World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 35
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assembled all of the , and said to them, "These are the words which has commanded, that you should do them. 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a day for you, a of solemn rest to : whoever does any work in it shall be put to . You shall kindle no throughout your habitations on the .'" spoke to all of the , saying, "This is the thing which commanded, saying, 'Take from among you an to . Whoever is of a willing , let him bring it as : gold, silver, bronze, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, 7rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, oil for , spices for the anointing oil and for the , onyx stones, and stones to be set for the and for the breastplate. "'Let every -hearted man among you come, and make all that has commanded: the , its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; the ark, and its poles, the , of the screen; the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; the lamp stand also for , with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for ; and the with its poles, the anointing oil, the , the screen for the door, at the door of the ; the of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base; the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the of the court; the pins of the , the pins of the court, and their cords; the finely worked garments for ministering in the place—the garments for the priest, and the garments of his sons—to minister in the priest's office.'" 20All of the departed from the of . They came, everyone whose stirred him up, and everyone whom his made willing, and brought for the work of the , and for all of its , and for the garments. They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an of gold to . Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them. Everyone who offered an of silver and bronze brought ; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the , brought it. All the women who were -hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. All the women whose stirred them up in spun the goats' hair. The brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the and for the breastplate; with the spice and the oil for , for the anointing oil, and for the . The brought a free will to ; every man and woman whose made them willing to bring for all the work, which had commanded to be made by . said to the , "Behold, has called by name the son of , the son of , of the tribe of Judah. He has filled him with of , in , in , in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship; 32and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, 33in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. He has put in that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with of to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
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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.