World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 26
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"Moreover you shall make the with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with . You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman. The length of each shall be twenty-eight , and the width of each four : all the curtains shall have one measure. Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of that is outermost in the second coupling. 5You shall make fifty loops in the one , and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another. You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The shall be a unit. "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the . You shall make eleven curtains. The length of each shall be thirty , and the width of each four : the eleven curtains shall have one measure. 9You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth in the forefront of the tent. 10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of which is outermost in the second coupling. You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12The overhanging part that of the curtains of the tent—the half that —shall hang over the back of the . The on the one side and the on the other side, of that which in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the on this side and on that side, to cover it. You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above. "You shall make the boards for the of acacia wood, standing upright. 16Ten shall be the length of a board, and one and a half the width of each board. There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the . 18You shall make twenty boards for the , for the south side southward. You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 20For the second side of the , on the north side, twenty boards, 21and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22For the far side of the westward you shall make six boards. 23You shall make two boards for the corners of the in the far side. They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. 25There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the , 27and five bars for the boards of the other side of the , and five bars for the boards of the side of the , for the far side westward. 28The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end. You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold. You shall set up the according to that it was shown to you on the mountain. "You shall make a of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with . It shall be the work of a skillful workman. You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. You shall hang up under the clasps, and shall bring the in there within . shall separate the place from the most for you. You shall put the on the in the most place. You shall set the table outside , and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side. "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for 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.