Friday, December 17, 2010

 Crossing of the Red Sea

There's plenty of debate over exactly where God parted the waters for the crossing of the Red Sea (and even if it was a different body of water altogether), but based on best guesses of archaeologists, it's a pretty cool visualization:


--The crossing path was probably ten miles long and at least a half-mile wide to accomodate over 2 million people


--They would have walked downhill for a mile or two, then flat across the bottom for a few miles, then uphill to the other side


--At the bottom, the walls of water could have been over 5,000 feet high on either side of them! For comparison, the tallest building in the U.S. is Chicago's Sears Tower at 1,700 feet (including steeple/antenna). It would takethree of them to equal the height of the water that was parted for the Israelites as they walked across the sea floor.

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