King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 15
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1And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, And will make an by unto , a , or a in performing a , or in a freewill , or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto , of the herd, or of the flock: Then shall he that offereth his unto bring a meat of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. And the fourth part of an hin of for a drink shalt thou prepare with the or , for one lamb. Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. 7And for a drink thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of , for a sweet savour unto . And when thou preparest a bullock for a , or for a in performing a , or unto : Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil. And thou shalt bring for a drink half an hin of , for an made by , of a sweet savour unto . 11Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for , or a kid. 12According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number. 13All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in an made by , of a sweet savour unto . 14And if a sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an made by , of a sweet savour unto ; as ye do, so he shall do. One shall be both for you of , and also for the that sojourneth with you, an for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the be before . 16One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the that sojourneth with you. 17And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave unto . Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave : as ye do the heave of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto an heave in your generations. And if ye have erred, and not observed all these , which hath spoken unto , 23Even all that hath commanded you by the hand of , from the day that commanded , and henceforward among your generations; Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of , that all shall offer one young bullock for a , for a sweet savour unto , with his meat , and his drink , according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a . And the priest shall make an atonement for all of the , and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their , a made by unto , and their before , for their ignorance: And it shall be forgiven all of the , and the that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance. And if any through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a . And the priest shall make an atonement for the that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before , to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the , and for the that sojourneth among them. But the that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a , the same reproacheth ; and that from among his people. Because he hath despised the word of , and hath broken his , that shall utterly ; his shall be upon him. And while the were in , they found a man that gathered sticks upon the . And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto and , and unto all . And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And said unto , The man shall be surely put to : all shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he ; as commanded . 37And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , and bid them that they make them in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all of , and do them; and that ye seek not after your own and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a : That ye may remember, and do all my , and be unto your . I am your , which brought you out of the land of , to be your : I am your .
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.