King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 6
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1And spake unto , saying, Speak unto the , and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to a of a , to separate themselves unto : He shall separate himself from and , and shall drink no vinegar of , or vinegar of , neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of tree, from the kernels even to the husk. All the days of the of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto , he shall be , and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. All the days that he separateth himself unto he shall come at no body. He shall not make himself for his , or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they : because the consecration of his is upon his head. All the days of his separation he is unto . And if any man very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two , to the priest, to the door of the of : And the priest shall offer the one for a , and the other for a , and make an atonement for him, for that he by , and shall hallow his head that same day. And he shall unto the days of his separation, and shall bring of the first year for a : but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. And this is of the , when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the of : And he shall offer his unto , one he lamb of the first year for a , and one ewe lamb of the first year for a , and one ram for , And a basket of , cakes of mingled with oil, and wafers of with oil, and their meat , and their drink . 16And the priest shall bring them before , and shall offer his , and his : 17And he shall offer the ram for a of unto , with the basket of : the priest shall offer also his meat , and his drink . And the shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the of , and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the which is under the of the . And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one cake out of the basket, and one wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the , after the hair of his separation is shaven: And the priest shall wave them for a wave before : this is for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the may drink . This is of the who hath , and of his unto for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the which he , so he must do after of his separation. 22And spake unto , saying, Speak unto and unto his sons, saying, On this ye shall the , saying unto them, thee, and keep thee: make shine upon thee, and be unto thee: lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon the ; and them.
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.