King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Exodus 6
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Then said unto , Now shalt thou see what I will do to : for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. And spake unto , and said unto him, I am : And I appeared unto , unto , and unto , by the name of , but by my name was I not known to them. And I have also established my with them, to give them the land of , the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the , whom the keep in bondage; and I have remembered my . Wherefore say unto 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 a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a : and ye shall know that I am your , which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the . And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did to give it to , to , and to ; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am . And spake so unto the : but they hearkened not unto for anguish of , and for cruel bondage. 10And spake unto , saying, Go in, speak unto king of , that he let the go out of his land. And spake before , saying, Behold, the have not hearkened unto me; how then shall hear me, who am of ? And spake unto and unto , and gave them a charge unto the , and unto king of , to bring the out of the land of . These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of of Israel; , and , , and : these be the families of . And the sons of ; Jemuel, and , and Ohad, and , and , and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of . And these are the names of the according to their generations; , and , and : and the years of the life of were an hundred thirty and seven years. The sons of ; , and Shimi, according to their families. And the sons of ; , and , and , and : and the years of the life of were an hundred thirty and three years. And the sons of ; Mahali and : these are the families of according to their generations. And took him his ’s sister to wife; and she him and : and the years of the life of were an hundred and thirty and seven years. And the sons of ; Korah, and , and . And the sons of ; , and , and Zithri. And took him Elisheba, daughter of , sister of Naashon, to wife; and she him , and , , and . And the sons of Korah; , and , and : these are the families of the Korhites. And ’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she him : these are the heads of the fathers 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 they which spake to king of , to bring out the from : these are that and . 28And it came to pass on the day when spake unto in the land of , That spake unto , saying, I am : speak thou unto king of all that I say unto thee. And said before , Behold, I am of , and how shall unto me?
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.