Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai appears in 30 verses of the Bible, from Exodus to Hebrews.
- Mountain · Bible atlas
- Near Jebel Musa, 380 km south of Jerusalem
- Likely identification
- 14 proposed sites
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In the Bible dictionary
Mount Sinai, also called Horeb, is the mountain where God gave Israel the Law and the Ten Commandments and made His covenant with the people freed from Egypt.
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Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:1 · Read the chapter -
The Lord gave these instructions to Moses on Mount Sinai when he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 7:38 · Read the chapter -
This is the family line of Aaron and Moses as it was recorded when the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:
Numbers 3:1 · Read the chapter -
“The Lord came from Mount Sinai and dawned upon us from Mount Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran and came from Meribah-kadesh with flaming fire at his right hand.
Deuteronomy 33:2 · Read the chapter -
The mountains quaked in the presence of the Lord, the God of Mount Sinai— in the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Judges 5:5 · Read the chapter -
“You came down at Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and instructions that were just, and decrees and commands that were good.
Nehemiah 9:13 · Read the chapter
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