Scriptorium · Geography
The Exodus Route
From Rameses to the mountain of God. The DAVAR engine takes the traditional Exodus encampments, computes the distance of every leg and the running total, and draws the road to Sinai as a server-side map — no apps, no scripts.
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. — Exodus 19:1
The Road to Sinai, Stage by Stage
Computed live by the DAVAR engine from the station coordinates below: great-circle (haversine) leg distances, cumulative mileage, and the SVG route map. Total modelled journey to Sinai: 350 km (about
| # | Station | Scripture | Leg | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rameses Departure from Goshen in the eastern Nile delta. | Exodus 12:37 | start | 0 km |
| 2 | Succoth First encampment after leaving Egypt. | Exodus 12:37 | 40 km | 40 km |
| 3 | Etham On the edge of the wilderness; pillar of cloud and fire. | Exodus 13:20 | 27 km | 67 km |
| 4 | Pi-hahiroth Encamped by the sea before the crossing. | Exodus 14:2 | 38 km | 105 km |
| 5 | Sea crossing Israel passes through on dry ground. | Exodus 14:22 | 17 km | 122 km |
| 6 | Marah Bitter waters made sweet. | Exodus 15:23 | 82 km | 204 km |
| 7 | Elim Twelve springs and seventy palm trees. | Exodus 15:27 | 42 km | 246 km |
| 8 | Wilderness of Sin Manna and quail provided. | Exodus 16:1 | 34 km | 279 km |
| 9 | Rephidim Water from the rock; battle with Amalek. | Exodus 17:1 | 31 km | 311 km |
| 10 | Mount Sinai The covenant and the Law given. | Exodus 19:1 | 40 km | 350 km |
Distances are great-circle (haversine) figures between station coordinates, computed inside davar_http. The station identifications follow one traditional southern-Sinai reconstruction; northern-Sinai and Arabian routes are also seriously proposed, and several sites remain uncertain. The engine reports the geometry of these coordinates — not a claim that this is the exact path Israel walked. The journey of a whole people with flocks would be far slower than any straight-line pace.
How the Engine Works
Each station carries an approximate latitude and longitude. The engine applies the haversine formula to every consecutive pair to get the leg distance over the curved earth, sums them for the cumulative total, and projects the coordinates into the SVG map you see — all in plain C on the server, with no client JavaScript.
Because the identifications are traditional and debated, read this as a model of one proposed route, not a settled map. The value is in seeing the scale and shape of the journey Scripture describes.
Go Deeper
A model of one route, offered honestly:
/scriptorium/star-of-bethlehem — the sky over the Nativity, computed.
/bible-reader — read Exodus in the KJV.
/apologetics — the case for Scripture, five domains.
/oracle — ask the DNCZ corpus directly.