King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 3
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And if his oblation be a of , if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it before . And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his , and kill it at the door of the of : and ’s sons the priests shall sprinkle upon the round about. And he shall offer of the of the an made by unto ; that covereth the inwards, and that is upon the inwards, And the two kidneys, and that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. And ’s sons shall burn it on the upon the burnt , which is upon the wood that is on the : it is an made by , of a sweet savour unto . And if his for a of unto be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it . If he offer for his , then shall he offer it before . And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his , and kill it before the of : and ’s sons shall sprinkle thereof round about upon the . And he shall offer of the of the an made by unto ; thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and that covereth the inwards, and that is upon the inwards, And the two kidneys, and that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. And the priest shall burn it upon the : it is the food of the made by unto . And if his be a goat, then he shall offer it before . And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the of : and the sons of shall sprinkle thereof upon the round about. And he shall offer thereof his , even an made by unto ; that covereth the inwards, and that is upon the inwards, 15And the two kidneys, and that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. And the priest shall burn them upon the : it is the food of the made by for a sweet savour: is ’s. It shall be a perpetual for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor .
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.