Place
Red Sea crossing (yam suph) - location uncertain
The sea Israel crossed on dry ground after leaving Egypt, camped "before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon" (Exod 14:2).
Location
- Type
- body of water
- Coordinates
- Unknown (not mapped)
- Certainty
- low (40%)
OpenBible.info "Red Sea 1" (Exod 13:18; 15:4): top identification Gulf of Suez at 40% (percent refers to that identification).
No coordinates: OpenBible.info gives 8 competing identifications (Gulf of Suez 40%, Bitter Lakes 35%, Lake Timsah 15%, Ballah Lakes, Gulf of Aqaba, Pelusiac Nile branch, Lake Manzala, Lake Bardawil each <10%). Related: Pi-hahiroth (openbible a/ababfd2), top identification only 25%.
- OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
- OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata Q116702 (opens in a new tab)
Scripture
Disagreements & open questions
- Open question Which crossing site to display (if any)? Kept null until the owner chooses; OpenBible Pi-hahiroth page: https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/ababfd2/pi-hahiroth
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Events here
Maps
Related
Free sources
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.