King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 40
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1And spake unto , saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the of the tent of . And thou shalt put therein the , and cover the ark with the vail. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and the lamps thereof. And thou shalt set the of gold for the before the , and put the hanging of the door to the . And thou shalt set the of the burnt offering before the door of the of the tent of . And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of and the , and shalt put water therein. And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court . And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the , and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be . And thou shalt anoint the of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and the : and it shall be an most . 11And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and it. And thou shalt bring and his sons unto the door of the of , and wash them with water. And thou shalt put upon the garments, and anoint him, and him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office. And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their , that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an priesthood throughout their generations. Thus did : according to all that commanded him, so did he. And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the was reared up. And reared up the , and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. And he spread abroad the tent over the , and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as commanded . And he took and put the into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the above upon the ark: And he brought the ark into the , and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ; as commanded . And he put the table in the tent of , upon the side of the northward, without the vail. And he set the bread in order upon it before ; as had commanded . And he put the candlestick in the tent of , over against the table, on the side of the southward. And he lighted the lamps before ; as commanded . And he put the golden in the tent of before the vail: And he burnt thereon; as commanded . And he set up the hanging at the door of the . And he put the of burnt offering by the door of the of the tent of , and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat ; as commanded . And he set the laver between the tent of and the , and put water there, to wash withal. And and and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: When they went into the tent of , and when they came near unto the , they washed; as commanded . And he reared up the court round about the and the , and set up the hanging of the court . So finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of , and filled the . And was not able to enter into the tent of , because the cloud abode thereon, and filled the . And when the cloud was taken up from over the , the went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of was upon the by day, and was on it by night, in the sight of all the , throughout all their journeys.
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.