[The Pentateuch] — Bible. O.T. Pentateuch. English. Tyndale. 1530.

[The Pentateuch] — Bible. O.T. Pentateuch. English. Tyndale. 1530.

Table of contents

The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis.

W. T. To the Reader.

¶ A prologe shewinge the vse of the scripture

The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis

The fyrst Chapiter.

The seconde Chapter.

The .iij. Chapter

¶ The .iiij. Chapter.

The .v. Chapter.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

The .vij. Chapter.

The .viij. Chapter.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

The .x. Chapter.

¶ The .xi. chapter.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

The .xiiij. Chapter.

xv. Chapter.

The .xvi. Chapter.

¶ The .xvij. Chapter.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

The .xx. Chapter.

The .xxj. Chapter

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter

The .xxv. Chapter

The .xxvi. Chapter.

The .xxvij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxviij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

¶ The .xxx. Chapter

¶ The .xxxi. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxij. Chapter.

The .xxxiij. Chapter.

The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxv. Chapter

The .xxxvi. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxvij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxviij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxix. Chapter.

The xl. Capter.

The .xli. Capter.

¶ The .xlij. Chapter.

¶ The .xliij. Chapter.

The .xliiij. Chapter.

The .xlv. Chapter.

The .xlvi. Chapter.

¶ The .xlvij. Chapter.

The .xlviij. Chapter.

The .xlix. Chapter.

The .l. Chapter.

¶ A table expoundinge certeyne wordes

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Exodus

A PROLOGE IN TO THE SECONde boke of Moses called Exodus.

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The seconde boke of Moses, called Exodus. ¶ The seconde boke of Moses called Exodus.

¶ The first Chapter.

¶ The seconde Chapter.

¶ The thyrde Chapter.

¶ The .iiij. Chaptre.

¶ The .v. Chapter.

¶ The .vj. Chapter

¶ The .vij. Chaptre.

¶ The .viij. Chapter.

¶ The .ix. Chaptre.

¶ The .x. Chapter.

¶ The .xj. Chapter.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

The .xiij. Chapter.

The .xiiij. Chapter.

¶The .xv. Chapter.

¶The .xvj. Chapter.

The .xvij. Chapter.

The .xviij. Chapter.

The .xix. Chapter.

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

The .xxj. Chapter.

¶ The .xxij. Chapter

The .xxiij. Chapter.

The xxiiij. Chapter.

The .xxv. Chapter

The xxvi. Chapter.

¶ The .xxvij. Chapter

The .xxviij. Chapter.

The .xxix. Chapter.

¶ The .xxx. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxj. Chapter

¶ The .xxxij. Chapter

The .xxxiij. Chapter

The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

The .xxxv. Chapter.

The .xxxvi. Chapter.

The .xxxvij. Chapter

¶ The .xxxviij. Chapter

¶ The .xxxix. Chapter.

¶ The .xl. Chapter

Leviticus

A PROLOGE IN TO THE thirde boke of Moses called Leuiticus. ¶ A prologe in to the thirde boke of Moses, called Leuiticus.

¶ The THYRDE BOke of Moses. Called Leuiticus. ¶ The thirde boke of Moses, called Leuiticus.

¶ The firste Chapter.

¶ The seconde Chapter.

¶ The thyrde Chapter

¶ The .IIII. Chapter.

¶ The, v. Chapter.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

The .viij. Chapter.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

¶ The .X. Chapter

¶ The .xj. Chapter.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

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¶ The .xv. Chapter.

The .xvj. Chapter.

¶ The .XVII. Chapter.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

¶ The. xx, Chapter,

¶ The .xxj. Chapter.

¶ The .XXII. Chapter.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

¶ The. xxiiij Chapter.

¶ The. xxv Chapter.

¶ The .XXVI. Chapter.

¶ The .xxvij. Chapter.

Numbers

¶ A prologe into the fourth boke of Moses / called Numeri. ¶ A Prologe in to the fourth boke of Moses / called Numeri.

The fourthe boke of Moses called Numeri. ¶ The .iiij. boke of Moses / called Numeri.

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¶ The .ij. Chapter.

¶ The .iij. Chapter.

¶ The .iijj. Chapter.

¶ The. fyfte Chapter.

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

¶ The .viij. Chapter.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

¶ The .x. Chapter.

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xiiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xv. Chapter.

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

¶ The .xvij. Chapter.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

The .xxi. Chapter.

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

¶ The .xxvi. Chapter.

¶ The .xxvij. Chaptre

¶ The .xxviij. Chaptre

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

¶ The .xxx. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxi. Chapter.

¶ The▪ xxxij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxiij. Chapter

¶ The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxv. Chapter.

¶ The .xxxvi. Chapter.

Deuteronomy

A PROLOGE IN TO THE fyfte boke of Moses, called Deuteronomye.

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The first Chapter of Deuteronomye

The .ij. Chapter.

¶ The .iij. Chapter.

¶ The .iiij. Chapter.

The. •. Chapter.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

¶ The .viij. Chaptre.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

¶ The .x. Chapte.

The .xi. Chapter.

The .xij. Chapter.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

¶ The .xv. Chapter.

The .xvi. Chapter.

The .xvij. Chapter.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

¶ The .xx. Chapter

¶ The .xxj. Chapter.

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

¶ The .xxvj. Chapter.

The .xxvij. Chapter.

¶ The .xxviij. Chapter

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

The .xxx. Chapter.

The .xxxi. Chapter.

The .xxxij. Chapter.

The .xxxiij. Chapter.

The .xxxiiij. Chapter

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The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis.

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W. T. To the Reader.

WHen I had translated the newe testament / I added a pistle vnto the latter ende / In which I desyred them yt were learned to amend if ought were founde amysse. But oure malicious and wylye hypocrytes which are so stubburne and hard herted in their weked abhominaciōs that it is not possible for them to amend any thinge atall (as we see by dayly experience when their both lyvinges and doinges are rebufed with the trouth) saye / some of them that it is unpossible to translate the scripture in to English / some that it is not lawfull for the laye people to have it in their mother tonge / some that it wold make them all heretyfes / as it wold no doute from many thinges which they of longe tyme haue falsly taught / ād that is the whole cause wherfore they forbyd it / though they other clokes pretende. And some or rather every one / saye that it wold make them ryse ageynst the kinge / whom they them selves (vnto their damnatyō) never yet obeyed. And lefte the temporall rulars shuld see their falsehod / if the scripture cam to light / causeth them so to lye.

And as for my translatid in which they afferme vnto the laye people (as I haue hearde saye) [Page] to be I wotte not how many thousande heresyes / so that it cā not be mēded or correcte / they haue yet taken so greate payne to cramyne it / & to compare it vnto that they wold fayne haue it and to their awne imaginations and iugglin ge termes / and to haue some what to rayle at / and vnder that cloke to blaspheme the treuth / that they myght with as litle laboure (as I suppose) haue translated the moste parte of the bible. For they which in tymes paste were wont to loke on no more scripture then they sounde in their duns or soch like develysh doctryne / haue yet now so narowlye loked on my translatyon / that there is not so moch as one I therin if it lack [...] a tytle over his hed / but they haue noted it / and nombre it vnto the ignorant people for anheresy. Fynallye in this they be all agreed / to dryve you from the knowledge of the scripture / & that ye shall not haue the terte therof in the mother tonge / and to kepe the world styll in darkenesse / to thentent they might sirt in the consciences of the people / thorow vayne superstition and false doctrine / to satisfye their fylthy lustes their proude ambition / and vnsatiable covetuousnes / and to exalte their awne honoure aboue kinge & emperoure / yee & aboue god him silfe

¶ A thousand bokes had they lever to be put forth agensce their abhominable doynges and doctrine / then that the scripture shulde come to light. For as longe as they may kepe that doune / they will so darken the ryght way with the [Page] miste of their sophistrye / and so tangle thē that ether rebuke or despyse their abhommations with argumentes of philosophye & with wordly symylitudes and apparent reasons of naturall wisdom. And with wrestinge the scripture vnto their awne purpose clene contrarye vnto y• processe / order and meaninge of the texte / and so delude them in descantynge vppon it with al ligoryes / and amase thē expoundinge it in manye senses before the vnlerned laye people (when it hath but one symple litterall sense whose light the owles cā not abyde) that though thou feale in thyne harte and arte sure how that all is false yt they saye / yet coudeste thou not solve their sotle rydles.

¶ Which thinge onlye moved me to translate the new testament. Because I had perceaved by experyence / how that it was impossible to stablysh the laye people in any truth / excepte yo scripture were playnly layde besore their eyes in their mother tonge / that they might se the processe / ordre and meaninge of the texte: for els what so ever truth is taught them / these ennymyes of all truth qwench it ageyne / partly with the smoke of their bottomlesse pyite wherof thou readest apocalipsis .ix. that is / with apparent reasons of sophistrye & traditions of their awne makynge / founded with out grounde of scripture / and partely in iugglinge with the texte / expoundinge it in soch a sense as is impossible [Page] to gether of the texte / if thou see the processe ordre and meaninge therof.

¶ And even in the bisshope of londons house I entended to have done it. For when I was so turmoyled in the conire where I was that I coude no lenger there dwell (the processe wherof were to longe here to reherce) I this wyse thought in my silfe / this I suffre because the prestes of the contre be vnlerned / as god it knoweth there are a full ignorant sorte which haue sene no more latyn then that they read in their portesses and missales which yet many of them can scacely read (excepte it be Albertus desecretis mulierū in which yet / thought they be never so soryly lerned / they pore day and night and make notes therin and all to teach the mydwyves as they say / and linwod a boke of constitutions together tithes / mortuaryes / offeringes / customs / and other pillage / which they calle / not theirs / but godes parte and the deuty of holye chirch / to discharge their consciences with all for they are bound that they shall not dimynysh / but encreace all thinge vnto the vttmost of their powers) and therfore (because they are thus vnlerned thought I) when they come to gedder to the alehouse / which is their preachinge place / they afferme that my sainges are heresy. And besydes yt they adde to of thir awne heddes which I never spake / as the maner is to prolonge the tale to shorte [Page] the tyme with all / and accuse me secretly to the chauncelare and other the bishopes officers / And indeade when I cam before the chauncelare / he thretened me grevously / and rexyled me and rated me as though I had bene a dogge / and layd to my charge wherof there coude be none accuser brought forth (as their maner is not to bringe forth the accuser) and yet all the prestes of ye contre were yt same daye there. As I this thought the bishope of london came to my remembrance whom Erasmus (whose tonge maketh of litle gnattes greate elephātes and lifteth vpp aboue the starres whosoever geveth him a litle exhibition) prayseth excedingly amonge other in his annotatyons on the new testament for his great learninge. Then thought I / if I might come to this mannes service / I were happye. And so I gate me to london / & thorow the accoyntaunce of my master came to sir harry gilford the kinges graces countroller / ād brought him an oration of Isocrates which I had translated out of greke in to English / and desyred him to speake vnto my lorde of london for me / which he also did as he shewed me / ād willed me to write a pistle to my lorde / and to god to him my silf which I also did / and delivered my pistle to a servant of his awne / one wyllyam he bil [...]hwayte / a mā of myne old accoyntaūce. But god which kneweth what is within hypocrites / sawe that I was begyled / ād that that councell was not the nexte way vnto [Page] my purpose. And therfore he gate me no favoure in my lordes sight ¶ Wherevppō my lorde answered me / his house was full / he had mo thē he coude well finde / and advised me to seke in london / wher he sayd I coude not lacke a service / And so in london I abode almoste an yere / and marked the course of the worlde / and herde oure pratars / I wold say oure preachers how they bosted them selves and their hye authorite / and beheld the pompe of oure prelates and how besyed they were as they yet are / to set peace and vnite in the worlde (though it be not possible for them that walke in darkenesse to cō tinue longe in peace / for they can not but ether stōble or dash them selves at one thinge or another that shall clene vnquyer all togedder) & sawe thinges wherof I deferre to speake at this tyme and vnderstode at the laste not only that there was no rowme in my lorde of londons palace to translate the new testament / but also that there was no place to do it in all englonde / as experience doth now openly declare. ¶ Vnder what maner therfore shuld I now submitte this boke to be corrected and amended of them / which can suffer nothinge to be well▪ Or what [...]rotestacyon shuld I make in soch a matter vnto oure prelates those stubbutne N [...]mrothes which so mightely fight agenste god and resiste his holy spirite / enforceynge with all crafte and sotelte to qwench the light of the everlastinge testament / promyses / and as [Page] poyntemente made betwene god & vs: and heapinge the sirce wrath of god vppon all princes and rulars / mockinge thē with falfe fayned names of hypocrysye / and servinge their lustes at all poyntes / & dispensinge with thē even of the very lawes of god / os which Christe him silf testifieth Mathew .v. yt not so moch as one tittle therof maye perish or be brokē. And of which the prophete fayth Psalme .cxvii. Thou haste cōmaunded thy lawes to be kepte meod / yt is in hebrew excedingly / with all diligēce / might & power / and haue made thē so mad with their iugglinge charmes and crafty persuasiōs that they thinke it full satisfaction for all their weked lyvinge / to tormē [...] soch as tell thē trouth / & to borne the worde of their soules helth & sle whosoever beleve theron.

¶ Notwithstōdinge yet I submytte this boke and all other that I haue other made or trāslated / or shall in tyme to come (if it be goddes will that I shall further laboure in his hervest) vnto all them that submytte thē selves vn to the worde of god / to be corrected of thē / yee and moreover to be disalewed & also burnte / if it seme worthy when they have examyned it wyth the hebrue / so that they first put forth of their awne translatinge a nother that is more correcte.

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¶ A prologe shewinge the vse of the scripture

THough a man had a precious iuell and a rich / yet if he wiste not the value therof nor wherfore it served / he were nother the better nor ryeher of a straw. Eyen so though we read the scripture & bable of it never so moch / yet if we know not the vse of it / and wherfore it was geven / and what is theim to be sought / it profiteth vs nothinge at all. It is not ynough therfore to read and talke of it only / but wo must also desyre god daye and night instantly to open oure eyes / ād to make vs vnderstond and feale wherfore the scripture was geuen / that we maye applye the medicyne of the scripture / every mā to his awne sores / inlesse then we entend to beydle disputers / and braulers aboute vayne wordes / ever gnaw enge vppon the bitter barcke with out and newer attayninge vnto the swetepith with in / and persequutinge one and other for defendinge of lewde imaginacions and phantasyes of oure arene invencyon

¶ Paule in ye thyrde of ye secōde epistle to Tymo the sayth / yt the scripture is good to teache (for yt ought mē to teach & not dreames of their awne makige / as ye pope doth) & also to improvt / for ye scripture is y• twichstone yt tryeth all doctrynes / & by yt we know the false from ye true. [Page] And in the .vi. to the ephesians he calleth it the swerd of the spirite / by cause it killeth hyppocrites and vttereth āo improveth their false inventyons. And in the. [...]. to the Romayns he sayth all that are wryten / are wryten for oure learninge / that we thorow pacyence and cōsorte of the scripture myght have hope. That is / the ensamples that are in the scripture comforte vs in all oure tribulacyons / and make vs to put oure truste in god / and pacyently to abyde his leysure. And in the .x. of the firste to the Corinthyans he bringeth in examples of the scripture of feare vs and to bridle the fleshe / that we caste not the yoke of the lawe of god from of oure neckes / and fall to lustynge and doinge of evill.

¶ So now the scripture is a light and sheweth vs the true waye / both what to do / and what to hope. And a defence from all erroure / and a comforte in adversyte that we despayre not. and feareth vs in prosperyte that we synne not Sec̄e therfore in the scripture as thou readest it first the law / what god cōmaundeth vs to doo. And secundarylye the promyses / which god promyseth vs ageyne / namely in Christe Iesu oure lorde. Then seke ensamples / firste of comsorte / how god purgeth all them that submitte them selves to walke in his wayes / in the purgatorye of tribulatyon / delyveringe them yet at tye latter ende / and never soferinge any of them to perysh / that cleave faste to his promyses. And fynallye / note the ensamples which are writen [Page] to feare the flesh that we synne not. That is / how god suffereth the vngodlye and weked synners that resiste god and refuse to folow him / to contynue in their wekednesse / ever waxinge worse and worse vntyll their synne be so sore encreased and so abhomynable / that if they shuld longer endure they wold corrupte the very electe. But for the electes sake god sendeth thē preachers. Neverthelesse they harden their hartes agenste the truth / and god destroyeth thē vtterlye and begynneth the world a new.

¶ This comforte shalt thou evermore finde in the playne texte and luerall sense. Nether is there any storye so homely / so rude / yee or so vyle (as it semeth outwarde) wherin is not exceadinge greate comforte. And when some which seme to them selves great clarkes saye: they wott not what moare profite is in many gestes of the scripture if they be read with out an allegotye / then in a tale of robenhode / saye thou: that they were wryten for oure consolacyon and comforte / that we despayre not / if soch likehappen vnto vs. We be not holyer then Noe / though he were once dronke. Nether be [...]ter beloved then Iacob / though his awne sonne defyled his bedde. We be not holyer then lot / though his doughters thorow ignorance deceaved him / nor paradventure holyer then those doughters. Nether are we holyer then David / though he brake wedlocke and vppon the same commytted abhomynable murther. All those men have witnesse [Page] of the scripture that they pleased god and ware good men both before that those thinges chaunsed them and also aster. Neverthelesse soch thinges happened them foroure ensampler not that we shuld contrafayte their evill / but if whyle we fight with oure selves enforsynge to walke in the law of god (as they did) we yet fall likewise / that we despayre not / but come agayn▪ to the lawes of god and take better holde

¶ We read sens the tyme of Christes deeth / of virgins that have bene brought vnto the comē stues / and theyedefyled / and of martyrs that haue bene bounde and hores haue ab [...]sed their bodyes. Why: The iudgemētes of god are bottō lesse. Soch thinges chaunced partely for ensamples / partely God thorow synne healeth synne Pryde can net her be healed nor yet appere but thorow soch horrible deades. Paraduenture they were of y• popes secte ād reioysed fleshly / thinkinge that heaven came by deades and not by Christ / and that the outwarde dead iustyfyed them & made them holy and not the inward spirite receeved by fayth and the consent of the harte vnto the law of god.

¶ As thou readeste therfore thinke that every sillable pertayneth to thyne awne silf / and suc [...]e out the pithe of the scripture / and arme thy silf ageynst all assaultes. Firste note with stronge faith the power of god in creatinge all of nought Then marke the grevous fall of Adam and of vs all in him / thorow the lightregardīge of the [Page] commaundement of god. In the iii. Chapitre God turneth him vnto Abel and then to his offeringe / but not to Cain and his offeringe. Where thou seest that though the deades of the evel apere outwardly as gloryous as the deades of the good: yet in the sight of god which loketh on the harte / the deade is good because of the man / and not the man good because of his deade. In the vj. God sendeth Noe to preach to the weked and geueth them space to repent: they wax hard herted / God bringeth them to nought And yet saveth Noe: even by the same water by which he destroyed them. Marke also what folowed the pryde of the buyldinge of the [...]oure of Babel

Consydre how God sendeth forth Abrahā out of his awne contre in to a strange landefull of weked people / and gave him but a bare promesse with him that he wold blesse him and defende him. Abraham beleved: and that worde saued and delyuered him in all parelles: so that we se / how that mannes lise is not mayntayned by bred onlye (as Christe sayeth) but moch rather by belevinge the promyses of god. Behold how soberly and how circūspectly both Abraham and also Isaac behaue them selves amō ge the infideles. Abraham byeth that which might have ben geven him for nought / to cutte of occasions. Isaac when his welles which he had digged were taken from him / geveth rowme and resisteth not. More over they creand sowe [Page] and fede their catell / and make confede [...]acy ons / ād take perpetuall truce / and do all outward thinges: Even as they do which have no faith / for god hathnot made vs to beydle in this world Every man must worke godly and truly to the vttmoste of the power that god hath geven him: and yet not truste therin: but in goddes worde or promesse: and god will worke with vs and bringe that we do to good effecte. And thē when oure power will extend no further / goddes promesses wyll worke all alone

¶ How many thinges also resisted the promesses of god to Iacob? And yet Iacob coniureth god with his awne promesses savenger O god of my father Abraham: and god of my father Isaac / Olorde which saydeste vnto me returne vnto thyne awne contre / and vnto the place were thou waste borne and I wil do the good Iam not worthy of the leste of those mercyes / nor of that trouth which thou haste done to thy seruant I went out but with a staffe / and come [...]ome with ij droves / delyver me out of the handes of my brother Esau / for I feare hym greatly &c. And god delyvered him / and will likewyse all that call vnto his promesses with a repentinge herte / were they never so great synners. Marke also the weake infirmites of the mā He loveth one wife more then a nother / one sonne more then a nother. And se how god purgeth him. Esau threteneth him: Laban begyleth him. The beloued wife is longe baren: his [Page] doughter is ravyshed: his wife is defyled / and that of his awne sonne. Rahel dieth / Ioseph is taken a way / yee and as he supposed rent of wild beastes And yet how gloryous was hys ende? Note the wekenesse of his Children / yee and the synne of them / and how god thorow their awne wekednes saved them. These ensamples teach vs that a man is not attonce parfecte the firste daye he beginneth to lyve wel They that be stronge therfore muste suffre with the weake / and helpe to kepe them in vnite & peace one with a nother vntill they bestrōger

Note what the brothren sayde when they were tached in Egipte / we haue verelye synned (sayde they) ag [...]ynste oure brother in y• we sawe the anguysh of his soule when he besought rs / and wold not heare him: ād therfore is this tribulation come vppon vs. By which ensample thou seiste / how that conscience of evyll doenges findeth men out at [...]he laste. But namely in tribulacyon and adrersyte: there temptacyon and also desperacyon: yee and the verye paynes of hest find vs out: there the soule feleth the fers [...] wrath of god and wyssheth mountaynes to falle on ber and to hyde her (yf it were possible) frō the angrye face of god.

Marke also how greate evelles folow of how litle an occasion Sina goeth but forth alone to se the doughters of the contre / and how greate myscheve and troble folowed? Iacobloved but one sonne more then another / ād how grevous [Page] murther folowed in their hartes? These are ensamples for oure learninge to teach vs to walke warely and circūspectlye in the worlde of weake people / that we geve no mā occasions of evyll ¶ Finally / se what god promysed Joseph in his dreames. Those promesses accōpanyed him all ways / and went doune wyth him even in to the depe dongeon / And brought him vppe agayne / And never for soke him till all that was promysed was fulfilled. These are ensamples wrytē for oure learnīge (as paule sayth) to teach vs to truste in god in y• strōge fyre of tribulation and purgatorye of oure flesh. And that they which submytte them selves to folow god shuld note and marke soch thinges / for theyr lerninge and comforte / is the frute of the scripture and cause why it was wryten: And with soch a purpose to reade it / is the waye to everlastynge life and to those ioyfull blyssinges that are promysed vnto all nacyons in the seade of Abraham / which seade is Jesus Christe oure lorde / to whom be honoure and prayse for ever and vnto god oure father thorow him.

AMEN.

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The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis

The fyrst Chapiter.

IN the begynnynge God created heaven and erth. The erth was voyde and emptie / ād darcknesse was vpon the depe / and the spirite of god moved vpon the water

Than God sayd: let there be lyghte and there was lyghte. And God sawe the lyghte that it was good: & devyded the lyghte from the darcknesse / and called the lyghte daye / and the darcknesse nyghte: and so of the evenynge and mornynge was made the fyrst daye

And God sayd: let there be a fyrmament betwene the waters / ād let it devyde the waters a sonder. Than God made the fyrmament and parted the waters which were vnder the fyrmament / from the waters that were above the fyrmament: And it was so. And God called the fyrmament heaven / And so of the evenynge and morninge was made the seconde daye

And God sayd / let the waters that are vnder heaven gather them selves vnto one place / that the drye londe may appere: And it came so to passe. And god called the drye lande the erth and the gatheringe togyther of waters called [...]e the see. And God sawe that it was good

[Page]And God sayd: let the erth bringe forth herbe and grasse that sowe seed / and frutefull trees that bere frute every one in his kynde / havynge their seed in them selves vpon the erth. And it came so to passe: ād the erth brought forth herbe and grasse sowenge seed every one in his kynde & trees berynge frute & havynge their seed in thē selves / every one in his kynde. And God sawe that it was good: and thē of the evenynge and mornynge was made the thyrde daye.

Than sayd God: let there be lyghtes in ye firmament of heaven to devyde the daye frō the nyghte / that they may be vnto sygnes / seasons / days & yeares. And let them be lyghtes in the fyrmament of heavē / to shyne vpon the erth. & so it was. And God made two great lyghtes A greater lyghte to rule the daye / & a lesse lyghte to rule the nyghte / and he made sterres also. And God put them in the fyrmament of heaven to shyne vpon the erth / and to rule the daye & the nyghte / ād to devyde the lyghte from darcknesse. And god sawe yt it was good: and so of the evenynge ād mornynge was made the fourth daye.

And God sayd / let the water bryng forth creatures that move & have lyfe / & foules for to flee over the erth vnder the fyrmament of heaven. And God created greate whalles and all maner of creatures that lyoe and moue / which the waters brought forth in their kindes / ād all maner of federed foules in their kyndes. And [Page] God sawe that it was good: and God blessed them saynge. Growe and multiplye ād fyll the waters of the sees / & let the foules multiplye vpō the erth. And so of the evenynge & morninge was madethe fyfth daye.

And God sayd: leth the erth bringforth lyvynge creatures in thir kyndes: catell & wormes & beastes of the erth in their kyndes / & so it came [...]o passe. And god made the beastes of the erth in their kyndes / & catell in their kyndes / ād all maner wormes of the erth in their kyndes: and God sawe that it was good.

And God sayd: let vs make man in oure symilitude ād after oure lycknesse: that he may have rule over the fysh of the see / and over the foules of the ayre / and over catell / and over all the erth / and over all wormes that crepe on the erth. And God created man after hys lycknesse / after the lycknesse of god created he him: male & female created he them.

And God blessed them / and God sayd vnto them. Growe and multiplye and fyll the erth and subdue it / and have domynyon over the fysh of the see / and over the foules of the ayre / and over all the beastes that move on the erth.

And God sayd: se / I have geven yow all herbes that sowe seed which are on all the erth / and all maner trees that haue frute in them and sowe seed: to be meate for yow & for all [Page] beastes of the erth / and vnto all foules of the ayre / and vnto all that crepeth on the erth where in is lyfe / that they may haue all maner herbes and grasse for to eate / and even so it was. And God behelde al that he had made / ād loo they were exceadynge good: and so of the evenynge and mornynge was made the syxth daye

The seconde Chapter.

Thus was heavē & erth fynished wyth all their apparell: ād ī y• seuēth daye god ended hys worke which he had made & rested in y• seventh daye frō all his workes which he had made. And God blessed y• seventh daye / and sanctyfyed it / for in it he rested from all his workes which he had created and made.

¶ These are the generations of heaven & erth when they were created / in the tyme when the LORde God created heaven and erth and all the shrubbes of the felde before they werein the erthe. And all the herbee of the felde before they sprange: for the LORde God had yet sent no rayne vpon the erth / nether was there yet any man to tylle the erth. But there arose a myste out of the ground and watered all the face of the erth▪ Then the LORde God sh [...]pe man / even of the m [...]ulde of the erth and brethed into his face the breth of lyfe. So man was made a lyvynge soule.

¶ The LORde God also planted a garden in Eden from the begynnynge / and there he sette [Page] man whom he had formed. And the LORde God made to sprynge out of the erth / all maner trees bewtyfull to the syghte and pleasant [...]o eate / and the tree of lyfe in the middes of the garden: and also the tree of knowlege of good and euell.

¶ And there spronge a rever out of Eden to water the garden / and thence devided it selfe / and grewe into foure principall waters. The name of the one is Phison / he it is that compasseth all the lande of heuila / where gold groweth. And the gold of that contreys precious / there is found bedellion and a stone called O [...]ix. The name of the seconde ryver is Gihon / which compassyth all the lande of Inde. And the name of the thyrde river is Hidekell / which runneth on the easte syde of the assyryans And the fourth [...]ver is Euphrates.

¶ And the LORde God toke Adam and put him in the garden of Eden / to dresse it and to kepe it: and the LORde God cōmaunded Adā saynge: of all the trees of the gardē se thoū eate. But of the tre of knowlege of good and badd se that thou eate not: for even y• same daye thou eatest of it / thou shalt surely dye.

¶ And the LORde God sayd: it is not good that man shulde be alone / I will make hym an helper to beare him company: And after yt the LORde God had make of the erth all maner beastes of the felde / and all maner foules of the ayre / he brought them vnto Adam to see what [Page] he wold call them. And as Adā called all maner livynge beastes: evē so are their names. And Adam gave names vnto all maner catell / and vnto the foules of the ayre / and vnto all maner beastes of the felde. But there was no helpe founde vnto Adam to beare him companye

Then the LORde God cast a slomber on Adam / and he slepte. And then he toke o [...] one of his rybbes / and instede ther of he fylled vp the place with flesh. And the LORde God made of the rybbe which he toke out of Adam / a womā and brought her vnto Adam. Then sayd Adā this is once bone of my boones / and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was take of the man. For this cause shall a man leve father and mother & cleve vnto his wyfe / [...] they shall be one flesh. And they were [...]ther of them naked / both Adam and hys wyfe / ād were not ashamed:

The .iij. Chapter

BVt the serpent was sotyller than all the beastes of the felde which y• LORde God had made / and sayd vnto the woman. Ah syr / that God hath sayd / ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden. And the woman sayd vnto the serpent / of the frute of the trees in the garden we may eate / but of the frute of the tree yt is in the myddes of the garden (sayd God) se that ye eate not / and se that ye touch it not: lest ye dye.

[Page]Then sayd the serpent vnto the woman: [...]ush ye shall not dye: But God doth knowe / that whensoever ye shulde eate of it / youre eyes shuld be opened and ye shulde be as / God and knowe both good and evell. And the woman sawe that it was a good tree to eate of and lustie vnto the eyes and a pleasant tre for to make wyse. And toke of the frute of it and ate / and gaue vnto hir husband also with her / and he ate. And the eyes of both them were opened / that they vnderstode how that they were naked. Than they sowed fygge leves togedder and made them apurns.

And they herd the voyce of the LORde God as he walked in the gardē in the coole of the daye. And Adam hyd hymselfe and his wyfe also from the face of the LORde God / amonge the trees of the garden. And the LORde God called Adam and sayd vnto him where art thou? And he answered. Thy voyce I harde in the garden / but I was afrayd because I was naked / and therfore hyd myselfe. And he sayd: who told the that thou wast naked? hast thou eaten of the tree / of which I bade the that thou shuldest not eate? And Adam answered. The woman which thou gavest to bere me company she toke me of the tree / ād I ate. And the LORde God sayd vnto the woman: wherfore didest thou so? And the woman answered / the serpent deceaved me and I ate.

[Page]¶ And the LORde God sayd vnto the serpēe because thou haste so done moste cursed be thou of all catell and of all beastes of the feld: oppō thy bely shalt thou goo: and erth shalt thou eate alldayes of thy lyfe. Morover I will put haired betwene the and the woman / and betwene thy seed and [...]yr seed. And that seed shall tread the on the heed / ād thou shalt tread hit on the hele.

And vnto the woman he sayd: I will suerly encrease thy sorow ād make the oft with child / and with payne shalt thou be deleverd: And thy lustes shall pertayne vnto thy husbond and he shall rule the.

And vnto Adā he sayd: for as moch as thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wyfe / and hast eaten of the tree of which I commaunded the saynge: se thou eate not therof: cursed be the erth for thy safe. In sorow shalt thou eate therof all dayes of thy lyfe / And it shall beare thornes ād thystels vnto the. And thou shalt eate the herbes of y• feld: In the swete of thy face shalt thou eate brede / vntill thou returne vnto the erth whēce thou wast takē: for erth thou art / ād vnto erth shalt thou returne.

And Adā called his wyfe Heua / because she was the mother of all that lyveth And the LORde God made Adam and hys wyfe garmentes of skynnes / and put them on them. And the LORde God sayd: loo / Adam is become as it were one of vs / in knowlege of good and evell. But now lest he strech forth his hand [Page] and take also of the three of lyfe and eate and lyve ever.

And the LORde God cast him out of the garden of Eden / to tylle the erth whēce he was taken. And he cast Adā out / and sette at y• enteringe of the garden Eden / Cherubin with a naked swerde movinge in and out / to kepe the way to the tree of lyfe.

¶ The .iiij. Chapter.

ANd. Adam lay wyth [...]eua ys wyfe / which conceaved and bare Cain / and sayd: I haue goten amā of the LORde. And she proceded forth and bare hys brother Abell: And Abell became a sheperde / And Cain became a ploweman.

And it fortuned in processe of tyme / that Cain brought of the frute of the erth: an offerynge vnto the LORde. And Abell / he brought also of the fyrstlynges of hys shepe and of the fatt of them. And the LORde loked vnto Abell and to his offeynge: but vnto Cain and vnto his offrynge / looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceadingly / and loured. And the LORde sayd vnto Cain: why art thou angry / and why loureste thou? Wotest thou not yf thou dost well thou shalt receave it? But & yf thou dost evell / by & by thy synne lyeth open in the dore. Not withstondyng [Page] let it be subdued vnto the / ād see thou ruleOf this [...]ace no do [...]e ye pope [...]hich in all [...]inges ma [...]eth hī self [...]ual with [...]od toke an [...]ccasion to [...]arke all [...]is creatu [...]es: and to [...]orbid vn [...]er payne of [...]cōmunicaō yt no mā whether he [...]re kīge or [...]mperowre) [...]e so hardy [...]o punishe [...]em for [...]hat so e [...]r myschef [...]ey doo. [...]he crowne [...]s to thē al [...] [...]ence to do [...]hat they [...]ste a prote [...] [...]ō & a sure [...]uarye. it. And Cain talked wyth Abell his brother.

And as soone as they were in the feldes / Cain fell vppon Abell his brother and slewe hym And y• LORde sayd vnto Cain: where is Abell thy brother: And he sayd: I can not tell / am I my brothers keper? And he sayd: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth vnto me out of the erth. And now cursed be thou as pertaynyng to the erth / which opened hyr mouth to receaue thy brothers bloud of thy ne hande. For when thou tyllest the grounde she shall hēce forth not geve hyr power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the erth.

And Cain sayd vnto the LORde: my synne is greater / then that it may be forgeven. Beholde thou castest me out thys day from of the face of the erth / and frō thy syghte must I hyde my selfe ād I must be wandrynge and a vagabunde vpon the erth: Morover whosoever fyndeth me / wyll kyll me. And the LORde sayd vnto hi Not so / but whosoever sleyth Cain shalbe punyshed .vij. folde. And ye LORde put * a marke vpō Cain that no māyt founde hym shulde kyll hym▪ [Page] And Cain went out frō the face of the LORde and dwelt in the lande Nod / on the east syde of Eden.

And Cain laye wyth hys wyfe / which conceaved and bare Henoth. And he was buyldinge a cyte and called the name of it after the name of hys sonne / Henoch. And Henoch bega [...] Irad. And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat Lamech.

And Lamech toke hym two wyves: the one was called Ada / and the other Zilla. And Ada bare Iabal / of whome came they that dwell in tentes ād possesse catell. And hys brothers name was Iubal: of hym came all that excercyse them selves on the harpe and on the organs And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker in metall and a father of all that grave in brasse and yeron. And Tubalcains syster was called Naema.

Then sayd Lamech vnto hys wyves Ada ād Zilla: heare my voyce ye wyves of Lamech and herken vnto my wordes / for I haue slayne a man and wounded my selfe / and haue sla yn a yongman / and gotte my selfe strypes: [Page] For Cain shall be avenged sevenfolde: but Lamech seventie tymes seven folde.

¶ Adam also laye with hys wyfe yet agayne / and she bare a sonne ād called hys name Seth For god (sayd she) hath geven me another sonne For Abell whom Cam slewe. And Seth begat a sonne and called hys name Enos. And in that tyme began men to call on the name of the LORde.

The .v. Chapter.

THys is the bo [...]e of the generacion of man / In thedaye when God created man and made hym after the symilytude of god Male and female made he thē and called their names man / in the daye when they were created. And when Adam was an hundred and thyrty yere old / he begat a sonne after hys lycknesse and symilytude: and called hys name Seth. And the dayes of Adam after he begat Seth / were eyght hundred yere / and begat sonnes and doughters. and all the dayes of Adam which he lyved / were .ix. hundred and .xxx. yere / and then he dyed.

And Seth lyved an hundred and .v. yeres / and begat Enos. And after he had begot Enos he lyved .viij. hundred and .vij. yere / and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Seth were .ix. hundred and .xij. yere / and dyed.

And Enos lyved .lxxxx. yere and begat [Page] kenan. And Enos after he begat kenan / lyved viij. hundred and .xv. yere / and begat sonnes and doughters: and all the dayes of Enos were. ix hundred and .v. yere / and than he dyed.

And kenan lyued .lxx. yere and begat Mahalaliel. And kenan after he had begot Mahalaliel / lyved .viij. hundred and .xl. yere and begat sonne [...] and doughters: and al the dayes of kenan were .ix. hundred and .x. yere / and than be dyed.

And Mahalaliel lyued .lxv. yere / and begat Iared. And Mahalaliel after he had begot Iared lyved .viij. hundred and .xxx. yere and begat sonnes and doughters: and all the dayes of Mahalalyell were .viij. hundred nynetye and .v. yeare / and than he dyed

And Iared lyved an hundred and .lxij. yere and begat Henoch: and Iared lyved after he begat Henoch .viij. hundred yere and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Iared were .ix. hundred and .lxij. yere / and than he dyed.

And Henoch lyved .lxv. yere ād begat Mathusala. And Henoch walked wyth god after he had begot Mathusala .iij. hundred yere / and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Henoch were .iij. hundred and .lxv. yere. and than Henoch lyved a godly lyfe / and was nomore sene / for God toke hym away.

And Mathusala lyved an hundred and lxxxvij. yere and begat Lamech: and Mathusala [Page] after he had begot Lamech / lyved .vij. hundred and .lxxxij. yere / ād begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Methusala were .ix. hundred. lxix yere / and than he dyed.

And Lamech lyved an hundred .lxxxij. yere & begat a sonne and called hym Noe sayng. This same shall comforte vs: as concernynge oure worke and sorowe of oure handes which we haue aboute the erthe that the LORde hath cursed. And Lamech lyved after he had begot Noe v. hundred / nynetie and .v. yere / and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Lamech were .vij. hundred .lxxvij. yere / and than he dyed. And when Noe was .v. hundred yere olde / he begat Sem / Ham and Iaphet.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

ANd it came to passe / whā men begā to multiplye apō the erth ād had be got them doughters / the sonnes of God sawe the doughters of men that / they were fayre / and toke vnto them wyves / which they best liked amōge thē all. And the LORd sayd: My spirite shall not allwaye stryve withe man / for they are flesh. Nevertheles I wyll geue them yet space / and hundred and .xx. yeres

There were tirantes in the world in thos dayes. For after that the children of God had gone in vnto the doughters of men and had begotten them childern / the same childern were the mightiest of the world and men of renowne [Page] And whan the LORde sawe y• the wekednesse of man was encreased apon the erth / and that all the ymaginacion and toughtes of his hert was only evell continually / he repented that he had made man apon the erth and sorowed in his hert. And sayd: I wyll destroy mankynde which I haue made / frō of the face of the erth: both man / beast / worme and foule of the ayre / for it repēteth me that I haue made them. But yet Noe found gracein the syghte of the LORde.

These are the generatiōs of Noe. Noe was a [...]ghteous man and [...]nco [...]rapte in his tyme / & walked wyth god. And Noe begat .iij. sonnes: Sem / Ham and Iapheth And the erth was corrupte in the syghte of god and was full of mischefe. And God loked vpon the erth / ād loo [...] was corrupte: for all flesh had corrupte his way vppon the erth.

Than sayd God to Noe: the end of all flesh is come before me / for the erth is full of there myschefe. And loo / I wyll destroy them with the erth. Make the an arcke of pyne tree / and make chaumbers in the arcke / and pytch it wythin and wythout wyth pytch. And of this facion shalt thou make it.

The lenth of the arcke shall be .iij. hundred cubytes / ād the bredth of it .l. cubytes / and the heyth of it .xxx. cubytes. A wyndow shalt thou make aboue in the arcke. And wythin a cubyte compasse shalt thou finysh it. [Page] And the dore of the arcke shalt thou sette in ye syde of it: and thou shalt make it with iij loftes one aboue an other. For behold I wil bringe in a floud of water apon the erth to destroy all flesh from vnder heaven / wherin breth of life is so that all that is in the erth shall perish. But I will make myne apoyntement with the / that both thou shalt come in to ye arcke and thy sonnes / thy wyfe and thy sonnes wyves with the.

And of all that ly [...]eth what soever flesh it be / shalt thou brynge in to the arcke / of every thynge a payre / to kepe them a lyve wyth the. And male and female se that they be / of byrdes in their kynde / and of beastes in their kynde / and of all maner of wormes of the erth in their kinde: a payre of every thinge shall come vnto the to kepe them a lyve. And take vnto the of all maner of meate yt may be eaten & laye it vp in stoore by the / that it may be meate both for ye and for thē: and Noe dyd acordynge to all that God commaunded hym.

The .vij. Chapter.

ANd the LORde sayd vnto Noe: goo in to the arcke both thou and all th [...] houssold. For the haue I sene rightuous before me in thys generacion. Of all clene beastes take vnto the .vij. of every kynde the male and hys female [Page] And of vnclene beastes a payre / the male and hys female: lykewyse of the byrdes of the ayre vij. of every kynde / male and female to save seed vppon all the erth. For .vij. dayes hence wyll I send rayne vppō the erth .xl. dayes & .xl. nyghtes and wyll dystroy all maner of thynges that Tha [...]e made / from of the face of the erth..

And Noe dyd acordynge to all yt the lorde cō maunded hym: and Noe was, vi. hundred yere olde / when the floud of water came vppon the erth: and Noe went and his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyves wyth hym / in to the arke from the waters of the floud. And of clene beastes and of beastes that [...] are vnclene and of byrdes and of all that crepeth vppō the erth / came in by cooples of every kynde vnto Noe in to the arke: a male and a female: even as God commaunded Noe. And the seventh daye the waters of the floud came vppon the erth.

In the .vi. hundred yere of Noes lyfe / in the secōde moneth / in the. xvij daye of the moneth / yt same daye were all the founteynes of the gre [...]e depe broken vp / & the wyndowes of heavē were opened / ād there fell a rayne vpon the erth .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes.

And the selfe same daye went Noe / Sem / Ham and Iapheth / Noes sonnes / and Noes wyfe and the. ii [...]. wyues of his sonnes wyth them in to the arke: both they and all maner of beastes in their kīde / & all maner of catell in their kynde & all maner of wormes that crepe vppon [Page] the erth in their kynde / and all maner of byrdes in there kynde. / and all maner off foules what soever had feders. And they came vnto Noe in to the arke by cooples / of all flesh yt had breth of lyfe in it. And they that came / came male ād female of every flesh acordige as God cōmaunded hym: & ye LORde shytt the dore vppō him

And the floud came .xl. dayes & .xl. nyghtes vppon the erth / & the water increased and bare vp the arcke ād it was lifte vp from of the erth And the water prevayled and increased exceadingly vppon the erth: and the arke went vppō he toppe of the waters.

And the waters prevayled excedingly above mesure vppō the erth / so that all the hye hylles which are vnder all the partes of heaven / were covered: evē .xv. cubytes hye prevayled the waters / so that the hylles were covered.

And all fleshe that moved on the erth / bothe birdes catell and beastes perisshed / with al that crepte on the erth and all men: so that all that had the breth of liffe in the nostrels of it thorow out all that was on drye lond dyed.

Thus was destroyed all that was vppō the erth / both man / beastes / wormes and foules of the ay [...] ▪ so that they were destroyed from the erth: save Noe was reserved only and they that were wyth hym in the arke. And the waters nee valved vppon the erth / an hundred and fyftye dayes.

The .viij. Chapter.

[Page]ANd god remēbred Noe & all ye beastes & all ye catell ye were with hī in ye arke And god made a wynde to blow vppō y• erth / & y• waters ceased: ād ye fountaynes of the depe ād the wyndowes of heavē were stopte and the rayne of heaven was forbiddē / and the waters returned from of ye erth ād abated after the ende of an hundred and .l. dayes.

And the arke rested vppō the mountayns of Ararat / the .xvij. daye of the .vij. moneth. And the waters went away ād decreased vntyll the x. moneth. And the fyrst daye of the tenth moneth / the toppes of the mounteyns appered.

And after the ende of .xl. dayes. Noe opened the wyndow of the arke which he had made / ād sent forth a raven / which went out / ever goinge and cominge agayne / vntyll the waters were dreyed vpp vppon the erth

Then sent he forth a doue from hym / to we [...]e whether the waters were fallen from of the erth. And when the doue coude fynde no restinge place for hyr fote / she returned to him agayne vnto the arke / for the waters were vppon the face of all the erth. And he put out hys honde and toke her and pulled hyr to hym in to the arke

And he abode yet .vij. dayes mo / and sent out the doue agayne out of the arke / And the doue came to hym agayne aboute eventyde / and beholde: There was in hyr mouth a lefe of an olyve tre which she had plucked [Page] wherby Noe perceaved that the waters wer abated [...]ppon the erth. And he taried yet .vij. other dayes / and sentforth the doue / which from thence forth came no more agayne to him.

And it came to passe / the syxte hundred and one yere and the fyrst daye of the fyrst moneth / that the maters were dryed vpp apon the erth. And Noe toke off the hatches of the arke and lo ked: And beholde / the face of the erth was drye. So by the .xxvij. daye of the seconde moneth the erth was drye.

And God spake vnto Noe saynge: come out of the arcke / both thou and thy wyfe ād thy sonnes and thy sonnes wyues with the. And all the beastes that are with the whatsoever flesh it be / both foule and catell and all maner wormes that crepe on the erth / brynge out with the / and let them moue / growe ād multiplye vppon the erth. And Noe came out / ād his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyues with hym. And all the beastes / and all the wormes / and all the foules / and all that moved vppon the erth / came also out of the arke / all of one kynde together.

And Noe made an aulter vnto the LORDE / and toke of all maner of clene beastes and all maner of clene foules / and offred sacrify ce vppon the aulter. And the LORDE smellyd a swete savoure and sayd in his hert: I wyll henceforth no more curse the erth fo: mannes sake / for the imagynacion of mannes hert i [...] [Page] [...]ell / even from the very youth of hym. Morouer I wyll not destroy from henceforth all that [...]yveth as I haue done. Nether shall sowynge [...]yme and haruest / colde / and hete / somere & [...]yn* This lawe and soch like to exequute / were kinges and rulars ordey / ned of God wherfore they ought not to suffre the popes Caimes thus to shede bloud theirs not shed ageyne / neth er yet to sett vpp their ab hominable sētuaryes & necke verses cleane agenste the ordinaunce of god / but vn to their dā nacyon [...]er / daye and nyghte ceasse / as longe as the erth endureth.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

ANd God blessed No [...] and his sonnes / and sayd vnto them▪ Increase and multiplye and fyll the ert [...].

The feare also and drede of yow be vppon all beastes of the erth / and vppon all foules of the ayre / ād vppon all that crepeth on the erth / and vppon all fyshes of the see / which are geuen vnto youre handes And all that moveth vppon the erth havynge lyfe / shall be youre meate: Euen as y• grene herbes / so geue I yow all thyn [...]e. Only the flesh with his life which is his [...]loud / se that ye eate not.

[...] For verely the bloude of yow wherein youre ly [...]es are wyll I requyre: Euē of the hande of all [...]eastes wyll I requyre it / And of the hande of [...]an and of the hand off euery mannes brother / [...]yll I requyre the lyfe of man: so y• he which [...]hedeth mannes bloude / shall haue hys bloud [...]hed by man agayne: for God made man after [...]is awne lycknesse. See that ye encrease / and [...]axe / and be occupyde vppon the erth / & multiplye therein.

Farthermore God spake vnto Noe & to hys sonnes wyth hym saynge: see / I make my bōd [Page] wyth you and youre seed after you / and wyth all lyvynge thinge that is wyth you: both foule and catell / and all maner beste of the erth that is wyth yow / of all that commeth out of the arke / what soeuer beste of the erth it be.

I make my bonde wyth yow / that hence forth all flesh shall not be destroyed wyth yt waters of any floud / ād yt hence forth there shall not be a floud to destroy the erth.

And God sayd. This is the token of my bō de which I make betwene me and yow / ād betwene all lyvynge thyng that is with yow for ever: I wyll sette my bowe in the cloudes / and [...] shall be a sygne of the appoyntment made betwene me and the erth: So that when I bryng in cloudes vpō y• erth / the bowe shall appere in y• cloudes. And than wyll I thynke vppon my testament which I haue made betwene me and yow / and all that lyveth what soeuer flesh it be▪ So that henceforth there shall be nomore wa [...] ters to make a floud to destroy all flesh.

The bowe shalbe in the cloudes / and I wyl loke vpon it / to remembre the euerlastynge testment betwene God and all that lyveth vppo [...] the erth / what soeuer flesh it be. And God sayd vnto Noe: This is the sygne of the testamen [...] which I have made betwene me and all flesh is on the erth.

The sonnes of Noe that came out of the a [...] ke were: Gem / Ham and Iapheth. And Ham [Page] he is the father of Canaā. These are the .iij. sonnes of Noe / and of these was all the world overspred.

And Noe beynge an husbād man / went furth and planted a vyneyarde and draneke of the wyne and was droncke / and laye vncouered in the myddest of his [...]ēt. And Ham the father of Canaan sawe his fathers preuytees / & tolde his ij. brethren that were wythout. And Sem and Iapheth toke a mantell and put it on both there shuldere ād went backward / ād covered there fathers secrets / but there faces were backward So that they sawe not there fathers nakydnes. As soone as Noe was awaked frō his wyne and wyst what his yongest sonne had done vnto hym / he sayd: cursed be Canaan / ād a seruante of all seruantes be he to his brethren. And he sayd: Blessed be the LORde God of Sē / and Canaan be his seruante God increase Iapheth that he may dwelle in the tentes of Sem. And Canaan be their seruante.

And Noe lyued after the floude .iij. hundred and .l. yere: So that all the dayes of Noe were ix. hundred and .l. yere / ād than he dyed.

The .x. Chapter.

THese are the generations of the sonnes of Noe: of Gem / Ham and Iapheth / which begat them children after the floude.

[Page]The sonnes of Japheth were: Gomyr / Magog / Madai / Jauan / Tuball / Mesech and Thy ras. And the sonnes of Gomyr were: Ascenas Ripha [...] and Togarma. And the sonnes of Jauan were: Elisa / Tharsis / Cithim and Dodanim. Of these came the Iles of the gentylls in there contres / every man in his speach / kynred and nation.

The sonnes of Ham were: Chus Misraim Phut and Canaan. The sonnes of Chus: were Seba / Heuila / Sabta / Rayma and Sab [...]ema. And the sonnes of Rayma were: Sheba / & De dan. Chus also begot Nemrod / which begā to be myghtye in the erth. He was a myghtie hunter in the syghte of the LORde: Where of came the proverbe: he is as Nemrod that myghtie hunter in the syghte of the LORde. And the begynnynge of hys kyngdome was Babell / Erech / Achad and Chalne in the lande of Synear: Out of that lande came Assur and buylded Ninyue / and the cyte reho both / and Calah And Ressen betwene Ninyue ād Chalah. That is a grete cyte. And Mizraim begat ludim / Enanum / Leabim / Naphtuhim / Pathrusim & Castuhim: from whence came the Philystyns / and the Capth [...]herynes.

Canaan also begat zidon his eldest sonne & Heth / Jebusi / Emori / Girgosi / Him / Arki / Si ni / Aruadi / Zemari and hama [...]. And afterward sprange the kynreds of the Canaanytes And the costes of the Canaanytes were frō Sydon [Page] tyll thou come to [...]erara & to Asa / & tyll thou come to Sodoma / Gomorra / Adama Zeboim: evē vnto Lasa. These were the chyldre of Ham in there kynreddes / tonges / landes and nations.

And Sem the father of all y• childrē of Eber and the eldest brother of Japheth / begat children also. And his sonnes were: Elam Assur / Arphachsad / Lud ād Aram. And ye childree of Aram were: Vz / Hul / Gether & Mas And Arphachsad begat Sala / and Sala begat Eber. And Eber begat .ij. sonnes. The name of the one was Peleg / for in his tyme the erth was devyded. And the name of his brother was Jaketan:

Jaketan begat Almodad / Saleph / Hyzarmoneth / Jarah / Hadoram / Vsal / Dikela / Obal / Abimael / Seba / Ophir / Heuila & Jobab. All these are the sonnes of Jaketan. And the dwellynge of them was from Mes [...] vntill thou come vnto Sephara a mountayne of the easte lande. These are the sonnes o Sem in their kynreddes / languages / contrees and nations. These are the kynreddes of the sonnes of Noe / in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the floude.

¶ The .xi. chapter.

ANd all the world was of one tonge and one language. And as they came from the east / they founde a playne [Page] in the lande of Synear / and there they dwelled. And they sayd one to another: come on / let us make brycke ād burne it wyth fyre. So brycke was there stone and slyme was there morter And they sayd: Come on / let vs buylde vs a cyte and a toure / that the toppe may reach vnto heauen. And let vs make us a name / for perauenture we shall be scatered abrode over all the erth.

And the LORde came downe to see the cyte and the toure which the childern of Anā had buylded. And the LORde sayd: See / the people is one and haue one tonge amonge them all. And thys haue they begon to do / and wyll not leaue of from all that they haue purposed to do. Come on / let vs descende and myngell theire tonge even there / that one vnderstonde not what another sayeth. Thus y• LORde skatered them from thence vppon all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cyte. Wherfore the name of it is called Babell / because that the LORDE there confounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from thence / skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.

These are the generations of Sem: Sē was an hundred yere olde and begat Arcphachsad ij. yere after the floude. And Sē lyved after he had begot Arphachsad .v. hundred yere an begat sonnes and doughters.

And Arphacsad lyued .xxxv. yere and begat [Page] Sala / and lyved after he had begot Sala iiij. hūdred yere &. iij & begat sonnes and doughters. And Sala was .xxx. yere old and begat Eber / ād lyued after he had begot Eber .iiij. hū dred and thre yere / ād begat sonnes and doughters

When Eber was .xxxiiij. yere olde / he begat Peleg / and lyued after he had begot Peleg / foure hundred and .xxx. yere / and begat sonnes and doughters.

And Peleg when he was .xxx. yere olde begat Regu / and lyued after he had begot Regu .ij. hundred and .ix. yere / and begat sonnes and doughters.

And Regu when he had lyued .xxxij. yere begat Serug / and lyued after he had begot Serug .ij. hundred and .vij. yere / and begat sonnes and doughters.

And when Serug was .xxx. yere olde / he begat Nahor / and lyued after he had begot Nahor .ij. hundred yere / and begat sonnes & doughters.

And Nahor when he was .xxix. yere olde / begat Terah / and lyved after he had begot Terah / an hundred and▪ xix. yere / [Page] and begat sonnes and doughters.

And when Terah was .lxx. yere olde / he begat Abram / Nahor and Baran.

And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram / Nahor and Baran. And Baran begat Lot. And Baran dyed before Terah his father in the londe where he was borne / at Vr in Chaldea. And Abram and Nahor toke them wydes. Abrās wyfe was called Sarai. And Nahors wyfe Mylca the doughter of Baran which was father of Milca ād of Iisca. But Garat was baren and had no childe.

Than tofe Terah Abram his sonne and Lot his sonne Barans sonne / & Sarai his doughter in lawe his sone Abrams wyfe. And they went wyth hym from Vr [...] Chaldea / to go in to the lāde of Chanaan. And they came to Baran and dwelled there. And when Terah was ij. hundred yere old and .v. he dyed in Baran.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

THen the LORde sayd vnto Abrā Gett the out of thy contre and from thy fynred / and out of thy fathers house / into a londe which I wyll shewe the. And I wyll make of the a myghtie people / and wyll blesse the / and make thy name grete / that thou mayst be a blessinge. And I wyll blesse thē that blesse the / ād curse thē that curse the. And in the shall be blessed all the generations of the erih.

And Abram wēt as the LORde badd hym / [Page] and Lot went wyth hym. Abram was .lxxv. yere olde / when he went out of Baran. And Abram toke. Sarai his wyfe ād Lot his brothers sonne / wyth all their goodes which they had goten and soulles which they had begoten in Baran. And they departed to goo in to the lā de of Chanaan. And when they were come in to the lande of Chanaan / Abram went furth in to the lāde tyll he came vnto a place called Sychem / and vnto the oke of More. And the Canaanytes dwelled then in the lande.

Then the LORde apeared vnto Abram ād sayd: vnto thy seed wyll I geue thy slāde. And he buylded an aultere there vnto the LORDE which apeared to hym. Then departed he thence vnto a mountayne that lyeth on the east syde of BETHEL and pytched hys tente: BETHEL beynge on the west syde / and Ay on the cast [...] And he buylded there an aulter vnto the LORde / and called on the name of yt LORde. And than Abram departed and toke his iourney southwarde

After thys there came a derth in the lande. And Abram went doune in to Egipte to soiourne there / for the derth was sore in the lande. And when he was come nye for to entre in to Egipte / he sayd vnto Sarai his wife. Beholde / I knowe that thou art a fayre woman toloke apō. It wyll come to passe therfore whē the Egiptians see the / that they wyll say: she is his wyfe. And so shall they sley me and save the. [Page] Saye I praye the therfore that thou art my sister / that I maye fare the better by reason of the and that my soule maye lyue for thy sake.

As soone as he came in to Egipte / the Egiptiās sawe the woman that she was very fayre. And Pharaos lordes sawe hir also / and praysed hir vnto Pharao: So that she was taken in to Pharaos house / which entreated Abram well for hir sake / so that he had shepe / oxsen ād he asses / men seruantes / mayde seruātes / she asses and camels.

But God plaged Pharao / and his house wyth grete plages / because of Sarai Abrams wyfe. Then Pharao called Abram and sayd: why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherfore toldest thou me not that she was thy wyfe? Why saydest thou that she was thy sister / and causedest me to take hyr to my wyfe? But now loo / there is the wife / take hir ād be walkynge. Pharao also gaue a charge vnto his men over Abram / to leade hym out / wyth his wyfe and all that he had.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

THan Abram departed out of Egipte / both he and his wyfe and all that he had / and Lot wyth hym vnto the [Page] south. Abram was very rych in catell / syluer & gold. And he went on his iourney frō the south even vnto BETHEL / ād vnto the place where his tente was at the fyrst tyme betwene BETHEL and Ay / and vnto the place of the aulter which he made before. And there called Abram vpon the name of the LORde.

Lot also which went wyth hym had shepe / catell and tentes: so that the londe was not abill to receaue / them that they myght dwell to gether / for the substance of their riches was so greate / that they coude not dwell together▪ And there fell a stryfe betwene the herdmen of Abrams catell / and the herdmen of Lots catell. Moreouer the Cananytes and the Pherysites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.

Than sayd Abram vnto Lot: let there be no stryfe I praye the betwene the and me and betwene my herdmen and thyne / for we be brethren. Ys not all the hole lande before the? Departe I praye the fro me. Yf thou wylt take the lefte hande / I wyll take the right: Or yf thou take the right hande I wyll take the left. And Lot lyft vp hys eyes and beheld all the contre aboute Iordane / which was a plenteous contre of water every where / before the LORde destroyed Sodoma and Gomorra. [Page] Even as the garden of the LORde / & as the lande of Egipte tyll thou come to Zoar.

Than Lot chose all the costes of Jordane ād toke hys iourney from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other. Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan. And lot in the cytes of the playne / & tented tyll he came to Sodome. But the men of sodome were wyked and synned exceadyngly agenst the LORde.

And the LORde sayed vnto Abram / after that Lot was departed from hym: lyfte vp thyne eyes & loke from y• place where thou art / northward / southward / eastward and westward / for all the lande which thou seiste wyll I gyue vnto the & to thy seed forever. And I wyll make thy seed / as the dust of the erth: so that yf a mā can nombre the dust of the erth / than shall thy seed also be nombred. Aryse and walke aboute in the lande / in the length of it ād in the bredth for I wyll geue it vnto the.

Than Abrā toke downe hys tente / & went and dwelled in the okegrove of Mamre which is in Ebron and buylded there an altar to the LORde.

The .xiiij. Chapter.

ANd it chaunsed within a while / that Amraphel kynge of Synear / Arioch kynge of Ellasar / Redorlao [...]er kynge of Elam and Thydeall kynge of the na [...] [...]ons: made warre wyth Bera kynge of Sod [...]h and with Birsa kynge of Gomorra. And wythe [Page] Sineab kynge of Adama / & with Semeaber kynge of Zebo [...] / and wyth the kynge of Bela Which Bela is called Zoar. All these came together vnto the vale of siddim which is now the salt see Twelve yere were they subiecte to kinge kedorlaomer / and in the .xiij. yere rebelled.

Therfore in the .xiiij. yere came kedorlaomer and the kynges that were wyth hym / and smote the Raphayms in Astarath Rarnaim / and the Susims in Hain / ād the Emyms in Sabe Rariathaim / and the Horyms in their awne mo [...]nte Seir vnto the playne of Pharan / which bordreth vpon the wyldernesse. And then turned they and came to the well of iugmente which is Cades / and smote all the contre of the Amalechites / and also the amorytes that dwell [...]n Hazezon Thamar.

Than went out the kynge of Sodome / and the kynge of Gomorra / and the kinge of Adama and the kynge of Zebo [...]m / and the kynge of Bela no [...] called Zoar. And sette their men in aray to fyghte wyth them in the vale of siddim / that is to say / wyth kedorlaomer the kynge of Elam and with Thydeall kynge of the Nations / and wyth Amraphel kynge of Synear. And with [...]noch kynge of Ellasar: foure kynges agenste [...]. And that vale of siddim was full of slyme pyttes.

And the kynges of Sodome and Gomo [...] ra fled / and fell there. And the resydue fled to the mountaynes. And they toke all the goodes [Page] of Sodome and Gomorra and all their vitalles / ād went their waye. And they toke Lot also Abrams brothers sonne and his good (for he dwelled at Sodome) and departed:

Than came one that had escaped / and tolde Abram the hebrue which dwelled in the okegrove of Man [...]e the Amoryte brother of Eschol and Aner: which were confederate wyth Abram. When Abram herde that his brother was taken / he harnessed his seruantes borne in his owne house .iij. hundred & .xviij. ād folowed tyll they came at Dan. And sette hymselfe ād his seruantes in aray / & fell vpon them by nyght / & smote them / & chased them awaye vnto Hoba: which lyeth on the lefte hande of Da [...] mascos / and broughte agayne all the goodes / [...] also his brother Lot / ād his goodes / the we [...]e also and the people.

And as he retourned agayne from the slaughter of kedorlaomer and of the kynges that were with hym / than came the kynge of Sodome agaynst hym vnto the vale of Saue whi [...] now is called kynges dale.

Than Melchisedech kinge of Salem brought forth breed and wyne. And he beynge the prest of the most hyghest God / blessed hym saynge. Blessed be Abram vnto the most hyghest God / possessor of heaven and erth. And blessed be God the most hyghest / which hath delyuered thyne enimies in to thy handes. And Ab [...] gaue hym tythes of all.

[Page]Than sayd the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram: gyue me the soulles / and take the goodes to thy selfe. And Abram answered the kynge of Sodome: I lyfte vpp my hande vnto the LORde God most hygh possessor of heaven ād erth / that I will not take of all y• is thyne / so moch as a thred or a shoulacher / lest thou shuldest saye I haue made Abrā ryche. Saue only that which the yonge men haue eaten ād the partes of the men which went wyth me. Aner / Escholl & Mamre. Let them take their partes.

xv. Chapter.

AFter these deades / y• worde of God came vnto Abram in a vision saynge feare not Abram / I am thy sh [...]lde / and thy rewarde sholbe exceadynge greate. And Abram answered: LORde Iehouah what wilt thou geue me: I goo childlesse / and the cater of myne housse / this Eleasar of Damasco hath a sonne. And Abram sayd: se / to me hast thou geven no seed: lo / a lad borne in my housse shal be myne heyre.

And beholde / the worde of the LORde spake vnto Abram sayenge: He shall not be thyne heyre / but one that shall come out of thyne awne bodye shalbe thyne heyre.

[Page]And he brought him out at the doores ād say de. Loke vpp vnto heaven and tell the starres / yf thou be able to nōbre them. And sayde vnto him Even so shall thy seed be.

And Abram beleved the LORde / and it was counted to him for rightwesaes. And he sayde vnto hym: I am the LORde that brought the out of Vr in Chaldea to geue the this lande to possesse it.

And he sayde: LORde God / whereby shall I knowe that I shall possesse it? And he sayde vnto him: take an heyfer of .iij. yere olde / and a she gotte of thre yeres olde / and a thre yere olde ram / a turtill doue and a yonge pigeon. And he toke all these and devyded them in the myddes / and layde euery pece / one over agenst another. But the foules devyded he not. And the byrdes fell on the care [...]ses / but Abrā droue thē awaye. And when the sonne was doune / there fell a slomber apon Abram. And loo / feare and greate darknesse came open hym.

And he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertie / that thi seed shalbe a straunger in a lande that perteyneth not vnto thē. And they shall make bondmen of them and entreate them evell iiij. hundred yeares. But the nation whom ther shall serue / wyll I iudge. And after warde shall they come out wyth greate substāce. Eueuerthelesse thou shalt goo vnto thi fathers in peace / ād shalt be buried when thou art of a good age: ād in the fourth generation they shall come hyther [Page] agayne / for the wekednesse of the Amo [...]tes ys not yet full.

When the sonne was doune and it was waxed darcke: beholde / there was a smokynge furnisse and a fyre brand that went betwenae the sayde peces.

