Sinai

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

28.540° N, 33.973° E

• Wilderness Wanderingsc. 1491 BC
• Ten Commandments Givenc. 1491 BC

Mount Sinai· Horeb, Mount· Mount Sinai

• Σινᾶ·Mount Sinai
• חֹרֵב·Horebmeans “desert; solitude; destruction”
• סִינַי·Sinai

1. Exodus 3:1חֹרֵב · Horeb
   Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2. Exodus 16:1סִינַי · Sinai
   On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
3. Exodus 17:6חֹרֵב · Horeb
   Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
4. Exodus 19:11סִינַי · Sinai
   …and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
5. Exodus 19:18סִינַי · Sinai
   Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
6. Exodus 19:20סִינַי · Sinai
   The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
7. Exodus 19:23סִינַי · Sinai
   But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
8. Exodus 24:16סִינַי · Sinai
   …and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
9. Exodus 31:18סִינַי · Sinai
   When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
10. Exodus 33:6חֹרֵב · Horeb
    So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
11. Exodus 34:2סִינַי · Sinai
    Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
12. Exodus 34:4סִינַי · Sinai
    So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.
13. Exodus 34:29סִינַי · Sinai
    And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.
14. Exodus 34:32סִינַי · Sinai
    And after this all the Israelites came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
15. Leviticus 7:38סִינַי · Sinai
    …which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
16. Leviticus 25:1סִינַי · Sinai
    Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
17. Leviticus 26:46סִינַי · Sinai
    These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
18. Leviticus 27:34סִינַי · Sinai
    These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
19. Numbers 3:1סִינַי · Sinai
    This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
20. Numbers 28:6סִינַי · Sinai
    This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
21. Deuteronomy 1:2חֹרֵב · Horeb
    It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
22. Deuteronomy 1:6חֹרֵב · Horeb
    The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
23. Deuteronomy 1:19חֹרֵב · Horeb
    And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
24. Deuteronomy 4:10חֹרֵב · Horeb
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
25. Deuteronomy 4:15חֹרֵב · Horeb
    So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
26. Deuteronomy 5:2חֹרֵב · Horeb
    The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
27. Deuteronomy 9:8חֹרֵב · Horeb
    At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
28. Deuteronomy 18:16חֹרֵב · Horeb
    This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
29. Deuteronomy 29:1חֹרֵב · Horeb
    These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
30. Deuteronomy 33:2סִינַי · Sinai
    He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
31. Judges 5:5סִינַי · Sinai
    The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
32. 1 Kings 8:9חֹרֵב · Horeb
    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
33. 1 Kings 19:8חֹרֵב · Horeb
    So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
34. 2 Chronicles 5:10חֹרֵב · Horeb
    There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
35. Nehemiah 9:13סִינַי · Sinai
    You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
36. Psalm 68:8סִינַי · Sinai
    …the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
37. Psalm 68:17סִינַי · Sinai
    The chariots of God are tens of thousands—thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
38. Psalm 106:19חֹרֵב · Horeb
    At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
39. Malachi 4:4חֹרֵב · Horeb
    “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
40. Acts 7:30Σινᾶ · Mount Sinai
    After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
41. Acts 7:38Σινᾶ · Mount Sinai
    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
42. Galatians 4:24Σινᾶ · Mount Sinai
    These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
43. Galatians 4:25Σινᾶ · Mount Sinai
    Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.