World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 3
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"'If his is a of , if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it before . He shall lay his hand on the head of his , and kill it at the door of the . sons, the priests, shall sprinkle around on the . He shall offer of the of an made by to . that covers the innards, and that is on the innards, and the two kidneys, and that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. sons shall burn it on the on the , which is on the wood that is on the : it is an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . "'If his for a of to is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it . If he offers for his , then he shall offer it before ; and he shall lay his hand on the head of his , and kill it before the . sons shall sprinkle its around on the . He shall offer from the of an made by to ; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and that covers the entrails, and that is on the entrails, and the two kidneys, and that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. The priest shall burn it on the : it is the food of the made by to . "'If his is a goat, then he shall offer it before . He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the ; and the sons of shall sprinkle its around on the . He shall offer from it as his , an made by to ; that covers the innards, and that is on the innards, 15and the two kidneys, and that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. The priest shall burn them on the : it is the food of the made by , for a pleasant aroma; is . "'It shall be a perpetual throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor .'"
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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.