Why is Moses commonly depicted with Horns?
‘And behold his face had horns’ — Exodus 34:29
5 min readAug 17, 2020
After receiving the 10 commandments from God atop Mount Sinai, Moses returned to the Israelites with ‘keren’ or, when rendered into English ‘horns’. To a modern audience this can seem seen startling, even offensive, which is why almost all modern translations of the Bible exclude it, rendering the above line ‘and…
