THE ROUTE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 



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A CURIOUS BIT OF WIND CARVING IN THE DESERT OF SINAI 



deny that the inspired writers had the 

 Sinai region in mind at all. Nothing 

 could be more gratuitous and farther 

 from the truth. The Bible writers 

 plainly knew that country as well as 

 George Washington ever knew the coun- 

 try between Boston and Yorktown, and 

 the writer, after 26 years in Bible lands 

 and many journeys into these more re- 

 mote portions, would record his convic- 

 tion that the geography of the Bible fits 

 the land as the key fits the lock, and each 

 succeeding generation of" men will realize 

 this more clearly. 



THE ROUTE OF THE EXODUS 



The Bible record is complete as to the 

 route of the Exodus, but many fail to 

 realize this because the history of .the 

 journey is scattered through six of the 

 Old Testament books, the record chang- 

 ing back and forth from one place to 

 another nearly 100 times. Mr W. S. 

 Auchincloss, C. E., in his little booklet 



"To Canaan in One Year" * has made a 

 scholarly and valuable contribution to the 

 problem of the Exodus in assembling 

 and harmonizing all the Bible references 

 and illustrating the route by an itinerary 

 map. In order to bring out the names of 

 the places with greater clearness he has 

 omitted the mountain ranges and gorges, 

 but "in plotting the line of march both 

 their location and the gradients overcome 

 have been carefully taken into account ; 

 hence the course shown is topographically 

 correct." This map and accompanying 

 letter-press was one of the most valuable 

 books of reference that we carried with 

 us into the wilderness. 



In general it may be said that the first 

 section of the route from Raamses to 

 Sinai is known perfectly and the recovery 

 of most of the ancient names simply a 

 matter of time. The fourth and last sec- 

 tion of the route from Elath, on the 

 Gulf of Akaba, to Jericho is also well 



*D. Van Nostrand Co., Murray street, New- 

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