Marah

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Marah
     bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites
     (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they
     could not drink them. On this account they murmured against
     Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain "a
     certain tree" which took away its bitterness, so that the people


     drank of it. This was probably the 'Ain Hawarah, where there are
     still several springs of water that are very "bitter," distant
     some 47 miles from 'Ayun Mousa.