Mount Sinai
The holy mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
First mentioned in the Bible
So Jehovah came down upon Mount Siʹnai to the top of the mountain. Then Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.— Exodus 19:20
Background
Also called Horeb. Here Moses saw the burning bush and received his calling; after the Exodus, all Israel camped at its foot while Moses spent forty days and nights on the mountain, receiving the two tables written by the finger of God. The Sinai covenant founded Israel as Jehovah's people.
Related Scriptures (New World Translation)
So Jehovah came down upon Mount Siʹnai to the top of the mountain. Then Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.— Exodus 19:20
Now as soon as he had finished speaking with him on Mount Siʹnai, he gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written on by God’s finger.— Exodus 31:18
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