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Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai
( ;
Egyptian Arabic
:
جَبَل مُوسَى
,
translit.
:
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
Jewish
,
Christian
, and
Islamic
tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where
Moses
received the
Ten Commandments
.
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