World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 2
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"'When anyone offers an of a to , his shall be of . He shall pour oil on it, and put on it. He shall bring it to sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its , and of its oil, with all its , and the priest shall burn its memorial on the , an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . That which is left of the shall be and his sons'. It is a most part of the of made by . "'When you offer an of a baked in the oven, it shall be cakes of mixed with oil, or wafers with oil. If your is a made on a griddle, it shall be of , mixed with oil. You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a . If your is a of the pan, it shall be made of with oil. 8You shall bring the that is made of these things to . It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the . The priest shall take from the its memorial, and shall burn it on the , an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . That which is left of the shall be and his sons'. It is a most part of the of made by . "'No which you shall offer to shall be made with ; for you shall burn no , nor any honey, as an made by to . As an of you shall offer them to , but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the . Every of your you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of of your to be lacking from your . With all your you shall offer salt. "'If you offer a of to , you shall offer for the of your fresh heads of grain parched with and crushed. 15You shall put oil on it and lay on it. It is a . The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its . It is an made by 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.