place · also Horeb
Sinai
סִינַיΣινᾶ
Sinai, also called Mount Sinai, Horeb, or Mount Horeb, was the mountain where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and other laws (Exod. 19-40; Lev. 7:38; 25:1; 26:46; 27:34; Num. 3:1; 28:6; Deut. 33:2; Judg. 5:5; Ps. 68:8, 17; Neh. 9:13; Mal. 4:4; Act.7.30, 38; Gal. 4:24-25).
- verses
- 43
- first named
- Exodus 3:1
- last named
- Galatians 4:25
- feature
- mountain
- coordinates
- 28.54°N · 33.97°E
Jebel Musa (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 14 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Sinai in the text
Sinai, also known as Mount Sinai, Horeb, or Mount Horeb, is one of the most significant locations in the Bible. It is the mountain where God revealed Himself to Moses and gave him the Ten Commandments, as well as other laws and instructions for the Israelites.
After the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites camped at the base of Mount Sinai for about a year (Exod. 19:1-2). During this time, God called Moses to the top of the mountain and spoke to him, giving him the Ten Commandments and other laws (Exod. 19-31). The mountain was filled with smoke, fire, and thunder, symbolizing the awesome presence of God (Exod. 19:16-19).
Moses spent forty days and forty nights on the mountain, receiving instructions from God and writing down the laws (Exod. 24:18; 34:28). He also received the two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments (Exod. 31:18; 34:1, 4, 28-29).
The location of Mount Sinai is not specified in the Bible, but tradition has identified it with Jebel Musa (Mountain of Moses) in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula. However, some scholars have proposed alternative locations, such as Jebel al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia, based on various geographical and archaeological considerations.
Throughout the Bible, Sinai is mentioned as a symbol of God's revelation, covenant, and law (Deut. 33:2; Judg. 5:5; Ps. 68:8, 17; Neh. 9:13; Mal. 4:4). In the New Testament, Paul uses Sinai as an allegory for the old covenant, in contrast to the new covenant represented by the heavenly Jerusalem (Gal. 4:24-25).
The events at Sinai, including the giving of the Ten Commandments and the establishment of the Mosaic covenant, were pivotal moments in the history of Israel and laid the foundation for their identity as God's chosen people.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Sinai is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
43 verses across 12 of 66 books; 54 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (14), Leviticus (4), Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (10), Judges (1), 1 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (3), Malachi (1), Acts (2) and Galatians (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 43, across 12 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Exodus 16The Desert of Sin lay between Elim and Sinai.
- Exodus 19Mount Sinai smoked, quaked, and was enveloped in fire when the LORD descended upon it.
- Exodus 24Mount Sinai was covered by the cloud while the glory of the LORD settled upon it.
- Exodus 31Mount Sinai was where the LORD finished speaking with Moses and gave him the tablets of the Testimony.
- Exodus 34At Sinai, Moses received the tablets and the covenant, while the mountain was kept empty of people and grazing animals.
- Leviticus 7Mount Sinai is named as the place where the LORD gave Moses these laws.
- Leviticus 25Sinai is where the LORD speaks to Moses about the land's sabbath and the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 26Mount Sinai is where the LORD established these statutes, ordinances, and laws through Moses.
4 more chapters, from Leviticus 27 to Galatians 4
- Leviticus 27Sinai was the mountain where the LORD gave these commandments to Moses for the Israelites.
- Numbers 28At Mount Sinai, the regular burnt offering was established as a pleasing aroma.
- Psalms 68Sinai is named as the place where the Lord was in His sanctuary.
- Galatians 4Sinai is presented as the source of a covenant that bears children into slavery.
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