King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 26
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven , neither rear you up a standing , neither shall ye set up any of stone in your land, to unto it: for I am your . Ye shall keep my , and reverence my sanctuary: I am . If ye walk in , and keep my , and do them; Then I will give you in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and in your land safely. And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil out of the land, neither shall go through your land. 7And ye shall chase your , and they shall fall before you . And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your shall fall before you . For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my with you. And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. And I will set my among you: and shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your , and ye shall be my people. I am your , which brought you forth out of the land of , that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your , and made you go upright. But if ye will not unto me, and will not do all these ; And if ye shall despise , or if your abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my , but that ye break my : I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of : and ye shall sow in , for your shall eat it. And I will set against you, and ye shall be slain before your : they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for all this unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your . And I will break the pride of your ; and I will make your as iron, and your earth as brass: And your strength shall be spent in : for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your . I will also send wild among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your . And I will bring a upon you, that shall the quarrel of my : and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be into the hand of . And when I have broken the of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. And if ye will not for all this unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will you seven times for your . And ye shall eat of your sons, and of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your , and cut down your , and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and shall abhor you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your which therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Then shall the land enjoy her , as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your ’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her . As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your , when ye dwelt upon it. And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their in the lands of their ; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a ; and they shall fall when none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a , when none pursueth: and ye shall have no to stand before your . And ye shall among the heathen, and the land of your shall eat you up. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their in your ’ lands; and also in the of their fathers shall they pine away with them. If they shall their , and the of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their ; if then their be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their : Then will I remember my with , and also my with , and also my with will I remember; and I will remember the land. The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her , while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their : because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their abhorred . And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their , I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my with them: for I am their . But I will for their sakes remember of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their : I am . These are the and judgments and laws, which made between him and the in by the hand 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.