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The Places of Exodus

Exodus names 33 places; Egypt, Nile and Holy Place most often. 31 of them can be put on a map, 16 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of Egypt, Sinai and Canaan with the places named in Exodus. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E30°NMount SinaiMount HorebRephidimBaal-zephonElimPi-hahirothRamesesSuccothEthamMassahMeribahMigdolPithomEgyptNileMount SinaiAmalekCanaanMarahMount HorebRed SeaRephidimBaal-zephonElimRamesesSinSuccothEdomEthamGreat SeaMigdolMoabPhilistiaRed SeaN0200 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Egypt, Sinai and Canaan, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 1 place lies beyond the plate and is in the table.

Every place in Exodus

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Egypt1:1, 1:5, 1:8, 1:15, 1:17, 1:18, 2:23, 3:7, 3:8, 3:10, 3:11, 3:12 and 119 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Nile1:22, 2:3, 2:5, 4:9, 7:15, 7:17, 7:18, 7:20, 7:21, 7:24, 7:25, 8:3 and 3 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Holy Place26:33, 28:29, 28:35, 28:43, 29:30, 31:11, 35:19, 39:1, 39:41, 40:22, 40:24, 40:26OpenBible.infoNot located
Mount Sinai16:1, 19:2, 19:11, 19:18, 19:20, 19:23, 24:16, 31:18, 34:2, 34:4, 34:29, 34:32OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 463)
Amalek17:8, 17:9, 17:10, 17:11, 17:13, 17:14, 17:16OpenBible.infoHigh
Midian2:15, 2:16, 3:1, 4:19, 18:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Canaan6:4, 15:15, 16:35OpenBible.infoHigh
Marah15:23, 15:25, 15:27OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 287)
Most Holy Place26:33, 26:34, 40:3OpenBible.infoNot located
Mount Horeb3:1, 17:6, 33:6OpenBible.infoHigh
Red Sea13:18, 15:4, 15:22OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 164)
Rephidim17:1, 17:8, 19:2OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 320)
Baal-zephon14:2, 14:9OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 217)
Elim15:27, 16:1OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 448)
Goshen8:22, 9:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Pi-hahiroth14:2, 14:9OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 60)
Rameses1:11, 12:37OpenBible.infoHigh
Sin16:1, 17:1OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 171)
Succoth12:37, 13:20OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 278)
Wilderness of Sinai19:1, 19:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Edom15:15OpenBible.infoHigh
Etham13:20OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 54)
EuphratesBeyond this plate.23:31OpenBible.infoHigh
Great Sea23:31OpenBible.infoHigh
Massah17:7OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 490)
Meribah17:7OpenBible.infoHigh
Migdol14:2OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 120)
Moab15:15OpenBible.infoHigh
Philistia15:14OpenBible.infoHigh
Pithom1:11OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 427)
Red Sea23:31OpenBible.infoHigh
Red Sea10:19OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 204)
Shur15:22OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 298)

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.