World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 39
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Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the place, and made the garments for , as commanded . He made the of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. 4They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends. The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as commanded . They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the . He put them on the shoulder straps of the , to be stones of memorial for the , as commanded . He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the : of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a , and its width a , being double. They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row; and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 12and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 13and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings. The stones were according to the names of the , twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 17They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the , in its front. 19They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the inward. They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the . They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the , and that the breastplate might not come loose from the , as commanded . He made the robe of the of woven work, all of blue. 23The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn. They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen. They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates; a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as commanded . They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for and for his sons, the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen, the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as commanded . They made the plate of the of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: " TO ". 31They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as commanded . Thus all the work of the of the was finished. The did according to all that commanded ; so they did. They brought the to : the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, 34the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, of the screen, the with its poles, the , the table, all its vessels, the show bread, the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for , the golden , the anointing oil, the , the screen for the door of the Tent, the bronze , its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the of the , for the , 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. According to all that commanded , so the did all the work. saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as had commanded. They had done so; and them.
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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.