Sinai

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. A mountain in the peninsula east of the Red Sea
• Also called SINA-HORA
• The people of Israel arrive at, in their wanderings in the wildernessExodus 16:1Exodus 19:2Deuteronomy 1:2
• The law delivered to Moses uponExodus 19:3–25Exodus 20Exodus 24:12–18Exodus 32:15Exodus 32:16Exodus 34:2–4Leviticus 7:38Leviticus 25:1Leviticus 26:46Leviticus 27:34Numbers 3:1Deuteronomy 4:15Deuteronomy 5:26Deuteronomy 29:1Deuteronomy 33:2Nehemiah 9:13Psalms 68:8Psalms 68:17Malachi 4:4Acts 7:30
• FIGURATIVEGalatians 4:24Galatians 4:25
• See Horeb
• See Israelites
• 2. Wilderness of
• The people of Israel journeyed inNumbers 10:12
• Kept the Passover Festival inNumbers 9:1–5
• Counted inNumbers 26:64

The passages, in Bible order (29)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 16:1

   On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:12 voices

   “The the wilderness of Sin - The desert tract, called Debbet er Ramleh, extend nearly across the peninsula from the Wady Nasb in a south-easterly direction, between the limestone district of Et Tih and the granite of Sinai. The journey from the station at Elim, or even from that on the Red Sea, could be performed in a day: at that time the route was kept in good condition by the Egyptians.

   “This passage represents the Israelites as advanced into the great plain, which, beginning near El-Murkah, extends with a greater or less breadth to almost the extremity of the peninsula. In its broadest part northward of Tur it is called El-Kaa, which is probably the desert of Sin [ROBINSON].

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2. Exodus 19:2

   After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

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3. Exodus 19:3–25

   Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:

   ›Commentary on Exodus 19:3–252 voices

   “Now when I go up eagerly into the mount—or, to use a truer expression, when I both eagerly long and at the same time am afraid (the one through my hope and the other through my weakness), to enter within the cloud and hold converse with God, for so God commands: If any be an Aaron, let him go up with me, and let him stand near, being ready, if it must be so, to remain outside the cloud.

   “Moses went up unto God - This seems to imply that the voice was heard by Moses as he was ascending the mount. House of Jacob - This expression does not occur elsewhere in the Pentateuch. It has a special fitness here, referring doubtless to the special promises made to the Patriarch.

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4. Exodus 20:1

   And God spoke all these words:

   ›Commentary on Exodus 20:12 voices

   “The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the ten commandments occurs in Exo 34:28; Deu 4:13; Deu 10:4. It literally means “the Ten Words.” The Ten Commandments are also called the law, even the commandment Exo 24:12, the words of the covenant Exo 34:28, the tables of the covenant Deu 9:9, the covenant Deu 4:13, the two tables Deu 9:10, Deu 9:17, and, most frequently, the testimony (e. g. Exo 16:34; Exo 25:16), or the two tables of the testimony (e. g. Exo 31:18).

   “They were not only spoken audibly (so he owned the Redeemer by a voice from heaven, Matt. iii. 17 ), but with a great deal of dreadful pomp. This law God had given to man before (it was written in his heart by nature); but sin had so defaced that writing that it was necessary, in this manner, to revive the knowledge of it.

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5. Exodus 24:12–18

   Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

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6. Exodus 32:15

   Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:152 voices

   “Moses turned, and went down from the mount--The plain, Er-Raheh, is not visible from the top of Jebel Musa, nor can the mount be descended on the side towards that valley; hence Moses and his companion, who on duty had patiently waited his return in the hollow of the mountain's brow, heard the shouting some time before they actually saw the camp.

   “The tables were written on both their sides - If we take this literally, it was certainly a very unusual thing; for in ancient times the two sides of the same substance were never written over. However, some rabbins suppose that by the writing on both sides is meant the letters were cut through the tables, so that they might be read on both sides, though on one side they would appear reversed.

