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In ("Promulgation of the Written Law through Moses"). In the upper part is Moses kneeling on Mount Sinai, with a sleeping Joshua nearby: he receives the Tables of the Law from Yahweh, who appears in a luminescent cloud, surrounded by angels. In the foreground, on the left, Moses brings the Tables to the Israelites.
Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19 and 24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in Exodus 19:2; 24:16.
It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Torah, Bible, and Quran, Moses received the Ten Commandments. It is a 2,285-meter (7,497 ft), moderately high mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula. It is surrounded on all sides by higher ...
Moses was tending his father-in-law's goats at the time of his first encounter on Mount Sinai . Based on modern Bedouin practises, this was assumed to be 45 to 60 or 70 km from a camp (or further in the event of drought). Midianite pottery and art have been found at Timna, assumed to be the only Midianite enclave in the Sinai.
Leo Bible, scene: Moses receives the tablets of the law on Mount Sinai, BAV Reg. gr. 1, Fol. 155v . The Leo Bible (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Reg. gr. 1) is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript dated to the mid 10th century, making it one of the earliest surviving Byzantine Bibles.
Moses with the Tablets of the Law on Sinai (stained glass from the Temple De Hirsch Sinai)A law given to Moses at Sinai (Hebrew: הלכה למשה מסיני, romanized: Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai) refers to a halakhic law for which there is no biblical reference or source, but rather was passed down orally as a teaching originating from Moses at Sinai.
The Ladder of Paradise icon (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt) showing monks ascending (and falling from) the ladder to Jesus. Archimandrite Lazarus Moore. The Ladder of Divine Ascent. First published 1959, Holy Transfiguration Monastery / Harper & Brothers; revised edition published 2008, HTM. ISBN 0943405033.
The left half (sub lege) depicts the stories of the Old Testament: the kneeling Moses receiving the tablets of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai; Adam and Eve under the Tree of Knowledge; the camp of the Israelites who have defied God and are dying after being bitten by venomous snakes; a pole with the raised-up serpent in the desert – the ...