King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 6
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1And spake unto , saying, If a , and commit a trespass against , and lie unto his neighbour in that which was him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by , or hath deceived his neighbour; Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: Then it shall be, because he hath , and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, Or all that about which he hath falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his . And he shall bring his unto , a ram out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a , unto the priest: And the priest shall make an atonement for him before : and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein. 8And spake unto , saying, Command and his sons, saying, This is of the : It is the , because of the burning upon the all night unto the morning, and the of the shall be burning in it. And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his , and take up the which the hath consumed with the on the , and he shall put them beside the . And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the without the camp unto a clean place. And the upon the shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the . 13The shall ever be burning upon the ; it shall never go out. And this is of the meat : the sons of shall offer it before , before the . And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat , and of the oil thereof, and all the which is upon the meat , and shall burn it upon the for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto . And the remainder thereof shall and his sons eat: with shall it be eaten in the place; in the court of the of they shall eat it. It shall not be baken with . I have given it unto them for their of my made by ; it is most , as is the , and as the . All the males among the children of shall eat of it. It shall be a for ever in your generations concerning the of made by : every one that toucheth them shall be . 19And spake unto , saying, This is the of and of his sons, which they shall offer unto in the day when he is ; the tenth part of an ephah of for a meat perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto . And the priest of his sons that is in his stead shall offer it: it is a for ever unto ; it shall be wholly burnt. For every meat for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten. 24And spake unto , saying, Speak unto and to his sons, saying, This is of the : In the place where the is killed shall the be killed before : it is most . The priest that offereth it for shall eat it: in the place shall it be eaten, in the court of the of . Whatsoever shall touch thereof shall be : and when there is sprinkled of thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the place. But the wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most . And no , whereof any of is brought into the of to reconcile withal in the place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the .
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.