The Red Sea crossing by Israel was in front of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid. Yes, it was “Yam Suf” and yes it was deep water, Isaiah 51:10 “[T]he waters of the great deep...”

The Bible says Israel’s Exodus from Egypt was from the west side of the Nile. (Isaiah 11:15-16). As does Flavius Josephus (1st century Jewish historian) Antiquities, II, 15, 1. And Artapanus (Jewish historian, 3rd–2nd century BC) also has Israel leaving from the west side of the Nile, Praeparatio Evangelica (IX, 27).

The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Genesis Apocryphon (2nd–1st century BC): “I proceeded by the Red Sea until I reached the extension of the Reed Sea which goes out from the Red Sea, and then I turned southward, until I reached the Gihon River….” (“Nile”, “Pyramid”, and “Sphinx”, are not Egyptian but Greek names. Ancient Jewish writers call the Nile, “Gihon”.) The person in this account was already on the “Red Sea” and goes to the “extension” of it, which he calls the “Reed Sea,” and then to the Nile, or “Gihon.” He is telling us that in his day the Red Sea was connected to the Nile by the Reed Sea. Modern Egyptians commonly call the Nile River “El-Bahr” = The Sea.

Legends of the Jews, when speaking of the ark of baby Moses that Miriam put in the Nile, said it was the Red Sea. “And then she abandoned the ark on the shores of the Red Sea” (vol. II, Moses Rescued from the Water). Babylonian Talmud (3rd century AD) also believed the placement of Moses’s ark was in the “Yam Suf” (Sotah 12a). The ancient Targums, Jonathan and Jerusalem (Aramaic translations of the Pentateuch), both connect the Nile to the Red Sea/Yam Suph: “and the Gihon had carried into the sea of Suph….”

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