World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 1
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spoke to in of Sinai, in the , on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of , saying, "Take a census of all of the , by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one, from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and shall count them by their divisions. With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers' house. These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of : the son of . Of : the son of . Of Judah: the son of . Of : the son of . Of : the son of . Of the children of : of : the son of ; of : the son of . Of : the son of . Of Dan: the son of . Of Asher: the son of . Of Gad: the son of . Of : the son of ." These are those who were called of , the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. and took these men who are mentioned by name. They assembled all together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one. As commanded , so he counted them in of Sinai. The children of , Israel's , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were forty-six thousand five hundred. Of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. Of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were fifty-four thousand four hundred. Of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. Of the children of : of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were forty thousand five hundred. Of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were thirty-two thousand two hundred. Of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were thirty-five thousand four hundred. Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. Of the children of , their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: those who were counted of them, of the tribe of , were fifty-three thousand four hundred. These are those who were counted, whom and counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers' house. 45So all those who were counted of the by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel— all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. But the after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them. 48For spoke to , saying, "Only the tribe of you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the ; but appoint the over the of the , and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it. When the is to move, the shall take it down; and when the is to be set up, the shall set it up. The who comes near shall be put to . The shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions. But the shall encamp around the of the , that there may be no on of the . The shall be responsible for the of the ." Thus the did. According to all that commanded , so they did.
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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.