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Mount Horeb, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 5860
Housing Units (2000): 2305
Land area (2000): 2.913232 sq. miles (7.545236 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.913232 sq. miles (7.545236 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54725
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.006338 N, 89.734083 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53572
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Mount Horeb

Mount Horeb, Hebrew: , Greek in the Septuagint: , Latin in the Vulgate: , is the mountain at which the book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible states that the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God. It is described in two places as the "Mountain of God". The mountain is also called the Mountain of YHWH.

In other biblical passages, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Sinai. Although Sinai and Horeb are often considered to have been different names for the same place, there is a body of opinion that they may have been different locations.

The Protestant reformer John Calvin took the view that Sinai and Horeb were the same mountain, with the eastern side of the mountain being called Sinai and the western side being called Horeb. Abraham Ibn Ezra suggested that there was one mountain, "only it had two tops, which bore these different names".

Usage examples of "mount horeb".

If everything blows up in our faces, I want you to get over to Mount Horeb Hospital as fast as you can.

Elijah, on Mount Horeb, did not generate the low, murmuring voice.

I, Ezra, received a command from the Lord on Mount Horeb to go to Israel.

It was Mount Horeb, that Sinai at the top of which Moses saw God face to face.

After all, Kirsten and I are buried under what's left of the old Mount Horeb Hospital building.

There, girdled by three vacant lots, a pond, and a building that once served as the old student nurses' dormitory, stood the vacant shell of the original Mount Horeb Hospital.