The Passage of the Red Sea is more than just a station of the Exodus. Egyptians recorded their trade across the Red Sea in all the goods needed by the mortuary rituals used in the Temple of Karnak at Thebes as far back as the Tale of the shipwrecked sailor 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 Elath as described in chapters 13:17 to 15:12, they were following a well known route.