Wadi Feiran

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title: Wadi Feiran
text: Wadi Feiran or Wadi Faran is Sinai's largest and widest wadi. It is an intermittent stream and rises from the mountains around Saint Catherine's Monastery, at 2500 m above sea level. It is one of the alleged sites of Rephidim, a station of the Exodus where Moses struck a rock caused it to spring water, allowing his people the Hebrews to drink. Wadi Feiran is an 81-mile (130 km) wadi on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Its upper reaches, around Jebel Musa, are known as the Wadi el-Sheikh. It empties into
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description: Large valley in Sinai
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Feiran
date created: 2015-10-04T07:54:58Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T12:46:49Z
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