'Red' in the Bible
Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
So the Lord shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.
and rams’ skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,
Every man, who had in his possession blue and purple and scarlet material and fine linen and goats’ hair and rams’ skins dyed red and porpoise skins, brought them.
He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of porpoise skins above.
and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the screening veil;
Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
“This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.
Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey.
They journeyed from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.’
“Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and circled Mount Seir for many days.
and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the Lord completely destroyed them;
and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,
For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the Lord your God had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed;
I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh,
King Solomon also built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,And heard their cry by the Red Sea.
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses,But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up,And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
Wonders in the land of HamAnd awesome things by the Red Sea.
To Him who divided the Red Sea asunder,For His lovingkindness is everlasting,
But He overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
Do not look on the wine when it is red,When it sparkles in the cup,When it goes down smoothly;
“Come now, and let us reason together,”Says the Lord,“Though your sins are as scarlet,They will be as white as snow;Though they are red like crimson,They will be like wool.
Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.
Why is Your apparel red,And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?
Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy houseWith spacious upper rooms,And cut out its windows,Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’
The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.
The shields of his mighty men are colored red,The warriors are dressed in scarlet,The chariots are enveloped in flashing steelWhen he is prepared to march,And the cypress spears are brandished.
I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel and white horses behind him.
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,