Numerous sandal footprints have been found around the mountain, especially in the area of the split rock. Some have postulated that it was one way of saying “I was here.”

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.”

Joshua 1:3-4

Curiously, many times there are 3 hashmarks with the sandal footprints. Dr. Miles Jones has theorized that this is a form of the Proto-Sinaitic letter kaph.

In the Proto-Sinaitic script, the letter kaph means the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. Semitic letters also have a numerical equivalent and kaph and represents the number twenty.

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