Red Sea
Red Sea appears in 21 verses of the Bible, from Exodus to Hebrews.
- Sea or lake · Bible atlas
- Near Gulf of Suez, 400 km southwest of Jerusalem
- Likely identification
- 8 proposed sites
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In the Bible dictionary
Red Sea, in Hebrew Yam Suph or "Sea of Reeds," is the sea Israel crossed on dry ground when God divided its waters and freed the people from Egypt.
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So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea. Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle.
Exodus 13:18 · Read the chapter -
They left Pi-hahiroth and crossed the Red Sea into the wilderness beyond. Then they traveled for three days into the Etham wilderness and camped at Marah.
Numbers 33:8 · Read the chapter -
They didn’t see what the Lord did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!
Deuteronomy 11:4 · Read the chapter -
For we have heard how the Lord made a dry path for you through the Red Sea when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed.
Joshua 2:10 · Read the chapter -
“You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cries from beside the Red Sea.
Nehemiah 9:9 · Read the chapter -
He made a dry path through the Red Sea, and his people went across on foot. There we rejoiced in him.
Psalms 66:6 · Read the chapter
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