Biblical places
Mount Sinai
The mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments and the Law from God, a pivotal site of the Exodus journey. Traditionally identified with Jebel Musa in the southern Sinai Peninsula, though several alternative locations — including Jebel al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia — have been proposed, and scholars remain divided.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Disputed
- Jebel Musa
- 28.5394, 33.9754
OpenBible marks all candidate sites as 'low confidence'; the traditional location (Jebel Musa) was adopted as the representative coordinate, with alternative theories also listed.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Exodus 3:1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Leviticus 7:38
Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 1:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Deuteronomy 1:2
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
Judges 5:5
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:9
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 5:10
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Nehemiah 9:13
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: