The north-western arm of the Red Sea is a – if not THE – Reed Sea. Why scholars should ever have thought (if they troubled to do that at all) that the Israelites in flight would have stayed in Sinai within Egyptian territory rather than go to a country – Midian – OUTSIDE Egyptian control. More @Wikipedia
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