Why did Michaelangelo make a sculpture of Moses with horns?

Question: Why did Michaelangelo make a sculpture of Moses with horns!?

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There was a mistranslation of the Bible at the time, in which a word with multiple meanings was translated as "horned," and so Michaelangelo followed the Bible he knew and gave Moses horns!.

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