World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 34
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1 spoke to , saying, "Command the , and tell them, 'When you come into the land of (this is the land that shall fall to you for an , even the land of according to its borders), then your south quarter shall be from of along by the side of , and your south border shall be from the end of eastward. Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of , and pass along to ; and it shall pass southward of ; and it shall go from there to Hazar , and pass along to . The border shall turn about from to the brook of , and it shall end at the sea. "'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border. "'This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves . From you shall mark out to the entrance of ; and the border shall pass by Zedad. Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar . This shall be your north border. 10"'You shall mark out your east border from Hazar to Shepham. The border shall go down from Shepham to , on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of eastward. The border shall go down to , and end at . This shall be your land according to its borders around it.'" commanded the , saying, "This is the land which you shall by lot, which has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; for the tribe of the children of according to their fathers' houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, and the half-tribe of have received their . The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their beyond at eastward, toward the sunrise." 16 spoke to , saying, "These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for : the priest, and the son of . You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for . These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, the son of . Of the tribe of the children of , Shemuel the son of . Of the tribe of , the son of Chislon. 22Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, the son of Jogli. 23Of the children of : of the tribe of the children of a prince, the son of . 24Of the tribe of the children of a prince, the son of Shiphtan. 25Of the tribe of the children of a prince, the son of Parnach. 26Of the tribe of the children of a prince, the son of Azzan. 27Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, the son of Shelomi. 28Of the tribe of the children of a prince, the son of ." These are they whom commanded to divide the to the in the land of .
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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.