Biblical and Quranic narratives state. Pharaoh and his army drowned. (Exodus 14:7, II:47) Moses left the Hebrews for forty nights. He put his brother Aaron in charge of the people (Al-Baqara|2.48) On a mountain, God gave Moses a revelation of precepts for Israel to follow. God made tablets with writing on them which Moses carried back to Israel. Moses asked to see God. The people saw the fire and lightning and the mountain and were afraid. While Moses was gone, the Israelites demanded to worship an idol. They used the gold from their ornaments to construct a golden calf whom they said was the
Law given to Moses at Sinai and gravity of Biblical law as if they are written explicitly in the Torah. A classic example are the laws of Tefillin, small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. The corresponding halakhot, as expounded by the Oral Law, are mentioned four times in the Torah (, , , ). Law given to Moses at Sinai A Law given to Moses at Sinai (Hebrew "Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai" הלכה למשה מסיני) refers to a halakhic law that is neither explicitly stated in the biblical laws nor derived from it by Talmudical hermeneutics but known from