World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 27
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"You shall make the of acacia wood, five long, and five wide. The shall be square. Its height shall be three . You shall make its on its four corners. Its shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze. You shall make its pots to take away its ; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze. You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. You shall put it under the ledge around the beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the . You shall make poles for the , poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the when carrying it. You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain. "You shall make the court of the : for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred long for one side. Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty ; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 13The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty . The hangings for the one side of the shall be fifteen ; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen ; their pillars three, and their sockets three. For the of the court shall be a screen of twenty , of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. 17All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze. 18The length of the court shall be one hundred , and the width fifty throughout, and the height five , of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze. All the instruments of the in all its , and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze. "You shall command the , that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for , to cause a lamp to burn continually. In the , outside which is before , and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before : it shall be a throughout their generations on the behalf of the .
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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.