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Brother Paul
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Excellent my brother...the Lord blessed you with this one...I would like to add more and more scholars are seeing the gulf of Aqaba as the place of crossing (an under water land bridge) some coral covered chariot wheels etc.,) mostly because across in what was Midian is the mountain still called "The Mountain of God" until this day and there were found there many indications this was the real site after the crossing not back over on the Sinai Penninsula.
Think about it where was Moses when he went up onto the Mountain? Hw was in the land of Midian tending the flocks...there is no grass to speak of in Sinai...it is a desert...and how would he have gotten Jethro's sheep over 100 miles away and over the Red Sea? So when he brought back the children of Israel he naturally brought them to the old Mt.Horeb, the Mountain of God, where he had first spoken to God when He appeared in the burning bush.
Just FYI and something more to expore...and thank you so much for your insightful little artlicle above, I never put the two (red/Edom and the Sea the bordered) together...
Lord thanks you
Brother Paul
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Eden
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How the saltwater Red Sea got its name is an interesting story. At the south tip of the Sinai peninsula, the modern Red Sea splits into 2 branches, an east branch and a west branch of the Red Sea.
The east branch of the Red Sea flowed along the east side of the Sinai peninsula to seaport Eilat in modern Israel and to seaport Aqaba in modern Arabia.
And the west branch of the Red Sea flowed along the west side of the Sinai peninsula to seaport Suweis on the west side of the west Red Sea branch.
This northeast branch of the Red Sea ended at the south side of the ancient mountain of Shemite Edom who was Esau, the twin brother of Jacob, and both were born to their father Isaac and their mother Rebekah.
This Esau was very hairy with red hair and so in Hebrew, Esau's nickname was Edom, which meant red one or edom. And so over the centuries the Shemite Esau-Edomites lived on the mountain of Edom whose south end overlooked seaport Eilat in the northeast branch of the Red Sea and at times Esau-Edom controlled seaport Eilat.
Over time, this northeast branch of the Red Sea acquired the nickname edom sea or red sea, and later the entire sea south to the Strait of Aden became known as the Sea of Edom or Red Sea.
The Macedonian Greek Ptolemies later also called the entire sea the Erythræan Sea, and in Greek erythrus means red. The Romans also called the entire sea the Rubrum Mare, or Red Sea, and the English also called it the Red Sea, apparently all after the Shemite Esau-Edom, the nickname of the redhaired twin brother of Jacob.
In any case, the Jacob-Israelite tribal writings record that the body of water which the Jacob-Israelites miraculously crossed during their Exodus from Misr Egypt was, not a red sea, but a yam suph or a body of water containing many um-soof grasses.
The Hebrew word yam can mean either a large or a small body of water. So in Hebrew, the Mediterranean Sea was called a yam in the Israelite tribal writings, and also the large copper laver which King Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem was called a yam in the Israelite tribal writings.
And in addition, the Jacob-Israelite tribal writings record that the body of water which the Jacob-Israelites miraculously crossed during their Exodus from Misr Egypt was a yam suph, meaning a body of water of any size containing a lot of um-soof grasses, like the soof grasses in the as-Sudd swamp in Sudan.
love, Eden
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