place
Mount Sinai
Also known as Jebel Musa, Horeb
undated
28.5384, 33.9752 · Wikidata Q377485 P625 (accessed 2026-11-12) · On the map
Peak identified by 4th-century monks and pilgrims with the biblical mountain of the Law.
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Mount Sinai, also known as Jabal Musa, is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred scriptures of the three major Abrahamic religions, the Hebrew prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.
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