The Wilderness of Sin/Desert of Sin (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר סִין, Midbar 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, who was worshipped widely around the entire periphery of pre-Islamic Arabia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. Later they left the wilderness of Sin and complained about a lack of water while camping at Rephidim.