Mount Sinai (Horeb)

Location

Type

mountain

Coordinates

28.5397, 33.9733

Certainty

medium (50%)

OpenBible.info: "Jebel Musa (modern): 50% confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17). OpenBible lists 14 possible identifications; Jebel Musa is only 50%. Horeb (a9bb03e) is "another name for Mount Sinai" (very high).

OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (Jebel Musa (modern)); representative point 33.973333,28.539722 (lon,lat).

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• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• Exodus 3:1 (opens in a new tab)
• Exodus 19:1–19:2 (opens in a new tab)
• Exodus 19:11 (opens in a new tab)

Events here

• Israel arrives at Mount Sinai
• The burning bush: God calls Moses at Horeb

Maps

• Route of the travels of the Israelites 40 years in the desert (Amsterdam Haggadah map, 1695)

Related

• Moses
• The burning bush: God calls Moses at Horeb
• Israel arrives at Mount Sinai

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.