Wilderness of Sin
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernization.In the Bible the Wilderness of Sin is an area lying between Elim and Sinai.
It is mentioned in Exodus 16:1; and Numbers 33:11, 12). It was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed, the southern extremity of the Sinitic Peninsula. While the Israelites rested here for some days they began to murmur on account of the want of nourishment, as they had by this time consumed all the corn they had brought with them out of Egypt. God heard their murmurings, and gave them "manna" and then quails in abundance.
- The Doors used the image of the Wilderness of Sin in their song Break on Through.