page_title: Horned deity
section_title: Horns mentioned in the bible
hierarchical_section_title: Horned deity / Horns mentioned in the bible
context_page_description: Deities depicted with horns or antlers are found in many different religions across the world.
context_section_description: The Canaanite gods Baal and El were likely originally horned bull gods.
  Psalm 75:10
  "I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up."
  Deuteronomy 33:17
  In majesty he (Jacob) is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth.
  Revelation 13:11
  Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
  Leviticus 4:7
  The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the (Yahweh's) altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
  Exodus
  The depiction of a horned Moses stems from the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage from Exodus in which Moses returns to the people after receiving the Ten Commandments for the second time. The Douay–Rheims Bible 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."
caption: Baal with Thunderbolt, 15th–13th century BC. Stele found at Ras Shamra (ancient city of Ugarit in present-day Syria).
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