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| - The Passage of the Red Sea refers to the Biblical account of the passage of the Red Sea by Moses, leading the Hebrews (Israelites) on their journey out of Egypt and across the Red Sea as described in the Book of Exodus, chapters 13:17 to 15:21, so they would be able to rejoin their relatives in Edom and Midian and continue to move onward to enter the Promised Land (Canaan) following the stations of the Exodus. The trade route across the Red Sea to Elat at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba is described thus in the Periplus of the Erythrian Sea. See also: Yam Suph, Reed Sea, The Exodus, and Exodus
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| - The Passage of the Red Sea refers to the Biblical account of the passage of the Red Sea by Moses, leading the Hebrews (Israelites) on their journey out of Egypt and across the Red Sea as described in the Book of Exodus, chapters 13:17 to 15:21, so they would be able to rejoin their relatives in Edom and Midian and continue to move onward to enter the Promised Land (Canaan) following the stations of the Exodus. In the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt when the book of Exodus tells us the Sons of Israel made their crossing of the Red Sea from Elim to Elat as described in chapters 13:17 to 15:12, they were following a well known route of the period. In the 18th Dynasty Hatshepsut built a fleet to cross the Red Sea from Thebes Red Sea port at Elim to trade with Punt. The trade brought the necessary materials for mummification to Succoth at Karnack where the Exodus says the Sons of Israel stopped off to pick up the bones of Joseph. Frankincense from Punt and Myhr from Ethiophia were used by the Egyptians in mummification and paid for with Nubian gold or Nub. The trade route across the Red Sea to Elat at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba is described thus in the Periplus of the Erythrian Sea. Now to the left of Berenice, sailing for two or three days from Mussel Harbor [1] (Elim) eastward across the adjacent gulf, there is another harbor and fortified place, which is called White Village, [2] from which there is a road to Petra, which is subject to Malichas, King of the Nabataeans. It holds the position of a market-town for the small vessels sent there from Arabia; and so a centurion is stationed there as a collector of one-fourth of the merchandise imported, with an armed force, as a garrison. Even Earlier, in the 12th Dynasty there is a descriptian of Egyptian trade with Punt in "The Tale of the Shipwrecked sailor". Information on the site of the crossing is provided by the Priestly source, at Exodus 14:2, where God says to Moses: "Speak to the Children of Israel, and have them turn back and encamp before Pi-Hahiroth,(an Egyptian phrase) between Migdol (a semitic word meaning a height) and the sea, before Baal-zephon;(from semitic baal or power and Greek Zephyrus or west wind) you shall encamp opposite it, by the sea." The stations of the Exodus after the crossing are in and around Elat at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba near Mt. Horab the place where Moses tended the flocks of his father in law in ancient Midian (i.e. on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba). See also: Yam Suph, Reed Sea, The Exodus, and Exodus
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