* lift.
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* the sea.
This sea was what is called in Scripture {yam suph,} "the sea
of weeds;" so called, according to Mr. Bruce, from the vast
quantity of coral which grows in it. In the LXX. it is called
[thalassa erythra,] and by the Latins {Rubrum mare,} and we
from them the Red Sea; so called it is supposed, from {Edom}
(red) or Esau, whose territories extend to its coasts. It
separates Arabia from Egypt and Ethiopia, and is computed to
be 150; leagues in length from Suez to the straits of
Babelmandel. The upper part is divided into two gulfs, that
to the East called the Elanitic, from the city Elana at the
northern extremity, and that to the west, the Heroopolitic,
from the city of Heroopolis. The former is called by the
Arabians Bahr el Akaba, the sea of Akaba; and the latter Bahr
el Kolzum, the sea of destruction, or Clysm(913b) which was that
which the Israelites passed.
* and the.
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