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The Exodus

From Egypt through the wilderness to Moab · 14 stops · ≈ 830 km in straight lines

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The route of the Exodus is disputed: most of its stations have not been located. The map shows the sites OpenBible.info lists as most likely; scholars propose others, including a crossing farther north and a different Mount Sinai.

Lines join the stops in the order of the text — the roads themselves are not known. Dashed: by ship. Pale: the site is uncertain.

Stops

  1. RamesesExod 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
  2. SuccothExod 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
  3. EthamExod 13:20They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
  4. Pi-hahirothExod 14:2“Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon.
  5. MarahExod 15:23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
  6. ElimExod 15:27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
  7. SinExod 16:1On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
  8. RephidimExod 17:1Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
  9. SinaiExod 19:1In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
  10. ParanNum 10:12and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
  11. KadeshNum 20:1In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
  12. Mount HorNum 20:22After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
  13. MoabNum 22:1Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.
  14. Mount NeboDeut 32:49“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

Each point is the most likely site (OpenBible.info); a pale point means the identification is uncertain. Places whose site is unknown are not on the map.

Locations: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data (CC BY 4.0).

Land outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).