World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 24
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1 spoke to , saying, "Command the , that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for , to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3Outside of of the , in the , shall keep it in order from evening to morning before continually. It shall be a throughout your generations. He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before continually. "You shall take , and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before . You shall put pure on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an made by to . Every he shall set it in order before continually. It is an on the behalf of the . It shall be for and his sons. They shall eat it in a place; for it is most to him of the of made by by a perpetual ." The son of an woman, whose was an , went out among the ; and the son of the woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. The son of the woman blasphemed the Name, and ; and they brought him to . His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. They put him in custody until will should be declared to them. 13 spoke to , saying, "Bring him who out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all stone him. You shall speak to the , saying, 'Whoever his shall bear his . He who blasphemes name, he shall surely be put to . All shall certainly stone him. The as well as the native-born shall be put to when he blasphemes the Name. "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to . He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone. He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to . You shall have one kind of law for the as well as the native-born; for I am your .'" spoke to the ; and they brought him who had out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The did as commanded .
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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.