King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 3
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These also are the generations of and in the day that spake with in . And these are the names of the sons of ; , and , , and . These are the names of the sons of , the priests which were , whom he to minister in the priest’s office. And and before , when they offered strange before , in of Sinai, and they had : and and ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of their . 5And spake unto , saying, Bring the tribe of near, and present them before the priest, that they may minister unto him. And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole before the of , to do the of the . And they shall keep all the instruments of the of , and the charge of the , to do the of the . And thou shalt give the unto and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the . And thou shalt appoint and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the that cometh nigh shall be put to . 11And spake unto , saying, And I, behold, I have taken the from among the instead of all that openeth the matrix among the : therefore the shall be mine; Because all are mine; for on the day that I smote all in the land of I hallowed unto me all in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am . 14And spake unto in of Sinai, saying, Number the children of after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And numbered them according to the word of , as he was commanded. And these were the by their names; , and , and . And these are the names of the sons of by their families; , and . And the sons of by their families; , and Izehar, , and . And the sons of by their families; , and . These are the families of the according to the house of their fathers. 21Of was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the . Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred. The families of the shall pitch behind the westward. 24And the chief of the house of of the shall be the son of Lael. And the charge of the sons of in the of shall be the , and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the of , And the hangings of the court, and for the door of the court, which is by the , and by the round about, and the cords of it for all the thereof. And of was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the , and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the . In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of . The families of the sons of shall pitch on the side of the southward. 30And the chief of the house of of the families of the shall be the son of . And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the , and the vessels of wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the thereof. And the son of the priest shall be chief over the chief of the , and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of . Of was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of . And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred. And the chief of the house of of the families of was Zuriel the son of : these shall pitch on the side of the northward. And under the custody and charge of the sons of shall be the boards of the , and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto, 37And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. But those that encamp before the toward the east, even before the of eastward, shall be , and and his sons, keeping the charge of for the charge of the ; and the that cometh nigh shall be put to . All that were numbered of the , which and numbered at the of , throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand. And said unto , Number all of the males of the from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. And thou shalt take the for me (I am ) instead of all among the ; and the cattle of the instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the . 42And numbered, as commanded him, all among the . And all males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen. 44And spake unto , saying, Take the instead of all among the , and the cattle of the instead of their cattle; and the shall be mine: I am . And for those that are to be of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of of the , which are more than the ; Thou shalt even take five apiece by the poll, after the shalt thou take them: (the is twenty gerahs:) 48And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be , unto and to his sons. 49And took the money of them that were over and above them that were by the : Of of the took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five , after the : And gave the money of them that were unto and to his sons, according to the word of , as 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.