And that same daye the LORde made a covenaunte with Abram saynge: vnto thy seed wyll I geue thys londe / f [...]ō the ryver of Egypte / even vnto the greate ryver euphrates: the kenytes / the kenizites / the [...]admonites / the Bethites / the Pherezites / the Rapha [...]s / the Amoiytes / the Canaanites / the Gergesues and the Iebusites.

The .xvi. Chapter.

SArai Abrams wyfe bare him no childerne. But she had an hand mayde an Egiptian / whese name was [...]agar. Wherfore she sayde vnto Abram. Beholde the LORde hath closed me / that I can not bere. I praye the god in vnto my mayde / peraduēture I shall be multiplyed by meanes of her And Abram herde the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai Abrams wife toke Hagar hyr mayde the Egitian (after Abram had dwelled▪ [...]. yere [...]n the lande of Canaan [...] and gaue her to hyr husbonde Abram / to be his wyfe.

And he wente in vnto Hagar / & she conceaved. And when she sawe that she had conceyved [Page] hyr mastresse was despised in hyr syghte. Than sayd Sarai vnto Abram: Thou dost me vnrighte / for I haue geuen my mayde into thy bosome: & now because she seyth that she hath cōceaved / I am despysed in hyr syghte: the LORde iudge betwene the and me. Than sayde Abrā to Sarai▪ beholde / thy mayde is in thy hande / do with hyr as it pleaseth the.

And because Sarai fared foule with her / she fled from her. And the angell of the LORde founde her besyde a fountayne of water in the wyldernes: euen by a well in the way to Sur. And he sayde▪ Hagar Sarais mayde / whence comest thou and whether wylt thou goo? And she answered: I flee from my mastresse Sarai. And the angell of the LORde sayde vnto her: returne to thy mastresse agayne / & submytte thy selfe vnder her handes.

And the angell of y• LORde sayde vnto h [...] I will so encrease thy seed / that it shall no [...] be numbred for multitude. And the LORdes angell sayd further vnto her: se / thou art wyth childe and shalt bere a sonne / and shalt ca [...] his name Ismael: because the LORDE hath herde thy tribulation. [...]e will be a wylde man / and his hande will be agenst every man & euery mans hande agenst him. And yet shall he dwell faste by all his brothren.

[Page]And she called the name of the LORde that spake vnto her: thou art the God that lokest on me / for she sayde: I haue of a suertie sene here the backe parties of him that seith me. Wherfore she called the well / the well of the lyuynge that seith me which well is betwene Cades & Bared.

And Hagar bare Abram a sonne / and Abram called his sons name which Hagar bare Ismaell. And Abram was .lxxxvi. yere olde / when Hagar bare him Ismael.

¶ The .xvij. Chapter.

WHen Abram was nynetye yere olde & ix. the LORde apeared to hym sayenge: I am the almyghtie God: walfe be fore me ād be vncorrupte. And I wyll make my bonde betwene the and me / and wyll multiplye the excedyngly. And Abrā fell on his face. And God talked moreover with hym saynge: I am / beholde my testamēt is with the / that thou shalt be a father of many natiōs. Therfore / shalt thou no more be called Abram / but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made the / and I will multiplye the excedyngly / and wyll make nations of the: yee and lynges shall sprynge out of the.

Moreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the / and thy seed after the / in their tymes [Page] to be an everlastynge testament / So that I wyll be God vnto the and to thy seed after the. And I will geue vnto the ād to thy seed after the / the lande where in thou arte a straunger: Euen all the lande of Canaan / foran everlastynge possession / and wil be their God.

And God sayde vnto Abrahā: So thou kepe my testamente / both thou & thy seed after the in their tymes: This is my testamente which ye shall kepe betwene me and you and thy seed after the / that ye circūcyse all youre men childern ye shall circumcyse the foreskynne of youre flesh / ād it shal be a token of the bond betwixte me and you. And euery manchilde when it is viij. dayes olde / shal be circūcysed amonge you in youre generations / and all sernauntes also borne at home or boughte with money though they be straungers and not of thy seed. The seruaunte borne in thy housse / ād he also that is bought with money / must needes be circumcysed / that my testament may be in youre flesh / for an everlastinge bonde. Yf there be any vncircuncysed manchilde / that hath not the forskynne of his flesh cutt of / his soule shall perish from his people: because he hath brokē my testamēt

And God sayde vnto Abraham. Sarai thy wyfe shall no more be called Sarai: but Sara shall hir name be. for I will blesse her & g [...]ue the a sonne of her and will blesse her: so that people / ye and kynges of people shall spri [...] ge of her. And Abraham fell vpon his face ā [...] [Page] laughte / and sayd in his harte: shall a childe be borne vnto hym that is an hundred yere olde / ād shall Sara that is nynetie yere olde / bere [...] And Abrahā sayde vnto God. O that Ismaell myghte lyve in thy syghte.

Thē sayde God: na / Sara thy wife shall bere the a sonneād thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my bonde with him / that it shall be an everlastynge bonde vnto his seed after him. And as concernynge Ismaell also / I haue herde thy request: loo / I will blesse him and encrease him / and multiplye him excedyngly. Twelve prynces shall he begete / and I will make a great nation of him. But my bonde will I make with Isaac / which Sara shall bere vn to the: even this tyme twelue moneth.

And God left of talkynge with him / and departed vp from Abraham. And Abraham toke Ismaell his sonne & all the servauntes borne in his housse and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren amonge the mē of Abrahās housse / and circumcysed the foreskynne of their flesh / even the selfe same daye / as God had sayde vnto him. Abraham was nynetie yere olde and .ix. when he cutt of the foreskynne of his flesh. And Ismaell his sonne was .xiij. yere olde / when the foreskynne of hys flesh was circumcysed. The selfe same da [...]e was Abrahā circūcised & Ismael his son [...]e. And all the men in his housse / whether they were borne in his housse or bought wyth [Page] money (though they were straungers) were circumcysed with him.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

ANd the LORde apeared vnto him in the okegrove of Mamre as he sat in his tent dore in the heate of the daye. And he lyfte vp his eyes and looked: ād lo / thre men stode not farr from hym. And whē he sawe them / he ran agenst them from the tent dore / and fell to the grounde and sayde: LORde yf▪ I haue founde fauoure in thy syght / goo not by thi seruaunte. Let a litle water be fett / & wash youre fete / and rest youre selves vnder the tree: And I will fett a mo [...]sell of breed / to comforte youre hartes wythall. And thā goo youre wayes / for even therfore ar ye come to youre servaunte. And they answered: Do even so a [...] thou hast sayde.

And Abrahā went a pace in to his tent vnto Sara ād sayde: make redy att once thre pe [...] kes of fyne meale / kneade it and make cakes. And Abraham ran vnto his beastes and felt [...] calfe that was tendre and good / and gaue it [...] to a yonge man which made it redy atton [...]e. And he toke butter & myl [...]ke and the calfe which he had prepared / and sett it before them / and so de hymselfe by them vnder the tree: and they ate.

[Page]And they sayde vnto him: Where is Sara thy wife? And he sayde: in the tent. And he sayde: I will come agayne vnto the as soone as the frute can lyue. And loo: Sara thy wife shall haue a sonne. That herde Sara / out of the tent doore which was behind his backe. Abraham and Sara were both olde and well stryken in age / and it ceased to be with Sara after the maner as it is wyth wyves. And Sara laughed in hir selfe saynge: Now I am waxed olde / shall I geue my selfe to lust / and my lorde olde also?

Than sayd the LORde vnto Abrahā: wherfore doth Sara laughe saynge: shal I of asuer [...]ebere a childe / now when I am olde? is the thinge to harde for the LORde to do? In the tyme appoynted will I returne vnto the / as soone as the frute can haue lyfe / And Sara shall haue a sonne. Than Sara denyed it saynge: I laughed not / for she was afrayde. But he sayde: yes thou laughtest.

Than the men stode vp from thence ād loked towarde Sodome. And Abraham went with them to brynge them on the waye. And the LORde sayde: Can I hyde from Abraham that thinge which I am aboute to do / seynge that Abraham shall be a great ād a myghtie people / and all the nations of the erth shalbe blessed in him? For I knowe him that he will commaunde his children and [Page] his housholde after him / y• they kepe the waye of the LORde / to do after righte and conseyence / that the LORde may brynge vppon Abraham that he hath promysed him.

And the LORde sayde? The crie of Sodome and Gomo [...]ra is great / and there synne is excedynge grevous. I will go downe and see whether they haue done all to gedder acordynge to that crye which is come vnto me or not / that I may knowe. And the mē departed thē ce and went to Sodomeward. But Abraham stode yet before y• LORde / & drewe nere & sayde Wylt thou destroy the rightwes with the wyked? Yf there be .l. rightwes within the cyte / wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of .l. rightwes that are therin? That be farre from the / that thou shuldest do after thys maner / to sley the rightwes with the weked / ād that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that befarre from the. Shulde not the iudge of all y• worlde do acordynge to righte? And the LORde sayde: Yf I fynde in Sodome .l. rightwes within the cy [...]e / I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And Abraham answered and sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto y• LORde / ād yet am but dust ād asshes. What though there lacke .v. of .l. rightwes / wylt thou destroy all the cyte for lacke of .v? And he sayde: Yf I fynde there .xl. and .v. I will not destroy them.

And he spake vnto him yet agayne and sayde: [Page] what yf there be xl. foūde there: And he sayde: I wyll not do it for forties sake. And he sayde: O let not my LORde be angrye / that I speake. What yf there be foūde .xxx. there? And he sayde: I will not do it / yf I finde .xxx. there. And he sayde: Oh / se / I haue begonne to speake vnto my LORde / what yf there be .xx. founde there? And he sayde: I will not distroy thē for twēties sake. And he sayde. O let not my LORde be angrye / that I speake yet / but euē once more only. What yf ten be founde there?. And he sayde: I will not destroy thē for .x. safe.

And the LORde wēt his waye as soone as he had le [...]te comenynge with Abrahā. And Abraham returned vnto his place

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

ANd there came .ij. angells to Sodome at euen. And Let satt at the gate of the cyte. And Lor sawe thē / and rose vp agaynst them / and he bowed hym selfe to be grounde with his face. And he sayde [...] Se lordes / turne in I praye you in to youre servauntes house and tary all nyghte & wash youre fete / & ryse vp early and go on youre wayes. And they sayde: nay / but we will byde in the streates all nyghte. And he cōpelled them excedyngly. And they turned in vnto hym and en [...]ed in to his house / and he made them a feaste and dyd bake swete cakes / and they ate.

But before they went to rest / the men of the cyte of Sodome compassed the house rownde [Page] aboute both olde and yonge / all the people from all quarters. And they called vnto Lot and sayde vnto him: where are the men which came in to thy house to nyghte? brynge thē out vnto vs that we may do oure lust with them.

And Lot went out at doores vnto them and shote the dore after him and sayde: nay for goddes sake brethren / do not so wekedly. Beholde I haue two doughters which haue knowne no man / thē will I brynge out vnto you: do with them as it semeth you good: Only vnto these men do nothynge / for therfore came they vnder the shadowe of my rofe. And they sayde: come hither. And they sayde: camest thou not in to so georne / and wilt thou be now a iudge? we will suerly deale worse with the than with them

And as they preased sore vppon Lot and beganne to breaf [...] vp the doore / the men put forth their handes and pulled [...]ot in to the house to them and short to the doore. And the men that were at the doore of the house / they smote with blyndnesse both small and greate: so that they coude not fynde the doore.

And the men sayde moreover vnto [...] ot: Yf thou have yet here any sonne in lawe or sonnes or doughters or what so euer thou hast in the cyte / brynge it out of this place: for we must destroy this place / because the crye of thē is great before the LORde. Wherfore he hath sent [...] to destroy it.

And Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes [Page] in lawe which shulde haue maried his doughters / and sayde: stonde vpp and get yow out of this place / for the LORde will destroy the cite. But he semed as though he had mocked / vnto his sonnes in law.

And as the mornynge arose the angells caused Lot to spede him saynge. Stonde vp / take thy wyfe and thy two doughters and that that is at hande / lest thou perish in the synne of the cyte. And as he prolonged the tyme / the men caught both him / his wife ād his two doughters by the handes / because the LORde was mercyfull vnto him / ād they brought him forth and sette him without the cyte.

When they had brought them out / they sayde: Saue thy lyfe and loke not behynde the nether tary thou in any place of the contre / but saue thy selfe in the mountayne / lest thou perisshe. Than sayde Lot vnto them: Oh nay my lorde: beholde / in as moch as thy servaunte hath fownde grace in thy syghte / now make thi mercy great which thou shewest vnto me in sayinge my lyfe. For I can not saue my selfe in the mountayns / lest some misfortune fall vpon me and I dye. Beholde / here is a cyte by / to flee vnto / and it is a lytle one: let me saue my selfe therein: is it not a litle one / that my soule may lyue?

And he sayde to him: se I haue receaved thy request as concernynge this thynge / that I will nott overthrowe this cytie for the [Page] which thou hast spoken. Haste the / ād saue thyselfe there / for I can do nothynge tyll thou be come in thyder. And therfore the name of the cyte is called Zoar. And the sone was vppon the erth when Lot was entred into Zoar.

Than the LORde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomoara / brymstone and fyre from the LORde out of heaven / and overthrewe those cyties and all the region / and all that dwelled in the cytes / and that that grewe vpon the erth. And lots wyfe loked behynde her / ād was turned in to a pillare of salte.

Abraham rose vp early and got him to the place where he stode before the LORde / and loked toward Sodome and Gomorra and toward all the londe of that contre. And as he loked: beholde / the smoke of the contre arose as it had bene the smoke of a sornace. But yet whē God destroyed the [...]nes of y• regiō / he thought a pon Abrahā: and sent Lot out from the dā ger of the overthrowenge / when he overthrewe the cyties where Lot dwelled.

And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountayns ād his .ij. doughters with him for he feared to tary in Zoar: he dweld therfore in a caue / both he and his .ij. doughters also.

Than sayde the elder vnto the yonger o [...]e father is olde / and there are no moo men in the erth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the world. Come therfore / let vs geue oure father wyne to dryncke / and let vs lye with him [Page] that we may saue seed of oure father. And thry gaue their father wyne to drynke that same nyghte. And the elder doughter went and laye with her father. And he perceaued it not / nether when she laye doune / nether when she rose vp.

And on the morowe the elder sayde vnto the yonger: beholde / yesternyghte laye I with my father. Let us geue hym wyne to drinke this nyghte also / and goo thou and lye with him / and let us saue seed of oure father. And they gaue their father wyne to drincke that nyghte also. And the yonger arose and laye with him. And he perceaved it not: nether when she laye downe / nether when she rose vp.

Thus were both the doughters of let with childe by their father And the elder bare a sone and called hym Moab / which is the father of the Moabytes vnto this daye. And the yonger bare a son [...]e and called hym Ben Am [...] / which is the father of the children of Ammon vnto this daye.

The .xx. Chapter.

ANd Abraham departed thence towarde the sou [...]hcontre and dwelled betwene [...]ades and Sur ād sogeorned in Gerar. And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe / that she was his sister. Than Ab [...] melech kynge of Gerar sent and fett Sara awaye.

And God came to Abimelech by nyghte in a dreame and sayde to him: Se / thou art but a [Page] deed man for the womās safe which thou hast taken awaye / for she is a mans wyfe. But Abimelech had not yet come nye her / and therfore sayde: lorde wilt thou sley rightewes people? sayde not he vnto me / that she was hys sister? yee and sayde not she herself that he was hir brother? wyth a pure herte and innocent handes haue I done this.

And God sayde vnto him in a dreame. I wot it well that thou dydest it in the purenesse of thi herte. And therfore I kepte y• that thou shuldest not synne agenst me / nether suffred I the to come nygh her. Now therefore delyuer the mā his wyfe ageyne / for he is a prophete. And let him praye fo: the that thou mayst lyue. But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne / be sure that thou shalt dye the deth / with all that thou hast.

Than Abimelech rose vp be tymes in the mornynge and called all his servauntes / and tolde all these thinges in their eares / and the men were sore a frayde. And Abimelech called Abraham and sayde vnto him: What hast thou don [...] vnto vs / & what haue I offended the / that thou shuldest b [...]ynge on me and on my kyngdome so greate a synne? thou hast done dedes vnto me that ought not to be done. And Abimelech sayde morouer vnto Abraham: What sawest thou that moved the to do this thinge?

And Abraham Answered. I thought that peradvēture the feare of God was not in this [Page] place / and that they shulde sley me for my wyfes safe: yet in very dede she is my sister / the doughter of my father / but not of my mother [...] and became my wyfe. And after God caused me to wandre out of my fathers house / I sayde vnto her: This kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me in all places where we come / that thou saye of me / how that I am thy brother.

Than toke Abimelech shepe and oxen / men▪ servauntes and wemenseruauntes and gaue them vnto Abraham / and delyvered him Sara his wyfe agayne. And Abimelech sayde: beholde the lande lyeth be fore the / dwell where it pleaseth y• best. And vnto Sara he sayde: Se I haue geuen thy brother a thousende peeces of syluer / beholde he shall be a couerynge to thyne eyes vnto all that ar with the and vnto all men and an excuse.

And so Abraham prayde vnto God / and God healed Abimeleh and his wyfe and hys maydens / so that they bare. For the LORde had closed to / all the matryces of the house of Abimelech / because of Sara Abrahams wyfe.

The .xxj. Chapter

THe lorde visyted Sara as he had sayde and dyd vnto her acordynge as he had spoken. And Sara was with childe and bare Abrahā a sonne in his olde age [Page] euen the same season which the LORde had appoynted. And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him which Sara bare him Isaac: & Abrā circūcysed Isaac his sōne whē he was .viij. dayes olde / as God commaunded him And Abrahā was an hundred yere olde▪when his sonne Isaac was borne vnto him.

And Sara sayde: God hath made me a laughinge stocke: for all yt heare / will laugh at me She sayde also: who wolde haue sayde vnto Abraham / that Sara shulde haue geuen childern sucke / or yt I shulde haue borne him a sonne in his olde age: The childe grewe and was wened / and Abraham made a great f [...]ast / the same daye that Isaac was wened.

Sara sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egiptian which she had borne vnto Abraham / a mockynge. Then she sayde vnto Abraham: put awaye this bondemayde and hyr sonne: for the sonne of this bondwoman shall not be heyre with my sonne Isaac: But the wordes semed verey greavous in Abrahams syc [...]hte / because of his sonne. Than the LORde sayde vnto Abraham: let it not be greavous vnto the / because of the ladd and of thy bondmayde: But in all that Sara hath saide vnto the / heare hir voyce / for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Moreouer of the sonne of the Bondwoman will I make a nation / because he is thy seed.

And Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng and toke brede and a bottell with water / and ga [Page] ue it vnto Hagar / puttynge it on hir shulders wyth the lad also / and sent her awaye. And she departed and wādred vpp and doune in the wyldernes of Berseba. When the water was spent that was in the botell / she cast the lad vnder a bush and went & satt her out of syghte a great waye / as it were a bowshote off: For she sayde: I will not se the lad dye. And she satt doune out of syghte / and lyfte vp hyr voyce and wepte.

And God herde the voyce of the childe. And the angell of God called Hagar out of heaven and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the Hagar? Feare not / for God hath herde the voyce of the childe where he lyeth. Aryse and lyfte vp the lad / and take hym in thy hande / for I will make off him a greate people. And God opened hir eyes and she sawe a well of water.

And she went and fylled the bottell with water / and gaue the boye drynke. And God was wyth the lad / and he grewe and dweld in the wildernesse / and became an archer. And he dweld in the wyldernesse of Pharan. And hys mother gott him a wyfe out of the land of Egypte.

And it chaunced the same season / that Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe captayne spake vnto Abraham saynge: God is wyth the in all that thou doist. Now therfore swere vnto me even here by God / that thou wylt not hurt me nor my childern / nor my childerns childern. [Page] But that thou shalt deale with me and the contre where thou art a straunger / acordynge vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed the. Then sayde Abraham: I wyll swere.

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water / which Abimelech servaun [...]es had taken awaye. And Abimelech answered I wyst not who dyd it: Also thou toldest me not / nether herde I of it / but this daye.

And Abraham toke shepe and oxen and gaue t [...] vnto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bonde together. And Abraham se [...] vij. lambes by them selues. And Abimelech sayde vnto Abraham: what meane these .vij. lamdes which thou hast sett by them selues. And he answered: vij. lambes shalt thou take of my hande / that it maye be a wytnesse vnto me / that I haue dygged this well: Wherfore the place is called Berseba / because they sware both of them. Thus made they a bonde to gether at Berseba.

Than Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe captayne rose vp and turned agayne vnto the lande of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a wodd in Berseba / and called there / on the name of the LORde the everlastynge God: and dwelt in the Phelistinlāde a longe season

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

[Page]AFter these dedes / God dyd proue Abraham & sayde vnto him: Abraham. And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: take thy only sonne Isaac whome thou louest / & get the vnto the lande of Moria / and sacrifyce him there for a sacrifyce vpon one of the mountayns which I will shewe the Than Abraham rose vp early in the mornynge and sadled his asse / and toke two of his meyny wyth him / and Isaac his sonne: ād clove woo for the sacrifyce / and rose vp and go [...]t him to the place which God had appoynted him.

The thirde daye Abraham lyfte vp his eyes and sawe the place a farr of / and sayde vnto his yong men: byde here with the asse. I and the lad will goo yonder and worshippe and come agayne vnto you. And Abraham toke the wodd of the sacrifyce and layde it vpon Isaac his sonne / and toke fyre in his hande and a knyfe. And they went both of them together.

Than spake Isaac vnto Abraham his father & sayde: My father? And he answered here am I my sonne. And he sayde: Se here is fyre and wodd / but where is the shepe for sacrifyce? And Abraham sayde: my sonne / God wyll prouyde him a shepe for sacrifyce. So went they both together.

And when they came vnto the place which God shewed him / Abrahā made an aulter there and dressed the wodd / ād bownde Isaac his [Page] sonne and layde him on the aulter / aboue apon the wodd. And Abraham stretched forth his hande / and toke the knyfe to haue kylled his sonne.

Than the angell of the LORde called vnto him from heauen saynge: Abraham / Abraham. And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: laye not thy handes apon the childe nether do any thinge at all vnto him / for now I knowe that thou fearest God / in yt thou hast not kepte thine only sonne frō me. And Abraham lyfted vp his eyes and loked aboute: and beholde / there was a ram caught by the hornes in a thykette. And he went and toke the ram and offred him vp for a sacrifyce in the steade of his sonne And Abraham called the name of the place / the LORde will see: wherfore it is a comē saynge this daye: in the mounte will the LORde be sene.

And the Angell of the LORde cryed vnto Abraham from heaven the seconde tyme saynge: by my selfe haue I sooor [...]e (sayth the LORde) because thou hast done this thinge and hast not spared thy only sonne / that I will blesse th and multiplye thy seed as the starres of heaven and as the sonde vpō the see syde. And thy seed shall possesse the [...]ates of hys enymies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the erth be blessed / because thou hast obeyed my voyce

Go turned Abraham agayne vnto his yonge men / and they rose vp and wēt to gether to Ber [Page] seba. And Abraham dwelt at Berseba

And it chaūsed after these t [...]īges / that one tolde Abraham saynge: Beholde / Milcha she hath also borne childern vnto thy brother Nachor: Hus his eldest sonne and Bus his brother / and Remuell the father of the Smans / and Cesed / and Haso / and Pildas / and Iedlaph / and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These .viij. dyd Milcha bere to Nachor Abrahams brother. And his concubyne called Rheuma she bare also Tebah / Saham / Thahas and Maacha.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

SAra was an hundred and .xxvij. yere olde (for so longe lyued she) and than dyed in a heade cyte called Hebron in the londe of Canaan. Than Abraham came to mome Sara and to wepe for her. And Abraham stode vp from the coorse and talked with the sonnes of heth saynge: I am a straunger ād a foryner amonge yow / geue me a possession to bury in with you / that I may bury my dead oute of my sighte.

And the children of heth answered Abraham saynge vnto him: heare vs lorde / thou art a prynce of God amonge vs. In the chefest of oure sepulchres bury thy dead: None of vs shall forbydd ye his sepulchre / yt thou shuldest not bury thy deade therein. Abrahā stode vp & bowed hī selfe before y• people of y• lāde y• childrē of heth.

And he comened with them saynge: Yf it [Page] be youre myndes y• I shall bury my deade oute of my sighte / heare me ād speke for me to Ephron the sonne of Zoar: and let him geue me the dubill caue which he hath in the end of his felde / for as moch money as it is worth / let him geue it me in the presence of you / for a possession to bury in. For Hephron dwelled amōge ye childern of heth.

Than Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham in the audyēce of the childern of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his cyte / saynge: Not so / my lorde / but heare me: The felde geue I the / and the caue that therein is / geue I the also / And even in the presence of the sonnes of my people geve Iit the to bury thy deede in. Than Abraham bowed himselfe before the people of the lāde and spake vnto Ephrō in the audyence of the people of the contre saynge: I praye the heare me / I will geue sylver for the felde / take it of me / [...]o so will I bury my deed there.

Ephron answered Abrahā saynge vnto him My lorde / harken vnto me. The lande is worth iiij. hundreth sycles of syluer: But what is that betwixte the and me [...] bury thy deede. And Abraham harkened vnto Ephron and weyde him the sylver which he had sayde in the audyence of the sonnes of Heth. Euen .iiij. hūdred syluer sycles of currant money amonge marchauntes

Thus was the felde of Ephron where in the dubbill caue is before Ma [...]re: euen the felde & [Page] the caue that is therein and all the trees of the felde which growe in all the borders rounde aboute / made sure vnto Abraham for a possession / in the syghte of the childern of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the cyte. And then Abraham buried Sara his wyfe in the double caue of the felde that lyeth before Mā re / otherwise called Ebron in the lande of Canaan. And so both the felde ād the caue that is therein / was made vnto Abraham / a sure possession to bury in / of the sonnes of Heth.

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter

ABraham was olde and stryken in dayes / and the LORde had blessed him in allthinges. And he sayde vnto his eldest servaunte of his house which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hande vnder my thye that I maye make the swere by the LORde that is God of heauen and God of the erth / that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne / of the doughters of the canaanytes / amonge which I dwell. But shalt goo vnto my contre and to my kynred / and there take a wyfe vnto my sonne Isaac.

Thā sayde the seruaunte vnto him: what ād yf the womā wyll not agree to come with me vnto this lāde / shall I brynge thy sonne agayne vnto the lande which thou camest out of▪ And Abrahā sayde vnto him: bewarre of that / that thou b [...]ge not my sonne thither. The LORde God of heaven which toke me from my fathers [Page] house and from the lande where I was borne / and which spake vnto me and sware vnto me saynge: vnto thy seed wyll I geue this lande / he shall sende his angell before the / y• thou mayst take a wife vnto my sonne from thence. Neuerthelesse yf the womā will not agree to come with the than shalt thou be with out daunger of this ooth. But aboue all thinge brynge not my sonne thyther agayne. And the seruaunte put his hand vnder the thye of Abraham and sware to him as concernynge that matter.

And the seruaunte toke .x. camels of the camels of his master and departed / and had of all maner goodes of his master with him / and stode vp and went to Mesopotamia / vnto the cyr [...]e of Nahor. And made his camels to lye doune without the cytie by a wels syde of water / at euen: aboute the tyme that women come out to drawe water / and he sayde.

LORde God of my master Abrahā / sende me good spede this daye / & shewe mercy vnto my master Abraham. [...]o I stonde here by the well of water and the doughters of the men of this citie will come out to drawe water: Now the damsell to whome I saye / stoupe doune thy pytcher and let me drynke. Yf she saye / drynke / and I will geue thy camels drynke also / y• same is she that thou hast ordened for they servaunte Isaac: yee & therby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my master.

And it came to passe yet he had leeft spakynge [Page] / that Aebecca came out / the doughter of Bethuell / sonne to Melcha the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother / and hir pytcher apon hir shulder: The damsell was very fayre to loke apon / and yet a mayde and vnknowen of man.

And she went doune to the well and fylled hyr pytcher and came vp agayne. Then the seruaunte rann [...] vnto her and sa [...]de: let me syppe a litle water of thi pither. And she sayde: drynke my lorde.

And she besied and la [...]e downe her pytcher apon [...] arme and gaue him drinke. And whē she had geven hym drinke / she sayde: I will drawe water for thy camels also / vntill they haue dronke ynough. And she poured out hyr pitcher in to the trough hastely and ranne agayne vnto the well / to fe [...]t water: and drewe for all his camels.

And the felowe wondred at her. But helde his peace / to we [...]e whether the LORde had made his [...]ou [...]ney prosperous or not. And as the camels had lefte drynckynge / he toke an earynge of halfe a sicle weght and. ij golden bracelettes for hyr [...]ādes / of .x. sycles weyght of gold and sayde vnto her: whose doughter art thou? tell me: ys there rowme in thy fathers house / for vs to lodge in▪ And she sayde vnto him: I am the doughter of Bethuell the sonne of M [...]cha which she bare vnto Nahor: and sayde moreouer vnto him: we haue litter and prauonder ynough and also rowme to lodge in.

[Page]And the man bowed himselfe and worshipped the LORde and sayde: blessed be the LORde God of my master Abraham which ceasseth not to deale mercyfully and truly with my master / And hath brought me the waye to my masters brothers house. And the damsell ranne & tolde them of her mothers house these thinges. And Rebecca had a brother called Laban.

And Laban ranne out vnto the man / to the well: for as soone as he had sene the earynges and the bracelettes [...]pon his sisters handes / ād herde the wordes of Rebecca his sister saynge thus sayde the man vnto me / than he went out vnto the man. And [...]oo / he stode yet with the camels by the well syde. And Laban sayde: come in thou blessed of the LORde. Wherfore stondest thou without? I haue dressed the house and made rowme for the camels. And than the mā came in to the house. And he vnbrydeld the camels:God bleseth vs whē [...] [...]e geveth vs [...]is benefi [...]s: and cur [...]th vs / w [...]en he ta [...]th them a [...]aye. and brought [...]ter and prauonder for the camels / and water to w [...]she his fete and their fete that were with him / and there was meate sett before him to eate.

But he sayde: I will not eate / vntill I haue sayde myne earēde: And he sayde / saye on. And he sayde: I am Abrahās servaunte / & the LORDE hath * blessed my master out of measure that he is become greate and hath geven him shepe oxen / syluer and golde / men servauntes / [Page] mayde servauntes / camels ād asses. And Sara my masters wyfe bare him a sonne / whē she was olde: and vnto him hath he geven all that he hath.

And my master made mes [...]ere saynge: Thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne / amonge the doughters of the cananyres in whose lā de I dwell. But thou shalt goo vnto my fathers house and to my [...]ynred / and there take a wyfe vnto my sonne. And I sayde vnto my master. What yf the wyfe will not folowe me▪ And he sayde vnto me: The LORde before whome I walke / wyll sende his angell with the and prosper thy iourney that thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne / of my kynred and of my fathers house. But and yf (when thou comest vnto my kynred) they will not geue the one / thā shall thou bere no perell of myne oothe.

And I came this daye vnto the well and sayed: O LORde / the God of my master Abrahā / yf it be so that thou makest my iourney which I go / prosperous: beholde / I stōde by this well of water / And when a virgyn cometh forth to drawe water / and I saye to her: geue me a litle water of thi pitcher to drynke / and she saye agayne to me: dryncke thou / and I will also drawe water for thy camels: that same is the wife / whom the LORde hath prepared for my masters sonne.

[Page]And before I had made an ende of speakynge in myne harte: beholde Rebecca came forth / and hir pitcher on hir shulder / and she went doune vnto the well and drewe. And I sayde vnto her geue me dryncke. And she made hast and toke doune hir p [...]cher from of hir / ād sayd: drinke / and I will geue thy camels drynke also. And I dranke / and she gaue the camels drynke also. And I asked her saynge: whose doughter art thou? And she answered: the doughter of Bathuell Nahors sonne whome Milca bare vnto him.

And I put the earynge vpon hir face and the bracelettes apon hir hondes. And I bowed myselfe and worshepped the LORde and blessed the LORde God of my master Abrahā which had brought me the right waye / to take my masters brothers doughter vnto his sonne. Now therfore yf ye will deall mercyfully and truly with my master / tell me. And yf no / tell me also: that I maye turne me to the right hande or to the left.

Than answered Laban and Bathuel saynge: The thinge is proceded even out of the lorde / we can not therfore saye vnto the / ether good or bad: Beholde Rebecca before thy face / take her and goo / and let her be thy masters sonnes wife [...] / euen as the LORde hath sayde▪ And whē Abrahams servaunte herde their wordes / he bowed him selfe vnto the LORde / [...]a [...] vpon the erth. And the sero [...]unte toke forth [...] [Page] of syluer and iewelles of gold and rayment / and gaue them to Rebecca: But vnto hir brother & to hir mother / he gaue spyces. And then they ate and dranke / both he and the men that were with him / and taried all nyghte and rose vp in the mornynge.

And he sayde: let me departe vnto my master. But hir brother and hir mother sayde: let the damsell abyde with vs a while / ād it be but even .x. dayes / and than goo thy wayes. And he sayde vnto them / hinder me not: for the lorde hath prospered my iourney. Sende me awaye y• I maye goo vnto my master. And they sayde: let vs call the damsell / and witt what she sayth to the matter. And they called forth Rebecca ād sayde vnto her: wilt thou goo with this mā ▪ And she sayde: Yee.

Than they broughte Rebecca their sister on the waye and her norse and Abrahās servaunte / and the men that were wyth him. And they To bless a mās neyboure is t [...] praye for hād to wiss him good and not [...] wagge .ij. gers ou [...] him. blessed Rebecca & sayde vnto her: Thou art oure sister / growe in to thousande thousandes / & thy seed possesse ye gates of their emmes. And Rebecca arose & hir damsels / & satt thē vp apō the camels & went their waye after the man. And ye servaunte toke Rebecca & went his waye

And Isaac was a comīge from the well of y• lyvynge & seynge / for he dwelt in the s [...]uth cō tre / & was gone out to walke in his meditatiōs before y• euē tyde. And he lyfte vp his eyes & loked / & beholde y• camels were cominge. And [Page] Rebecca lyfte vp hir eyes / & whē she sawe Isaac / she lyghted of the camel ād sayde vnto ye servaunte: what mā is this yt cometh agenst vs in the feld? And the servaūte sayde: it is my master. And then she toke hir mantell ād put it aboute her. And the servaūte tolde Isaac all that he had done. Thē Isaac broughte her in to his mother Saras tente / ād toke Rebecca & she became his wife / & he loved her: & so was Isaac cōforted over his mother.

The .xxv. Chapter

ABrahā toke hī another wyfe cald Retura / which bare hī Simram / Jacksam / Medan / Midiā Iesback & Suah. And J [...]cksan begat Seba & Dedā. And the sonnes of Dedan were Assurim / Letusim & Leumim. And the sonnes of Midian were Epha / Epher / Hanoch / Abida & Elda. All these were the childern of Bethura. But Abrahā gaue all that he had vnto Isaac. And vnto the sonnes of his concubines he haue giftes / and sent them awaye from Isaac his sonne (while he yet lyved) east waro / vnto the east contre.

These are the dayes of the life of Abrahā which he lyved: an hūdred & .lxxv. yere and than fell seke ād dyed / in a lustie age (whē he had lyved ynough) ād was put vnto his people. And his sonnes Isaac ād Ismael buried hī in the duble caue in the feld of Ephrō sōne of Zoar the Hethite before Man [...]e. Which felde abrahā boughte of the sonnes of Heth: There was Abrahā buried and Sara hys wyfe. And after y• deeth of Abrahā God blessed Isaac his sonne [Page] which dweld by the well of the lyvige & seige.

These are the generatiōs of Ismael Abrahās sonne / which Hagar the Egiptiā Saras hand mayde bare vnto Abraham. And these are the names of the sōnes of Ismaell / with their names in their kīreddes. The eldest sōne of Ismael Neu [...]oth / thē Redar / Adbeel / Mibsā / Misma Duma / Masa / Hadar / Thema / Ietur / Naphis & Redma. These are the sōnes of Ismael / and these are their names / in their townes and castels .xij. princes of natiōs. And these are the yeres of the lyfe of Ismael: an hūdred and. xxxvij yere / & than he f [...]ll seke & dyed & was layde vnto his people. And he dweld from Euila vnto Sur y• is before Egypte / as men go toward the Assir [...]ās. And he dyed in the presence of all his brethren.

And these are the generatiōs of Isaac Abrahās sonne: Abrahā begat Isaac. And Isaac was .xl. yere olde whē he toke Rebecca to wyfe the doughter of Bethuel the Sirian of Mesopotamia & sister to Iaban the Sirien.

And Isaac made intercessiō vnto ye LORde for his wife: because she was barē: and ye LORde was ītreated of hī / & Rebecca his wife cōceaued: and ye childern stroue together withī her, thē she sayde: yf it shulde goo so to passe / what helpeth it yt I am with childe? And she went & axed ye LORde. And ye LORde sayde vnto her there are .ij. maner of people in the wombe and ij. nations shall springe out of thy bowels / [Page] and the one nation shalbe myghtier than the other / and the eldest shalbe servaunte vnto the yonger.

And whē hir tyme was come to be delyuered beholde: there were .ij. twyns in hir wōbe. And he that came out first / was redde & rough ouer all as it were an hyde: and they called his name Esau. And after ward his brother came out & his hande holdynge Esau by the hele. Wherfore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was .lx. yereolde whē she bare thē: and the boy [...] es grewe / and Esau beame a conynge hunter & a tyll man. But Jacob was a simple man & dwelled in the tentes. Isaac loved Esau because he dyd eate of his venysō / but Rebecca loued Jacob

Jacob sod potage & Esau came from the feld & was faīne / & sayd to Jacob: let me syppe of yt redde potage / for I am faynne. And therfore was his name called Edom. And Jacob sayde: sell [...]e this daye thy byrthrighte. And Esau answered: Loo I am at the poynte to dye / & what profit shall this byrthrighte do me? And Jacob sayde / swere to me then this daye. And he swore to him & sold his byrthrighte vnto Jacob.

Than Jacob gaue Esau brede & potage of redde ryse. And he ate & dronke & rose vp and went his waye. And so Esau regarded not his byrthrighte.

The .xxvi. Chapter.

ANd there fell a derth in ye lande / passinge the first derth yt fell in the dayes of Abraham. Wherfore Isaac [Page] went vnto Abimelech kinge of y• Philistiās vnto Gerar. Thē the LORde apeared vnto him [...] sayde goo not doune in to Egipte / but byde in y• land which I saye vnto ye: Sogeorne in this lā de / & I wyll be with y• & wyll blesse y•: for vnto the & vnto thy sede I will geue all these cōtreis And I will performe the oothe which I swore vnto Abrahā thy father / & will multiplye thy seed as y• starres of heavē / & will geue vnto thy seed all these contreis. And thorow thy seed shall all the natiōs of the erth be blessed / because yt Abrahā harkened vnto m [...] voyce & kepte mine ordinaūces / cōmaūdmētes / statutes & lawes

And Isaac dwelled in Gerar. And y• mē of the place asked hī of his wife / & he sayde yt she was his sister: for he feared to calle her his wife lest the mē of the place shulde haue kylled hym for hir sake / because she was bewtyf [...]llto ye eye. And it happened after he had bene there longe tyme / y• Abimelech kinge of y• Philistiās loked out at a wyndow & sawe Isaac sportinge with Rebecca his wife. And Abimelech sende for Isaac & sayde: se / she is of a suertie thi wife / and why saydest thou yt she was thi sister? And Isaac saide vnto hī: I thoughte yt I mighte perad venture haue dyed for hir sake. Thē sayde Abimelech: whi hast thou done this vnto vs? one of ye people myght lightely haue lyne by thy wife & so shuldest thou haue broughte synne vpon vs Thā Abimelech charged all his people saynge: he yt toucheth this man or his wife / shall surely [...]ye for it.

[Page]And Isaac sowed in y• lāde / & founde in y• same yere an hūdred bushels: for ye LORde blessed hī / & the man waxed mightye / & wēt forth & grewe till he was exceadinge great / yt he had possessiō of shepe / of oxē & a myghtie housholde: so y• the Philestians had envy at him: In so moch y• they stopped & fylled vp with erth / all the welles which his fathers servauntes dygged in his father Abrahams tyme. Than sayde Abin elcch vnto Isaac: gett the srō me / for thou art myhhtier then we a greate deale.

Than Isaac departed thense & pitched his tente in the valey Gerar & dwelt there▪ And Isaac digged agayne / the welles of water which they dygged in the dayes of Abrahā his father which the Philestiās had stoppe after [...] deth of Abrahā / & gaue thē the same names which hys father gaue thē. As Isaacs seruaūtes dygged in the valey / they founde a well of springynge water. And the herdmē of Gerar dyd stryue with Isaacs herdmē saynge: the water is oures Than called he the well Eseck because they stroue with hym.

Than dygged they another well / & they stroue for yt also. Therfore called he it Sitena. And than he departed thēse & dygged another well for the which they stroue not: therfore called he it Rehoboth saīge: y• LORde hath now made vs rowme & we are encreased vpō the erth. Afterward departed he thēce & came to Berseba

And the LORde apered vnto hī the same nyghte & sayde. I am the God of Abrahā thy father / feare not for I am with the & will blesse [Page] the & multiplye thy sede for my seruaūte Abrahams sake. And than he buylded an aulter there and called vpō the name of the LORde / & there pitched his tente. And there Isaacs servauntes dygged a well.

Than came Abimelech to him frō Gerar & Ahusath his frende and Phicol his chefe captayne. And Isaac sayde vnto thē: wherfore come ye to me / seige ye hate me & haue put me awaye frō you? Than sayde they: we sawe that the LORde was with the / and therfore we sayde that there shulde be an oothe betwixte vs ād the / & that we wolde make a bonde with the: y• thou shuldeste do vs no hurte / as we haue not touched the and haue done vnto the nothinge but good / and sēd the awaye in prace: for thou art now the blessed of the LORde. And he made thē a feast / and they ate ād drōke. And they lose vp by tymes in the mornynge and sware one to another. And Isaac sent thē awaye. And they departed from him in peace.

And ye same daye came Isaacs servaūtes & tolde hī of a well which they had dygged: & sayde vnto hī / that thei had founde water. And he called it Seba / wherfore the name of the cy [...] is called Berseba vnto this daye.

The .xxvij. Chapter.

WHen Esau was .xl. yere olde / he toke to wyfe Iudith the doughter of Bery an Hethite / and Basmath the [...]ughter of Elon an Hethite also / which were dishobedient vnto Isaac and Rebecca▪ [Page] And it came to passe that Isaac wexed olde & his eyes were dymme / so that he coude nat see. Thā ca [...]ed he Esau his eldest sonne & sayde on to him: mi sonne. And he sayde vnto hym: heare am I. And he sayde: beholde / I am olde ād knowe not the daye of mi deth: Now therfore take thi weapēs / thy quiver & thi bowe / & gett the rothe feldes & take me some venyson & make me meate such as I loue / & brynge it me & let me eat that my sou [...] ▪ may blesse the before that I dye:

But Rebecca hard whē Isaac spake to Esau his sonne. And as soone as Esau was gone to the felde to catche venyson & to brīge it / she spake vnto Iacob hir sonne sainge? Behold I haue herde thi father talkinge with Esau thy brother & saynge: bringe me venyson & make me meate that I maye eate & blesse the before the LORde yer I dye. Now therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I cōmaunde the: gett the to the flocke / & bringe me thēce .ij. good fiddes / & I will make meate of thē forthi father / soch as he loueth. And thou shalt brīge it to thi father & he shal eate / y• he maye blysse the before his deth

Than sayde Iacob to Rebecca his mother. Beholde Esau mi brother is rugh & Iam smooth. Mi father shal peraduēture fele me / ād I shal seme vnto hī as though I wēt aboute to be gyle hī / & so shall he brīge a curse vpō me & not a blessīge: & his mother saide vnto him. Vppō me be thi curse my sonne / only heare my voyce & goo and fetch me them. And Iacob went ād [Page] fett them and brought them to his mother.

And his mother made meate of them accordinge as his father loued And she went and fett goodly rayment of hir eldest sonne Esau which she had in the house with hir / and put them vpon Iacob hir yongest sonne / ād she put the skynnes vpon his hādes & apon the smooth of his necke. And she put y• meate & brede which she had made in the hōde of hir sonne Iacob

And he went in to his father saynge: my father / And he āswered: here am I / who art thou my sonne? And Iacob sayde vnto his father: I am Esau thy eldest sonne / I haue done acordinge as thou baddest me / vp and sytt and eate of my venyson / that thi soule maye blesse me. But Isaac sayde vnto his sonne. How cōmeth it that thou hast fownde it so quicly my sonne? He answered: The LORde thy god brought it to my hande. Than sayde Isaac vnto Iacob: come nere and let me fele the my sonne / whether thou be my sonne Esau or not. Than went Iacob to Isaac his father / & he felt him & sayde the voyce [...] Iacobs voyce / but the hādes ar y• hādes of Esau. And he knewe him not / because his handes were rough as his brother Esau [...] handes? And so he blessed him.

And he axed him / art thou my sonne Esau? And he sayde: that I am. Than sayde he: brynge me and let me eate of my sonnes venyson / that my soule maye blesse the. And he broughte him / and he ate. And he broughte him wyne [Page] also / and he dranke. And his father Isaac sayde vnto him: come nere and kysse me my sonne. And he wēt to him & kissed him. And he smelled y• sauoure of his raymēt & blessed hī & sayde See / y• smell of my sōne is as y• smell of a feld which the lorde hath blessed. God geue the of y• dewe of heavē & of the fatnesse of the erth and plētie of corne & wyne. People be thy servauntes & natiōs bowe vnto the. Be lorde ouer thy brethrē / and thy mothers children stoupe vnto the. Cursed be he yt curseth the / & lessed be he that blesseth the.

As soone as Isaac had made an end of blessīg / Iacob & Iacob was scace gone out frō the preasence of Isaac his father: then came Esau his brother frō his huntynge: And had made also meate / and brought it in vnto his father & sayde vnto him: Aryse my father & eate of thy sonnes venyson / that thy soule maye blesse me. Thā his father Isaac sayde vnto him. Who art thou? he answered I am thy eldest sonne Esau.

And Isaac was greatly astoyned out of mesure and sayde: Where is he then that hath hū ted venyson and broughte it me / and I haue eaten of all before thou cames [...] / and haue blessed him / ād he shall be blessed styll. Whē Esau her de the wordes of his father / he cryed out greatly & bitterly aboue mesure / and sayde vnto his father: blesse me also my father. And he sayde thy brother came with subtilte / ād hath takē awaye thy blessynge. Than sayde he: He maye [Page] well be called Iacob / for he hath vndermyned me now .ij. tymes / fyrst he toke awaye my byrthrighte: and se / now hath he taken awaye my blessynge also. And he sayde / hast thou kepte neu [...] a blessynge for me?

Isaac answered and sayde vnto Esau: beholde I haue made him thi LORde & all his mothers children haue I made his seruauntes. Moreouer wyth come ād wyne haue I stablesshed him / what cā I do vnto the now my sonne? And Esau sayde vnto his father? hast thou but yt one blessynge my father? blesse me also my father: so lyfted vp Esau his royce & wepte Thā Isaac his father answered & sayde vnto him

Beholde thy dwellynge place shall haue of the fatnesse of the erth / & of the dewe of heauen frō aboue. And wyth thy swerde shalt thou lyue and shalt be thy brothers seruaunte But the tyme will come / when thou shalt gett the mastrye / and lowse his yocke from of thy necke.

And Esau hated Iacob because of the blessynge yt his father blessed him with all / & sayde in his harte: The dayes of my fathers so [...]owe are at hāde / for I will sley my brother Iacob. And these wordes of Esau hir eldest sonne / were told to Rebecca. And she sente ād called Iacob hir yongest sonne / and sayde vnto hī: beholde thy brother Esau threatneth to kyll the: Now therfore my sōne heare my voyce / make the redie & flee to Labā my brother at Ha [...]an Andtarie with him a while / vntill thy [Page] brothers fearsnes be swaged / and vntill the brothers wrath turne away from the / and he forgett that which thou hast done to him. Thā will I sende and fett the awaye from thence. Why shulde I lose you both in one daye.

And Rebecca spake to Isaac: I am wery of my life / for feare of the doughters of Heth. Yf Jacob take a wife of the doughters of Heth / soch one as these are / or of the doughters of the lande / what lust shulde I haue to lyue.

¶ The .xxviij. Chapter.

THan Isaac called Jacob his sonne and blessed him / ād charged him and sayde vnto him: se thou take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan / but aryse ād gett the to Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father: and there take the a wife of the doughters of Laban thi mothers brother. And God allmightte blesse the / increase the and multiplie the that thou mayst be a nombre of people / and geuethe the blessynge of Abraham: both to the and to thy seed with the that thou mayst possesse the lāde (wherein thou art a strangere) which God gaue vnto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob / to goo to Mesopotamia vnto Laban / sonne of Bethuel the Sirien / and brother to Rebecca Jacobs & Esaus mother.

When Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Jacob / and sent him to Mesopotamia / to fett him a wife thence / and that / as he blessed him [Page] he gaue him a charge saynge: se thou take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan: and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother / & was gone vnto Mesopotamia: and seynge also that the doughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father: Then went he vnto Ismael / and toke vnto the wiues which he had / Mahala the doughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne / the sister of Nabaioth to be his wife.

Jacob departed from Berseba and went toward Haran / and came vnto a place and taried there all nyghte / because the sonne was downe. And toke a stone of the place / and put it vnder his heade / and layde him downe in the same place to slepe. And he dreamed: and beholde there stode a ladder apon the erth / and the topp of it reached vpp to heauē. And se / the angells of God went vp and downe apon it / yee ād the LORde stode apon it and sayde.

I am the LORde God of Abraham thi father and the God of Isaac: The londe which thou slepest apon will I geue the and thy seed. And thy seed shalbe as the dust of the erth: And thou shalt spreade abrode: west / east / north and south. And thorow the and thy seed shall all the kynreddes of the erth be blessed. And se I am with the / and wylbe thy keper in all places whother thou goost / & wyll brynge y• agayne in to this lande: Nether will I leaue the vntill I haue made good / all that I haue promysed the.

[Page]When Jacob was awaked out of his slepe / he sayde: surely the LORde is in this place / ād I was not aware. And he was afrayde & sayde how fearfull is this place? it is none other / but euen the house of God and the gate of heauē. And Jacob stode vp early in the mornynge and toke the stone that he had layde vnder his heade / and pitched it vp an ende and poured oyle on the topp of it. And he called the name of the place Bethell / for in dede the name of the citie was called Lus before tyme.

And Jacob vowed a vowe saynge: Yf God will be with me and wyll kepe me in this tourney which I goo and will geue me bread to eate and cloothes to put on / so that I come agayne vnto my fathers house in saftie: then shall the LORde be my God / and this stone which I haue sett vp an ende / shalbe godes house / And of all that thou shalt geue me / will I geue the tenth vnto the.

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

THen Jacob lyfte vp his fete & wēt toward the east countre. And as he loked aboute / behold there was a well in the feld / and .iij. flockes of shepe laye therby (for at that well were the flockes watered) & there laye a great stone at the well mouth And the maner was to brynge the flockes thyther / & to roull the stone frō the welles mouth and to water the shepe / and to put the stone agayne [Page] vppon the wells mouth vnto his place.

And Jacob sayde vnto thē: brethern / whē ce be ye? and they sayde: of Haran ar we. And he sayde vnto thē: knowe ye Laban the sonne of Nahor. And they sayde: we knowe him. And he sayde vnto thē: is he in good health? And they sayde: he is in good health: and boholde / his doughter Rahel cometh with y• shepe. And he sayde: lo / it is yet a great whyle to nyghte / nether is it tyme yt the catell shulde be gathered together: water the shepe and goo and fede thē. And they sayde: we maye not / vntill all ye flockes be brought together & the stone be roulled frō the wells mouth / and so we water oure shepe.

Whyle he yet talked with thē / Rahel came with hir fathers shepe / for she kepte them. As soone As Jacob sawe Rahel / the doughter of Laban his mothers brother / and the shepe of Laban his mothers brother / he went and rowled the stone frō the wells mouth / and watered the shepe of Labā his mothers brother And Jacob kyssed Rahel / and lyfte vp his voyce and wepte: and tolde her also yt he was hir fathers brother and Rebeccas sonne. Thē Rahel ranne and tolde hir father.

When Laban herd tell of Jacob his sisters sonne / he ranne agaynst him and enbraced hī & kyssed him ād broughte him in to his house. And thē Jacob told Labā all y• matter And thē Labā sayde: well / thou art my bone & my flesh, [Page] Abyde with me the space of a moneth. And afterward Laban sayd vnto Jacob: though thou be my brother / shuldest thou therfore serue me for nought? tell me what shall thi wages be? And Laban had .ij. doughters / the eldest called Lea and the yongest Rahel. Lea was tender eyed: But Rahel was bewtifull ād well fauored. And Jacob loued her well / and sayde: I will serue the .vij. yere for Rahel thy yongest doughter. And Laban answered: it is better y• I geue her the / than to another man? byde therfore with me.

And Jacob serued .vij. yeres for Rahel / and they semed vnto him but a fewe dayes? for the loue he had to her. And Jacob sayde vnto Laban / geue me my wife / that I mayely e with hir for the tyme appoynted me is come.

Than Laban bade all the men of that place / and made a feast. And when euē was come / he toke Lea his doughter and broughte her to him and he went in vnto her. And Laban gaue vnto his doughter Lea / Zilpha his mayde / to be hir seruaunte.

And when the mornynge was come / beholde it was Lea. Than sayde he to Laban: wherfore hast thou played thus with me? dyd not I serue the for Rahel / wherfore than hast thou be gyled me? Laban answered: it is not the maner of this place / to marre the yongest before the eldest. Passe out this weke / & thā shall this also be geven the for y• seruyce which thou shal [...] [Page] serue me yet .vij. yeres more. And Jacob dyd euē so / and passed out that weke / & than he gaue hī Rahel his doughter to [...] wyfe also. And Laban gaue to Rahel his doughter / Bilha his handmayde to be hir servaūte. So laye he by Rahel also / and loved Rahel more than Lea / and serued him yet .vij. yeres more.

When the LORde sawe that Lea was despised / he made her frutefull: but Rahel was baren. And Lea conceaued and bare a sonne / ād called his name Rubē / for she sayde:: the LORde hath loked apon my tribulation. And now my husbonde will loue me. And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne / and sayde: the LORde hath herde that I am despised / ād hath therfore geuen me this sonne also / and she called him Simeon. And she conceaued yet and bare a sonne / ād sayde: now this once will my husbonde kepe me company / because I haue borne him .iij. sonnes: and therfore she called his name Levi. And she conceaued yet agayne / and bare a sonne saynge? Now will I prayse the LORde: therfore she called his name Juda / and left bearynge.

¶ The .xxx. Chapter

WHen Rahel sawe that she bare Jacob no children / she enuied hir sister & sayde vnto Jacob: geue me children / or ells I am but deed. Than was Jacob wrooth with Rahel saynge: Am I in godes steade which kepeth frō the the frute of thi wōbe? Thē she sayde: here is my mayde Bilha: go in vnto [Page] her / that she maye beare vpō my lappe / that I maye be encreased by her. And she gaue him Bilha hir hād mayde to wife. And Jacob wēt in vnto her / And Bilha conceaued and bare Jacob a sonne. Than sayde Rahel. God hath geuen sentēce on my syde / and hath also herde my voyce / and hath geuen me a sonne. Therfore called she him Dan. And Bilha Rahels mayde cōce [...]ued agayne and bare Jacob a nother sonne. And Rahel sayde. God is turned / and I haue made a chaunge with my sister / & haue gotē y• vpper hāde. And she called his name Nepthali

Whē Lea sawe that she had left bearinge / she toke Silpha hir mayde and gaue her [...]acob to wiffe. And Silpha Leas made bare Jacob a sonne. Than sayde Lea: good lucke: and called his name God. And Silpha Leas mayde bare Jacob another sonne. Thā sayd Lea: happy am I / for the doughters will call me blessed. And called his name Asser.

And Rubē wēt out in the wheatharuest & foū de mandragoras in the feldes / and brought thē vnto his mother Lea. Than sayde Rahel to Lea geue me of thy sonnes mādragoras. And Lea answered: is it not ynough / yt thou hast takē awaye my housbōde / but woldest take awaye my sonnes mandragoras also? Than sayde Rahel well / let him slepe with the this nyghte / for thy sonnes mandragoras. And whē Jacob came from the feldes at euen / Lea went our to mere him / & sayde: come into me / for I haue bought [Page] the with my sonnes mandragoras.

And he slepte with her that nyghte. And God herde Lea / yt she cōceaued and bare onto Jacob y• .v. sonne. Than sayde Lea. God hath geue me my rewarde / because I gaue my maydē to my housbōd / and she called him Isachar. And Lea cōceaued yet agayne and bare Jacob the sex [...]e sonne. Than sayde she: God hath endewed me with a good dowry. Now will my housbond dwell with me / because I haue borne him .vi. sonnes: and called his name Zabulō. After that she bare a doughter and called her Dina.

And God remēbred Rahel / herde her / and made her frutefull: so that she cōceaued and bare a sonne and sayde God hath takē awaye my rebuke. And she called his name Joseph saynge The lorde geue me yet a nother sonne.

As soone as Rahel had home Joseph / Jacob sayde to Laban: Sēde me awaye yt I maye goo vnto myne awne place and cūtre / geue me my wives and my children for whome I haue serued the / and let me goo: for thou knowest what scruyce I haue done the. Than sayde Laban vnto hī: If I haue fownde fauoure in thy syghte (for I suppose yt the LORde hath blessed me for thy sake) appoynte what thy rewarde shalbe / and I will geue it y•. But he sayde vnto hym / thou knowest what seruyce I haue done y• / & in what tak [...]nge thy catell haue bene vnder me: For it was but litle that thou haddest before I came / and now it is encreased in to a multitude [...] and the LORDE hath blessed the for my sake. [Page] But now when shall I make provysion for myne awne house also? And he sayde: what shall I geue the? And Jacob answerd: thou shalt geue me nothinge at all / yf thou wilt do this one thinge for me: And then will I turne agayne & fede thy shepe and kepe them.

I will go aboute all thy shepe this daye / and separate frō thē all the shepe that are spotted and of dyverse coloures / and all blacke shepe amonge the lambes and the partie and spotted amonge the kyddes: And then such shalbe my rewarde. So shall my rightwesnes answere for me: when the tyme commeth that I shall receaue my rewarde of the: Go that what soeuer is not speckeld and partie amonge the gootes and blacke amonge the lambes / let that be theft with me.

Than sayde Laban: [...]oo / I am contēte / that it be acordinge as thou hast sayde. And he toke out that same daye the he gootes that were partie & of dyuerse coloures / & all the she gootes that were spotted and partie coloured / & all that had whyte in thē / & all the blacke amonge the lambes: ād put thē in the kepinge of his sonnes / & sett thre dayes ourney [...]betwixte hīselfe & Jacob. And so Jacob kepte yye rest of Labās shepe.

Jacob toke roddes of grene popular / hasell / & of chestnottrees / & pilled whyte strakes in thē & made the white apere in the staues: And he put the staues which he had pilled / euē before yy• shepe [Page] / in the gutters & watrynge [...]roughes / whē the shepe came to drynke: yt they shulde cōceaue whē they came to drynke. And the shepe cōceaued before the staues & brought forth straked / spotted & partie. Thē Iacob parted the lābes / & turned the faces of the shepe toward spotted thinges / & toward allinaner of blacke thinges thorow out the flockes of Labā. And he made him flockes of his owne by thē selfe / which he put not vnto the flockes of Labā. And allwaye in the first buckinge tyme of the shepe / Iacob put the staues before the shepe in the gutters▪ / y• they myghte conceaue before the staues / But in the latter buckynge tyme / he put them not there: so the last hrode was Labās and the first Iacobs. And the man became excedynge ryche & had many shepe / maydeseruauntes / menseruauntes / camels & asses.

¶ The .xxxi. Chapter.

ANd Iacob herde the wordes of Labās sonnes how they sayde: Iacob hath takē awaye all that was oure fathers / and of oure fathers goodes / hath he gotē all this honoure. And Iacob behelde the countenaūce of Laban / that it was not toward him as it was in tymes past.

And the LORde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne in to the lāde of thy fathers & to thy kynred / & I wilbe with ye. Thā Iacob sent & called Rahel & Lea to the felde vnto his shepe / & sayde vnto thē: Ise youre fathers countenaūce yt it is not toward me as in tymes past. Morouer [Page] y• God of my father hath bene with me. And ye knowe how that I haue serued youre father with all my myghte. And youre father hath disceaued me & chaunged my wages .x. tymes: But God suffred him not to hurte me. When he sayde the spotted shalbe thy wages / thā all the shepe bare spotted. Yf he sayde the straked shalbe th [...] rewarde / thā bare all the shepe straked: thus hath God: akē awaye youre fathers catell & geuē thē me. For in buckynge tyme / I lifted vp myne eyes and sawe in a dreame: and beholde / the rammes that bucked the shepe were straked / spotted and partie. And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame saynge: Iacob. And I answered: here am I. And he sayde: lyfte vp thyne eyes ād see / how all the [...]ā mes that leape vpon the shepe are straked / spotted and partie: for I haue sene all that Laban doth vnto y•. I am y• god of Bethell where thou anoynteddest the stone ād where thou vowdest a vowe vnto me. Now aryse and gett the out of this countre / ād returne vnto the lāde / where thou wast borne. Than answered Rahel & Lea & sayde vnto him: we haue no parte nor enheritaunce in oure fathers house he cownteth us euē as straungers / for he hath solde vs / and hath euen eaten vp the price of vs. Moreouer all the riches which God hath take from oure father / that is oures and oure childerns. Now therfore what so euer God hath sayde vnto the / that doo. Thā Iacob rose vp & sett his sōnes and wiues vp vpon camels / & caried away all [Page] his catell & all his substāce which he had gotte in Mesopotamia / for to goo to Isaac his father vnto the lāde of Canaan. Labā was gone to shere his shepe / & Rahel had stollē hir fathers ymages. And Iacob went awaye vnknowynge to Laban the Siriē / & tolde him not yt he fled. So fled he & all yt he had / & made him self redy / & passed ouer the ryuers / and sett his face streyght towarde the mounte Gilead.

Apō the thirde day after / was it tolde Labā y• Iacob was fled. Thā he toke his brethrē with him and folowed after him .vij. dayes iourney and ouer toke him at the mounte Gilead. And God came to Labā the Siriā in a dreame by nyghte / and sayde vnto him: take hede to thi selfe / that thou speake not to Jacob oughte save good. And Labā ouer toke Iacob: and Iacob had pitched his tēte in yt mounte. And Laban with his brethern pitched their tēte also apon the mounte Gilead. Than sayde Labā to Iacob: why hast thou this done vnknowynge to me / and hast caried awaye my doughters as though they had bene takē captyue with swerde? Wherfore wentest thou awaye secretly vnknowne to me & didest not tell me / y• I myghte haue broughte y• on the waye with myrth / syngynge / tymrells and harppes / and hast not suffred me to kysse my childern & my doughters. Thou wast a fole to do it / for I am able to do you evell. But the God of youre father spake vnto me yesterdaye saynge take hede tha [Page] thou speake not to Iacob oughte saue goode. And now though thou wētest thi waye because thou lōgest after thi fathers house / yet wherfore hast thou stollen my goddes?

Iacob answerd & sayde to Labā: because I was afrayed / & thought that thou woldest haue takē awaye thy doughters fro me. But with whome soeuer thou fyndest thy goddes / let him dye here before oure brethrē. Seke that thine is by me / & take it to the: for Iacob wist not that Rahel had stollē thē. Thā wēt Labā in to Iacobs tēte / & in to Leas tēte / & in to .ij. maydens tentes: but fownde thē not. Thā wēt he out of Leas tēte / & entred in to Rahels tēte. And Rahel [...]oke the ymages / & put them in the camels strawe & sate doune apō thē. And Labā serched all the tēte: but fownde thē not. Thā sayde she to hir father: my lorde / be not angrye yt Icā not ryse vp before the / for the disease of wemē is come apon me. So searched be / but foūde thē not.

Iacob was wrooth & chode with Labā: Iacob also answered and sayde to him: what haue I tre [...]aced or what haue I offended / that thou foloweddest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuffe / and what hast thou founde of all thy housholde stuffe? put it here before thi brethern & myne / & let thē iudge betwyxte vs both. This xx. yere y• I haue bene wyth the / thy shepe and thy [...]oores haue not bene baren / and the rammes of thi flocke haue I not eatē. What soeuer was torne of beastes I broughte it not vnto y• / [Page] but made it good mysilf: of my hāde dydest thou requyre it / whether it was stollen by daye or nyghte Moreouer by daye the hete consumed me / and the colde by nyghte / and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.

Thus haue I bene .xx. yere in thi house / and serued the .xiiij. yeres for thy .ij. doughters / and vi. yere for thi shepe / and thou hast changed my rewarde .x. tymes. And excepte the God of my father / the God of Abrahā and the God who me Isaac feareth / had bene with me: surely thou haddest sent me awaye now all emptie. But God behelde my tribulation / and the laboure of my handes: and rebuked the yester daye.

Laban answered ād sayde vnto Iacob: the doughters are my doughters / and the childern or my childern / and the shepe are my shepe / ād all that thou seist is myne. And what can I do this daye vnto these my doughters / or vnto their childern which they haue borne? Now therfore come on / let us make a bonde / I and thou together / and let it be a wytnesse betwene the & me. Than toke Iacob a stone and sett it vp an ende / ād sayde vnto his brethern / gather stoones And they toke stoones ād made an heape / and they ate there / vpō the heape. And Labā called [...] [...]egar Sahadutha / but Iacob called it Gylead.

