King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 29
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And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams , And , and cakes tempered with oil, and wafers with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. And and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the of , and shalt wash them with water. And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon the coat, and the robe of the , and the , and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the : And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the upon the mitre. Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. And thou shalt gird them with girdles, and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual : and thou shalt and his sons. And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the of : and and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. And thou shalt kill the bullock before , by the door of the of . And thou shalt take of of the bullock, and put it upon the of the with thy finger, and pour all beside the bottom of the . And thou shalt take that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and that is upon them, and burn them upon the . But of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with without the camp: it is a . Thou shalt also take one ram; and and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. And thou shalt the ram, and thou shalt take his , and sprinkle it round about upon the . And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head. And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the : it is a burnt offering unto : it is a sweet savour, an made by unto . And thou shalt take the other ram; and and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his , and put it upon the tip of the right ear of , and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their , and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle upon the round about. And thou shalt take of that is upon the , and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon , and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. Also thou shalt take of the ram and the rump, and that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration: And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the that is before : And thou shalt put all in the hands of , and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave before . And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before : it is an made by unto . And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of ’s consecration, and wave it for a wave before : and it shall be thy part. And thou shalt the breast of the wave , and the shoulder of the heave , which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for , and of that which is for his sons: And it shall be ’s and his sons’ by a for ever from the : for it is an heave : and it shall be an heave from the of the of their , even their heave unto . And the garments of shall be his sons’ after him, to be therein, and to be in them. And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the of to minister in the place. And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his in the place. And and his sons shall eat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the of . And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to and to them: but a shall not eat thereof, because they are . And if ought of of the consecrations, or of the bread, unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with : it shall not be eaten, because it is . And thus shalt thou do unto , and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou them. And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the , when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to it. Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the , and it; and it shall be an most : whatsoever toucheth the shall be . Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the ; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of for a drink . And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat of the morning, and according to the drink thereof, for a sweet savour, an made by unto . This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the of before : where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. And there I will meet with the , and the shall be by my . And I will the of , and the : I will also both and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office. And I will among the , and will be their . And they shall know that I am their , that brought them forth out of the land of , that I may among them: I am their .
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
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.