King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Deuteronomy 30
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And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the and the , which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to among all the nations, whither thy hath driven thee, And shalt return unto thy , and shalt his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine , and with all thy ; That then thy will turn thy , and have upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither thy hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of , from thence will thy gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And thy will bring thee into the land which thy fathers , and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And thy will circumcise thine , and of thy , to love thy with all thine , and with all thy , that thou mayest live. And thy will put all these upon thine , and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and , and do all his which I command thee this day. And thy will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt unto thy , to keep his and his which are written in this book of , and if thou turn unto thy with all thine , and with all thy . For this which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in , that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to , and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy , and in thy , that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and and evil; In that I command thee this day to love thy , to walk in his ways, and to keep his and his and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and thy shall thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and other gods, and them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely , and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and , and : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy may live: That thou mayest love thy , and that thou mayest his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest in the land which sware unto thy fathers, to , to , and to , to give them.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Egypt and Sinai, 1450 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel in and then out of Egypt, at a period when Egypt was an imperial power that also controlled Canaan. The nation is formed as a people with a law before it has any land.
- Egypt
- The New Kingdom at its imperial peak, with a professional army, a chariot corps, and control reaching up through Canaan. Ramesses II reigns for sixty-six years and covers the country in monuments to himself. Egyptian power in this period is the reason Canaan is garrisoned rather than free.
- The Hittites
- The other superpower, in what is now Turkey, and Egypt's rival for the Levant. The two fight the largest chariot battle of the ancient world at Kadesh, then sign a treaty whose text survives from both sides. Hittite treaty form, with its historical prologue, stipulations, witnesses, blessings, and curses, is the shape the Sinai covenant takes, which is one of the stronger arguments for the antiquity of that material.
- The Aegean
- Mycenaean Greece: warrior kings in stone citadels at Mycenae and Pylos, keeping palace accounts in Linear B. The world of the Trojan War stories, whatever lies behind them.
- Further afield
- The Shang dynasty in China is casting extraordinary bronzes and writing questions to its ancestors on ox bones. In Mesoamerica the Olmec are beginning the first civilisation of the Americas.