Renaissance and Late Gothic Movements
Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent, Belgium
Image Credit: Web Gallery of Art
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Image 2: Water Carriers (1860s) - (Representing one of the 12 Springs of Elim)
Jules Breton (1827-1906)
Realism Style
Private Collection
Image Credit: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: Exodus 15 begins with a song which Moses and Israel sang praising the LORD for his deliverance when he drowned Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea (1-3). They sank like a stone, said the song; the Egyptians said they would catch Israel, take spoil, and kill them; but the LORD blew with his wind and they sank like lead (4-12). The song then tells of the terror that came upon the nations toward which Israel was heading, because the LORD would bring Israel into their land and plant them there (13-18). The Egyptians drowned, said the song; but the Israelites walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. Then Miriam and the women answered with a song of their own, saying that the LORD triumphed gloriously (19-21). Moses then moved Israel from the Red Sea into the wilderness of Shur. They went for three days but found no water. When they came to Marah, they found bitter water; so Moses cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree (or log) which he cast into the water, making it sweet (22-25). And the LORD told them that if they would obey him, he would put none of the Egyptian diseases upon them because he is their healer (26). Afterward they came and camped at Elim where they found twelve springs of water (one for each tibe) and seventy palm trees (27).
Exodus 15
1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.
4 "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
5 The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.
7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.'
10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 "Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
13 "You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
14 The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16 Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased.
17 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD will reign forever and ever."
19 For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
20 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
21 And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
25 And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
26 saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer."
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
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