Rēada Sǣ

Seo Reada Sae is Sǣ betweonnan Asia and Affrica. Hit is oft 280 þūsenda-gemetunga(þg) wīde, ac his wīdþ can wandrian. Þa land þe sind neah þǣm Rēadan Sǣ syndon Aegypt, Sudan, Iordan, Diebouti, Arabea, Iemen, and Israhel. Ofer hundtwentig and fif þusend gearas ær, ealdan þeodscipas ongunnon lybban neah his sæstrande. And feower þusend and fifhund gearas ær, Eald Aegyptisc folc timbredon portas and tunas on þære sæstrande eac.

In Exodus þære bec leornaþ we þe Israelfolc afliemede Ægypt þurh þissum brime:

“ Ða cwæð Drihten to Moyse; Sege Israhela folce þæt he faran to ðære Readan Sæ. ⁊ aðene ðine grde ofer ða sæ ⁊ todæl hi, ðæt Israhela folcga drium fotum innan ða sæ ...

Ða Moyse aðenode his hand ofer ða sæ: ða sende Drihten micelne wind eall ða niht ⁊ gewende ða sæ to drium; ⁊ ðæt wæter wearð on twa todæled, ⁊ læg an drige stræt ðurh ða sæ,⁊ ðæt wæter stod on twa healfa (Exodus XIV, xu ⁊ xui, ⁊ xxi)

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