World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 7
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"'This is of the : It is most . In the place where they kill the , he shall kill the ; and its he shall sprinkle around on the . He shall offer all of its fat: tail, and that covers the innards, and he shall take away the two kidneys, and that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys; and the priest shall burn them on the for an made by to : it is a . Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a place. It is most . "'As is the , so is the ; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. The priest who offers any man's shall have for himself the skin of the which he has offered. Every that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest's who offers it. Every , mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of , one as well as another. "'This is of the of , which one shall offer to : If he offers it for a , then he shall offer with the of cakes mixed with oil, and wafers with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. He shall offer his with the of his for with cakes of leavened bread. Of it he shall offer one out of each for a heave to . It shall be the priest's who sprinkles of the . of the of his for shall be eaten on the day of his . He shall not leave any of it until the morning. "'But if the of his is a , or a free will , it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his . On the next day what of it shall be eaten, but what of the meat of the on the third day shall be burned with . If any of the meat of the of his is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an , and the who eats any of it will bear his . "'The meat that touches any thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with . As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; but the who eats of the meat of the of that belongs to , having his uncleanness on him, that from his people. When anyone touches any thing, the uncleanness of man, or an animal, or any , and eats some of the meat of the of which belong to , that from his people.'" 22 spoke to , saying, "Speak to the , saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. that which dies of itself, and that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other , but you shall in no way eat of it. 25For whoever eats the animal which men offer as an made by to , even the who eats it from his people. You shall not eat any , whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. Whoever it is who eats any , that from his people.'" 28 spoke to , saying, "Speak to the , saying, 'He who offers the of his to shall bring his to out of the of his . With his own hands he shall bring the of made by . He shall bring with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave before . The priest shall burn on the , but the breast shall be and his sons'. The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave out of the of your . He among the sons of who offers of the , and , shall have the right thigh for a . For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the out of the of their , and have given them to the priest and to his sons as their from the .'" This is the of , and the of his sons, out of the of made by , in the day when he presented them to minister to in the priest's office; which commanded to be given them of the , in the day that he them. It is their throughout their generations. This is of the , the , the , the , the consecration, and the of which commanded in in the day that he commanded the to offer their to , in of Sinai.
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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.