“In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.”
On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt — on that very day — they came to the Desert of Sinai. Three months from the Passover. The precision of the date marks the arrival at Sinai as a scheduled appointment, not an accident of wandering. The desert of Sinai is the geography of the most consequential legal and covenantal event in Israel's history — and arguably in Western civilization's. Everything from the plagues to the manna to the water from the rock has been moving toward this moment: a people at the foot of the mountain where God will speak. Acts 7:38 describes Moses as the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai — the assembly at Sinai is the founding gathering of the covenant people.
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