The mountain in the wilderness where Jehovah gave Israel the Law — also called HOREB. Here Moses met the burning bush (Exodus 3), here the nation heard the Ten Words amid thunder and gained the covenant (Exodus 19–24), here the tabernacle was built, and from the surrounding 'wilderness of Sinai' the books of Leviticus and Numbers are spoken. Israel encamps at Sinai for about a year — from the third month after the Exodus (Exodus 19:1) until the cloud lifts on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11). Its exact location is uncertain: the ancient and traditional site is Jebel Musa ('the Mountain of Moses') in the granite peaks of the southern Sinai peninsula, where Saint Catherine's Monastery has stood since the 6th century; other proposals place it elsewhere in the peninsula, in the Negev, or in northwest Arabia (a Jabal al-Lawz / Midian theory). This library follows the traditional identification while noting the debate.