<P> The biblical narrative of the revelation at Sinai begins in Exodus 19 after the arrival of the children of Israel at Mount Sinai ( also called Horeb ) . On the morning of the third day of their encampment , `` there were thunders and lightnings , and a thick cloud upon the mount , and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud '' , and the people assembled at the base of the mount . After `` the LORD came down upon mount Sinai '' , Moses went up briefly and returned and prepared the people , and then in Exodus 20 `` God spoke '' to all the people the words of the covenant , that is , the `` ten commandments '' as it is written . Modern biblical scholarship differs as to whether Exodus 19 - 20 describes the people of Israel as having directly heard all or some of the decalogue , or whether the laws are only passed to them through Moses . </P>
<P> The biblical narrative of the revelation at Sinai begins in Exodus 19 after the arrival of the children of Israel at Mount Sinai ( also called Horeb ) . On the morning of the third day of their encampment , `` there were thunders and lightnings , and a thick cloud upon the mount , and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud '' , and the people assembled at the base of the mount . After `` the LORD came down upon mount Sinai '' , Moses went up briefly and returned and prepared the people , and then in Exodus 20 `` God spoke '' to all the people the words of the covenant , that is , the `` ten commandments '' as it is written . Modern biblical scholarship differs as to whether Exodus 19 - 20 describes the people of Israel as having directly heard all or some of the decalogue , or whether the laws are only passed to them through Moses . </P>
who was given the ten commandments by god
who was given the ten commandments by god
Moses
Moses