Red Sea 1

body of water · river

Where it is

8 locations have been proposed, 386 km apart at the extremes. This atlas draws the first; the others are recorded here because the disagreement is real and is not ours to settle.

Gulf of Suez28.7500, 33.0000
Bitter Lakes30.3383, 32.3778
Lake Timsah30.5778, 32.2889
Ballah Lakes30.7167, 32.3333
Gulf of Aqaba28.7500, 34.7500
Pelusiac branch of the Nile31.0425, 32.5461
Lake Manzala31.2910, 32.0180
Lake Bardawil31.1906, 33.1622

Where Scripture names it

21 verses in 9 books.

Exodus

13:18
15:4
15:22

Numbers

33:8

Deuteronomy

11:4

Joshua

2:10
4:23
24:6

Nehemiah

Psalms

66:6
77:16
106:7
106:9
106:22
114:3
114:5
136:13
136:15

Isaiah

63:11

Acts

7:36

Hebrews

11:29

Where this atlas draws it

5 pins across 5 chapters — this atlas’s own editorial choice, not a claim about the text.

Red Seamatched by the verses it appears in