Red Sea: 2016

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Yam Suph = Red Sea

http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/ja/5770/spring70/62-65.pdf

Rabbi Dr. Ari Z. Zivotofsky

" Red Sea is the ancient and preferred translation of Yam Suf "

http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/ja/5770/spring70/62-65.pdf

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Yam Suph = Red Sea

Yam Suph = Gulf of Aqaba

Mt. Sinai = Midian = Arabia

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"Yam Suph" is the Red Sea.

Yam Suph refers to the Gulf of Aqaba,

which is a gulf of the Red Sea.

Mt. Sinai (Horeb) must be in Midian

in the Arabian Peninsula (Arabia).

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Bible Concordances support the translation of Suph as "end"

Suph:

end

an end

to come to an end

cease

conclusion

fulfilled

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The reed/weed translation

is based on a Borrowed Loan-word of Egyptian origin.

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Suph 5486

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5486.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5486

http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/5486.html

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Strong's Concordance

Suph: to come to an end, cease

Short Definition: end

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

Word Origin:

a primitive root

Definition:

to come to an end, cease

NASB Translation:

come to an end,

completely remove, fade, remove,

surely snatch, surely snatch away, swept away.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon

Suph

1. to cease, come to an end

a. to come to an end

b. to make an end

Origin: a primitive root

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

A primitive root;

to snatch away, i.e. Terminate

- consume, have an end, perish, X be utterly.

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Suph 5487

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5487.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5487

http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/5487.html

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Strong's Concordance

Suph: to be fulfilled

Short Definition: fulfilled

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

Definition

to be fulfilled

NASB Translation

fulfilled,

put an end

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

Suph

be fulfilled (properly ended)

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

consume, fulfill

to come to an end

- consume, fulfill

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Suph 5488

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5488.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5488

http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/5488.html

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Strong's Concordance

Suph

suph: reeds, rushes

Short Definition: red

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

Word Origin

probably of foreign origin

Definition

reeds, rushes

NASB Translation

red, reeds, rushes, weeds

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

Suph

1. reed, rush, water plant

a. rushes

b. sea of rushes

1. of Red Sea

2. of arms of Red Sea

3. of Gulf of Suez

4. of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba

Origin:

probably of Egyptian origin

probably loan-word from Egyptian

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

Probably of Egyptian origin

a reed, especially the papyrus

- flag, Red (sea), weed

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Suph 5489

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5489.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5489

http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/5489.html

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Strong's Concordance

Suph:

a place near which the law was given

Part of Speech: Proper Name Location

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

Definition

a place near which the law was given

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

Suph

a place opposite the site of the giving of the Deuteronomic law

Parts of Speech: Proper Name Location

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Suph

Red Sea

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Hebrew Vowels

Unlike English,

the Hebrew alphabet is consonantal.

There are

No separate letters for vowels

in the written alphabet.

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Two/Introduction/introduction.html

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Soph 5490

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5490.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5490

http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/5490.html

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Strong's Concordance

Soph: an end

Short Definition: end

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Soph

Word Origin

from suph

Definition

an end

NASB Translation

conclusion, end, rear

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

Soph

end, conclusion

Origin: from Suph H5486

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Soph 5491

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5491.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5491

http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/5491.html

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Strong's Concordance

Soph: an end

Short Definition: end

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Soph

Definition

NASB Translation

end, ended, forever

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Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions

Soph

end, conclusion

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Suphah 5492a

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5492a.htm

http://studybible.info/strongs/H5492a

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Strong's Concordance

Suphah

Suphah: a storm wind

Short Definition: whirlwind

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Suphah

Word Origin

from suph

Definition

a storm wind

NASB Translation

gale, storm, tempest, whirlwind, windstorms

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SOF

The Hebrew word Sof refers to an end or limit.

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/kabbalah/Ein_Sof/ein_sof.html

Ein Sof means Infinite.

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Testimony Magazine

November 2002

Red Sea or Reed Sea ?

Debbie Hurn

http://www.testimony-magazine.org/back/nov2002/hurn.pdf

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In the earliest known translation of the Bible, the Septuagint, a translation by Jewish scholars in Alexandria from Hebrew into Greek in about 300 B.C., yam suph is consistently represented by Erythra Thalassa (literally ‘Red Sea’)

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Through the subsequent Latin translation known as the Vulgate (by Jerome, from about A.D. 400) the name ‘Red Sea’ (Mare Rubrum) became firmly entrenched in Western tradition

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Origins of the name

Certainly the name ‘Red Sea’ is a mysterious one, and there has been considerable, and conflicting, speculation as to its origin, whether natural or etymological.

