King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 33
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These are the journeys of the , which went forth out of the land of with their armies under the hand of and . And wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the of : and these are their journeys according to their goings out. And they departed from in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the went out with an high hand in the sight of all the . For the buried all their , which had smitten among them: upon their gods also executed judgments. And the removed from , and pitched in . And they departed from , and pitched in , which is in the edge of . And they removed from , and turned again unto , which is before : and they pitched before . And they departed from before , and passed through the midst of the sea into , and went three days’ journey in of , and pitched in . And they removed from , and came unto : and in were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. And they removed from , and encamped by . And they removed from , and encamped in of . 12And they took their journey out of of , and encamped in . 13And they departed from , and encamped in . And they removed from , and encamped at , where was no water for the people to drink. And they departed from , and pitched in of Sinai. And they removed from of Sinai, and pitched at . And they departed from , and encamped at . And they departed from , and pitched in . 19And they departed from , and pitched at –parez. 20And they departed from –parez, and pitched in . And they removed from , and pitched at . 22And they journeyed from , and pitched in . 23And they went from , and pitched in mount Shapher. 24And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in . 25And they removed from , and pitched in . 26And they removed from , and encamped at . 27And they departed from , and pitched at Tarah. 28And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. 29And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in . And they departed from , and encamped at . And they departed from , and pitched in . And they removed from , and encamped at –hagidgad. And they went from –hagidgad, and pitched in . 34And they removed from , and encamped at Ebronah. And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at –gaber. And they removed from –gaber, and pitched in of , which is . And they removed from , and pitched in , in the edge of the land of . And the priest went up into at the of , and there, in the fortieth year after the were come out of the land of , in the first day of the fifth month. 39And was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he in . And king the , which dwelt in the south in the land of , heard of the coming of the . And they departed from , and pitched in . 42And they departed from , and pitched in . And they departed from , and pitched in . And they departed from , and pitched in Ije–abarim, in the border of . 45And they departed from Iim, and pitched in –gad. And they removed from –gad, and encamped in . And they removed from , and pitched in the mountains of , before . And they departed from the mountains of , and pitched in by Jordan near . And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth–jesimoth even unto –shittim in . And spake unto in by Jordan near , saying, Speak unto the , and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of ; Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their , and quite pluck down all their : And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. And ye shall divide the land by lot for an among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more , and to the fewer ye shall give the less : every man’s shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall . But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye . Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
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.