Sinai (1)

The opening verses of chapter 19 (of the Book of Ex­odus) read, "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they in the wilderness of Sinai. 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." The distance from the point of the Red Sea, at which the children of Israel had crossed, to Mount Sinai, is only about one hundred and...