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![Mt.Sinai/St.Katherine, Egypt : Mount Sinai (Arabic: طور سيناء ,toor sinaa'i) (Hebrew: הר סיני ,har sina'i), also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gabal Musa (Egyptian Arabic accent), Jabal Musa (standard Arabic meaning "Moses' Mountain") by the Bedouin, is the name of a mountain in Saint Katherine city, in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. In Arabic the words 'Jabal' and 'Toor' have similar meanings, and a Mount Sinai is mentioned in the Quran chapter 'The Fig' (Surah at-Tin) as "Toor-i-Sineen". Furthermore a Scottish individual by the name of Thomas Stratton compared ancient Hebrew languages and Gaelic languages to find that a translation of "toor" in either language produces "a mount." It is the traditional location of the Biblical Mount Sinai.
Mount Sinai is a 2285 m-high mountain in Saint Katherine city, in Sinai region. It is next to Mount St. Catherine (at 2,629 m,[3] the tallest peak on the Sinai peninsula). It is surrounded on all sides by higher peaks of the mountain range.
The Monastery of St. Catherine in Saint Katherine city is sited at the foot of the adjacent mountain - Mount Catherine - at an elevation of around 1260 m.
There are two principal routes to the summit. The longer and shallower route, Siket El Bashait, takes about 2.5 hours on foot, though camels can be used. The steeper, more direct route (Siket Sayidna Musa) is up the 3,750 "steps of penitence" in the ravine behind the monastery. The summit of the mountain has a mosque and a Greek Orthodox chapel (which was constructed in 1934 on the ruins of a 16th century church) neither of which are open to the public. The chapel supposedly encloses the rock from which God made the Tablets of the Law. At the summit also is "Moses' cave" where Moses waited to receive the Ten Commandments.](http://mamuna.smugmug.com/Travel/StKatherine/mary/784152191_cTwKg-Ti.jpg)
Mount Sinai (Arabic: طور سيناء ,toor sinaa'i) (Hebrew: הר ס ...
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