World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 10
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and , the sons of , each took his censer, and put in it, and laid on it, and offered strange before , which he had not commanded them. came out from before , and devoured them, and they before . Then said to , "This is what spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" held his peace. called Mishael and , the sons of Uzziel the uncle of , and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before out of the camp." So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as had said. said to , and to and to , his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, and don't tear your clothes, so that you don't , and so that he will not be angry with all ; but let your brothers, the whole , bewail the burning which has kindled. You shall not go out from the door of the , lest you ; for the anointing oil of is on you." They did according to the word of . 8Then said to , "You and your sons are not to drink or whenever you go into the , or you will . This shall be a throughout your generations. You are to make a distinction between the and the common, and between the and the clean. You are to teach the all the which has spoken to them by ." spoke to , and to and to , his sons who were left, "Take the that of the of made by , and eat it without beside the ; for it is most ; and you shall eat it in a place, because it is your , and your sons' , of the of made by ; for so I am commanded. The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your , and your sons' , out of the of the of the . They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the made by of , to wave it for a wave before . It shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a , as has commanded." diligently inquired about the goat of the , and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with and with , the sons of who were left, saying, "Why haven't you eaten the in the place of , since it is most , and he has given it to you to bear the of , to make atonement for them before ? Behold, its was not brought into the inner part of . You certainly should have eaten it in , as I commanded." spoke to , "Behold, today they have offered their and their before ; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the today, would it have been pleasing in sight?" When heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.
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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.