Original sentence: Exodus 3:1 implies that God's appearance in the burning bush at Mount Horeb occurred in Midian.In Genesis Midian is described as having been to the east of Canaan; Abraham sends the sons of his concubines, including Midian, eastward.Its east had no borders.Midian was a land bordered by the Arabah between Moab and Elat and by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea.The term "Midian", which may be derived from the Semitic root word for judgment, denotes also the nation of the Midianites; the plural form occurring only in Genesis 37:28,36 and Numbers 25:17, 31:2.Today, the former territory of Midian is located in what is now a small area of western Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, southern Israel and the Sinai
Edited sentence: Midian is generally thought to be a land in northwest [Arabia]]on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba although some have argued that it was not a specific geographical area but a league of tribes