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.
Ezion-Geber is a city only known from the Hebrew Bible, in Idumea, a seaport on the northern extremity of the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, in modern terms somewhere in the area of modern Aqaba and Eilat.
Pharaoh's Island in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba