World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 6
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1 spoke to , saying, "If anyone , and commits a trespass against , and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man in his actions— then it shall be, if he has , and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by , or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, or any thing about which he has falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. He shall bring his to : a ram from the flock, according to your estimation, for a , to the priest. The priest shall make atonement for him before , and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty." 8 spoke to , saying, "Command and his sons, saying, 'This is of the : the shall be on the hearth on the all night until the morning; and the of the shall be kept burning on it. The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the from where the has consumed the on the , and he shall put them beside the . He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the outside the camp to a clean place. The on the shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the in order upon it, and shall burn on it the . 13 shall be kept burning on the continually; it shall not go out. "'This is of the : the sons of shall offer it before , before the . He shall take from there his handful of the of the , and of its oil, and all the which is on the , and shall burn it on the for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial , to . That which is left of it and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without in a place. They shall eat it in the court of the . It shall not be baked with . I have given it as their of my made by . It is most , as are the and the . Every male among the children of shall eat of it, as their throughout your generations, from the of made by . Whoever touches them shall be .'" 19 spoke to , saying, "This is the of and of his sons, which they shall offer to in the day when he is : one tenth of an ephah of for a perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to . priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a , it shall be wholly burned to . Every of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten." 24 spoke to , saying, "Speak to and to his sons, saying, 'This is of the : in the place where the is killed, the shall be killed before . It is most . The priest who offers it for shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a place, in the court of the . Whatever shall touch its shall be . When there is any of its sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a place. But the in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze , it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most . No , of which any of is brought into the to make atonement in the Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with .
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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.