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mā´ra, mar´a (מרה, maÌ„raÌ„h, “bitterâ€): The first camp of the Israelites after the passage of the Red Sea (; f). The name is derived from the bitterness of the brackish water. Moses cast a tree into the waters which were thus made sweet (). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.