World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 3
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Now this is the history of the generations of and in the day that spoke with in . These are the names of the sons of : , and , , and . These are the names of the sons of , the priests who were , whom he to minister in the priest's office. and before when they offered strange before in of Sinai, and they had . and ministered in the priest's office in the of their . 5 spoke to , saying, "Bring the tribe of near, and set them before the priest, that they may minister to him. They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole before the , to do the of the . They shall keep all the furnishings of the , and the obligations of the , to do the of the . You shall give the to and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the . You shall appoint and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the who comes near shall be put to ." 11 spoke to , saying, "Behold, I have taken the from among the instead of all who open the among the ; and the shall be mine, for all are mine. On the day that I struck down all in the land of I made to me all in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am ." 14 spoke to in of Sinai, saying, "Count the children of by their fathers' houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward." counted them according to word, as he was commanded. These were the by their names: , , and . These are the names of the sons of by their families: and . The sons of by their families: , , , and . The sons of by their families: and . These are the families of the according to their fathers' houses. 21Of was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the . Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred. The families of the shall encamp behind the westward. 24 the son of Lael shall be the prince of the fathers' house of the . The duty of the sons of in the shall be the , the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the , the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is by the and around the , and its cords for all of its . Of was the family of the Amramites, the family of the , the family of the , and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the . According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of . The families of the sons of shall encamp on the south side of the . 30The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the shall be the son of . Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the , the vessels of with which they minister, the screen, and all its . the son of the priest shall be prince of the princes of the , with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of . Of was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of . Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred. The prince of the fathers' house of the families of was Zuriel the son of . They shall encamp on the north side of the . The appointed duty of the sons of shall be the boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its , 37the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords. Those who encamp before the eastward, in front of the toward the sunrise, shall be , with and his sons, keeping the requirements of for the duty of the . The outsider who comes near shall be put to . All who were counted of the , whom and counted at the of , by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand. said to , "Count all males of the from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. You shall take the for me—I am —instead of all among the ; and the livestock of the instead of all among the livestock of the ." 42 counted, as commanded him, all among the . All males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three. 44 spoke to , saying, "Take the instead of all among the , and the livestock of the instead of their livestock; and the shall be mine. I am . For the of the two hundred seventy-three of of the who exceed the number of the , you shall take five apiece for each one; according to the you shall take them (the is twenty gerahs); 48and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is , to and to his sons." 49 took the money from those who exceeded the number of those who were by the ; from of the he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five , according to the ; and gave the money to and to his sons, according to word, as commanded .
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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.