Beautiful statue of Moses holding the Ten Commandments above the Water Fountain.
From Wikipedia – regarding the Horns of Moses:
Depictions of a horned Moses stem from the description of Moses’ face as “cornuta” (“horned”) in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage found at Exodus chapter 34, specifically verses 29, 30 and 35, in which Moses returns to the people after receiving the commandments for the second time.[2] The Catholic Douay–Rheims Bible (1609) translates the Vulgate as, “And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.”[3] This was Jerome‘s effort to faithfully translate the difficult, original Hebrew text, which uses the term קָרַן, qāran (based on the root, קֶרֶן qeren, which often means “horn”); the term is now interpreted to mean “shining” or “emitting rays” (somewhat like horns).[4][5] The Anglican King James or Authorised Version of only a few years later has no horns, but a shining face “… when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.”[6]
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