The earliest European writers proposed a derivation from Edom (which means ‘red’ in Hebrew)

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What does suph mean?

The word suph first appears in Exodus, translated ‘flags’ (Ex. 2:3,5), in reference to the vegetation that hid baby Moses’ basket on the Nile river bank - Here it is a Borrowed word, from the Egyptian twf

every other time that suph appears in Scripture

it is the common Hebrew word for ‘end’,

and is also sometimes translated ‘consume’ or ‘perish’

The truth may be this,

that the Red Sea

was known to the Hebrews as the yam soph

because they regarded it as the ‘sea at the end of the world’.

Like other nations, the ancient Israelites did not distinguish the Red Sea gulf from the great southern ocean that formed the impassable boundary of the known world.

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1 Kings 9

Verse 26

King Solomon built a fleet of ships (navy)

at Ezion-Geber,

which is near Elath

on the shore of the Red Sea,

in the land of Edom.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+9%3A26&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

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3E

1. Ezion-Geber
2. Elath
3. Edom

E + E + E = Red Sea

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Ezion-Geber

Gulf of Aqaba

http://www.testimony-magazine.org/back/Special_Issues/Oct90/art15.htm

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Ezion-Geber,

modern Tall al-Khalīfah,

seaport of Solomon and the later kings of Judah,

located at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba

http://www.britannica.com/place/Ezion-geber

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Ezion-Geber

http://bibleatlas.org/ezion-geber.htm

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Edom = Red

http://biblehub.com/topical/e/edom.htm

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Map - Edom - Ezion Geber - Gulf of Aqaba

http://www.jesuswalk.com/isaiah/maps/edom-1073x1650x300.jpg

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Edom

Edom, ancient land bordering ancient Israel, in what is now southwestern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

Edom prospered because of its strategic location on the trade route between Arabia and the Mediterranean and its copper industry at Ezion-geber.

http://www.britannica.com/place/Edom

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Therefore his (Esau) name was called Edom = Red

Genesis 25

Verse 25
The first came out Red.
He was like a hairy garment all over,
so they called his name Esau.

Verse 30
Esau said to Jacob (Israel),
Please feed me with that Red soup.
Therefore his (Esau) name was called Edom (Red)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+25&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

EDOM

The boundaries of Edom may be traced with some approach to accuracy.

The southern border ran by Elath and Ezion-geber
( Deuteronomy 2:8 )

southward to the Gulf of Aqaba

it reaches the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba

The name Edom, "Red," may have been derived from the Red sandstone cliffs characteristic of the country.

Edom (Red) was applied to Esau
because of the color of his skin,
or from the color of the pottage
for which he sold his birthright

In Genesis 36:8
Esau is equated with Edom
as dwelling in Mt. Seir,
and he is described as the father of Edom
( Genesis 36:9 )

http://biblehub.com/topical/e/edom.htm

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ATS Bible Dictionary

Seir

A mountainous tract lying between the southern extremity of the Dead Sea and the eastern gulf of the Red Sea.

Seir

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The name of a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the south-eastern extremity of the Dead Sea to near the Akabah, or the eastern branch of the Red Sea.

http://biblehub.com/topical/s/seir.htm

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Elath

A seaport on the Red Sea in the territory of Edom

http://bibleatlas.org/elath.htm

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)

Elath

A seaport on the Red Sea in the territory of Edom.

Elath is named along with Ezion-geber in the account of Israel’s journey round the land of Edom ( Deuteronomy 2:8 )

https://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/elath

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Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007)

ELATH

( in modern Israel, Eilat )

ancient harbor town

in Transjordan at the

northern end of the Red Sea

near Ezion-Geber.

Solomon built a "navy of ships" at Ezion-Geber beside Elath.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2587505721/elath.html

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Gulf of Aqaba

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/gulfofaqaba.htm

Gulf of Aqaba

northeastern arm of the Red Sea, penetrating between Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula.

http://www.britannica.com/place/Gulf-of-Aqaba

Gulf Of Aqaba

The Gulf of Aqaba

in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat

is a large gulf of the Red Sea.

