ELIM (BIBLE)

'Elim' (, ) was Thebes port in the Eighteenth dynasty of Egyptand the station of the Exodus where the Sons of Israel prepared to cross the Red Sea in order to leave Egypt. It is referenced in Exodus 15.27 and Numbers 33.9 as a place where "there were twelve wells of water, and seventy date palms," and that the Israelites "camped there near the water".
Exodus 15.23, 16.1 and Numbers 33.9-11, inform that Elim, Thebes Red Sea port (where Hatshepsut kept her Red Sea fleet) is at the end of the Wadi Hammamaat which runs east from Thebes to the Red Sea.
As the last station in Egypt before crossing the Red Sea Elim is on the western shore of the Red Sea southwest of the destination, the port of Elat located at the head of the gulf of Aqaba.
The Book of Exodus records that after leaving Elim, on the 15th day of the second month after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrived off Sin. and then arrived at Dophkah and the port of Elat where the Egyptian trade with Thebes was centered ^[1]

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1. Nayeem, "The pre and proto history of the Arabian Peninnsula"

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★ 'Elim', 'The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary' ISBN 0-8028-2402-1