The depiction of a horned Moses stems from the description of Moses' face as cornuta (horned) in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage from Exodus in which Moses returns to the people after receiving the Ten Commandments for the second time. The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the Vulgate as, And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.