King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 8
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1And spake unto , saying, Take and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the , and two rams, and a basket of ; And gather thou all together unto the door of the of . And did as commanded him; and was gathered together unto the door of the of . And said unto , This is the thing which commanded to be done. And brought and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the , and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the and the . And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the ; as commanded . And took the anointing oil, and the and all that was therein, and them. And he sprinkled thereof upon the seven times, and the and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to them. And he poured of the anointing oil upon ’s head, and him, to him. And brought ’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as commanded . And he brought the bullock for the : and and his sons upon the head of the bullock for the . And he slew it; and took , and put it upon the of the round about with his finger, and purified the , and poured at the bottom of the , and it, to make reconciliation upon it. And he took that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and burned it upon the . But the bullock, and his hide, his , and his dung, he burnt with without the camp; as commanded . And he brought the ram for the : and and his sons upon the head of the ram. 19And he killed it; and sprinkled upon the round about. And he cut the ram into pieces; and burnt the head, and the pieces, and . And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and burnt the whole ram upon the : it was a burnt for a sweet savour, and an made by unto ; as commanded . And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and and his sons upon the head of the ram. And he slew it; and took of of it, and put it upon the tip of ’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his , and upon the great toe of his right foot. And he brought ’s sons, and put of upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and sprinkled upon the round about. And he took , and the rump, and that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder: And out of the basket of , that was before , he took one cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on , and upon the right shoulder: And he put all upon ’s hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave before . And took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the upon the : they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an made by unto . And took the breast, and waved it for a wave before : for of the ram of consecration it was ’ part; as commanded . And took of the anointing oil, and of which was upon the , and sprinkled it upon , and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him; and , and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. And said unto and to his sons, Boil at the door of the of : and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, and his sons shall eat it. And that which remaineth of and of the bread shall ye burn with . And ye shall not go out of the door of the of in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he you. As he hath done this day, so hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you. Therefore shall ye at the door of the of day and night seven days, and keep the charge of , that ye not: for so I am commanded. So and his sons did all things which commanded by the hand of .
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.