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7. Exodus 32:16

   The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:161 voice

   “Moses turned, and went down from the mount--The plain, Er-Raheh, is not visible from the top of Jebel Musa, nor can the mount be descended on the side towards that valley; hence Moses and his companion, who on duty had patiently waited his return in the hollow of the mountain's brow, heard the shouting some time before they actually saw the camp.

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8. Exodus 34:2–4

   Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 34:2–41 voice

   “And be ready in the morning,.... This was, according to the Jewish chronology (e), on the twenty eighth day of the month Ab or July: and come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai; the same mount where he had been before: and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount; where the pillar of cloud removed and stood, and near it Moses was to stand and wait to hear what would be said unto him, and to see what would be made to pass before him. (e) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 6. p. 19.

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9. Leviticus 7:38

   which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 7:381 voice

   “In the wilderness of Sinai - These laws were probably given to Moses while he was on the mount with God; the time was quite sufficient, as he was there with God not less than fourscore days in all; forty days at the giving, and forty days at the renewing of the law.

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10. Leviticus 25:1

    Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 25:11 voice

    “The sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee belong to that great sabbatical system which runs through the religious observances of the Law, but rest upon moral rather than upon formally religious ground. It is not, therefore, without reason that they are here set apart from the set times which fell strictly within the sphere of religious observances.

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11. Leviticus 26:46

    These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 26:461 voice

    “These are the statutes, and judgments, etc. - See on Lev 26:15 (note). This verse appears to be the proper concluding verse of the whole book; and I rather think that the 27th chapter originally followed the 25th.

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12. Leviticus 27:34

    These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 27:342 voices

    “These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses,.... Meaning either what are contained in this chapter, or rather in the whole book, which he delivered to Moses: for the children of Israel; to be observed by them, priests and people: and these were given to him in Mount Sinai; either when upon it, or rather when near it, in the wilderness of it, after the tabernacle was set up, and the Lord spake to him out of that; see Lev 1:1.

    “These are the commandments - This conclusion is very similar to that at the end of the preceding chapter. I have already supposed that this chapter should have followed the 25th, and that the 26th originally terminated the book.

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13. Numbers 3:1

    This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 3:12 voices

    “These . . . are the generations of Aaron and Moses, &c.--This chapter contains an account of their families; and although that of Moses is not detailed like his brother's, his children are included under the general designation of the Amramites (Nu 3:27), a term which comprehends all the descendants of their common father Amram.

    “The “generations” (see Gen 2:4) now given, though entitled those of Aaron and Moses (Aaron standing first as the older brother), are those of Aaron only. The personal dignity of Moses, though it gave him rank as at the head of his tribe, was not hereditary. He had, and desired to have Num 14:12; Exo 32:10, no successor in his office but the distant prophet like unto himself Deu 18:18. Aaron was the ancestor of a regular succession of priests.

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14. Numbers 9:1–5

    In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

    ›Commentary on Numbers 9:1–51 voice

    “Passover at Sinai. This, as being kept in the first month, was prior in time to the numbering of Num 1:1 ff, and to the other events narrated in this book. It is, however, recorded here as introductory to the ordinance of Num 9:6-14 in this chapter respecting the supplementary Passover; the observance of which was one of the last occurrences during the halt at Sinai. Num 9:5 In some details, the present Passover differed both from that kept at the Exodus itself and from all subsequent Passovers.

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15. Numbers 10:12

    and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 10:121 voice

    “The cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran - This was three days’ journey from the wilderness of Sinai, (see Num 10:33), and the people had three stations; the first at Kibroth-hattaavah, the second at Hazeroth, Num 11:35, and the third in the wilderness of Paran, see Num 12:16. But it is extremely difficult to determine these journeyings with any degree of exactness; and we are often at a loss to know whether the place in question was in a direct or retrograde position from the place previously mentioned.

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16. Numbers 26:64

    Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 26:641 voice

    “It appears from Deu 2:14-15 that the generation numbered at the former census had perished before the host crossed the brook Zered.

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