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Sinai Wilderness

סִינַי · si.nay · H5514Hמִדְבָּר · mid.bar · H4057G13 mentions in 3 books, most in Numbers (10)

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Mentioned most in

Numbers · 10Exodus · 2Leviticus · 1
Counted from 13 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

About this place

The Sinai Wilderness, also known as the Wilderness of Sinai, was the desert region in the Sinai Peninsula where the Israelites camped after leaving Egypt (Exodus 19:1-2). It was in this wilderness, at Mount Sinai, that God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and established His covenant with Israel (Leviticus 7:38, Numbers 3:4). The Israelites set up the Tabernacle in the Sinai Wilderness (Numbers 1:1,19; 9:1,5). They took a census of the people there (Numbers 1:19, 26:64). The Sinai Wilderness was one of the early stops on Israel's journey from Egypt to the Promised Land (Numbers 10:12, 33:15-16). The wilderness provided a place of testing and preparation for the nation before they entered Canaan. The Sinai Wilderness is synonymous with the region surrounding Mount Sinai, the place of God's revelation to Moses and Israel.

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Every mention

13 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
ExodusChapter 19: 2 mentions2 mentions
Exodus 19:1In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.Exodus 19:2When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
LeviticusChapter 7: 1 mention1 mention
Leviticus 7:38which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
NumbersChapter 1: 2 mentionsChapter 3: 2 mentionsChapter 9: 2 mentionsChapter 10: 1 mentionChapter 26: 1 mentionChapter 33: 2 mentions10 mentions
Numbers 1:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,Numbers 1:19As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.Numbers 3:4Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office…Numbers 3:14Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,Numbers 9:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,Numbers 9:5They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of…Numbers 10:12The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.Numbers 26:64But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.Numbers 33:15They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.Numbers 33:16They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

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