Than sayde Laban: this heape [...]e witnesse betwene the and me this daye (therfore is it called Gilead) and this [...]o [...]e [...]ill which the lorde [Page] seeth (sayde he) be wytnesse betwene me and the when we are departed one from another: that thou shalt not vexe my doughters nether shalt take other wyves vnto them. Here is no man with vs: beholde / God is wytnesse betwixte the and me. And Laban sayde moreouer to Iacob: beholde / this heape & this marke which I haue sett here / betwyxte me and the: this heape be wytnesse and also this marcke / that I will not come ouer this heape to the / ād thou shalt not come ouer this heape ād this marke / to do any harme. The God of Abraham / the God of Nahor and the God of theyr fathers / be iudge betwixte vs.

And Iacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. Then Iacob dyd sacrifyce vpon the mounte / and called his brethern to eate breed. And they are breed and taried all nyghte in the hyll. And early in the mornynge Laban rose vp and kyssed his childern and his doughters / and blessed thē and departed and wēt vnto his place agayne. But Iacob went forth on his iourney. And the angells of God came & mett him. And when Iacob lawe them / he sayde: this is godes hoost: and called the name of that same place / Mahanaim.

¶ The .xxxij. Chapter.

IAcob sente meessengers before him to Esau his brother / vnto the londe of Seir and the felde of Edom. And he cōmaunded them saynge: se that ye speake after [Page] this maner to my lorde Esau: thy seruaunte Iacob sayth thus. I haue sogerned ād bene a straunger with Laban vnto this tyme: & haue gotten oxen / asses and shepe / menservauntes & we manseruauntes / & haue sent to shewe it un lorde / that I may fynde grace in thy syghte.

And the messengers came agayne to Iacob sainge: we came vnto thi brother Esau / and he cometh ageynst the and .iiij. hundred men with hī. Than was Iacob greatlye afrayde / and wist not which waye to turne him selfe / and devyded the people that was with him & the shepe / oxen and camels / in to .ij. companies / and sayder Yf Esau come to the one parte and smyte it / the other may saue it selfe.

Prayer is to cleave vnto the promyses of god with a sirōge fayth and to besech god with a fervent desyre that he will fulfyll them for his mercye & truth onlye. As Iacob here doth. And Iacob sayde: O god of my father Abraham / and God of my father Isaac: LORde which saydest vnto me / returne vnto thy cuntre and to thy kynrede / and I will deall wel with the. I am not worthy of the leaste of all the mercyes and treuth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunte. For with my staf came I over this Iordane / and now haue I goten .ij. droves Delyver me from the handes of my brother Esau / for I feare him: lest he will come and smyte the mother with the childern. Thou saydest that thou woldest surely do me good / and woldest make [...] seed as the sonde of the see which can not be nombred for multitude.

And he taried there that same nyghte / & toke of that which came to hande / a preasent / [Page] vnto Esau his brother: ij hundred she gootes ād xx he gootes: ij hundred shepe and xx rammes: thyrtye mylch camels with their coltes: xl kyne ād x bulles: xx she asses ād x foles and delyuered them vnto his seruauntes / euery drooue by them selues / ād sayde vnto them: goo forth before me and put a space betwyxte euery drooue. And he cōmaunded the formestsaynge

Whē Esau my brother meteth the ād axeth the saynge: whose seruaūte art thou & whither goost thou / & whose ar these that goo before ye: thou shalt say / they be thy seruaunte Iacobs / & are a present sent vnto my lorde Esau / and beholde / he him selfe cometh after vs. And so cō maunded he the seconde / ād euen so the thirde / and lykewyse all that folowed the drooues sainge / of this maner se that ye speake vnto Esau whē ye mete him / ād saye more ouer. Beholde thy seruaunte Iacob cometh after vs / for he sayde. I will pease his wrath with the present y• goth before me and afterward I will see him myself / so per [...]dventure he will receaue me to grace.

So went the presēt before him ād he taried all that nyghte in the tente / ād rose vp the same nyghte ād toke his .ij. wyves and his .ij. maydens & his. x [...]. sonnes / & went ouer the foorde Iabok. And he toke them ād sent thē ouer the ryuer / ād sent ouer that he had ād taried behinde him selfe alone.

And there wrasiled a man with him vnto the [Page] breakynge of the daye. And when he sawe that he coude not prevayle agaynst him / he smote hī vnder the thye / and the senowe of Iacobs thy shranke as he wrastled with him. And he sayde: let me goo / for the daye breaketh. And he sayde: I will not lett the goo / excepte thou blesse me. And he sayde vnto him: what is thy name? He answered: Iacob. And he sayde: thou shalt be called Iacob nomore / but Israell. For thou hast wrastled with God and with men ād hast preuayled.

And Iacob asked him sainge / tell me thi name. And he sayde / wherfore dost thou aske after my name? and he blessed him there. And Iacob called the name of the place Peniel / for I haue sene God face to face / and yet is my lyfe reserved. And as he went ouer Peniel / the sonne rose vpon him / and he halted vpon his thye: wherfore the childern of Israell [...]a [...]e not of the senow that shrancke vnder the thye / vnto this daye: because that he smote Iacob vnder the thye in the senow that sh [...]oncke.

The .xxxiij. Chapter.

IAcob lyfte vp his eyes and sawe hys brother Esau come / & with him .iiij. hundred men. And he deuyded the childern vnto Lea and vnto Rahel and vnto ye ij. maydens. And he put the maydens ād their childern formest / ād Lea and hir childern after / and Rahel ād Ioseph hindermost. And he went before them and fell on the grownde▪ [...]ij▪ [Page] tymes / vntill he came vnto his brother.

Esau ranne agaynst him and enbraced hym and fell on his necke and kyssed him / and they wepte. And he lifte vp his eyes and sawe the wyves and their childern / and sayde: what are these which thou there hast? And he sayde: they are the childern which God hath geuen thy seruaunte. Than came the maydens forth / ād dyd their obaysaunce. Lea also and hir childern came and dyd their obaysaunce. And last of all came Joseph and Rahel and dyd their obaysaunce.

And he sayde: what meanyst thou with all y• drooues which I mett. And he answered: to fynde grace in the syghte of my lorde. And Esau sayde: I haue ynough my brother / kepe that thou hast vnto thy silf. Jacob answered: oh nay but yf I haue founde grace in thy syghte / receaue my preasēt of my hāde: for I haue sene thy face as though I had sene yt face of God: wherfore receaue me to grace and take my blessynge that I haue brought the / for God hath geuen it me frely. And I haue ynough of all thynges. And so he compelled him to take it.

And he sayde: let vs take oure iourney and goo / and I will goo in thy cōpany. And he sayde vnto him: my lorde knoweth that I haue tendre childern / ewes and kyne with yonge vnder myne hande / which yf men shulde ouerdry [...] but euen one daye / the hole flocke wolde dye. [Page] Let my lorde therfore goo before his servaunte and I will dryue fayre and softly / accordynge as the catell that goth before me and the childern / be able to endure: vntill I come to [...] lorde vnto Seir.

And Esau sayde: let me yet leaue some of my folke with the. And he sayde: what neadeth it? let me fynde grace in the syghte of my lorde So Esau went his waye agayne yt same daye vnto Seir. And Jacob toke his iourney toward Sucoth / and bylt him an house / and made boothes for his catell: wherof the name of the place is called Sucoth.

And Jacob went to Salem to y• cytie of Si them in the lande of Canaā / after that he was come from Mesopotamia / and pitched before the cyte / and bought a parcell of ground where he [...]ttched his tent / of the childern of Hemor Sichems father / for an hundred lambes. And he made there an aulter / and there called vpon the myghtie God of Israell.

The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

DIna the doughter of Lea which she bare vnto Jacob / went out to see the doughters of the lande. And Eichē the sonne of Hemo: the Heuite lorde of the countre / sawe her / & toke her / & laye with her / and forced her: & his harte laye vnto Dina y• doughter of Jacob. And he loued yt damsell & spake kidly vnto her / & spake vnto his father Hemo [...] saynge / gett me this maydē vnto my wyfe.

[Page]And Iacob herde that he had defyled Dina his doughter / but his sonnes were with the catell in the felde / and therfore he helde his peace / vntill they were come. Then Hemor the father of Sichem went out vnto Iacob / to comē with him. And the sonnes of Iacob came out of the felde as soone as they herde it / for it greued them / and they were not a litle wrooth / because he had wrought folie in Israell / in that he had lyen with Iacobs doughter / which thinge oughte not to be done.

And Hemor comened with thē sainge? the soule of my sonne Sichē lōgeth for youre doughter geue her him to wyfe / and make mariages with vs: geue youre doughters vnto vs / ād take oure doughters vnto you / and dwell with vs / & the lande shall be at youre pleasure / dwell and do youre busynes / and haue youre possessions there in. And Sichem sayde vnto hyr father and hir brethern: let me fynde grace in youre eyes / and what soeuer ye apoynte me / that will I geue. Axe frely of me both the dowry & gyftes / and I will geue acordynge as ye saye vnto me / and geue me the damsell to wyfe.

Then the sonnes of Iacob answered to Sichem ād Hemor his father deceytefully / because he had defyled Dina their syster. And they sayde vnto them / we can not do this thinge / yt we shulde geue oure syster to one that is vncircumcysed / for that were a shame vnto vs. Only in this will we consent vnto you? Yf ye will [Page] be as we be / that all the men childern amonge you be circumcysed / thā will we geue oure doughter to you and take youres to vs / and will dwell with you and be one people. But and yf ye will not harken vnto vs to be circumcysed / than will we take oure doughter and goo oure wayes.

And their wordes pleased Hemor and Sichem his sonne. And the yonge man deferde not for to do the thinge / because he had a lust to Iacobs doughter: he was also most sett by of all that were in his fathers house. Thā Hemor and Sichem went vnto the gate of their cyte / and comened with the men of their cyte saynge. These men ar peasable with vs / & will dwell in the lāde and do their occupatiō therin And in the land is rowme ynough for thē / let vs take their doughters to wyues and geue them oures: only herm will they consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs and to be one people: yf all the men childern that are amonge vs be circumcysed as they are. Their goodes & their substance and all their catell are oures / only let vs consente vnto them / that they maye dwell with vs.

And vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonneharkened all that went out at the gate of his cyte. And all the men childern were circumcysed what soever went out at the gates of his cyte. And the third daye when it was paynefull to them / ij. of the sonnes of Iacob Simeon & Leui [Page] Dinas brethren / toke ether of them his swerde & went in to the cyte boldly / and slewe all yt was male / and slewe also H [...]m [...] and Sichem his sonne with the edge of the swerde / ād toke Dina their sister out of Sichems house / and went their waye.

Than came the sonnes of Iacob vpon the deede / and spoyled the cyte / because they had defyled their sister: and toke their shepe / oxen asses and what so euer was in the cyte and also in ye feldes. And all their goodes / all their childern and their wyues toke they captyue / and made ha [...]ock of all that was in the houses.

And Iacob sayde to Simeon and Leui: ye haue troubled me ād made me styncke vnto the inhabitatours of the lande / both to the Can [...]anytes and also vnto the Pherezites. And I am fewe in nombre. Wherfore they shall gather them selves together agaynst me & [...]ley me / and so shall I and my house be dystroyed. And they answered: shuld they deall with oure sister a [...] wyth an whoore?

¶ The .xxxv. Chapter

ANd God sayd vnto Iacob / aryse ād get the vp to Bethell / & dwell there. And make there an aulter vnto God that apeared vnto the / when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. Than sayd Iacob vnto hi [...] [Page] housholde & to all yt were with him / put away the straūge goddes that are amonge you & make youre selves cleane / & chaunge youre garmē tes / & let vs aryse & goo vp to Bethell / yt I maye make an aulter there / vnto God which herde me in the daye of my tribulatiō & was wyth me in the waye which I went.

And they gaue vnto Iacob all the straunge goddes which were vnder their handes / ād all their carynges which were in their eares / and Iacob hyd them vnder an ooke at Sichem. And they departed▪ And the feare of God fell vpon the cyties that were rounde aboute them / that they durst not folowe after the sonnes of Iacob. [...]o came Iacob to Lus in the lande of Canaan / otherwise called Bethell / with all the people that was with him. And he buylded there an [...]ulter / and called the place Elbethell: because that God appered vnto him there / when he fled from his brother.

Then dyed Debor [...] Rebeccas norse / and was buryed ben [...]he Bethell vnder an ooke. And the name of it was called the ooke of lamentation.

And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne after he came out of Mesopotamia / & blessed him and sayde vnto him: thy name is Iacob. Notwithstondynge thou shalt be nomore called Iacob / but Israel shalbe thy name. And so was his name called Israell.

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And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmightie / growe and multiplye: for people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the / yee ād kynges shall come out of they loynes. And the lande which I gaue Abrahā & Isaac / will I geue vnto the / & vnto thi seed after the will I geue it also. And god departed frō him in the place where he talked with him. And Iacob set vp a marke in the place where he talked with him: euen a pilloure of stone / & powred drynkeoffringe theron and powred also oyle theron / and called the name of the place where God spake with him / Bethell.

And they departed from Bethel / & when he was but a feld brede from Ephrath / Rahel began to trauell. And in travelynge she was in perell. And as she was in paynes of hir laboure / the mydwyfe sayde vnto her: feare not / for thou shalt haue this sonne also. Then as hir soule was a departinge / that she must dye: she called his name Ben O [...]i. But his father called him Ben Iamin. And thus dyed Rahel ād was buryed in the waye to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem. And Iacob sett vp a piller apon hir graue / which is called Rahels graue piller vnto this daye. And Israell went thē ce and pitched vp his tent beyonde the toure of Eder.

And it chaunced as Israel dwelt in that lande / that Ruben went & laye with Bilha his fathers concubyne / & it came to Israels eare. [Page] The sonnes of Iacob were .xij. in nombre. The sonnes of Lea. Ruben Iacobs eldest sonne / & Simeō / Leui / Iuda / Isacha [...] / & Zabulon The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph & Ben Iamin. The sonnes of Bilha Rahels mayde: Dan & Nepthali. The sonnes of Zilpha Leas mayde Gad & Aser. Thes are the sōnes of Iacob which were borne him in Mesopotamia.

Then Iacob went vnto Isaac his father to Mamre a prīcipall cyte / otherwise called Hebron: where Abrahā & Isaac sogeorned as straungers. And the dayes of Isaac were an hundred & .lxxx. yeres: & than fell he seke & dyed / ād was put vnto his people: beynge olde and full of dayes. And his sonnes Esau ād Iacob buried him.

The .xxxvi. Chapter.

THese are the generations of Esau which is called Edō. Esau toke his wyues of the doughters of Canaan Ada the doughter of Elon an Hethite / & Ah [...] libama the doughter of Ana / which Ana was the sonne of Zibeon an heuyte / And Basmath Ismaels doughter & sister of Nebaioth. And Ada bare vnto Esau / Eliphas: and Basmath bare Reguel: And Ahalibama bare Ieus / Iaelam and Korah. These are the sonnes of Esau which were borne him in the lande of Canaan.

And Esau toke his wyues / his sonnes and doughters and all the soules of his house: his [Page] goodes and all his catell and all his substance which he had gott in the land of Canaan / ād went in to a countre awaye from his brother Iacob: for their ryches was so moch / that they coude not dwell together / and that the land where in they were straungers / coude not receaue thē: because of their catell. Thue dwelt Esau in moūte Seir / which Esau is called Edō

These are the generations of Esau sather of the Edomytes in mounte Seir / & these are the names of Esaus sonnes: Eliphas the sonne of Ada the wife of Esau / ād Reguel the sonne of Basmath the wife of Esau also. And the sonnes of Eliphas were. Theman / Omar / Zepho / Gactham and kenas. And th [...]na was concubyne to Eliphas Esaus sonne / and bare vnto Eliphas / Amalech. And these be the sonnes of Ada Esaus wyfe. And these are the sonnes of Reguel: Nahath / Serah / Samma and Misa: these were the sonnes of Basmath Esaus wyfe. And these were the sonnes of Ahalibama Esaus wyfe the doughter of Ana sonne of Zebcō / which she bare vnto Esau: Ieus / Iealam and Rorah.

These were dukes of the sonnes of Esau. The childern of Eliphas the first sōne of Esau were these: duke Theman / duke Omar / duke Zepho / duke Renas / duke Rorah / duke Gaetham & duke Amalcch: these are ye dukes that came of Eliphas in the lande of Edom / ād these were the sonnes of Ada▪

[Page]These were the childern of [...]eguel Esaus sonne: duke [...]ahath / duke Serah / duke Samma / duke Misa. These are the dukes that came of Reguel in the lande of Edom / ād these were the sonnes of Basmath Esaus wyfe.

These were the childern of Ahalibama Esaus wife: duke Ieus / duke Iaelam / duke Rorah these dukes. ame of Ahalibama ye doughter of Ana Esaus wife. These are the childern of Esau / and these are the dukes of them: which Esau is called Edom:

These are the childern of Seir the Horite / the in habitoure of the lande: Lothan / Sobal / Zibeon / Ana / Dison / Eser and Disan. These are the dukes of ye horites the childern of Seir in the lande of Edom. And the childern of Lothan were: Hori and Hemam. And Lothans sister was called Thimna.

The childern of Sobal were these: Alvan / Manahath / Ebal / Sepho & Onam. These were the childern of Zibeō. A [...]a & ana / this was y• Ana y• soūde ye mules in ye wildernes / as be fed his father Zibeons asses. The childern of Ana were these. Dison and Ahalibama ye doughter of Ana.

These are the childern of Dison. Hemdan Esban / Iethran & C [...]erā. The childern of E [...]e [...] were these / Bilhan / Seavan & Aka [...]. The childern of Disan were: Vz and Aran.

These are the dukes that came of Hori: duke Lothan / duke Sobal / duke Zibeō / duke Ana [Page] duke Dison / duke Ezer / duke Disan. These be the dukes that came of Hory in their duked [...]s in the land of Seir.

These are the kynges that reigned in the lande of Edom before there reigned any kynge amonge the childern of Israel. Bela the sonne of Bcor reigned in [...]domca / and the name of his cyte was Sinhaba. And when Bela dyed / Iobab the sonne of Serah out of Bezara / reigned in his steade. When Iobab was dead / Husam of the lande of Themany reigned in his steade. And after the deth of Husam / Hadad the sonne of Bedad which stewe the Madianytes in the feld of the Moabytes / reigned in his steade / and the name of his cyte was Av [...]h. Whē Hadad was dead / Samla of Masteka reigned in his steade. Whē Samla was dead / Saul of the ryver Rchoboth reigned in his steade. When Saul was dead / Baal hanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his steade. And after the deth of Baal Hanan the sonne of Achbor / Hadad reigned in his steade / and the name of his cyte was Pagu. And his wises name Mchetabeel the doughter of matred the doughter of Mesaab.

These are the names of the dukes that came of Esau / in their kynreddds / places and names: Duke Thimma / duke Alua / duke Ietheth duke Ahalibama / duke Ela / duke Pinon / duke Renas / duke Theman / duke Mibzar / duke Magdiel / duke Iram. These be the dukes of [Page] Edomea in their habitations / in the lande of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the Edomytes.

¶ The .xxxvij. Chapter.

ANd Jacob dwelt in the lande wherein his father was a straunger / yt is to saye in the lande of Canaan. And these are the generations of Jacob: when Ioseph was. x [...]ij. yere olde / he kepte shepe with his brethren / and the lad was with the sonnes of Bilha & of Zilpha his fathers wyues. And he brought vnto their father an euyll saynge yt was of them. And Israel loued Joseph more than all his childern / because he begat hym in his olde age / and he made him a coote of many coloures.

When his brothren sawe that their father loued him more than all his brethern / they hated him and coude not speke one kynde worde vnto him. Moreouer Joseph dreamed a dreawe and tolde it his brethren: wherfore they hated him yet the more. And he sayde vnto them heare I praye yow this dreame which I haue dreamed: Beholde we were makynge she [...]s in the folde: and loo / my shefe arose and stode vp right / and youres stode rounde aboute and made obeysaunce to my shefe. Than sayde his brethren vnto him: what / shalt thou be oure kynge or shalt thou reigne ouer us? And they hated hī yet the in ore / because of his dreame and of his wordes.

[Page]And he dreamed yet another dreame & told it his brethren saynge: beholde / I haue had one dreame more: me thought the sonne and the moone and .xi. starres made obaysaunce to me. And when he had told it vnto his father and his brethern / his father rebuked him and sayde vnto him: what meaneth this dreame which thou hast dreamed: shall I and thy mother and thy brethren come and fall on the grounde before the? And his brethern hated him / but his father noted the saynge.

His brethren went to kepe their fathers shepe in Sichem / and Israell sayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethern kepe in Sichem? come that I may send y• to thē. And he answered here am I And he sayde vnto him: goo and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the shepe / and brynge me worde agayne: And sent him out of the vale of Hebron / for to go to Sichem.

And a certayne man founde him wandrynge out of his waye in the felde / ād axed him what he soughte. And he answered: I seke my brethren / tell me I praye the where they kepe shepe And the man sayde / they are departed hēce / for I herde them say / let vs goo vnto Dothan. Thus went Ioseph after his brethren / and founde them in Dothan.

And whē they sawe him a farr of before he came at them / they toke councell agaynst him / for to sley him / and sayde one to another / Beholde this dreamer cometh / come now and let [Page] us sley him and cast him in to some pytt / and let vs saye that some wiked beast hath deuoured him / and let us see what his dreames wyll come to.

When Ruben herde that / he wēt aboute to ryd him out of their handes and sayde / let vs not kyll him. And Ruben sayde moreouer vnto them / shed not his bloude / but cast him in to this pytt that is in the wildernes / and laye no handes vpon him: for he wolde haue rydd him out of their handes and delyuered him to his father agayne.

And as soone as Ioseph was come vnto his brethren / they strypte him out of his gay coote that was vpon him / and they toke him and cast him in to a pytt: But the pytt was emptie and had no water therein. And they s [...]tt them doune to eate brede. And as they lyft vp their eyes and loked aboute / there came a companye of Ismaelites from Gilead / and their camels ladē with spicery / baulme / and my [...]re / and were goynge doune in to Egipte.

Than sayde Iuda to his brethrē / what avayleth it that we sley oure brother / and kepe his bloude secrett? come on / let us sell him to the Ismaelites / and let not oure handes be defyled vpon him: for he is oure brother and oure flesh. And his brethren were content. Than as the Mad [...]anites marchaunt men passed by / they drewe Ioseph out of the pytt and sold him vnto the Ismaelites for .xx. peces of syluer. [Page] And they brought him into Egipte.

And when Ruben came agayne vnto the pytt and founde not Ioseph there / he rent his cloothes and went agayne vnto his brethern saynge: the lad is not yonder / and whether shall I goo? And they toke Iosephs coote ād kylled a goote / & dypped the coote in the bloud. And they sent that gay coote & caused it to be brought vnto their father and sayd: This haue we founde: se / whether it be thy sōnes coote or no. And he knewe it saynge: it is my sonnes coote a wicked beast hath deuoured him / and Ioseph is rent in peces. And Iacob rent his cloothes / ād put sacke clothe aboute his loynes / and sorowed for his sonne a longe season.

Than came all his sonnes ād all his doughters to comforte him. And he wold not be comforted / but sayde: I will go doune in to y• grave vnto my sonne / mornynge. And thus his father wepte for him. And the Madianytes solde him in Egipte vnto Putip [...]ar a lorde of Pharaos: and his chefe marshall.

¶ The .xxxviij. Chapter.

ANd it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam / and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he toke her ād went in vnto her. And she conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name E [...]. And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne and called him [Page] Onan. And she conceaued the thyrde tyme & bare a sonne / whom she called Sela: & he was at Chesyb when she bare hem.

And Iudas gaue E [...] his eldest sonne / a wife whose name was Thamar. But this E [...] Iudas eldest sonne was wicked in the syghte of the LORde / wherfore the LORde slewe him. Than sayde Iudas vnto Onan: goo in to thi brothers wyfe and Marie her / and styrre vp seed vnto thy brother. And when Onan perceaued that the seed shulde not be his: therfore when he went in to his brothers wife / he spylled it on the grounde / because he wold not geue seed vnto his brother. And the thinge which he dyd / displeased the LORde / wherfore he slew him also. Than sayde Iudas to Thamar his doughter in lawe: remayne a wydow at thi fathers house / tyll Sela my sonne be growne: for he feared lest he shulde haue dyed also / as his brethren did. Thus went Thamar & dwelt in hir fathers house.

And in processe of tyme / the doughter of Sua Iudas wife dyed. Than Iudas when he had left mornynge / went vnto his shepe sherers to Thimnath with his frende Hira of Odollam. And one told Thamar saynge: beholde / thy father in lawe goth vpto Thimnath / to shere his shepe. And she put hyr wydows garmē tes of from her and couered her with a clooke / and disgyssed herself: And sat her downe at the entrynge of Enaim which is by the hye [Page] wayes syde to Thimnath / for because she sawe that Sela was growne / and she was not geuē vnto him to wife.

When Iuda sawe her / he thought it had bene an hoore / because she had couered hyr face. And turned to her vnto the waye and sayde / come I praye the / let me lye with the / for he knewe not that it was his doughter in lawe. And she sayde what wylt thou gyue me / for to lye with me? Thā sayde he / I will sende the a kydd frō the flocke. She answered / Than geue me a pledge till thou sende it. Than sayde he / what pledge shall I geue the? And she sayde: thy sygnett / thy necke lace / and thy staffe that is in thy hande. And he gaue it her and lay by her / and she was with child by him. And she gatt her vp and went and put her mantell from her / ād put on hir widowes rayment agayne.

And Iudas sent the kydd by his neybure of O [...]ollam / for to fetch out his pledge agayne from the wifes hande. But he fownde her not. Than asked he the men of the same place saynge: where is the whoore that satt at Enaim in the waye? And they sayde: there was no whoore here. And he came to Iuda agayne saynge: I can not fynde her / and also the men of the place sayde: that there was no whoore there. And Iuda sayde: let her take it to her / lest we be shamed: for I sente the kydd & thou coudest not fynde her.

And it came to passe that after .iij. mone▪ [Page] thes / one tolde Iuda saynge: Thamar thy doughter in lawe hath played the whoore / and with playnge the whoore is become great with childe. And Iuda sayde: brynge her forth ād let her be brente. And when they brought her forth / she sent to her father in lawe saynge: by the mā vnto whome these thinges pertayne / am I with childe. And sayd also: loke whose are this seall necklace / and staffe. And Iuda knewe them saynge: she is more rightwes thā I / because I gaue her not to Sela my sōne. But he laye with her nomore.

When tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered / beholde there was .ij. twynnes in hyr wōbe. And as she traveled / the one put out his hande and the mydwife toke and bownde a reed threde aboute it saynge: this wyll come out fyrst. But he plucked his hande backe agayne / and his brother came out. And she sayde: wherfore hast thou rent a rent vppon the? and called him Pharez. And afterward came out his brother that had the reade threde about his hā de / which was / called Zarah.

¶ The .xxxix. Chapter.

IOseph was brought vnto Egipte / ād Pu [...]iphar a lorde of Pharaos: ād his chefe marshall an Egiptian / bought him of y• Ismaelites which brought hī thither [Page] And the LORde was with Ioseph / and he was a luckie felowe and continued in the house of his master the Egiptian. And his master sawe that the ORde was with him and that the LORde made all that he dyd prosper in his hande: Wherfore he founde grace in his masters syghte / and serued him. And his master made him ruelar of his house / and put all that he had in his hande. And as soone as he had made him ruelar ouer his house ād ouer all that he had / the LORde blessed this Egiptians house for Iosephs sake / and the blessynge of the LORde was vpon all that he had: both in the house and also in the feldes. And therfore he left all that he had in Iosephs hande / and loked vpon nothinge that was with him / saue only on the bread which he ate. And Ioseph was a goodly persone & a well favored

And it fortuned after this / that his masters wife cast hir eyes vpon Ioseph and sayde come lye with me. But he denyed and sayde to her: Beholde / my master woteth not what he hath in the house with me / but hath commytted all that he hath to my hande He him selfe is not greatter in the house than I / ād hath kepte nothīge frō me / but only the because thou art his wife. How than ca [...] I do this great wykydnes / for to synne agaynst God? And after this maner spake she to Ioseph daye by daye: but he harkened not vnto her / to slepe nere her or to be in her company.

[Page]And it fortuned aboute the same season / that Ioseph entred in to the house / to do his busynes: and there was none of the houshold by / in the house. And she caught him by the garment saynge: come slepe with me. And he left his garment in hir hande ād fled and gott him out When she sawe that he had left his garmēt in hir hande / and was fled out / she called vnto the men of the house / and tolde them saynge: Se / he hath brought in an Hebrewe vnto vs to do vs shame. for he came in to me / for to haue slept wyth me. But I cried with a lowde voyce. And when he harde / that I lyfte vp my voyce and cryed / he left his garment with me and fled awaye and got him out.

And she layed vp his garment by her / vntill hir lorde came home. And she told him acordynge to these wordes saynge. This Hebrues servaunte which thou hast brought vnto vs came in to me to do me shame. But as soone as I lyft vp my voyce and cryed / he left his garment with me and fled out. When his master herde the woordes of his wyfe which she tolde him saynge: after this maner dyd thy servaunte to me / he waxed wrooth.

And he toke Ioseph and put him in pryson: euen in the place where the kynges prisoners laye bounde. And there contynued he in preson. But the LORde was with Ioseph ād shewed him mercie / and gott him fauoure in the [...]yghte of the keper of ye preson which com [...] [Page] mytted to Ioseph [...] hāde all the presoners that were in the preson housse. And what soeuer was done there / yt dyd he. And the keper of the presō loked vnto nothinge that was vnder his hande / because the LORde was with him / & because that what soeuer he dyd / the LORde made it come luc [...]ely to passe.

The xl. Capter.

ANd it chaunced after this / that the chefe butlar of the kynge of Egipte and his chefe baker had offended there lorde the kynge of Egypte. And Ph [...]rao was angrie with them and put thē in warde in his chefe marshals house: euen in y• pre son where Ioseph was bownd. And the chefe marshall gaue Ioseph a charge with them / & he serued them. And they contynuaed a season in warde.

And they dreamed ether of them in one nyghte: both the butlar and the baker of the kynge of Egipte which were bownde in the preson house / ether of them his dreame / and eche mānes dreame of a sondrie interpretation When Ioseph came in vnto them in the mornynge / and loked apon them: beholde / they were sadd. And he asked them saynge / wherfore loke ye so sadly to daye? They answered him / we haue dreamed a dreame / and haue no man to declare it. And Ioseph sayde [Page] vnto thē. Interpretynge belongeth to God but tel me yet.

And the chefe butlar tolde his dreame to Ioseph and sayde vnto him. In my dreame me thought there stode a vyne before mē / and in the vyne were .lij. braunches / and it was as though it budded / & her blossōs shottforth: & y• grapes there of waxed rype. And I had Pharaos cuppe in my hande / and toke of the grapes and wronge them in to Pharaos cuppe / & delyvered Pharaos cuppe into his hande.

And Ioseph sayde vnto him / this is the interpe [...]tation of it. The .iij. braunches ar thr [...] dayes: for within thre dayes shall Pharao lyft vp thine heade / and restore the vnto▪ thyne office agayne / and thou shalt delyuer Pharaos cuppe in to his hāde / after the old maner / even as thou dydest when thou wast his butlar. But thinke on me with the / when thou art in good case / and shewe mercie vnto me. And make mencion of me to Pharao / and helpe to brynge me out of this house: for I was stollen out of the lande of the Hebrues / & here also haue I do ne nothīge at all wherfore they shulde haue put me in to this dongeon.

When the chefe baker sawe that he had well interpretate it / he sayde vnto Ioseph / me thought also in my dreame / y• I had .iij. wyker baskettes on my heade: And in y• vppermost basket / of all maner bakemeates for Pharao. [Page] And the byrdes ate them out of the basket apon my heade

Ioseph answered and sayde: this is the interpretation therof. The .iij. baskettes are .iij. dayes / for this daye .iij. dayes shall Pharao take thy heade from the / and shall hange the on a tree / and the byrdes shall eate thy flesh from of the.

And it came to passe the thyrde daye which was Pharaos byrth daye / that he made a feast vnto all his servauntes. And he lyfted vpp the head of the chefe buttelar and of the chefe baker amonge his servauntes. And restored the chefe buttelar vnto his buttelarshipe agayne / and he reched the cuppe in to Pharaos hande / āo hanged the chefe baker: euē as Ioseph had interpretated vnto thē. Notwithstonding the chefe buttelar remembred not Ioseph / but forgat hym.

The .xli. Capter.

ANd it fortuned at .ij. yeres end / that Ph [...]rao dreamed / and thought that he stode by a ryuers syde / and that there came out of the ryver .vij. goodly kyne and fatt fleshed / and fedd in a medowe. And him though that .vij. other kyne came vp after them out of the ryver evelfauored and leane fleshed and stode by the other vpon the brynke [Page] of the ryuer. And the evill favored and lenefleshed kyne ate vp the .vij. welfauored and fatt kyne: and [...]e awoke their with.

And he slepte agayne and dreamed the second tyme / that .vij. eares of corne grewe apon one stalke rancke and goodly. And that .vij. thynne eares blasted with the wynde / spronge vp after them: and that the .vij. thynne eares deuowrerd the .vij. rancke and full eares. And than Pharao awaked: and se / here is his dreame. When the mornynge came / his sprete was troubled And he sent and called for all the soythsayers of Egypte and all the wyse men there of / and told them his dreame: but there was none of them that coude interpretate it vnto Pharao.

Than spake the chefe buttelar vnto Pharao saynge. I do remembre my fawte this daye. Pharao was angrie with his servauntes / and put in warde in the chefe marshals house both me and the chefe baker. And we dreamed both of vs in one nyght and ech mannes dreame of a sondrye interpretation.

And there was with vs a yonge man / an Hebrue borne / servaunte vnto the chefe marshall. And we told him / and he declared oure dreames to vs acordynge to ether of oure dreames. And as he declared them vnto vs / euen so it came to passe. I was restored to myne office agayne / and he was hanged.

[Page]Than Pharao sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of preson. And he shaued himself and chaunged his rayment / & went in to Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto Joseph: I haue dreamed a dreame and no man cā interpretate it / but I haue herde saye of the y• as soone as thou hearest a dreame / thou dost interpretate it. And Joseph answered Pharao saynge: God shall geue Pharao an answere of peace without me.

Pharao sayde vnto Joseph: in my dreame me thought I stode by a ryvers syde / and there came out of the ryver vij fatt fleshed ād well fauored kyne / and fedd in the medowe. And then .vij. other kyne came vp after them / poore and very euell fauored ād leane fleshed: so that I neuer sawe their lyke in all the lande of Egipte in euell fauordnesse. And the .vij. leane and euell fauored kyne ate vpp the first .vij. fatt kyne And when they had eaten them vp / a man cowde not perceaue that they had eatē them: for they were still as evyll fauored as they were at the begynnynge. And I awoke.

And I sawe agayne in my dreame .vij. eares sprynge out of one stalk full and good / and .vij. other eares wytherd / thinne and blasted with wynde / sprynge vp after them. And the thynne eares deuowred the .vij. good eares. And I haue tolde it vnto the sothsayers [Page] / but no man can tell me what it meaneth.

Then Joseph sayde vnto Pharao: both Pharaos dreames are one. And god doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to do. The vij. good kyne are. vij yeres: & the .vij. good eares are .vij. yere also / and is but one dreame. Lykewyse / the .vij. thynne and euell fauored kyne that came out after them / are .vij. yeares: and the .vij. emptie and blasted eares shalbe vij. yeares of hunger. This is that which I sayde vnto Pharao / that God doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to doo.

Beholde there shall come .vij. yere of great plenteousnes through out all the lande of Egypte. And there shall aryse after them vij. yeres of hunger. So that all the plenteousnes shalbe forgeten in the lande of Egipte. And the hunger shall consume the lande: so that the plenteousnes shall not be once asene in the land by reason of that hunger that shall come after / for it shalbe exceading great And as concernynge that the dreame was dubled vnto Pharao the second tyme / it be [...]okeneth that the thynge is certanly prepared of God / ād that God will shortly brynge it to passe.

Now therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and wysdome / and sett him over the lande of Egipte. And let [Page] Pharao make officers ouer the lande / and take vp the fyfte parte of the land of Egipte in the vij. plenteous yeres and let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come / ād lay vp corne vnder the power of Pharo: that there may be foode in the cities / and there let them kepte it: that there may be foode in stoore in the lande / agaynst the .vij. yeres of hunger which shall come in the lande of Egipte / and that the lande perishe not thorow hunger.

And the saynge pleased Pharao ād all his seruauntes. Than sayde Pharao vnto his seruavauntes: where shall we fynde sch a mā as this is / that hath the sprete of God in him? wherfore Pharao sayde vnto Joseph: for as moch as God hath shewed the all this / there is no man of vnderstondyng nor of wysdome lyke vnto the Thou therfore shalt be ouer my house / and acordinge to thy worde shall all my people obey: only in the kynges seate will I be aboue the. And he sayde vnto Joseph: beholde / I haue sett the ouer all the lande of Egipte. And he toke off his rynge from his fyngre / and put it vpon Josephs fingre / and arayed him in raymēt of bisse / and put a golden cheyne aboute his necke and set him vpon the best charett that he had saue one. And they cryed before him Abrech / ād that Pharao had made him ruelar ouer all the lande of Egipte.

And Pharao sayde vnto Joseph: I am Pharao / without thi will / shall no man lifte vp other [Page] his hande or fote in all the lande of Egipte. And he called Josephs name Zaphnath Paenea. And he gaue him to wyfe Asnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On. Than went Joseph abrode in the lāde of Egipte. And he was .xxx. yere olde whē he stode before Pharao kynge of Egipte. And than Joseph departed from Pharao / and went thorow out all the lande of Egipte.

And in the .vij. plēteous yeres they made sheves and gathered vp all the fode of the .vij. plenteous yeres which were in the lande of Egipte and put it in to the cities. And he put the food of the feldes that grewe rounde aboute euery cyte: euen in the same. And Joseph layde vp corne in stoore / lyke vnto the sande of the see in multitude out of mesure / vntyll he left nombrynge: For it was with out nombre.

And vnto Joseph were borne .ij. sonnes before the yeres of hunger came / which Asnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On / bare vnto him. And he called the name of the first sonne Manasse / for God (sayde he) hath made me forgett all my laboure & all my fathers husholde. The seconde called he Ephraim / for God (sayde he) hath caused me to growe in the lande of my trouble.

And when the .vij. yeres of plenteousnes that was in the lande of Egypte were ended / than came the .vij. yeres of derth / acordynge as [Page] Joseph had sayde. And the derth was in all landes: but in the lāde of Egipte was there yet foode. When now all the lande of Egipte began to hunger / than cried the people to Pharao for bread. And Pharao sayde vnto all Egipte: goo vnto Joseph / and what he sayth to you that doo And when the derth was thorow out all the lande / Joseph opened all that was in the cities and solde vnto the Egiptiās And hunger waxed sore in the land of Egipte. And all countrees came to Egipte to Joseph for to bye corne: because that the hunger was so sore in all landes.

¶ The .xlij. Chapter.

WHen Iacob sawe that there was corne to be solde in Egipte / he sayde vnto his sōnes: why are ye negligent? beholde / I haue hearde that there is corne to be solde in Egipte. Gete you thither and bye vs corne frō thē ce / that we maye lyue and not dye. So went Josephs ten brethern doune to bye corne in Egipte / for Ben Jamin Josephs brother wold not Iacob sende with his other brethren: for he sayde: some mysfortune myght happen him

And the sonnes of Israell came to bye corne amonge other that came / for there was derth also in the lande of Canaan. And Joseph [Page] was gouerner in the londe / and solde corne to all the people of the londe. And his brethren came / and fell flatt on the grounde before him. When Joseph sawe [...]s brethern / he knewe them: But made straunge vnto them / and spake rughly vnto them saynge: Whence come ye? and they sayde: out of the lande of Canaan / to bye vitayle. Joseph knewe his brethern / but they knewe not him.

And Joseph remembred his dreames which he dreamed of them / and sayde vnto them: ye are spies / and to se where the lande is weake is youre comynge. And they sayde vnto him: nay my lorde: but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come. We are all one mans sonnes / and meane truely / and thy seruauntes are no spies. And he sayde vnto them: nay verely / but euen to se where the land is weake is youre comynge. And they sayde: we thi seruauntes are .xij. brethern / the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan. The yongest is yet with oure father / and one no man woteth where he is.

Joseph sayde vnto them / that is it that I sayde vnto you / that ye are surelye spies. Here by ye shall be proued. For by the lyfe of Pharao / ye shall not goo hence / vntyll youre yongest brother be come hither. Sende therfore one off you and lett him sett youre [Page] brother / and ye shalbe in preason in the meane season. And thereby shall youre wordes be proued / whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of Pharao / ye are but spies. And he put them in warde thre dayes.

And Joseph sayde vnto thē the thryd daye: This doo and lyue / for I feare Gode Yf ye meane no hurte / let one of youre brethern be bounde in the preason / and goo ye and brynge the necessarie foode vnto youre housholdes / and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me: that youre wordes maye be beleved / ād that ye dye not And they did so.

Than they sayde one to a nother: we haue verely synned agaynst oure brother / in that we sawe the anguysh of his soull when he besought us / & wold not heare him: therfore is this troubyll come apon us. Ruben answered thē saynge: sayde I not vnto you that ye shulde not synne agaynst the lad? but ye wolde not heare And now verely see / his bloude is requyred.

They were not aware that Joseph vnderstode thein / for he spake vnto them by an interpreter. And he turned from them and wepte / and than turned to them agayne ād comened with them / and toke out Simeon from amonge thē and bownde him before their eyes / ād commaunded to fyll their sackes wyth corne / and to put euery mans money in his sacke / and to geue them vitayle to spende by the waye. And so it was done to them.

[Page]And they laded their asses with the corne and departed thence. And as one of them opened his sacke / for to geue his asse prauender in the I [...]ne / he spied his money in his sacks mouth And he sayde vnto his brethren: my money is restored me agayne / & is euē in my sackes mouth Than their hartes fayled them / and were astoynyed and sayde one to a nother: how cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?

And they came vnto Iacob their father vnto the lande of Canaan / and tolde him all that had happened them saynge. The lorde of the lāde spake rughly to us / and toke us for spyes to serche the countte. And we sayde vnto him: we meane truely and are no spies. We be .xij. bretren sōnes of oure father / one is awaye / and the yongest is now with oure father in the lande of Canaan.

And the lorde of the countre sayde vnto us: here by shall I knowe yf ye meane truely: leaue one of youre brethern here with me / and take foode necessary for youre housholdes and get you awaye / and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me And thereby shall I knowe that ye are no spyes / but meane truely: So will I delyuer you youre brother agayne / and ye shall occupie in the lande.

And as they emptied their sackes / beholde: euerymans bundell of money was in his sacke And when both they and their father sawe the bundells of money / they were afrayde.

[Page]And Jacob their father sayde vnto them▪ We haue ye robbed of my childern: Joseph is away / and Simeon is awaye / and ye will take Ben Jamin awaye. All these thinges fall vpon me. Ruben answered his father saynge: Slec my two sonnes / yf I bringe him not to the agayne. Delyuer him therfore to my honde / and I will brynge him to the agayne: And he sayde: my sonne shall not go downe with you. For his brother is dead / and he is left alone Moreouer some mys fortune myght happen vpon him by the waye which ye goo. And so shuld ye brynge my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue.

¶ The .xliij. Chapter.

ANd the derth waxed sore in the lande. And when they had eate vp that corne which they brought out of the lande of Egipte / their father sayde vnto them: goo agayne and by vs a litle food. Than sayde Juda vnto him: the man dyd testifie vnto vs saynge: loke that ye see not my face excepte youre brother be with you. Therfore yf thou wilt sende oure brother with vs / we wyll goo and bye the food. But yf thou wylt not sende him / we wyll not goo: for the man sayde vnto vs: loke that ye see not my face / excepte youre brother be with you.

And Israell sayde: wherfore delt ye so cruelly with me / as to tell the man that ye had yet [Page] another brother? And they sayde: The man asked vs of oure kynred saynge: is youre father yet alyue? haue ye not another brother? And we tolde him acordynge to these wordes. How cowd we knowe that he wolde byd vs brynge oure brother downe with vs? Than sayde Juda vnto Israell his father: Send the lad with me / and we wyll ryse and goo / that we maye lyue and not dye: both we / thou and also oure childern. I wilbe suertie for him / and of my handes requyre him. Yf I brynge him not to the and sett him before thine eyes / than let me bere the blame for euer. For except we had made this tariēg: by this we had bene there twyse and come agayne.

Than their father Israel sayde vnto thē: Yf it must nedes be so now: than do thus / take of the best frutes of the lande in youre vesselles / and brynge the man a present / a curtesie bawlme / and a curtesie of hony / spyces and myrre / dates and almondes. And take as moch money more with you. And the money that was brought agayne in youre sackes / take it agayne with you in youre handes / peraduenture it was some ouer syghte.

Take also youre brother with you / and aryse and goo agayne to the man. And God almightie geue you mercie in the sighte of the man and send you youre other brother [Page] and also Bē Jamin / and I wilbe as a mā robbed of his childern.

Thus toke they the present and twise so moch more money with them / and Ben Jamim. And rose vp / went downe to Egipte / and presented them selfe to Joseph. When Joseph sawe BenJamin with them / he sayde to the ruelar of his house: brynge these men home / and sley and make redie: for they shall dyne with me at none. And the man dyd as Joseph bad / and brought them in to Josephs house.

When they were brought to Josephs house / they were afrayde ād sayde: be cause of the money yt came in oure sackes mouthes at the first tyme / are we brought / to pyke a quarell with vs & to laye some thinge to oure charge: to brynge us in bondage and oure asses also. Therfore came they to the man that was the ruelar ouer Josephs house / and comened with him at the doore and sayde:

Sir / we came hither at the first tyme to bye foode / and as we came to an Inne and opened oure sackes: beholde / euery mannes money was in his sacke with full weghte: But we haue broght it agene with us / & other mony haue we brought also in oure handes / to bye foode / but we can not tell who put oure money in oure sackes.

And he sayde: be of good chere / feare not: Youre God and the God of youre fathers hath put you that treasure in youre sackes / for I had [Page] youre money. And he brought Simeon out to them ād led thē into Josephs house / & gaue thē water to washe their fete / and gaue their asses prauender: And they made redie their present agaynst Joseph came at none / for they herde saye that they shulde dyne there.

When Joseph came home / they brought the present in to the house to him / which they had in their handes / ād fell [...]at on the grounde be for him. And he welcomed thē curteously sainge: is youre father that old man which ye tolde me of / in good health? and is he yet alyue▪ they answered: thy servaunte oure father is in good health / ād is yet alyue. And they bowed them selues and fell to the grounde.

And he lyfte vp his eyes & behelde his brother Ben Jamin his mothers sonne / & sayde: is this youre yongest brother of whome ye sayde vnto me? And sayde: God be mercyfull vnto y• my sonne. And Joseph made hast (for his hert dyd melt apon his brother) and soughte for to wepe / & entred in to his chambre / for to wepe there. And he wasshed his face and came out & refrayned himselfe / & bad sett bread on the table

And they prepared for him by himselfe / and for them by them selues / and for the Egiptians which ate with him by them selues / because the Egyptians may not eate bread with the Hebrues / for that is an abhomynacyon vnto the Egiptians. And they satt before him: the eldest acordynge vnto his [Page] age / and the yongest acordyng vnto his youth. And the men marveled amonge them selves. And they broughte rewardes vnto them from before him: but Ben Jamins parte was fyue tymes so moch as any of theirs. And they ate and they dronke / and were dronke wyth him.

The .xliiij. Chapter.

ANd be commaunded the rueler of his house saynge: fyll the mens sackes with food / as moch as they can carie / and put euery mans money in his bagge mouth / and put my syluer cuppe in the sackes mouth of the yongest and his come money also. And he dyd as Joseph had sayde. And in y• mornynge as soone is it was lighte / the mē were let goo with their asses.

And when they were out of the cytie and not yet ferre awaye / Joseph sayde vnto the ruelar of his house: vp and folowe after the men and ouertake them / and saye vnto them: wherfore haue ye rewarded euell for good? is that not the cuppe of which my lorde drynketh / ād doth he not prophesie therin? ye haue euell done that ye haue done.

And he ouertoke them and sayde the same wordes vnto them. And they answered him: wherfore sayth my lorde soch wordes? God forbydd that thy servāuntes shulde doo so. Beholde / the money which we founde in oure sackes mouthes / we brought agayne vnto the / out of the lande of Canaā: how then shulde we steale [Page] out of my lordes house / ether syluer or golde? with whosoeuer of thy seruauntes it be founde let him dye / and let vs also be my lordes bondmen. And he sayde: Now therfore acordynge vnto youre woordes / he with whom it is found / shalbe my seruaunte: but ye / shalbe harmelesse.

And attonce euery man toke downe his sacke to the grounde / ād every man opened his sacke. And he serched / and began at the eldest & left at the yongest. And the cuppe was founde in Ben Jamins sacke. Then they rent their clothes / and laded euery man his asse and went agayne vnto the cytie. And Juda and his brethrē came to Josephs house / for he was yet there / ād they fell before him on the grounde. And Joseph sayde vnto thē: what dede is this which ye haue done? wist ye not that soch a man as I can prophesie?

Then sayde Juda: what shall we saye vnto my lorde / what shall we speake or what excuse can we make? God hath founde out ye wekednesse of thy seruauntes. Beholde / [...]oth we and he with whom the cuppe is founde / are thy seruauntes. And he answered: God forbyd y• I shulde do so / the man with whom the cuppe is founde / he shalbe my seruaunte: but goo ye in peace vn to youre father.

Then Juda went vnto him and sayde: oh my lorde / let thy servaunte speake a worde in my lordes audyence / and be not wrooth with [Page] thi servaunte: for thou art euen as Pharao. My lorde axed his seruaunte sainge: haue ye a father or a brother? And we answered my lord / we haue a father that is old / and a yonge lad which he begat in his age: ād the brother of the sayde lad is dead / & he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loueth him.

Then sayde my lorde vnto his seruauntes brynge him vnto me / that I maye sett myne eyes apon him. And we answered my lorde / that the lad coude not goo from his father / for if he shulde leaue his father / he were but a deed man. Than sayde st thou vnto thy servauntes: excepte youre yongest brother come with you / lo [...]e that ye se my face no moare.

And when we came vnto thy servaunt oure father / we shewed him what my lorde had sayde. And when oure father sayde vnto vs / goo agayne and bye vs a litle fode: we sayd / yt we coude not goo. Neverthelesse if oure youngeste brother go with vs then will we goo / for we maye not see the mannes face / excepte oure yongest brother be with vs. Then sayde thy servaunt oure father vnto vs. Ye knowe that my wyfe bare me .ij. sonnes. And the one went out from me and it is sayde of a suertie that he is torne in peaces of wyld beastes / and I sawe him not se [...]ce. Yf ye shall take this also awaye frō me and some mys fortune happen apon him / then shall ye brynge my gray heed with sorow vnto the grave.

[Page]Now therfore whē I come to thy servaunt my father / yf the lad be not with me: seinge that his lyfe hāgeth by the laddes lyfe / then as soone as he seeth that the lad is not come / he will dye. So shall we thy servaūtes brynge the gray hedde of thy servaunt oure father with sorow vnto the grave. For I thy servaunt became suertie for the lad vnto my father & sayde: yf I bringe him not vnto the agayne. I will bere the blame all my life lōge. Now therfore let me thy servaunt byde here for y• lad / & be my lordes bondman: & let the lad goo home with his brethern. For how can I goo vnto my father / and the lad not wyth me: lest I shulde see the wretchednes that shall come on my father.

The .xlv. Chapter.

ANd Joseph coude no longer refrayne before all them that stode aboute him / but commaunded that they shuld goo all out from him / and that there shuld be no man with him / whyle he vt [...]red him selfe vnto his brethern. And he wepte alowde / so that the Egiptians and the house of Pharao herde it. And he sayde vnto his brethern: I am Joseph: doth my father yet lyue? But his brethern coude not answere him / for they were abasshed at his presence.

And Joseph sayde vnto his brethern: come nere to me / and they came nere. And he [Page] sayde: I am Joseph youre brother whom ye sold in to Egipte. And now be not greued therwith / nether let it seme a cruel thinge in youre eyes / that ye solde me hither. For God dyd send me before you to saue lyfe. For this is the seconde yere of derth in the lande / and fyue moo are behynde in which there shall nether be earynge nor hervest.

Wherfore God sent me before you to make prouision / that ye myghte continue in the erth and to save youre lyues by a greate delyuerance. So now it was not ye that sent me hither / but God: and he hath made me father vnto Pharao and lorde ouer all his house / and [...]ueler in all the land of Egipte. Hast you ād goo to my father and tell him / this sayeth thy sonne Joseph: God hath made me lorde ouer all Egipte. Come downe vnto me and tarye not / And thou shalt dwell in the londe of Gosan & be by me: both thou and thi childern / and thi childerns childern: and thy shepe / and beestes and all that thou hast. There will I make provision for the: for there remayne yet v yeres of derth / lest thou and thi houshold and all that thou hast perish.

Beholde / youre eyes do se / and the eyes also of my brother Ben Jamin / that I speake to you by mouth. Therfore tell my father of all my bonoure which I haue in Egipte and of all that ye haue sene / ād make hast and brynge in [Page] father hither. ¶ And he fell on his brother Ben Jamis necke & wepte / & Ben Jamin wepte on his necke. Moreouer he kyssed all his brethern and wepte apon them. And after that / his brethern talked with him. And when the ridynges was come vnto Pharaos housse that Josephes brethern were come / [...] pleased Pharao well and all his seruauntes.

And Pharao spake vnto Joseph: saye vnto thy brethern / this do ye: lade youre beestes ād get you hence / And when ye be come vnto the londe of Canaan / take youre father and youre housholdes and come vnto me / and I will geue you the beste of the lande of Egipte / and ye shall eate the fatt of the londe. And commaunded also. This do ye: take charettes with you out of the lande of Egipte / for youre childern and for youre wyues: and brynge youre father and come. Also / regarde not youre stuff / for the goodes of all the londe of Egipte shalbe youres.

And the childern of Israell dyd euen so / And Joseph gaue them charettes at the commaundment of Pharao / and gaue them [...]tayle also to spende by the waye. And he gaue vnto eche of them chaunge of rayment: but vnto Ben Jamin he gaue iij. hundred peces of syluer and .v. chaunge of rayment. And vnto his father he sent after the same maner: x. he asses laden with good out of Egipte / and .x. she asses laden with corne / bred and meate: to serue his [Page] father by the waye. So sent he his brethern awaye / and they departed. And he sayde vnto them: se that ye fall no [...] out by the waye.

And they departed from Egipte and came in to the land of Canaan vnto Jacob their father / and told him saynge▪ Joseph is yet a lyue and is gouerner ouer all the land of Egipte. And Jacobs hert wauered / for he beleued thē not. And they tolde him all the wordes of Joseph which he had sayde vnto them. But when he sawe the charettes which Joseph had sent to carie him / then his sprites reviued. And Israel sayde. I haue ynough / yf Joseph my sonne be yet alyue: I will goo and se him / yer that I dye.

The .xlvi. Chapter.

ISrael toke his iourney with all that he had / and came vnto Berseba and offred offrynges vnto the God of his father Isaac. And God sayde vnto Israel in a vision by nyghte / and called vnto him: Jacob Jacob. And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: I am that mightie God of thy father / feare not to goo downe in to Egipte. For I will make of the there a great people. I will go downe with y• in to Egipte / & I will also bringe the vp agayne / & Joseph shall put his hand apon thine eyes.

And Jacob rose vp from Berseba. And ye sonnes of Israel caried Jacob their father / ād [Page] their childern and their wyues in the charettes which Pharao had sent to carie him. And they toke their catell ād the goodes which they had gotten in the land of Canaan / and came in to Egipte: both Jacob and all his seed with him / his sonnes and his sonnes sonnes with him: his doughters and his sonnes doughters and all his seed brought he with him in to Egipte.

These are the names of the childern of Israel which came in to Egipte / both Jacob and his sonnes: Rubē Jacobs first sonne. The childern of Ruben: Hanoch / Pallu / Hezron and Charnn. The childern of Simeon: Jemuel / Jamin / Ohad / Jach [...] / Zohar and Saul the sonne of a Cananitish woman The childern of Leu [...]: Gerson / Rahath and Merari. The childern of Iuda: Er / Onan / Sela / Pharez and Zerah / but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Canaan. The childern of Pharez / Hezrō & Hamul. The childern of Isachar: Tola / Phuva Iob and Sem [...]on. The childern of Sebulon: Sered / Elon and Jaheleel. These be the childern of Lea which she bare vnto Jacob in Mesopotamia with his doughter Dina. All these soulles of his sonnes and doughters make. xxx and .vi.

The childern of Gad: Ziphion / Haggi / Suni / Ezbon / Eri / Arodi and Ar [...]li. The childern of Affer: Jemna / Jesua / Jesui / Brya and Serah [Page] their sister. And the childern of Biya were Heber and Malchiel. These are the childern of Silpha whom Lobā gaue to Lea his doughter. And these she bare vnto Jacob in nombre xvi. soules.

The childern of Rahel Jacobs wife: Joseph and ben Jamin. And vnto Joseph in the lōde of Egipte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which Asnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On bare vnto him. The childern of Ben-Jamin: Bela / Becher / Asbel / Gera / Naeman / Ehi Ros Mupim / Hupun and Ard. These are the childern of Rahel which were borne vnto Jacob: xiiij. soules all to gether.

The childern of Dan: Husim. The childern of Nepthali? Jahezeel / Guni / Jezer and Sistem. These are the sonnes of Bilha which Laban gaue vnto Rahel his doughter / and she bare these vnto Jacob / all together .vij. soulles All the soulles that came with Jacob in to Egipte which came out of his loyns (besyde his sonnes wifes) were all togither .lx. and .vi. soulles. And the sonnes of Joseph / which were borne him in egipte were .ij. solles: So that all the soulles of the house of Jacob which came in to Egipte are lxx.

And he sent Iuda before him vnto Joseph that the waye myghte be shewed him vnto Gosan / and they came in to the lande of Gosan And Joseph made redie his charett and went agaynst Jsraell his father vnto Gosan / ād presented [Page] him selfe vnto him / and fell on his necke and wepte vpon his necke a goode whyle.

And Israel sayd vnto Joseph: Now C [...]am cō tēt to dye / in somoch I haue sene the / that thou art yet alyue.

And Joseph sayde vnto his brethrē and vnto his fathers house: I will goo & shewe Pharao and tell him: that my brethern and my fathers housse which were in the lāde of Canaan are come vnto me / and how they are shepardes (for they were men of catell) and they haue brought their shepe and their oxen and all that they haue with them. Yf Pharao call you and axe you what youre occupation is / saye: thi seruauntes haue bene occupyed aboute catell / frō oure chilhode vnto this tyme: both we and oure fathers / that ye maye dwell in the lande of Gosan. For an abhominacyon vnto the Egiptians are all that seade shepe.

¶ The .xlvij. Chapter.

ANd Joseph wēt and tolde Pharao and sayde: my father and my brethern their shepe and their beastes and all that they haue / are come out of the lāde of Canaan and are in the lande of Gosan. And Joseph toke a parte of his brethern: euen fyue of them / and presented them vnto Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto his brethern: what is youre occupation? And they sayde vnto Pharao: seaders of shepe are thi seruauntes / both we ād also oure fathers. They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao: [Page] for to sogeorne in the lande are we come / for thy seruauntes haue no pasture for their shepe so sore is the fameshment in the lande of Canaan. Now therfore let thy seruauntes dwell in the lande of Gosan.

And Pharao sayde vnto Joseph: thy father and thy brethren are come vnto the. The londe of Egipte is open before the: In the best place of the lande make both thy father and thy brothren dwell: And even in the lond of Gosan let them dwell. Moreouer yf thou knowe any men of actiuyte amonge them / make them ruelars ouer my catell. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and sett him before Pharao And Jacob blessed Pharao. And Pharao axed Jacob / how old art thou? And Jacob sayde vnto Pharao: the dayes of my pilgremage are an hundred and .xxx. yeres▪ Few and euell haue the dayes of my lyfe bene / and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of the lyfe of my fathers in the dayes of their pilgremages. And Jacob blessed Pharao and went out▪ from him. And Joseph prepared dwellinges for his father and his brethern / and gaue them possessions in the londe of Egipte / in the best of the londe: euē in the lande of Raemses / as Pharao commaunded. And Joseph made prouysion for his father / his brethern and all his fathers housholde / as yonge childern are fedd with bread.

There was no bread in all the londe / for the derth was exceadige sore: so yt ye lōde of Egipte & ye lōde of [...]anaan / were fameshyd by ye reason [Page] of y• derth. And Joseph brought together all y• money yt was founde in yt lāde of Egipte and of Canaan / for ye come which they boughte: & he layde vp the money in Pharaos housse.

When money fayled in the lāde of Egipte & of Canaan / all the Egiptians came vnto Joseph and sayde: geue us sustenaunce: wherfore suffrest thou vs to dye before the / for oure money is spent. Then sayde Joseph: brynge youre catell / and I will geue yow for youre catell / yf ye be without money. And they brought their catell vnto Joseph. And he gaue them bread for horses and shepe / and oxen and asses: so he fed them with bread for all their catell that yere.

When that yere was ended / they came vnto him the nexte yere and sayde vnto him: we will not hyde it from my lorde / how that we haue nether money nor catell for my lorde: there is no moare left for my lorde / but euen oure bodies and oure londes. Wherfore latest thou us dye before thyne eyes / and the londe to goo to noughte? bye us and oure landes for bread: and let both vs and oure londes be bonde to Pharao. Eeue vs seed▪ that we may lyue & not dye / & that the londe god not to wast.

And Joseph boughte all the lande of Egipte for Pharao. For the Egiptians solde euery man his londe because the derth was sore apō them: and so the londe became Pharaos. And he appoynted the people vnto the cities / from one syde of Egipte vnto the other: only the londe of the Prestes bought he not. For there [Page] was an ordinaūce made by Pharao for y• The blīde gydes gett previleges frō bearīge with their brethrē contrarye to Christes lawe of love. And of these prestes of idolles did [...]ure cōpassīge yvetrees lerne to crepe vp by litle & litle & to cōpasse y• greate trees of ye world with hypocrisye / ād to thrust y• ro [...]es of idola tysse super [...]tition in to hē & to su [...] out y• [...]uce f thē with heir poe [...]ye / till all be seer bowes and no thinge grene save their awne com [...] welth. pre astes / that they shulde eate that which was appoynted vnto them: which Pharao had geuen them wherfore they solde not their londes.

Then Ioseph sayde vnto the folke: beholde I haue boughte you this daye ād you [...]e landes for Pharao. Take there seed and goo sowe the londe. And of the encrease / ye shall geue the fyfte parte vnto Pharao / and .iiij. partee shalbe youre awne / for seed to sowe the feld: and for you / and them of youre housholdes / and for youre childern / to eate. And they answered: Thou haste saued oure lyves Let vs fynde grace in the syghte of my lorde / and let us he Pharaos servaūtes. And Ioseph made it a lawe ouer the lā de of Egipte vnto this daye: that men must geue Pharao the fyfte parte / excepte the londe of the preastes only / which was not bond vnto Pharao.

And Israel dwelt in Egipte: euen in the countre of Gosan. And they had their possessions therein / and they grewe and multiplyed exceadingly. Moreouer Iacob lyued in the lande of Egipte .xvij. yeres / so that the hole age of Iacob was an hundred and .xlvij. yere.

When the tyme drewenye / that Israel must dye: he sent for his sonne Ioseph and sayde vnto him: Yf I haue founde grace in thy syghte / put thy hande vnder my thye and deale mercifully ād truely with me / that thou burie me not in Egipte: but let me lye by my fathers / and c [...] rie [Page] me out of Egipte / and burie me in their buryall. And he answered: I will do as thou hast sayde. And he sayde: swere vnto me: ād he sware vnto him. And than Israel bowed him vnto the beddes head.

The .xlviij. Chapter.

AFter these deades / tydīges were brought vnto Ioseph / that his father was seke. And he toke with him his ij. [...]ōnes / Manasses and Ephraim. Then was it sayde vnto Iacob: beholde / thy sonne Ioseph commeth vnto the. And Israel toke his strength vnto him / and satt vp on the bedd / and sayde vnto Ioseph: God allmightie appeared vnto me at [...]us in the lande of Canaan / ād blessed me / and sayde vnto me: beholde / I will make the growe and will multiplye the / and will ma ke a great nombre of people of the / and will geue this lande vnto the and vnto thy seed after y• vnto an euerlastinge possession. Now therfore thy .ij. sōnes Manasses ād Ephraim which were borne vnto the before I came to the / into Egipte / shalbe myne: euen as Ruben and Simeō shall they be vnto me And the childern which thou getest after them / shalbe thyne awne: but shalbe caller with the names of their brethern in their enheritaunces.

And after I came from Mesopotamia / Rabel dyed apon my [...]ande in the lande of Canaā / by the waye: when I had but a feldes brede [Page] to goo vnto Ephrat. And I buried her there in ye waye to Ephrat which is now called Bethlehem.

And Israel behelde Iosephes sonnes & sayde: what are these? And Ioseph sayde vnto his father: they are my sonnes / which God hath geuen me here. And he sayde: brynge them to me / and let me blesse them. And the eyes of Israell were dymme for age / so that he coude not see. And he broughte them to him / ād he kyssed thē and embraced them. And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: I had not thoughte to haue sene thy face / and yet loo / God hath shewed it me and also thy seed. And Ioseph toke them awaye from his lappe / and they fell on the grounde before him.

Than toke Ioseph them both: Ephraim in his ryghte hande towarde Israels left hande ād Manasses in his left hande / towarde Israels ryghte hande / and brought them vnto him. And Israel stretched out his righte hande and layde it apon Ephraims head which was the yonger / and his lyft hāde apon Manasses heed / crossinge his handes / for manasses was the elder. And he blessed Ioseph saynge: God before whome my fathers Abraham and Isaac dyd wal [...]e / and the God which hath fedd me all my life longe vnto this daye / And the angell which hath delyuered me frō all euyll / blesse these laddes: yt they maye be called after my name / and after my father Abraham and Isaac / and that they maye growe ād multiplie ap [...] [Page] the erth.

