Note 227 — Chapter III · THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT (continued 2)
Reading edition
The passage was already corrupt in the time of the Septuagint translators. But instead of eth-wâhab, their text reads eth-zâhâb. If this was correct, the reference would probably be to Dhi-Zahab, ‘(the mines) of gold’ which, according to Deut. i. 1, was not far from Sûph.