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Wilderness of Sin

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Exodus 16:1: the wilderness the text places between Elim and Sinai; 17:1 records the people leaving it for Rephidim. No coordinate is recorded. Numbers 33:11–13 has the people encamp here after the Red Sea and travel from it to Dophkah.

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EXO 16:1–13, engwebp
¹They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
²The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
³and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
⁴Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
⁵It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
⁶Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt.
⁷In the morning, you shall see the LORD’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”
⁸Moses said, “Now the LORD will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”
⁹Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.’”
¹⁰As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the LORD’s glory appeared in the cloud.
¹¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
¹²“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
¹³In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
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EXO 17:1–7, engwebp
¹All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the LORD’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
²Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
³The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
⁴Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
⁵The LORD said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
⁶Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
⁷He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”
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NUM 33:9–15, engwebp
⁹They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
¹⁰They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
¹¹They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
¹²They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
¹³They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
¹⁴They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
¹⁵They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Sin” by name and 4 shared verses. The leading identification is Debbet er Ramleh (confidence 311 of 1000). The dataset gives no point for it, only the region, river or route it lies in or along, so no point is drawn for it. 1 other identification is listed too.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Debbet er Ramleh
OpenBible.info confidence 311 of 1000 (current scholarship)
29.14778, 33.53667
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Sin” (CC BY 4.0)
El Marka
OpenBible.info confidence 271 of 1000 (current scholarship)
28.88333, 33.18333
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Sin” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — Murmuring in the wilderness of Sin and the promise of food, The journeys from Elim to the wilderness of Sinai

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Entry: Wilderness of Sin (place-sin-wilderness)
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Current wording: Exodus 16:1: the wilderness the text places between Elim and Sinai; 17:1 records the people leaving it for Rephidim. No coordinate is recorded. Numbers 33:11–13 has the people encamp here after the Red Sea and travel from it to Dophkah.
Cited evidence: EXO 16:1–13, engwebp / EXO 17:1–7, engwebp / NUM 33:9–15, engwebp
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