Photo and copyright by Underwood i& Underwood 



''the mountain of the law" 



T 1. |^o""t Sinai from the north, viewed at an elevation of 6,740 feet from the summit of 

 Jebel Meraji. 



"And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days : 

 and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of 

 tne glory ot the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the 

 cmidren ot Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the 

 mount : and Moses was m the mount forty davs and forty nights." Exodus xxii : 15-18. 



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