World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 28
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1 spoke to , saying, "Command the , and tell them, 'See that you present my , my food for my made by , as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.' You shall tell them, 'This is the made by which you shall offer to : male lambs a year old , two day by day, for a continual . You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening, with one tenth of an ephah of for a , mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. It is a continual which was ordained in for a pleasant aroma, an made by to . Its drink shall be the fourth part of a hin for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink of to in the place. 8The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the of the morning, and as its drink , you shall offer it, an made by , for a pleasant aroma to . "'On the , you shall offer two male lambs a year old , and two tenths of an ephah of for a mixed with oil, and its drink : this is the of every , in addition to the continual and its drink . "'In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a to : two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old , and three tenths of an ephah of for a mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of for a mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13and one tenth part of mixed with oil for a to every lamb, as a of a pleasant aroma, an made by to . 14Their drink shall be half a hin of for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for . This is the of every month throughout the months of the year. Also, one male goat for a to shall be offered in addition to the continual and its drink . "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is . On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. shall be eaten for seven days. In the first day shall be a convocation. You shall do no regular work, but you shall offer an made by , a to : two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be , 20with their , mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram. 21You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; and one male goat for a , to make atonement for you. You shall offer these in addition to the of the morning, which is for a continual . 24In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the made by , of a pleasant aroma to . It shall be offered in addition to the continual and its drink . On the seventh day you shall have a convocation. You shall do no regular work. "'Also in the day of the , when you offer a new to in your , you shall have a convocation. You shall do no regular work; but you shall offer a for a pleasant aroma to : two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 28and their , mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram, 29one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; and one male goat, to make atonement for you. Besides the continual and its , you shall offer them and their drink . See that they are .
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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.