Biblical place

Where was Mount Sinai?

Mountain of covenant, law, fear, revelation, and one of the defining sacred landscapes of scripture.

First appears in Exodus 16:1 · 10 books · 18 chapters

Overview

Mount Sinai is the mountain of covenant revelation in Exodus, where Israel receives the law and the narrative of liberation becomes a narrative of worship, commandment, and communal identity.

Mount Sinai is represented in the local geography layer as Jebel Musa. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Exodus 16:1 and is mentioned across 10 books, with 30 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Egypt

About 313 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Bethlehem

About 371 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 380 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Judea

About 380 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jordan

About 389 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Mount Sinai today

Travel to Mount Sinai, the modern-day Jebel Musa.

The traditional Christian identification points to Jebel Musa in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Use the map here to orient yourself inside the southern Sinai mountain region rather than reading Sinai as a single urban stop.

Mount Sinai is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Borders, permits, local access, and the exact identification of biblical landscapes can change.

Modern orientation

Jebel Musa

28.540°N · 33.973°E

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