King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 35
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And gathered all of the together, and said unto them, These are the words which hath commanded, that ye should do them. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an day, a of rest to : whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to . Ye shall kindle no throughout your habitations upon the . And spake unto all of the , saying, This is the thing which commanded, saying, Take ye from among you an unto : whosoever is of a willing , let him bring it, an of ; gold, and silver, and brass, And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, 7And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, And oil for , and spices for anointing oil, and for the , And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the , and for the breastplate. And every hearted among you shall come, and make all that hath commanded; The , his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets, The ark, and the staves thereof, with the , and the vail of the covering, The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the , The candlestick also for , and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for , And the , and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the , and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the , The of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court, The pins of the , and the pins of the court, and their cords, The cloths of , to do in the place, the garments for the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office. 20And all of the departed from the of . And they came, every one whose stirred him up, and every one whom his made willing, and they brought ’s to the work of the of , and for all his , and for the garments. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an of gold unto . And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them. Every one that did offer an of silver and brass brought ’s : and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the , brought it. And all the women that were hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose stirred them up in spun goats’ hair. And the brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the , and for the breastplate; And spice, and oil for , and for the anointing oil, and for the . The brought a willing unto , every man and woman, whose made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which had commanded to be made by the hand of . And said unto the , See, hath called by name Bezaleel the son of , the son of , of the tribe of Judah; And he hath filled him with of , in , in , and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 32And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. And he hath put in that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. Them hath he filled with of , to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
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.