They made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar, brick, and all kinds of field work. All their labor was harsh and severe.

They shall eat the meat that same night, roasted in fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians [as slaves] than to die in the wilderness.”

Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink its waters because they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah (bitter).

Then Moses took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the Israelites drink it.