King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 2
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And when any will offer a meat unto , his shall be of ; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put thereon: And he shall bring it to ’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the , to be an made by , of a sweet savour unto : And of the meat shall be ’s and his sons’: it is a thing most of the of made by . And if thou bring an oblation of a meat baken in the oven, it shall be cakes of mingled with oil, or wafers with oil. And if thy oblation be a meat baken in a pan, it shall be of , mingled with oil. Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat . And if thy oblation be a meat baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of with oil. 8And thou shalt bring the meat that is made of these things unto : and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the . And the priest shall take from the meat a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the : it is an made by , of a sweet savour unto . And that which is left of the meat shall be ’s and his sons’: it is a thing most of the of made by . No meat , which ye shall bring unto , shall be made with : for ye shall burn no , nor any honey, in any of made by . As for the oblation of the , ye shall offer them unto : but they shall not be burnt on the for a sweet savour. And every oblation of thy meat shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of of thy to be lacking from thy meat : with all thine thou shalt offer salt. And if thou offer a meat of thy unto , thou shalt offer for the meat of thy green ears of corn dried by the , even corn beaten out of full ears. 15And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay thereon: it is a meat . And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the thereof: it is an made by unto .
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.