When Ioseph sawe that his father layd his ryghte hande apon the heade of Ephraim / it displeased him. And he lifte vpp his fathers hā de / to haue removed it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head / and sayde vnto his father: Not so my father / for this is the eldest. Put thy right hande apon his head. And his father wold not / but sayde: I [...]nowe it well my sonne / I [...]nowe it well. He shalbe also a people ād shalbe great. But of a troth his yonger brother shalbe greatter than he / and his seed shall be full of people. And he blessed them sainge. At the ensample of these / the Israelites shall blesse and saye: God ma [...]e the as Ephraim and as Manasses. Thus sett he Ephraim before Manasses.

And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: beholde / I dye. And god shalbe with you and bringe you agayne vnto the land of youre fathers. Moreover I geue vnto the / a porcyon of lande aboue thy brethern / which I gatt out of the handes of the Amoo [...]tes with my swerde and wyth my bowe.

The .xlix. Chapter.

ANd Iacob called for his sonnes ād sayde: come together / that I maye tell you what shall happē you in the last dayes. Gather you together and heare ye sonnes of Iacob / and her [...]en vnto Israel youre father.

[Page]Ruben / thou art myne eldest sonne / my myghte and the begynnynge of my strength / chefe in receauynge and chefe in power. As vnstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therfore not be the chefest / for thou wenst vp vpō thy fathers bedd / and than defyledest thou my couche with goynge vppe.

The brethern Simeon and Leui / weked instrumentes are their wepōs. In to their secrettes come not my soule / and vnto their congregation be my honoure not coupled▪ forin their wrath they slewe a man / and in their selfewill they houghed an oxe. Cursed be their wrath for it was stronge / and their fearsnes for it was cruell. I will therfore deuyde them in Iacob / & scater them in Israel.

Iuda / thy brethern shall prayse the / & thine hande shalbe in the necke of thyne enimies / & thy fathers childern shall stoupe vnto the. Iuda is a lions whelpe. Frō spoyle my sonne thou art come an hye: he layde him downe and couched himselfe as a lion / and as a lionesse. Who dare stere him vp? The sceptre shall not departe from Iuda / nor a ruelar from betwene his legges / vntill Silo come / vnto whome the people shall herken. He shall bynde his fole vnto the vine / and his asses colt vnto the vyne braunche / ād shall wash his garment in wyne and his mantell in the bloud of grapes / his eyes are roudier than wyne / ād his teeth whit [...]er then mylke.

[Page]Zabulon shall dwell in the hauen of the see and in the porte of shippes / & shall reache vnto Sidon.

Isachar is a stronge asse / he couched him doune betwene .ij. borders / and sawe that rest was good and the lande that it was pleasant / and bowed his shulder to beare / and became a servaunte vnto trybute.

Dan shall iudge his people / as one of the trybes of Israel. Dan shalbe a serpent in the waye / and an edder in the path / and byte the horse heles / so yt his ryder shall fall backwarde. After thy sauynge loke I LORde.

God / men of warre shall [...]ade him. And he shall turne them to flyght.

Off Asser cometh fatt breed / and he shall geue pleasures for a kynge.

Nepthali is a swyft hynde / ād geueth goodly wordes.

That florishynge childe Ioseph / that florishing childe and goodly vn to the eye: the doughters come forth to bere ruele. The shoters haue envyed him and chyde with him ād hated him / and yet his bowe bode fast / & his armes and his handes were stronge / by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde mā a stone in Israel. Thi fathers God shall helpe the / & the almightie shall blesse the with blessinges from heaven aboue / and with blessinges of the water that lieth vnder / & with blessinges of the brestes & of the womb [...] [Page] The blessinges of thy father were stronge: euen as the blessinges of my elders / after the desyre of the hiest in the worlde / and these blessinges shall fall on the head of Ioseph / and on the toppe of the head of him yt was separat from his brethern.

Ben Iamin is a raucshynge wolfe. In the mornynge he shall deuoure his praye / ād at nyghte he shall deuyde his spoyle.

All these are the .xij. tribes of Israel / & this is that which their father spake vnto them whē he blessed them / euery man with a severall blessinge. And he charged them and sayde vnto them. I shall be put vnto my people: se that ye burye me with my fathers / in the caue that is in the felde of Ephron the Hethyte / in the double caue that is in the felde before Mamre in the lande of Canaan. Which felde. Abraham boughte of Ephron the Hethite for a possessiō to burye in. There they buryed Abrahā and Sara his wyfe / there they buryed Isaac & Rebecca his wyfe. And there I buried Lea: which felde & the caue that is therin / was bought of the childern of Heth.

When Iacob had commaunded all that he wold vnto his sonnes / be plucked vp his fete apon the bedd and dyed / and was put vnto his people. And Ioseph fell apon his fathers face / and wepte apon him / and kyssed him.

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The .l. Chapter.

ANd Ioseph commaunded his seruauntes that were Phisicions / to embawme his father / and the Phisiciōs ē [...]awmed Israel .xl. dayes lōge / for so lōge doth y• embawminge last / & the Egiptians bewepte him .lxx. dayes.

And when the dayes of wepynge were ended / Ioseph spake vnto ye house of Pharao saynge: Yf I haue founde fauoure in youre eyes / speake vnto Pharao and tell him / how that my father made me swere and sayde: loo / I dye / se that thou burye me in my graue which I haue made me in the lande of Canaan. Now therfore let me goo and burye my father / ād thā will I come agayne. And Pharao sayde / goo and burye thy father / acor [...]ynge as he made the swere.

And Ioseph went vp to burie his father / and with him went all the seruauntes of Pharao that were the elders of his house / ād all ye elders of Egipte / and all the house of Ioseph ād his brethern & his fathers house: only their childern & their shepe and their catell lefte they behinde them in the lande of Gosan. And there went with him also Charettes and horsemen: so that they were an exceadynge great companye.

And when they came to yt feld of Atad beyonde Iordane / there they made great & exceadinge [Page] sore lamentaciō. And he morned for his father .vij. dayes. When the enhabiters of the lande the Cananytes sawe the moornynge in y• felde of A [...]ad / they saide: this is a greate moornynge which the Egiptians make. Wherfore y• name of the place is called Abel mizraim / which place lyeth beyonde Jordane. And his sonnes dyd vnto him acordynge as he had commaunded them.

And his sonnes caried him in to the land of Canaan and buryed him in the double caue which Abrahā had boughte with the felde to be a place to burye in / of Ephron the Hethite before Mamre. And Joseph returned to Egipte agayne and his brethern / and all that went vp with him to burye his father / assone as he had buryed him.

Whē Josephs brethern sawe that their father was deade / they sayde: Joseph myghte for tune to hate us and rewarde us agayne a [...] the euell which we dyd vnto him. They dyd therfore a commaundment vnto Joseph saynge: thy father charged before his deth saynge. This wise say vnto Joseph / forgeue I praye the the trespace of thy brethern & their synne / for they rewarded the euell. Now therfore we praye the [...] forgeue the trespace of the servauntes of thy fathers God. And Joseph wepte when they spa [...]e vnto him.

And his brethern came ād fell before him and sayde: beholde we he thy servauntes. And [Page] Joseph sayde vnto them: feare not / for am not I vnder god? Ye thoughte euell vnto me: but God turned it vnto good to bringe to passe / as it is this daye / euen to saue moch people a lyue feare not therfore / for I will care for you and for youre childern / and he spake kyndly vnto them.

Joseph dwelt in Egipte and his fathers house also / ād lyved an hundred & .x. yere. And Joseph sawe Ephraims childern / euē vnto the thyrde generation. And vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses were childern borne / & satt on Josephs knees.

And Joseph sayde vnto his brethern: I die And God will suerlie vysett you and bringe you out of this lande / vnto the lande which he sware vnto Abraham / Isaac and Jacob. And Joseph toke an ooth of the childern of Israel ād sayde: God will not fayle but vysett you / se th [...] fore that ye carye my boones hence. And so Joseph dyed / when he was an hundred and .x. yere olde. And they enba▪w [...]ed him and put him in a chest in Egipte.

The end of the first booke of Moses.

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¶ A table expoundinge certeyne wordes

Abrech / tender father / or as some will / bowe the knee.

Ar [...]f [...] / a shippe made flatte as it were a chest or a cofer.

Bisse: fyne whyte / whether it be s [...]lfe or linen.

Blesse: godes blessinges are his giftes / as in the firste chaptre he blessed them sayng: growe & multiplye & haue dominion &c. And in the .ix. chaptre he blessed [...]o [...] & his sonnes & gaue thē dominiō over all beestes & authoryte to [...]a [...]e thē And god blessed Abrahā with catell ād other ryches. And Jacob desyred Esau to receaue y• blessinge which he brought him / y• is the preasent & gifte. God blessed the .vij. daye / yt is / ga [...]e it a prehemynence yt men shuld rest therein from bodely laboure & lerne to know the will of god & his lawes & how to worke their workes godly all the w [...]ke after. God also blesseth all nations in Abrahams seed / that is / he turneth his loue & favoure vnto thē and geveth thē his spirite and knowledge of the true waye / ād lust and power to walke therin / and all for christes sake Abrahams sonne.

Cain / so is it writen in Hebrue. Notwitstōdinge whether we call him Cain or caim it maketh no matter / so we vnderstond the meaninge. [Page]Euery lande hath his maner / that we call Jhon̄ the welchemen call Evan: the douch hā [...]. Soch differēce is betwene the Ebrue / greke and laten: and that maketh them that translate out of the ebrue varye in names from them that translate out of laten or greke.

Curse: Godes curse is the takynge awaye of his benefytes. As god cursed the erth and made it baren. So now hunger / derth / warre / pestilence and soch like are yet ryght curses and signes of the wrath of God vnto the vnbeleuers: but vnto them that knowe Christ / they are very blessinges and that wholsome crosse & true purgatorye of oure flesh / thorow which all must go that will lyue godly ād be saued: as thou readest Ma [...] .v. Blessed are they that suffre persecution for rightewesnes sake. &c. And hebrewes .xi. The lorde chastyseth whom he loveth and s [...]orgeth all the children that he receaveth.

Eden: pleasure

Firmament: the skye [...]

Fayth is the belevinge of goddes promesses & a sure trust in the goodnesse and truth of god. Which faith iustifyeth Abrahā gene .xv. and was the mother of all his good workes which he afterward did. For faith is the goodnesse of all workes in the sight of God. Good workes [Page] are thinges of godes comaundemēt wrought in faith. And to sow a showe at the commaundement of god to do thy neyghboure service withall / with faith to be saved by Christ (as god promyseth vs.) is moch better thē to bild an abbay of thyne awne imagination / trustinge to be saved by the fayned workes of hypocrites. Jacob robbed Laban his vncle: Moses robbed the Egiptians: And Abrahā is aboute to slee and burne his awne sonne: And all are holye workes / because they were wrought in fayth at goddes commaundement. To stele / robbe and murther are no holye workes before worldly people: but vnto them that haue their truste in god: they are holye when god commaundeth them. What god commaundeth not getteth no reward with god. Holy workes of mens imagination receave their rewarde here / as Christ testyfyeth Math .vj. How be it of fayth & workes I haue spoken abundantly in mammon. Let him that desyreth more seke there.

Grace: fauoure / As [...]oe founde grace / that is to saye favoure and love.

Ham and Cam all one.

Iehovah is goddes name / nether is any creature so called. And it is as moch to saye as one that is of him self and dependeth of nothinge. Moreouer as oft as thou seist LORde in gre▪ [Page] at letters (excepte there be any erroure in the prē tinge) it is in hebrewe Iehovah / thou that arte or he that is.

Marshall / in hebrue he is called Sar tabaim / as thou woldest saye / lorde of the slaughtermen And though that Tabaim be takē for cokes in many places / for the cokes did [...]le the beastes thē selues in those dayes: yet it may be taken for them that put men to execution also. And that me thought it shuld here best signifye in as moch as he had the oversight of the kinges preson and the kinges presoners were they neuer so great mē were vnder his custodye And therfore I call him cheffe marshall an officer as is the lefetenaunte of the toure / or master of the marshalsye.

Slyme was their morter .xi. Chapter / And slyme pittes. x [...]ij. chapter: that slyme was a fattenesse that os [...]dout of the erth lyke vnto tarre / And thou mayst call it cement / if thou wilt.

Siloh after some is as moch to saye as sent / & after some happie / and after some it signifieth Mesias / yt is to saye annoynted and that we call Christe after the greke worde. And it is a prophesie of Christ: For after yt all y• other tribes were in captiuite & their kyngdom destroyed / yet the tribe of Iuda had a ruler of the samebloud / even vnto the comynge of Christ. [Page]And aboute the com [...]ge of Christ the Romayn [...] conquered them / and the Emperoure gaue the kyngdom of tribe Iuda vnto Herode which was a straunger / even an Edomite of the generacyon of Esau.

Testamēt here / is an appoyntemēt made betwene god and mā / and goddes promyses. And sacramēt is a signe representinge soch an appoyn [...]ment and promeses: As the raynebowe representeth the promyse made to [...]oe / that god will no more drowne the worlde. And circumcision representeth the promyses of god to Abraham on the one syde / and that Abrahā and his s [...]ed shuld circumcyse and cut off the lustes of their freshe / on the other syde / to walke in the wayes of the lorde: As baptyme which is come in the roume therof▪ now signifieth on the one syde / how that all that repent and beleue are washed in Christes bloud: And on the other syde / how that the same must quench ād droune the lustes of the flesh / to folow the steppes of Christ.

There were tyrantes in the erth in those dayes / for the sonnes of god sawe the doughters of men. &c. The sonnes of god were the prophetes childerne / which (though they succeded there fathers) fell yet from the right waye / and thorow falsehod of hypocrysye subdued the world vnder them and became tyrantes / As the successours [Page] of the apostles haue played with vs.

Vapor / a dewymiste / as the smoke of a sethy [...] g [...] pott.

To walke with god is to lyve godly and to walke in his commaundementes. Enos walked with god and was no moare sene: that is / he lyved godly and dyed / God toke him awaye: that is / god hyd his bodye / as he did Moses ād Aarons: lest haplye they shuld haue made an Idoll of him / for he was a great preacher and an holye man.

Zap [...]nath paenea / wordes of Egipte are they (as I suppose) and as moch to saye: as a man to whom secrete thinges be opened / or an expounder of secrete thinges as some enterprete it.

That Joseph brought the egiptians in to soch subiection wold seme vnto some a very cruell deade: how be it it was a very equall waye. For they payde but the fifte parte of that that grewe on the grounde. And therwith were they q [...]ytt of all duetyes / both of rent / custome / tribute & [...]oll. And the kinge therwith founde them lordes and all ministres and defended them. We now paye half so moch vnto the prestes only / besyde their other craft ye exactions. Then paye we rent yerely / though there grow never so litle on the grounde / And yet when the kinge calleth [Page] paye we neuer the lesse. So that if we loke indifferently / their condition was easyar thē oures / and but even a very indifferēt waye / both for the comen people and the kynge also. Se therfore that thou loke not on the ensamples of the scripture with wordly eyes: lest thou preferre Cain before Abel / Ismael before Isaae / Esau before Jacob / Ruben before Juda / Sarah before Pharez / Manasses before Ephraim. And euen the worst before the best / as the maner of the worlde is.

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¶ Emprented at Malborow in the lande of Hesse / by me Hans Luft / the yere of oure Lorde. M .CCCCC. xxx. the .xvij. dayes of Janu arij.

Exodus

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A PROLOGE IN TO THE SECONde boke of Moses called Exodus.

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OF the preface vppō Genesis mayst thou vnderstonde how to behaue thi silf in this boke also ād ī all other bokes of the scripture. Cleaue vnto the texte and playne storye and endevoure thi silf to serch out the meaninge of all that is described therin and the true sense of all maner of speakynges of the scripture of proverbes, similitudes ād borowed speach, wherof I entreated in the ende of the obedience, and beware of sotle allegoryes. And note euery thinge ernestly as thinges partayninge vnto thyne awne herte and soule. For as god vsed hym sylf vnto them of the old testament, even so shall he vnto the worldes ende vse him silf vnto vs which haue receaved his holye scripture ād the testimonye of his sonne Iesus. As god doeth all thinges here for them that beleve his promises and herken vnto his commaundmentes and with pacience cleaue vnto him and walke with him: euen so shall he do for vs, yf we receaue the witnesse of Christ with a stronge faith and endure paciently folowinge his steppes. And on the othersyde, as they that fell from the promises of god thorow vnbeleffe and from his lawe and ordinaunces thorow impaciencie of their awne lustes, were for saken of god ād so peryshed: even so shall we as many as do lykewyse and as [Page] manye as mock with the doctine of christ and make a cloke of it to lyue fleshlye ād to folowoure lustes.

Note therto how god is founde true at the last, and how when all is past remedye ād brought into desperacion, he then fulfilleth his promises, and that by an abiecte and a castawaye, a despised and a refused person: ye and by awaye impossible to beleue.

The cause of all captiuite of goddes people is this. The worlde ever hateth them for their fayth and trust which they haue in god: but ī vayne vntill they falle frō the fayth of the promyses ād love of the lawe ād ordinaunces of god, and put their trust in holy deades of their awne findinge and live all to gether at their awne lust and pleasure without regard of god or respecte of their neygboure. Then god forsaketh vs and sendeth vs in to captiuite for oure dishonouringe of his name and despisinge of oure neghboure. But the world persecuteth vs for oure faith in christ only (as the pope now doeth) ād not for oure weked livinge For in his kīgdome thou maist quietly ād with licēce ād vnder a protectiō doo whath so euer abhominatiō thi herte lusteth: but god persecuteth us because we abuse his holye testamēt, ād because that whē we knowe the truth we folowe it not.

[Page]Note also the mightye hand of the Lorde how he playeth with his aduersaries ād provoketh thē ād sturreth thē vpp a litle ād a litle, ād deliuereth not his people in an houre: that both the paciēce of his electe ād also the worldly witte ād wilye policye of the weked wherwith they fight agaynst god, might appeare.

Marke the longesoferinge and softe paciē ce of Moses and how he loveth the people ād is euer betwene the wrath of god ād thē ād is readye to lyue ād dye with thē ād to be put out of the boke that god had writen for their sakes (as Paule for his brothren Roma .ix.) and how he taketh his awne wrōges pacientlie ād never avengeth him silf. And make not Moses a figure of Christ with Rochestre: but an ensample vnto all princes ād to all that are in authorite how to rule vnto goddes pleasure ād vnto their neyghbours profette. For there is not a perfecter lyffe in this world both to the honoure of god and profytte of his neygboure nor yet a greatter crosse, thē to rule christenlye. And of Aaren also se that thou make no figure of christ vntill he come vnto his sacrifisinge, but an ensample vnto all preachers of goddes worde, that they adde nothinge vnto goddes worde or take ought therfro.

Note also how god sendeth his promisse to [Page] the people ād Moses consermeth it with miracles ād the people beleve. But whē tēptacion cometh they falle into vnbeleffe ād few byde stōdinge. Where thou seest that all be not christē that wilbe so called, ād that the crosse trieth the true frō the fayned: for yf the crosse were not Christ shuld haue dissiples ynowe. Wherof also thou seest what an excellent gifte off god true fayth is, ād impossible to be had with out the sprete of god. For it is aboue all naturall power that a man in tyme of tēptation when god scorgeth him shuld beleue then stedfastlye how that god loveth him ād careth for hī ād hath prepared all good thinges for him, ād that that scorginge is as ernest that god hath electe and chose him.

Note how oft Moses sturreth thē vpp to beleve ād to trust in god, puttinge thē in remembraunce alwaye in tyme of temptation of the miracles and wonders which god had wrought before tyme in their eysight. How diligently also forbiddeth he al that might with drawe their hartes from god? to put nought to goddes word: to take nought therfro: to do only that which is right in the syght of the Lorde: that they shuld make no maner image to knele doune before it: ye that they shuld make none altar of hewed stone for feare off images: [Page] to slee the hethen Idolatres vtterly ād to destroye their Idolles ād cutte doune their groves where they worshupped: And that they shulde not take the doughters of them vnto their sonnes, nor geue their doughters to the sonnes of them. And that whosoeuer moued any of thē to worshuppe false goddes, how so euer nye of kynne he were, they must accuse him ād bryng him to deth, ye and wheresoeuer they hard of mā, womā or citye that worshupped false goddes, they must slee thē ād destroye the citie for ever ād not bild it agayne. And all because they shuld worshuppe nothinge but God, nor put confidence in anythinge saue in his word Yee and how warneth he to beware of witch craft, sorcery, inchauntment, negromātie ād all craftes of the devell, ād of dreamers, sorthsayers and of myracledoers to destroye his worde, and that they shulde suffer none soch to lyue,

Thou wilt happlye saye, They tell a man the truthe. What then? God will that we care not to knowe what shall come. He will haue vs care only to kepe his commaundmētes and to commytre all chaunses vnto him He hath promysed to care for vs and to kepe vs from all evell. All thinges are in his hande, he can remedye all thinges and wil for his truthes sake, yf we praye him. In his promyses only will he haue vs trust ād there rest ād to seke [Page] no farther.

How also doth he prouoke them to loue, euer rehersynge the benefites of God done to them allready and the godly promyses that were to come? And how goodly lawes of loue geveth he? to helpe one another: and that a man shuld not hate his neyghboure in his harte, but loue him as him filf, Leuitici .xix. And what a charge geueth he in euery place over the poore and neadye: over the straunger frendlesse ād wedowe? And when he desyreth to shew mercye, he reherseth with all, the benefites of God done to them at their neade, that they myght sea cause at the lest waye in God to shew mercye of very loue vnto their neyghboures at the ir neade.

Also there is no lawe so simple in apperaunce thorow out all the fiue bokes of Moses, but that there is a greate reason of the makynge therof if a man serch diligently. As that a man is forbyd to seth a kyd in hys mothers milke, moueth vs vnto compassyon and to be pytyefull, As doth also that a man shall not offer the syre or dame and the yonge both in one daye Leuitici .xxij. For it myght seme a cruell thing in as moch as his mothers milke is as it were his bloude, wherfore god will not haue him sod therin: but will haue a man shewe curtesye [Page] vppon the very beastes: As in another place he commaundeth that we mosell not the mouth of the oxe that treadeth oute the corne (which maner of thresshinge is vsed in hote contrees) and that because we shuld moch rather not grudge to be liberall and kynde vnto mē that do vs service. Or happlye God wold have no soch wanton meate vsed among hys people. For the kyd of it self is noryshinge and the gotes milke is restauretyue, and both to gether myght be to rancke and therfore forbodē or some other like cause therewas.

Of the ceremonies, sacrifices and tabernacle with all his glorye ād pompe vnderstōde, that they were not permitted only, but also commaunded of God to lead the people in the shadowes of Moses ād night of the old testamēt, vntyll the light of christ ād daye of the new testamēt were come: As children are ledde in the phantasies of youth, vntyll the discretiō of māsage become vppon them. And all was done to kepe them from idolatrye. The tabernacle was ordened to the entent they might haue a place appoynted them to do their sacrifices openly in the syght of the people ād namelye of the preastes which wayted therō: that it might be sene that they dyd all thīge acordīg to gods word, and not after the Idolatrie of their awne [Page] imaginacion. And the costlinesse of the tabernacle ād the bewtye also pertayned therevnto, that they shuld se nothinge so bewtifull amonge the hethē, but that they shuld se more bewtifull ād wonderfull at home: because they shuld not be moued to folowe them. And in like maner the diuers facions of the sacrifices and ceremonies was to occupye their mindes that they shuld haue no lust to folow the hethē: ād the multitude of them was, that they shuld haue so moch to do in kepinge thē that thei shuld haue no leysure to ymagine other of their awne: yee and that gods word might be by in all that they dyd, that they might haue their fayth and trust in God, which he can not haue, that ether foloweth his awne invencyons, or tradicyons of mēnes makynge wyth out Gods word.

Finally God hath two testamentes: the old and the newe. The old testament is those temporall promyses which God made the childrē of Israel of a good londe and that he wolde defende them, and of welth and prosperyte ād of temporall blessynges of whiche thou readest ouer all the lawe of Moses, But namelye Leuitici. xxv [...]. And Deuteromij .xxviij. ād the avoydynge of all threateninges and curses off which thou readest lykewyse everye where▪ but specyallye in the two places aboue rehersed, [Page] and the avoydinge of all punyshmēt ordened for the transgressers of the lawe.

And the old testamēt was bilt all to gether vppō the kepinge of the lawe ād ceremonyes and was the reward of kepinge of thē in this liffe only, ād reached no further then this liffe and this world, as thou readest leui .xviij. a mā that doth them shall live there in which texte Paule reherseth Rom .x. and Gala .iij. That is, he that kepeth them shall haue this liffe gloriouse accordinge to all the promises and blessinges of the lawe, and shall avoyde both all temporall punishment of the lawe, with al the threateninges and cursinges also. For nether the lawe, euen of the .x. cōmaundmentes nor yet the ceremonies iustifyed in the herte before god, or purifyed vnto the life to come. Insomoch that Moses at his deeth euen .xl. yere after the lawe and ceremonyes were geuen complayneth sayenge: God hath not geven you an hart to vnderstonde, nor eyes to se, nor eares to heare vnto this daye. As who shuld saye, god hath geuen you ceremonies, but ye know not the vse of them, and hath geuē you a lawe, but hath not wryten it in youre hartes.

Wherfore serveth the lawe then, yf it geue vs no power to do the lawe? Paule answereth the, that it was geuen to vtter synne onlye and [Page] to make it appere. As a corosye is layde vnto an old sore, not to heale it, but to stere it vp ād to make the disease alyve, that a mā might feale in what ioperdye he is ād how nye deeth ād not aware, ād to make awaye vnto the healinge playster. Euē so sayth Paule Gala .iij. The lawe was geven because of transgressiō (that is, to make the synne alyve that it might be felt and sene) vntill the seed came vnto whom it was promised: that is to saie, vntil the childern of fayth came, or vntill Christ that seed in whom god promised Abrahā that all nations of the worlde shuld be blessed, came. That is, the lawe was geuē to vtter synne, deeth damnatiō and curse, ād to dryve vnto Christ in whō forgeuenesse, life, iustifyinge ād blessinges were promised, that we might se so greate love of god to vs ward in christ, that we hēceforth ouercome with kindnesse might love againe ād of love kepe the cōmaūdmētes. So now he that goeth aboute to quiette his cōsciēce ād to iustifye him silf with the lawe, doth but heale his wondes with freatige coresyes. And he that goeth aboute to purchase grace with ceremonies, doth but sucke the alepope to qwēch his thirst, in as moch as the ceremonies were not gevē to iustifie the herte, but to signifie the iustifiynge: and forgeuenesse that is in christes bloude

[Page]Of the ceremonies that they iustifie not, thou readest. Ebrues .x. It is impossible that synne shuld be done awaye with the bloud of oxē ād gootes. And of the lawe thou readest. Gala .iij. Yf there had bene a lawe geuē that coude haue quykened or geuē liffe, then had rightuousnesse or iustifyinge come by the lawe in dede. Now the lawe not only quyckeneth not the harte, but also woundeth it with conscience of synne and ministreth deeth ād damnaciō vnto her: ij. Corin .iij. so that she must neades dye ād be damned excepte she finde other remedy, so farre it is of that she is iustified or holpe by the lawe.

The newe testament is those euerlastinge promyses which are made vs in christ the Lorde thorow out all the scripture. And that testamēt is bylt on faith ād not on workes. For it is not sayde of that testament he that worketh shall lyue: But he that beleveth shall lyue, as thou readest. Ioan .iij. God so loued the worlde that he gaue his only begotē sonne that none which beleue in hi shuld perish but haue euerlastinge lyfe.

And when this testament is preached and beleued, the sprete entreth the hart and quyckeneth it, and geueth her lyfe and iustifieth her. The sprete also maketh the lawe a lyuely thing [Page] in the herte, so that a man bringeth forth good workes of his awne acord without compulsiō of the lawe, without feare of threateninges or cursinges: yee and with out all maner respecte or loue vnto any temporal pleasure, But of the very power of the sprete receaved thorow faith, As thou readest. Ioan .i. He gaue them power to be the sonnes of God in that they beleued on his name. And of that power they worke: so that he which hath the sprete of christ is now no moare a childe: he nether learneth or worketh now any longer for payne of the rodde or for feare of boogges or pleasure of apples, But doth althinges of his awne courage As christ sayeth. Ioan .vij. He that beleueth on me shall haue riuers of lyuinge water flowinge out of his belye. That is, All good workes ād all giftes of grace springe out of him naturallye and by their awne accorde. Thou neadest not to wrest good workes out of him as a mā wold wringe veriuce out of crabbes: Nay thei flow naturally out of him as springes out off hilles or rockes.

The newe testament was euer, euē from the beginning of the world. For there were alwaye promyses of Christ to come by faith in whiche promyses the electe were then iustifyed [Page] inwardly before God, as outwardly before the world by kepynge of the lawe and ceremonies

And in conclusyon as thou seyst blessinges or cursynges folow the kepinge or breakynge of the lawe of Moses: euē so naturally do blessynges or cursynges folow the breakyng or kepynge of the lawe of nature, out of which sprī ge all oure temporall lawes. So that whē the people kepe the temporall lawes of their lond temporall prosperite and all maner of soch tē porall blessynge as thou readest of in Moses doo accompanye them and fall vppon them. And contraryewyse when they synne vnpunished, ād whē the rulars haue no respecte vnto naturall equyte or honestye, thē God sendeth his curses amonge thē, as hungre, derth, moren banynge, pestilēce, warre, oppressyon with straunge ād wonderfull diseases ād newekyndes of misfortune ād evell lucke,

Yf any mā axe me, seyng that faith iustifieth me why I worke? I answere loue cōpelleth me For as lōge as my soule fealeth what loue god hath shewed me in Christe, I can not but loue god agayne ād his will ād cōmaūdmētes and of loue worke them, nor cā they seme hard vn to me. I thinke not my self better for my workynge, nor seke heuē nor an hyer place in heuē because of it. For a christē worketh to make [Page] his weake brother perfecter, ād not to seke an hier place in heuē. I cōpare not my filf vnto him that worketh not: No, he that worketh not to daye shall haue grace to turne ād to worke tomorow, ād in the meane ceason I pytye hym ād praye for him. Yf I had wrought the wil of god these thousande yeres, ād another had wrought the will of the devell as long ād this daye turne ād be as well willynge to suffre wyth Christas [...], he hath this daye ouertakē me ād is as farre come as I, and shall haue as moche rewarde as I. And I envye him not, but reioyce most of all as of lofte tresure founde. For yf I be of god, I haue this thousand yere sofred to wynne him for to come ād prayse the name of God with me: this. M. yeres I haue prayed sorowed, longed, syghed ād sought for that whiche I haue this daye founde, ād therfore reioyse with all my myght and prayse God for hys grace and mercy.

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ALbe, a longe garment of white lynen.

Arcke, a cofer or cheste as oure shrynes saue it was flatte, ād the sample of oure shrynes was taken thereof.

Boothe, an housse made of bowes.

Brestlappe or brestflappe, is soche a flappe as thou seist in the brest of a cope.

Consecrate, to apoynte a thinge to holy vses.

Dedicate, purific or sanctifie.

[Page]Ephod, is a garment somwhat like an amyce, saue the armes came thorow ād it was gird to.

Geeras, in weyght as it were an englysh halff. penye or somwhat more.

Heveo [...]ringe because they were hoven vp before the Lorde.

House, he made thē houses: that is, he made a kynred or a multitude of people to springe out of them: as we saye the house of Dauid for the kinred of Dauid.

Peaceoffrīge: offerīges of thākes geuīge of de uotiō, ād not for cōsciēce of sinne ād trespace.

Polute, defyle

¶Reconcyle, to make at one and to bringe in grace or fauoure.

Sanctefie to elēse ād purifie, to apointe a thinge vnto holie vses and to seperate frō vnclene ād vnholye vses.

¶Sanctuarie, a place halowed and dedicate vnto god.

¶Tabernacle, an house made tentwise, or as a pauelion.

Tunicle, moch like the vppermost garmēt of the deukē.

¶Waueoffringe, because they were wauē in the preastes hādes to diuers quarters▪

Worshuppe: by worshuppinge whether it be in the old testamēt or the newe, vnderstōd the bowenge of a mans self vppon the grounde: As wee oftymes as weknele in oure prayers [...]owe oure selves ād lye on oure armes ād handes with oure face to the grounde.

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The seconde boke of Moses, called Exodus.
¶ The seconde boke of Moses called Exodus.

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¶ The first Chapter.

THese are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egipte with Iacob / euery man with his housholde: Rubē, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, Zabulon, Beniamin, Dan, Neptali, Gad ād Aser. All the soules that came out of the Ioynes of Iacob, were .lxx. and Ioseph was in Egipte all redie. when Ioseph was dead and all his brethern and all that generation: the children of Israel grewe, encreased, multiplied and waxed enceadinge myghtie: so that the londe was full of them.

Then there rose vp a new kynge in Egipte which knewe not Ioseph. And he sayde vnto his folke: beholde the people of the childrē of Israel are moo ād mightier than we. Come on, let vs playe wisely with them: lest they multiplie, and then (yf there chaunce any warre) they ioyne them selues vnto oure enimies and fyghte ageynst vs, and so gete them out of the lande.

[Page]And he sette taskemasters ouer them, to ke [...] pe them vnder with burthens. And they bylvnto Pharao treasurecities: Phiton and Raamses. But the more they vexed thē, the moare they multiplied and grewe: so that they abhorred the childrē of Israel. And the Egiptiās helde the childern of Israel in bondage without mercie, and made their lyues bitter vnto them with cruell laboure in claye and bricke, and all maner worke in the feldes, and in all maner of service, which they caused thē to worke cruelly

And the kynge of Egipte sayde vnto the mydwiues of the Ebrues women, of which the ones name was Ziphra ād the other Pua: whē ye mydwiue the women of the Ebrues and se in the byrth tyme that it is a boye, kyll it. But yf it be a mayde, let it lyue. Notwithstonding the mydwiues feared God, and dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaūded them: but saued the menchildern.

Thē the kinge of Egipte called for the midwiues ād sayde vnto thē: why haue ye delt on this maner and haue saued the menchildern? And the mydwiues answered Pharao, that the Ebrues wemen were not as the wemen of Egipte: but were sturdie women, and were delyuered yer the midwyues came at them. And God therfore delt well with the midwyues. [Page] And the people multiplied and waxed very mightie. And because the mydwiues feared God, he made them houses.

Than Pharao charged all his pepple sayng All the menchildern that are borne, cast in to the ryuer and save the maydchildern a lyue.

¶ The seconde Chapter.

ANd there wēt a mā of the house of Leui ād toke a doughter of Leui. And the wife cōceaued ād bare a sonne. And whē she sawe that it was a propre childe, she hyd him thre monethes longe. And whē she coude no longer hyde him, she toke a basket of bulrusshes ād dawbed it with slyme ād pytche, ād layde the childe therin, ād put it in the flagges by the riuers brynke. And his sister stode a ferre of, to wete what wold come of it.

And the doughter of Pharao came doune to the riuer to washe her selfe, and hir maydens walked a longe by the riuers syde. And when she sawe the basket amōge the flagges, she sent one of hir maydes and caused it to be fet. And whē she had opened it she sawe the childe. and behold, the babe wepte. And she had cōpassiō on it ād sayde: it is one of the Ebrues childern

Then sayde his sister vnto Pharaos doughter: shall I goo and call vnto the a nurse of the Ebrues wemen, to nurse the the childe? [Page] And the mayde ranne and called the childes mother. Thē Pharaos doughter saide vnto her Take this childe awaye ād nurse it for me, ād I will rewarde the for thi laboure. And the woman toke the childe and nursed it vp.

And whē the childe was growne, she brought it vnto Pharaos doughter, and it was made hir sonne, and she called it Moses, because (sayde she) I toke him out of the water.

And it happened in these dayes when Mo ses was waxte great, that he went out vnto his brethern ād loked on their burthens, and spied an Egiptian smytynge one of his brethern an Ebrue. And he loked round aboute: and when he sawe that there was no man by, he sle we the Egiptian and hyd hī in the sonde. And he went out a nother daye: and beholde, two Ebrues stroue to gether. And he sayde vnto him that dyd the wronge: wherfore smytest thou thine neyghboure? And he answered: who hath made the a ruelar or aiudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egiptain? Then Moses feared and sayde: of a suertie the thinge is knowne. And Pharao her de of it and went aboute to slee Moses: but he fled from Pharao ād dwelt in the lāde of Madian, and he satt doune by a welles syde.

The preast of Madianh a d .vij. doughters [Page] which came ād drew water and fylled the troughes, for to water their fathers shepe. And the shepardes came and drove them awaye: But Moses stode vp and helped them and waterd their shepe. And when they came to Raguel their father, he sayde: how happeneth it that ye are come so soone to daye? And they answerede there was an Egiptiā that delyuered vs frō the shepardes, and also drewe vs water & waterd the shepe. And he sayde vnto his doughters: where is he? why haue ye lefte the man? Goo call him that he maye eate bread.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gaue Moses Zipora his doughter which bare a sonne, ād he called him Gerson: for he sayde. I haue bene a straunger in a straunge lande. And she bare yet another sonne, whom he called Elieser sayng: the God of my father is myne helper, and hath rid me out of the handes of Pharao.

And it chaunced in processe of tyme, that the kinge of Egipte dyed, and the childern of Israel syghed by the reason of laboure and cryed. And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the laboure. And God remembred his promise with Abraham, Isaac ād Iacob. And God loked apon the children of Israel and knewe them.

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¶ The thyrde Chapter.

MOses kepte the shepe of Iethro his father in law preast of Madian, and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the deser te, ād came to the moūtayne of God, Horeb. And the angell of the Lorde apeared vnto hī in a flame of fyre out of a bush. And he perceaued that the bush burned with fyre and consumed not. Than Moses sayde: I will goo hē ce and see this grete syghte, howe it cometh that the bushe burneth not. And whē the Lorde sawe that he came for to see, he called vnto him out of the bush and sayde: Moses Moses And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: come not hither, but put thy shooes off thi fete: for the place whereon thou stondest is holy grounde. And he sayde: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob And Moses hyd his face, for he was afrayde to loke vpon God.

Than the Lorde sayde: I haue surely sene the trouble of my people which are in Egipte and haue herde their crye which they haue of their taskemasters. For I knowe theire sorowe and am come downe to delyuer them out of the handes of the Egiptians, and to brynge thē out of that londe vnto a good londe and a large, [Page] and vnto a londe that floweth with mylke and hony: euen vnto the place of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites, and of the Iebusites.

Now therfore beholde, the complaynt of the children of Israel is come vnto me and I haue also sene the oppression, wherwith the Egiptians oppresse them. But come, I will sende the vnto Pharao, that thou mayst brynge my people the childern of Israel out of Egipte.

And Moses sayde vnto God: what am I to goo to Pharao and to brynge the children of Iraell out of Egipte? And he sayde: I wilbe with the. And this shalbe a token vnto the that I haue sent the: after that thou hast broughte the people out of Egipte, ye shall serue God vppon this mountayne.

Than sayde Moses vnto God: when I come vnto the childern of Israell and saye vnto them, the God of youre fathers hath sent me vnto you, ād they saye vnto me, what ys his name▪ what answere shall I geuethem? Then sayOf this vvord, I vvilbe▪ cometh the name of God Iehovah vvhich vve interprete, Lorde, and is as mo [...]h to saye as I that [...]. de God vnto Moses: I wilbe what I wilbe: ād he sayde, this shalt thou saye vnto the children of Israel: I wilbe dyd send me to you.

And God spake further vnto Moses: thus shalt thou saye vnto the children of Israell: [Page] the Lorde God of youre fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob hath sent me vnto you: this is my name for euer, and this is my memoriall thorow out all generacyons. Goo therfore and gather the elders of Israel to gether and saye vnto them: the Lorde God of youre fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob, appeared vnto me and sayde: I haue be ne and sene both you and that whiche is done to you in Egipte. And I haue sayde it, that I will bringe you out of the tribulaciō of Egipte vnto the londe of the Canaanites, Hethites Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites and Iebusites: euen a londe that floweth wyth mylke ād hony

Yf it come to passe that they heare thy voyce, then goo, both thou ād the elders of Israel vnto the kinge of Egipte and saye vnto him: The Lord God of the Ebrues hath mett with vs: Let vs goo therfore .iij. dayes iourney in to the wildernesse, that we maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde oure God. Notwithstondinge I am sure that the kinge of Egipte will not lett you goo, excepte it be with a mightie hande: ye ād I will therfore stretche out myne honde, and smyte Egipte with all my wōders which I wil do therin. And after that he will let you goo.

And I will gett this people fauoure in the [Page] syghte of the Egiptians: so that when ye goo, ye shall not goo emptie: but euery wife shall borow of hir neyghbouresse and of her that sogeorneth in hir house, iewels of syluer ād of gold and ray ment. And ye shall put them on youre sonnes and doughters, and shall robbe the Egiptians.

¶ The .iiij. Chaptre.

MOses answered and sayde: Se, they wil not beleue me nor herkē vnto my voyce: but wil saye, the Lorde hath not apeared vnto the. Then the Lorde saide vnto him: what is that in thine hande? and he sayde, a rodd. And he sayde, cast it on the grounde, and it turned vnto a serpent. And Moses rā awaye from it. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: put forth thine hande ād take it by the tayle. And he put forth his hande and caught it, and it became a rodd agayne in his hand, that they may beleue that the Lorde God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac ād the God of Iacob hath appeared vnto the.

And the Lorde sayde forther more vnto him: thrust thine hande in to thy bosome. And he thrust his hande in to his bosome and toke it out. And beholde, his hand was leporous euen as snowe. And he saide: put thine hande in [Page] to thy bosome agayne. And he put his hande into his bosome agayne, and plucked it out of his bosome, and beholde, it was turned agayn as his other flesh. Yf they will not beleue the nether heare the voyce of the first token: yet will they beleue the voyce of the seconde tokē But and yf they will not beleue the two signes nether herken vnto thy voyce, then take of the water of the riuer and poure it vpon the drye lond. And the water which thou takest out of the riuer shall turne to bloude vpon the drie londe.

And Moses sayde vnto the Lorde: oh my Lorde. I am not eloquēt, no not in tymes past and namely sence thou hast spoken vnto thy seruaunte: but I am slowe mouthed and slowe tongued. And the Lorde sayde vnto hī: who hath made mās mouth, or who hath made the domme or the deaff, the seynge or the blynde? haue not I the Lorde? Go therfore and I wilbe with thy mouth and teach the what thou shalt saye.

And he sayde: oh my Lorde, send I pray the whome thou wilt. And the Lorde was angrie with Moses and sayde: I knowe Aarō thy brother the leuite that he can speake. And morouer behold, he cometh out agaynst the, ād whē he seyth the, he wilbe gladī his hert. And thou [Page] shalt speake vnto hī and put the wordes in his mouth, ād I wilbe with thy mouth ād with his mouth, ād will teach you what ye shal do. And he shalbe thy spokesr [...]ā vnto the people: he shall be thy mouth ād thou shalt be his God. and take this rodd in thy hāde, wher with thou shalt do myracles.

And Moses went ād returned to Iethro his father in lawe agayne ād seyde vnto hī: let me goo (I praye the) ād turne agayne vnto my brethern which are in Egipte, that I may se whether they be yet alyue. And Iethro sayde to Moses: goo in peace. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses in Madiā: returne agayne in to Egipte for they are dead which wēt aboute to kyll the And Moses toke his wife and his sonnes and put them on an asse, and went agayne to Egipte, and toke the rodd of God in his hande.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: when thou art come in to Egipte agayne, se that thou doo all the wondres before Pharao which I haue put in thy hande: but I will harden his herte, so that he shall not let the people goo. And tell Pharao, thus sayth the Lorde: Israel is mine eldest sonne, and therfore sayth vnto the: let my sonne goo, that he may serue me. Yf thou wilt not let hī goo: beholde, I will slee thine [Page] eldest sonne.

And it chaunced by the waye in the ynne, that the Lorde mett him and wolde haue kylled him. Than Zepora toke a stone ād circumcised hyr sonne and fell at hys fette, and sayde: a bloudy husband art thou vnto me. And he lett him goo. She sayde a bloudy husbonde, because of the circumcision.

Than sayde the Lorde vnto Aaron: go mete Moses in the wildernesse. And he went and mett him in the mounte of God and kissed hi And Moses told Aaron all the wordes of the Lorde which he had sent by him, ād all the tokens which he had charged him with all. So went Moses and Aaron and gatherd all the elders of the childern of Israel. And Aarō told all the wordes which the Lorde had spokē vnto Moses, and dyd the myracles in the syght of the people, and the people beleued. And whē they herde that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and had loked vpon their tribulacion, they bowed them selues and worshipped

¶ The .v. Chapter.

THen Moses ād Aarō wēt and told Pharao, thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel. Let my people goo, that they may kepe holye [Page] daye vnto me in the wildernesse. And Pharao answered: what felowe is the Lord, that I shulde heare his voyce for to let Israel goo? I knowe not the Lorde, nether will let Israel goo.

And they sayde: the God of the Ebrues hath mett with vs: let vs goo (we praye the) iij. dayes iourney in to the deserte, that we maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde oure God: lest he smyte vs ether with pestilence or with swerde. Then sayde the kinge of Egipte vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people frō their worke, gett you vnto youre laboure. And Pharao sayde further more: beholde, there is moch people in the londe, and ye make them playe and let their worke stonde.

And Pharao commaunded the same daye vnto the taskem asters ouer the people and vnto the officers saynge: se that ye geue the people no moare strawe to make brycke with all as ye dyd in tyme passed: let them goo and gather them strawe them selues, and the nombre of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed, laye vnto their charges also, and minysh nothinge therof. For they be ydill ād therfore crye saynge: let vs goo and do sacrifice vnto oure God. They must haue more worke layed vpon them, that they maye laboure theryn, and than will they not turne them selues to false [Page] wordes.

Than went the taskemasters of the people and the officers out and tolde the people saynge: thus sayeth Pharao: I will geue you no moare strawe, but goo youre selues ād gather you strawe where ye can fynde it, yet shall none of youre laboure be minyshed. Than the people scatered abrode thorowe out all the lande of Egipte for to gather them stubyll to be in stead of strawe.

And the taskemasters hastied thē forward sayng: fulfill youre worke daye by daye, euē as when strawe was geuen you. And the officers of the childern of Israel which Pharaos taskmasters had settouer them, were beaten. And it was sayde vnto them: wherfore haue ye not fulfilled youre tas [...]e in makinge brycke, both yesterdaye and to daye, as well as in tymes past.

Than went the officers of the childern of Israel ād complayned vnto Pharao saynge: wherfore dealest thou thus with thy servauntes? there is no strawe geuen vnto thy servauntes, and yet they saye vnto vs: make brycke. And loo, thy servauntes ar beaten, and thy people is foule intreated. And he answered: ydill ar ye ydill and therfore ye saye: let vs goo ād do sacrifice vnto the Lorde. Goo therfore and worke, for [Page] there shall no strawe be geuen you, and yet see that ye delyuer the hole tale of brycke.

when the officers of the childern of Israel sawe them silfe in shrode case (in that he sayde ye shall minysh nothinge of youre dalye makī ge of brycke) than they mett Moses and Aarō stondinge in there waye as they came out frō Pharao, and sayde vnto them: The Lorde loke vnto you and iudge, for ye haue made the sauoure of vs stincke in the sighte of Pharao and of his servauntes, and haue put a swerde in to their handes to slee vs.

Moses returned vnto the Lorde and sayde: Lorde wherfore dealest thou cruelly with this people: and wherfore hast thou sent me? For sence I came to Pharao to speke in thy name, he hath fared foull with this folke, ād yet thou hast not delyuered thy people at all. Then the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Now shalt thou see what I will doo vnto Pharao, for with a myghtie hande shall he let them goo, and with a mightye hande shall he dryue them out of hys lande.

¶ The .vj. Chapter

ANd God spake vnto Moses sayng vnto him: I am the Lorde, and I appeared vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob an allmightie God: but in my name Iehouah was I not knowne [Page] vnto them. Moreouer I made an appoyntment with them to geue them the londe of Canaā: the londe of their pilgremage wherin they were straungers. And I haue also herde the gronyng of the childern of Israel, because the Egiptians kepe them in bondage, ād haue remembred my promysse

wherefore saye vnto the childern of Israel: IA ꝓmyse or a testamēt am the Lorde, and will brynge you out from vnder the burdens of the Egiptians, and wyll rydd you out of their bondage, and wyll delyuer you wyth a stretched out arme and wythe great iudgementes. And I wil take you for my people and wilbe to you a God. And ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde youre God which bringe you out from vnder the burthens of the Egiptians. And I wyll brynge you vnto the londe ouer the which I dyd lyfte vpp my hande to geue it vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, and will geue it vnto you for a possessyon: euē Temptacy o [...] [...]ieth faith. I the Lorde, And Moses tolde the children of Israel euen so: But they harkened not vnto Moses for anguyshe of sprete and for cruell bondage.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge Goo and bydd Pharao kynge of Egipte, that he let the childern of Israel g [...]o out of his londe. And Moses spake before the Lorde saynge: [Page] beholde, the childern of Israell herken not vnto me, how than shall Pharao heare me: seynge that I haue vncircumcised lippes. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron and gaue them a charge vnto the childern of Israel ād vnto Pharao kyng of Egipte: to brynge the childern of Israel out of the londe of Egipte.

These be the heedes of their fathers housses. The children of Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel are these: Hanoh, Pallu, Hezron, Charmi, these be the housholders of Ruben. The childern of Symeon ar these: Gemuel, Iamin, Ohad, Iachin. Zohar, and Saul the sonne of a Cananytesh wife: these are the kynreddes of Symeon

These are the names of the children of Leui in their generations: Gerson, Kahath and Merari. And Leui lyued an hundred and .xxxvij. yere. The sonnes of Gerson: Libni ād Semei in their kinreddes. The childern of Kahath: Amram, Iesear, Hebron and Vsiel. And Kahath lyued an hundred and .xxxiij. yere. The children of Merari are these: Mahely and Musi: these are the kynreddes of Leui in their generations.

And Amram toke Iochebed his nece to wyfe which bare him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lyued an hundred and .xxxvij. yere. [Page] The childern of Iezear: Korah, Nepheg and Sichri. The childern of Vsiel: Misael, Elzaphan and Sithri.

And Aaron toke Elizaba doughter of Aminadab ād sister of Nahason, to wife: which bare him Nadab, Abehu, Eleazar and Ithamar. The childern of Korah: Assir, Elkana ād Abiassaph: these are the kynreddes of the Korahites. And Eleazar Aarons sonne toke him one of the doughters of Putuel to wife: which bare him Pinchas: these be the principall fathers of the Leuites in their kynreddes.

These are that Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord sayde: carie the childern of Israel out of the lond of Egipte, with their armyes. The se are that Moses and Aaron whiche spake to Pharao kynge of Egipte, that they myghte brī ge the childern of Israel out of Egipte. And in the daye whē the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the londe of Egipte, he spake vnto him saynge▪ I am the Lorde, se that thou speake vnto Pharao the kinge of Egipte all that I saye vnto the. And Moses answered before the Lorde: I am of vncircumcised lippes, howe shall Pharao than geue me audience?

¶ The .vij. Chaptre.

ANd the Lorde saide vnto Moses: beholde, I haue made the Pharaos God, and [Page] Aaron thy brother shal be thy prophete. Thou shalt speake all that I commaunde the and Aaron thy brother shall speake vnto Pharao: that he sende the childern of Israel out of his londe. But I will harden Pharaos hert, that I may multiplie my myracles and my wondres in the land of Egipte. And yet Pharao shall not herken vnto you, that I maye sett myne honde vpon Egipte and brynge out myne armyes, euē my people the childern of Israel out of the lā de of Egipte, with great iudgementes. And the Egiptians shall knowe that I am the Lorde when I haue stretched forth my hande vpō Egipte, and haue brought out the childern of Israel from amonge thē.

Moses and Aaron dyd as the Lorde commaunded them. And Moses was lxxx. yere olde and Aaron .lxxxiij. when they spake vnto Pharao. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron saynge: when Pharao speaketh vn to you and sayth: shewe a wondre, than shalt thou saye vnto Aaron, take the rodd and cast it before Pharao, and it shall turne to a serpent

Than went Moses and Aarō in vnto Pharao, and dyd euen as the Lorde had commaunded. And Aaron cast forth his rodd before Pharao and before his servauntes, and it turned to a serpente. Than Pharao called for the [Page] wyse men and enchaunters of Egipte dyd ynEn [...] so d [...] o [...] re charmars novv deceau [...] all princes vvith theire sophistri [...] ▪ ād turne thē clene from repē taūce tovvarde the lavve of god ād frō the fayth that is in Christ. lyke maner with there sorcery. And they cast doune euery mā his rodd, ād they turned to serpētes: but Aarons rodd ate vp their roddes: ād yet for all that Pharaos herte was hardened, so that he herkened not vnto thē, euen as the Lorde had sayde.

Than sayde the Lorde vnto Moses. Pharaos herte is hardened, and he refuseth to let the people goo. Get the vnto Pharao in the mornynge, for he will come vnto the water, and frō de thou apon the ryuers brynke agenst he come, and the rodd whiche turned to a serpente take in thine hande. And saye vnto him: the Lorde God of the Hebrues hath sente me vnto the saynge: let my people goo, that they maye serue me in the wildernes: but hither to thou woldest not heare. wherfore thus sayth the Lorde: hereby thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord. Behold, I will smyte with the staffe that is in myne hand apon the waters that are in the ryuer, and they shall turne to bloude. And the fishe that is in the riuer shall dye, and the riuer shall stinke: so that it shall greue the Egiptiās to drinke of the water of the ryuer.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saye vnto Aaron: take thy staffe and stretch out thyne hande ouer the waters of Egipte, ouer their [Page] streames, ryuers, pondes and all pooles off water, that they maye be bloude, and that there may be bloude in all the lande of Egipte: both in vessells of wodd and also of stone. And Moses and Aaron dyd euen as the Lorde commaunded. And he lifte vp the staffe and smote the waters that were in the riuer, in the syghte of Pharao and in the syghte of his servauntes, and all the water that was in the ryuer, turned in to bloude. And the fish that was in the riuer dyed, and the ryuer stanke: so that the Egiptians coude not drinke of the water of the ryuer. And there was bloude thorowe out all the lande of Egipte.

And the Enchaunters of Egipte dyd lyke wyse with their enchauntmentes, so that Pharaos herte was hardened and dydnot regarde them as the Lorde had sayde. And Pharao turned himselfe and went in to his housse, and set not his herte there vnto. And the Egiptians dygged round aboute the ryuer for water to drynke, for they coude not drynke of the water of the ryuer. And it contynued a weke after that the Lorde had smote the ryuer.

¶ The .viij. Chapter.

[Page]THe Lorde spake vnto Moses: Goo vnto Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the Lorde: let my people goo, that they maye serue me. Yf thou wilt not let them goo: beholde I will smyte all thy londe with frogges. And the ryuer shall scrale with frogges, ād they shall come vp and goo in to thine housse and in to thy chaumbre where thou slepest ād vppō thy bedd, and in to the housses of thy servauntes, and vppon thy people, and in to thyne ovens, and vppon thy vitels which thou hast in store And the frogges shall come vpon the and on thy people and apon all thy servauntes.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saye vnto Aaron: stretche forth thine hande with thy rodd ouer the stremes, riuers, ād pondes. And bringe vp frogges apon the londe of Egipte And Aaron stretched his hande ouer the water of Egipte, and the frogges came vp ād couered the londe of Egipte. And the sorcerers dyd likewise with theire sorcery, and the frogges came vp apon the lande of Egipte.

Then Pharao called for Moses and Aarō and sayde, praye ye vnto the Lorde that he may take awaye the frogges from me and from my people, and I will let the people goo, that they maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde. And Moses sayde vnto Pharao: Appoynte thou the tyme [Page] vnto me, when I shall praye for the and thy servauntes ād thy people, to dryue awaye the frogges from the and thy housse, so that they shall remayne but in in the riuer only. And he sayde tomorow. And he sayde: euen as thou hast sayde, that thou mayst knowe that there is none like vnto the Lorde oure God. And the frogges shall departe from the ād from thyne houses and from thy servauntes and from thy people, and shall remayne in the riuer only.

And Moses and Aaron went out frō Pharao, and Moses cryed vnto the Lorde apō the apoyntment of frogges which he had made vnto Pharao. And the Lorde dyd accordinge to the saynge of Moses. And the frogges dyed out of the housses, courtes and feldes. And they gathred them to gether vppon heppes: so that the lande stanke of them.

But when Pharao sawe that he had rest geuen him, he hardened his herte and herkened not vnto them, as the Lorde had sayde. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Saye vnto Aarō stretch out thy rodd and smyte the dust of the lande that it maye turne to lyse in all the londe of Egipte. And they dyd so. And Aaron stretched out his hande with his rodd and smote the dust of the erth. ād it turned to lyse both in man and beest, so that all the dust of the lande [Page] turned to lyse, thorowe out all the lande of Egipte.

And the enchaunters assayde lykewyse with their enchauntmentes to brynge forth lyse, but they coude not. And the lyse were both apon man and beest. Then sayde the enchaunters vnto Pharao: it is the fingre of God. Neuerthelater Pharaos herte was hardened and he regarded them not, as the Lorde had sayde.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: ryse vp early in the mornynge and stonde before Pharao, for he will come vnto the water: and saye vnto him, thus sayth the Lorde: let my people goo, that they maye serue me. Yf thou wilt not let my people goo: beholde, I will sende all maner flies both apon the and thy servauntes ād thy people and into thy housses. And the housses of the Egiptians shalbe full of flies, and the grounde where on they are. But I will seperate the same daye the londe of Gosan where my people are, so that there shall no flyes be there: that thou mayst knowe that I am the Lorde vppon the erth. And I will put a deuision betwene my people and thine. And euen tomorow shall this myracle be done.

And the Lorde dyd euen so: and there came noysom flyes in to the housse of Pharao, [Page] and in to his servauntes housses and in to all the lōde of Egipte: so that the londe was marred with flyes. Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and sayde: Goo and do sacrifice vnto youre God in the land. And Moses answered: it is not mete so to do. for we must offer vnto the Lorde oure God, that whiche is an abhominatyon vnto the Egiptians: beholde, shall we sacrifice that which is an abhominacion vnto the Egiptians before their eyes, and shall they not stone vs? we will therfore goo .iij. dayes yournay in to the deserte and sacrifice vnto the Lord oure God as he hath cō maunded vs.

And Pharao sayde: I will late you goo, that ye maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde youre God in the wildernes: only goo not ferrre awaye, ād se that ye praye for me. And Moses sayde: beholde, I will goo out from the and praye vnto the Lorde, and the flyes shall departe frō Pharao and from his servauntes and from his people tomorow. But let Pharao from hēce forth desceaue no moare, that he wolde not lett the people goo to sacrifice vnto the Lorde.

And Moses went out from Pharao and prayed vnto the Lorde. And the Lorde dyd as Moses had saide: ād toke awaye the flies frō Pharao and from his servauntes ād from hys [Page] people, so that there remayned not one. But for all that, Pharao hardened his herte euen then also and wolde not let the people goo,

¶ The .ix. Chaptre.

ANd the Lorde sayde vnto Moses, goo vnto Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the Lorde God of the Ebrues: sende out my people that they maye serue me. Yf thou wilt not let them goo but wilt holde them styll: beholde, the hande of the Lorde shalbe apō thy catell which thou hast in the feld apon horses asses, camels, oxen, and shepe, with a mightye great morrayne. But the Lorde shall make a deuysion betwene the beestes of the Israhelites, ād the beestes of the Egiptias: so that there shal nothing dye of all that perteyneth to the children of Israel. And the Lorde appoynted a tyme saynge: tomorow the Lorde shall do this thinge in the londe.

And the Lorde dyd the thinge on the morow, and all the catell of Egipte dyed: but of the catell of the children of Israel dyed not one. And Pharao sent to wete: but ther was not one of the catell of the Israhelites dead. Notwithstondinge the hert of Pharao hardened, and he wolde not let the people goo.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses and Aaron: take youre handes full of asshes out of the [Page] fornace, and let Moses sprynkel it vp in to the ayre in the syghte of Pharao, and it shall turne to dust in all the londe of Egipte, and shal make swellynge soores with blaynes both on mā and beest in all the londe of Egipte. And they toke asshes out of the fornace, and stode before Pharao, ād Moses sprynkeld it vp in to the ayre: And there brake out soores with blaynes both in mā and beest: so that the sorcerers coude not stonde before Moses, by the reason of botches on the enchaunters and apon all the Egiptians, But the Lorde hardened the herte of Pharao, that he herkened not vnto them, as the Lorde had sayde vnto Moses.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: ryse vp early in the mornynge and stonde before Pharao and tell him, thus sayth the Lorde God of the Ebrues: Let my people goo, that they may serue me, or els I will at this tyme sende all my plages apon thine herte and apon thy servauntes and on thy people, that thou mayst knowe that there is none lyke me in all the erth. For now I will stretch out my hande and will smyte the and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perisshe from the erth. Yet in very dede for this cause haue I sterred the vpp, for to shewe my power in the, and to declare my name thorow out all the worlde.

[Page]Yf it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let them goo: beholde, tomorow this tyme I will send doune a mightie great hayle: euē soch one as was not in Egipte sence it was grounded vnto this tyme. Sende therfore and fet home thy beestes and al that thou hast in the felde, For apon all the men and beestes which are founde in the felde ād not broughte home, shall the hayle fall, ād they shall dye And as many as feared the worde of the Lorde among the servauntes of Pharao made the ir servauntes ād their beestes flee to house: and they that regarded not the worde of the Lorde, left their servauntes and their beestes in the felde.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: stretche forth thine hande vnto heauen, that there may be hayle in all the lande of Egipte: apō mā ād beest, ād apō all the herbes of the felde in the feld of Egipte. And Moses stretched out his rodd vnto heauen, and the Lorde thondered and hayled so that the fyre ran a longe vppon the grounde. And the Lorde so hayled in the lōde of Egipte, that there was hayle ād fyre mē gled with the hayle, so greuous, that there was none soch in all the londe of Egipte, sence people inhabited it.

And the hayle smote in the londe of Egipte [Page] all that was in the felde: both man and beest And the hayle smote all the herbes of the feld and broke all the trees of the felde: only in the lande of Gosan where the children of israell were, was there no hayle. And Pharao sent ād called for Moses and Aaron, and sayde vnto thē: I haue now synned, the Lorde is rightwes and I and my people are weked. Praye ye vnto the Lorde, that the thonder of God and hayle maye cease, and I will let you goo, and ye shall tarie no longer.

And Moses sayde vnto him: assoone as I am out of the citie, I will sprede abrode my handes vnto the Lorde, and the thunder shall ceasse, nether shall there be any moare hayle: that thou mayst knowe, howe that the erth ys the Lordes, But I knowe that thou and thy servauntes yet feare not the Lord God. The flaxe ād the barly were smyttē, for the barly was shott vp ād the flaxe was boulled: but the where and the rye were not smeten, for they were late sowne.

And Moses went out of the citie frō Pharao ād sprede abrode his handes vnto the Lorde, and the thunder and hayle ceased, nether rayned it any moare vppon the erth. whē Pharao sawe that the rayne and the hayle and thunder were ceased, he synned agayn ād hardened [Page] his herte: both he and his servauntes So was the herte of Pharao hardened, that he wolde not let the children of Israel goo, as the Lord had sayde by Moses.

¶ The .x. Chapter.

THe Lorde sayde vnto Moses: goo vnto Pharao, neuerthelesse I haue hardened his harte and the hertes of his servauntes, that I mighte shewe these my sygnes amongest thē and that thou tell in the audience of thy sonne and of thy sonnes sonne, the pagiantes which I haue played in Egipte ād the miracles which I haue done amonge them: that ye may knowe how that I am the Lorde.

Than Moses ād Aaron went in vnto Pharao and sayde vnto him: thus sayth the Lorde God of the Hebrues: how longe shall it be, or thou wilt submyt thy selfe vnto me? Let my people goo that they maye serue me. Yf thou wilt not let my people goo: beholde, tomorow will I brynge greshoppers in to thy lande, and they shall couer the face of the erth that it can not be sene, ād they shall eate the residue which remayneth vnto you and escaped the hayle and they shall eate all youre grene trees vpon the felde, and they shall fill thy housses and all thy servauntes housses, and the housses of all the Egiptiās after soch a maner: as nether thy [Page] fathers nor thy fathers fathers haue sene, sence the tyme they were apon the erthe vnto thys daye. And he turned him silfe aboute, ād went out from Pharao.

And Pharaos servauntes sayde vnto hym: Howe longe shall this felowe thus plage vs? Let the men goo that they maye serue the Lorde their God, or els wilt thou see Egipte first destroyed? And than Moses and Aaron were broughte agayn vnto Pharao, and he sayde vnto them: Goo and serue the Lorde youre God but who are they that shall goo? And Moses answered: we must goo with yonge and olde: ye and with oure sonnes and with oure doughters, ād with oure shepe and oxē must we goo For we must holde a feast vnto the Lorde.

And he sayde vnto them: shall it be soo? The Lorde be with you, shulde I lett you goo, and youre children also? Take heede, for ye haue so me myschefe in honde. Nay not so: but goo ye that are men and serue the Lorde, for that was youre desyre. And they thrust thē out of Pharaos presence.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Stretch out thine hande ouer the lande of Egipte for greshoppers, that they come apon the lande of Egipte and eate all the herbes of the londe, ād all that the hayle left vntouched. And Moses [Page] stretched forth his rodd ouer the londe off Egipte, ād the Lorde brought an east wynde vppō the lande, all that daye and all nyghte. And in the mornynge the east wynde broughte the greshoppers, ād the greshoppers wēt vp ouer all the lande of Egipte and lighted in all quarters off Egipte verye greuously: so that before them were there no soch greshoppers, nether after them shal be. And they couered all the face of the erth, so that the londe was darke therwith. And they ate all the herbes of the lande and all the frutes of the trees which the hayle had lefte: so that there was no grene thinge lefte in the trees and herbes of the felde thorow all the lande of Egipte.

