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Wilderness of Sinai
Region mentioned in 13 verses of the Bible, most often in Numbers.
Journeys through Wilderness of Sinai
- The Exodus (15th or 13th century BC)
Where it appears
Numbers (10), Exodus (2), Leviticus (1)
Key verses
- Exodus 19:1 first mention — In 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.
- Exodus 19:2 — For 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.
- Leviticus 7:38 — Which 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.
- Numbers 1:1 — And 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,
- Numbers 1:19 — As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 3:4 — And 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.
- Numbers 9:1 — And 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,
- Numbers 9:5 — And 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.
- Numbers 10:12 — And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 26:64 — But 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.
- Numbers 33:15 — And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 33:16 — And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
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