Mountains Rush to Sinai Each Claiming the Revelation

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 286:8

Another interpretation: "I am the LORD your God" - when the Holy One, blessed be He, stood and said "I am the LORD your God," the mountains and hills were quaking, and Tabor and Hermon came from Beit Elim, and Carmel from Aspamia, as it says "As I live, says the King, the LORD of hosts is His name, surely like Tabor among the mountains" and so on (Jeremiah 46:18). This one says, I have been chosen, and that one says, I have been chosen. But once they heard from Your mouth "who brought you out of the land of Egypt," each one stood in its place, and said, He concerned Himself only with the one He brought out of Egypt.

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