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soÌ„oÌ„f (סוּף, sÌ£uÌ„ph; πλησιÌον τῆς ἐÏυθÏᾶς (θαλαÌσσης), pleÌ„sıÌon teÌ„Ìs eruthraÌs (thalaÌsseÌ„s); the King James Version Red Sea): As the verse stands, the place where Moses addressed the children of Israel is indicated as “beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph†(). the King James Version, following Septuagint, takes the name as a contraction of yaÌ„m suÌ„ph (see RED SEA). The abbreviation is not found elsewhere. The name of the sea was not derived from that of a city; so we need not look in that direction. Knobel suggested NakÌ£b esÌ£-SÌ£afaÌ„, a pass about 25 miles West-Southwest of the Dead Sea. But it is “unsuitably situated; nor does the name agree phonetically†(Driver, “Deuteronomy,†ICC, 4). No identification is possible.