King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 30
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And thou shalt make an to upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. A shall be the length thereof, and a the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two shall be the height thereof: the thereof shall be of the same. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a of gold round about. And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the , before the that is over the , where I will meet with thee. And shall burn thereon every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall upon it. And when lighteth the lamps at even, he shall upon it, a perpetual before throughout your generations. Ye shall offer no strange thereon, nor burnt , nor meat ; neither shall ye pour drink thereon. And shall make an atonement upon the of it once in a year with of the of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most unto . 11And spake unto , saying, When thou takest the sum of the after their number, then shall they give every man a for his unto , when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a after the : (a is twenty gerahs:) an shall be the of . Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an unto . The rich shall not give more, and shall not give less than half a , when they give an unto , to make an atonement for your . And thou shalt take the atonement money of the , and shalt appoint it for the of the of ; that it may be a memorial unto the before , to make an atonement for your . 17And spake unto , saying, Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the of and the , and thou shalt put water therein. For and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: When they go into the of , they shall wash with water, that they not; or when they come near to the to minister, to burn made by unto : So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not: and it shall be a for ever to them, even to him and to throughout their generations. 22Moreover spake unto , saying, Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred , and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty , and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty , And of cassia five hundred , after the , and of oil olive an hin: And thou shalt make it an oil of ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an anointing oil. And thou shalt anoint the of therewith, and the , 27And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the , 28And the of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. And thou shalt them, that they may be most : whatsoever toucheth them shall be . And thou shalt anoint and his sons, and them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office. And thou shalt speak unto the , saying, This shall be an anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. Upon man’s shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is , and it shall be unto you. Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a , shall even from his people. And said unto , Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure : of each shall there be a like weight: And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and : And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the in the of , where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most . And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee for . Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even from his people.
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.