After Moses received the Ten Commandments a second time his face shined with the radiance that came with being in God's holy presence (Exodus 34:29 - 30). This radiating glory, sometimes referred to as the "horns of Moses," is based on a mistranslation from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. An English translation of the Latin Vulgate, known as the Douay-Rheims Version, confirms this error.
"And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near" (Exodus 34:30, DRV).
This translation mistake is portrayed most vividly in Michelangelo's statue of Moses seen below! 
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