It's a metaphor.
Psalm 36:6:
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preserve man and beast.
Mount Sinai.
It was Mount Siani
Mount Sini
Horeb is another name for Sinai, the mountain on which God communicated with the Prophet Moses, and gave him the Ten Commandments.
Judaism has 10 commandments as their beliefs. God gave them through Prophet Moses on the mountain of Sinai/Horeb.
God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai.
The Decalogue is a name given to the Ten Commandments which God gave to Moses.
The Hebrew name of that mountain, recorded in the Torah, is "SEE - nye". The word came into English translations of the Bible as "Sinai". The entire inverted-triangular peninsula between Egypt and Israel is known as the "Sinai" peninsula, and there is a tourist-frequented monastery in the mid-south of the peninsula on a mountain identified by some as the mountain associated with the ten commandments. But the fact is that the mountain has not been identified with any certainty.
PAN was the name the shepherds gave to their god. They believed that he stayed in the mountain and in the wild.
Deuteronomy 9:10New International Version (NIV) 10 The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
Twice see Deuteronomy 9:9 while on the Mountain when God gave him the Ten Commandments and then again in verse 18 while he begged God not to destroy his people.
Gratitude and awe.
God instituted them, and gave them to Moses to pass on to the people.
The bible says God gave Moses the ten commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai.
It serves to remind us of the commandments and its presence testifies that God gave us those commandments.