They reached Kadesh Barnea one year, two months and fourteen days after leaving Egypt. Most of that time, however, was not spent traveling. The actual journeys during that time covered only a total of about eight weeks (see Rashi commentary on Deuteronomy 1:2 and Numbers 10:11).
The Israelites received the ten commandments at Mount Sinai.
40 days and nights
in the sinai desert
The Jews were camped at Mt Sinai for ten months.
Moses
Moses led the Israelites through the Sinai Desert.
In the Sinai Covenant, God made a covenant with the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. The covenant included the giving of the Ten Commandments and other laws which the Israelites were to follow. It established rules for the Israelites to live by, and outlined the consequences for obedience and disobedience.
11 months and 5 days
God gave them to Moses on the top of Mt. Sinai in 1498 b.c. and Moses told them to the Israelites.
The Sinai Peninsula.
Having sinned in the event of the golden calf, the Israelites remained at Sinai while Moses prayed for them for many weeks, and then when he ascended Sinai to receive the second tablets (of the Ten Commandments) from God (Deuteronomy 9-10). They stayed there to build the Tabernacle, which itself was also part of the rectification after the sin of the golden calf. Their sojourn at Sinai totaled one Hebrew (lunar) year, minus ten days.See also:Complaints, and the golden calf
Judaism began when the Israelites accepted the Torah from HaShem (The Creator) in the Sinai.