World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 1
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called to , and spoke to him from the , saying, "Speak to the , and tell them, 'When anyone of you offers an to , you shall offer your of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. "'If his is a from the herd, he shall offer a male . He shall offer it at the door of the , that he may be accepted before . He shall lay his hand on the head of the , and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. He shall kill the bull before . sons, the priests, shall present and sprinkle around on the that is at the door of the . He shall skin the and cut it into pieces. The sons of the priest shall put on the , and lay wood in order on the ; and sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and in order on the wood that is on the which is on the ; but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the , for a , an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . "'If his is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a , he shall offer a male . He shall kill it on the north side of the before . sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its around on the . 12He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the which is on the , but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the . It is a , an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . "'If his to is a of birds, then he shall offer his from or of . The priest shall bring it to the , and wring off its head, and burn it on the ; and its shall be drained out on the side of the ; and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the on the east part, in the place of the . He shall tear it by its , but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the , on the wood that is on the . It is a , an made by , of a pleasant aroma to .
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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.