World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 6
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1 spoke to , saying, "Speak to the , and tell them: 'When either man or woman shall make a special , the of a , to separate himself to , he shall separate himself from and . He shall drink no vinegar of , or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the , from the seeds even to the skins. "'All the days of his of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to . He shall be . He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. "'All the days that he separates himself to he shall not go near a body. He shall not make himself for his , or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they , because his separation to is on his head. All the days of his separation he is to . "'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. On the eighth day he shall bring two or two to the priest, to the door of the . The priest shall offer one for a , and the other for a , and make atonement for him, because he by reason of , and shall make his head that same day. He shall separate to the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a ; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. "'This is of the : when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the , and he shall offer his to : one male lamb a year old for a , one ewe lamb a year old for a , one ram for , a basket of , cakes of mixed with oil, and wafers with oil with their and their drink . 16The priest shall present them before , and shall offer his and his . 17He shall offer the ram for a of to , with the basket of . The priest shall offer also its and its drink . The shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the , take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the which is under the of . The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake out of the basket, and one wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the after he has shaved the head of his separation; and the priest shall wave them for a wave before . They are for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the may drink . "'This is of the who and of his to for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his which he , so he must do after of his separation.'" 22 spoke to , saying, "Speak to and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall the .' You shall tell them, ' you, and keep you. make to shine on you, and be to you. lift up toward you, and give you peace.' "So they shall put my name on the ; and them."
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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.