Then Pharao called for Moses and Aarō in haste and sayde: I haue synned agaynst the Lorde youre God and agaynst you. Forgeue me yet my synne only this once, and pray vnto the Lorde youre God that he maye take away frō me this deth only. And he wēt out frō Pharao ād prayd vnto the Lorde, ād the Lord turned the wynde in to a myghtie stronge west wynde, and it toke awaye the greshoppers and cast thē in to the reed see: so that there was not one greshopper left in all the costes of Egipte But the Lorde hardened Pharaos herte, [...]o that he wold not let the childern off Israel goo

[Page]And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Stretch out thy hond vnto heauē ād let there be darcknesse vppon the londe of Egipte: euē that thei maye feale the darcknesse. And Moses stretched forth his hande vnto heauē, ād there was a darke myst vppō all the lande off Egipte. iij dayes longe so that no mā sawe another nether rose vp frō the place where he was by the space of .iij. dayes, but all the childrē of Israel had lighte where they dwelled.

Then Pharao called for Moses and sayde: goo and serue the Lorde, only let youre shepe. and youre oxen abyde, but let youre childern go with you. And Moses answered: thou must geue vs also offringes and burntoffringes for to sacrifice vnto the Lord oure God, Oure ca tell therfore shall goo with vs, and there shall not one hoos [...]e be left behinde, for therof must we take to serue the Lorde oure God. Moreouer we cānot knowe wherwith we shall serue the Lorde, vntyll we come thither.

But the Lorde hardened Pharaos herte, so that he wold not let thē goo. And Pharao sayde vnto him: get the frō me ād take heade to thy selfe that thou see my face no moare, For whē soeuer thou comest in my syghte, thou shalt dye. And Moses saide: let it be as thou hast sayde: I will see thy face no moare.

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¶ The .xj. Chapter.

ANd the Lord sayde vnto Moses: yet wil I brynge one plage moare vppon Pharao and vppon Egipte, and after that he wyll lett you goo hence. And when he letteth you goo, he shall vtterly dryue you hence. But byd the people that euery man borowe of his neghbour and euery woman of hir neghbouresse: ie wels off syluer and i [...]wels of golde. And the Lorde gatt the people fauoure in the syghte of the Egiptians. Moreouer Moses was very great in the lande of Egipte: both in the syghte of Pharao, and also in the syghte of the people.

And Moses sayde: thus sayth the Lorde. Aboute mydnyghte will I goo out amonge the Egiptians, and all the firstborne in the land of Egipte shall dye: euen from the firstborne off Pharao that sitteth on his seate, vnto the firstborne of the maydeservaunte that is in the mylle, and all the firstborne of the catell. And there shall be a great crye thorow out all the lande off Egipte: so that there was neuer none lyke nor shall be. And among all the childern of Israel shall not a dogg move his tongue, nor yet man or beest: that ye may knowe, how the Lorde putteth a difference betwene the Egiptiās and Israel. And all these thy servauntes shal come downe vnto me, and fall before me ād saye [Page] get the out and all the people that are vnder the, and than will I departe. And he went out from Pharao in a great anger.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Pharao shall not regarde you, that many wondres may be wrought in the lande of Egipte, And Moses ād Aarō dyd all these wondres before Pharao But the Lorde hardened Pharaos herte, so that he wolde not let the childern of Israel goo out of his londe.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron in the londe of Egipte saynge: This moneth shall be youre chefe moneth: euē the first moneth of the yere shal it be vnto you Speake ye unto all the felowshipe of Israel saynge: that they take the .x. daye of this monethThat I here cal ashepe is in Ebrue a vvorde indifferent to a shepe and a go [...]e both. to euery housholde, a shepe. Yf the housholde be to few for a shepe, then lett him and his neghbour that is nexte vnto his house, take acordinge to the nombre of soulles, and counte vnto a shepe acordinge to euery mans eatinge A shepe with out spott and a male of one yere olde shall it be, and from amonge the lambes ād the gootes shall ye take it.

And ye shall kepe him in warde, vntyll the xiiij. daye of the same moneth. And euery mā of the multitude of Israel shall kyll him aboute [Page] euē. And they shall take of the bloud ād strike it on the .ij. syde postes ād on the vpper dor post of the houses, wherī they eate hī. And thei shall eate the flesh the same nyght, rost with fyre, ād with vnleuēded bread, ād with sowre her bes they shall eate it. S [...] that ye eate not therof sodē in water, but rost with fyre: both head fete ād purtenance together. And se that ye let nothinge of it remayne vnto the mornynge: yf oughte remayne burne it with fyre.

Off this maner shall ye eate it: with youre loines girded, ād shoes on youre fete, ād youre staves in youre handes. And ye shall eate i [...] in haste,The la [...]be vvas [...]alled [...]. [...] [...] ▪a [...] the very [...]am [...] [...] self [...] [...]d put th [...] in remēbraunce vvh [...] [...] signified. f [...] the signes that god ordin [...]d [...] signified the benefites done, or promyses to come ād vv [...]re not do me as are the signes of oure dom [...]e▪ God the Pope. for it is the Lordes * passeouer, for I will go aboute ī the lāde of Egipte this same nyghte, ād will smyte all the firstborne in the lande off Egipte: both of mā ād d [...]st, ād apō al the goddes off Egipte will I the Lorde do execution. And the bloude shall be vnto you a tokē vppon the houses where in ye are, for whē I se the bloude, I will passe ouer you, ād the plage shall not be vppō you to destroye you, when I smyte the londe off Egipte.

And this daye shall be vnto you a remēbraunce, ād ye shall kepe it holie vnto the Lorde euen thorow out youre generacions after you shall ye kepe it holie daye, that it be a custome for euer .vij. dayes shal ye eate vnlevēded breed, [Page] so that euen the first daye ye shall put awaye leuen out off youre housses. For whosoeuer eateth leuended bread from the first daye vntyll the .vij. daye, that soule shall▪ be plucked out frō Israel. The first daye shall be a holie feast vnto you, and the. vij▪ also. There shal be no maner off worke done in thē, saue aboute that only which euery man must eate that only may ye do. And see that ye kepe you to vnleuēded breed.

For vppō that same daye I will brynge youre armyes out off the londe of Egipte, therfore ye shall obserue this daye and all youre childern after you, that yt be a custume for euer. The first moneth and the .xiiij. daye off the moneth at euen, ye shall eate swete brede vnto the .xxj. daye off the moneth at euen agayne. Seuen dayes se that there be no leuended bred foūde in youre housses. For whosoeuer eateth leuended bred, that soule shall be roted out frō the multitude of Israel: whether he be a straunger or borne in the londe. Therfore se that ye eate no leuended bred, but in all youre habitacions eate swete bred.

And Moses called for the elders off Israel and sayde vnto them: chouse our and take to euery housholde a shepe, ād kyll passeouer. And take a bunch of ysope, ād dyppe it in the bloud [Page] that is in the basyn, and stryke it vppon the vp perposte and on the .ij. syde postes, and se that none of you goo out at the doore of his house vntyll the mornynge. For the Lorde will goo aboute and smyte Egipte. And when he seyth the bloude vppon the vpper doorposte ād on the .ij. syde postes, he will passe ouer the doore and will not su [...]re the destroyer to come into youre housse to plage you. Therfore se that thou obserue this thinge, that it be an ordinaunce to the, and thy sonnes for ouer.

And when ye be come into the land which the Lorde will geue you acordinge as he hathOure signes be dōme, vve knovv not the reason of oure baptim▪ ye and vve must saye oure prayers ād oure belesse in a tō gevve vnder [...]onde not. And yet yf vve ansvvere not our prelates vvhen thei be angrie, euen as thei vvolde haue it, vve must to the fyre vvith out redemption, or forsvver god promysed, se that ye kepe this seruice. * And when youre childern axe you what maner off seruice is this ye doo. Ye shall say▪ it is the sacrifice of the Lordes passeouer which passed ouer the housses of the childern of Israel in Egipte, as he smote the Egiptians and saued oure housses. Than the people bowed them selues and worshipped. And the childern of Israel went and dyd as the Lorde had commaū ded Moses and Aaron.

And at mydnyghte the Lorde smote all the firstborne in the lōde of Egipte: from the firstborne of Pharao that satt on his seat, vnto the firstborne of the captyue that was in presone, and all firstborne of the catell. Than Pharao [Page] arose the same nyghte and al his servauntes ād all the Egiptians, and there was a great crieng thorowe out Egipte, for there was no housse where there was not one dead.

And he called vnto Moses and Aaron by nyghte saynge: Ryse vp and gett you out from amonge my people: both ye and also the children of Israel, and goo and serue the Lorde as ye haue sayde. And take youre shepe and your oxen with you as ye haue sayde, ād departe ād blesse me also. And the Egiptians were ferce vppon the people and made haste to send thē out of the lād: for they sayde: we be al deed mē And the people toke the dowe before it was sowered which they had in stoare, and bounde it in clothes ād put it vpō their shulders And the childern of Israel dyd acordinge to the saynge of Moses: ād they borowed of the Egiptians: iewels of syluer, and iewels of gold, and rayment. And the Lorde gat the people fauoure in the syghte of the Egiptians: ād so they borowed and robbed the Egiptians.

Thus toke the childern of Israel their your ney frō Raemses to suchoth .vj. hundred thou sand mē of foote, besyde childern. And moch comon people went also with thē, ād shepe ād oxen ād catell exceadinge moch. And they baked swete cakes of the dowe which thy broughte [Page] out of Egipte, for it was not sowered: because they were thrust out of Egipte and coude not tarie, nether had they prepared them any other prouision of meate.

And the tyme of the dwellinge of the childern of Israel which they dwelled in Egipte, was .iiij. hundred and .xxx. yere. And whē the iiij. hundred and .xxx. yeres were expyred, euē the selfe same daye departed all the hostes of the Lorde out of the lande of Egipte. This is a nyghte to be obserued to the Lorde, because he broughte them out of the lande of Egipte. This is a nyghte of the Lorde, to be kepte of all the childern of Israel and of their generacions after them.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses ād Aaron, this is the maner of Passeover: there shall no straunger eate there of, but all the seruauntes that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat there of. A straūger and a hyerd seruaunte shall not eate thereof. In one housse shall it be eatē. Ye shall carie none of the flesh out at the doores: moreouer, se that ye breke not a bone there of. All the multirude of the childern of Israel shall obserue it

Yf a straunger dwell amonge you ad wyll holde Passeover vnto the Lorde, let him circū cise all that be males, ād thē let him come and [Page] obserue it ād be takē as one that is borne ī the lōde. No vncircūcised persone shall eate there of. One maner of lawe shalbe vnto thē that are borne in the lōde, ād vnto the straūgers that dwell amōge you And all the childern of Israel dyd as the Lorde cōmaūded Moses ād Aarō. And euē the selfe same daye dyd the Lorde brynge the childern of Israel out of the londe of Egipte with their armies.

The .xiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: sanctifie vnto me all the firstborne that opē all maner matrices amōge the childern of Israel, as well of mē as of beestes: for they are myne. And Moses sayde vnto the people: thīke on thys daye ī which ye came out of Egipte and out of the housse of bondage: for with a myghtie hāde the Lorde broughte you out frō thēce. Se therfore that ye eate no leuen ded bred. This daye come ye out of Egipte in the moneth of Abib.

whē the Lorde hath broughte the ī to the lō de of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Heuites ād iebusites, which he sware vnto thi fathers that he wolde geue the: a londe where in milke ād honye floweth, thē se that thou kepe this servyce in this same moneth. Seuē dayes thou shalt eate swete bred, ād the .vij. daye shal be fe [...]tfull vnto the Lorde. Therfore thou [Page] shalt eate swete bred .vij. dayes, and se that there be no leuended bred sene nor yet leuē amonge you in all youre quarters.

And thou shalt shewe thy sonne at that tymeThe fathers novv a dayes maye not be s [...]fied to knovv ought of God them selves, hovv can they then teach their childern vvhat the ceremonie meaneth. saynge: this is done, because of that which the Lorde dyd vnto me when I came out of Egipte. Therfore it shall be a signe vnto the vppon thine hande and a remembraunce betwene thine eyes, that the Lordes lawe maye be in thy mouth. For with a stronge hāde the Lorde broughte the out of Egipte, se thou kepe therfore this ordinaūce in his season from yere to yere.

Moreouer when the Lorde hath broughte the in to the londe of the Canaanytes, as he hath sworne vnto the and to thi fathers, and hath geuen it the, thē thou shalt appoynte vnto the Lorde all that openeth the matrice, and all the firstborne among the beestes which thou hast yf they be males. And all the firstborne of the asses, thou shalt redeme with a shepe: yf thou redeme him not, then breake hys necke. But all the firstborne amonge thi childern shalt thou bye out.

And when thi sonne axeth the in tyme to comeTeach youre chyldern. saynge: what is this? thou shalt saye vnto him: with a mightie hande the Lorde broughte us out of Egipte, out of the housse of bondage. [Page] And when Pharao was looth to lete us goo, the Lorde slewe all the firstborne in the lande of Egipte: as well the firstborne of men as of beastes. And therfore I sacrifice vnto the Lorde all the males that open the matrice, but all the firstborne of my childern I must redeme. And this shall be as a token in thine hande, and as a thinge hanged vpp betwene thine eyes: because the Lorde broughte us out of Egipte with a mightie hande.

when Pharao had let the people goo, God caried them not thorow the londe of the Philistines, though it were a nye waye. For God sayde: the people myghte happly repent when they se warre, and so turne agayne to Egipte: therfore God led thē aboute thorow the wyldernesse that bordreth on the redd see. The childern of Israel went harnessed out of the lā de of Egipte. And Moses toke the bones of Ioseph with him: for he made the childern of Israel swere saynge: God will surely vyset you, take my bones therfore away hence with you,

And they toke their iorney from Suchoth: and pitched their tentes in Etham in the edge of the wyldernesse. And the Lorde went before them by daye in a piler of a cloude to lede them the waye: and by nyghte in a piler of fyre to geue thē lighte. that they myghte goo both [Page] by day ādnyghte. And the piler of the cloude neuer departed by daye nor the piler of fyre by nyghte out of the peoples sighte.

The .xiiij. Chapter.

THan the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: byd the childern of Israel that they turne and pytch their tentes before the entrynge of Hiroth betwene Migdole and the s [...] toward Baal zephon: euen before that shall ye pytch apon the see. For Pharao will saye of the childern of Israel: they are tāgled in the lōd the wildernesse hath shott thē in. And I will hardē his harte, that he shall folowe after thē, that I maye gett me honoure vppō Pharao ād vppō all his hoste. that the Egiptians maye knowe that I am the Lorde. And they dyd euen so.

And whē it was tolde the kynge of Egipte that the people fled, thā Pharaos harte and all his seruaūtes turned vnto the people ād. sayde why haue we this done, that we haue let Israel go out of oure seruyce? and he made redie his charettes ād toke his people with hym ād toke vi. hūdred chosen charettes ād all the charettes of Egipte ād captaynes vppō all his people. For the Lorde hardened the harte of Pharao kynge of Egipte that he folowed after the childern of Israel which for all that went out thorow an hye hāde, And the Egiptiās folowed [Page] after thē ād ouertoke thē where they pitched by the see, with all the horsses ād charettes of Pharao ād with his horssemē ād his hoste: euē fast by the entrynge of Hiroth before Baal Zephon. And Pharao drewenye, ād whē the childern of Isreal lyft vp their eyes and sawe how the Egiptiās folowed after thē, they were sore a fraide ād cried out vnto the Lorde

Thā sayde they vnto Moses? were there no* graues for us in Egipte, but thou must bringe us awaye for to dye in the wyldernesse? wherfore hast thou serued us thus, for to carie us out of Egipte? Dyd not we tell the this in Egipte saynge, let us be in rest and serue the Egiptians? For it had bene better for us to haue serued the Egiptians, than for to dye in the wildernesse. And Moses sayde vnto the people: feare ye not but stonde still and beholde how the Lorde shall saue you this daye: For as ye se the Egiptians this daye, shall ye see them nomore for euer till the worldes ende. The Lorde shall fighte for you and ye shall holde youre peace.

The Lorde sayde vnto Moses: wherfore criest thou vnto me? speake vnto the childern of Israel that they goo forwarde. But lifte thou vp thi rodd and stretch out thi hande ouer the see and deuyde it a sondre, that [Page] the childern of Israel may goo on drye groū de thorow the myddest thereof. And beholde I will harden the hertes of the Egiptians that they maye folowe you. And I will gett me honoure vpon Pharao and vpon all his hoste, vpon his charettes ād vpon his horse mē. And the Egiptians shall knowe that I am the Lord whan I haue gotten me honoure vpō Pharao vpon his charettes and vpon his horsemen.

And the angell of God which went before the hoste of Israel, remoued ād went behinde them. And the cloudēpiler that was before them remoued ād stode behinde them ād wēt betwene the hoste of the Egiptians ād the hoste of Israel. Yt was a darke clowde, and gaue lighte by nyghte: so that all the nyghte long the one coude not come at the other.

when now Moses stretched forth his honde ouer the see, the Lorde caried awaye the see with a stronge east wynde that blewe all nyghte, and made the see drie londe ād the water deuyded it silfe. And the childern of Israel went in thorow the myddest of the see vppon the drie grounde. And the water was a walle vnto them, both on their righthande ād on the ir lefte hande. And the Egiptians folowed ād went in after them to the myddest of the see, with all Pharaos horses, and his charettes and [Page] his horssemen.

And in the mornynge watch, the Lorde loked vnto the hoste of the Egiptiās out of the fyery and clowdie piler, and troubled their hoste and smote of their charett wheles and cast them doune to the grounde. Than sayde the Egiptians: Let vs fle from Israel, for the Lorde fyghteth for them agaynst vs. Than sayde the Lorde vnto Moses: stretch out thine hand ouer the see, that the water maye come agayne vppō the Egiptians vppon their charettes ād horsemen.

Than stretched forth Moses his hande ouer the see, and it came agayne to his course erly ī the mornīg, ād the Egiptiās fledd agaynst it. Thus the Lorde ouerthrewe the Egiptians in the middest of the see, ād the water returned and couered the charettes and the housemē: so that of all the hoste of Pharao that came in to the see after them, there remayned not one. But the children of Israel went vpon drie lō de in the myddest of the see, ād the water was a walle vnto them: both on the righte hand of them and also on the lifte.

Thus the Lorde delyuered Israel the selfe same daye out of the honde of the Egiptians, and Israell sawe the Egiptians deade vpō the see syde. And when Israel sawe that myghtye [Page] hande which the Lorde had shewed vppō the Egiptians, they feared the Lorde: and beleued both the Lorde and also his servaunte Moses

¶The .xv. Chapter.

THen Moses and the childern off Israel sange this songe vnto the Lord ād saide

Let vs synge vnto the Lorde, for he is become glorious, the horse and him that rode vpon him hath he ouerthrowne in the see.

The Lorde is my strength ād my songe, ād is become my saluation.

He is my God and I will glorifie him, he is my fathers God and I will lifte him vp an hie

The Lorde is a mā off warre, Iehouah y [...] his name: Pharaos charettes ād his hoste hath he cast in to the see.

His iolye captaynes are drowned in thered see, the depe waters haue couered them: thei soncke to the botome as a stone.

Thine hande Lorde is glorious in power, thine hād Lord hath all to dashed the enemye.

And with thy great glorie thou hast destroyed thine aduersaries, thou sentest forth thy wrath ād it consumed them: euē as stobell.

With the breth off thine anger the water gathered together and the flodes stode fiyll as a rocke ad the depe water congeled together in the myddest off the see.

[Page]The enymye sayde, I will folowe and ouertake thē ād will deuyde the spoyle: I will satysfie my lust apon thē: I will drawe my swerde and myne hande shall destroye them.

Thou bluest with thy breth ād the see couered thē, and they sanke as leed in the myghtye waters. ¶who is like vnto the o Lord amōge goddes: who is like the so glorious in holynes feerfull, laudable ād that shewest wondres?

Thou stretchedest ou [...] thy righte hande▪ ād the erth swalowed them.

And thou cariedest with thy mercie this people which thou deliueredest, ād broughtest thē with thy strength vnto thy holie habitacion.

The nations herde ād were afrayde, pāges came vpon the Philistines.

Thā the dukes of the Edomites were amased, ād trēblinge came apon the myghtiest off the M [...]abites, and all the inhabiters of Canaā waxed faynte harted.

Let feare and dreade fall apon thē thorow the greatnesse off thyne arme, and let them be as styll as a stone, while thy people passe thorow o Lorde while the people passe thorowe, which thou hast goten.

Brynge them in and plante them in the mountayns of thine enherytaūce, the place Lorde whyche thou hast made for the to dweld in [Page] the sanctuarye Lorde which thy handes haue prepared.

The Lorde raygne euer and allwaye.

For Pharao wēt in an horsebacke wyth his charettes and horsemen in to the see, and the Lorde broughte the waters of the see apō thē. And the childern of Israel went on drie lande thorow the myddest of the see.

And mir Iam a prophetisse the sister of Aaron toke a tymbrell in hir hande, and all the wemen came out after her with tymbrells in a daunse. And mir Iam sange before them: syng ye vnto the Lorde, for he is become glorious in deade: the horse and his ryder hath he ouerthrowne in the see.

Moses broughte Israel from the redd see, ād they went out in to the wildernesse of Sur.

And they went thre dayes longe in the wildernesse ād coude finde no water. At the last they came to Mara: but they coude not drynke off the waters for bitternesse, for they were better▪ therfore the name of the place was called Mara. Then the people murmured agaynst Moses saynge▪ what shall we drinke? And Moses cried vnto the Lorde and he shewed him a tre▪ and he cast it in to the water, and they waxed swete.

There he made them an ordinaunce and a [Page] lawe, and there he tempted them and saide: Yf ye will herken vnto the voyce of the Lord youreVve must do that vvhich is right in gods sight ād as his vvorde reach eth vs and no [...] aftir our avvne imaginac. [...] o [...]. God, and will do that which is righte in his syght and will geue an [...]are vnto his cōmaūdmentes, and kepe all his ordinaunces: thā will I put none of this diseases apon the whiche I brought vpon the Egiptiās: for I am the Lorde thy surgione.

¶The .xvj. Chapter.

ANd they came to Elim where were. xij welles of water and .lxx. date trees, and they pitched there by the water. And they toke their yourney frō Elim, and all the hole cōpanye of the childern of Israell came to the wildernesse of Sin, which lieth betwene Elim ād Sinai: the .xv. daye of the seconde moneth after that they were come out of the lande of Egipte. And the hole multitude of the childern* of Israel murmured agaynst Moses ād Aarō in the wildernesse and sayde vnto them: wold to God we had dyed by the hande of the Lorde in the lande of Egipte, when we satt by the flessh pottes and ate bred oure belies full for ye haue broughte vs out in to this wildernesse to kyll this hole multitude for honger.

Than sayde the Lorde vnto Moses: beholde, I will rayne bred frō heauē doune to you, ād let the people goo out ād gather daye by daye, [Page] that I maye proue thē whether they wil walke in my lawe or no. The .vj. daye let thē prepare that which they will brīge in, ād let it be twise as moch as they gather in dayly. And Moses ād Aarō sayde vnto all the childerē of Israel: at euen he shall knowe that it is the Lorde, which broughte you out of the lāde of Egipte ād in the mornynge ye shall se the glorie of the Lorde: because he hath herde youre grudgynges agaynst the Lorde: for what are we that ye shuld murmure against vs. And moreouer spake Moses. At euē the Lorde will geue you flesh to eate ād in the mornynge bred ynough▪ because the Lord hath herde youre murmur whiche ye murmur agaynst hī: for what ar we? youre murmurynge is not agaynst vs, but agaynst the Lorde.

And Moses spake vnto Aarō: Say vnto all the cōpanye of the childerē of Israel, come forth before the Lorde, for he hath herde youre grudgīges. And as Aarō spake vnto the hole multitude of the childerē of Israel, they loked toward the wildernesse. ād beholde, the glorie of the Lord apeared ī a clowde. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayng: I haue herde the murm [...]rīg of the childrē of Israel, tell thē therfore ād saye that at euē they shall eate flesh, ādi the morninge they shall be filled with bred, ād [Page] ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde youre god

And at euē the quayles came ād couered the groūde where they laye. And in the mornynge the dewe laye rounde aboute the hoste. And whē the dewe was fallē: behold, it laye apō the grounde in the wildernesse, small ād roūde ād thyn as the hore frost on the groūde. when the childrē of Israel sawe it, they sayde one to another: what is this? for they wist not what it was And Moses sayde: this is the breed which the Lorde hath geuē you to eate. This is the thinge which the Lord hath cōmaūded, that ye gather euery mā ynough for hī to eate: a gomer full for a mā acordīge to the nōbre off you, ād gather euery mā for thē which are in his tente.

And the childern of Israel dyd euen so, ād gathered some more some lesse, and dyd mete it with a gomer. And vnto him that had gathered moch remayned nothinge ouer, ād vnto hī that had gathered litle was there no lacke: but euery mā had gathered sufficiēt for his eatinge. And Moses sayde vnto them. Se that no mā let oughte remayne of it tyll the morninge. Notwithstondinge they harkened not vnto Moses: but some of thē lefte of it vntyll the mornynge, and it waxte full of wormes ād st [...] ke and Moses was angrie wyth them.

And they gathered it all mornīges: euery mā [Page] as moch as suffised for his eatinge, for as sone as the hete of the sonne came it moulte. And the .vj. daye they gathered twise so moch bred: ij. gomers for one mā, ād the ruelars of the multitude came ād tolde Moses. And he sayde vnto thē, this is that which the Lorde hath sayde tomorow is the Sabbath of the holie rest of the Lord: bake that which ye will bake ād seth that ye will seth, ād that which remayneth say vp for you ād kepe it till the mornynge. And they layde it vp till the mornynge as Moses bad [...] it stāke not nether was there any wormes th [...] And Moses sayde: that eate this daye: for to [...] ye it is the Lordes Sabbath: to daye ye sh [...] [...] de none in the feld, Sixte dayes ye shall gather it, for the, vij. is the sabbath: there shal be none there in.

Notwithstondinge there went out of the people in the seuenth daye for to gather: but they founde none. Thē the Lorde seyde vnto Moses: how longe shall it be, yer ye will kepe my cōmaundmētes ād lawes? Se because the Lorde hath geuē you a Sabbath, therfor he geueth you the .vj. daye bred for .ij. dayes. Byde therfore euery mā athome, ād let no mā go out of his place the seuenth daye. And the people rested the seuenth daye. And the housse of Israel called it Man, And it was lyke vnto Coriander [Page] seed and white, and the taste of it was lyke vnto wafers made with honye.

And Moses sayde: this is that which theReliques ought to be but a remembraunce only. Lorde commaundeth: fyll a Gomor of it, that it maye be kepte for youre childern after you: that they maye se the bred wherewith he fedd you in wyldernesse, when he had broughte you out of the lande of Egipte. And Moses spake vnto Aaron: take a cruse and put a Gomer [...]ull of man therin, and laye it vppe before the Lorde to be kepte for youre childern after you as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And Aaron layed it vppe before the testimonye there to be kepte.

And the childern of Israel ate man .xl. yere vntill they came vnto a lande inhahited. And so they ate Man, euen vntill they came vnto the bordres of the lāde of Canaan, And a Gomer is the tenth parte of an Epha.

The .xvij. Chapter.

ANd all the companye of the childern of Israel went on their iourneys from the wildernesse of Sin at the commaundment of the Lorde, and pitched in Raphidim: where was no water for the people to drynke. And the people chode with Moses and sayde: geue us water to drynke. And Moses sayde vnto* them: why chyde ye with me, and wherfore do [Page] ye tempte the Lorde? There the people thyrsted* for water, and murmured agenst Moses ād sayde: wherfore hast thou broughte us out of Egipte, to kyll us and oure childern and oure catell with thyrste?

And Moses cried vnto the Lorde saynge what shal I do vnto this people? they be al most redye to stone me. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: goo before the people, and take with the of the elders of Israel: ād thi rod wherwith thou smotest the riuer, take in thine hande and goo. Beholde, I will stonde there before the vppon a rocke in Horeb: and thou shalt smyte the rocke, ād there shall come water out there of, that the people maye drynke. And Moses dyd euen so before the elders of Israel And he called the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the chidynge of the childern of Israel, and because they tempted the Lorde saynge: ys the Lorde amonge us or not?

Then came Amalech ād foughte with Israel in Raphidim. And Moses sayde vnto Iosua: chose out men and goo fighte with Amelech Tomorow I will stonde on the toppe of the hyll and the rodd of God in myne hande. And Iosua dyd as Moses bade him, and foughte with the Amalechites. And Moses, Aaron [Page] and Hur went vp to the toppe of the hyll. And when Moses helde vp his hande, Israel had the better. And when he late his hande doune, Amelech had the better.

when Moses handes were weery, they toke a stone and put it vnder him, and he satt doune there on. And Aaron and Hur stayed vpp his handes the one on the one syde and the other on the other syde. And his handes were stedie vntill the sonne was doune. And Iosua discomfeted Amalech ād his people with the edge of his swerde.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: write this for a remembraunce in a boke and tell it vnto Iosua, for I will put out the remembraunce of Amalech from vnder heauen. And Moses made an alter ād called the name of it *Iehouah Nissi, for he sayde: the hande is onIehouah nissi the Lorde is he that exalte [...] me. the seate of the Lorde, that the Lorde will haue warre with Amalech thorow out all generations.

The .xviij. Chapter.

IEthro the prest of Madian Moses father in lawe herde of all that God had done vnto Moses and to Israel his people, how that the Lorde had broughte Israel out of Egipte. And he toke Ziphora Moses wyfe, [Page] after she was sente backe, and hir .ij. sonnes, of which the one was called Gerson, for he sayde: I haue bene an alient in a straunge lande. And the other was called Eliesar: for the God of my father was myne helpe ād delyuered me from the swerde of Pharao.

And Iethro Moses father in lawe came wyth his two sonnes and his wife vnto Moses in to the wildernesse: where he had pitched his tente by the mounte of God. And he sent worde to Moses: I thi father in law Iethro am come to the, and thi wyfe also, and hir two sonnes with her. And Moses went out to mete his father in lawe and dyd obeyssaunce and kyssed him, and they saluted etch other ād came in to the tente.

And Moses tolde his father in lawe all that the Lorde had done vnto Pharao and to the Egiptians for Israels sake, and all the trauayle that had happened them by the waye, and how the Lorde had delyuered them. And Iethro reioesed ouer all the good which the Lorde had done to Israel, and because he had delyuered them out of the hande of the Egiptians. And Iethro sayde: blessed be the Lorde which hath delyuered you out of the hande of the Egiptians ād out of the hande of Pharao, which hath delyuered his people from vnder the power of [Page] the Egiptians. Now I knowe that the Lorde is greater thē all goddes, for because that they dealte prowdly with them. And Iethro Moses father in lawe offred burntoffrynges and sacrifyces vnto God. And Aaron and all the elder [...] of Israel came to eate bred with Moses father in lawe before God.

And it chaunched on the morow, that Moses satt to iudge the people, and the people stode aboute Moses from mornynge vnto euen. when his father in lawe sawe all that he dyd vnto the people, he sayde: what is this that thou doest vnto the people? why syttest thou thi self and lettest all the people stonde aboute the frō mornynge vnto euen? And Moses sayde vnto his father in lawe: because the people came vnto me to seke councell of God. For whē they haue a matter, they come vnto me, and I must iudge betwene euery man and his neyboure, and must shewe them the ordinaūces of God and his lawes.

And his father in lawe sayde vnto him: it is not well that thou dost. Thou doest vnwysely and also this people that is with the: because the thinge is to greuons for the, and thou art not able to do it thi selfe alone. But heare my royce, and I will geue the councell, and God shalbe with the. Be thou vnto the people to [Page] Godwarde, and brynge the causes vnto God and prouyde them ordinaunces and lawes, [...]d shewe them the waye wherin they must walke and the werkes that they must doo.

Morouer seke out amonge all the people, men of actiuite * which feare God and menOure prelates nether feare God, for they preach not his vvor de true ly [...]ner are lesse cove touse thē ludas: for they haue rece [...] [...]ed of the de v [...]ll the kyng dames of the [...]h and the [...]rie there [...] vvhich christ refused Mathe [...]4 that are true ād hate covctuousnes: and make them heedes ouer the people, captaynes ouer thousandes, ouer hundredes, ouer fyftie, and ouer ten. And let them iudge the people at all seasons: Yf there beany greate matter, let them brynge that vnto the, and let them iudge all small causes them selues, and ease thi selfe, ād let them bere with the. Yf thou shalt doo this thinge, then thou shalt be able to endure that which God chargeth the with all, and all this people shall goo to their places quietly.

And Moses herde the voyce of his father in lawe, and dyd all that he had sayde, and chose actyue men out of all Israel and made them heedes ouer the people, captaynes ouer thousandes, ouer hundreds, ouer fiftie and ouer ten And they iudged the people at all seasons, ād broughte the harde causes vnto Moses: and iudged all small maters them selues. And th [...] Moses let his father in lawe departe, and he went in to his awne londe.

The .xix. Chapter.

[Page]THe thyrde moneth after the childern of Israel were gone out of Egipte: the same daye they came in to the wildernesse of Sinai. For they were departed from Raph [...] dim, and were come to the deserte of Sinay and had pitched their tentes in the wildernesse. And there Israel pitched before the mounte. And Moses went vpp vnto God.

And the Lorde called to him out of the mountayne saynge: thus saye vnto the housse of lacob and tell the childern of Israel, ye haue sene what I dyd vnto the Egiptians and how I toke you vpp apon Egles wynges, and haue broughte you vnto my selfe. Now therfore yf ye will heare my voyce and kepe myne appoyntment: ye shall be myne awne aboue all nations, for all the erth is myne. Ye shall be vnto me a kyngdome of preastes and and holie people: these are the wordes which thou shalt saye vnto the childern of Israel.

And Moses came and called for the elders of Ifrael, and layde before them all these wordes which the Lorde had comma unded him. And the people answered all together and sayde: All that the Lorde hath sayde, we will doo. And Moses broughte the wordes of the people vnto the Lorde. [Page] And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Loo, I will come vnto the in a thicke clowde, that the people maye heare when I talke with the and also beleue the for euer. And Moses shewed the wordes of the people vnto the Lorde

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Go vnto the people and sanctific them to daye and tomorow, and let them wash their clothes: that they maye be redie agaynst the thyrde daye. For the thyrde daye the Lorde will come doune in the sighte of all the people vpon mounte Sinai. And sett markes rounde aboute the people and saye: beware that ye go not vp in to the mounte and that ye twych not the bordres of it. for whosoeuer twicheth the mounte, shall surely dye There shall not an hande twych it, but that he shall ether be stoned or els shot thorow: whether it be beest or man, it shall nor lyue. when the horne bloweth: than let thē come vp in to the mounten

And Moses went doune from the mounte vnto the people and sanctifyed them, ād they wasshed their clothes: And he sayde vnto the people be redie agenst the thirde daye, and se that ye come not at youre wiues. And the thirde daye in the mornynge there was thunder, and lightenynge and a thicke clowde apō the mounte, ād the voyce of the horne waxed [...]ceadynge [Page] lowde, and all the people that was in the hoste was afrayde. And Moses brought the people out of the tētes to mete with God. and they stode vnder the hyll.

And mounte Sinai was all togither on a smoke: because the Lorde descended doune vpon it in fyre. And the smoke therof ascēded vp, as it had bene the smoke of a kylle, and all the mounte was exceadinge fearfull. And the voyce of the horne blewe and waxed lowder, ād lowder. Moses spake, ād God answered hī ād that with a voyce. And the Lord came doune vppon mounte Sinai: euen in the toppe of the hyll, ād called Moses vp in to the toppe of the hyll. And Moses went vppe.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: go doune and charge the people that they prease not vp vnto the Lorde for to se hī, ād so many off thē perissn. And let the preastes also which come to the Lordes presence, sanctifie them selues: lest the Lorde smyte them, Then Moses sayde vnto the Lorde: the people cannot come vp in to mounte Sinai, for thou chargedestrs saynge: sett markes aboute the hyll and sanctifie it.

And the Lorde sayde vnto him: awaye, and get the doune: and come vp both thou ād Aaron with the. But let not the preastes and the [Page] people presume for to come vp vnto the Lorde: lest he smyte them. And Moses wēt doune vnto the people and tolde them.

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

ANd God spake all these wordes ād saide I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought the out of the londe of Egipte ād out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt haue none other goddes in my syght.

Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage, nether any symilitude that is in heauen aboue, ether in the erth beneth, or in the water that ys beneth the erth. Se that thou nether bowe thyself vnto them nether serue them: for I the Lorde thy God, am a gelouse God, and viset the synne of the fathers vppon the childern vnto the third and fourth generacion of thē that hate me: and yet shewe mercie vnto thousandes amonge them that loue me and kepe my commaundmentes.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne, for the Lord wil not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne.

Remēbre the Sabbath daye that thou sanctifie it. Sixe dayes mayst thou laboure ād do al that thou hast to doo: but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God, in it thou [Page] shalt do no maner worke: nether thou nor thy sonne, nor thy doughter, nether thy manservaunte nor thy maydeservaunte, nether thy catell nether yet the straunger that is within thi gates For in sixe dayes the Lorde made both heauen and erth and the see and all that in them is and rested the seuenth daye: wherfore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath daye and halowed it.

Honoure thy father ād thy mother, that thy dayes may be lōge in the lōde which the Lorde thy God geueth the.

Thou shalt not kyll.

Thou shalt not breake wedlocke.

Thou shalt not steale.

Thou shalt bere no false witnesse agēst thy neghboure

Thou shalt not couet thy neghbours housse: nether shalt couet thy neghbours wife, his mā servaunte, his mayde, his oxe, his asse or oughte that is his.

And all the people sawe the thunder ād theThe [...]avve causeth vvrath ād maketh a mā fle from God: but the Gospell dravveth ād maketh a mā bolde to come vnto God. lyghteninge and the noyse of the horne, ād howe the mountayne smoked. And whē the people sawe it, they remoued ād stode a ferre of ād saide vnto Moses: talke thou with vs and wewil heare: but let not god talke with vs, lest we dye. And Moses sayde vnto the people feare not, for God is come to proue you, and [Page] that his feare maye be amonge you that ye synne not.

And the people stode a ferre of, ād Moses went in to the thicke clowde where God was And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: thus thou shalt saye vnto the childern of Israel: Ye haue sene how that I haue talked with you from out of heauen. Ye shal not make therfore with me goddes of syluer nor goddes of golde: in no wyse shall ye do it. An alter of erth thou shalt make vnto me ād there on offer thy burntoffe ringes ād thy peaceoffringes, and thy shepe ād thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remēbraunce of my name, thither I will come vnto the and blesse the.

But and yf thou wilt make me an alter off stone, se thou make it not of hewed stone, for yf thou lyfte vp thy tole vpon it, thou shalt polute it. Moreouer thou shalt not goo vp wyth steppes vnto myne alter, that thy nakednesse be not shewed there on.

The .xxj. Chapter.

THese are the lawes which thou shalt setLavves before thē. Yf thou bye a servaunte thatB [...]deme [...] is an hebrue, sixte yeres he shall serue, and the seuenth he shall goo out fre paynge nothinge. Yf he came alone, he shall goo out alone: Yf he came maried, his wife shall go out with hī. [Page] And yf his master haue geuen him a wife and she haue borne him sonnes or doughters: then the wife and hir childern shalbe hir masters ād he shall goo out alone. But and yf the servaunte saye I loue my master and my wife and my children, I will not goo out fre. Then let his master bringe him vnto the Goddes ād setGoddes are the iudges vvhiche are in gods stede. him to the doore or the dorepost, ād bore his eare thorow with a naule, ād let him be his servaunte for euer.

Yf a man sell his doughter to be a servaunte: she shall not goo out as the men servauntes doo. Yf she please not hir master, so that he hath geuen her to no man to wife, then shal he let hir goo fre: to sell her vnto a straunge nacion shal he haue no power, because he despised her. Yf he haue promysed her vnto his sonne to wife, he shal deale with her as men do with their doughters. Yf he take him another wife, yet hir fode, rayment and dutie off mariage shall he not mynisshe. Yf he do not these thre vn to her, then shall she goo out fre and paye no money.

He that smyteth a man that he dye, shalbeMurther slayne for it. Yf a mā laye not awayte but God delyuer him in to his hande, then I wyll poynte the a place whether he shall fle. Yf a man come presumptuously vppon his neyghboure ād [Page] slee him with gile, thou shalt take him fro myneBut the pope saith come to [...]yne altare. alter that he dye. And he that smyteth his father or his mother, shall dye for i [...] ▪

He that stealeth a mā ād selleth him (yf it be proued vppon hym) shall be s [...]ayn [...] for it. And he that curseth his father or mother, shall be put to deth for it. Yf men stryue together and one smyte another with a stone or with his fyste, so that he dye not, but lyeth in bedd: yf he ryse agayne and walke without vpon his [...]ta [...]fe then shall he that smote hī goo quyte: saue only he shal bere his charges while he laye in bed and paye for his healinge.

Yf a man smyte his servaunte or his mayde with a staffe that they dye vnder his hande, it shalbe auenged. But ād yf they contynue a daye or two, it shall not be auenged for they are his money.

when men stry [...]e and smyte a woman with childe so that hir frute departe from her and yet no mysfortune foloweth: then shall he be mersed, acordynge as the womans husbonde will laye to his charge, and he shall paye as the dayesmen appoynte him. But and yf any mysfortune folowe, then shall he paye lyfe for lyfe, eye for eye, toth for toth, hande for hande, fote for fote, burnynge for burnynge, wonde for [Page] wonde and strype for strype.

Yf a man smyte his servaunte or his mayde in the eye and put it out, he shall let thē goo fre for the eyes sake. Also yf he smyte out hys servauntes or his maydes toth, he shall let thē go out fre for the tothes sake.God so abhorreth murther, that the vnreso [...]able bestes must dye therfore. and there flesh cast avvay

Yf an oxe gore a man or a woman that they dye, then the oxe shalbe stoned, and hys flesh shall not be eaten: and his master shall go quyte.

Yf the oxe were wont to runne at men in tyme past and it hath bene tolde his master, and he hath not kepte him, but that he hath kylled a man or a woman: then the oxe shalbe stoned and hys master shall dye also.

Yf he be sett to a summe off money, then he shall geue for the delyueraunce off his lyfe, acordynge to all that is put vnto him.

And whether he hath gored a sonne or a doughter, he shalbe serued after the same maner But yf it be a servaunt or a mayde that the oxe hath gored, then he shall geue vnto their master the summe of. xxx sicles, ād the oxe shall bestoned.

Yf a man open a well or dygge a pytt and couer it not, but that an oxe or an asse fall theryn / the owner off the pytte shall make [Page] it good and geue money vnto their master, and the dead beest shalbe his.

Yf one mans oxe hurte anothers that he dye: then they shall sell the lyue oxe and deuyde the money, and the deed oxe also they shall deuyde. But and yf it be knowne that the oxe hath vsed to pusshe in tymes past, then because his master hath not kepte hī, he shall paye oxe for oxe. and the deed shalbe his awne.

¶ The .xxij. Chapter

YF a man steake an oxe or shepe ād kylleThe [...]e. it or selle it, he shall restore .v. oxen for an oxe, and .iiij. shepe for a shepe.

Yf a thefe be founde breakynge vpp ād be smytten that he dye, there shall no bloude be shed for him: excepte the sonne be vpp when he is founde, then there shalbe bloude shed for him,

A thefe shall make restitucyon: Yf he haue not wherewith, he shalbe solde for his thefte. Yf the thefte be founde in his hande alyue (whether it be oxe, asse or shepe) he shall restore double.

Yf a man do hurte felde or vyneyarde, so that he put in his beest to fede in another mans felde: off the best off hys owne felde, [Page] and of the best of his awne vyneyarde, shall he make restitueyon.

Yf fyre breake out and catch in the thornes, so that the stoukes of corne or the stōdyn ge corne or felde be consumed therwith: he that kynled the fyre shall make restitucyon.

Yf a man delyuer his neghboure money or stuffe to kepe, and it be stolen out of his housse: Yf the thefe be foūde, he shal paye double Yf the thefe be not founde, then the goodmā of the housse shalbe brought vnto the goddes and swere, whether he haue put his hande vnto his neghbours good.

And in all maner of trespace, whether it be oxe, asse, shepe, rayment or ony maner lost thynge which another chalēgeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the goddes. And whom the goddes condēne: the same shall paye double vnto his neghboure.

Yf a man delyuer vnto his neghboure to kepe, asse, oxe, shepe or what soeuer beest it be and it dye or be hurte or dryuen awaye and no man se it: then shall an othe of the Lorde goo betwene them, whether he haue put his hande vnto his neghbours good, and the owner of it shall take the othe, and the other shall not make it good: Yf it be stollen from him, then he shall make restitucion vnto the owner: Yf [Page] it be torne with wylde beestes, thē let him bringe recorde of the teerynge: and he shall not make it good.

when a man boroweth oughte of his neghbour yf it be hurte or els dye, and yf the owner therof be not by, he shall make it good: Yf the owner there of be by, he shall not make it good namely yf it be an hyred thinge ād came for hyre.

Yf a man begyle a mayde that is not betrouthed and lye with her, he shall endote her and take her to his wife: Yf hir father refuse to geue her vnto him, he shall paye money acordynge to the dowrie of virgens.

Thou shalt not suftre a witch to lyue, whovvyches soeuer lyeth with a beest, shalbe slayne for it. He that offreth vnto ony goddes saue vnto the Lorde only, let him dye without redemption vexe not a straunger nether oppresse him for ye were straungers in the londe of Egipte.

Ye shall trouble no wedowe nor fatherlesse childe: * Yf ye shall trouble thē: they shall crye vnto me, ād I wyll surely heare their cryeLet all oppressars of the pore [...]ake hede to this texte. and then will my wrath waxe hoote and I will kyll you with swerde, and youre wyues shalbe wedowes and youre childern fatherlesse.

[Page]Yf thou lende money to ani of my peopleLend that is poore by the, thou shalt not be as an vsurer vnto him, nether shalt oppresse him with vserye.

Yf thou take thi neghbours raymēt to pledge,Plegge. se that thou delyuer it vnto him agayne by that the sonne goo doune. For that is his couerlet only: euē the rayment for his skynne wherin heslepeth: or els he will crye vnto me ād I will heare him, for I am mercyfull.

Thou shalt not rayle vppon the goddes, netherGoddes. curse the ruelar of thi people.

Thy frutes (whether they be drye or moyst) se thou kepe not backe. Thi firstborne sonne thou shalt geue me: likewise shalt thou doo of thine oxen and of thy shepe. Seuen dayes it shall be with the dame, and the .viij. daye thou shalt geue it me.

Ye shalbe holye people vnto me, and therfore shall ye eate no flesh that is torne of beestes in the feld. But shall cast it to dogges.

The .xxiij. Chapter.

THou shalt not accepte a vayne tale, netherFalse vvitnesse. shalt put thine hande with the wiked to be an vnrightous witnesse:

Thou shalt not folowe a multitude to do euell: nether answere in a mater of plee that thou woldest to folow many turne a sydefrom [Page] the trueth, nether shalt thou paynte a porre mans cause.

whē thou metest thine enimies oxe or asse goynge a straye, thou shalt brynge thē to him agayne.

Yf thou se thine enimies asse synke vnder his burthen, thou shalt not passe by and let him alone: but shalt helpe him to lyfte him vp agayne.

Thou shalt not hynder the righte of the poore that are amonge you in their sute.

Kepe the ferre from a false mater, and the Innocent and righteous se thou sley not, for I will not iustifye the weked.

Thou shalt take no giftes, for giftes blynde the seynge and peruerte the wordes of theGyftes. righteous.

Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger, for IStraunger. knowe the herte of straunger, because ye were straungers in Egipte.

Sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thi londe ād gather in the frutes theroff: and the seuenth yere thou shalt let it rest and lye styll, that the poore of thi people maye eate, and what they leaue, the beestes of the felde shall eate: In like maner thou shalt do with thi vyneyarde ād thine olyue trees.

Sixe dayes thou shalt do thi worke ād the [Page] seuenth daye thou shalt kepe holie daye, that thyne oxe and thine asse maye rest ād the sonne of thi mayde and the straunger maye be refresshed.

And in all thinges that I haue sayde vnto you be circumspecte.

And make no rehersall of the names of straunge goddes, nether let any man heare thē out of youre mouthes.

Thre feastes thou shalt holde vnto me in a yere. Thou shalt kepe the feast of swete bred that thou eate vnleuend bred .vij. dayes Iōge as I cōmaunded the in the tyme appoynted of the moneth of Abib, for in that moneth thou camest out of Egipte: ād se that noman appeare before me emptie. And the feast of Heruest, when thou reapest the firstfrutes of thy laboures which thou hast sowne in the felde. And the feast of ingaderynge, in the ende of the yere: when thou hast gathered in thy laboures out of the felde.

Thre tymes in a yere shall all thy menchildern appere before the Lorde Iehouah.

Thou shalt not offer the bloude of my sacrifyce with leuended bred: nether shall the fatt of my feast remayne vntill the mornynge.

The first of the firstfrutes of thy lōde thou [Page] shalt bringe in to the housse of the Lorde thy God thou shalt also not seth a kyde in his mothers mylke.

Beholde, I sende mine angell before the, to kepe the in the waye, and to brynge the in to the place which I haue prepared Beware of him and heare his voyce and angre him not: for he wyll not spare youre mysdedes, yee and my name is in him. But and yf thou shalt herken vnto his voyce ād kepe all that I shall tell the, thē I wilbe an enimye vnto thyne enimies and an aduersarie vnto thine aduersaries.

when myne angell goth before the ād hath broughte the in vnto the Amorites, Hethites Pherezites, Canaanites, Heuites and Iebusites and I shall haue destroyed them: se thou worshippe not their goddes nether serue them, nether do after the workes of them: but ouertrowe them and breake doune the places of them And se that ye serue the Lorde youre God, ād he shall blesse thi bred and thy water, ād I will take all sycknesses awaye from amonge you.

Moreouer there shalbe no woman childlesse or vnfrutefull in thi londe, and the nombre of thi dayes I will fulfyll. I will sende my feare before the and will kyll all the people whether thou shalt goo. And I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto the, ād I will [Page] send hornettes before the, and they shall dryue out the Heuites, the Cananites and the Hethites before the.

I will not cast them out in one yere, lest the lande growe to a wyldernesse: and the beestes of the felde multiplye apon the.

But a litle and a litle I will dryue them out before the, vntill thou be increased that thou mayst enherett the londe. And I will make thi costes frō the red see vnto the see of the Philistenes and from the deserte vnto the ryuer. IBy the ryuer vnderstonde the river E [...] phrates▪ will delyuer the inhabiters of the londe in to thine hande, and thou shalt dryue them out before the. And thou shalt make none appoyntment with them nor wyth their goddes. Nether shall they dwell in thi londe, lest they make the synne agaynst me: for yf thou serue their goddes, it will surely be thy decaye.

The xxiiij. Chapter.

ANd he sayde vnto Moses: come vnto the Lorde: both thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the. lxx elders of Israel, and worshippe a ferre of. And Moses went him selfe alone vnto the Lorde, but they came not nye, nether came the people vp with him.

And Moses came ād tolde the people al the [Page] wordes of the Lorde and all the lawes. And all the people answered with one voyce and sayde: all the wordes which the Lorde hath sayde, will wee doo.

Then Moses wrote all the wordes of the Lorde and rose vp early ād made an alter vnder the hyll, and .xij. pilers acordynge to the nombre of the .xij. trybes of Israel, ād sent yonge men of the childern of Israel to sacrifyce burntoffrynges ād to offre peaceoffrynges of oxen vnto the Lorde.

And Moses toke halfe of the bloude and put it in basens, and the otherhalfe he sprenkeld on the alter. And he toke the boke of the appoyntment and red it in the audience of the people. And they seyde. All that the Lorde hath sayde, we will do and heare. And Moses toke the bloude ād sprinkeld it on the people ād sayde: beholde, this is the bloude of the appoyntment which the Lorde hath made wyth you apon all these wordes.

Then went Moses and Aaron, Nadab ād Abihu and the .lxx. elders of Israel vppe, and sawe the God of Israel, and vnder his fere as it were a brycke worde of Saphir and as it were the facyon of heauen when is it cleare, and apō the nobles of the childern of Israel he sett not his hande. And when they had sene God [Page] they ate and dronke.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: come vpp to me in to the hyll and be there▪ ād I will geue the tables of stone and a lawe and commaundmentes, which I haue written to teach them. Then Moses rose vppe ād his minister Iosua, and Moses went vppe in to the hyll of God, ād seyde vnto the elders: tarye ye here vntill we come agayne vnto you: And beholde here is Aaron and Hur with you. Yf any man haue any maters to doo, let him come to them

when Moses was come vpp in to the mounte, a clowde couered the hyll, and the glorye of the Lorde abode apon mounte Sinai, and the clowde couered it .vi. dayes. And the seuenth daye he called vnto Moses out of the clowde. And the facyon of the glorie of the Lorde was like consumynge fyre on the toppe of the hyll in the syghte of the children of Israel. And Moses went in to the mountayne And Moses was in the mounte .xl. dayes and xl. nyghtes.

The .xxv. Chapter

ANd the Lorde talked with Moses saynge: speake vnto the childern of Israel that they geue me an heueoffrynge, and of euerey man that geueth it willingly wyth his herte, ye shall take it. And this is the heueoffrynge [Page] which ye shall take of them: gold, siluer ād brasse: and Iacyncte coloure, scarlet. purpull, bysse and gootes here: rams skynnes that are red, and the skynnes of taxus and sethimwodd, oyle for lightes and spices for a noyntynge oyle and for swete cense: Onix stones and sett stones for the Ephod and for theEphod is a garment lyke a [...] amy [...]e. brestlappe.

And they shall make me a sanctuarye that I maye dwell amonge them. And as I haue shewed the the facion of the habitaciō and of all the ornamentes therof, euē so se that ye make it in all thynges.

And they shall make an arke of sethim wodd .ij. cubittes and an halfe longe, a cubite ād an halfe brode and a cubitt and an halfe hye. And thou shalt ouerleye it with pure golde: both within and without, and shalt make an hye vppon it a crowne of golde rounde aboute. And thou shalt cast .iiij. rynges of golde for it and put them in the .iiij. corners there of .ij. rynges on the one syde of it and ij. on the other. And thou shalt make staues of sethim wodd and couer them with golde, and put the staues in the rynges alonge by the sydes of the arke, to bere it with all. And the staues shall abyde in the rynges of the arke, and shall not be taken awaye. [Page] And thou shalt put in the arke, the wytnesse which I shall geue the.

And thou shalt make a merciseate of pure golde .ij. cubytes and an halfe longe and a cubete and an halfe brode. And make .ij. cherubyns off thicke golde on the .ij. endes of the mercyseate: and sett the one cherub on the one ende and the other on the other ende of the mercyseate: so se that thou make them on the ij. endes there of. And the cherubyns shall stretch their wynges abrode ouer an hye, ād couer the mercy seate with their wynges, and theyr faces shall loke one to another: euē to the mercyseate warde, shall the faces of the cherubyns be. And thou shalt put the mercyseate aboue apon the arke, ād in the arke thou shalt put the wytnesse which I will geuethe.

There I will mete the and will comon with the from apon the mercyseate from betwene the two cherubyns which are apon the arke of witnesse, of all thynge which I will geue the in commaundment vnto the childern of Israel.

Thou shalt also make a table of sethim wod of two cubittes longe and one cubett brode ād a cubett ād an halfe hye. And couer it with pure golde and make there to a crowne of golde rounde aboute. And make vnto that [Page] an whope of .iiij. fyngers brode, rounde aboute, And make a goldē crowne also to the whope rounde aboute. And make for it .iiij. rynges of golde and put them in the corners that are on the .iiij. fete therof: euē harde vnder the whope shall the rynges be, to put in staues to bere the table with all. And thou shalt make staues of Sethim wore and ouerleye thē with golde, that the table maye be borne with them And thou shalt make his disshes, spones, pottes and flatpeces to poure out withall, of fyne golde. And thou shalt sett apon the table, shewbred [...]hevvbred because it vvas alvvay I [...] the presen [...] and sight of the Lorde before me allwaye.

And thou shalt make a candelsticke of pure thicke golde with his shaft, braunches, bolles, knoppes ād floures proceadynge there out Syxe braunches shall procede out of the sydes of the candelsticke .iij. out of the one syde and iij. out of the other. And there shalbe .iij. cuppes like vnto almondes with knoppes ād floures vppon euery one of the .vi. braunches that procede out of the cādelstycke: and in the candelsticke selfe .iiij. cuppes like vnto almondes with their knoppes and floures: that there be a knope vnder eueri .ij. braūches of the syxe that procede out of the cādelstycke. And the knoppes and the braunches shall be altogether, one pece of pure thicke golde.

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¶ The forme of the arke of wittnesse with his staues and two cherubyns.

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¶ The table of shewbreed with the loves of breed vppon it, and his other vessels.

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¶ The facion of the cādelsticke with his lampes, snoffers and other necessaryes.

[Page]And thou shalt make .vij. lampes and put them an hye there on, to geue lighte vnto the other syde that is ouer agaynst it: with snoffers and fyre pannes of pure golde. And hundred pounde weyghte of fyne golde shall make it with all the apparell. And se that thou make them after the facyon that was shewed the in the mounte.

The xxvi. Chapter.

ANd thou shalt make an habitatyō with ten curteynes of twyned bysse, Iacyncte scarlet and purpull, and shalt make them with cherubyns of broderd worke. The lenghte of a curtayne shalbe .xxviij. cubyttes, and the bredth .iiij. and they shalbe all of one measure: fyue curtaynes shalbe coupled together one to a nother: and the other fyue likewise shalbe coupled together one to another.

Then shalt thou make louppes of Iacyncte coloure, a longe by the edge of the one curtayne even in the selvege of the couplinge courtayne. And likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the vtmost curtayne that is coupled therwith on the other syde. Fyftie louppes shall thou make in the one curtayne, ād fiftie in the edge of the other that is couppled therwith on the other syde: so that the louppes be one ouer agenste another. And thou shalt make fyftie

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¶ The forme of the ten cortaynes of the taber nacle with their cherubins and fiftye loupes.

[Page] buttons of golde, and couple the curtaynes together with the buttons: that it maye be an habitacyon.

And thou shalt make .xj. curtaynes of gotes heere, to be a tente to couer the habitacyō The lenght of a curtayne shalbe .xxx. cubettes, and the bredth .iiij. ād they shalbe all .xi. of one measure. And thou shalt couple .v. by thē selues, and the other sixe by them selues, ād shalt double the sixte in the forefront of the tabernacle, And thou shalt make fyftie loupes in the edge of the vtmost curtayne on the one syde: euen in the couplynge courtayne, and as many in the edge of the couplynge curtayne on the other syde. And thou shalt make fyftie buttones off brasse and put them on the louppes, and couple the tent together with all▪ that there may be one tabernacle.

And the remnaunt that resteth in the curtaynes of the tente: euē the bredeth of halfe a curtayne that resteth, shalbe lefte on the backe sydes of the habitacyon: a cubite on the one side and a cubite on the other syde, of that that remayneth in the length of the curtaynes off the tabernacle, which shall remayne of other syde of the habitacion to couer it with all.

And thou shalt make another coueringe for the tente of rams skynnes dyed red: ād yet another [Page] aboue all of taxus skynnes.

And thou shalt make bordes for the habitacion of sethim wod to stonde vp righte: ten cubettes longe shall euery borde be, ād a cubette and an halfe brode. Two fete shall one borde haue to couple them together with all, and so thou shalt make vnto all the bordes of the habitacion. And thou shalt make .xx. bordes for the habitacion on the south syde, and thou shalt make, xl. sokettes of syluer ād put them vnder the .xx. bordes: two sokettes vnder euery borde, for their two fete. In lyke maner in the northsyde of the habitacyon there shalbe .xx. bordes ād .xl. sokettes off syluer: two sokettes vnder euery borde. And for the west ende off the habitacyon, shalt thou make syxe bordes, ād two bordes moo for the two west corners of the habitaciō: so that these two bordes be coupled together beneth and lykewyse aboue with clampes. And so shall it be in both the corners. And so there shalbe .viij. bordes in all and .xvi. solettes of syluer: ij. sokettes vnder euery borde.

And thou shalt make barres off sethim [...]od fiue for the bordes of the one side of the taber nacle, and fyue for the other syde, and fyue for the bordes off the west ende. And the mydle barre shall goo alonge thorowe the myddes

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¶ The facion of the bordes of the tabernacle, with their fete, sockettes and barres▪

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¶ The facion of the corner bordes with their fete sockettes and barres.

[Page] of the bordes and barre them together frō the one ende vnto the other. And thou shalt couer the bordes with golde and make golden rynges for them to put the barres thorow, ād shalt couer the barres with golde also. And rere vp the habitacion acordinge to the facion therof that was shewed the in the mount.

And thou shalt make a vayse off Iacyncte, of scarlett, purpull and twyned bysse, and shalt make it off broderd worke and full of cherubyns. And hange it vppon .iiij. pilers of sethim wodd couered with golde ād that their knoppes be couered with golde also and stonde apon .iiij. sokettes of syluer. And thou shalt hā ge vp the vayle with rynges, and shall brynge in within the vayle, the arke of wittnesse. And the vayle shall deuyde the holye from the most holye.

And thou shalt put the mercyseate vppon the arcke of witnesse in the holyest place. And thou shalt put the table without the vayle and candelsticke ouer agaynst the table: vppon the south syde of the habitacion. And put the table on the north syde.

And thou shalt make an hangynge for the doore of the tabernacle: of lacyncte▪ off scarlett, off purpull and off twyned bysse, wroughte with nedle worke. And thou shalt [Page] make for the hangynge, fiue pilers off sethim wodd, and couer both them ād their knoppes with golde, and shalt cast .v. sokettes off brasse for them.

¶ The .xxvij. Chapter

ANd thou shalt make an altare of sethim wodd: fyue cubettes longe ād .v. cubettes brode. that it be fouresquare, and .iij. cubettes hye. And make it hornes proceding out in the .iiij. corners of it, and couer it with brasse. And make his asshepannes, shovels, basens, fleshhokes, fyrepannes and all the apparell there of, of brasse after the fascyon of a net, ād put apon the nette .iiij. rynges: euen in the .iiij. corners of it, and put it beneth vnder the compasse of the altare, and let the net reache vnto the one halfe of the altare, And make staues for the altare of sethim wodd, and couer thē wyth brasse, and let them be put in rynges alonge by the sydes off the altare, to bere it with all. And make the altare holowe with bordes: euen as it was shewed the in the mount, so lett them make it,

And thou shalt make a courte vnto the habitacion, which shall haue in the fouth syde hā gynges of twyned bysse, beyng an hundred cubettes longe, and .xx. pilers thereof with there xx. sokettes of brasse: but the knoppes of the

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¶ The forme of the alter of the burntos [...]rynge with his hornes, ringes staues, gredyernes and other ornametes

[Page] pilers and their whopes shalbe syluer. In likewise on the north syde there shalbe hāgynges of an hundred cubettes longe and .xx. pilers with their sokettes of brasse, and the knoppes and the, whopes of syluer. And in the bredth of the courte westwarde, there shalbe hangynges of fyftye cubettes longe, and .x. pilers with their .x. sokettes. And in the bredth of the courte eastwarde towarde the rysynge of the sonne, shalbe hangynges of .l. cubyttes. Hāgynges of .xv. cubittes in the one syde of it with iij. pilers and .iij. sokettes: and likewise on the other syde shalbe hangynges of .xv. cubettes with .iij. pilers and .iij. sokettes.

And in the gate of the courte shalbe a vayle of .xx. cubettes: of lacyncte, scarlet, purpul and twyned bysse wroughte with nedle worke, and .iiij. pilers with their .iiij. sokettes. All the pilers rounde aboute the courte shalbe whoped with syluer, and their knoppes of syluer, and their sokettes of brasse. The length of the courte, shall be an hundred cubettes, and the bredth fiftye, and the heygth fyue, and the hangynges shalbe of twyned bysse and the sokettes of brasse. And all the vessels of the habitacion to all maner seruyce ād the pynnes there of: ye and the pynnes also of the courte, shalbe brasse.

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¶ The figure of the orderinge of all the [...] which must stande in the tabernacle.

[Page]And commaunde the childern of Israel that they geue the pure oyle olyue beaten for the lyghtes to poure all way in to the lampes. In the tabernacle of witnesse without the vayle wich is before the wytnesse, shall Aaron ād his sonnes dresse it both even and mornyngeFrō h [...] ce vnto the bokes ende ād therovv [...] out att the nexte boke, thou shalt se vvhat moued the Pope and vvhence he [...]ke the fascion of the garmētes and ornam [...]tes that are novve vsed in the chyrche and the maner of halovvenge off the church, altare, chalice. [...]onte, belles, ād so forth, ād is become as it vvere a prest of the olde [...]avve ād haue brought vs in to [...]ap [...]suite as it vvere vnder the cer [...] monies of the old lavve. saue their: spak and ours bedom [...]. before the Lorde: And it shalbe a dewtie for euer vnto youre generacyous after you: to be geuen of the childern of Israel.

The .xxviij. Chapter.

ANd take thou vnto the, Aaron thi brother and his sonnes with him, from amonge the childern of Israel, that he maye minystre vnto me: both Aaron, Nadab, Abiliu, Eleazar and Ithamar Aarons sonnes. And thou shalt make holye rayment for Aaron thy brother, both honorable and gloryous Moreouer speake vnto all that are wyse harted which I haue fylled with the sprete of wysdome: that they make Aarons rayment to consecrate him wyth, that he maye mynistre vnto me.

These are the garmentes which they shall make: a brestlappe, Ephod, a tunycle, a strayte cote, a myter and a girdell. And they shall make holye garmentes for Aaron thi brother ād his sōnes, that he maye mynistre vnto me. And they shal take there to, golde, lacincte, scarlet,

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¶ The forme of Aaron with all his apparell.

