1–4 The valley of er-Raha, two miles long and one-third to two-thirds of a mile wide, lies between the three summits traditionally identified with the “mountain of God” (so named, again, in retrospect because God appeared there and revealed himself to Moses). There the Lord appears in “the bush” (emphasis mine; the definite article probably being used here because Moses had referred to the bush so frequently in oral references before writing it down). The Lord appears “in the form of [see