World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 40
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1 spoke to , saying, "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the of the . You shall put the in it, and you shall screen the ark with . You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and its lamps. You shall set the golden for before the , and put the screen of the door to the . "You shall set the of burnt offering before the door of the of the . You shall set the basin between the and the , and shall put water therein. You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the of the court. "You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the and all that is in it, and shall make it , and all its furniture, and it will be . You shall anoint the of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and the , and the will be most . 11You shall anoint the basin and its base, and it. "You shall bring and his sons to the door of the , and shall wash them with water. You shall put on the garments; and you shall anoint him, and him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office. You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them. You shall anoint them, as you their , that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an priesthood throughout their generations." did so. According to all that commanded him, so he did. In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the was up. up the , and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and up its pillars. He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the above on it, as commanded . He took and put into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the above on the ark. He brought the ark into the , and set up of the screen, and screened the , as commanded . He put the table in the , on the north side of the , outside of . He set the bread in order on it before , as commanded . He put the lamp stand in the , opposite the table, on the south side of the . He lit the lamps before , as commanded . He put the golden in the before ; and he of sweet spices on it, as commanded . He put up the screen of the door to the . He set the of burnt offering at the door of the of the , and offered on it the burnt offering and the , as commanded . He set the basin between the and the , and put water therein, with which to wash. , , and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. When they went into the , and when they came near to the , they washed, as commanded . He up the court around the and the , and set up the screen of the of the court. So finished the work. Then the , and filled the . wasn't able to enter into the , because the cloud stayed on it, and filled the . When the cloud was taken up from over the , the went onward, throughout all their journeys; but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of was on the by day, and there was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the , throughout all their journeys.
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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.