[Page] purpull and bysse.

And they shall make the Ephod: of golde Iacyncte, scarlett, purpull ād white twyned bysse with broderdworke, The two sydes shall come together, clossed vppe in the edges thereof And the girdell of the Ephod shalbe of the same workemanshippe ād of the same stufle: euen of golde, Iacyncte, scarlete, purpull ād twyned bysse,

And thou shalt take two onyx stones and graue in them the names of the childern of Israel: sixe in the one stone, and the other sixe in the other stone: acordinge to the order of their birth. After the worke of a stonegrauer, euē as sygnettes are grauen, shalt thou graue the. ij stones with the names of the childern of Israel, ād shalt make thē to be set in ouches of golde. And thou shalt put the two stones apō the two shulders of the Ephod, ād they shalbe stones off remembraunce vnto the childern off Israel. And Aaron shall bere their names before the Lorde vppon hys two shulders for a remembraunce.

And thou shalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and fasten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes.

And thou shalt make the brestlappe of ensample [Page] with broderd worke: euē after the worke of the Ephod shalt thou make it: of golde, Iacyncte, scarlet, purple ād twyned bysse shalt thou make it. Fouresquare it shall be ād double, an hand brede longe and an hand brede brode. And thou shalt fyll it with .iiij. rowes of stones. In the first rowe shalbe a Sardios, a Topas and Smaragdus. The seconde rowe: a Rubyn, Saphir and a Diamonde. The thyrd: Lygurios an Acatt and Amatist. The fourth: a Turcas, Onix and Iaspis. And they shalbe sett in golde in their inclosers. And the stones shalbe grauen as sygnettes be grauē: with the names of the childern of Israel euen with. xij names euery one with his name acordynge to the .xij. trybes.

And thou shalt make vppon the brestlappe .ij. fasteninge cheynes of pure golde ād wrethen worke. And thou shalt make likewyse vppon the brestlappe .ij. rynges of golde and put them on the edges of the brestlappe, and put the .ij. wrethen cheynes of golde in the .ij. rynges which are in the edges of the brestlappe, And the .ij. endes of the .ij. cheynes thou shalt fasten in the .ij. rynges, and put them vppon the shulders of the Ephod: on the foresyde of it.

And thou shalt yet make .ij. rynges of golde [Page] ād put thē in the .ij. edges of the brestlappe euē in the borders there of towarde the insyde of the Ephod that is ouer agaynst it. And yet .ij. other rīges of golde thou shalt make, ādLight ād perfectenesse: In Hebrue it is lightes ād perfectnesses: ād I thynke that the one vvete stones that did glister ād had light in them and the other clere stones as cristall. And the lighte betokened the light of Godes vvorde and the purenesse cleane livinge acordvnge to the saute and vvas therefore called the ensamp'e of the childern of Israel, because it put thē in remembraunce to s [...]ke Gods vvorde [...]d to do there af▪ put thē on the .ij. sydes of the Ephod, beneth ouer agaynst the brestlappe, alowe where the sydes are ioyned together vppō the brodered girdell of the Ephod. And they shall bynde the brestlappe by his rynges vnto the rynges of the Ephod with a lace of Iacyncte, that it maye lye closse vnto the brodered girdell of the Ephod, that the brestlappe be not lowsed from the Ephod.

And Aarō shall bere the names of the childern of Israel in the brestlappe of ensāple vppō his herte, whē he goth in to the holy place, for a remēbraūce before the Lorde allwaye. And thou shalt put ī the brestlappe of ensāple * lighte ād perfectnesse: that they be euē vpō Aarōs herte whē he goeth ī before the Lorde ād Aarō shal bere the ensāple of the children of Israel vpō his herte before the Lorde alwaie

And thou shalt make the tunycle vnto the Ephod, all to gether of Iacyncte. And ther shalbe an hole for the heed in the myddes of it, ād let there be a bonde of wouen worke rounde aboute the colore of it: as it were the colore of a partlet, that it rent not. And beneth [Page] vppon the hem, thou shalt make pomgra [...] tes of Iacyncte, of scarlet, and of purpull rounde aboute the hem, and belles of golde betwene them rounde aboute: that there be euera golden bell and a pomgranate, a goldem bell and a pomgranate rounde aboute vppon the hem of the tunicle. And Aaron shall haue it vppon him when he minystreth▪ that the sounde maye be herde when he goeth in in to the holy place before the Lorde and when he cometh out, that he dye not.

And thou shalt make a place of pure golde, and graue there on (as signettes are grauen)That he calleth the holynesse of the Lorde I suppose it be this name Iehouah the holynes of the Lorde, and put it on a lace of Iacyncte and tye it vnto the mytre, vppon the forefrunt of it, that it be apon Aarōs foreheed: that Aaron bere the synne of the holy thynges which the childern of Israel haue halowed in all their holye giftes. And it shalbe alwayes vpon Aarons foreheed, that they maye be accepted before the Lorde.

And thou shalt make an albe of bysse, and thou shalt make a mytre of bysse ād a girdell of nedle worke.

And thou shalt make for Aarons sonnes also cotes, girdels and bonettes honourable and glorious, and thou shalt put them vppon Aaron thy brother ād on his sonnes with him [Page] and shalt anoynte them and fyll theyr handes and consecrate them▪ that they maye mynistre vnto me. And thou shalt make them lynen breches to couer their preuyties: from the loynes vnto the thyes shall they reach. And they shalbe apon Aaron and his sonnes, whē they goo in to the tabernacle of wytnesse, or when they goo vnto the altare to mynistre in holynes, that they bere no synne and so dye. And it shalbe a lawe for euer vnto Aaron ād his seed after him.

The .xxix. Chapter.

THis is the thinge that thou shalt doo vnto them when thou halowest them to be my preastes. Take one oxe and two rammes that are without blemysh, ād vnleuēded bred and cakes of swete bred tempered with oyle and wafers of swete bred anoynted with oyle (of wheten floure shalt thou make them) and put them in a maunde and brynge thē in the maunde with the oyle and the .ij. rammes.

And brynge Aaron ād his sonnes vnto theOf thys they take the cons [...] [...]ra [...]ynge of bisshoppes ād annoyntynge of preastes, though they haue altered the maner some vvhat doore of the tabernacle of wytnesse, ād wassh them with water, and take the garmentes, and put apon Aaron: the strayte cote, and the tunycle of the Ephod, and the Ephod ād the brestlappe: and gerth thē to him with the brodered girdel of the Ephod. And put the mitre vppō [Page] his heed and put the holy crowne vpon the mytre. Then take the anoyntynge oyle and poure it apon his heed and anoynte him. And brynge his sonnes and put albes apon them, ād gerth them with girdels: as well Aaron as his son nes, And put the bonettes on them that the preastes office maye be theirs for a perpetuall lawe.

And fyll the handes of Aaron and of hys sonnes, and brynge the oxe before the tabernacle of witnesse. And let Aarō ād his sōnes put their hādes apō his heed ād kyll hī before the Lord in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse And take of the bloud of the oxe ād put it apō the hornes of the alter with thi finger ād poure all the bloude apon the botome of the alter▪ ād take all the fatt that couereth the inwardes, ād the [...]all that is on the lyuer and the .ij. kydneys with the fatt that is apō thē: and burne thē apō the alter. But the flesh of the oxe and his skyn ne and his donge, shalt thou burne with fyre, without the hoste. For it is a synneofferynge.

Then take one of the rammes, ād let Aaron and his sonnes put their hondes apon the heade of the ram, and cause him to be slayne, ād take of his bloude and sprenkell it rounde aboute apon the alter, and cutt the ram in peces and [Page] whesh the inwardes of him and his legges, ād put them vnto the peces ād vnto his heed, ād burne the hole ram apon the alter. For it is a burntofferyng vnto the Lorde, and a swete sauoure of the Lordes sacrifice.

And take the other ram and let Aaron and hys sonnes, put their hondes apon hys heed and let him than be kylled. And take of his bloude and put it apon the typpe of the righte eare of Aaron and of his sonnes, and apon the thombe of their righte handes, and apon the great too of their ryghte fete: and sprenkell the bloude apon the alter rounde aboute.

Than take of the bloude that is apon the alter and of the anoyntynge oyle, ād sprēkell it apon Aaron and his vestimētes, ād apō his son nes ād apō their garmētes also. Thā is he ād his clothes holy ād his sonnes ād their clothes holye also

Than take the fatt of the ram and hys rompe and the fatt that couereth the inwardes and the kall of the lyuer and the two kydneys and the fatt that is apon them and the righte shulder (for that ram is a fulloffrynge) and a symnell of bred ād a cake of oyled bred ād a wafer out of the baskett of swete bred that is before [Page] the Lorde, and put all apon the handes of Aaron and on the handes of his sonnes: and waue thē in ād out a waueoffrynge vnto the Lorde. Than take it from of their handes and but ne it apon the alter: euen apon the burntoffringe, to be a sauoure of swetnesse before the Lorde. For it is a sacrifice vnto the Lorde.

Then take the brest of the ram that is Aarons fulloffrynge and waue it a waueoffrynge before the Lorde, ād let that be thy parte. And sanctifie the brest of the waueoffrynge and the shulder of the heueoffrynge whiche is waued and heued vp of the ram whiche is the fulloffrynge of Aaron ād of his sonnes. And it shal be Aarons ād his sonnes dutye for euer, of the childrē of Israel: for it is an heueoffrynge. And the heueoffrynge shalbe the Lordes dutie of the childern of Israel: euen of the sacrifice of their peaceoffrynges which they heue vnto the Lorde.

And the holye garmentes of Aaron shallbe his sonnes after him, to anoynte them therin, and to fyll their handes therin. And that sonne that is preast in his stede after him, shall put them on seuen dayes: that he goo in to the tabernacle of witnesse, to ministre in the holye place.

Thā take the ram that is the fullofferyng ād [Page] seth his flesh in an holye place. And Aarō and his sonnes shall eate the flesh of hī, ād the bred that is in the basket: euen in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And they shall eat thē, because the attonmēt was made therewith to fyll their handes and to sanctifie thē: but a straunger shal not eate therof, because they are holie

Yf oughte of the flesh of the fulloffrynges, or of the bred remayne vnto the mornyng, thou shalt burne it with fyre: for it shall not be eaten, because it is holye. And se thou do vnto Aaron and his sonnes: euen so in all thynges as I haue commaunded the: that thou fyll their handes seuen dayes and offre euery daye an oxe for a synneoffrynge for to recōcyle with all. And thoushalt halowe the alter when thou reconcylest it, and shalt anoynte it to sanctifie it. Seuē dayes thou shalt reconcyle the alter and sanctifie it, that it maye be an alter most holye:Toch not the ci alyce nor the altare stōne nor holvoyle and holde youre hande on [...] off the fonte. so that no mā maye twich it but thei that be consecrate.

This is that which thou shalt offre vpō the alter: ij. lambes of one yere olde daye by daye for euer, the one thou shalt offre in the morninge and the other at euen. And vnto the one lā be take a tenth deale of floure myngled wyth the fourth parte of an hin of beaten oyle, and the fourth parte of an hin of wyne, for a drinckeoffrynge. [Page] And the other lambe thou shalt offer at euen and shall doo thereto acordynge to the meateoffrynge and drinkeoffrynge in the mornynge, to be an odoure of a swete sauoure of the sacrifice of the Lorde. And it shalbe a continuall burntoffrynge amonge youre children after you, in the doore of the tabernacle of witnesse before the Lorde, where I will mete you to spake vnto you there. There I will mete wyth the childern of Israel, and wilbe sanctified in myne honoure. And I will sanctifie the tabernacle of witnesse and the alter: and I will sanctifie also both Aaron and his sonnes to be my preastes. And moreouer I will dwell amō ge the children of Israel and wilbe their God. And they shal knowe that I am the Lorde their God that broughte them out of the lond of Egipte for to dwell amonge them: euen I the Lorde their God,

¶ The .xxx. Chapter.

ANd thou shalt make an alter to burne [...]ē se therin, of sethim wod: a cubet longe, and a cubet brode, euen fouresquare shall it be and two cubettes hye: with hornes procedyng out of it, ād thou shalt ouerlay it with fyne golde both the roffe ād the walles round aboute, ād his hornes also, ād shalt make vnto it a crowne of gold roūde aboute, ād .ij. goldē ringes

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¶ The forme of the altare of incense with all that belongeth vnto it.

[Page] on ether syde, euen vnder the croune, to put staues therin for to bere it with all. And thou shalt make the staues of sethim wodd and couer them with golde. And thou shalt put it before the vayle that hangeth before the arcke of witnesse, and before the mercyseate that is before the witnesse, where I will mete the.

And Aaron shall burne thereon swete cense euery mornynge when he dresseth the lampes: and lykewyse at euen when he setteth vpp the lampes he shall burne cense perpetually before the Lorde thorow out youre generacions Ye shall put no straunge cense thereon, nether burntsacrifice nor meateoffrynge: nether poure any drynkeoffrynge thereon. And Aaron shall reconcyle his hornes once in a yere, reych the bloude of the synneoffrynge of reconcylige: euen once in the yere shall he reconcyle it thorow youre generacions. And so is it most holye vnto the Lorde.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: when thou takest the summe of the childern of Israel ād tellest them, they shall geue euery mā a reconcylinge of his soule vnto the Lorde, that there be no plage amonge them when thou tellest them. And thus moch shall euery man geue that goeth in the nombre: halfe a sycle, after the holye sycle: a sycle is .xx. geeras: [Page] and an halfe sycle shalbe the heueoffrynge vnto the Lorde. And all that are numbred of thē that are .xx. yere olde and aboue shall geue an heueoffrynge vnto the Lorde. The rych shall not passe, and the poore shall not goo vnder halfe a sycle, when they geue an heueoffrynge vnto the Lorde for the attonemēt of their soules. And thou shalt take the reconcylinge money of the children of Israel and shalt put it vnto the vse of the tabernacle of witnesse, and it shall be a memoriall of the childern of Israel before the Lorde, to make attonement for the if foules.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: thou shalt make a lauer of brasse and his fote also of brasse to wash with all, and shalt put it betwene the tabernacle of witnesse and the alter and put water therein: that Aaron and hys sonnes maye wesh both their handes ād theyr fete thereout, whē they go in to the tabernacle of witnesse, or whē they goo vnto the altare to ministre and to burne the Lordes offrynge, lest they dye. And it shalbe an ordinaunce for euer vnto him and his seed amonge youre childern after you.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: take principall spices: of pure myrre fiue hundred sycles, of swete cynamome halfe so moch

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¶ The figure of the lauer of brasse with his fote.

[Page] two hundred and fyftie sicles: of swete calamyte, two hundred and .l. Of cassia, two hundred and .l. after the holye sycle, and of oyle olyue an hin. And make of them holye anoyntynge oyle euen an oyle compounde after the crafte of the apoticarye. And noynte the tabernacle off wytnesse therewyth, and the arcke of witnesse, and the table with all his apparell, and the candelsticke with all his ordinaunce, and the alter of incense, and the alter of burntsacrifice and all his vessels, and the lauer and his fote. And sacrifie them that they maye be most holye: so that no man twyche them but they that be halowed. And anoynte Aaron and his sonnes and consecrate thē to ministre vnto me.

And thou shalt speake vnto the childrē of Israel saynge: this shalbe an holye oyntynge oyle vnto me, thorow out youre generacions. No mans flesh shalbe anoynted therewith: nether shall ye make any other after the makynge of it for it is holye, se therfore that ye take it for holye▪ whosoeuer maketh like that, or whosoeuer putteth any of it apon a straunger, shall perysh from amonge his people.

And the Lord sayd vnto Moses: take vnto the swete spices: stacte, onycha, swete galbanū ād pure frākēsens, of etch like moch: ād make [Page] cens of them cōpounde after the crafte of the apoticarye, myngled together, that it maye be made pure and holye. And beat it to powder and put it before the witnesse in the tabernacle of witnesse, where I will mete the, but let it be vnto you holye. And se that ye make none after the makinge of that, but let it be vnto you holye for the Lorde. And whosoeuer shall make like vnto that, to smell thereto, shall perish from amonge his people.

¶ The .xxxj. Chapter

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: beholde, I haue called by name, Bezaleel the sonne of Vrisōne to Hur of the tribe of Iuda. And I haue filled hī with the sprete of God, with wisdome, vnderstondinge ād knowlege: euē in all maner worke, to finde out sotle faytes, to worke in golde syluer ād brasse and with the crafte to graue stones, to set ād to carue in tībre ād to worke in all maner workmāshipe. And beholde, I haue geuē him to be his companion Ahaliab the sonne of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, and in the hertes of all that are wise harted I haue put wisdom to make all that I haue commaunded the: the tabernacle of witnesse, and the arcke of witnesse, and the mercyseate that is there vppon, all the ornamentes of the tabernacle, and the [Page] the table with his ordinaunce, ād the pure cā delsticke with al his apparell, ād the alter of incens, ād the alter of burntoffrynges with al his vessels, ād the lauer with his fote, ād the vestimētes to ministre in, ād the holye garmētes for Aarō the preast, ād the garmētes of his sonnes to ministre in, and the anoyntinge oyle and the swete cense for the sanctuarye: acordinge to al as I haue commaunded the shall they doo.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayng: speakeThe sabbath beside that it served to come ād heare the vvorde of god and to seke his vvil ād to offer ād reconcile thē selues vnto god, it vvas a sig [...] vnto the [...] also ād did put thē in remē bran̄ce that i [...] vvas god that sanctified thē vvith his holye sprete ād not thei them selues vvith their holy vverkes. ūto the childern of Israel ād saye: ī any wyse se that ye kepe my Sabbath, for it shalbe a sygne betwene me and you in youre generacions for to knowe, that I the Lorde doo sanctifie you. Kepe my Sabbath therfore, that it be an holye thynge vnto you. He that defileth it, shal be slayne therfore. For whosoeuer worketh therein, the same soule shalbe roted out from amonge his people. Sixe dayes shall men worke, but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath of the holye reste of the Lorde: so that whosoeuer doeth any worke in the Sabbath daye, shal dye for it. wherfore let the childern of Israel kepe the Sabbath, that they obserue it thorowe out their generacions, that it be an appoyntement for euer. For it shalbe a sygne betwene me, and the childern of Israel for euer. For in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and erth, and the [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] seuenth daye he rested and was refresshed.

And whē he had made an end of comening with Moses vppon the mounte Sinai, he gaue him two tables of witnesse: which were of stone and written with the finger of God.

¶ The .xxxij. Chapter

ANd when the people sawe that it was lō ge or Moses came doune out of the mountayne, they gathered them selues together ād came vnto Aaron and sayde vnto him: Vp ād make vs a god to goo before vs: for of this Moses the felowe that brought vs out of the londe off Egipte, we wote not what ys become.

And Aaron saide vnto them: plucke of the golden earynges which are in the eares of youre wyues, youre sonnes ād of youre doughters: and brynge them vnto me. And all the people plucked of the golden earinges that were in their eares, and broughte them vnto Aaron And he receaued them of their handes and facyoned it with a grauer and made it a calfe of molten metall. And they sayde: This is thi god O Israel, whiche brought the out of the londe of Egipte.

And when Aaron sawe that, he made an altare [Page] before it, and made a proclamacion saing tomorow shalbe holy daye vnto the Lorde. And they rose vp in the mornynge and offred burnt offrynges, and brought offrynges of attonement also. And than they satt them doune to eate and drynke, and rose vpp agayne to playe.

Than the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: go get the doune, for thi people which thou broughtest out of the lāde of Egipte, haue marred all they are turned at once out of the waye whiche I cōmaunded thē, ād haue made thē a calfe of molten metall, ād haue worshipped it ād haue offred therto and haue saide: This▪ is thy God thou Israel, which hath brought the out of the lande of Egipte. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: beholde, I see this people that it is a stife necked people, and now therfore suffre meThe pop a vvolde curse xx. hundred thousande as blacke as coles, and sende thē to hell for to haue soche a profre, and vvolde not haue prayed [...] Moses did. that my wrath maye waxe hote vppō thē, and that I maye consume thē: and than will I make of the a mightie people,

Than Moses besoughte the Lorde his God and sayde: O Lord, why shuld thy wrath waxe hote apō thy people which thou hast brought out of the lande of Egipte with great power and with a mightie hande? wherfore shuld the Egiptians speake and saye: For a mischefe dyd he brynge them out: euen for to slee [Page] them in the mountayns, and to consume them from the face of the erth. Turne from thi fearse wrath, ād haue compassion ouer the wikednesse of thi people. Remēbre Abrahā, Isaac ād Israel thy servauntes, to whō thou sworest by thyne owne selfe ād saidest vnto thē: I wil multiplye youre seed as the starres of heauen, ād al this lande which I haue saide, I will geue vnto youre seed: ād they shall ēheret it for euer. And the Lorde refrayned him selfe from that euell, which he sayde he wolde do vnto his people.

And Moses turned his backe and went doune frō the hyll, and the .ij. tables of witnesse in his hande: which were wryttē on both the leaues and were the worke of God, ād the writī ge was the writinge of God grauē apon the tables. And when Iosua herde the noyse of the people as they shouted, he saide vnto Moses: there is a noyse of warre in the hoste. And he sayde▪ it is not the crye of thē that haue the mastrye▪ nor of thē that haue the worse: but I doo heare the noyse of synginge.

And as soone as he came nye vnto the hoste and sawe the calfe and the daunsynge, his wrath waxed hote, and he cast the tables out of his hande, and brake them euen at the hyll fote. And he toke the calfe which they had made [Page] ād burned it with fyre, ād stampt it vnto powder and strowed it in the water, and made the childern of Israel drynke. And thā Moses sayde vnto Aarō: what dyd this people vnto the that thou hast brought so great a synne apon them.

And Aaron sayde: let not the wrath of my Lorde waxe fearse, thou knowest the people that they are euen sett on myschefe: they sayde vnto me: make us a god to goo before us, for we wote not what is become of Moses the felow that brought us out of the lande of Egipte. And I sayde vnto them▪ let them that haue golde, take and brynge it me: and I kest it in to the fyre, and there of came out this calfe

when Moses sawe that the people were naked (for Aaron had made them naked vnto their shame when they made insurrection) he went and stode in the gate of the hoste ād sayde: Yf any man perteyne vnto the Lorde, lett him come to me. And all the sonnes of Leui gathered them selues together and came vnto him. And he sayde vnto them, thus sayeth the Lorde of Israel: put euery man his swerde by his syde, and goo in and out from gate to gate thorow out the hoste: and slee euery man his brother, euery man his frende and euery man his neghboure. And the childern of Leui dyd [Page] as Moses had sayde. And there were slayne of the people the same daye, aboute thre thousandeThe pop [...]s bull fleeth [...]oo thā Aaron scalfe, [...]uē an hundred thousand for one heere of them. men. Then Moses sayde: fyll youre handes vnto the Lorde this daye, euery man vppō his sonne and vppon his brother: to brynge vppō you a blessynge this daye.

And on the morowe, Moses sayde vnto the people: Ye haue synned a great synne. But now I will goo vpp vnto the Lorde, to witt whether I can make an attonement for youre synne.

And Moses went agayne vnto the Lorde and sayde: Oh, this people haue synned a great synne and haue made thē a god of golde: YetO pitifull Moses, ād likevvise O mercifull Paul Roma .ix. And o abhominable pope vvith all his mercilesse Idoles. forgeue them their synne I praye the: Yf not wype me out of thy boke which thou hast written. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: I will put him out of my boke that hath synned agaynst me. But goo and brynge the people vnto the lande which I sayde vnto the: beholde, myne angell shall goo before the. Neuerthelater in the daye when I vyset, I will vysett their synne vppon them. And the Lorde plaged the people, because they made the calfe which Aron made.

The .xxxiij. Chapter

ANd the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: departe ād goo hence: both thou ād the [Page] people which thou hast brought out of the lād of Egipte, vnto the lande which I swore vnto Abrahā, Isaac ād Iacob saynge: vnto thi seed I will geue it. And I will sende an angell before the, and will cast out the Canaanytes, the Amorites, the Hethites, the Pherezites, the, Heuites and the Iebusites: that thou mast goo in to a lande that floweth with mylke ād honye. But I will not goo among you my selfe, for ye are a styfnecked people: lest I consume you by the waye. And when the people heard this euell tydinges, they sorowed: ād no mā dyd put on his best rayment.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saye vn to the childern of Israel: ye are a styf [...]necked people: I must come ons sodenly apon you, ād make an ende of you. But now put youre goodly raymēt from you, that I maye wete what to do vnto you. And the childern of Israel layde their goodly raymēt from them euē vnder the mount Horeb.

And Moses toke the tabernacle ād pitched it without the hoste a ferre of frō the hoste, ād called it the tabernacle of wytnesse. And al that wold axe any questiō of the Lorde, went out vnto the tabernacle of wytnesse which was without the hoste. And when Moses wēt out vnto the tabernacle, all the people rose [Page] vp and stode euery man in his tentdore and loked after Moses, vntill he was gone in to the tabernacle. And as sone as Moses was entred in to the tabernacle, the clouden piler descended and stode in the dore of the tabernacle, ād he talked with Moses. And when all the people sawe the clouden piler stonde in the tabernacle dore, they rose vp and worshipped: euery man in his tentdore.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh vnto his frende. And whem Moses turned agayne in to the hoste, the ladd Iosua his seruaunte the sonne of Nun departed not out of the tabernacle. And Moses sayde vnto the Lorde: se, thou saydest vnto me: lede this people forth, but thou shewest me not whom thou wilt send with me. And hast sayde moreouer: I knowe the by name and thou hast also founde grace in my syghte: Now therfore, yf I haue founde fauoure in thi syghte, thē shewe me thy waye ād let me know the: that I maye fynde grace in thi sighte. And loke on this also, how that this nacyon is thi people.The popish saye, my chyr [...], mi paresh my diocese, and the monkes and frires saye all [...] [...]u [...].

And he sayde: my presence shall goo with the, and I will geue the rest. And he sayde: yf thi presence goo not with me, carye us not hense for how shall it be knowne now that both [Page] I and thi people haue founde fauoure in thi sighte, but in that thou goest with us: that both I and thi people haue a pr [...]emynence before all the people that are vpon the face of the erth. And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: I will doo this also that thou hast sayde, for thou hast founde grace in my sighte, and I knowe the by name.

And he sayde: I besech the, shewe me thi glorye: And he sayde: I will make all my good goo before the, and I will be called in this name Iehouah before the, ād wil shewe mercy to whom I shew mercy, and will haue compassion on whom I haue compassion. And he sayde furthermore: thou mayst not se my face, for there shall no man se me and lyue.

And the Lorde sayde: beholde, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stonde apon a rocke, and while my glorye goeth forth I will put the in a clyfte of the rocke, and will put myne hande apon the while I passe by. And then I will take awaye myne hande, and thou shalt se my backe partes: but my face shall not be sene.

The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: hew the .ij. tables of stone like vnto the first that I maye write in thē the wordes which were [Page] in the fyrst .ij. tables, which thou brakest. And be redye agaynst the mornīge that thou mayst come vpp early vnto the mount of Sinai and stōde me there apō the toppe of the mount. But let no man come vp with the, nether let any man be sene thorow out all the mount, nether let shepe nor oxen fede before the hyll.

And Moses hewed .ij. tables of stone like vnto the first ād rose vp early in the morninge ād went vp vnto the moūt of Sinai as the Lorde cōmaunded him: ād toke in his hāde the. i [...] tables of stone. And the Lorde descēded in the cloude, ād stode with him there: ād he called apō the name of the Lorde. And whē the Lorde walked before him, he cryed: Lorde Lorde God full of compassion ād mercy, which art not lightly angrye but abundāt in mercy ād trueth▪ ād kepest mercy in store for thousandes, ād forgeuest wikednesse, trespace ād synne (for there is no man ynnocēt before the) and visetest the wikydnesse of the fathers vpō the childern ād apon childerns childern▪ euen vnto the thryd ād fourth generatiō. And Moses bowed hymself to the erth quykly, ād worshipped ād sayde: yf I haue foūde grace in thi sighte o Lorde, than let my Lorde goo with us (for it is a stuburne people) and haue mercy [Page] apō oure wikednesse ād oure synne, and let us be thyne enheritaunce.

And he sayde: beholde, I make an appoyntment before all this people, that I will do maruells: soch as haue not bene done [...] all the worlde, nether amōge any nacyon. And all the people amonge which thou art, shall se the worke of the Lorde: for it is a terryble thinge that I will doo with the: kepe all that I commaunde the this daye, and beholde: I will cast out before the: the Amorites, Canaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Heuites and Iebusites. Take hede to thi selfe, that thou make no compacte with the inhabiters of the lōde whether thou goest lest it be cause of ruyne amonge you. But ouerthrowe their alters and breke their pilers, and cutt doune their grooues, for thou shalt worshippe no straunge God For the Lorde is called gelous, because he is a gelous God: lest yf thou make any agreament with the inhabiters of the lande, when they go a whoorynge after their goddes ād do sacrifyce vnto their goddes, they call the and thou eate of their sacrifyce: ād thou take of their doughters vnto thi sonnes, and when their doughters goo a whoorynge after their goddes, they make thi sonnes goo a whoorynge after their goddes also.

[Page]Thou shalt make the no goddes of metall The fest of swete bred shalt thou kepe, ād, vij. dayes thou shalt eate vnleuended bred (as I commaunded the) in the tyme apoynted in the moneth of Abib: for in the moneth of Abib thou camest out of Egipte. All that breaketh vp the matryce shalbe mine, and all that breaketh the matryce amonge thi catell, yf it be male: whether it be oxe or shepe. But the first of the asse thou shalt by out with a shepe, or yf thou redeme him not: se thou breake his necke. All the firstborne of thi sonnes thou mustThat is a god texte for the pope [...] nedes redeme. And se that no mā appeare before me emptye.

Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, and the seuēth thou shalt rest: both from earynge and reapynge. Thou shalt obserue the feast of wekes with the fyrst frutes of wheate heruest, ād the feast of ingaderynge at the yeres ende. Thrise in a yere shall all youre men children appeare before the Lorde Ichouah God of Israel: for I will cast out the nacyons before the and will enlarge thi costes, so that no man shall desyre thi londe, while thou goest vp to appeare before the face of the Lorde thi God, thryse in the yere.

Thou shalt not offre the bloude of my sacrifyce with leuended bred: nether shall ought [Page] of the sacrifyce of the feast of Passeover, be lefte vnto the morninge. The first of the firstfrutes of thy lōde, thou shalt brynge vnto the house of the Lorde thy God. And se, that thou seth not a kydd in his mothers mylke.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: write these wordes, for vppon these wordes I haue made a couenaunt with the and with the childern of Israel. And he was there with the Lorde .xl. dayes ād .xl. nyghtes, ād nether ate bred nor dronke water. And he wrote in the tables the wordes of the couenaunt: euen ten verses.

And Moses came doune from mount Sinai and the .ij. tables of witnesse in his hande, and yet he wyst not that the skynne of his face shone with beames of his comenynge with him. And when Aaron and all the childern of Israel loked apon Moses and sawe that the skynne of his face shone with beames, they were a frayde to come nye him. But he called thē to him, and then Aaron and all the chefe of the companye came vnto him, ād Moses talked with them.

And at the last all the childern of Israel came vnto him, and he commaunded them all that the Lorde had sayde vnto him in mount Sinai. And as soone as he had made an ende of comenynge with them, he put a couerynge [Page] apō his face. But whēhe went before the Lorde to speak with him, he toke the couerīge of vntill he came out. And he came out and spakeThe Pope speaketh that whiche he is not commaunded. vnto the childern of Israel that which he was commaunded. And the childern of Israel sawe the face of Moses, that the skynne of his face shone with beames: but Moses put a couerynge vppon his face, vntill he went in, to comen with him.

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ANd Moses gathered all the companye of the childern of Israel together, and sayde vnto them: these are the thinges which the Lorde hath commaunded to doo: Sixe dayes ye shall worke, but the seuenth daye shal be vnto you the holy Sabbath of the Lordes rest: so that whosoeuer doth any worke there in, shall dye. Moreouer ye shall kyndle no fyre thorow out all youre habitacyons apō the Sabbath daye.

And Moses spake vnto all the multitude of the childern of Israel sainge: this is the thinge which the Lorde cōmaūded saynge: Geue frō amōge you an heueoffringe, vnto the Lorde. All thatt are willynge in their hartes, shall brynge heueoffringes vnto the Lorde: golde, syluer, brasse: Iacyncte, scarlet, purpull, bysse ād gootes hare: rams skynnes red and taxus skynnes [Page] and Sethim wodd: and oyle for lightes ād spices for the anoyntynge oyle ād for the swete cens: And Onixstones and stones to be sett for the Ephod and for the brestlappe.

And let all them that are wyseharted amō ge you, come and make all that the Lorde hath commaunded: the habitacion and the tens there of with his couerynge ād his rynges, bordes, barres, pilers and sokettes: the arke and the staues thereof with the mercyseate ād the vayle that couereth it: the table and his staues with all that perteyneth thereto ād the shewebred: the candelsticke of lighte with his apparell and his lampes ād the oyle for the lightes: the censalter and his staues, the anoyntynge oyle and the swete cens ād the hangynge before the tabernacle dore: the alter of burntsacrifyces ād his brasen gredyren that longeth there to with his staues ād all his ordynaūce ād the lauer and his fote: the hangynges of the courte with his pilers and their sokettes, and the hangynge to the dore of the courte: the pynnes of the habitacion and the pynnes of the courte with their boordes: the mynystrynge garmentes to mynystre with in holynesse, and the holy vestimentes of Aaron the preast and the vestimentes of his sonnes to mynystre in.

[Page]And all the companye of the childern of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. And they went (as many as their hartes coraged them and as many as their spirites made them willynge) and broughte heueoffrynges vnto the Lord, to the makynge of the tabernacle of wytnesse and for all his vses and for the holy vestmentes. And the men came with the wemen (euen as manye as were willynge harted) and brought bracelettes, earynges, rynges and girdels and all maner Iewels of golde. And all the men that waued waueoffrynges of golde vnto the Lorde and euery man with whom was founde Iacyncte, scarlet, purpull, bysse or gootes hayre or red skynnes of rammes or taxus skynnes, brought it. And all that houe vpp golde or brasse, brought an heueoffrynge vnto the Lorde. And all men with whom was founde sethim wodd mete for any maner worke or seruyce, brought it.

And all the wemen that were wise herted to worke with their handes, spanne, and brought the sponne worke, both of Iacyncte, scarlet, purpull and bysse. And all the wemen that excelled in wysdome of herte, spāne the gotes hayre. And the lordes brought Onix stones and settstones for the Epod, and for the brest lappe, and spyce and oyle: both for the lightes [Page] and for the anoyntyng oyle and for the swete cens. And the childern of Israel brought wyllyngeoffrynges vnto the Lorde, both men ād women: as many as their hartes made thē wyllynge to brynge, for all maner workes which the Lorde had commaunded to make by the hande of Moses.

And Moses sayde vnto the childern of Israel: beholde, the Lorde hath called by name Bezabeel the son of Vri the son of Hur of the trybe of Iuda, and hath fylled him with the sprete of God, with wisdome, vnderstōdinge and knowlege, euen in all maner worke, ād to fynde out curyous workes, to worke in golde, syluer and brasse: and with grauynge of stones to sett, and with keruynge in wodd, and to worke in all maner of sotle workes. And he hath put in hys harte the grace to teach: both him and Ahaliab the son of Ahisamach of the trybe of Dan hath he fylled with wisdome of herte, to worke all maner of grauen worke: they are also broderers and workers with nedle, In Iacyncte, scarlet, purple and bysse, and are weuers that can make all maner worke, and can deuyse sotle workes.

The .xxxvi. Chapter.

ANd Bezaleel wrought and Ahaliab ād all wyse harted mē to whom the Lorde [Page] had geuen wysdome and vnderstondynge, to knowe how to worke all maner worke for the holye service, in all that the Lorde commaunded. And Moses called for Bezaleel Ahaliab and all the wise harted men in whose hertes the Lorde had put wysdome, euē as many ab their hartes coraged to come vnto the worke to worke it. And they receaued of Moses all the heueoffrynges which the childern of Israel had brought for the worke of the holye service to make it with all. And they brought besyde that wyllyngeoffringes euery mornyng.

And all the wise men that wrought all the holye worke, came euery man from his workewhen wil the Pope saye hoo, and forbid to offere for the byldinge of saint Peters chyrch: and when will ou [...]e spirit [...]altie saye hoo, and forbid to geue thē more londe ād to make moo fūdacious? neuer verely vntill they haue all. which they made, and spake vnto Moses saynge: the people brynge to moch and aboue that is ynough to serue for the werke which the Lorde hath commaunded to make. And then Moses gaue a commaundment, and they caused it to be proclamed thorow our the hoste saynge: se that nether man nor woman prepare any moare worke for the holy heueoffrynge, and so the people were * forboden to brynge: for the stuffe they had, was sufficyent for them vnto all the worke, to make it and to moch.

[Page]And all the wyse harted men amonge them that wroughte in the worke of the habytacyon made: euen .x. cortcynes of twyned bysse, Iacyncte, scarlet and purple, and made them full of cherubyns with broderd worke. The length of one curtayne was .xxviij. cubettes and the bredth .iiij. and were all off one syse. And they coupled fyue curteyn [...] by them selues, and other fyue by them selues. And they made fyftye louppes of Iacincte alonge by the edge of the vtmost curtayne, euen in the silvege of the couplynge courtayne: And likewise they made on the syde of the vtmost couplinge curtayne on the other syde, fyftye louppes they made in the one curtayne, and fyftye in the edge of the couplynge courtayne on the other syde: so that the loupes were one oueragenst another. And they made fyftye rynges of golde, and coupled the curtaynes one to another with the rynges: and so was it made a dwellinge place.

And they made .xi. curtaynes of gootes heere to be a tent ouer the tabernacle xxx. cubettes longe a pece and .iiij. cubettes brode, and they all .xi. of one syse.

And they coupled .v. by them selues, and [Page] and .vi. by them selues, and they made fyftye louppes alonge by the border of the vtmost couplinge courtayne on the one syde, and fyftye in the edge of the couplynge curtayne on the other syde. And they made fyftye rynges of brasse to couple the tent together that it myghte be one. And they made a couerynge vnto the tent of rammes skynnes red, and yet another of taxus skynnes aboue all.

And they made bordes for the dwellynge place of sethim wodd that stode vpright euery borde .x. cubetes longe and a cubet ād an halfe brode. And they made .ij. fete to euery boorde of the dwellinge place ioyninge one to another. And they made .xx. boordes for the south syde of the habytacyon, and .xl. sokettes of syluer vnder the .xx. boordes .ij. sokettes vnder euery boorde, euen for the .ij. fete of thē. And for the other syde of the dwellynge towarde the north, they made other .xx. boordes with xl. sokettes of syluer .ij. sokettes vnder euery boorde. And behynde in the ende of the tabernacle towarde the west, they made .vi. boordes and .ij. other bordes for the corners of the habitacyon behynde, and they were ioyned closse both beneth and also aboue with clampes, and thus they dyd to both the corners: so they were in all .viij. boordes and .xvi. sokettes, vnder [Page] euery borde two sokettes.

And they made barres of sethim wodd .v. for the bordes of the one syde of the habitacion and .v. for the other, ād fiue for the bordes of the west ende of the habitacion. And they made the myddell barre to shote thorowe the bordes: euen from the one ende to the other, and ouerlayde the bordes with golde, and made the rynges of golde to thrust the barres thorow, and couered the barres with golde. And they made an hangynge of Iacincte, of scarlett purple ād twyned bysse with cherubyns of broderd worke. And made thervnto .iiij. pilers of sethim wodd and ouerlayde them with golde. Their knoppes were also of gold, ād they cast for them .iiij. sokettes of syluer. And they made an hangynge for the tabernacle dore: of Iacincte, scarlet, purple and twyned bysse of nedle worke, and the pilers of it were fiue with their knoppes, and ouerlayde the heades of them and the whooppes with golde, with their fiue sokettes of brasse.

The .xxxvij. Chapter

ANd bezalecl made the arcke of sethim wodd two cubettes and an halfe longe and a cubette and a halfe brode, and a cubett and a halfe hye: and ouerlayde it with fyne golde [Page] both within and without, and made a crowne of golde to it rounde aboute, and cast for it iiij. rynges of golde for the .iiij. corners of it: twoo rynges for the one syde and two for the other, and made staues of Sethim wodd, and couered them wyth golde, and put the staues in the rynges alonge by the syde of the arcke to bere it with all.

And he made the mercyseate of pure golde two cubettes and a halfe longe and one cubette and a halfe brode, and made two cherubyns of thicke golde apon the two endes off the mercyseate: One cherub on the one ende, and another cherub on the other ende of the mercyseate. And the cherubyns spredde out their wynges aboue an hye, and couered the mercyseate therewith, And their faces were one to another: euen to the mercyseate warde, were the faces of the cherubins.

And he made the table of sethim wodd two cubettes longe and a cubette brode, and a cubette and an halfe hyghe, and ouerlayde it with fine golde, and made thereto a crowne of golde rounde aboute, and made thereto an whope of an hande brede rounde aboute, and made vnto the whope a crowne of golde rounde aboute, and cast for it .iiij. rynges of golde ād put the rynges in the .iiij. corners by the fete: [Page] euen vnder the whope to put staues in to bere the table with all. And he made staues of Sethim wodd and couered them with golde to bere the table with all, and made the vessels that were on the table of pure golde, the dysshes, spones, flattpeces and pottes to poure with all,

And he made the candelsticke of pure thicke golde: both the candelsticke and his shaft: with braunces, bolles, knoppes ād floures procedynge out of it. Sixe braunches procedinge out of the sydes thereof .iij. out of the one syde and .iij. out of the other. And on euery braunche were iij. cuppes like vnto almondes, wyth knoppes and floures thorow out the sixe braunches that proceded out of the candelsticke. And apon the candelsticke selfe, were .iiij. cuppes after the facyon of almondes with knoppes and floures: vnder eueri two braunches a knoppe. And the knoppes and the braunches proceded out of it, and were all one pece of pure thicke golde. And he made seuen lampes thereto, and the snoffers thereof, ād fyrepānes of pure golde. An hundred weyghte of pure golde, made both it and all that belonged thereto.

And he made the cēsalter of sethī wodd of a cubett lōge ād a cubett brode: euē .iiij. square [Page] and two cubettes hye with hornes procedynge out of it. And he couered it with pure golde both the toppe ād the sydes rounde aboute ād the hornes of it, and made vnto it a crowne of golde rounde aboute. And he made two rynges of golde vnto it, euen vnder the croune apon ether syde of it, to put staues in for to bere it with al: and made staues of sethim wodd, ād ouerlayde them with golde. And he made the holy anoyntinge oyle and the swete pure incēs after the apothecarys crafte.

¶ The .xxxviij. Chapter

ANd he made the burntoffryngealter of sethim wodd, fiue cubettes longe ād. v cubettes brode: euen. iiij square, and .iij. cubettes hye. And he made hornes in the .iiij. corners of it procedinge out of it, and ouerlayde it with brasse. And he made all the vessels of the alter: the cauldrons, shovels, basyns, fleshokes and colepannes all of brasse.

And he made a brasen gredyren of networke vnto the alter rounde aboute alowe beneth vnder the compasse of the alter: so that it reached vnto halfe the altare, and cast .iiij. rynges of brasse for the .iiij. endes of the gredyren to put staues in. And he made staues of sethim wodd and couered them with brasse, and put the staues in the rynges alonge by the alter syde [Page] to bere it with all, and made the alter holowe with bordes.

And he made the lauer of brasse and the fo te of it also of brasse, in the syghte of them that dyd watch before the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse.

And he made the courte with hangynges of twyned bysse of an hundred cubettes longe vppon the southsyde, ād .xx. pilers with .xx. sokettes of brasse: but the knoppes of the pilers, ād the whoopes were syluer. And on the north syde the hanginges were an hundred cubettes longe with .xx. pilers and .xx. sokettes of brasse, but the knoppes and the whopes of the pilers were of syluer. And on the west syde, were hangynges of .l. cubettes longe, and .x. pilers with their .x. sokettes, and the knoppes ād the whoopes of the pilers were syluer. And on the east syde towarde the sonne rysynge, were hangynges of .l. cubettes: the hangynges of the one syde of the gate were .xv. cubettes longe, and their pilers .iij. with their. iij, sokettes. And off the other syde of the court gate, were hanginges also of .xv. cubettes longe and their pilers iii. with .iij. sokettes. Now all the hanginges of the courte rounde aboute, were of twyned bysse, ād the sokettes of the pilers were brasse: but the knoppes ād the whoopes of the pilers were [Page] syluer, and the heedes were ouerlayde wyth syluer, ād all the pilers of the courte were whoped aboute with syluer. And the hanginge of the gate of the courte was nedleworke: of Iacincte, scarlet, purple, and twyned bysse .xx. cubettes longe and fiue in the bredth, acordynge to the hangynges of the courte. And the pilers were .iiij. with .iiij. sokettes of brasse, ād the knoppes of syluer, ād the heedes ouerlayde with syluer and whoped aboute with syluer, ād all the pynnes of the tabernacle ād of the courte rounde aboute were brasse.

This is the summe of the habitacyō of witnesse, whiche was counted at the commaundment of Moses: and was the office of the Leuites by the hande of Ithamar sonne to Aaron the preast. And Bezaleel sonne of Vri sonne to Hur of the trybe of Iuda, made all that the Lorde commaunded Moses, and with hī Ahaliab sonne of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a cōnynge grauer ād a worker of nedle worke In Iacincte, scarlett, purple ād bysse.

All the golde that was occupyde apon all the worke of the holy place (whiche was the golde of the waueofferynge) was, xxix. hundred weyght and seuen hundred and .xxx. sycles, acordynge to the holy sycle. And the summe of syluer that came of the multitude, was▪ v [Page] score hundred weyght and a thousande seuen hundred and. lxxv, sycles of the holyesycle.

Euery man offrynge halfe a sycle after the weyght of the holye sycle amonge them that went to be nombred from .xx. yere olde and aboue, amonge .vj. hundred thousande ād .iij. thousande ād v. hundred ād .l. men.

And the .v. score hundred weyght of syluer, went to the castynge of the sokettes of the sanctuary and the sokettes of the vayle: an hundred sokettes of the fiue score hundred weigh an hundred weyght to euery sokette. And the thousaude seuen hundred and .lxxv. sycles, made knoppes to the pilers ād ouerlayde the heedes and whoped them.

And the brasse of the waue offerynge was lxx. hundred weyght and two thousande, and iiij. hundred sycles. And therewith he made the sokettes to the doore of the tabernacle of witnesse, and the brasen altare, and the brasen gredyren that longeth thereto, and all the vessels of the alter, and the sokettes of the courte rounde aboute, and the sokettes of the courte gate, and all the pynnes off the habitacyon, and all the pynnes of the courte rounde aboute.

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¶ The .xxxix. Chapter.

ANd of the Iacyncte, scarlet, purple and twyned bysse, they made the vestimētes of ministracion to do seruyce in in that holye place, and made the holye garmentes that perteyned to Aaron, as the Lorde▪ commaunded Moses.

And they made the Ephod of golde, Iacinte, scarlet, purple, and twyned bysse. And they dyd beate the golde in to thynne plates, ād cutte it in to wyres: to worke it in the Iacincte, sca [...] let, purple and the bysse, with broderd worke. And they made th [...] sydes come together, and cloosed them vp by the two edges. And the brodrynge of the girdel that was vpon it, was of the same stuffe and after the same worke of golde, Iacincte, scarlet, purple and twyned bysse, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And they wrought onix stones cloosed in ouches of golde and graued as sygnettes are grauen with the names of the children of Israel, and put them on the shulders of the Ephod that they shulde be a remembraunce off the childern of Israel, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And they made the bres [...]lappe of conning worke, after the worke of the Ephod: euen of golde, Iacincte, scarlet, purple ād twyned bysse [Page] And they made it .iiij. square ād double, an hā de bredth longe and an hande bredth brode. And thei filled it with .iiij. rowes of stones (the first rowe: Sardios, a Topas ād smaragdus. the secōde rowe: a Rubin, a Saphir ād a Diamōde The .iij. rowe: Ligurios, an Achat ād a Amatist. The fourth rowe: a Turcas, an Onix ād a Iaspis) closed in ouches of gold in their inclosers. And the .xij. stones were grauē as sygnet [...]es with the names of the childern of Israel: euery stone with his name, acordinge to the. xij trybes.

And they made apon the brestlappe, twoo fastenynge cheynes of wrethen worke ād pure golde. And they made two hokes of golde ād two golde rynges, and put the two rynges apō the two corners of the brestlappe. And they put the two chaynes of golde in the .ij. rynges, in the corners of the brestlappe. And the .ij. endes of the two cheynes they fastened in the .ij. hokes, ād put them on the shulders of the Ephod apon the forefront of it.

And they made two other rynges of golde and put them on the two other corners of the brestlappe alonge apon the edge of it, toward the insyde of the Ephod that is ouer agaynst it And they made yet two other golde rynges, ād put them on the .ij. sydes of the Ephod, beneth [Page] on the fore syde of it: euē where the sydes go [...] together, aboue apon the brodrynge of the Ephod, ād they strayned the brestlappe by his r [...] ges vnto the ringes of the Ephod, with laces of Iacincte, that it mighte lye fast apon the brodrynge of the Ephod, and shulde not be l [...]wsed from of the Ephod: as the Lorde cōmaū ded Moses.

And he made the tunycle vnto the Ephod of wouen worke and all together of Iacincte, ād the heade of the tunycle was in the middest of it as the color of a partlet, with a bonde rounde aboute the color, that it shulde not rent, And they made beneth apon the hem of the tunycle: pomgranates of Iacincte, scarlet, purple and twyned bysse, And they made litle belles of pure golde, ād put them amonge the pomgranates roūde aboute apō the edge of the tunycle a bell ād a pomgranate, a bell ād a pomgranate rounde aboute the hommes of the tunycle to mynistre in, as the Lorde commaunded Moses

And they made cotes of bysse of wouē worke for Aaron and his sonnes, and a mytre off bysse, and goodly [...]onettes of bysse, and lynen breches off twyned bysse, and a gyrdell of twyned bysse, Iacyncte, scarlett and purple: euen of nedle worke, as the Lorde cōmaūded Moses,

[Page]And they made the plate of the holy croune of fine golde, ād wrote apō [...] with grauē worke: the holynes of the Lorde. ād tyed it to a lace of Iacincte to fasten yt an hye apon the mytre, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

Thus was all the worke of the habitacyon of the tabernacle of witnesse, finysshed. And the childern of Israel dyd, acordyng to all that the Lorde had commaunded Moses. And they brought the habitacyon vnto Moses: the tent and all his apparell thereof: the buttones boordes, barres, pilers and sokettes: and the couerynge of rams skynnes red, and the couerynge of taxus skynnes, and the hanginge vayle, and the arcke of witnesse with the staues thereof, and the mercyseate: the table and all the ordinaunce thereof, and the shewbred, and the pure candelsticke, and the lampes prepared therevnto with all the vessells thereof, and the oyle for lyghtes, and the golden altare and the anoyntynge oyle and the swete cens, and the hangynge of the tabernacle doore, ād the brasen alter, and the gredyern of brasse longynge therevnto with his barres and all hys [...]essels, and the lauer with his fote, and the hanginges of the courte with his pilers and sokettes, and the hangynge to the courte gate, hys boordes and pynnes, ād al the ordinaunce that [Page] serueth to the habitacion of the tabernacle of witnesse, and the ministringe vestimentes to serue in the holy place, and the holy vestimentes of Aaron the preast and his sonnes raymē tes to ministre in: acordyng to all that the Lorde commaunded Moses: euen so the childern of Israel made all the worke. And Moses behelde all the worke: and se, they had done it euen as the Lorde commaunded: and thā Moses blessed them.

¶ The .xl. Chapter

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: In the first daye of the first moneth shalt thou sett vp the habitaciō of the tabernacle of witnesse, ād put therī the arcke of witnesse, and couer the arcke with the vayle, ād brynge in the table and apparell it, and brynge in the candelsticke and put on his lampes, and sett the censalter of golde before the arcke of witnesse, and put the hangynge of the dore vn to the habitacion. And sett the burntostrynge alter before the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, ād sett the lauer betwene the tabernacle of witnesse, ād the alter, ād put water theri, and make the court roūde aboute, ād set vp the hā gynge of the courte gate.

[Page]And take the anoyntinge oyle and anoynt the habitacion and all that is there in, and halowOf this texte the scole men dispute that the very s [...]e ringe alone maketh the prest now also with out the brestlapp of light and perfectinesse so that they haue all power thereby and what thei saye is done immediatly whether the [...] send to heven or hell, aud that with out preachynge ether of the la [...]e of God o [...] of his holy Gospell. it and all that belonge thereto: that it maye be holye. And anoynte the altar of the burntoffringes and all his vessels, and sanctifye the altar that it maye be most holye. And anoynte also the lauer and his fote, and sanctifye it.

Than brynge Aaron and his sonnes vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, and wash them with water. And put apon Aaron the holye vestmentes and anoynte him and sanctifye him that he maye ministre vnto me, that their * anoyntige maie be an euerlastinge preast hode vnto thē thorow out their generacions. And Moses dyd acordige to all that the Lorde commaunded him.

Thus was the tabernacle reared vp the first moneth in the secōde yere. And Moses rered vp the tabernacle ād fastened his sokettes, ād set vp the bordes ād put in their barres, ād rered vp the pillers, ād spred abrode the tēt ouer the habitaciō ād put the coueringe of the tent an hye aboue it: as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And he toke ād put the testimonye in the arke ād sett the staues to the arcke and put the merciseate an hye apon the arcke, and broughte [Page] the arcke in to the habitaciō and hanged vp the vayle ād couered the arcke of witnesse, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And he put the table in the tabernacle off witnesse in the north syde of the habitaciō with out the vayle, and set the bred in ordre before the Lorde, euē as the Lorde had commaunded Moses.

And he put the candelsticke in the tabernacle of witnesse ouer agaynst the table in the south syde of the habitacion, and set vp the lampes before the Lorde: as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And he put the golden alter in the tabernacle of witnesse before the vayle, ād brent swete cens there on as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And set vp the hangynge in the dore of the habitacion, and set the burntoffringe alter before the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, and offred burntoffringes and meatofferinges there on as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And he set the lauer betwene the tabernacle of witnesse and the alter, and poured water there in to wash with all. And both Moses Aaron and his sonnes washed their hādes and their fete there at: both when theywent in to the tabernacle of witnesse, or whē they went to the alter, as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses. [Page] And he [...]ered vp the courte rounde aboute the habitacion and the alter, and set vp the hanginge of the courte gate: and so Moses fynished the worke.

And the clowde couered the tabernacle of witnesse, and the glorye of the Lorde fylled the habitacion: so that Moses coude not entre in to the tabernacle of witnesse, because the clowde abode there in, and the glorye of the Lorde fylled the habitacion.

When the clowde was taken vp from of the habitacyō, the childern of Israel toke their iornayes as oft as they iornayed. And yf the clowde departed not, they iornayed nott till it departed: for the clowde of the Lorde was apon the habitacion by daye, and fyre by nyghte: in the sighte of all the house of Israel in all their iornayes.

The ende of the seconde boke of Moses:

Leviticus

Leviticus

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A PROLOGE IN TO THE thirde boke of Moses called Leuiticus.
¶ A prologe in to the thirde boke of Moses, called Leuiticus.

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THe ceremonies which are described in the boke folowinge, were cheflye ordined off God, (as I sayde in the ende of the prologe vppon Exodi) to occupye the mindes of that people the Israelites, and to kepe them from servinge of God after the imaginacyon of their blinde zele and good entent: that their conscience [...] might be stablished and they sure that they pleased God therein, which were impossible, yf a man did of his awne heed that which was not commaunded of God nor depēded of any appoyntement made betwene him and God. Soch ceremonies were vnto them as an A. B .C. to lerne to spelle and read, and as a nurce to fede them with milke and pappe, and to speake vnto them after their awne capacyte and to lispe the wordes unto them acording as the babes and childern of that age might sounde them agayne. For all that were before Christ were in the infancye and childhod of the worlde and sawe that sonne which we se openlye, but thorowe a cloude and had but feble and [Page] weake imaginacions of Christ, as childern haue of mennes deades, a fewe prophetes excep [...] whiche yet described him vnto other in sacrifices and ceremonies, likenesses, rydles, prouerbes, and darke and straunge speakinge vntyil the full age were come that God wold shewe him openlye vnto the whole worlde and delyuer them from their shadowes and cloudelight and the hethen out of their dead slepe of starcke blinde ignorancye. And as the shadowe vanisheth awaye at the comynge of the light, euen so doo the ceremonyes and sacrifices at the comynge of Christ, and are henceforth no moare necessarye then a token left in remembraunce of a bargayne is necessary whē the bargayne is fulfilled. And though they s [...] me playne childish, yet they be not altogither frutelesse: as the popettes and .xx. maner of try fles which mothers permitte vnto their yonge childern be not all in vayne. For all be it that soch phantasyes be permytted to satisfie the childers lustes, yet in that they are the mothers gifte and be done in place and tyme at hir cō maundement, they kepe the childern in awe and make them knowe the mother and also make them more apte agenste a more stronger age to obaye in thinges of greater [...]rneste.

[Page]And moraouer though sacrifices and ceremonies can be no ground or fundacion to bild apon: that is, though we can proue noughte with them: yet when we haue once sound oute Christ and his misteries, then we maye borow figures, that is to saye allegoryes, similitudes or examples to open Christ and the secrettes off God hyd in Christ euen vnto the quycke, and to declare them more lyuely and sensebly with them than with all the wordes of the worlde. For similitudes haue more vertue and power with them than bare wordes, and lead a mans wittes further in to the pithe and marye and spirituall vnderstondinge of the thinge, than all the wordes that can be imagined. And though also that all the ceremonies and sacrifices haue as it were a slerrelyght of Christ, yet some there be that haue as it were the lighte of the brode daye a litle before the sonne risinge, and expresse him, and the circumstaunces and vertue of his deth so playnly as if we shulde playe his passyon on a scaffold or in a stage play opē lye before the eyes of the people. As the scape gote, the brasen serpent, the oxe burnt without the hoste▪ the passeouerlambe &c. In so moch that I am fully persuaded and can not but beleue that God had shewed Moses the secrettes of Christ and the verey maner of his deth before [Page] hande, and commaunded him to ordene them for the confirmacion of oure faythes whiche are now in the cleare daye light. And I beleue also that the prophetes whiche folowed Moses to confirme his prophesyes and to mayntayne his doctrine vnto Christes cominge, were moued by soch thinges to serche further of Christes secrettes. And though God wold not haue the secrettes of Christ generallye knowne, saue vnto a few familier frendes which in that infancye he made of mans witte to helpe the other babes: yet as they had a generall promysse that one of the seed of Abrahā shuld come and blesse them, euen so they had a generall fayth that God wold by the same man saue them, though they wist not by what meanes as the very apostles when it was oft told them yet they coude neuer comprehend it, till it was fufilled in deade.

And beyonde all this their sacrifices ād ceremonies as farforth as the promyses annexed vnto them extende / so farforth they saued thē and iustified them and stode them in the same steade as oure sacramentes doo vs: not by the power of the sacrifice or deade it selfe, but by the vertue of the faith in the promysse whiche the sacrifice or ceremonye preached and wherof it was a token or sygne. For the ceremonies [Page] and sacrifices were lefte with them and commaunded them to kepe the promysse in remē braunce and to wake vpp their fayth. As it is not ynough to sende manye on errandes and to tell them what they shall doo: but they must haue a remembraunce with them, and it be but a ringe of a rush aboute one of their fingers. And as it is not ynough to make a bargayne with wordes onlye, but we must put thereto an oth and geue ernest to confirme the faithe off the person with whom it is made. And in like maner yf a man promysse, what soeuer trifull it be, it is not beleued excepte he hold vppe his finger also, soch is the wekenesse of the world. And therfore christ him silf vsed oftymes diuerse ceremonyes in curynge the s [...]ke, to sturre vpp their faith with all. As for an [...]nsample it was not the bloud of the lambe that saued thē in Egipte, when the angell smote the Egiptians: but the mercye of God and his truth wherof that bloude was a token and remembraunce to sturre vppe their faythes wyth all. For though God make a promysse, yet it saueth none finallye but them that longe for it and praye God with a stronge fayth to fulfill it for his mercye and truthe onlye and knowlege theyr vnworthynesse. And euen so oure sacramentes [Page] (yf they be truelye ministred) preach Christ vnto vs and leade oure faythes vnto Christ, by which faithe oure synnes are done awaye and not by the deade or worke of the sacrament. For as it was impossible that the bloude off calues shuld put awaye synne: euen so is it impossible that the water of the ryuer shuld wash oure hartes. Neuerthelesse the sacramentes clē se vs and absolue vs of oure synnes as the preastes doo, in preachinge of repentaunce and faith, for which cause ether other of them were ordened, but yf they preach not, whether it be the preast or the sacrament, so profitte they not.

And yf a man allege Christ Iohan in the. iij▪ chapter sayeng: Excepte a man be borne agayne of water and the holye goste he can not se the kingdome of God, and will therfore that the holy gost is present in the water and therfore the verye deade or worke doth put awaye synne: then I will send him vnto Paule whiche axeth his Galathians whether they receaued the holy goste by the deade of the lawe or by preachinge of faith and there concludeth that the holy gost accōpanyeth the preaching of faith, ād with the worde of faith, entreth the harte ād purgeth it, which thou mayst also vnderstonde by saynt Paule sayenge: ye are borne [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] a new out of the water thorowe the worde. So now if baptim preach me the wasshing in christes bloude, so doth the holy gost accompa [...]y it and that deade of preachinge thorow fayth doth put awaye my synnes. For the holy gost is no dome god nor no god that goeth a mummige. Yf a man saye of the sacrament of Christes bodye ād bloud that it is a sacrifice as well for the dead as for the quycke and therfore the very deed it self iustifieth and putteth awaye synne. I answere that a sacrifice is the sleynge off the body of a beest or a man: wherfore yf it be a sacrifice, then is christes body there slayne ād his bloude there shed: but that is not so. And therfore it is properly no sacrifice but a sacrament and a memoriall of that euerlastinge sacrifice once for all which he offered apon the crosse now apon a .xv. hundred yeres a go and preacheth only vnto them that are alyue. And as for them that be dead, it is as profitable vnto them as is a candell in a lantrene without light vnto them that walke by the waye in a darke night, and as the gospell song in laten is vnto them that vnderstond none at all, and as a sermon preached to him that is dead and hereth it not. It preacheth vnto them that are a lyue only, for they that be dead, yf they dyed in the faith which that sacrament preacheth, they [Page] be faffe and are past all i [...]opardye. For when they were alyue their hartes loued the lawe off God and therfore synned not, and were sory that their membres synned and euer moued to synne, and therfore thorow faith it was forgeuen them. And now their synnefull membres be dead, so that they can now synne no more, wherfore it is vnto them that be dead nether sacrament nor sacrifice: But vnder the pretence of their soule health it is a servaunt vnto oure spiritualtyes holy coue [...]nousnesse and an extorcyonar and a bylder of Abayes, Colleges, Chauntryes and cathedrall chirches with false gotē good, a pick purse, a pollar, ād a bottomlesse bagge

Some man wold happely saye, that the prayers of the masse helpe moch: not the lyuinge only, but also the dead. Of the hote fire of their farvent prayer which consumeth faster then all the world is able to bringe sacrifice, I haue sayde sufficiently in other places. Howe be it it is not possible to bringe me in beleffe that the prayer which helpeth h [...] awne master vnto no vertue, shuld purchesse me the forgeuesse of my synnes. If I sawe that their prayers had obtayned thē grace to lyue soch a liffe as goddes worde did not rebuke, then coud I sone be borne in hande that what soeuer they axed off [Page] God their prayers shuld not be in vayne. But now what good can he wysh me in his prayers that envieth me Christ the fode and the liffe of my soule? What good can he wish me whose herte cleaveth a sundre for payne when I am taught to repent of my euell?

Forthermore because that fewe knowe the vse of the olde testament, and the moste parte thinke it nothinge necessarye but to make alle goryes, which they fayne euery mā after hys awne brayne at all wyle advēture without any certayne rule: therfore (though I haue spoken off them in another place) yet lest the boke come not to all mennes handes that shall reade this, I will speake off them here also a worde or twayne.

We had nede to take hede euery where that we be not begyled with false allegories, whether they be drawne out of the new testament, or the olde, ether out of any other storye or off the creatures of the worlde, but namely in this boke. Here a man had nede to put on all his spectacles and to arme him selfe agenst invisible spretes.

First allegories proue nothinge (and by allegories vnderstonde examples or similitudes borowed of straunge matters and of another thinge than that thou entreatest oft) As though [Page] circumcysyon be a figure of baptim, yet thou canst not proue baptim by circumcysion For this argumēt were verye feble, the Israelites were circūcysed therfore we must be baptised. And in like maner though the offering of Isaac were a figure or ensample oft the resurrection, yet is this argument nought, Abraham wold haue offered Isaac, but God delyuered him from deth, therfore we shall ryse agayne, and so forth in all other.

But the very vse of allegories is to declare and open a texte that it maye be the better perceaved and vnderstonde. As when I haue a cleare texte of Christ and of the apostles, that I must be baptysed, then I maye borowe an ensample of circumcysion to expresse the nature power and frute or effecte of baptim. For as circumcysion was vnto them a comon bagge sygnifienge that they were all sodiars off God to warre his warre and separatinge them from all other nacyons disobedient vnto God: euen so baptim is oure comen bagge and sure ernest and perpetuall memoriall that we pertayne vnto Christ and are separated from all that are not christes. And as circumcision was a token certifyenge them that they were receaved vnto the fauoure off God and theyr [Page] sinner forgeven them: even so baptim certefyeth vs that we are wasshed in the bloude of christ ād receaued to fauoure for his sake. and as circumcysion signifyed vnto thē the cuttynge away of theyr awne lustes and sleynge of their fre will, as they call it, to folowe the will of god even so baptim signyfgeth vnto vs repentaunce and the mortefyinge of oure vnruly mēbres and body of synne, to walke in a new lyffe and so forth.

