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The Short Answer
Nobody knows the exact spot — and it's partly a translation puzzle. The Hebrew says Yam Suph, "Sea of Reeds", which could mean today's Red Sea (Gulf of Suez), or the deep lakes along Egypt's eastern edge where the Suez Canal now runs. The main proposals: the northern lakes region, the Gulf of Suez, or (a popular but weaker case) the Gulf of Aqaba. What the text insists on either way: deep water, walls of it, a dry seabed — a rescue no one could take credit for but God.
How sure are we? The event is the Bible's bedrock memory — the pin on the map is unsettled
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Key Scripture
tap any to readExodus 14:21-22
Read →“The LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground.”
Exodus 15:8 — the eyewitness song
Read →“With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.”
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Watch
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The Word Behind It
יַם-סוּף
yam suph — "Sea of Reeds"
The Bible's own name for the crossing place. Where exactly the Sea of Reeds was is the whole debate.
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From the Collection
The Exodus — 1446 BC
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Moses
character profile · 1526–1406 BC
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Why It Matters
“Israel's songwriters never argued about coordinates — they sang about a God who makes a road where there isn't one. That's the point the map can't hold.”
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