It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian peninsula.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gulf_of_Aqaba

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1 Kings 9 Verse 26
gives three geographic landmarks for the Red Sea

The 3 landmarks
( Ezion-Geber, Elath, Edom )
indicate that
Yam Suph is the Red Sea.
Yam Suph refers to the Gulf of Aqaba,
which is a gulf of the Red Sea.

(1)
Ezion-Geber
a seaport located at
the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba.

(2)
Elath
a seaport on the Red Sea
in the territory of Edom
at the northern end of the Red Sea
near Ezion-Geber.

(3)
Edom
an ancient land bordering ancient Israel,
in what is now southwestern Jordan,
between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

The Gulf of Aqaba in Israel
is a large gulf of the Red Sea,
located to the east of the Sinai peninsula
and west of the Arabian peninsula.
Gulf of Aqaba is the northeastern arm of the Red Sea,
penetrating between Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula.

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Midian

region NW Arabia E of Gulf of Aqaba

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Midian

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Midianite,

in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), member of a group of nomadic tribes related to the Israelites and most likely living east of the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern regions of the Arabian Desert.

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Midianites

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Arabia

The Arabian Peninsula is bounded by the Red Sea on the west

http://www.britannica.com/place/Arabia-peninsula-Asia

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Jeremiah 49

Yam Suph = Red Sea

Jeremiah 49 links Edom to the the Red Sea
and supports the translation of Yam Suph as Red Sea.

Jeremiah 49 has
four geographic landmarks
Edom, Bozrah, Jordan,
and the Red Sea.

Jeremiah 49
supports the translation of
Yam Suph = Red Sea

Jeremiah 49
supports the translation of
Yam Suph = Gulf of Aqaba

Gulf Of Aqaba
is a gulf of the Red Sea,
located to the east of the Sinai peninsula
and west of the Arabian peninsula.

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Jeremiah 49

Verses 7-22

Judgment against Edom

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah+49&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;KJ21;DRA

Jeremiah 49

Verse 17

Edom will become a desolation.
Everyone who goes by it will be astonished.

Verse 19

He shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan.

Verse 20

Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord
that He has taken against Edom.

Verse 21

The earth is moved at the noise of their fall,
at the cry the noise thereof
was heard in the Red Sea.

Verse 22

Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle
and spread his wings over Bozrah.

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Bozrah

Bozrah was the capital city of Edom.

Bozrah is an ancient city in southern modern day Jordan,
adjacent to the modern town of Buseirah,
located in the mountains of Jordan.

Buseirah (Bozrah) Southern Jordan.

Bozrah is a city in the plain country
in the mountain district of Petra
twenty miles to the south-east of the Dead Sea.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/bozrah/

http://www.jesuswalk.com/isaiah/maps/israel-and-judah-isaiah-1627x2850x300.jpg

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Edom = Red

http://biblehub.com/topical/e/edom.htm

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Map - Edom - Ezion Geber - Gulf of Aqaba

http://www.jesuswalk.com/isaiah/maps/edom-1073x1650x300.jpg

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Edom

Edom is an ancient land bordering ancient Israel
in what is now southwestern Jordan
between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

Edom prospered because of its strategic location on the trade route between Arabia and the Mediterranean and its copper industry at Ezion-geber.

http://www.britannica.com/place/Edom

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Exodus 23

Verse 31

I will set your borders
from the Red Sea ( Yam Suph )
to the Mediterranean Sea,
and from the desert to the Euphrates River.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23%3A31&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

Exodus 23:31
supports the translation
Yam Suph = Red Sea

Exodus 23:31
gives three geographic border markers for Israel
Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Euphrates River.

http://www.christians-standing-with-israel.org/map-israel-king-david.jpg

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Numbers 21

Verse 4

Then they journeyed from Mount Hor
by the Way of the Red Sea ( Yam Suph )
to go around the land of Edom

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+21%3A4&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

Mount Hor was a mountain on the border of the land of Edom.

https://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/mount-hor

Numbers 21:4
geographically links Edom
and the Red Sea,
and indicates that
the Yam Suph is the Gulf of Aqaba
which is a gulf of the Red Sea.

Yam Suph = Red Sea

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Deuteronomy 2

Verses 1-8

“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.

