Red Sea
- Therefore he was constrained to speak more unto them saying: Behold, my brethren, have ye not read that God gave power unto one man, even Moses, to smite upon the waters of the Red Sea, and they parted hither and thither, insomuch that the Israelites, who were our fathers, came through upon dry ground, and the waters closed upon the armies of the Egyptians and swallowed them up?
- But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
- 5) And he came down by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea; and he traveled in the wilderness in the borders which are nearer the Red Sea; and he did travel in the wilderness with his family, which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers, who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.
- 6) And it came to pass that when he had traveled three days in the wilderness, he pitched his tent in a valley by the side of a river of water.
- 7) And it came to pass that he built an altar of stones, and made an offering unto the Lord, and gave thanks unto the Lord our God.
- 8) And it came to pass that he called the name of the river, Laman, and it emptied into the Red Sea; and the valley was in the borders near the mouth thereof.
- 9) And when my father saw that the waters of the river emptied into the fountain of the Red Sea, he spake unto Laman, saying: O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the fountain of all righteousness!
- The Egyptian name for the Red Sea is "pA ywm aA n mw qd" which means "The great sea of the water which is turning around".
- The Hebrew word for the Red Sea is "Yam Suph" which means "Sea of Reeds".
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