World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 6
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said to , "Now you shall see what I will do to , for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land." spoke to , and said to him, "I am . I appeared to , to , and to , as ; but by my name I was not known to them. I have also established my with them, to give them the land of , the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. Moreover I have heard the groaning of the , whom the keep in bondage, and I have remembered my . Therefore tell the , 'I am , and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the , and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments. I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your ; and you shall know that I am your , who brings you out from under the burdens of the . I will bring you into the land which I to give to , to , and to ; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am .'" spoke so to the , but they didn't listen to for anguish of , and for cruel bondage. 10 spoke to , saying, "Go in, speak to king of , that he let the go out of his land." spoke before , saying, "Behold, the haven't listened to me. How then shall listen to me, when I have ?" spoke to and to , and gave them a command to the , and to king of , to bring the out of the land of . These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of of Israel: , and , , and ; these are the families of . The sons of : Jemuel, and , and Ohad, and , and , and Shaul the son of a woman; these are the families of . These are the names of the according to their generations: , and , and ; and the years of the life of were one hundred thirty-seven years. The sons of : and , according to their families. The sons of : , and , and , and ; and the years of the life of were one hundred thirty-three years. The sons of : and . These are the families of the according to their generations. took his sister to himself as wife; and she bore him and . The years of the life of were one hundred thirty-seven years. The sons of : Korah, and , and . The sons of : , , and . took Elisheba, the daughter of , the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him and , and . The sons of Korah: , , and ; these are the families of the . son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him . These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the according to their families. These are that and to whom said, "Bring out the from the land of according to their armies." These are those who spoke to king of , to bring out the from . These are that and . 28On the day when spoke to in the land of , said to , "I am . Tell king of all that I tell you." said before , "Behold, I am of , and how shall listen to me?"
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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.