World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 36
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" and Oholiab shall work with every -hearted man, in whom has put and to know how to do all the work for the of , according to all that has commanded." called and Oholiab, and every -hearted man, in whose had put , even everyone whose stirred him up to come to the work to do it. They received from all the which the had brought for the work of the of , with which to make it. They kept bringing free will to him every morning. All men, who performed all the work of , each came from his work which he did. They spoke to , saying, "The people have brought much more than enough for the of the work which commanded to make." 6 gave a , and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the for ." So the people were restrained from bringing. For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much. All -hearted men among those who did the work made the with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with , the work of a skillful workman. 9The length of each was twenty-eight , and the width of each four . All the curtains had one measure. He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. He made loops of blue on the edge of the one from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of that was outermost in the second coupling. He made fifty loops in the one , and he made fifty loops in the edge of that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another. He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the was a unit. He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the . He made them eleven curtains. 15The length of each was thirty , and four the width of each . The eleven curtains had one measure. 16He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17He made fifty loops on the edge of that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of which was outermost in the second coupling. 18He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit. He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above. He made the boards for the of acacia wood, standing up. 21Ten was the length of a board, and a and a half the width of each board. 22Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the this way. 23He made the boards for the , twenty boards for the south side southward. 24He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25For the second side of the , on the north side, he made twenty boards 26and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. For the far part of the westward he made six boards. 28He made two boards for the corners of the in the far part. They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners. There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets. He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the , and five bars for the boards of the other side of the , and five bars for the boards of the for the hinder part westward. 33He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other. 34He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. He made of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with . He made it the work of a skillful workman. He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them. He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.
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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.