“And the Lord spoke to me, saying:
‘You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.
And command the people, saying,
“You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren,
the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir.

I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir,
away from the road of the plain,
away from Elath and Ezion Geber

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+2%3A1-8&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

Deuteronomy 2:1-8
gives five geographic landmarks

Esau = Edom
Mount Seir
Elath
Ezion Geber
Red Sea

Deuteronomy 2:1-8
supports the translation
Yam Suph = Red Sea

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2 Chronicles 8:17
links three geographic landmarks
Edom
Ezion-Geber
Elath
with the seacoast

1 Kings 9:26
links three geographic landmarks
Edom
Ezion-Geber
Elath
with the Red Sea

The above two Bible verses
support the translation
Yam Suph = Red Sea

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2 Chronicles 8

Verse 17

Then Solomon went to
Ezion-Geber and Elath on the seacoast, in the land of Edom.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+8%3A17&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

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1 Kings 9

Verse 26

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-Geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+9%3A26&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

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Yam Suph = Red Sea

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1 Kings 9 Verse 26

Ezion-Geber
Elath
Edom
Red Sea

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Jeremiah 49 Verses 7-22

Edom
Jordan
Bozrah
Red Sea

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Exodus 23 Verse 31

Mediterranean Sea
Euphrates River
Red Sea

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Numbers 21 Verse 4

Edom
Mount Hor
Red Sea

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Deuteronomy 2 Verses 1-8

Esau = Edom
Mount Seir
Elath
Ezion-Geber
Red Sea

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TORAH

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

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Exodus 14

The Red Sea Crossing

Exodus 15

Song of Moses

Verses 14-15
Philistia
Edom
Moab
Canaan

Edom - Moab - Philistia
https://thelonghaulwithisaiah.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/1-edom-1073x1650x300.jpg

Moab
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Kingdoms_around_Israel_830_map.svg/2000px-Kingdoms_around_Israel_830_map.svg.png

Canaan
http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/large-map-land-of-canaan-during-book-of-joshua.jpg

Israel
http://www.bible-history.com/maps/images/genesis_israel.jpg

David

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dd/9d/f7/dd9df722d0676956ed743b9ad45b969a.jpg

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Numbers 14

25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Amalekite
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Amalekite

Amalek
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1351-amalek-amalekites

Edom
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/File:Edom.PNG

Canaan
http://www.britannica.com/place/Canaan-historical-region-Middle-East

Canaan
http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/large-map-land-of-canaan-during-book-of-joshua.jpg

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Deuteronomy 1

1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Jordan River
http://www.bibleodyssey.org/~/media/Images/Maps/map-JordanRiver-spm-c-02.ashx

Jordan
http://www.mapsofworld.com/jordan/maps/jordan-river-map.jpg

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Dr. NT Wright

http://ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Paul_Arabia_Elijah.pdf

PAUL, ARABIA, AND ELIJAH
GALATIANS 1:17

Journal of Biblical Literature
Volume 115, pages 683–692

Bottom of Page 2 - Top of Page 3 of the PDF

When Paul was stopped in his tracks by the revelation on the road to Damascus, Paul did what Elijah did. Paul went off to Mount Sinai.

The word “Arabia” in Paul’s day covered the area to the south and east of Palestine.

One thing we know for sure is that,
for Paul, “Arabia” was the location of Mount Sinai.

http://ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Paul_Arabia_Elijah.pdf

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Dr. NT Wright Biography
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/staff/ntw2/

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Galatians 1
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+1&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

Galatians 4
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+4&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

1 Kings 19
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+kings+19&version=KJV;NKJV;MEV;ESV;NABRE

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Beersheba

http://www.britannica.com/place/Beersheba

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Greek

Καλάμι
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Καλάμι

reed = καλάμι
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#en/el/reed

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Codex Vaticanus
Greek 350 AD
Oldest complete Greek Bible in existence

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=199

http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209

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Codex Amiatinus
Latin 700 AD
Oldest surviving complete Latin Vulgate Bible 700 AD

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-27372773

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=226

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Leningrad Codex
Hebrew Masoretic 1010 AD

https://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/biblical_manuscripts/LeningradCodex.shtml

The Hebrew text of the TANAKH is based on the Leningrad Codex

https://jps.org/books/jps-hebrew-english-tanakh-deluxe-edition/

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Wycliffe Bible
English 1382 AD
First complete translation of the Bible into English

http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wycliffe

https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Wycliffe-Bible-WYC/

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Red Sea

Greek
Erythra Thalassa
Erythra = Red

Latin
Mare Rubrum
Rubrum = Red

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At the time
when Erythra Thalassa (Greek)
and Mare Rubrum (Latin) were translated,
English language did Not exist.

