Mount Sinai in the Gulf of Suez

There are various criteria that candidates for mount sinai should meet. It needs to be on a typical route between midian and egypt, as it was a meeting place of moses and aaron in exodus - chapter four, verse 27. Whenam suggests the possibility that the bitter lakes were formerly connected to the gulf of suez. Large canals may already have existed in the in moses day. We are informed, as in exodus, chapter 15, verse 27, that there were 12 springs and 70 palm trees in elemah. The quantity of these numbers suggests that they might be important. In considering the number of spoil items with 800 and forty-fifty items