World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 38
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He made the of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five , its width was five , and its height was three . He made its on its four corners. Its were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. He made all the vessels of the : the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the pans. He made all its vessels of bronze. 4He made for the a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles. He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze. He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the , with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks. He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the . He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred ; 10their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11For the north side one hundred , their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 12For the west side were hangings of fifty , their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. 13For the east side eastward fifty , the hangings for the one side were fifteen ; their pillars three, and their sockets three; 15and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the of the court were hangings of fifteen ; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. 17The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands. The screen for the of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty was the length, and the height along the width was five , like the hangings of the court. 19Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver. All the pins of the , and around the court, were of bronze. These are the amounts of materials used for the , even the of the , as they were counted, according to the of , for the of the , by the hand of , the son of the priest. the son of , the son of , of the tribe of Judah, made all that commanded . With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen. All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of , even the gold of the , was twenty-nine and seven hundred thirty , according to the . The silver of those who were counted of was one hundred and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five , according to the : a beka a head, that is, half a , according to the , for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. The one hundred of silver were for casting the sockets of and the sockets of : one hundred sockets for the one hundred , one per socket. From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. 29The bronze of the was seventy and two thousand four hundred . With this he made the sockets to the door of the , the bronze , the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the , 31the sockets around the court, the sockets of the of the court, all the pins of the , and all the pins around the court.
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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.