Rahab
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Rahab was a linen maker from Jericho during the Israelite conquest of Canaan. In the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible, she is credited with aiding the Israelites by hiding two spies who had been sen
Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies
Rahab Receiveth and Concealeth the Spies by Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1881)
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
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).