Footnote 4 – The Route Through Sinai: Why the Israelites Fleeing Egypt Went South

The mountain of God is called both “Horeb” and “Sinai” at different places in the Bible (see, for example, Exodus 3:1 and Deuteronomy 1:6 for “Horeb”; and Exodus 19:20, 34:29 for “Sinai”).