King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 34
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1And spake unto , saying, Command the , and say unto them, When ye come into the land of ; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an , even the land of with the coasts thereof:) Then your south quarter shall be from of along by the coast of , and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of , and pass on to : and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to , and shall go on to Hazar–addar, and pass on to : And the border shall fetch a compass from unto the river of , and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you : From ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of ; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar–enan: this shall be your north border. 10And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham: And the coast shall go down from Shepham to , on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of eastward: And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. And commanded the , saying, This is the land which ye shall by lot, which commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: For the tribe of the children of according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their ; and half the tribe of have received their : The two tribes and the half tribe have received their on this side Jordan near eastward, toward the sunrising. 16And spake unto , saying, These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: the priest, and the son of . And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by . And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, the son of . And of the tribe of the children of , Shemuel the son of . Of the tribe of , the son of Chislon. 22And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, the son of Jogli. 23The prince of the children of , for the tribe of the children of , the son of . 24And the prince of the tribe of the children of , the son of Shiphtan. 25And the prince of the tribe of the children of , the son of Parnach. 26And the prince of the tribe of the children of , the son of Azzan. 27And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, the son of Shelomi. 28And the prince of the tribe of the children of , the son of . These are they whom commanded to divide the unto the in the land of .
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.