Wilderness of Sinai
The Sinai Wilderness was the region where the Israelites camped after the Exodus and received the Law.
PlaceOld Testament3 books13 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Exodus 19:1; only referred to as Wilderness of Sinai (סִינַי מִדְבָּר).
Location
- Identified as
- about 50 km around Mount Sinai
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 28.540° N, 33.973° E
Alternative names
- סִינַי+H4057G«H4057b=מִדְבָּרWilderness of Sinai
Mentions
- In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- …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.
- On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
- …just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
- Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- …and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- …and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.