World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 33
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These are the journeys of the , when they went out of the land of by their armies under the hand of and . wrote the starting points of their journeys by the of . These are their journeys according to their starting points. They traveled from in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after , the went out with a high hand in the sight of all the , while the were burying all their , whom had struck among them. also executed judgments on their gods. The traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in , which is in the edge of . They traveled from , and turned back to , which is before , and they encamped before . They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into . They went three days' journey in of , and encamped in . They traveled from , and came to . In , there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. They traveled from , and encamped by . They traveled from , and encamped in of . 12They traveled from of , and encamped in . 13They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in , where there was no water for the people to drink. They traveled from , and encamped in of Sinai. They traveled from of Sinai, and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . 19They traveled from , and encamped in . 20They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . 22They traveled from , and encamped in . 23They traveled from , and encamped in Mount . 24They traveled from Mount , and encamped in . 25They traveled from , and encamped in . 26They traveled from , and encamped in . 27They traveled from , and encamped in . 28They traveled from , and encamped in . 29They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in Haggidgad. They traveled from Haggidgad, and encamped in . 34They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped at in of . They traveled from , and encamped in , in the edge of the land of . the priest went up into at the of and there, in the fortieth year after the had come out of the land of , in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. 39 was one hundred twenty-three years old when he in . The king of , who lived in the South in the land of , heard of the coming of the . They traveled from , and encamped in . 42They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in , in the border of . 45They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Gad. They traveled from Gad, and encamped in . They traveled from , and encamped in the mountains of , before . They traveled from the mountains of , and encamped in by at . They encamped by , from even to in . spoke to in by at , saying, Speak to the , and tell them, "When you pass over into the land of , then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their , and demolish all their . You shall take possession of the land, and therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it. You shall the land by lot according to your families; to the larger groups you shall give a larger , and to the smaller you shall give a smaller . Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall according to the tribes of your fathers. "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let of them will be like pricks in your eyes and in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you . It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you."
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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.