World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Deuteronomy 34
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went up from to , to the top of , that is opposite . showed him all the land of to Dan, and all , and the land of and , and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea, and the south, and the Plain of the valley of the city of palm trees, to . said to him, "This is the land which I to , to , and to , saying, 'I will give it to .' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there." So the there in the land of , according to word. He in the valley in the land of opposite Beth , but no man knows where his is to this day. was one hundred twenty years old when he . His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone. The wept for in thirty days, until the days of weeping in the for were ended. the son of was full of of , for had on him. The listened to him, and did as commanded . Since then, there has not arisen a in Israel like , whom knew to , in all the signs and the wonders which sent him to do in the land of , to , and to all his servants, and to all his land, 12and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which did in the sight of all Israel.
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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.