And likewyse though that the savinge of Noe and of them that were with him in the shyppe, thorow water, is a figure, that is to saye an ensample and likenesse of baptim, as Peter maketh it. 1. Petri 3. yet I can not proue baptim therwith, saue describe it only. for as the sheyppe saved thē in the water thorow faith, in that they beleved god and as the other that wold not beleve Noe peryshed: even so baptim saveth vs thorow the worde of faith which it preacheth when all the world of the vnbelevinge perysh. And Paule. 1. Corin. 10. maketh the see ād the cloude a figure of baptim, by which and a thousand mo I might declare it but not proue it. Paule also in the sayde place maketh the rocke out of which Moses brought water vnto the childerne of Israel a figure or ensample of christ / not to proue christ (for that were impossible) [Page] but to describe christ only: even as christ hisilf Iohānis. 3. boroweth a similitude or figure of the brasen serpent to lead Nichodemus frō his erthy imaginacyon in to the spirituall vnderstondinge of christ sayenge: As Moses lyftedvpp a serpent in the wildernesse, so must the sonne of man be lifted vpp, that none that beleue in him perysh but haue everlastinge liffe. by which similitude the vertue of christes deth is better described then thou coudest declare it with a thousande wordes. for as those murmurars agenst god as sone as they repented were healed of their deadly woundes thorow lokynge on the brasen serpent only without medicyne or any other helpe, yee ād without any other reason but that god hath sayed it shuld be so / and not to murmoure agayne, but to leue their murmuringe: even so all that repent ād beleue in christ are saved from euerlastinge deth / of pure grace without and before their good workes / and not to synne agayne, but to fight agaynst synne ād henceforth to synne no moare.

Even so with the ceremonyes of this boke thou canst prove nothinge saue describe and declare only the puttyng awaye. of oure synnes thorow the deth of christ. for christ is Aaron and Aarons sonnes and all that offer the sacrifyce to purge synne, And christ is all mane [...] [Page] offering that is offered: he is the oxe, the shepe the gote, the kyd and lambe: he is the oxe that is burnt without the host and the scape gote that caryed all the synne of the people awaye in to the wildernesse. for as they purged the people frō their wordly vnclennesses thorow bloud of the sacrifices / even so doth christ purge vs from the vnclennesses of everlastinge deth with his awne bloude. and as their wordly synnes coude no otherwyse be purged then by bloude of sacrifyce / even so can oure synnes be no otherwyse forgeven then thorow the bloude of christ. All the deades in the world, saue the bloude of christ, can purchase no forgevenesse of synnes: for oure deades do but helpe oure neyghboure and mortefye the flesh ād helpe that we synne no moare / but and if we haue synned / it must be frely forgeven thorow the bloude of christ or remayne ever.

And in lyke maner of the lepers thou canst prove nothinge: thou canst never coniure ou [...] confessiō thense, how be it thou hast an handsome example there to open the bindinge and lowsinge of oure preastes with the kaye of goddes word▪ for as they made no man a lepre even so oures haue no power to commaunde any man to be in synne or to go to purgatory or hell. And therefore (in as moch as bindinge [Page] and lowsinge is one power) As those preastes healed no man / even so oures can not of their inviseble and domme power dryve any mannes synnes awaye or delyver hym from hell or fayned purgatorye. how be it if they preached gods word purely which is the authorite that christ gaue them / then they shuld binde ād lowse / kylle and make alyve agayne, make vncle [...]ne and cleane agayne / and send to hell ād fett thence agayne / so mighty is gods word. for if they preached the lawe of god, they shuld bind the consciences of synners with the bondes of the paynes of hell and bringe them vnto repē taunce. And then if they preached them the mercye that is in christ / they shuld lowse them and quiet their raginge consciences and certefie them of the fauoure of god and that their synnes be forgeven.

Fynallye beware of allegoryes / for there is not a moare handsome or apte a thinge to be gile withall then an allegorye / nor a more sotle and pestilent thinge in the world to persuade a false mater then an allegorye. And contrary wyse there is not a better / vehementer or myghtyer thinge to make a man vnderstond with all then an allegory. For allegoryes make a man qwick witted and prynte wysdome [Page] in him and maketh it to abyde, to here bare wordes go but in at the one eare and out at the other. As this with soch like sayenges: put salt to all youre sacrifices, in steade of this sentence, do all youre deades with discrecion, greteth and biteth (yf it be vnderstond) moare thē playne wordes. And when I saye in steade off these wordes bost not youre self of your good deades, eate not the bloude nor the fatt of youre sacrifice, there is as great differēce betwene them as there is distaunce betwene heauen ād erth. For the liffe and beutye of all good deades is of God and we are but the caren leane, we are onlye the instrument whereby god worketh only, but the power is his. As god created Paule a newe, poured hys wisdome in to him, gaue him mighte and promysed him that his grace shuld neuer fayle him &c. and all without deservinges, excepte that nurteringe the sayntes and makinge them curse and rayle on Christ be meritorious. Now as it is death to eate the bloude or fatte of any sacrifice, is it not (thinke ye) damnable to robbe god of his honoure and to gloryfye my self with his honoure?

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¶ The THYRDE BOke of Moses. Called Leuiticus.
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¶ The firste Chapter.

ANd the Lorde called Moses, And spake vnto him oute off the tabernacle of witnesse sayenge, Speake vnto the childern of Israel, and saye vnto them. Who soeuer of you shall bringe a gifte vnto the Lorde, shall bringe it of the catell: euen of the oxen and of the shepe.

Yf he brynge a burntoffrynge of the oxen he shall offre a male without blimesh, and shal brynge▪ him to the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, that he maye be accepted before the Lorde. And let him put his hande apon the heed of the burntsacrifice, and fauoure shalbe geuen him to make an attonemēt for hym, ād let him kyll the oxe before the Lorde. And let the preastes Aarons sonnes brynge the bloude and let them sprinckell it rounde aboute apon the alter that is before the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, And let the burntoffrynges be strypped and hewed in peces. And thē let the sonnes of Aaron the preast put fire apō the alter and put wodd apon the fire, and let them laye the peces with the heed and the fatte, apon the wod that is on the fire in the alter. [Page] But the inwardes ād the legges they shall wash in water, and the preast shall burne altogither apon the alter, that it be a burntsacrifice, and an offerynge of a swete odoure vnto the Lorde.

Yf he will offer a burntsacrifice of the shepe whether it be of the lambes or of the gootes: he shall offer a male without blimesh. And let him kyll it on the north syde of the alter, before the Lorde. And let the preastes Aarons sonnes sprinkle the bloude of it, rounde aboute apon the alter. And let it be cut in peces: euen with his heed and his fatte, and let the preast putte them apon the wodd that lyeth apon the fire in the alter. But let him wash the inwardes and the legges with water, and than bringe altogether and burne it apon the alter: that is a burntoffrynge and a sacrifice of swete sauoure vnto the Lorde.

Yf he will offer a burntoffrynge of the foules he shall offer eyther of the turtyll doues or of the ionge pigeons. And the preast shall brynge it vnto the alter, and wrynge the necke a sundre of it, and burne it on the alter, and let the bloude runne out apon the sydes of the alter, ād plucke awaye his croppe ād his fethers, ād cast thē besyde the alter on the east parte vppō the hepe of asshes, ād breke his winges but [Page] plucke thē not a sundre. And thē let the preast burne it vpō the alter, euē apō the wodd that lyeth apō the fire, a burntsacrifice ād an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde.

¶ The seconde Chapter.

YF any soule will offer a meatoffrynge vnto the Lorde, his offerynge shalbe fine floure, and he shall poure thereto oyle ād put frankencens theron and shall bringe it vnto Aarons sonnes the preastes. And one of them shall take thereout his handfull of the floure, and of the oyle with all the frankencēs, ād burne it for a memoriall apō the alter: an offryng of a swete sauoure vnto the Lord. And the rēnaunt of the meatofferynge shalbe Aarons ād his sonnes, as a thinge most holye of the sacrifices of the Lorde.

Yf any mā bringe a meatoffrynge that is bakē in the ouē, let him brynge swete cakes of fine floure mingled with oyle, ād vnleuended wafers anoynted with oyle. Yf thy meatoffrynge be baken in the fryenge pan, then it shalbe of swete floure mingled with oyle. And thou shalt mynce it small, ād poure oyle thereon: ād so is it a meatoffrynge.

Yf thy meatofferynge be a thynge broyled vppon the greadyerne, of floure myngled with oyle it shalbe. And thou shalt brynge the [Page] meatoffryng that is made of these thinges vnto the Lorde, and shalt delyuer it vnto the preast, and he shall brynge it vnto the altare and shall heue vppe parte of the meatoffrynge for a memoriall, and shall burne it apon the alter: an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. And that which is left of the meatofferynge shalbe Aarons and his sonnes, as a thynge that is most holye of the offerynges off the Lorde.

All the meatoffrynges which ye shall brynge vnto the Lorde, shalbe made without leuē. For ye shall nether burne leuen nor honye in any offerynge of the Lord▪ Notwithstondinge ye shall bryng the firstlynges of them vnto the Lorde: But they shall not come apon the alter to make a swete sauoure.

All thy meatofferynges thou shalt salt with salt: nether shalt thou soffre the salt of the couenaunt of thy God to be lackynge from thy meatofferynge: but apon all thyne offerynges thou shalt brynge salt.

Yf thou offer a meatofferynge of the firstripe frutes vnto the Lorde, then take of that which is yet grene and drye it by the fire ād beat it small, and so offer the meatofferynge of thy firstrype frutes. And than poure oyle there to, and put frankencens thereon: and so it is a [Page] meatoffrynge. And the preast shall burne parte of the beten corne and parte of that oyle, with all the frākencens: for a remembraunce. That is an offerynge vnto the Lorde.

¶ The thyrde Chapter

YF any man brynge a peaceofferynge of the oxen: whether it be male or female, he shall brynge such as is without blemysh, before the Lorde, and let him put his hande apon the heed of his offerynge, and kyll it before the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And Aarons sonnes the preastes, shall sprinkle the bloude apon the alter rounde aboute. And they shall offre of the peaceofferynge to be a sacrifice vnto the Lord: the fatt that couereth the inwardes and all the fatt that is apon the inwardes: and the two kydneys with the fatt that lyeth apon the loynes: and the kall that ys on the lyuer, they shall take awaye with the kydneyes. And Aarons sonnes shall burne them apon the alter with the burntsacrifice which is apon the wodd on the fire. That is a sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde.

Yf a man brynge a peaceoffrynge vnto the Lorde from of the flocke: whether it be male, or female, it shalbe without blemysh. Yf he offre a lambe, he shall brynge it before the Lord [Page] and put his hande apon his offrynges heede / and kyll it in the doore off the tabernacle off wytnesse / and Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle the bloude thereof rounde aboute the alter.

And of the peaseoffringe they shall brynge a sacrifyce vnto the Lorde: the fatt there of ād the rompe altogether, which they shall take off harde by the backe bone: and the fatt that coue reth the inwardes and all the fatt that is apon the inwardes and the▪ ij. kydneyes with the fatt that lyeth apon them and apon the loynes, and the kall that is apon the lyuer he shall take awaye with the kydneyes. And the preast shall burne them apon the alter to fede the Lordes offrynge with all.

Yf the offrynge be a goote, he shall brynge it before the Lorde and put his hande apon the head of it and kyll it before the tabernacle of witnesse / and the sonnes of Aaron shall sprinkle the bloude thereof apon the alter rounde aboute. And he shall brynge thereof his offrynge vnto the Lordes sacrifyce: the fatt that couereth the inwardes and all the fatt that is apō the inwardes and the▪ ij. kydneyes and the fatt that lyeth apon them and apon the loynes, and the kall that is apō the lyuer he shall take awaye with the kydneyes. And the preast shall burne them apō the alter to fede the Lordes sacrifyce [Page] wyth all ād to make a swete sauoure. And thus shal all the fatt be the Lordes / and it shalbe a la we forever amonge youre generacions after you in youre dwellynge places: that ye eate nether fatt nor bloude.

¶ The .IIII. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde talked with Moses saynge: speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye: when a soule synneth thorow ignoraunce and hath done any of those thinges which the Lorde hath forbydden in his commaundmentes to be done: Yf the preast that is anoynted synne and make the people to doo amysse / he shall brynge for his synne which he hath done: an oxe wythout blemysh vnto the Lorde for a synneoffrynge. And he shall brynge the oxe vn to the dore of the tabernacle of wytnesse before the Lorde, and shall put his hande apon the oxes heade and kyll him before the Lorde. And the preast that is anoynted shall take of the oxes bloude and brynge it in to the tabernacle of witnesse and shall dyppe his fynger in the bloude and sprinkle thereof .vij. tymes before the Lorde: euen before the hangynge of the holy place. And he shall put some of the bloude apon the hornes of the alter of swete cens before the Lorde which is in the [Page] tabernacle of witnesse, and shall poure all the bloude of the oxe apon the botome of the alter of burntofferynges which is by the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And he shall take awaye all the fatt of the oxe that is the synneofferynge: the fatt that couereth the inwardes and all the fatt that is aboute them, and the .ij. kydneyes with the fatt that lyeth apon thē and apon the loynes, and the kall apon the lyuer let them take awaye also with the kydneyes: as it was taken from the oxe of the peaceoffrynge and let the preast burne them apon the altare of burntofferynges. But the skynne of the oxe and all his flesh with his heede, his legges, his inwardes with his donge, shall he carye altogither out of the hoste vnto a clene place: euen where the asshes are poured out, and burne h [...] on wodd with fyre: euen apon the heape of asshes.

Yf the hole comynalte of the childern of Israel synne thorow ygnoraunce and the thynge be hyd from their eyes: so that they haue commytted any of these thinges which the Lorde hath forbidden to be done in his commaundmentes ād haue offended, ād the synne which they haue synned be afterwarde knowne, than shal they offre an oxe for a synneofferynge ād shall brynge him before the tabernacle of witnesse, [Page] and the elders of the multitude shall put their handes apon his heed before the Lorde And the preast that is anoynted shall brynge of his bloude in to the tabernacle of witnesse, and shall dyppe his finger in the bloude, and sprinkle it seuen tymes before the Lorde: euen before the uayle. And shall put of the bloude apon the hornes of the alter whiche is before the Lorde in the tabernacle of witnesse, and shall poure all the bloude apon the botome of the alter of burntoffrynges which is by the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, and shall take all his fatt from him and burne it apon the altare, and shall do with his oxe as he dyd wyth the synneoffrynge oxe. And the preast shal make an attonement for them, ād so it shalbe forgeuen them. And he shall brynge the oxe without the hoste, ād burne him as he burned the first, so is this the synneofferynge of the comynalte.

When a Lorde synnneth and committeth thorow ignoraunce any of these thynges whiche the Lorde his God hath forbydden to be done in his commaundmentes and hath so offended: when his synne is shewed vnto him which he hath synned, he shall brynge for hys offerynge an he goote without blemysh and laye his hande apon the heed of it, and kyll it in [Page] the place where the burntofferynges are kylled before the Lorde: this is a synneoffrynge. Thā let the preast take of the bloude of the synneoffrynge with his finger, and put it apon the hornes of the burntofferyngalter, and poure his bloude apon the botome of the burntofferyngealter and burne all his fatt apon the alter as he doth the fatt of the peaceofferynges. And the preast shall make an attonement for him as concernynge his synne, and so it shalbe forgeuen him.

Yf one of the comē people of the londe synne thorowe ignoraunce and committe any off the thinges which the Lorde hath forbidden, in his commaundementes to be done and so hath trespased, when his synne whiche he hath synned is come to his knowlege, he shall bringe for his offerynge, a she goote without blemish for his synne which he hath synned, and laye his hande apon the heed of the synneofferynge ād slee it in the place of burntoffrynges. And the preast shall take of the bloude with his finger ād put it apō the hornes of the burntoffryngealter and poure all the bloude apō the botome of the alter, ād shall take awaye all his fatt as the fatt of the peaceoffrynges is takē awaye. And the preast shal burne it apō the alter for a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde, and [Page] [...]he preast shall make an attonemēt for him ād [...] shalbe forgeuen him.

yf he bringe a shepe ād offer it for a synneofferynge, he shall bringe a yewe without blemi [...]h and laye his hande apon the heed of the synneofferynge and slee it in the place where the burntoffrynges are slayne. And the preast shal take of the bloude of the synneofferynge with his finger, ād put it apō the hornes of the burntoffryngealter, ād shall poure all the bloude thereof vnto the botome of the alter. And he shall take awaye all the fatt thereof, as the fatte of the shepe of the peaceoffringes was takē awaye. And the preast shall burne it apō the alter for the lordes sacrifice, and the preast shal make an attonemēt for his synne, and it shalbe forgeuen him.

¶ The, v. Chapter.

[...]Hē a soule hath synned ād herde the voyce of cursyng ād is a witnesse: whether he hath sene or knowne of it yf he haue not vttered it, he shall bete his synne. Ether when a mā toucheth any vnclene thinge: whether it be the caryon of an vnclene beest or of vnclene ca [...]ell or vnclene worme and is not warre of it, he is also vnclene and hath offended. Ether when he toucheth any vnclennesse of mā (what soeuer vnclennesse it be that a man is defyled with all) and is not warre of it and afterwarde [Page] cometh to the knowlege of it, he is a t [...] spaser. Ether when a soule sweareth: so thathe pronounceth with his lippes to do euell or to do good (what soeuer it be that a man prouounceth with an othe) and the thinge be out of his mynde and afterwarde cometh to the knowlege of it, than he hath offended in one of these.

Than when he hath synned in one of these thinges, he shall confesse that wherein that he hath synned, and shall bringe his trespace offerynge vnto the Lorde for his synne which he hath synned. A female from the flocke, whether it be an yewe or a she goote, for a synneofferynge. And the preast shall make an attonement for him for his synne. But yf he be not able to brynge a shepe, then let him brynge for his trespace which he hath synned, two turtyll doues or two yonge pygeons vnto the Lorde one for a synneoffrynge and another for a burntofferynge. And he shall brynge them vnto the preast, which shall offer the synneoffrynge first and wringe the necke a sundre of it, but plucke it not clene of. And let him sprinkle of the bloude of the synneofferynge apon the syde of the alter, and let the reste of the bloude blede apon the botome of the alter, and than it is a synneofferynge. And let him offer the seconde [Page] for a burntoffrynge as the maner is: ād so shall the preast make an atonement for him for the synne which he hath synned, and it shal be forgeuen him.

And yet yf he be not able to brynge .ij. turtyll doues or two yonge pigeons, then let hym brynge his offerynge for his synne: the tenth parte of an Epha of fine floure for a synneofferynge, but put none oyle thereto nether put ony frankencens thereon, for it is a synneofferinge. And let him brynge it to the preast, and the preast shall take his handfull of it and burne it apon the alter for a remembraunce to be a sacryflce for the Lorde: that is a synneoffrynge. And let the preast make an atonement for him for his synne (what soeuer of these he hath synned) and it shalbe forgeuen. And the remnaūte shalbe the preastes, as it is in the meate offerynge.

And the Lorde comyned with Moses sayenge: when a soule trespaceth ād synneth thorow ignoraunce in any of the holy thinges of the Lorde, he shall brynge for his trespace vnto the Lord, a ram without blymesh out of the flocke valowed at two sycles after the holy sycle, for a trespaceofferynge. And he shall make amendes for the harme that he hath done in the holy thynge, and put the fifte parte moare [Page] to and geue it vnto the preast. And the preast shall make an attonemēt for him with the ram of the trespaceofferynge, and it shalbe forgeuē hym.

When a soule synneth and committeth any of these thinges which are forbiddē to be done by the cōmaundmentes of the Lorde: though he wist it not, he hath yet offended and is* in synne, ād shall brīge a ram without blymesh out of the flocke that is estemed to be worthe a synneofferynge, vnto the preast. And the preast shall make an attonement for him for the ignoraunce whiche he dyd and was not ware, and it shalbe forgeuen him. This is a trespaceofferynge, for he trespaced agaynst the Lorde.

And the Lorde talked with Moses sayenge: when a soule synneth ād trespaceth agaynst the Lorde and denyed vnto his neyghboure that which was taken him to [...]epe, or that was put vnder his hande, or that which he hath violently taken awaye, or that whiche he hath deceaued his neyghboure off wyth sotylte, or hath founde that whiche was loste and denyeth it, and swereth falsely, in what soeuer thinge it be that a man doth and synneth therein, Then when he hath synned or trespaced, he shall restore agayne that he toke violently awaye, [Page] or the wronge whiche he dyd, or that whiche was delyuered him to kepe, or the lost thinge which he founde, or what soeuer it be abouteVnto my neybour pertayneth sault [...] [...]ō, but vnto god repētaunce: and thē the sacrifice or christes bloude is a [...] satisfaccion, ād attonemēt [...]d a pealinge of alwrath. which he hath sworne falsely, * he shall restore it agayne in the whole sūme and shal adde the fifte parte moare thereto and geue it vnto him to whome it pertayneth, the same daye that he offereth for his trespace, and shall brynge for his trespace offerynge vnto the Lorde, a ram without blymesh out of the flocke, that is estemed worth a trespaceofferynge vnto the preast. And the prest shall make an atonemēt for him before the Lorde, ād it shall be forgeuē hī in what soeuer thinge it be that a mā doth ād trespaceth therein.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge. Commaunde Aaron and his sonnes saynge: this is the lawe of the burntoffrynge. The burntofferynge shalbe apon the herth of the alter all nyghte vnto the mornynge, and the fire of the alter shall burne therein. And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh, and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter, ād thē put off his raymēt ād put on other [Page] and carye the asshes out without the hoste vnto a clene place.

The fire that is apon the alter shall burne therein and not goo out. And the preast shall put wodd on the fire euery morninge ād put the burntsacrifice apon it, and he shall burne thereon the fatt of the peaceofferynges. The fire shall euer burne apon the alter and neuer goo out.

This is the lawe of the meatoffrynge: Aarons sonnes shall bringe it before the Lorde, vnto the alter: and one of them shall take hys handfull of the floure of the meatoffrynge ād of the oyle with all the frankencens whiche ys thereon and shall burne it vnto a remēbraunce apon the alter to be a swete sauoure of the memoriall of it vnto the Lorde. And the rest the reof, Aaron ād his sonnes shall eate: vnleuended it shalbe eaten in the holy place: euē in the courte of the tabernacle of witnesse they shall eate it. Their parte whiche I haue geuen them of my sacrifice, shall not be baken with leuen, for it is most holye, as is the synneofferynge, and trespaceoffrynge. All the males amonge the childern of Aaron, shall eate of it: and it shalbe a dutye for euer vnto youre generacyons of the sacrifices of the Lorde, nether shal any man twytche it, but he that is halowed.

[Page]And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: this is the offrynge of Aaron ād of his sonnes which he shall offer vnto the Lorde in the daye when they are anoynted: the tenth parte of an Epha of floure, which is a dayly meatofferinge perpetually: halfe in the morninge and halfe at nighte: ād in the fryenge pan it shalbe made withoyle. And whē it is fryed, thou snalt brynge it in as a baken meatofferynge mynsed small, and shalt offer it for a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. And that preast of his sonnes that is anoynted in his steade, shall offer it: ād it shall be the lordes dutye for euer, and it shal be burnt altogether. For all the meatoffrynges of the preastes shalbe burnt altogether, ād shal not be eaten.

And the Lorde talked with Moses sayenge: speake vnto Aaron and vnto his sonnes and saye. This is the lawe of the synneoffrynge, In the place where the burntofferynge is kylled, shall the synneofferynge be kylled also before the Lorde, for it is most holy. The preast that offereth it shall eate it in the holye place: evē in the courte of the tabernacle of witnesse Noman shall touche the flesh thereof, saue he that is halowed. And yf any rayment be sprynckled therewyth, it shalbe wasshed in an holy place, and the erthē pott that it is soddē in [Page] shalbe broken. Yf it be sodden in brasse, then the pott shalbe scoured and plunged in the water. All the males amonge the childern of Aarō shall eate therof, for it is most holy. Notwithstōdinge no synneofferynge that hath his bloude brought in to the tabernacle of witnesse to reconcyle with all in the holy place, shalbe eaten: but shalbe burnt in the fire.

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

THis is the lawe of the trespace offerynge which is most holy. In the place where the burntoffrynge is kylled, the trespace offrynge shalbe kylled also: ād his bloude shalbe sprikled rounde aboute apon the alter. And all the fatt thereof shalbe offered: the rompe and the fatt that couered the inwardes, and the .ij. kydneyes with the fatt that lyeth on them and apon the loynes: and the kall on the lyuer shalbe taken awaye with the kydneyes, And the preast shall burne them apon the altare, to be an offerynge vnto the Lorde: this is a trespace offerynge.

All the males amonge the preastes shal eate thereof in the holy place, for it is most holy. As the synne offerynge is, so is the trespace offerynge, one lawe serueth for both: and it shall be the preastes that reconcyleth therewith.

[Page]And the preast that offered a mans burntofferynge, shall haue the skyn of the burntofferynge which he hath offered. And all the meatofferynges that are baken in the ouen, ād all that is dressed apon the gredyerne ād in the fryenge pan, shalbe the preastes that offereth them. And all the meatofferynges that are myngled with oyle or drye, shall pertayne vnto all the sonnes of Aaron, and one shall haue as moche as another.

This is the lawe of the peaceoffringes whiche shalbe offered vnto the Lorde. Yf he offer to geue thanckes, he shall brynge vnto his thanckofferynge: swete cakes myngled with oyle and swete wafers anoynted with oyle, and cakes myngled with oyle of fine floure fryed, ād he shall brynge his offerynge apon cakes made of leuended bred vnto the thanckoffrynge of his peaceofferynges, ād of them all he shall offer one to be an heueoffrynge vnto the Lorde, ād it shalbe the preastes that sprynkleth the bloude of the peaceofferynges. And the fleshe of the thankofferynge of his peaceofferynges shalbe eaten the same daye that it is offred, and there shall none of it be layde vpp vntyll the mornynge.

Yf it be a vowe or a fre willofferynge that he bryngeth, the same daye that he offereth it, [Page] It shalbe eaten, and that which remayneth may be eaten on the morowe: but as moche of the offered flesh as remaneth vnto the thirde daye shalbe burned with fire. For yf any of the flesh of the peaceoffrynges be eaten the thirde daye then shall he that offered it optayne no fauour, nether shall it be rekened vnto him: but shalbe an abhomynacion, and the soule that eateth of it shall beare the synne thereof.

The flesh that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire: and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate flesh. Yf any soule eate of the flesh of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole. Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ād thē eate of the flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye. Ye shall eate no maner fatt of oxen, shepe or gootes: neuer the later the fatt of the beest that dyeth alone ād the fatt of that which is torne with wilde beestes, maye be occupide in all maner [Page] vses: but ye shal in no wise eate of it. For whosoeuer eateth the fatt of the beest of which mē bring an offring vnto the Lorde, that soule that eateth it shall perissh frō his people. Moreouer ye shall eate no maner of bloud, wheresoeuer ye dwell, whether it be of foule or of beest. What soeuer soule it be that eateth any maner of bloude the same soule shal perisshe frō his people.

And the Lorde talked with Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childrē of Israel ād saye He that offereth his peaceofferynge vnto the Lord, shall bringe his gifte vnto the Lord of his peaceoffrynges: his owne handes shal bringe the offrynge of the Lorde: euē the fatt apō the brest he shall bringe with the brest to waue it a waueoffrynge before the Lorde. And the preast shall burne the fatt apon the alter, ād the brest shalbe Aarōs ād his sonnes. And the right shulder they shall geue vnto the preast, to be an heueoffrynge, of their peaceoffringes. And the same that offreth the bloud of the peaceoffringes ād the fatt, amōg the sōnes of Aarō, shall haue the right shulder vnto his parte, for the wauebrest ād the heueshulder I haue takē of the childern of Israel, euen of their peace offringes, ād haue geuē it vnto Aarō the prest and vnto his sonnes: to be a dutie for euer of [Page] the childern of Israel.

This is the anoyntinge of Aaron ād of the sacryfices of the Lorde, in the daye when they were offered to be preastes vnto the Lorde, whiche the Lorde commaunded to be geuen them in the daye when he anoynted them, of the childern of Israel, and to be a dutie for euer amonge their generacions. This is the lawe of burntoffrynges, of meatoffrynges, of synne offrynges, of trespaceoffrynges, of full offrynges, of peaceoffrynges, which the Lorde commaunded Moses in the mount of Sinai, in the daye when he commaunded the childern of Israel to offer their offrynges vnto the Lorde in the wildernesse of Sinai.

The .viij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge:Hence the pope fett holowenge of chirches, alters, font, belles ād so forthe, and the anoyntinge of bissnopes preastes, and soch like. take Aaron and his sonnes with hī, and the vestures and the anoyntinge oyle, and an oxe for a synneofferynge and two rammes ād a baskett of swete bred: ād gather all the comentye together vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaunded him, and the people gathered them selues togither vnto the doore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And Moses sayde vnto the people: this is the thinge which the Lorde commaunded to do.

[Page]And Moses broughte Aaron and his sonnes, and wasshed them with water, and put apon him the albe and gyrde him with a girdel and put apon him the tunycle and put the Ephod thereon, and gyrded him with the broderd girdel of the Ephod, and bounde it vnto him therewith. And he put the brestlappe thereon, ād put in the brestlappe lighte ād perfectnesse. And he put the myter apon his heed ād put apō the myter euē apō the forefrōt of it, the golden plate of the holy croune, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And Moses toke the anoyntynge oyle and anoynted the habitacion and all that was therein and sanctified them, and sprynkled thereof apon the alter .vij. tymes and anoynted the alter and all his vessels, and the lauer with hys fote, to sanctifie them. And he poured of the anoyntynge oyle apon Aarons heed and anoynted him to sanctifie him. And he broughte Aarons sonnes and put albes apon them, and gyrde them with gyrdels, ād put bonettes apō their heedes: as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses

And the synneoffrynge was brought. And Aaron and his sonnes put their handes apon the heed of the oxe of the synneoffryng. And when it was slayne, Moses toke of the bloude, and put it apon the hornes of the alter rounde [Page] aboute with his finger and purified it, ād poured the bloud vnto the botome of the alter ād sanctified it ād reconcyled it. And he toke all the fatt that was apon the inwardes ād the kal that was on the lyuer ād the two kydneyes with their fatt ād burned it apō the alter. But the oxe, the hide, his flesh ād his donge, he burnt with fire without the hoste, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And he broughte the ram of the burntofferynge, and Aaron ād his sonnes put their handes apon the heed of the ram, and it was kylled. And Moses sprinkled the bloud apō the alter roūde aboute, ād cutt the ram in peces ād burnt the heed, the peces ād the fatte, ād wasshed the inwardes ād the legges in water, and burnt the ram euery whitt apō the alter. That was a burntsacrifice of a swete sauoure ād an offrynge vnto the Lorde, as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses.

And he broughte the other ram that was the fullofferynge, and Aaron and his sonnes put their hādes apō the heed of the ram: And when it was slayne, Moses toke of the bloude of it, and put it apon the typpe of Aarons ryght eare and apon the thombe of his right hande and apon the great too of his righte fote. Then were Aarons sonnes broughte, ād Moses [Page] put of the bloude on the typpe of the right care of them, and apon the thombes of theire righte handes, and apon the great tooes of the ir righte fete, and sprinkled the bloud apō the alter rounde aboute.

And he toke the fatt ād the rompe ād all the fatt that was apon the inwardes, ād the kall of the lyuer, ād the .ij. kydneyes with their fatt ād their righte shulder. And out of the basket of swete bred that was before the Lorde, he toke one swete cake of oyled bred ād one wa [...]er, ād put thē on the fatt ād apon the righte shulder, ād put altogether apō Aarons handes ād apō his sonnes handes, ād waued it a waueofferynge before the Lorde. And thā Moses toke thē from of their handes agayne ād burnt thē apō the alter, euen apon the burntoffrynge: These are the fulloffrynges of a swete sauoure ād a sacrifice vnto the Lorde.

And Moses toke the breste and waued it a waueoffrynge before the Lorde, of the ram of the fuloffrynges: ād it was Moses parte, as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And Moses toke of the anoynting oyle ād of the bloude whiche was apon the alter, and sprinkled it apō Aarō ād apon his vestimētes ād apō his sōnes ād on their vestimētes with hī ād sanctified Aarō ād his vesturs ād his sōnes [Page] and his sonnes vestures also. Then Moses say de vnto Aaron and his sonnes: boyle the flesh in the doore of the tabernacle of witnesse, and there eate it with the bred that is in the basket of fullofferynges, as the Lorde commaunded sayenge. Aaron and his sonnes shall eate it: ād that whiche remayneth of the flesh and of the brede, burne with fire.

And se that ye departe not from the doore of the tabernacle of witnesse seuen dayes longe: vntill the dayes of youre fullofferynges be at an ende. For .vij. dayes must youre hādes be filled, as they were this daye: euē so the Lorde hath commaūded to do, to reconcyle you with all. Se therfore that ye abyde in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse daye and nyghte seuen dayes longe: and kepe the watch of the Lorde that ye dye not: for so I am commaunded. And Aaron and his sonnes dyd all thynges which the Lorde commaunded by the hande of Moses.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

ANd the .viij. daye Moses called Aaron and his sonnes and the elders of Israel, and sayde vnto Aaron: take a calfe for a synne offrynge, and a ram for a burntoffrynge: both without blemish, and brynge them before the Lorde. And vnto the childern of Israel he spake [Page] sayenge: take ye an he goote for a synneofferynge, and a calfe and a lambe bothe two of a yere olde, and without blemysh for a burntsacrifice, and an oxe and a ram for peaceoffrynges, to offer before the Lorde, and a meateofferyng myngled with oyle, for to daye the Lorde will appere vnto you.

And they brought that which Moses commaunded vnto the tabernacle of witnesse, ād all the people came and stode before the Lorde. And Moses sayde, this is the thynge which the Lorde commaunded that ye shulde do: ād then the glorye of the Lorde shall appere vnto you. And Moses sayde vnto Aaron: go vnto the alter and offer thy synneofferynge, and make an attonement for the and for the people: and then offer the offerynge of the people and reconcyle them also, as the Lorde cō maunded Moses.

And Aaron went vnto the alter, and slewe the calfe that was his synneoffrynge. And the sonnes of Aaron broughte the bloude vnto him, and he dypte his finger in the bloude and put it apon the hornes of the alter, and poured the bloude vnto the botome of the alter. And the fatt and the two kydneyes with the kall of the lyuer of the synneoffrynge, he burnt vppon the alter, as the Lorde commaunded Moses: [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] but the flesh and the hyde / he burnt with fyre without the hoste.

After warde he slewe the burntofferynge, ād Aarons sonnes brought the bloude vnto him, and he sprinkled it rounde aboute apon the alter. And they brought the burntofferynge vnto him in peces and the heed also / and he burnt it apon the alter / and dyd wasshe the inwardes and the legges / and burnt them also apon the burntofferynge in the alter.

And than he broughte the peoples offerynge and toke the goote that was the peoples synneofferynge / and slewe it and offered it for a synofferynge: as he dyd the first. And then broughte the burntofferynge and offered it as the maner was / and broughte the meatofferynge and fylled his hande thereof, and burnt it apon the alter / besydes the burntsacrifyce in the mornynge.

Then he slewe the oxe and the ram that were the peoples peaseofferynges / and Aarons sonnes broughte the bloude vnto him / and he sprinkled it apon the alter rounde aboute, and toke the fatt of the oxe and of the ram: the rō pe and the fatt that couereth the inwardes and the kydneyes and the kall of the lyuer: and put them apon the brestes and burnt it apon the alter: but the brestes and the righte shulders Aaron waued before the Lorde / as the Lorde cō maunded [Page] Moses.

And Aaron lifte vpp his hande ouer the peopleOf soch places the bisshopes toke their domme blessynge with ij fingers: But numery. v [...]. thou maist read the goodly prayer of his blessynge and blessed thē, and came doune from offerynge of synofferynges / burntofferynges ād peaseofferynges. Then Moses and Aaron wēt into the tabernacle of witnesse and came out agayne and blessed the people / and the glorye of the Lorde apered vnto all the people. And there came a fyre out from before the Lorde / and consumed apon the alter: the burntofferynge and the fatt. And all the people sawe it and showted, and fell on their faces.

¶ The .X. Chapter

Hereof ye se the frute of a mans good entent with out Godsword. As we maye do nolesse, so doeth this ensample teach that we maye do no moare than is cōmaunded.

ANd Nadab and Abihu the sonnes of Aaron toke ether of them his censor ād put fyre therein and put cens apō, and broughte straunge fyre before the Lorde: which he cō maunded thē not and there went a fyre out frō the Lorde and cōsumed thē / and they dyed before the Lorde. Then Moses sayde vnto Aarō this is it that the Lorde spake saynge: I will beGod is sanctified when we obey him ād mortify oure wyll to doo his. sanctifyed in them that come nye me, ād before all the people I wilbe glorifyed. And Aaron helde his pease.

And Moses called Misael and Elesaphā the sonnes of Vsiel the vncle of Aaron, and sayde vnto thē: goo to and carye youre brethrē from the holy place out of the hoste. And they went to them and caryed them in their albes out of the hoste, as Moses bad.

[Page]And Moses sayde vnto Aaron and vnto Eleazar and Ithamar his eldest sonnes: vncouer not youre heed nether rent youre clothes / lest ye dye and wrath come apon all the people lettyoure brethren the hole house of Israel / bewepe the burnynge which the Lorde hath burnt. But goo ye not out from the dore of the tabernacle of wytnesse / lest ye dye: for the anoyntynge oyle of the Lorde is apon you. And they dyd as Moses bad.

And the Lorde spake vnto Aaron saynge:Oure prelates be dr [...]ke with desyre of honoure and haue brought the world oute of their wittes to satisfie their lustes, and liue not sobirly to teach vs what christ commaunded by the [...] of the appostels. drynke no wyne nor stronge drynke / nether thou nor thi sonnes with the: when ye go in to the tabernacle of witnesse / lest ye dye. And let it be a lawe foreuer vnto youre childern after you: that ye maye put difference betwene holy and vnholy / and betwene vnclene and clene / and that ye maye teach the childern of Israel: all the ordynaunces which the Lorde hath cō maunded them by the handes of Moses.

And Moses sayde vnto Aaron and vnto Eleazar ād Ithamar his sonnes that were lefte: take the meatofferynge that remayneth of the sacrifyces of the Lorde / and eate it without leuen besyde the alter / for it is most holy: eate it therfore in the holy place, because it is thi dutye and thi sonnes dutye of the sacrifyce of the Lorde: for so I am commaunded. And the [Page] wauebrest and heueshulder eate in a clene place: both thou and thy sonnes and thy doughters with the. For it is thy dutye and thy sonnes dutye with the, of the peaceofferynges off the childern of Israel. For the heueshulder ād the wauebrest whiche they brynge with the sacrifices of the fatt, to waue it before the Lorde, shalbe thyne and thy sonnes with the, and be a lawe for euer, as the Lorde hath commaunded.

And Moses soughte for the goote that was the synneofferynge, and se, it was burnt. And he was angrye with Eleazar and Ithamar the sonnes of Aaron, which were lefte alyue sayenge: wherefore haue ye not eaten the synneofferynge in the holy place, seynge it is most holye: and for as moch as it is geuen you to bere the synne of the people, and make agrement for them before the Lorde? Beholde, the bloude of it was not brought in within the holy place therfore shulde ye haue eaten it in the holy place as I commaunded. And Aaron sayde vnto Moses: behold, this daye haue they offered theirThe offeringes must haue bene eaten in gladnesse: but Aaron coude not but morne for his sonnes synneoffrynge and their burntoffrynge before the Lorde, and it is chaunced me after thys maner. Yf I shulde eate of the synneofferynge to daye, wolde the Lorde be content with all? And when Moses herde that, he was content.

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¶ The .xj. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: speake vnto the childrē of Israel and saye, these are the beestes whiche ye shall eate amonge all the beestes that are on the erth: what soeuer hath hoffe and dyuydeth it in to two clawes ād cheweth cud among the beestes, that shall ye eate. Neuerthelesse, these shall ye not eate of them that chewe cud and haue hoffes. The camel, for he cheweth cud but he deuydeth not the hoffe in to two clawes therfore he shall be vnclene vnto you. And the Conye, for he cheweth the cud but deuydeth not the hoffe in to two clawes, therfore he is vnclene to you. And the hare, for he likewise cheweth the cud, but deuydeth not the hoffe in to two clawes, he is therfore vnclene to you. And the swyne, for though he deuyde the hoffe in to two clawes, yet he cheweth not the cud ād therfore is vnclene to you, Of their flesh see that ye eate not ād their carkasses se that ye twych no [...] for they are vnclene to you.

These shall ye eate of all that are in the waters: what soeuer hath finnes and skales in the waters, sees and ryuers, that shall ye eate. And all that haue not finnes ād skales in the sees ād ryuers of all that moue and lyue in the waters / [Page] shall ye abhorre. Se that ye eate not of their flesh, ād also that ye abhorre their carkases: for all that haue no finnes nor scales in the waters, shalbe abhominacion vnto you.

These are the foules which ye shall abhorre and which shall not be eaten, for they are an abhominacion. The egle, the gooshauke, the cormoraunte, the kyte, the vultur and all his kynd and all kynde of rauens, the estrich, the nightcrowe, the cocow, the sparowhauke and al the kynde: the litle oule, the storcke, the great oule the backe, the pellicane, the pye, the heron, the laye with the kynde, the lappwynge ād the swalowe. And all foules that crepe ād goo apō all iiij. shalbe an abhominacion vnto you.

Yet these maye ye eate of all the foules that moue and goo apon .iiij. fete: euen those that haue no knees aboue vppon their fete to lepe with all apon the erthe, euen these of them ye maye eate: the arbe and all his kynde: the Soleam with all his kynde: the Hargol and all the kynde, ād the Hagab ād all his kynd. Al other foules that moue ād haue .iiij. fete, shalbe abhominacion vnto you. In soch ye shalbe vnclene whosoeuer touch the carkesse of thē shalbe vnclene vnto the euen, ād whosoeuer bereth the carkesse of thē, shal wash his clothes ād shalbe [Page] vnclene vntyll euen.

Amonge all maner beestes, they that haue hoffes and deuyde them not in to two clawes or that chewe not the cud, shalbe vnclene vnto you: and all that twicheth them shalbe vncle ne. And all that goeth apon his handes amonge all maner beestes that goo on all foure, are vnclene vnto you: and as many as twych their carkesses, shalbe vnclene vntyll the euen. And he that beareth the carkesse of them, shall wasshe his clothes ād be vnclene vntyll the euen / for soch are vnclene vnto you.

And these are also unclene to you amonge the thinges that crepe apon the erth: the wesell the mouse, the tode and all his kynde, the hedgehogge, stellio, the licerte, the snayle and the moule. These are vnclene to you amonge all that moue, and all that twych them when they be dead, shalbe vnclene vntyll the euen. And what soeuer any of the dead carkesses of them fall apon, shalbe vnclene: what soeuer vessell of wodd it be, or rayment, or skynne, or bagge or what soeuer thinge it be that any worke is wroughte with all. And they shalbe plunged in the water and be vnclene vntill the euē, and then they shalbe clene agayne.

All maner of erthen vessell where in to any of them falleth, is vnclene with all that therein [Page] is: and ye shall breake it. All maner meate that is eaten, yf any soch water come apon it, it shall be vnclene. And all maner drynke that is drō ke in all maner soch vessels, shalbe vnclene. And whether it be ouen or kettel, it shalbe broken. For they are vnclene and shalbe vnclene vnto you: Neuerthelater, yet the fountaynes ād welles and pondes of water, shalbe clene styll. But whosoeuer twycheth their carkesses, shall be vnclene.

Yf the dead carkesse of any soch fall apō any seed vsed to sowe, yt shall yet be clene styll: but ād yf any water be poured apō the seed ād afterward the dead carkesse of them fall thereō, then it shalbe vnclene vnto you.

Yf any beest of whiche ye eate dye, he that twitcheth the dead carkesse shalbe vnclene vn tyll the euen. And he that eateth of any soche dead carkesse, shall wasshe his clothes and remayne vnclene vntyll the euen. And he also that beareth the carkesse of it, shall wasshe his clothes and be vnclene vntyll euen.

All that scrauleth apon the erth, is an abhominacyon and shall not be eaten. And what soeuer goeth apon the brest ād what soeuer goeth apon .iiij. or moo fete amonge all that scrauleth apon the erth, of that se ye eate not: for they are abhomynable. Make not youre soules [Page] abhominable. Make not youre soules abhomynable with nothinge that crepeth, nether make youre soules vnclene with them: that ye shulde be defiled thereby.

For I am the Lorde youre God, be sanctified therfore that ye maye be holy, for I am holy: and defile not youre soules with any maner thinge that crepeth apon the erth. For I am the Lorde that brought you out of the londe off Egipte to be youre God: be holy therfore, for I am holy.

This is the lawe of beest and foule and off all maner thinge that lyueth ād moueth in the water ād of all thinges that crepe apō the erth that ye may put differēce betwene vnclene ād clene, ād betwene the beestes that are eatē and the beestes that are not eaten.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and sayde: speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye: whē a womā hath conceaued ād hath borne a man childe, she shalbe vnclene .vij. dayes: euen in like maner as when she is put aparte in tyme of hir naturall disease. And in the viij. daye the flesh of the childes foreskynne shalbe cut awaye. And she shall cōtynue in the bloude of hir purifienge .xxxiij. dayes, she shal [Page] twytch no halowed thinge nor come in to the sanctuary, vntyll the tyme of hir purifienge be out. Yf she bere a maydehilde, then she shalbe vnclene two wekes as when she hath hir naturall disease. And she shall contynue in the bloude of hir purifienge .lxvj. dayes.

And when the dayes of hir purifienge are out: whether it be a sonne or a doughter, she shall brynge a lambe of one yere olde for a burntoffrynge and a yonge pigeon or a turtill do ue for a synneoffrynge vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse vnto the preast: which shall offer them before the Lorde and make an attonement for her, and so she shalbe purged of hir yssue of bloude. This is the lawe of her that hath borne a childe, whether it be male or female.

But and yf she be not able to bringe a shepe, then let her brynge two turtyls or two yonge pigeons: the one for the burntofferynge, and the other for the synneofferynge. And the preast shall make an attonement for her, ād she shalbe clene.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.This chapter maketh not for cōfession in the eare, but is an exā ple of excomunicacion off opcusumers

ANd the Lord spake vnto Moses ād ūto Aarō saynge: whē there apeareth arysinge in any mās flesh ether a scabbe or a glistrīge [Page] whyte: as though the plage of leprosye were inAs these prestes make vncleane ād sende out of company, euen so ours binde ād excomunicat out of the cō gregaciō: and at these make cleane, so doo ours lowsse, and absolue. Now thē that sinne secretly thei binde with preachī ge gods word ād yf thei repēt, with preachinge thei lowse thē agayne. the skynne of his flesh, then let him be brought vnto Aaron the preast or vnto one of hys sonnes the preastes, and let the preast loke on the sore that is in the skynne of his fleshe. Yf the heer in the sore be turned vnto whyte, and the sore also seme to be lower than the skynne of his fleshe / then it is suerly a leprosye, and let the preast loke on him and make hym vnclene.

Yf there be but a white plecke in the skynne of his fleshe and seme not to be lower than the other skynne nor the heer thereof is turned unto white: then let the preast shitt him vpp seuen dayes. And let the preast loke apon hym the .vij. daye: yf the sore seme to him to abyde styll and to go no further in the skyne, then let the preast shutt him vppe yet .vij. dayes moo. And let the preast loke on him agayne the .vij. daye. Then yf the sore be waxed blackesh and is not growen abrode in the skynne, let the preast make him clene, for it is but a skyrfe. And let him wass he his clothes, and then he is clene But and yf the scabbe growe in the skynne after that he is sene of the preast agayne. Yf the preast se that the scabbe be growen abrode in the skynne, let him make him vnclene: for it is suerly a leprosye.

[Page]Yf the plage of leprosye be in a man, let hī be broughte vnto the preast, and let the preast se him. Yf the rysinge apeare white in the skynne ād haue also made the heer white, ād there be rawe flesh in the sore also: then it is an olde leprosye in the skynne of his flesh. And the preast shall make him vnclene, ād shall not shutte him vp for he is vnclene.

Yf a leprosye breake out in the skynne and couer all the skynne from the heed to the fote ouer all wheresoeuer the preast loketh, then let the preast loke apon him. Yf the leprosye haue couered all his flesh, let him make the disease clene: for in as moch as he is altogether white he is therfore cleane. But and yf there be rawe flesh on him when he is sene, then he shalbe vn cleane. Therfore when the preast seeth the rawe flesh, let him make him vnclene. For in as moch as his flesh is rawe, he is vnclene and it is suerly a true leprosye. But and yf the rawe flesh departe agayne and chaunge vnto white, then let him come to the preast and let the preast se him: Yf the sore be chaunged vnto white, let the preast make the disease cleane, ād thē he is cleane.

When there is a byele in the skynne of any mans flesh and is helede and after in the place of the bycle there appeare a whyte rysyng ether [Page] a shynynge white somwhat redysh, let him be sene of the preast. Yf when the preast seeth hī it appeare lower than the other skynne and the heer thereof be chaunged vnto white, let the preast make hī vncleane: for it is a very leprosye, that is broken out in the place of the byele But and yf when the preast loketh on it there be no white heeres therein nether the scabbe lower than the other skynne and be somwhat blackesh, then the preast shall shutt him aparte vij. dayes. Yf it sprede abrode in the meane season, then let the preast make him vnclene: for it is a leprosye. But ād yf the glistringe white abyde styll in one place and go no further, then it is but the prynte of the byele, and the preast shal make him cleane.

When the skynne of any mās flesh is burnt with fire that it be rawe and there apere in the burnynge a glistringe white that is somwhat redysh or altogether white, let the preast loke apon it. Yf the heer in that brightnesse be chaunged to white and it also appeare lower than the other skynne, than it is a leprosye that is broken out in the place of the burnynge. And the preast shall make him vncleane, for it is a leprosye. But and yf (when the preast loketh on it) he se that there is no white heer in the brygh tenesse and that it is no lower than the other [Page] skynne and that it is also blackesh, then let the preast shutt him upp seuen dayes. And yf (when the preast loketh on him the seuenth daye) it be growen abrode in the skynne, lett him make him vncleane: for it is a leprosye. But and yf that bryghtnesse abyde styll in one place and goo no further in the skynne ād be blackesh, than it is but a rysyng in the place of the burnynge, and the preast shall make hym cleane: for it is but the prynte of the burnynge only.

Whē ether man or woman hath a breakinge out apon the heed or the beerde, let the preast se it. And yf it apeare lower than the other skynne and there be therein golden heeres ād thyn, let the preast make him vncleane, for it is a breaking out of leprosye apō the heed or berde. yf (whē the preast loketh on the breakī ge out) he se that it is no lower thā the other skynne ād that there are blacke heeres therein let hī shutt hī vp .vij. dayes. And let the preast loke on the disease the seuenth daye: ād yf the breakynge oute be gone no forther nether be any golden heeres therein nether the scabbe be lower than the other skynne, then lett him be shauen, but lett hym not shaue the scabbe, and let the preast shutt him vpp seuen [Page] dayes moo. And let the preast loke on the breakynge out the .vij. daye agayne: Yf the breakynge out be gone no further in the skynne nor moare lower thē the other skynne, then lett the preaste make him cleane, and let him wasshe his clothes and then he is cleane. Yf the breakynge out growe in the skynne after that he is once made cleane, let the preast see him. Yf it be growne abrode in dede in the skynne, let the preast seke no further for ony golden heeres, for he is vncleane. But and yf he se that the scabbe stonde styll and that there is blacke heer growne vpp there in, thē the scabbe is healed and he is cleane: and the preast shall make him cleane.

Yf there be founde in the skynne of the flesh of man or woman a glisterynge white, let the preast se it. Yf there appeare in their flesh a glisterynge white somwhat blackesh, thē it is but frekels growē vpp in the skynne: ād he is cleane

Yf a mans heer fall of his heed, thē he is heedbaulde and cleane. yf his heer fall before in his foreheade, then he is foreheadbalde and cleane. yf there be in the baulde head or baulde forehead a redysh white scabbe, then there is leprosye spronge vpp in his baulde head or baulde foreheade. And let the preast se it: and yf the rysynge of the sore be reddyshwhite in his baulde [Page] heade or foreheade after the maner of a leprosye in the skynne of the flesh, then he is a leper and vncleane: ād the preast shall make him vncleane, for the plage of his heede.

And the leper in whome the plage is / shall haue his clothes rent and his heade bare ād his mouth moffeld, and shalbe called vncleane. And as longe as the dysease lesteth apon him, he shalbe vncleane: for he is vncleane, and shall therfore dwell alone, ād even without the host shall his habitacion be.

When the plage of leprosye is in a cloth: whether it be lynen or wollen, yee and whether it be in the warpe or wolfe of the lynen or of the wollen: ether in a skynne or any thinge made of skynne / yf the disease be pale or somwhat redysh in the cloth or skynne: whether it be in the warpe or wolfe or any thinge that is made of skynne, thē it is a very leprosye and must be shewed vnto the preast. And whē the preast seeth the plage, let him shutt it vpp .vij. dayes, and let him loke on the plage the seuenth daye. yf it be increased in the cloth: whether it be in the warpe or wolfe or in a skynne or in any thynge that is made of skynne, then the plage is a fretynge leprosye and it is vncleane: And that cloth shalbe burnt, ether warpe or wolfe, whether it be wollen or lynen or any thynge that is made of skynne where in the plage is, for it is a fretynge [Page] leprosye / and shalbe burnt in the fyre.

Yf the preast se that the plage hath freten no further in the cloth: ether in the warpe or wolfe or in what soeuer thynge of skynne it be, then let the preast cōmaunde thē to wasshe the thynge wherein the plage is, and let him shutt it vpp vij. dayes moo. And let the preast loke on it agayne after that the plage is wasshed: Yf the plage haue not chaunged his fascion though it be spred no further abrode, it is yet vncleane. And se that ye burne it in the fyre, for it is fretē in warde: whether in parte or in all together. But and yf the preast se that it is somwhat blackyshafter that it is wasshed, let him rent it out of the clothe, or out of the skynne or out of the warpe or wolfe. But and yf it apeare any moare in the cloth ether in the warpe or in the wolfe or in any thynge made of skynne / than it is a waxynge plage. And se that ye burne that with fyre, where in the plage is. Moreouer the cloth ether warpe or wolfe or what soeuer thinge of skynne it be which thou hast wasshed and the plage be departed from it, shalbe wasshed once agayne: and then it is cleane.

This is the lawe of the plage of leprosye in a cloth whether it be wollē or lynen: eyther whether it be in the warpe or wolfe or in any thynge made of skynnes, to make it cleane or vncleane.

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ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: this is the lawe of a leper when he shalbe clēsed. he shalbe broughte vnto the preast, and the preast shall goo out without the hoste and loke apō him. Yf the plage of leprosye be healed in the leper, thē shall the preast commaunde that there be brought for hī that shalbe clensed .ij. lyuynge byrdes that are cleane, ād cipresse wodd, and a pece of purple cloth and ysope. And the preast shall cōmaunde that one of the byrdes be kylled ouer an erthē vessell of runnynge water. And the preast shall take the lyuynge byrde and the cypresse wodd and the purple ād the ysope, ād shall dyppe thē and the lyuynge byrde in the bloude of the slayne byrde and in the rēnynge water and sprinkle it apon him that must be clensed of his leprosye .vij. tymes and clense him / and shall let the lyuynge byrde goo fre in to the feldes.

And he that is clēsed shall wasshe his clothes and shaue off all his heer ād wasshe himselfe in water, and thē he is cleane. And after that he shall come in to the hoste / but shall tarye without his tēt .vij. dayes. Whē the seuenth daye is come, he shall shaue off al his heer both apō his heade ād his berde ād on his browes: ād euē all the heer that is on him, shalbe shauen off. And he shall wasshe his clothes and his flesh in water / and then he shalbe cleane.

[Page]And when the .viij. daye is come, let him take ij. lambes without blemysh and a yewelambe of a yere olde without blemysh, and .iij. tenthdeales of fyne floure for a meatofferynge myngled with oyle, and a logge of oyle. Than let the preast that maketh him cleane, brynge the man that is made cleane with those thynges before the Lorde vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And lett the preast take one of the lā bes and offer him for a trespaceofferynge, and the logge of oyle: and waue them before the Lorde. And than let him slee the lambe in the place where the synofferynge and the burntofferynge are slayne: euē in the holy place. for as the synofferynge is, euē so is the trespace offerynge the preastes: for it is most holy.

Than lett the preast take of the bloude of the trespaceofferynge, and put it apō the typpe of the right eare of him that is clensed, and apon the thombe of his righte hande and apon the greate too of his righte fote. Then let the preast take of the logge of oyle and poure it in to the palme of his lefte hande, ād dippe his right finger in the oyle that is in the palme of his lefte hand, ād let him sprinkle it with his fynger vij. tymes before the Lorde. And of the rest of the oyle that is in his hande, shall the preast put apon the typpe of the righte eare of him that [Page] is clensed, and apon the thombe of his righte hande, and apon the great too of his righte fote: euē apon the bloude of the trespaceofferynge. And the remnaunte of the oyle that is in the preastes hande, he shall poure apon the heede off hym that is clensed: and so shall the preaste make an attonement for him before the Lorde,

Then let the preast offer the synneofferynge, ād make an attonement for him that is clensed for his vnclēnesse. And thā let the burntoffrynge be slayne, ād let the preast put both the burntofferynge and the meateoffrynge apō the alter: ād make an attonement for him, ād thā he shalbe cleane.

Yf he be poore ād can not gett so moch, thā let him bringe one lambe for a trespaceoffrynge to waue it and to make an attonement for him, ād a tenth deale of fine floure myngled with oyle for a meatoffrynge ād a logge of oyle, ād two turtyll doues or two yonge pygeons which he is able to gett ād let the one be a synneoffrynge and the other a burntoffryng. And let him brynge them the. viij, daye for his clensynge vnto the preast to the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse before the Lorde.

And let the preast take the lambe that is the trespaceoffrynge and the logge of oyle, ād waue [Page] them before the Lorde. And whē the lambe of the trespaceoffrynge is kylled, the preast shall take of the bloude of the trespaceoffrynge, and put it apon the typpe of his righte eare that is clensed, and apon the thombe of his righte hande, and apon the greate too of hys righte fote. And the preast shall poure of the oyle in to his righte hande, and shall sprinkle with his finger of the oyle that is in his lefte hande .vij. tymes before the Lord.

And the preast shall put of the oyle that is in his hande (apon the typpe of the righte eare of h [...] that is clensed, and apō the thombe of his righte hande and apon the great too of his righte fote: euen in the place where the bloude of the trespaceofferynge was put, And the reste of the oyle that is in his hande, he shall poure apon the heede of him that is clensed: to make an attonemēt for him before the Lorde. And he shall offer one of the turtyll doues or of the yonge pigeons, soch as he can gett: the one for a synneofferynge and the other for a burntoffrynge apō the alter. And so shall the preast make an attonemēt for him that is clensed before the Lorde. This is the lawe of him that hath the plage of leprosye, whose hand is not able to gett that which pertayneth to hys clensynge.

[Page]And the Lorde spake vnto Moses ād Aarō saynge: when ye be come vnto the lond of Canaan which I geue you to possesse: yf I put the plage of leprosye in any housse of the lande of youre possession, let him that oweth the house go ād tell the preast saynge, me thinke that there is as it were a leprosy in the housse. And the preast shall cōmaunde them to ryd all thinge out of the housse, before the preaste goo in to se the plage: that he make not all that is in the housse vncleane, and then the preast shall goo in and se the housse.

Yf the preast se that the plage is in the walles of the housse ād that there be holowe strakes pale or rede which seme to be lower than the other partes of the wall, then let the preast go out at the housse dores ād shett vp the housse for .vij. dayes. And let the preast come againe the seuenth daye ād se it: yf the plage be encreased in the walles of the housse, let the preast cōmaunde thē to take awaye the stones in which the plage is, ād let thē cast thē in a foule place without the citie, ād scrape the house within rounde aboute, ād poure out the dust without the citie in a foule place. And let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other morter: ād playster the housse with all. [Page] Yf now the plage come agayne ād breake out in the housse, after that they haue taken awaye the stones and scraped the housse, and after that the housse is playsterd anew: let the preast come and se it. And yf then he perceaue that the plage hath eatē further in the housse, then it is a fretynge leprosye that is in the housse ād it is vncleane. Then they shall breake doune the housse: both stones, tymbre ād all the morter of the housse, and carye it out of the citye vnto a foule place. Moreouer he that goeth into the housse all the whyle that it is shett vp, shalbe vncleane vntyll nighte. And he that slepeth in the housse shall wasshe his clothes, and he also that eateth in the housse shall wasshe hys clothes.

But and yf the preast come and se that the plage hath sprede no futher in the housse after that it is new playsterd, thē let him make it cleane for the plage is healed. And let him take to clense the housse with all: two birdes, cypresse wodd, ād purple clothe ād ysope. And let him kyll one of the byrdes ouer an erthen vessel of runnynge water, ād take the cipresse wodd, the ysope, the purple ād the lyuynge byrde, ād dyppe them in the bloude of the slayne byrde and in the runninge water, and sprinkle apon the housse seuen tymes, and clense the housse with [Page] the bloude of the byrde, and with the runninge water, ād with the lyuyng byrde, ād with the cypresse wodd, ād the ysope ād the purple clothe And he shall lett the lyuynge byrde flee oute off the towne in to the wylde feldes, and so make an attonement for the housse, and it shal be cleane.

This is the lawe of all maner plage of leprosye and breakynge out, and of the leprosye off clothe and housse: and of rysynges, scabbes and glysterynge white, to teache when a thinge is vncleane or cleane. This is the lawe off leprosye.

¶ The .xv. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge, speake vnto the children of Israel and saye vnto them: euery mā that hath a runnynge yssue in his flesh, is vncleane by the reason of his yssue. And hereby shall it be knowne when he is vncleane. Yf his fleshe runne, or yf his flesh congele by the reason off his yssue, than he is vncleane. Euery couche whereon he lyeth ād euery thinge whereon he sytteth shalbe vncleane

He that twicheth his couch, shall wassh his clothes ād bath him selfe with water, ād be vncleane vntyll the euen.

He that sytteth on that whereon he satt, shall [Page] wassh his clothes and bathe him selfe with water and be vncleane vntill the euenynge And he that twicheth his flesh shall wasshe his clothes and bathe him selfe in water and be vncleane vnto the euen. Yf any soch spytt apon him that is cleane, he must wasshe his clothes and bathe him selfe in water and be vncleane vntill euen.

And what soeuer sadell that he rydeth apō, shalbe vncleane. And whosoeuer twicheth any thinge that was vnder him, shalbe vncleane vnto the euē. And he that beareth any soch thinges shall wassh his clothes ād bathe hī self in water ād be vncleane vnto the euē, ād whosoeuer he twicheth (yf he haue not first washed his handes in water) must wasshe his clothes, ād bathe him selfe in water, ād be vncleane vnto the euenynge. And yf he twych a vessell off erth, it shalbe broken: and all vessels of wodd shalbe rensed in the water.

When he that hath an yssue is clensed of his yssue, let him numbre .vij. dayes after he is cleane, ād wasshe his clothes, and bathe his fleshe in runnynge water, ād then he is cleane. And the .viij. daye let him take two turtill doues or two yonge pigeons, and come before the Lorde vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse ād geue them vnto the preast. And the preast [Page] shall offer them: the one for a synne offerynge, and the other for a burnt offerynge: and make an attonement for him before the Lord, as cō cernynge his yssue.

Yf any mans seed departe frō him in his slepe, he shall wassh his flesh in water ād be vncleane vntill euē. And all the clothes or furres whereon soch seed chaunceth shalbe washed with water ād be vncleane vnto the euē. And yf a womā lye with soche a whone, they shall wash thē selues with water and be vncleane vntyll even.

Whē a womās naturall course of bloud rū neth, she shalbe put aparte .vij. dayes: ād whosoeuer twycheth her shalbe vncleane vnto the euē. And all that she lyeth apō as longe as she is put aparte shalbe vnclene. And whosoeuer twicheth hir couch shall wash his clothes and bathe hī selfe with water ād be vncleane vnto the euē. And whosoeuer twicheth any thinge that she satt apō, shall wassh his clothes ād washe him selfe also in water, ād be vncleane vnto the euē: so that whether he twich hir couche or any thīge whereō she hath setē, he shalbe vnclene ūto the euē. ād yf a mā lye with her in the meane tyme, he shalbe put aparte as well as she ād shalbe vncleane .vij. dayes, ād all his couch wherein he slepeth shalbe vncleane.

[Page]When a womans bloude runneth longe tyme: whether out of the tyme of hyr naturall course: as longe as hir vnclennesse runneth, she shalbe vncleane after the maner as when she is put aparte. All hir couches whereon she lyeth (as lōge as hir yssue lasteth) shalbe vnto her as hir couch when she is put a parte. And what soeuer she sytteth apon, shalbe vncleane, as is hir vnclennesse whē she is put a parte. And whosoeuer twicheth them, shalbe vncleane, ād shall wasshe his clothes ād bathe him selfe in water ād be vncleane vnto euen.

And when she it clensed of hyr yssue, let hyr counte hir seuen dayes after that she is cleane. And the. viij daye let her take two turtils or two yonge pigeons and brynge them vnto the preast vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And the preast shall offer the one for a synneoffrynge, and the other for a burntofferynge: and so make an attonement for her before the Lorde. as concernynge hir vncleane yssue.

Make the childern of Israel to kepe them selues frō their vnclēnesse, that they dye not in their vnclēnesse: whē they haue defiled my habitacion that is amonge them.

