King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 27
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Then came the daughters of , the son of , the son of , the son of , the son of , of the families of the son of : and these are the names of his daughters; , , and , and , and . And they stood before , and before the priest, and before the princes and all , by the door of the of , saying, in , and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against in the company of ; but in his own , and had no sons. Why should the name of be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of . And brought their cause before . And spake unto , saying, The daughters of speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an among their ’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the of their to pass unto them. 8And thou shalt speak unto the , saying, If a man , and have no son, then ye shall cause his to pass unto his daughter. 9And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his unto his brethren. 10And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his unto his ’s brethren. And if his have no brethren, then ye shall give his unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the a of , as commanded . And said unto , Get thee up into this mount , and see the land which I have given unto the . And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as thy brother was gathered. For ye rebelled against my in of , in the strife of , to me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of in in of . 15And spake unto , saying, Let , the of the spirits of , set a man over , Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that of be not as sheep which have no . And said unto , Take thee the son of , a man in whom is , and lay thine hand upon him; And set him before the priest, and before all ; and give him a charge in their sight. And thou shalt put some of thine upon him, that all of the may be obedient. And he shall stand before the priest, who shall ask for him after the of before : at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the with him, even all . 22And did as commanded him: and he took , and set him before the priest, and before all : And he upon him, and gave him a charge, as 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.