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Wadi Gharandel is a wadi in western Sinai, Egypt. [1]
Some associate Wadi Gharandel with the biblical narrative of the Exodus, namely with Elim, the fourth station where the Israelites camped during their journey away from slavery in Egypt ( Exodus 15:27, Numbers 33:9).
Bedouin traditions speak of flash floods in Wadi Gharandel, reminiscent of the re-flooding of the Red Sea in the Exodus narrative once the Israelites had passed through the sea on dry ground ( Exodus 14). Edward Henry Palmer, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Secretary, undertaking work for the PEF's Sinai Survey in 1869, met with Bedouin who described such floods.[ citation needed]