King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 29
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And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the unto you. And ye shall offer a for a sweet savour unto ; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year : 3And their meat shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram, 4And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: And one kid of the goats for a , to make an atonement for you: Beside the of the month, and his meat , and the daily , and his meat , and their drink , according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a made by unto . And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an convocation; and ye shall afflict your : ye shall not do any work therein: But ye shall offer a unto for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you : And their meat shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram, 10A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: One kid of the goats for a ; beside the of atonement, and the continual , and the meat of it, and their drink . And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto seven days: And ye shall offer a , a made by , of a sweet savour unto ; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be : 14And their meat shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams, 15And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs: 16And one kid of the goats for a ; beside the continual , his meat , and his drink . And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: And their meat and their drink for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: And one kid of the goats for a ; beside the continual , and the meat thereof, and their drink . 20And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year ; 21And their meat and their drink for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: And one goat for a ; beside the continual , and his meat , and his drink . 23And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year : 24Their meat and their drink for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: And one kid of the goats for a ; beside the continual , his meat , and his drink . 26And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: 27And their meat and their drink for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 28And one goat for a ; beside the continual , and his meat , and his drink . 29And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year : 30And their meat and their drink for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 31And one goat for a ; beside the continual , his meat , and his drink . 32And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year : 33And their meat and their drink for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 34And one goat for a ; beside the continual , his meat , and his drink . On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn : ye shall do no servile work therein: 36But ye shall offer a , a made by , of a sweet savour unto : one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year : 37Their meat and their drink for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 38And one goat for a ; beside the continual , and his meat , and his drink . These things ye shall do unto in your set feasts, beside your , and your freewill , for your , and for your meat , and for your drink , and for your . And told the according to all that commanded .
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.