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Moses was the law-giver of his people and announced to them the word of God: Jesus Christ is the supreme law-giver, and not only announced God's word, but is Himself the Eternal Word made flesh. Moses was the leader of the people to the Promised Land: Jesus is our leader on our journey to heaven. [147]
Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
Hashem El Tarif is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula, now in northeastern Egypt. It is one of several candidates for the biblical Mount Sinai, where the Abrahamic prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments. It stands 881 meters tall. [1]
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 ...
When Moses starts to approach, God tells Moses to take off his sandals first due to the place being a sacred space. [ 8 ] The voice from the bush, which later self-discloses as Yahweh , reveals himself as "the God of Abraham , the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob " [ 9 ] and thus Moses hides his face.
A purported grave of Moses is located at Maqam El-Nabi Musa, in the West Bank, 11 km (6.8 mi) south of Jericho and 20 km (12 mi) east of Jerusalem. [ 2 ] Mount Nebo is then mentioned again in 2 Maccabees ( 2:4–7 ), when the prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant in a cave there.
Professor Menashe Har-El of Tel Aviv University (1968) has proposed Elim to be the ʿUyūn Mūsa "springs of Moses", now in South Sinai Governorate, Egypt. He noted that in 1907, the geologist Thomas Barron had observed that twelve springs existed at this site along with date palms . [ 1 ]
The Exposition of Moses, as his mother casts him off. The princess's party is further down the bank. Nicolas Poussin. The less common preceding scene of Moses being left in the reeds is formally called""' The Exposition of Moses'"". [6] In some depictions, this is shown in the distance as a subsidiary scene, and some books show both scenes.