Wilderness of Sinai
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| Type | region |
|---|---|
| Also called | wilderness of Sinai, desert of Sinai, Desert of Sinai, Sinai Wilderness, Sinai desert |
| Most likely | about 50 km around Mount Sinai (high confidence) |
| Coordinates | 28.540° N, 33.973° E |
| Mentioned in | 13 verses |
| First mention | Exodus 19:1 |
Wilderness of Sinai is a region named in 13 verses of the Bible. It is most likely about 50 km around Mount Sinai (high confidence).
Location
Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.
| Identification | Confidence | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|
| about 50 km around Mount Sinai | high (100%) | 28.540° N, 33.973° E |
Verses
Exodus
- Exodus 19:1In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 19:2For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 7:38Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
- Numbers 1:1And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
- Numbers 1:19As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Numbers 3:4And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
- Numbers 3:14And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- Numbers 9:1And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Numbers 9:5And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Numbers 10:12And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 26:64But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 33:15And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 33:16And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Notes
- Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.