World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 15
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1 spoke to , saying, "Speak to the , and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, and will make an by to —a , or a , to accomplish a , or as a free will , or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to , of the herd, or of the flock— then he who offers his shall offer to a of one tenth of an ephah of mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil. You shall prepare for the drink , one fourth of a hin, with the or for the , for each lamb. "'For a ram, you shall prepare for a two tenths of an ephah of mixed with the third part of a hin of oil; 7and for the drink you shall offer the third part of a hin of , of a pleasant aroma to . When you prepare a bull for a or for a , to accomplish a , or for to , then he shall offer with the bull a of three tenths of an ephah of mixed with half a hin of oil; and you shall offer for the drink half a hin of , for an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . 11Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. 12According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number. 13"'All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in an made by , of a pleasant aroma to . 14If a lives as a with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an made by , of a pleasant aroma to , as you do, so he shall do. For , there shall be one for you and for the who lives as a , a throughout your generations. As you are, so the shall be before . 16One law and one shall be for you and for the who lives as a with you.'" 17 spoke to , saying, "Speak to the , and tell them, 'When you come into the land where I bring you, then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave to . Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave . As the wave of the , so you shall heave it. Of the first of your dough, you shall give to a wave throughout your generations. "'When you err, and don't observe all these which has spoken to — 23even all that has commanded you by , from the day that gave and onward throughout your generations— then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of , that all shall offer one young bull for a , for a pleasant aroma to , with its and its drink , according to the , and one male goat for a . The priest shall make atonement for all of the , and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their , an made by to , and their before , for their error. All of the shall be forgiven, as well as the who lives as a among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly. "'If a person unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a . The priest shall make atonement for the who errs when he unwittingly before . He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the , and for the who lives as a among them. "'But the who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a , blasphemes . That from among his people. Because he has despised word, and has broken his , that shall be utterly . His shall be on him.'" While the were in , they found a man gathering sticks on the . Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to and , and to all . They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. said to , "The man shall surely be put to . All shall stone him with stones outside of the camp." All brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to with stones, as commanded . 37 spoke to , saying, "Speak to the , and tell them that they should make themselves on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue. It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all , and do them; and that you don't follow your own and your own eyes, after which you used to play the ; so that you may remember and do all my , and be to your . I am your , who brought you out of the land of , to be your : I am your ."
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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.