Sacred Atlas

Bible Place Guide

Mount Sinai in the Bible

Covenant, law, fire, cloud, and Moses receiving the commandments. See Scripture references, modern location, confidence level, and source attribution from Sacred Atlas.

Modern locationSinai Peninsula, Egypt
ConfidenceDisputed
Scripture refs20

Disputed confidence

Modern identification

Jebel Musa tradition - Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Coordinates28.5397, 33.9733
Kindmountain
Claims7
Sources3

Scripture anchors

Exodus 3Exodus 19Exodus 20Ex 3:1Ex 17:6Ex 33:6Deut 1:2Deut 1:6Deut 1:19Deut 4:10Deut 4:15Deut 5:2Deut 9:8Deut 18:16Deut 29:11 Kgs 8:91 Kgs 19:82 Chr 5:10Ps 106:19Mal 4:4

Why this place is in the atlas

Covenant, law, fire, cloud, and Moses receiving the commandments.

Candidate identifications

Sacred Atlas keeps disputed locations visible instead of forcing false certainty. These scores are starter algorithmic weights and remain under editorial review.

Jebel Musa tradition - 54% Traditional confidence from 2 evidence items openbible-info-geocoding, sacred-atlas-editorial
Jebel al-Lawz proposal - 23% Approximate confidence from 1 evidence item sacred-atlas-editorial
Hashem el-Tarif proposal - 23% Approximate confidence from 1 evidence item sacred-atlas-editorial

Claim ledger

names[0].value Mount Sinai Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - High
summary.en Covenant, law, fire, cloud, and Moses receiving the commandments. Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - High
foreignKeys[0] ancientId: a9bb03e, urlSlug: mount-horeb, friendlyId: Mount Horeb OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - Disputed
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 28.539722, longitude: 33.973333, precision: approximate OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - Disputed
identifications[0].modernRegion Sinai Peninsula Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - Disputed
scriptureReferences Exodus 3, Exodus 19, Exodus 20, Ex 3:1 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High
temporalScopes Traditional Exodus setting: covenant at Sinai Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - Medium