Biblical Mount Sinai facts for kids

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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Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
View down to the Saint Catherine's Monastery from the trail to the summit
A mosque at the top
Saint Catherine's Monastery
The Siq, facing the Treasury, at the foot of Jebel al-Madhbah
Midian
1723
Moses on Mount Sinai, by Jean-Léon Gerome, 1895-1900
Mass-revelation at Mount Sinai in an illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907
God Appears to Elijah on Mount Horeb, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld
Mount Sinai depicted on late medieval Georgian manuscript
Published by French cartographer Alain Manesson Mallet, 1719
16th century
Mount Sinai, by El Greco, 1570-1572