abstract:The Wilderness of Sin/Desert of Sin () is a geographic area mentioned by the Bible as lying between Elim and Mount Sinai. Sin does not refer to sinfulness, but is an untranslated word that would translate as the moon; biblical scholars suspect that the name Sin here refers to the semitic moon-deity Sin,Cheyne and Black, Encyclopedia BiblicaJewish EncyclopediaPeake's commentary on the Bible who was worshipped widely around the entire periphery of pre-Islamic Arabia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.