World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Deuteronomy 7
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When your brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the , the , the , the , the , the , and the —seven nations greater and mightier than you; and when your delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall them. You shall make no with them, nor show mercy to them. You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may other gods. So would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their , dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their , and burn their engraved with . For you are a people to your . your has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the of the earth. didn't set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; but because loves you, and because he to keep the which he to your fathers, has brought you out with a mighty hand and you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of king of . Know therefore that your himself is , the , who keeps and to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his , and repays those who hate him to their , to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will him to . You shall therefore keep , the , and the which I command you today, to do them. It shall happen, because you listen to these and keep and do them, that your will keep with you and the which he to your fathers. He will love you, you, and multiply you. He will also the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he to your fathers to give you. You will be above all peoples. There won't be male or female among you, or among your livestock. will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of , which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. You shall consume all the peoples whom your shall to you. Your eye shall not them. You shall not their gods; for that would be a snare to you. If you shall say in , "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what your did to and to all : the great which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which your brought you out. So shall your do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover your will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, from before you. You shall not be scared of them; for your is among you, a great and awesome . your will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. But your will them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. He will their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name from under . No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. You shall burn the engraved of their gods with . You shall not the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an to your . You shall not bring an into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
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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.