Therefore, the reEd/red mutation hypothesis is nonsensical.
Because the Greek translation was composed
over 1,500 years before the first English translation.

The Greek and Latin are translated Literally as the Red Sea.
It is the Red Sea.

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Greek 350 AD
Latin 700 AD
Hebrew 1010 AD
English 1382 AD

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History of English
http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/timeline.html

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The Jewish Publication Society (JPS)

https://jps.org/books/tanakh-the-holy-scriptures-blue/

Third century BC
72 elders of the tribes of Israel
created the Greek translation of Scriptures known as the Septuagint

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Dead Sea Scrolls

http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-scrolls/historical-timeline

Most of the Scrolls and fragments found in the caves near Qumran date to the Hellenistic period ( 332 – 63 BC )

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Dr. Frank Moore Cross PhD
Professor Emeritus Harvard University

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/qumran-cave-4-xii-1-2-samuel-discoveries-in-the-judaean-desert-series-xvii/

Dead Sea Scroll Qumran Cave 4

Among the Dead Sea Scrolls
are many Hebrew texts that were
the base text for Septuagintal translations, including 4QSama.

What texts like 4QSama show is that the
Septuagintal translations are
really quite reliable.

This gives new authority to the Greek translations
against the Masoretic text.

As Cross has written, “We could scarcely hope to find closer agreement between the Old Greek [Septuagintal] tradition and 4QSama than actually is found in our fragments.”

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Dr. Allen Kerkeslager PhD

Biblical and post-biblical evidence consistently suggests that most Israelite traditions identified Horeb and Sinai with some location in northwestern Arabia east of the Red Sea

http://www.explorationfilms.com/sinai-experts-scholars-review.html

Demetrius, Josephus, and other Jewish sources that identify Mt. Sinai with a discernible location consistently place it in northwestern Arabia east of the Red Sea.

http://www.bibleprobe.com/sinai1.htm

Dr. Allen Kerkeslager PhD
https://www.sju.edu/about-sju/faculty-staff/allen-kerkeslager-phd

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Dr. Frank Moore Cross - Harvard Professor

http://c795631.r31.cf2.rackcdn.com/frank_moore_cross_conversations_with_a_bible_scholar.pdf

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Midian is in the northwestern border area of what is now
Saudi Arabia.

Frank Moore Cross believes the Israelites wandered through the land of Midian, east of the Gulf of Eilat ( modern northwest Saudi Arabia )

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“mountain of God” called Sinai and Horeb

in the northwestern corner of Saudi Arabia, ancient Midian.

http://c795631.r31.cf2.rackcdn.com/frank_moore_cross_conversations_with_a_bible_scholar.pdf

Dr. Frank Moore Cross - Harvard Professor

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/frank-moore-cross-91/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/frank-moore-cross-biblical-scholar-and-dead-sea-scrolls-interpreter-dies-at-91.html

https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/FrankMooreCross.pdf

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Dr. Glen Fritz PhD

http://ancientexodus.com/the-sea-of-exodus/

The biblical descriptions of the character and location of Yam Suph only correlate with the modern Gulf of Aqaba. It was the Red Sea of the Exodus.

http://ancientexodus.com/the-sea-of-exodus/

https://youtu.be/1CgMGowftDs

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Sea-Exodus-Geographical-Analysis/dp/069263830X

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Hebrew Language Detective

Yam Suf

Eilat (Elath)

red mountains of Jordan

originally belonging to the land of Edom ( signifying "Red" )

the name "Red Sea" goes all the way back to the Greek Septuagint, who translated Yam Suf as Erythra Thalassa

Since English only came around centuries later,

the similarity between "red" and "reed" is only a coincidence.

Rabbi Dr. Ari Z. Zivotofsky

shows how the tradition of using the name "Red Sea" is ancient and found in many Jewish sources as well.

http://www.balashon.com/2010/03/yam-suf-red-sea-or-sea-of-reeds.html

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