King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 10
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And and , the sons of , took either of them his censer, and put therein, and put thereon, and offered strange before , which he commanded them not. And there went out from , and devoured them, and they before . Then said unto , This is it that spake, saying, I will be in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And held his peace. And called Mishael and , the sons of Uzziel the uncle of , and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as had said. And said unto , and unto and unto , his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye , and lest come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole , bewail the burning which hath kindled. And ye shall not go out from the door of the of , lest ye : for the anointing oil of is upon you. And they did according to the word of . 8And spake unto , saying, Do not drink nor , thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the of , lest ye : it shall be a for ever throughout your generations: And that ye may put difference between and unholy, and between and clean; And that ye may teach the all the which hath spoken unto them by the hand of . And spake unto , and unto and unto , his sons that were left, Take the meat that remaineth of the of made by , and eat it without beside the : for it is most : And ye shall eat it in the place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the of made by : for so I am commanded. And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the of of the . The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the made by of , to wave it for a wave before ; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a for ever; as hath commanded. And diligently sought the goat of the , and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with and , the sons of which were left alive, saying, Wherefore have ye not eaten the in the place, seeing it is most , and hath given it you to bear the of , to make atonement for them before ? Behold, of it was not brought in within the place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the place, as I commanded. And said unto , Behold, this day have they offered their and their before ; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of ? And when heard that, he was content.
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.