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...Lord "descended upon ((Mount Sinai)) in fire," Exodus records. The Lord gave the Law to Moses there: "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking . . ." Today a visitor sees the massive granite front of Horeb that rises perpendicularly out of moonscape and in the autumn and winter months may be surrounded by sudden clouds, thunder, lightning and lashing rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Trashing Mount Sinai | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...Wisconsin, these Old World cultures never submerged in the great American melting pot as they have elsewhere. The state's culture is a pot of mulligan stew, with each ingredient clearly distinguishable: the Norwegians near Mount Horeb, the Swiss in New Glarus, the Icelanders on Washington Island. German can be heard on the streets of most cities and towns...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: A View of Wisconsin | 3/21/1968 | See Source »

...ARTHUR HANNA Oak Hill and Horeb Presbyterian Churches Oak Hill, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.-1 Kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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