Biblical places
Red Sea (crossing point)
The sea Israel crossed while fleeing Egypt; the exact crossing point remains debated among scholars.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Disputed
- Gulf of Suez
- 29.0000, 32.5500
The crossing point has long been debated among biblical geographers.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Exodus 10:19
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Numbers 14:25
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Joshua 2:10
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Judges 11:16
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
1 Kings 9:26
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Nehemiah 9:9
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Psalms 106:7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.