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I don't know if you already know this, but some time ago on the history channel they had a bible scholar on some "history of the bible" show. He was saying that the word "reed" was misinterpreted as "red". So he actually parted a "reed sea" or "sea of reeds".

For what its worth...

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at first i read this and thought is was complete BS, so i went and checked in my tanach. the hebrew name for the red sea is "yam soof" (in both modern and biblical hebrew) "yam" means sea and "soof" is the name . but i now see that in the torah the word "soof" was also used for reeds (i.e the pharos sister found mosus amongs the "soof" on the bank of the nile). this is very interesting