place
Mount Sinai
Sinai
also: Sinai, Sínai-hegy
Mount Sinai (also called Horeb), where God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses (Exodus 19–20); the setting of Act Three, where Moses spends forty days on the summit while the people falls into idolatry and the golden calf crisis erupts.
Reading notes
- Moses §3 Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai, the mountain where God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses (Exodus 19–20); the forty-day period Moses spends on the summit (Act Three) is the interval during which the people lapses into idolatry with the golden calf.