Mount Sinai is the mountain in the Sinai wilderness where God gave the law to Israel through Moses. It is closely identified with Horeb. The name appears in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and 6 more in the King James text.
About Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is the mountain in the Sinai wilderness where God gave the law to Israel through Moses. It is closely identified with Horeb.
Its place in the story
At Sinai God descended in fire and cloud, gave the Ten Commandments, and made the covenant with Israel. There the tabernacle was designed and the nation was formed under God's law.
Mount Sinai in Scripture (KJV)
“And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”
“For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.”
“And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.”
“And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.”
Mount Sinai is the mountain in the Sinai wilderness where God gave the law to Israel through Moses. It is closely identified with Horeb. The name appears in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and 6 more in the King James text.
What happened at Mount Sinai?
At Sinai God descended in fire and cloud, gave the Ten Commandments, and made the covenant with Israel. There the tabernacle was designed and the nation was formed under God's law.