Mount Sinai


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Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai ( ; Egyptian Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىtranslit.: Jabal Mūsā or Gabal Mūsā; literally "Moses' Mountain" or "Mount Moses";  translit. Har Sinai), also known as Mount Horeb, is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is a possible location of the biblical Mount Sinai. The latter is mentioned many times in the Book of Exodus and other books of the Bible, and the Quran. According to JewishChristian, and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

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