Oyun Musa ("Moses Springs", عيون موسى), found 20 km south of the

Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel The Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel is a car tunnel under the Suez Canal at Shallufa. The tunnel is named after Ahmed Hamdi, an Egyptian engineer and general killed in action during the October 1973 War. It has two lanes of traffic, one in each directi ...

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, are a collection of fresh water springs said to be those in the area referred to as Elim in Exodus 15:27. This would be where

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went with the Israelites during the

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after he was directed by

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to throw a tree branch, possibly a

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, into the bitter springs of Marah, making them sweet enough to drink (Exodus 15:25). The springs are located on the main

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Sharm el Sheikh Sharm El Sheikh (, , literally "bay of the Sheikh"), alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el Sheikh, or Sharm El-Sheikh, is an Egyptian city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip alo ...

road behind a

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village settlement of the same name.

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