King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 23
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1And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of , which ye shall proclaim to be convocations, even these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the of rest, an convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the of in all your dwellings. These are the feasts of , even convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is ’s . And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unto : seven days ye must eat . In the first day ye shall have an convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8But ye shall offer an made by unto seven days: in the seventh day is an convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 9And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before , to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb of the first year for a unto . And the meat thereof shall be two tenth deals of mingled with oil, an made by unto for a sweet savour: and the drink thereof shall be of , the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an unto your : it shall be a for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the , from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave ; seven shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat unto . Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of ; they shall be baken with ; they are the unto . And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a unto , with their meat , and their drink , even an made by , of sweet savour unto . Then ye shall one kid of the goats for a , and two lambs of the first year for a of . And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the for a wave before , with the two lambs: they shall be to for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto , and to the : I am your . 23And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a , a memorial of blowing of , an convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an made by unto . 26And spake unto , saying, Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a : it shall be an convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your , and offer an made by unto . And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a , to make an atonement for you before your . For whatsoever it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he from among his people. And whatsoever it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same will I destroy from among his people. 31Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be unto you a of rest, and ye shall afflict your : in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your . 33And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the for seven days unto . On the first day shall be an convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Seven days ye shall offer an made by unto : on the eighth day shall be an convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an made by unto : it is a solemn ; and ye shall do no servile work therein. These are the feasts of , which ye shall proclaim to be convocations, to offer an made by unto , a , and a meat , a , and drink , every thing upon his day: Beside the of , and beside your gifts, and beside all your , and beside all your freewill , which ye give unto . Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto seven days: on the first day shall be a , and on the eighth day shall be a . And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before your seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto seven days in the year. It shall be a for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall in seven days; all that are born shall in : That your generations may know that I made the to in , when I brought them out of the land of : I am your . And declared unto the the feasts of .
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.