World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Deuteronomy 30
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It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the and the , which I have set before you, and you shall call them to among all the nations where your has driven you, and your and his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all and with all your , that then your will you from , have on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where your has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of , from there your will gather you, and from there he will bring you back. your will bring you into the land which your fathers , and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers. your will circumcise , and of , to love your with all and with all your , that you may live. your will put all these on your and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. You shall return and voice, and do all his which I command you today. your will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, if you will your voice, to keep his and his which are written in this book of , if you turn to your with all and with all your . For this which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant. It is not in , that you should say, "Who will go up for us to , bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" But the word is very near to you, in your and in , that you may do it. Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and and evil. For I command you today to love your , to walk in his ways and to keep his , his , and his , that you may live and multiply, and that your may you in the land where you go in to possess it. But if turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and other gods, and them, I declare to you today that you will surely . You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over to go in to possess it. I call and earth to against you today that I have set before you life and , the and the . Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your , to love your , to his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may in the land which to your fathers, to , to , and to , to give them.
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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.