King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 28
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1And spake unto , saying, Command the , and say unto them, My , and my bread for my made by , for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. And thou shalt say unto them, This is the made by which ye shall offer unto ; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual . The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat , mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil. It is a continual , which was ordained in for a sweet savour, a made by unto . And the drink thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the place shalt thou cause the strong to be poured unto for a drink . 8And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat of the morning, and as the drink thereof, thou shalt offer it, a made by , of a sweet savour unto . And on the two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat , mingled with oil, and the drink thereof: This is the of every , beside the continual , and his drink . And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a unto ; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot; And three tenth deals of flour for a meat , mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat , mingled with oil, for one ram; 13And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat unto one lamb; for a of a sweet savour, a made by unto . 14And their drink shall be half an hin of unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto : this is the of every month throughout the months of the year. And one kid of the goats for a unto shall be offered, beside the continual , and his drink . And in the fourteenth day of the first month is of . And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall be eaten. In the first day shall be an convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein: But ye shall offer a made by for a unto ; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you : 20And their meat shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; 21A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: And one goat for a , to make an atonement for you. Ye shall offer these beside the in the morning, which is for a continual . 24After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the made by , of a sweet savour unto : it shall be offered beside the continual , and his drink . And on the seventh day ye shall have an convocation; ye shall do no servile work. Also in the day of the , when ye bring a new meat unto , after your weeks be out, ye shall have an convocation; ye shall do no servile work: But ye shall offer the for a sweet savour unto ; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28And their meat of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, 29A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you. Ye shall offer them beside the continual , and his meat , (they shall be unto you ) and their drink .
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.