World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 15
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spoke to and to , saying, "Speak to the , and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is . This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. "'Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be ; and everything he sits on shall be . Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . 7"'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . "'If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . "'Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be . Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be . He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . 11"'Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . "'The , which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every of wood shall be rinsed in water. "'When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his in running water, and shall be clean. "'On the eighth day he shall take two , or two , and come before to the door of the , and give them to the priest. The priest shall offer them, the one for a , and the other for a . The priest shall make atonement for him before for his discharge. "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his in water, and be . 17Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be . If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be . "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her is , she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be . "'Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be . Everything also that she sits on shall be . Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . 22Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be . 23If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be . "'If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be . "'If a woman has a discharge of her many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is . 26Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be , as the uncleanness of her period. Whoever touches these things shall be , and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be . "'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29On the eighth day she shall take two , or two , and bring them to the priest, to the door of the . 30The priest shall offer the one for a , and the other for a ; and the priest shall make atonement for her before for the uncleanness of her discharge. "'Thus you shall separate the from their uncleanness, so they will not in their uncleanness when they defile my that is among them.'" This is of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is by it; and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is .
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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.