World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 8
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1 spoke to , saying, "Take and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the , and the two rams, and the basket of ; and assemble all at the door of the ." did as commanded him; and was assembled at the door of the . said to , "This is the thing which has commanded to be done." brought and his sons, and washed them with water. He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the on him and fastened it to him with it. He placed the breastplate on him. He put the in the breastplate. He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the , on the front of the turban, as commanded . took the anointing oil, and the and all that was in it, and them. He sprinkled it on the seven times, and the and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to them. He poured some of the anointing oil on head, and him, to him. brought sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as commanded . He brought the bull of the , and and his sons on the head of the bull of the . He killed it; and took , and put it around on the of the with his finger, and purified the , and poured out at the base of the , and it, to make atonement for it. He took that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and burned it on the . But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with outside the camp, as commanded . He presented the ram of the . and his sons on the head of the ram. 19He killed it; and sprinkled around on the . He cut the ram into its pieces; and burned the head, and the pieces, and . He washed the innards and the legs with water; and burned the whole ram on the . It was a for a pleasant aroma. It was an made by to , as commanded . He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. and his sons on the head of the ram. He killed it; and took some of its , and put it on the tip of right ear, and on the thumb of his , and on the great toe of his right foot. He brought sons; and put some of on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their , and on the great toe of their right foot; and sprinkled around on the . He took , tail, that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; and out of the basket of that was before , he took one cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on and on the right thigh. He put all these in hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave before . took them from their hands, and burned them on the on the . They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an made by to . took the breast, and waved it for a wave before . It was ' of the ram of consecration, as commanded . took some of the anointing oil, and some of which was on the , and sprinkled it on , on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and , his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. said to and to his sons, "Boil the meat at the door of the , and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ' and his sons shall eat it.' What of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with . You shall not go out from the door of the for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall you seven days. What has been done today, so has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. You shall stay at the door of the day and night seven days, and keep command, that you don't : for so I am commanded." and his sons did all the things which commanded by .
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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.