World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 26
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After the plague, spoke to and to the son of the priest, saying, "Take a census of all of the , from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel." and the priest spoke with them in by at , saying, "Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as commanded and the ." These are those who came out of the land of . , of Israel; the sons of : of , the family of the Hanochites; of , the family of the Palluites; 6of , the family of the Hezronites; of , the family of the Carmites. These are the families of the ; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty. 8The son of : . The sons of : , , and . These are that and who were called by , who rebelled against and against in the company of when they rebelled against ; and the earth opened its , and swallowed them up together with when that company ; at the time the devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign. Notwithstanding, the sons of didn't . The sons of after their families: of , the family of the Nemuelites; of , the family of the Jaminites; of , the family of the Jachinites; of Zerah, the family of the ; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. These are the families of the , twenty-two thousand two hundred. The sons of Gad after their families: of , the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites. These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred. The sons of Judah: and . and in the land of . The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of , the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the . 21The sons of were: of , the family of the Hezronites; of , the family of the Hamulites. These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. The sons of after their families: of , the family of the Tolaites; of , the family of the Punites; of , the family of the Jashubites; of , the family of the Shimronites. These are the families of according to those who were counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. The sons of after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of , the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. These are the families of the according to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred. The after their families: and . The sons of : of , the family of the Machirites; and became of ; of , the family of the Gileadites. These are the sons of : of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; 31and , the family of the Asrielites; and , the family of the Shechemites; 32and , the family of the Shemidaites; and , the family of the Hepherites. the son of had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of were , , , , and . These are the families of . Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. These are the sons of after their families: of , the family of the Shuthelahites; of , the family of the Becherites; of , the family of the Tahanites. 36These are the sons of : of Eran, the family of the Eranites. These are the families of the sons of according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the after their families. The sons of after their families: of , the family of the Belaites; of , the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. The sons of were Ard and : the family of the Ardites; and of , the family of the Naamites. These are the sons of after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. The sons of Asher after their families: of , the family of the Imnites; of , the family of the Ishvites; of , the family of the Berites. 45Of the sons of : of , the family of the Heberites; of , the family of the Malchielites. The name of the daughter of Asher was . These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. The sons of after their families: of , the family of the Jahzeelites; of , the family of the Gunites; of , the family of the Jezerites; of , the family of the Shillemites. These are the families of according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred. These are those who were counted of the , six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty. 52 spoke to , saying, "To these the land shall be divided for an according to the number of names. To the more you shall give the more , and to the fewer you shall give the less . To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his be given. Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall . According to the lot shall their be divided between the more and the fewer." These are those who were counted of the after their families: of , the family of the ; of , the family of the ; of , the family of the . These are the families of : the family of the Libnites, the family of the , the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the . became of . The name of wife was , the daughter of , who was born to in . She bore to and , and their sister. To were born and , and . and when they offered strange before . Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the , because there was no given them among the . These are those who were counted by and the priest, who counted the in by at . But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by and the priest, who counted the in of Sinai. For had said of them, "They shall surely in ." There was not a man left of them, except the son of , and the son of .
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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.