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Moses with the Ten Commandments by Rembrandt in 1659.

The Biblical Mount Sinai is a mountain that was written about in the Old Testament. It was written by Moses that the Ten Commandments were given to him by God on Mount Sinai. The name Horeb is sometimes used to describe Mount Sinai. Tradition places it at Jebel Musa (Mount Moses) in the south of the Sinai Peninsula, but some see it as being further north at the Wadi Sudr.

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    View down to the Saint Catherine's Monastery from the trail to the summit

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    Moses on Mount Sinai, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895-1900

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    Mass-revelation at Mount Sinai in an illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907

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    God Appears to Elijah on Mount Horeb, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld

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    Mount Sinai depicted on late medieval Georgian manuscript

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    Published by French cartographer Alain Manesson Mallet, 1719

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    Mount Sinai, by El Greco, 1570-1572

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