– Name of the desert where the Israelites entered after leaving Egypt and where there was a mountain of the same name:
Ex 19,1-3 : In the third month after their departure from Egypt, on that day, the Israelites entered the Sinai desert.
Numbers 1 :1 : After leaving Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of meeting.
– It is on top of it that the Lord spoke to Moses about the Decalogue or Ten Commandments:
Ex 20,1-21 : Then God pronounced all these words: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt”.
Ps 67,8-9 : The earth trembled […], Mount Sinai trembled in the presence of the God of Israel.
Judg 5 : 5 : The mountains shook before the Lord, no less than Sinai, before the Lord, God of Israel!
– And gave him the Tables of the Law:
Exodus 16:1-2 : The entire assembly of the Israelites left Elim and went to the desert of Sin, located between Elim and Sinai.
Ex 19,11-12 : The Lord will descend on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Exodus 31:18 : When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the testimony.
Lev 7,37-38 : The Lord gave it to Moses on Mount Sinai, […] where he prescribed the Israelites […] their offerings to the Lord.
Num 3:1 : These are the posterity of Aaron and Moses, in the time that the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Num 28 :6 : This is the perpetual burnt offering as it was done on Mount Sinai, a sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 33 :2 : The Lord came from Sinai and rose up for them from Seir; he shone from Mount Paran.
Ne 9,13 : You went down to Mount Sinai, you spoke to them from heaven and gave them righteous ordinances, true laws.
Jt 5,14 : On leaving the Red Sea, they occupied the deserts of Mount Sinai, where no man could ever dwell.
Ps 67 :9, 18 : The earth trembled […], Mount Sinai trembled in the presence of the God of Israel.
Eclo 48,7 : You who heard the judgment of the Lord on Sinai, and on Mount Horeb the decrees of his vengeance.
Acts 7:30 , 38 : After forty years, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.
Gal 4,24-25 : There is an allegory, since those women represent the two alliances: one, that of Mount Sinai.
– Around him, God made a covenant with his people:
Ex 20,22–24,18 : The Lord said to Moses: “This is what you shall say to the Israelites: You have seen that I spoke to you from heaven”.
– From there the Lord blessed the people:
Deut 33,1-4 : The Lord came from Sinai and rose for them from Seir; he shone from Mount Paran.
– Also called Mount Horeb:
Ex 3,1 : One day when he had led the flock across the desert, he came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Ex 17,6 : Behold, I will be there before you. On the rock of Mount Horeb you will strike the rock.
Deuteronomy 1 :6 : The Lord our God spoke to us in these terms in Horeb: You have stayed a long time on this mountain.
Deut 18:16 : This is what you asked the Lord your God in Horeb.
1 Kings 19 :8 : In the strength of that food he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Mal 3,22 : Remember the Law of Moses […] to whom I commanded […] commandments for all Israel, on Mount Horeb.
