Parting of the Red Sea
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The Parting of the Red Sea or Crossing of the Red Sea is an episode in The Exodus, a foundational story in the Hebrew Bible.
The Crossing of the Red Sea, by Nicolas Poussin (1633–34)
Crossing the Red Sea, Rothschild Haggadah, ca. 1450
Passage of the Jews through the Red Sea (1891), by Ivan Aivazovsky
Pharaoh's army engulfed by the Red Sea, by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1900)
Yam Suph
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In the Exodus narrative, the Yam Suph, sometimes translated as Red Sea, is the body of water where the Crossing of the Red Sea happened in the story of the Exodus. This phrase appears in over twenty o
Parting of the Red Sea
…The Parting of the Red Sea or Crossing of the Red Sea (Hebrew: קריעת ים סוף, romanized: Kriat Yam Suph, lit. "parting of the sea of reeds") is an episode in The Exodus, a foundational story in the Hebrew Bible. It tells of the escape of the Israelites…
The Gulf of Aqaba, to the east/right. Also visible are the Gulf of Suez to the west/left, the Sinai Peninsula separating the two gulfs, and part of the Red Sea in the lower left corner.
The Nile delta at the time of Herodotus, according to James Rennell (1800).