King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 17
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1And spake unto , saying, 2Speak unto , and unto his sons, and unto all the , and say unto them; This is the thing which hath commanded, saying, What man soever there be of the , that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, And bringeth it not unto the door of the of , to offer an unto before the of ; shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed ; and that man from among his people: To the end that the may bring their , which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto , unto the door of the of , unto the priest, and offer them for unto . And the priest shall sprinkle upon the of at the door of the of , and burn for a sweet savour unto . And they shall no more offer their unto devils, after whom they have gone a . This shall be a for ever unto them throughout their generations. And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the , or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a or , And bringeth it not unto the door of the of , to offer it unto ; even that man from among his people. And whatsoever man there be of the , or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of ; I will even set against that that eateth , and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of is in : and I have given it to you upon the to make an atonement for your : for it is that maketh an atonement for the . 12Therefore I said unto the , No of you shall eat , neither shall any that sojourneth among you eat . And whatsoever man there be of the , or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out thereof, and cover it with . For it is the life of ; of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the , Ye shall eat of no manner of : for the life of is thereof: whosoever eateth it . And every that eateth that which of itself, or that which was torn with , whether it be one of your own country, or a , he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be until the even: then shall he be clean. But if he wash them not, nor bathe his ; then he shall bear his .
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.