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It is mentioned in Exodus 16:1; and Numbers 33:11, 12). It was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha , which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed , the southern extremity of the Sinitic Peninsula .

While the Israelites rested here for some days they began to murmur on account of the want of nourishment, as they had by this time consumed all the corn they had brought with them out of Egypt. God heard their murmurings, and gave them " manna" and then quails in abundance.

This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.

---20th Century Archeology--- The Wilderness of Sin could be considered by some to be a wasteland, which it is, that belongs to the god Sin. Sin (mythology) was worshipped widely around the entire periphery of pre-Islamic Arabia, as well as in temples in places such as Teyhma , Saba, Hadrumaut , Oman, Dilmun, Magan, MeluhhaMeluhha refers to one of ancient Sumeria's prominent trading partners, but precisely which one remains an open question. The leading candidates are: the Indus valley civilization, India, or ancient Ethiopia. The word can be found in many Sumerian texts, p and UrUr (or Urim was an ancient city in Mesopotamia, originally located near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. The remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates at 30° 95' N. 46° 5' E.

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