This is the lawe of him that hath a runninge sore, and of him whose seed runneth from [Page] him in his slepe and is defiled therewith, and of her that hath an yssue of bloude as longe as she is put a parte, and of whosoeuer hath a runnynge sore whether it be man or woman, and of him that slepeth with her that is vncleane.

The .xvj. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses after the deeth of the two sonnes of Aaron, when they had offered before the Lorde and dyed: And he sayde vnto Moses: speake vnto Aaron thy brother that he go not at all tymes in to the holy place, that is whithin the vayle that hangeth before the mercyseate which is apon the arcke that he dye not. For I will appeareBy the cloud vnderstonde the smoke off the cence. in a clowde vpon the mercyseate.

But of this maner shall Aaron goo in in to the holy place: with a yonge oxe for a synneofferynge, and a ram for a burntoffrynge. And he shall put the holy lynen albe apon him, ād shall haue a lynen breche vppon his flesh, and shall gyrde him with a lynen gyrdell, and put the lynen mytre apon his heede: for they are holy ray mentes. And he shall wasshe his flesh with water, and put them on. And he shall take of the multitude of the childern of Israel two gootes for a synneoffrynge and a ram for a burntofferynge.

[Page]And Aaron shall offer the oxe for his synne offrynge and make an attonement for him ād for his housse. And he shall take the two gootes and present them before the Lorde in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And Aarō cast lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, ād another for a scapegoote. And Aaron shall bringe the goote apō which the Lordes lotte fell, and offer him for a synneofferynge. But the goote on which the lotte fell to scape, he shall sett alyue before the Lorde to recō cyle with ād to let him goo fre in to the wildernesse. And Aaron shall bringe the oxe of his synoffrynge, ād reconcyle for him selfe ād for his housholde, and kyll him.

And thā he shall take a censer full of burninge coles out of the alter that is before the Lorde, and his handfull of swete cens beten small and bringe them within the vayle and put the cens apon the fire before the Lorde: that the cloude of the cens maye couer the mercyseate that is apon the witnesse, that he dye not. And he shall take of the bloude of the oxe ād sprinkle it with his finger before the mercy seate eastwarde: euen .vij. tymes.

Then shall he kyll the goote that is the peoples synneofferynge, and brynge hys bloude within the vayle, and doo with his bloude as [Page] he dyd with the bloude of the oxe, and let him sprinkle it toward the mercyseate and before the mercyseate: ād reconcyle the holy place frō the vnclennesse of the childern of Israel, and from their trespaces ād all there synnes. And so let him doo also vnto the tabernacle of witnesse that dwelleth with them, euē among their vnclennesses.

And there shalbe no bodye in the tabernacle of witnesse, when he goeth in to make an attonement in the holy place, vntyll he come out agayne. And he shall make an attonement for him selfe and for his housholde, ād for all the multitude of Israel. Then he shall goo out vnto the alter that stondeth before the Lorde, and reconcyle it, and shall take of the bloude of the oxe and of the bloude of the goote, and put it apon the hornes of the altare rounde aboute, and sprynckle of the bloude apon it with his finger seuen tymes, and clense it, and halowe it frō the vnclennesses of the childern of Israel.

And whē he hath made an ende of recōcylinge the holy place and the tabernacle of witnesse ād the alter, let him bringe the lyue goote ād let Aarō put both his handes apon the heede of the lyue goote, and confesse ouer him all the mysdeades of the childern of Israell, [Page] and all their trespaces, and all their synnes: and let him put them apō the heed of the goote ād sende him awaye by the handes of one that is acoynted in the wyldernesse. And the goote shall bere apon him all their mysdeades vnto the wildernesse, and he shall let the goote goo fre in the wildernesse.

And let Aaron goo in to the tabernacle of wytnesse and put off the lynē clothes which he put on when he wēt in in to the holy place, ād leaue them there. And let him wasshe his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his owne rayment / and then come out and offer his burntofferynge and the burntofferynge of the people, and make an atonemēt for him selfe ād for the people, and the fatt of the synofferynge let him burne apon the alter. And let him that caryed forth the scapegoote, wasshe his clothes and bathe hys flesh in water / and then come in to the hoste agayne.

And the oxe of the synofferynge and the goote of the synofferynge (whose bloude was brought in to make an atonemēt in the holy place) let one carye out without the hoste and burne with fyre: both their skynnes, their flesh ād their donge. And let him that burneth them, wasshe his clothes ād bathe his flesh in water, and thē come in to the hoste agayne.

[Page]And it shalbe an ordynaunce for euer vnto you. And euē in the tenth daye of the seuenth moneth. ye shall humble youre soules and shall doo no worke at all: whether it be one of youre selues or a straunger that sogeorneth amonge you. for that daye shall an attonemēt be made for you to clense you from all youre synnes before the Lorde / and ye shalbe cleane. It shal be a sabbath of rest vnto you / and ye shall humble youre soules / and it shalbe an ordynaunce for euer.

And the preast that is anoynted and whose hande was fylled to mynistre in his fathers steade / shall make the attonemēt and shall put on the holy lynē vestimētes / and reconcyle the holy sanctuary and the tabernacle of witnesse ād the alter, and shall make an attonemēt also for the preastes and for all the people of the congregacion. And this shalbe an euerlastynge or dynaunce vnto you to make an atonement for the childern of Israel for all their synnes once a yere: and it was done euē as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

¶ The .XVII. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde talked with Moses saynge: speake vnto Aarō and vnto his sonnes and vnto all the childern of Israel ād saye [Page] vnto them, this is the thynge which the Lorde charged saynge: whatsoeuer he be of the housse of Israel that kylleth an oxe, lambe or goote in the hoste or out of the hoste and bryngeth thē not vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse, to offer an offerynge vnto the Lorde before the dwellynge place of the Lorde, bloude shalbe imputed vnto that man / as though he had shed bloude / and that man shall perysh from amonge his people.

Wherfore let the childern of Israel brynge their offerynges they offer in the wyde felde / vnto the Lorde: euen vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse and vnto the preast / and offer thē for peaseofferynges vnto the Lorde. And the preast shall sprinkle the bloude apon the alter of the Lorde in the dore of the tabernacle of wytnesse / and burne the fatt to be a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. And let them nomoare offer their offerynges vnto deuyls / after whom thy goo an whoorynge. And this shalbe an ordynaūce for euer vnto you thorow out youre generacyons.

And thou shalt saye vnto them: what soeuer man it be of the housse of Israel or of the straungers that sogeorne amonge you that offereth a burntofferynge or any other offerynge and bryngeth it not vnto the dore of the tabernacle [Page] of wytnesse to offer vnto the Lorde, that felow shall perysh from amonge his people. And what soeuer man it be of the housse of Israel or of the straungers that soiourne amonge you that eateth any maner of bloude / I will set my fa [...]e agaynst that soule that eateth bloude, and will destroy him from amonge his people. for the life of the flesh is in the bloude, and I haue geuen it vnto you apon the alter, to make an attonement for youre soules, for bloude shall make an attonemēt for the soule. And therfore I sayde vnto the childern of Israel: se that no soule of you cate bloude / nor yet any straunger that soiourneth amonge you.

What soeuer man it be of the childern of Israel or of the straungers that soiurne amonge you that honteth and catcheth any beest or foule that maye be eatē, he shall poure out the bloude ād couer it with erthe. for the life of all flesh is in the bloude, therfore I sayde vnto the childern of Israel, ye shall eate the bloude of no maner of flesh. for the life of all flesh is in his bloude, and whosoeuer therfore eateth it shall perysh. And what soeuer soule it be that eateth that which dyed alone or that which was torne with wylde beestes: whether it be one of youre selues or a straunger, he shall wasshe his [Page] clothes ād bathe him selfe in water, ād shalbe vncleane vnto the euē, ād thā is he cleane. But ād yf he wasshe them not nor wasshe his flesh he shall beare his synne.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde talked with Moses saynge: speake vnto the childern of Israel, ād saye vnto them, I am the Lorde youre God Wherfore after the doynges of the land of Egipte wherein ye dwelt, se that ye doo not: nether after the doynges of the lande of Canaan, whether I will bringe you, nether walke ye in their ordinaunces, but doo after my iudgemē tes, and kepe myne ordynaunces, to walke therein: for I am the Lorde youre God. Kepe therfore myne ordinaunces, ād my iudgemētes whiche yf a man doo he shall lyue thereby: for I am the Lorde.

Se that ye goo to none of youre nyghest kyn red for to vncouer their secrettes, for I am the Lorde. The secrettes of thy father and thy mother, se thou vnheale not: she is thy mother, therfore shalt thou not discouer hir secrettes. The secrettes of thy fathers wife shalt thou not discouer, for they are thy fathers secrettes. Thou shalt not discouer the preuyte of thy syster, the doughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether [Page] she be borne at home or without. Thou shalt not discouer the secrettes of thy sonnes doughter or thy doughters doughter, for that is thyne awne preuyte: Thou shalt not discouer the secrettes of thy fathers wyues doughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy suster: thou shalt therfore not discouer hir secrettes. Thou shalt not vncouer the secrettes off thy fathers syster, for she is thy fathers nexte kyn. Thou shalt not dyscouer the secrettes off thy mothers syster, for she is thy mothers nexte kyn.

Thou shalt not open the secrettes of thy fathers brother: that is thou shalt not goo in to his wife, for she is thyne awnte. Thou shalt not discouer the secrettes of thy doughter in lawe she is thy sonnes wyfe: therfore vncouer not hir secrettes. Thou shalt not vnheale the secrettes of thy brothers wife, for that is thy brothers preuyte. Thou shalt not discouer the preuytes of the wife ād hir doughter also, nether shalt thou take hir sonnes doughter or hir doughters doughter to vncouer their secrettes: they are hir nexte kyn, it were therfore wikydnesse. Thou shalt not take a wife and hir sister there to. to vexe hir that thou woldest open hir secrettes as longe as she lyueth. Thou shalt not goo vnto a woman to open hir secrettes, as [Page] longe as she is put aparte for hir vnclennesse.

Thou shalt not lye with thy neghbours wife, to defyle thi selfe with her. Thou shalt not geue of thi seed to offer it vnto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thi God, for I am the Lorde.

Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for that is abominacion. Thou shalt lye with no maner of beeste to defile thy selfe therewith, nether shall any woman stonde before a beest to lye doune thereto, for that is abhominacion.

Defile not youreselues in any of these thinges, for with all these thinges are these nacions defiled whiche I cast out before you: and the lande is defiled, and I will visett the wykednesse thereof apon it. and the lande shal spe we out hir inhabiters. Kepe ye therfore myne ordinaunces and iudgementes, and se that ye commytt none of these abominacions: nether any of you nor ony straunger that soiourneth amonge you (for all these abhominacions haue the men of the lande done whiche were there before you, and the lande is defiled) lest that the lande spewe you out when ye haue defiled it, as it spewed out the nacions that where there before you. For whosoeuer shall cōmytt any of these abhominacions, the same soules that [Page] commytt them shall perish from amonge their people. Therfore se that ye kepe myne ordinaunces, that ye commytt none of these abhominable customes which were commytted before you: that ye defile not youre selues therewith for I am the Lorde youre God.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto all the multitude of the childern of Israel, and saye vnto them. Be holy for I the Lorde youre God am holye. Se that ye feare: euery man his father and his mother, ād that ye kepe my Sabbathes, for I am the Lorde youre God. Ye shall not turne vnto ydolls nor make you goddes of metall: I am the Lorde youre God.

When ye offre youre peaceofferynges vnto the Lorde, ye shall offer them that ye maye be accepted. And it shalbe eaten the same daye ye offer it and on the morowe, but what soeuer is lefte on the thirde daye shalbe burnt in the fire. Yf it be eaten the thirde daye, it shalbe vncleane ād not accepted. And he that eateth it shall bere his synne: because he hath defiled the halowed thinges of the Lorde, ād that soule shall perish from amonge his people.

[Page]When ye repe doune the rype corne of you relande, ye shal not repe doune the vtmost borders of youre feldes, nether shalt thou gather that which is left behynd in thy haruest. Thou shalt not plucke in all thy vyneyarde clene, nether gather in the grapes that are ouerscaped. But thou shalt leaue them for the pore ād straunger. I am the Lord youre God.

Ye shall not steale nether lye, nether deale fal sely one with another. Ye shal not swere by my name falselye: that thou defilest not the name of thy God, I am the Lorde.

Thou shalt not begile thy neyghboure with cauellaciōs, nether robbe him violently, nether shall the workmans laboure abide with the vntyll the mornynge.

Thou shalt not curse the deaffe, nether put a stomblinge blocke before the blynd: but shalt feare thy God. I am the Lorde.

Ye shall doo no vnrightuousnes in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauoure the poore nor honoure the mightye, but shalt iudge thy neghboure rightuously.

Thou shalt not go vp ād doune a * preuy accuserYes for God ād with his a [...]ne cōfessiō shalt thou accuse him, to stablishe the holye fathers kingdome. amōge thy people, nether shalt thou helpe to shed the bloude of thy neyghboure: I am the Lorde.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thyne hart [Page] but shalt in any wyse rebuke thy neghbour: that thou bere not synne for his sake.

Thou shalt not avenge thy selfe nor bere hate in thy mynde against the childern of thi people, but shalt loue thy neghboure euē as thy self I am the Lorde.

Kepe myne ordinaunces. Let none of thy catell gendre with a cōtrary kynde, nether sowe thy felde with myngled seed, nether shalt thou put on ony garment of lynen and wollen

Yf a man haue to doo with a woman that is bonde and hath bene medled with al of another man which nether is boughte nor fredome geuen her, there shalbe a payne apon it: but they shall not dye, because she was not made fre. And he shall brynge for his trespaceofferynge vnto the Lorde: euen vnto the dore off the tabernacle of witnesse, a ram for a trespace offrynge. And the preast shall make an attonement for him with the ram of the trespaceofferynge before the Lord, for his synne which he hath done: and it shalbe forgeuen him, as concerninge the synne which he hath done.

And when ye come to the lande ād haue plā ted all maner of trees where of mē eate, ye shal holde them vncircumcised as concerning the it frute: euē thre yere shal they be vncircūcysed vnto you ād shall not be eatē of, Id the fourth [Page] yere all the frute of thē shalbe holy ād acceptable to the Lorde. And the fifth yere maye ye eate of the frute of thē, ād gather in the encrease of them: I am the Lorde youre God.

Ye shall eate nothinge with the bloude, ye shall vse no witchcrafte, nor obserue dismall dayes, ye shall not rounde the lockes of youre heedes, nether shalt thou marre the tuftes of thy beerde.

Ye shall not rent youre flesh for any soules sake, nor printe any markes apon you: I am the Lorde.

Thou shalt not pollute thi doughter, that thou woldest maintene her to be an whoore: lest the lāde fall to whoredome, ād waxe ful of wekednesse. ¶ Se that ye kepe my Sabbathes and feare my sauctuary: I am the Lorde.

Turne not to thē that worke with sprites, nether regarde thē that obserue disemall dayes: that ye be not defiled by thē, for I am the Lorde youre God.

Thou shalt ryse vp before the hoorehed, ād reuerence the face of the old mā ād dread thy god, for I am the Lorde. Yf a straunger so foure by the in youre lande, se that ye vexe him not: But let the straunger that dwelleth with you, be as one of youre selues, and loue him as thiselfe, for ye were straungers in the lande of [Page] Egipte. I am the Lorde youre God.

Ye shall do no vnrightuousnes in iudgemēt nether in meteyerde, weyght or measure. But ye shal haue true balāces, true weightes, A true Epha ād a true hin. I am the Lorde youre god which broughte you out of the land of Egipte, that ye shulde obserue all myne ordinaunces and iudgementes and that ye shulde kepe them: I am the Lorde.

¶ The. xx, Chapter,

ANd the Lorde talked with Moses saynge: tell the childern of Israel, whosoeuer he be of the childern of Israel or of the straungers that dwel in Israel, that geueth of his seed vnto Moloch he shall dye for it: the people off the lande shall stone hī with stones. And I wil sett my face apon that felowe, and will destroye him from amonge his people: because he hath geuen of his seed vnto Moloch, for to de file my sanctuary and to polute myne holy name. And though that the people of the landeIf we transgr esse gods commaundemētes we may happelye escape [...] ordlye iudges, but we cā not avoid the firse wrath of god, but it wil surely find vs out. hyde their eyes from that felowe, when he geueth of his seed vnto Moloch, so that they kyll him not: yet I will put my face apon that man and apon his houssholde, and will destroy him and all that goo a whooringe with him and cō mytt hoordome with Moloch from amonge their people.

[Page]Yf any soule turne vnto them that worke with spirites or makers of dysemall dayes and goo a whoorynge after them, I wilt put my face apon that soule and will destroye him from amonge his people. Sanctifie youre selues therfore and be holye, for I am the Lorde youre God. And se that ye kepe myne ordinaunces and doo them. For I am the Lorde which sanctifie you.

Whosoeuer curseth his father or mother, shall dye for it, his bloude on his heed, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

He that breaketh wedlocke with another mans wife shall dye for it: because he hath broke wedlocke with his neghbours wife, and so shall she likewise.

Yf a man lye with his fathers wife ād vncouer his fathers secrettes, they shall both dye for it, their bloude be apon their heedes.

Yf a man lye with his doughter in lawe thei shall dye both of them: they haue wrought abhominacion, their bloud vpon their heedes.

Yf a man lye with the mankynde after the maner as with womā kynd, they haue both cō mitted an abhominacion and shall dye for it. Their bloude be apon their heed.

Yf a man take a wife ād hir mother thereto, it is wekednesse. Mē shall burne with fire both [Page] him and them, that there be no wekednesse amonge you.

Yf a man lye with a beest he shall dye, and ye shall slee the beest.

Yf a womā go vnto a beest ād lye doune the reto: thou shalt kyll the womā ād the beest also they shal dye, ād their bloud be apō their hedes Yf a mā take his syster his fathers doughter or his mothers doughter, ād se hir secrettes, and she se his secrettes also: it is a weked thinge. Therfore let them perish in the syghte of their people, he hath sene his systers secretnesse, he shall therfore bere his synne.

Yf a man lye with a woman in tyme of hyr naturall disease and unheale hir secrettes and vncouer hir fountayne, ād she also open the fountayne of hir bloude, they shall both perishe from amonge their people.

Thou shalt not vncouer the secrettes of thy mothers syster nor of thy fathers systers, for he that doth so, vncouereth his nexte kyn: ād thei shall bere their mysdoynge.

Yf a mā lye with his vncles wife, he hath vncoueredThei small dye immediatly ād not [...]a [...]y the byrth, as Iuda wol [...] haue burnt Thamar beinge great [...] ita childe. his vncles secrettes: they shall bere their synne, and shall dye childlesse.

Yf a mā take his brothers wife, it is an vnclene thinge, he hath vncouered his brothers secrettes, they shalbe childlesse therfore.

[Page]Se that ye kepe therfore all myne ordinaunces and all my iudgementes, and that ye doo them: that the londe whether I brynge you to dwell therein, spewe you not oute. And se that ye walke not in the maners of the nacyons whiche I cast oute before you: For they commytted all these thinges, and I abhorred them.

But I haue sayde vnto you that ye shall enioye their londe, and that I will geue it vnto you to possesse it: euē a londe that floweth with milke and honye. I am the Lord youre God, whiche haue separated you from other nacions: that ye shulde put difference betwene cleane beestes add vncleane, and betwene vncleane foules and them that are cleane. Make not youre soules therfore abhominable with beestes ād foules, and with all maner thinge that crepeth apon the grounde, which I haue separated vnto you to holde them vncleane. Be holy vnto me, for I the Lorde am holy and haue seuered you from other nacyons: that ye shulde be myne.

Yf there be mā or womā that worketh with a sprite or a maker of dysemall dayes, thei shall dye for it. Mē shall stone them with stones, ād their bloude shalbe apon them.

¶ The .xxj. Chapter.

[Page]ANd the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: speake vnto the preastes the sonnes of Aaron and saye vnto them. A preast shall defile him selfe at the deth of none of his people, but apon his kyn that is nye vnto him: as his mother, father, sonne, doughter and brother: and on his syster as lōge as she is a mayde ād dwelleth nye him and was neuer geuen to man: on her he maye defile him selfe. But he shall not make him selfe vncleane vpon a ruelar of his people to polute him selfe with all.

They shall make thē no baldnesse apon theirOf the hethē preastes therfore toke our prelates the ensample off their balde pate [...]. heedes or shaue off the lockes of their beerdes, nor make any markes in their flesh. Thei shalbe holy vnto their God, ād not polute the name of their god, for the sacrifices of the Lorde ād the bred of their God thei do offer: therfore they must be holy.

Thei shall take no wife that is an whoore, or poluted, or put frō hir husbonde: for a preast is holy vnto his God. Sanctifie him therfore, for he offereth vp the bred of God: he shalBy bred vnderstonde all sode, flesh, frute, or whatsoeuer it be. therfore be holy vnto the, for I the Lorde whiche sanctifie you, am holy.

Yf a preastes doughter fall to playe the whore, she poluteth hir father: therfore she shall be burnt with fire.

He that is the hye preast among his brethern [Page] vppon whose heed the anoyntynge oyle was poured and whose hande was fylled to put on the vestimētes / shall not vncouer his heed nor rent his clothes, nether shall goo to any deed body nor make him selfe vncleane: no not on his father or mother / nether shall goo out of the sanctuarye, that he polute not the holy place of his God. for the croune of the anoyntyngeThe annoyntynge was the coronacion both of kynges ād of prestes also oyle of God, is apon him. I am the Lorde.

He shall take a mayden vnto his wife: but no wedowe nor deuorsed nor poluted whoore. But he shall take a mayden of his awne people to wife, that he defyle not his seed apō his people. for I am the Lorde which sanctifye him.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge / speake vnto Aaron and saye: No man of thi seed in their generaciōns that hath any deformyte apon him, shall prese for to offer the bredThe pope for bideth all soch lyke wise tyll they haue payd for dispensaciōs. of his God. flor none that hath any blemysh shall come nere: whether he be blynde / lame / snot nosed / or that hath any monstrous mēbre, or broken foted / or broken handed / or croke backed, or perl [...]yed, or gogeleyed, or maunge or skaulde / or hath his stones broken.

No man that is deformed of the seed of Aaron the preast / shall come nye to offer the sacrifyces of the Lorde. Yf he haue a deformyte / he shall not prese to offer the bred of his God. [Page] Notwithstondynge he shall eate of the bred of his God: euen as well of the most holy / as of the holy: but shall not goo in vnto the vayle nor come nye the alter, because he is deformed that he polute not my sanctuary / for I am the Lorde that sanctifye them. And Moses tolde it vnto Aaron and to his sonnes / and vnto all the childern of Israel.

¶ The .XXII. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde comened with Moses saynge: byd Aaron and his sonnes that they absteyne from the halowed thynges of the childern of Israel which they haue halowed vn to me, that they polute not myne holy name: for I am the Lorde. Saye vnto them: whosoeuer he be of all youre seed amonge youre generacion after you / that goeth vnto the halowed thinges which the childern of Israel shall haue halowed vnto the Lorde / his vnclennes shalbe apon him: and that soule shall perysh from out of my syghte. I am the Lorde.

None of the seed of Aaron that is a leper or that hath a runnynge sore / shall eate of the halowed thinges vntill he be cleane. And whosoeuer twytcheth any vncleane soule or man whose seed runneth frō him by nyghte, or whosoeuer twitcheth any worme that is vncleane to him / or man that is vncleane to him / what [Page] soeuer vnclennesse he hath: the same soule that hath twyched any soch thynge / shalbe vncleane vntill euen / and shall not eate of the halowed thynges vntill he haue wasshed his flesh with water. And than when the sonne is doune he shalbe cleane ād shall afterward eate of the halowed thynges: for they are his fode. Off a beest that dyeth alone or is rent with wylde beastes / he shall not eate / to defyle him selfe therwith: I am the Lorde. But let them kepe therfore myne ordynaunce / lest they lade synne apō them and dye therein when they haue defyled them selues: for I am the Lorde which sanctifye them.

There shall no straunger eate of the halowed thinges / nether a gest of the preastes / or an hyred seruaunte. But yf the preast bye any soule with money he maye eate of it / and he also that is borne in his housse maye eate of his bred. Yf the preastes doughter be maryed vnto a straunger / she maye not eate of the halowed heueofferynges. Notwithstondynge yf the preastes doughter be a wedowe or deuorsed and haueno childe but is returned vnto hir fathers housse agayne / she shall eate of hir fathers bred as wel as she dyd in hyr youth. But thereshall no straunger eate there of.

Yf a man eate of the halowed thynges vnwyttingly / he [Page] shall put the fyfte parte there vnto / and make good vnto the preast the halowed thynge. And let the preastes see / that they defyle not the halowed thynges of the childern of Israel which they haue offered vnto the Lorde / lest they lade them selues with mysdoynge and trespace in eatynge their halowed thinges: for I am the Lorde which halowe them.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes and vnto all the childern of Israel and saye vnto them / what soeuer he be of the housse of Israel or straunger in Israel that will offer his offerynge: what soeuer vowe or frewillofferynge it be which they will offer vnto the Lorde for a burntofferynge to reconcyle them selues / it must be a male without blemysh of the oxen / shepe or gootes. let them offer nothynge that is deformed for they shall gett no fauoure there with.

Yf a man will offer a peaseoffrynge vnto the Lorde and separate a vowe or a frewill offerynge of the oxen or the flocke / it must be without deformyte / that it maye be accepted. There maye be no blemysh therein: whether it be blide, brokē, wounded or haue a wen, or be maunge or scabbed. se that ye offre no soch vnto the Lorde, nor put an offerynge of any soch apon the alter vnto the Lorde.

[Page]An oxe or a shepe that hath any membre out of proporcion, mayst thou offer for a frewillofferynge: but in a vowe it shal not accepted. Thou shalt not offer vnto the Lorde that which hath his stones broosed brokē, plucked out or cutt awaye, nether shalt make any soch in youre lande, nether of a straungers hande shall ye offer an offerynge to youre God of any soch. For they marre all in that they haue de formytes in them, and therfore can not be accepted for you.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: when an oxe, a shepe or a goote is brought forth, it shalbe seuē dayes vnder the damme. And from the .viij. daye forth, it shalbe accepted vnto a gifte in the sacrifice of the Lorde. And whether it be oxe or shepe, ye shall not kyll it, and hir yonge: both in one daye.

When ye will offre a thankofferynge vnto the Lorde, ye shall so offre it that ye maye be accepted. And the same daye it must be eatē vp, so that ye leaue none of it vntill the morowe. For I am the Lorde, kepe now my commaundementes and do them, for I am the Lorde. And polute not my holy name, that I maye be halowed amonge the childern of Israel. For I am the Lorde which halowe you, and broughte you out of the londe of Egipte, to be youre [Page] God: for I am the Lorde.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto the childern of Israel, and saye vnto them. These are the feastes off the Lorde which ye shal call holy feastes. Sixe dayes ye shall worke, ād the seuenth is the Sabbath of rest an holy feast: so that ye maye do no worke therein, for it is the Sabbath of the Lorde, wheresoeuer ye dwell.

These are the feastes of the Lorde whiche ye shall proclayme holy in their ceasons. The xiiij. daye of the first moneth at euē is the Lordes Passeouer, And the .xv. daye of the same moneth is the feast of swete bred vnto the Lorde: vij. dayes ye must eate vnleuended bred. The first daye shalbe an holy feaste vnto you, so that ye maye do no laborious worke therein But ye shall offer sacrifices vnto the Lord. vij dayes, and the seuenth daye also shalbe an holy feast, so that ye maye doo no laborious worke therein.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israell and saye vnto them: when ye be come in to the lande whiche I geue vnto you and repe doune youre haruest, ye shall brynge a shefe of the first frutes of youre haruest vnto the preast, and he shall waue [Page] the shefe before the Lorde to be accepted for you: and euen the morow after the Sabbath the preaste shall waue it. And ye shall offer the daye when he waueth the shefe, a lābe without blemysh of a yere olde for a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde: and the meatoffrynge thereof, two tenth deales of fine floure mengled with oyle to be a sacrifice vnto the Lorde of a swete sauoure: and the drinkofferinge thereto, the fourth deale of an hin of wyne. And ye shall eate nether bred, nor parched corne, nor furmentye of new corne: vntyll the selfe same daye that ye haue broughte an offrynge vnto youre God. And this shalbe a lawe for euer vnto youre childern after you, where soeuer ye dwell.

And ye shall counte from the morowe after the Sabbath: euen from the daye that ye broughte the sheffe of the waueoffrynge, vii. wekes complete: euen vnto the morow after the .vij. weke ye shall numbre .l. dayes. And thē ye shal bringe a newe meatoffrynge unto the Lorde. And ye shall brynge out of youre habitacions two waueloaues made of two tenthdeales off fine floure leuended and baken, for first frutes vnto the Lorde. And ye shall bringe with the bred seuen lambes without deformyte of one yere of age, and one yonge oxe and .ij. rambes, [Page] which shall serue for burntoffrynges vnto the Lorde, with meatoffringes and drinkoffringes longinge to the same, to be a sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde.

And ye shall offer an he goote for a synneofferinge: and two lambes of one yere old for peaceoffringes, And the preast shall waue thē with the bred of the first frutes before the Lorde and with the two lambes. And they shalbe holy vnto the Lorde, and be the preastes. And ye shall make a proclamaciō the same daye that it be an holy feast vnto you, and ye shall do no laborious worke therein: And it shalbe a lawe for euer thorowe out all youre habitacions vnto youre childern after you,

When ye repe doune youre haruest, thou shalt not make cleane ryddaunce off thy felde, nether shalt thou make any aftergatheringe of thy haruest: but shalt leue them vnto the poore and the straunger. I am the Lorde youre God.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge▪ speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye. The first daye of the suenth moneth shalbe a rest of remembraunce vnto you, to blowe hornes in an holy feast it shalbe, and ye shall do no laborious worke therein, and ye shall offer sacrifice vnto the Lorde.

[Page]And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: also the tenth daye of the selfe seuēth moneth, is a daye of an attonement, and shalbe on holy feast vnto you, ād ye shall humble youre soules and offer sacrifice vnto the Lorde. Moreouer ye shall do no worke the same daye, for it is a daye of attonement to make an attonemēt for you before the Lord your God. For whatsoeuer soule it be that humbleth not him selfe that daye, he shalbe destroyde from amonge his people. And whatsoeuer soule do any maner worke that daye, the same I will destroye from amonge his people. Se that ye do no maner worke therfore. And it shalbe a lawe for euer vnto youre generacions after you in all youre dwellynges. A sabbath of reste it shalbe vnto you, and ye shall humble youre soules. The .ix. daye of the moneth at euen and so forth from euē to euen agayne, ye shall kepe your Sabbath.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye: the xv. daye of the same seuenth moneth shalbe the feast of tabernacles .vij. dayes ūto the Lorde. The first daye shalbe an holy feast, so that ye shall do no laborious worke therein. Seuen dayes ye shall offer sacrifice vnto the Lorde, and the. viij daye shalbe an holy feast vnto you [Page] ād ye shall offer sacrifice vnto the Lorde. It is the ende of the feast, and ye shall do no laborious worke therein.

These are the feastes of the Lorde whiche ye shall proclayme holy feastes, for to offer sacrifice vnto the Lorde, burnt offerynges, meat offerynges, and drink offrynges euery daye: besyde the sabbathes of the Lorde, ād besyde youre giftes, and all youre vowes, and all your fre will offerynges whiche ye shall geue vnto the Lorde.

Moreouer in the .xv. daye of the seuenth moneth after that ye haue gathered in the frute [...] of the lande, ye shall kepe holy daye vnto the Lorde. vij: dayes longe. The first daye shall be a daye of reste, and the .viij. daye shalbe a daye of rest. And ye shall take you the first daye, the frutes of goodly trees and the braunches off palme trees and the bowes of thicke trees, ād wylowes of the broke, and shall reioyse before the Lorde .vij. dayes. And ye shall kepe it holy daye vnto the Lorde .vij. dayes in the yere. And it shalbe a lawe for euer vnto youre childern after you, that ye kepe that feast in the seuenth moneth. And ye shall dwell in bothes seuen dayes: euen all that are Israelites borne, shall dwell in bothes, that youre children after you maye knowe howe that I made [Page] the childern of Israel dwell in bothes, when I broughte them out of the lande of Egipte: for I am the Lorde youre God. And Moses told all the feastes of the Lorde vnto the childern of Israel.

¶ The. xxiiij Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: commaunde the childern of Israel that they bringe vnto the, pure oyle olyue betē for lightes to poure in to the lampes allwaye, without the vayle of testimonye within the tabernacle of witnesse. And Aaron shall dresse them both euen and morninge before the Lorde alwayes. And it shalbe a lawe for euer amō ge youre childern after you. And he shal dresse the lampes apon the pure candelsticke before the Lorde perpetually.

And thou shalt take [...] floure ād bake. xij wastels thereof, two tenthdeales shall euery wastell be. And make two rowes of them, sixe on a rowe apon the pure table before the Lorde, and put pure frankencens vppon the rowes. And it shalbe bred of remembraunce, ād an offerynge to the Lorde. Euery Sabbath he shall put them in rowes before the Lorde euer more, geuen off the childern of Israel, that it be an euerlastynge couenaunte. And they shalbe [Page] Aarons and his sonnes, and they shall eate them in the holy place. For they are most holy vnto him of the offerynges of the Lorde, and shalbe a dutye for euer.

And the sonne of an Israelitish wife whose father was an Egiptian, went oute amonge the childern of Israel. And this sonne off the Israelitish wife and a man of Israel, strooue togither in the hoste. And the Israelitish womans sonne blasphemed the name and cursed, and they broughte him vnto Moses. And his mothers name was Selamyth, the doughter off Dybri off the trybe of Dan: and they putt him in warde, that Moses shulde declare vnto them what the Lorde sayde thereto.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge, bringe him that cursed without the hoste, and let all that herde him, put their handes apō his heed, and let all the multitude stone him. And speake vnto the childern of Israel sayenge: Whosoeuer curseth his God, shall bere his synne: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lorde, shall dye for it: all the multitude shall stone him to deeth. And the straunger as well as the Israelite yf he curse the name, shall dye for it.

[Page]He that kylleth any man, shall dye for it: but he that kylleth a beest shall paye for it, beest for beest. Yf a man mayme his neyghboure as he hath done, so shall it be done to him agayne: broke for broke, eye for eye and toth for toth: euen as he hath maymed a man, so shall he be maymed agayne. So nowe he that kylleth a beest, shall paye for it: but he that kylleth a man, shall dye for it. Ye shall haue one maner of lawe amonge you: euē for the straunger as wel as for one of youre selues, for I am the Lorde youre God.

And Moses tolde the childern of Israel, that they shulde bringe him that had cursed, out of the hoste, and stone him with stones. And the childern of Israel dyd as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses.

¶ The. xxv Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in mount Sinai sayenge, speake vnto the childern of Israel and saye vnto thē. When ye be come in to the lande whiche I geue you, let the londe rest a Sabbath vnto the Lorde. Sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thi felde, and sixe yere thou shalt cut thi vynes and gather in thi frutes. But the seuenth yere shall be a Sabbath of [Page] rest vnto the londe. The Lordes Sabbath it shalbe, ād thou shalt nether sowe thi felde, nor cut thy vynes.

The corne that groweth by it selfe thou shalt not repe, nether gather the grapes that growe without thy dressynge: but it shalbe a Sabbath of rest vnto the londe. Neuerthelesse the Sabbath of the londe shalbe meate for you: euen for the and thy servaunte and for thy mayde and for thy hyred servaunte and for the straunger that dwelleth with the: and for thi catell and for the beestes that are in thy londe, shall all the encrease thereof be meate.

Then numbre seuen wekes of yeres, thatThis horne in ebrue is called iobel, ād of this toke the pope an occasiō to make eu [...]rt .l. yere a iubelye▪ so that he contrafaiteth god in eueri point ād wyl not be oue [...]ce behinde him. is, seuen tymes seuen yere: and the space of the seuen wekes of yeres will be vnto the .xlix. yere. And then thou shalt make an horne blowe: euen in the tenth daye of the seuenth moneth, which is the daye of attonement. And then shall ye make the horne blowe, euen thorowe out all youre lande. And ye shall halowe the fiftith yere, and proclayme libertie thorowe out the lande vnto all the inhabiters thereof, It shalbe a yere of hornes blowynge vnto you and ye shall returne: euery man vnto his possession and euery man vnto his kynred agayne. A yere of hornes blowynge shall that fiftieth yere be vnto you. Ye shall not sowe nether repe [Page] the corne that groweth by it selfe, nor gather the grapes that growe without thi laboure For it is a yere of hornes blowinge and shalbe holy vnto you: how be it, yet ye shall eate of the encrease of the felde. And in this yere of hornes blowinge ye shall returne, euery man vnto his possession agayne.

When thou sellest oughte vnto thy neyghboure or byest off thy neyghboures hande, ye shall not oppresse one another: but accordynge to the numbre of yeres after the trompett yere, thou shalt bye of thy neyghboure, and accordynge vnto the numbre off fruteyeres, he shall sell vnto the. Accordinge vnto the multitude of yeres, thou shalt encrease the price thereof and accordinge to the fewnesse of yeres, thou shalt mynish the price: for the numbre of frute he shall sell vnto the. And see that no mā oppresse his neyghboure, but feare thi God. For I am the Lorde youre God. Wherfore do after myne ordinaunces and kepe my lawes ād doo them, that ye maye dwell in the lande in faftie. And the lande shall geue her frute, and ye shall eate youre fille and dwell therein in saftie.

Yf ye shall saye, what shall we eate the [...]euenth [Page] yere in as moche as we shall not sowe nor gether in oure encrease. I wyll sende my blessynge apon you in the sixte yere, and it shall brynge forth frute for thre yeres: and ye shall sowe the eyghte yere and eate of olde frute vntill the .ix. yere, and euen vntyll hir frutes come, ye shall eate of olde stoare. Wherfore the londe shall not be solde for euer, because that the lande is myne, and ye but straungers and soiourners with me: and ye shall thorowe oute all the lande of youre possession, let the londe go home fre agayne.

When thy brother is waxed poore and hath solde awaye of his possession: yf any off his kyn come to redeme it, he shall by out that whiche his brother solde. And though he haue no man to redeme it for him, yet yf hys hande can get sufficyent to bye it oute agayne, then let him counte how longe it hath bene solde, and delyuer the rest vnto him to whome he solde it, ād so he shall returne vnto his possession agayne. But and yf his hande cā not get sufficiēt to restore it to him agayne, then that whiche is solde shall remayne in the hande of him that hath boughte it, vntyll the horneyere: and in the horne yere it shall come out, and he shall [Page] returne vnto his possession agayne.

Yf a man sell a dwellynge house in a walled cytie / he maye bye it out agayne any tyme with [...] a hole yere after it is solde: and that shalbe the space in which he m [...]ye redeme it agayne. But and yf it be not bought out agayne within the space of a full yere / then the housse in the walled cytie shalbe stablished for euer vnto him that boughte it and to his successoures after hi and shall not goo out in the trompet yere. But the housses in villagies which haue no walles rounde aboute them / shalbe counted like vnto the feldes of the cuntre / and maye be boughte out agayne at any season / and shall goo out fr [...] in the trompett yere.

Notwithstondynge the cityes of the leuytes and the housses in the cyties of their possessiōs the leuites maye redeme at all ceasons. And yf a man purchace ought of the leuytes: whether it be house or citle that they possesse, the bargayne shall goo out in the trōpet yere. for the housses of the cyties of the leuites / are their possessions amonge the childern of Israel. But the feldes that lye rounde aboute their cyties / shall not be bought: for they are their possessions for euer.

Yf thi brother be waxed poore and fallē in decaye with the / receaue him as a straunger or [Page] a soiourner / and let him lyue by the. And thou shalt take none vsurye of him / nor yet vantage. But shalt feare thi God / that thi brother maye lyue with the. Thou shalt not lende him thi money apon vsurye / nor lende him of thi fode to haue a [...]antage by it for I am the Lorde youre God which broughte you out of the lande of Egipte, to geue you the lande of Canaan and to be youre God.

Yf thi brother that dwelleth by the waxe poore and sell him selfe vnto the / thou shalt not let him laboure as a bondseruaunte doeth: but as an hyred seruaunte and as a soiourner he shalbe with the / and shall serue the vnto the trompetyere / and then shall he departe frō the: both he and his childern with him / and shall returne vnto his awne kynred agayne and vnto the possessions of his fathers. for they are my seruauntes which I brought out of the lande of Egipte / and shall not be solde as bondmen. So therfore that thou reigne not ouer him cruelly / but feare thi God.

Yf thou wilt haue bondseruauntes and maydens / thou shalt bye them of the heythen that are rounde aboute you / and of the childern of the siraungers that are soiorners amonge you / ād of their generaciōs that are with you, which they begate in youre lāde. And ye shall possesse [Page] them and geue them vnto youre childern after you, to possesse them for euer: and they shalbe youre bond men: But ouer youre brethern the childern of Israel / ye shall not reigne one ouer another cruelly.

When a straunger and a soiourner waxeth rych by the ād thi brother that dwelleth by him waxeth poore and sell him selfe vnto the straunger that dwelleth by the or to any of the straungers kyn: after that he is solde he maye be redemed agayne. one of his brethren maye bye him out; whether it be his vncle or his vncles sonne / or any that is nye of kynne vnto him of his kynred: ether yf his hande can get so moch he maye be loosed. And he shall reken with him that boughte him / from the yere that he was solde in vnto the trompet yere / and the pryce of his byenge shalbe acordynge vnto the numbre of yeres / and he shalbe with him as a hyred seruaunte. Yf there be yet many yeres behynde / acordynge vnto them he shall geue agayne for his delyueraunce / of the money that he was solde for. Yf there remayne but few yeres vnto the trompet yere / he shall so counte with him / and acordynge vnto his yeres geue him agayne for his redempcion / and shalbe with him yere by yere as an hyred seruaunte / [Page] and the other shall not reygne cruelly ouer him in thi syghte. Yf he be not bought fre in the meane tyme / then he shall goo out in the trompet yere and his childern with him. for the childern of Israel are my seruauntes which I broughte out of the lande of Egipte. I am the Lorde youre God.

Ye shall make you no ydolles nor grauen ymage / nether rere you vpp any piler / nether ye shall sett vp any ymage of stone in youre lande to bowe youre selues there to: for I am the Lorde youre God. kepe my sabbathes and feare my sanctuary. for I am the Lorde.

¶ The .XXVI. Chapter.

YF ye shall walke in myne ordynaunces and kepe my commaundmentes and do them / then I will sende you rayne in the ryght ceason ād youre londe shall yelde hir encrease and the trees of the felde shall geue their frute. And the threshynge shall reach vnto wyne haruest / and the wyneharuest shall reach vnto sowyng tyme / and ye shall eate youre bred in plenteousues and shall dwell in youre lande peasably. And I wil sende peace in youre londe / that ye shall [Page] slepe, and no man shal make you afrayde. And I will ryd euell beestes out of youre londe, and there shall no swerde goo thorowe out youre lande.

And ye shall chace youre enemyes, and they shall fall before you vppon the swerde. And fiue of you shall chace an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put .x. thousande to flighte, and youre enemyes shall fall before you apon the swerde. And I wil turne vnto you and encrease you and multipye you, and sett vpp my testament with you. And ye shall eate olde store, ād cast out the olde for plentuousnes of the newe. I will make my dwellynge place amonge you, and my soule shall not loothe you.

And I will walke amonge you and wilbe youre God, and ye shalbe my people. For I am the Lorde youre God, whiche broughte you out off the lande of the Egiptians, that ye shulde not be their bondemen, and I brake the bowes of youre yockes, and made you go vp righte.

But and yf ye will not harken vnto me, nor will do all these my commaundementes, or yf [...]ote well. ye shall despyse myne ordinaunces ether yf youre soules refuse my lawes, so that ye wil not do all my commaundnentes, but shall breake myne appoyntment: then I will do this agayne vn [Page] to you: I will viset you with vexations, swellyn ge and feuers, that shall make youre eyes dasell and with sorowes of herte. And ye shall sowe youre seed in vayne, for youre enemyes shall eate it. And I will set my face agenste you and ye shal fall before youre enemyes, and they that hate you shal raigne ouer you, ād ye shall flee whē no man foloweth you.

And yf ye will not yet for all this herken vnto me, than will I punish you seuen tymes moreGod beginneth ād augmenteth his plages moare ād moare as the people hardē the i [...] hertes agē ste him. for youre synnes, and will breake the pride off youre strength. For I will make the heauē ouer you as harde as yerne, and youre londe as hard as brasse. And so youre laboure shalbe spent in vayne. For youre londe shall not geue hir encrease, nether the trees of the londe shall geue their frutes.

And yf ye walke contrary vnto me and will not herken vnto me, I will bringe seuen tymes moo plages apon you acordinge to youre synnnes. I will sende in wylde beestes apon you, which shall robbe you of youre childern and destroye youre catell, and make you so fewe in numbre that youre hye wayes shall growe vnto a wildernesse.

And yf ye will not be lerned yet for all this but shall walke contrarye vnto me, then will I also walke contrarye vnto you and will punish [Page] you yet seuen tymes for youre synnes. I will sende a swerde apon you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled vnto youre cities, I will sende the pestelence amonge you▪ ye shall be delyuered in to the hande [...] of youre enemyes. And when I haue broken the staffe of youre bred: that .x. wyues shall bake youre bred in one ouen and men shall delyuer you youre bred agayne by weyghte, thā shal ye eate and shall not be satisfied.

And yf ye will not yet for all this harken vnto me, but shall walke contrarye vnto me, then I will walke contrary vnto you also wrathfully and will also chastice you seuen tymes for youre synnes: so that ye shall eate the flesh of youre sonnes and the flesh of youre doughters. And I will destroye youre alters bylt apon hye hylles, and ouerthrowe youre images, and cast youre carkasses apon the bodies of youre ydolles▪ and my soule shall abhorre you. And I will make youre cities desolate, and bringe youre sanctuaries vnto nought, and will not smell the sauoures of youre swete odoures.

And I will bringe the londe vnto a wildernesse: so that youre enemyes which dwell there in shall wondre at it. And I will strawe you amonge the heethen, and will drawe out a swerde after you, and youre lande shalbe wast, and [Page] youre cities desolate. Then the lande shall reioyse in hir Sabbathes, as longe as it lyeth voyde and ye in youre enemies londe: euen then shall the londe kepe holye daye and reioyse in hir Sabbathes. And as longe as it lyeth voyde it shall rest, for that it coude not reste in youre Sabbathes, when ye dwelt therein.

And vppon them that are left alyue of you I will sende a feyntnesse in to their hertes in the londe of their enemies: so that the sounde of a leef that falleth, shall chace them and they shall flee as though thei fled a swerde, and shall fall no man folowinge them. And they shall fall one uppon another, as it were before a swerde euen no man folowinge them, and ye shall haue no power to stonde before youre enemyes: And ye shall perish amonge the hethen, ād the londe of youre enemyes shall eate you vpp.

And thei that are left of you, shall pyne awaye in their vnrightuousnes, euen in their enemies londe, and also in the mysdeades of their fathers shall they consume. And they shall confesse their misdedes and the misdeades of their fathers in their trespases which thei haue trespased against me, and for that also that thei haue walked contrary vnto me. Therfore I also will walke contrary vnto them, and will brynge them in to the londe of their enemyes. [Page] And then at the leest waye their vncircumcysed hertes shall be tamed, ād then they shall make an attonement for their misdedes.

And I wil remembre my bonde with IacobMercy is neuer denyed vnto him that repeu [...]eth. and my testamēt with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham, and will thinke on the londe. For the londe shall be lefte of them and shall haue pleasure in hir Sabbathes, while she lyeth wast without them, and they shall make an attonement for their misdeades, because they despysed my lawes and their soules refused myne ordinaunces. And yet for all that when thei be in the londe of their enemyes, I will not so cast them awaye nor my soule shall not so abhorre them, that I will vtterlye destroye thē ād breake myne appoyntment with them: for I am the Lorde their God. I will therfore remēbre vnto thē the first couenaunt made when I broughte them out of the lond of Egipte in the sighte of the hethen to be their God: for I am the Lorde.

These are the ordinaunces, iudgemētes, ād lawes which the Lorde made betwene him ād the childern of Israel in mount Sinai by the hā de of Moses.

¶ The .xxvij. Chapter.

[Page]ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: Yf any man will geue a synguler vowe vnto the Lorde acordynge to the value of his soule / then shall the male from .xx. yere vnto .lx. be set at fyftie sycles of syluer / after the sycle of the sanctuary / and the female at .xxx. sycles. And from .v. yeres to xx. the male shalbe set at .xx. sycles / and the female at .x. sycles. And from a moneth vnto .v. yere / the male shalbe set at .v. sycles of syluer / and the female at thre. And the man that is .lx. and aboue / shalbe valowed at .xv. sicles, ād the woman at .x. Yf he be to poore so to be set, thē let him come before the preast: and let the preast value him / acordynge as the hande of him that vowed is able to gete.

Yf it be of the beestes of which men bringe an offeringe vnto the Lorde: all that any man geueth of soch vnto the Lorde / shalbe holy. He maye not alter it nor chaunge it: a good for a bad or a bad for a goode. Yf he chaunge beest for beest / then both the same beest and it also where with it was chaunged shall be holy. Yf it be any maner of vncleane beest of which men maye not offer vnto the Lorde / let him brynge the beest before the preast and let the preast value it. And whether it be good or bad [Page] as the preast setteth it / so shall it be. And yf he will bye it agayne / let him geue the fyfte parte moare to that it was set at.

Yf any man dedicate his housse / it shalbe holy vnto the Lorde. And the preast shall set it. whether it be good or bad / and as the preast hath set it / so it shalbe. Yf he that sanctifyed it will redeme his housse / let him geue the fyfte parte of the money that it was iudged at thereto / and it shalbe his.

Yf a man halowe a pece of his enhereted londe vnto the Lorde / it shalbe set acordynge to that it beareth. Yf it bere an homer of barlye / it shall be set at fyftie sicles of syluer. yf he halowe his felde inmediatly from the trompet yere / it shalbe worth acordynge as it is estemed. But and if he halowe his felde after the trō petyere / the preast shall rekē the price with him acordynge to the yeres that remayne vnto the trōpet yere, ād there after it shalbe lower sett.

Yf he that sanctifyed the felde will redeme it agayne / let him put the fyfte parte of the pryce that it was set at, there vnto and it shalbe his yf he will not it shalbe redemed nomoare. But when the felde goeth out in the trompet yere / it shalbe holy vnto the Lorde: euen as a thinge dedycated, ād it shall be the preastes possession.

Yf a man sanctifie vnto the Lorde a feldewhich [Page] he hath boughte and is not of his enheritaunce / then the preast shall reken with him what it is worth vnto the trompet yere / and he shall geue the price that it is set at the same daye, and it shalbe holy vnto the Lorde. But in the trompet yere, the felde shall returne vnto him of whome he boughte it, whose enheritaunce of londe it was.

And all settinge shalbe acordinge to the holy sycle. One sycle maketh .xx. Geras.

But the firstborne of the beestes that pertayne vnto the Lorde, maye no mā sanctifie: whether it be oxe or shepe, for they are the Lordes allredy. Yf it be an vncleane beest, then let him redeme it as it is sett at, and geue the fifte parte moare thereto. Yf it be not redemed, thē let it be solde as it is rated.

Notwithstondinge no dedicated thinge that a man dedicateth vnto the Lorde, of all his goode, whether it be man or beest or lande off his enheritaunce, shalbe solde or redemed: for all dedicate thīges are most holy vnto the Lorde. No dedicate thinge therfore that is dedicate of mā, may be redemed, but must nedes dye

All these tithes of the londe, whether it be of the corne of the felde or frute of the trees, shal be holy vnto the Lorde. Yf any man will redeme oughte of his tithes, let him adde the fifte [Page] parte moare thereto. And the tithes of oxen and shepe and of all that goeth vnder the herdemans kepinge, shalbe holye tithes vnto the Lorde. Men shal not loke yf it be good or bad nor shall chaunge it. Yf any man chaunge it then both it and that it was chaunged with all, shalbe holy and maye not be redemed.

These are the commaundmentes whiche the Lorde gaue Moses in charge to geue vnto the childern of Israel in mount Sinai.

¶ The ende of the thyrde boke of Moses.

Numbers

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¶ A prologe into the fourth boke of Moses / called Numeri.
¶ A Prologe in to the fourth boke of Moses / called Numeri.

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IN the seconde ād thirde boke they receaved y• lawe. And in this .iiij. they begynne to worke and to practyse. Of which practi [...]ynge yese many good ensamples of vnbeleffe & what frewill doth / when she taketh in hand to kepe the lawe of her awne power without help of fayth in the promyses of god: how she leueth her masters carkesses by the way in the wildernesse and bringeth them not in to the londe of rest. Why coude they not entre in? Because of their vnbeleffe Hebre .iij. For had they beleved / so had they bene vnder grace / and their old synnes had bene forgeuen thē / ād power shulde haue bene geuē them to haue fulfilled the lawe thenceforth & they shuld haue bene kepte from all temptaciōs that had bene to stronge for them. For it is wrytten Iohan. 1. He gaue them power to be the sonnes of god / thorow belevynge in his name. Nowe to be the sonne of god is to loue god and his commaundmentes and to walke in his waye after the ensample of his sonne Christ. But these people toke vppon them to worke without faith as thou seysie in the xiiij. of this boke / where they wold fight and also did / without the worde of promysse: euē when they were warned that they shuld not. And in y• .xvi. a gayne they woulde please god [Page] with their holye faithlesse workes (for where gods worde is not there can be no faith) but y• fyre of god consumed their holy workes / as it did Nadab and Abihu Leui .x. And frō these vnbeleuers turne thyne eyes vnto the pharesyes which before the comynge of Christ in his flesh / had layde the fundacion of frewill after the same ensample. Wheron thei bilt holy workes after their awne imaginacion with our faith of the worde / so fervently that for the greate zele of them they slew the kinge of all holy workes and the lorde of frewill which only thorow his grace maketh the will fre and lowseth her from bondage of synne / and geueth her loue and lust vnto the lawes of god / and power to fulfyll them. And so thorowe their holye workes done by the power of frewill / they excluded them selues out of the holy rest of forgeuenesse of synnes by faith in the blonde of Christ.

And then loke on oure ypocrites which in like maner folowinge the doctryne of Aristot le and other hethen paganes / haue agenste all the scripture sett vpp frewill agayne / vnto whose power they ascribe the kepinge of y• cōmaundmētes of god. For they haue set vp wilfull povertye of another maner then any is cōmaunded of god. And the chastite of matrimony vtterlye defyed / they haue set vp another wilfull chastite not required of god / whiche they swere / vowe & professe to geue god / [Page] whether he will geue it them or no / and compell all their disciples there vnto / sayenge that it is in the power of euery mans frewill to obserue it / contrarye to Christ and his apostle Paule.

And the obedience of god and man excluded they haue vowed a nother wilfull obedience condemned of all the scripture whiche they will yet geue God whether he will or wyll not.

And what is become of their wilfull pouertye? hath it not robbed the whole worlde & brought all vnder them? [...]n there be ether kynge or emperoure or of what soeuer degre it be / excepte he will hold of them ād be sworne vnto them to be their servaunte / to go and come at their luste and to defende their quarels be they false or true? Their wilfull pouertye hath all readye eaten vpp the whole worlde & is yet still gredyar then euer it was in so moche that ten worldes mo were not ynough to satisfye the hongre thereof.

Moreouer besydes dayly corruptinge of other mens wyues and open who: edome / vnto what abominacions to fylthye to be spoke off hath their voluntarye chastite broughte them?

And as for their wilfull obediēce what is it but ye disobediēce & the diff [...]aūce h [...]th of all y• lawes of god & mā: in so moch yt yf any price begīne to execute any law of mā vppō thē / [Page] they curse him vnto the botom of hell & proclayme him no right kinge & that his lordes ought no longerto obaye him / and interdite his comen people as they were hethē turkes or saracenes. And yf any man preache them gods lawe / him they make an heretike and burne him to asshes. And in steade of gods lawe and mans / they haue sette vpp one off their awne imaginacion which they obserue with dispensacions.

And yet in these workes they haue so greate confidence that they not onlye truste to be saued therby / and to be hyer in heauen then they that be saued thorow christ: but also promessero all other forgeuenesse of their synnes thorow the merites of the same. Wherin they rest and teach other to rest also / excludyn get he whole worlde from the reste of forgeuenesse of synnes thorowe faith in Christes bloude.

And now seynge that faith only letteth a mā in ūto rest & vnbeleffe excludeth hī / what is the cause of this vnbeleffe? verely no synne yt the world seyth / but a pope holynesse & a rightuousnes of their awne imaginacion as Paule sayeth Roma .x. They be ignoraūte of y rightuousnes wherwith god iustifieth & haue set vp a rightuousnes of their awne makige thorow which they be disobediēt vnto y• rightuousnes of god. And Christ rebuketh not the phariseys for grosse synnes whiche [Page] the worlde sawe / but for those holyedeades whiche so blered the eyes of the worlde that they were takē as goddes: euē for long prayers / for fastynge / for tythīge so diligētly that they lefte not so moch as their herbes vnlithed / for their clennesse in wasshynge before meate and for washynge of cuppes / dishes / and all maner vessels / for buyldinge the prophetes sepulchres / and for kepinge the holy daye / and for turnynge the he then vnto the fayth / and forgevynge of almes. For vnto soch holy deades they ascribed rightuousnes and therfore when the rightuousnesse of god was preached vnto them they coude not but persecute it / the devell was so stronge in thē Which thinge Christ well describeth Luce .xi. sayenge that after the devell is cast out he cometh agayne and fyndeth his house swepte and made gaye and then taketh seuen we▪sethen him selfe and dwelleth therein / and so is the ende of that man worse then the beginnynge. That is / when they be a litle clensed from grosse synnes whiche the worlde seyth and then made gaye in their awne syght with the rightuousnes of tradicions / then cometh seuen / that is to saye the hole power of y• devell / for seuē with y• hebrues signifieth a multitude without uūbre & the extremyte of a thinge & is a speach borowed (I suppose) out of leuiticus where is so oft mencion made of senē. Where I wolde saye: I will punish the [Page] that all the world shall take an ensample of the / there the Jewe wold saye / I will circumcyse the or baptise the .vii. tymes. And so here by seuen is ment all the devels of hell & all y• might & power of the devell. For vnto what further blindnesse coude al the deuels in hell bringe thē / then to make them beleue y• they were iustified thorow their awne good workes. For whē they once beleued y• they were purged frō their synnes & made rightuousse thorowe their awne holye workes / what rowme was there lefte for y• rightuousnes y• is in christes bloudeshedinge? And therfore whē they be fallen in to this blindnesse they cā not but hate & persecute the light. And the more cleare & evidently their deades be rebuked y• furiousser & maliciousser blind are thei vntill they breake out in to opē blasphemye & synnynge agenst y• holy gost / which is y• malicious persecut [...]ge of the clearetrouth so manifestly proued that they cā not once hijsh agenst it. As the pharesyes persecuted Christ because he rebuked their holy deades. And when he proued his doctrine with y• scriptu & miracles / yet though they coude not improue him nor reason agenst him they tought y• the scripture must haue some other meaninge because his interpretacion vndermyned their fundacion & plucked vpp by the rootes the sectes which they had plāted / & they ascribed also his miracles to the deuell. And in like [Page] maner though oure ypocrites can not d [...] nye but this is the scripture / yet because there can be no nother sens gathered thereof / but that ouerthroweth their byldynges / therfore they euer thinke that it hath some other meanynge than as the wordes sounde and that no man vnderstondeth it or vnderstode it sene the tyme of the Apostles. Or yf they thynke that some that wrote vppon it sens the apostles vnderstode it: they yet thynke that we in like maner as we vnderstonde not the texte it self / so we vnderstande not the meanynge of the wordes of that docroure. For when thou layest the iustifyinge of holy workes and denyest the iustifyinge of fayth / howe canst thou vnderstond saynt Paule / Peter / Iohan and the Actes of the apostles or any scripture at all / seynge the iustifyinge of faith is almost all that they entende to proue.

Fynally / concernynge vowes whereof thou readest chaptre .xxx. there maye be many questyons / whereunto I answere shortly that we ought to put salt to all oure offerynges: that is / we ought to ministre knowledge in all ovre workes and to do nothinge wherof we coude not geue a reason out off gods wordes. We be now in the daye light / and all the secretes of God and all his counsell and will is opened vnto vs / and he y• was promysed shuld come and blesse vs / is [Page] come alredye and hath shed his bloude for vs and hath blessed vs with all maner blessynges and hath obrayned all grace for vs / and in him we haue all. Wherfore god hence forth will receave nomoare sacrifices off beestes of vs / as thou readest Hebre .x. Yf thou burne vnto God the bloude or fatt of beestes / to obtayne forgeuenesse of synnes therby or that god shuld the better heare thy requeste / then thou doest wronge vnto the bloude of Christ / and Christ vnto the is dead in vayne. For in him god hath promysed not forgeuenesse of synnes only / but also what soeuer we axe to kepe vs from synne ād temptacyon with all. And what yf thou burne frankencens vnto him / what yf thou burne a candle / what yf thou burne thy chastite or virginite vnto him for the same purpose / doest thou not like rebuke vnto christes bloude? Moreouer if thou offer gold / syluer or any other good for the same entent / is there any difference? And euen so yf thou goo in pylgremage or fastist or goest wolwarde / or sprinclest thy selfe with holy water or els what soeuer dead it is / or observest what soeuer ceremonye it be for like meanynge / then it is like abhominacion. We must therfore bringe the salt of the knowledge of gods worde with all oure sacrifices / or els we shall make no swete sauoure vnto god thereof.

Thou wilt axe me / shall I vowe nothinge [Page] at all? yes / Gods commaundement whiche thou hast vowed in thy baptyme. For what entent? Verely for the loue of Christ whiche hath bought the with his bloude and made the sonne and heyre of god with him / that thou shuldest wayte on his will and commaundmentes and puryfye thy membres acordynge to the same doctryne that hath purifyed thyne harte. For yf the knowlege of goddes wo [...]de haue not purifyed thyne harte / so that thou consentest vnto the lawe of God that it is rightuous and good and sorowest that thy membres moue the vnto the contrarye / so hast thou no parte with christ. For yf thou repent not of thy synne / so it is impossible that thou shuldest beleue that Christ had delyuered the from the daunger therof. Yf thou beleue not that Christ hathe delyuered the / so is it impossible that thou shuldest loue gods commaundmentes. Yf thou loue not the commaundmentes / so is Christes sprete not in the which is the ernest of forgeuenesse of synne and of saluacion.

For scripture teacheth / fyrst repentaunce: then fayth in Christe / that for his sake synne is forgeuē to them that repent: then good workes / which are nothyng saue the commaundement of god only. And the commaundementes are nothinge els saue the helpynge of oure neyghboures at their neade & the tamyinge of oure mēbres that they myght [Page] be pure also as the harte is pure thorow hate of vice and loue of vertue as gods word teacheth vs which workes must procede out of faith: yt is / I must do them for the loue which I haue to god for that greate mercye which he hath shewed me in christ / or els I do them not in the sight of god And that I faynte not in the payne of the sleyinge of the synne that is in my flesh / myne helpe is the promesse of the assistence of the power of god and y• comforte of the rewarde to come which rewarde I ascribe vnto the goodnesse / mercye ād truth of the promiser that hath chose me / called me taught me and geuen me the ernest thereof / & not vnto the merites of my doēges or soferī ges. For all that I do & soffre is but y• waye to the rewarde ād not the deseruinge thereof. As if the kinges grace shuld promesse me to defend me at whome in myne awne royalme yet the waye thyther is thorow the see wherī I might happlye soffre no litle trouble. And yet for all that / yf I might lyue in rest when I come thither / I wold thike & so wold other saye / that my paynes were well rewarded: which reward & benefyte I wold not proudlye ascribe vnto the merites of my paynes takynge by the waye: but vnto the goodnesse / mercyfulnesse and constaunt truth of the kinges grace whose gifte it is and to whome y• prayse & thanke thereof belongeth of duetye and right. So now a rewarde is a gift geuē [Page] [...]relye of the goodnesse of the geuer and not of the deseruinges of the reaceuer. Thus it appeareth / that if I vowe what soeuer it be / for any other purposse then to tame my membres and to be an ensample of vertue ād edefyenge vnto my neyghboure / my sacrifice is vnsauery and cleane without salt and mylā pe without oyle and I one of the folyshvirginis and shalbe shut out from the feast of the bruydegrome when I thinke my self most sure to entre in.

Yf I vowe voluntary pouerty / this must be my purposse / that I will be content with a competent lyuinge which cometh vnto me ether by succession of myne elders or which I gettetruly with my laboure in ministringe & doynge seruice vnto the comen welth in one office or in a nother or in one occupacyon or other / because that riches and honoure shall not corrupte my mynde and drawe myne harte from god / and to gene an ensample of vertue and edefiynge vnto other & that my neyghboure maye haue a lyuinge by me as well as I / if I make a cloke of dissimulaciō of my vowe / laynge a net of fayned beggerye to catch superfluous aboundaunce of ryches & hye degre and authorite and thorow the estimacion of false holinesse to fede and mayntayne my slowthfull ydlenesse with the sweate / laboure / lādes / & rentes of other men (after y• ensample of oure spiritualtye) robbynge thē [Page] of their faythes and god of his honoure turnynge vnto myne ypocrisye that confidence / which shuld be geuē vnto y• promyses of god only / am I not a wilye fox & a raueninge wolfe in a lābes skynne & a paynted sepulchre fayre without ād filthye with in? In like maner though I seke no worldlye promocyon therebye / yet if I do it to be iustifyed therwith ād to gett an hyer place in heauen / thinkynge that I do it of myneawne naturall strength & of y• naturall power of my frewill & yt euery man hath might euen soto doo and that they do it not is their faute & negligēce and so with the proude pharesye in cōparyson of my self despise the sinfull publicanes: what other thinge do I then eate y• bloude & fatt of my sacrifice devowringe yt my self which shuld be offered vnto god alone and his christe. And shortly what soeuer a man doeth of his naturall giftes / of his naturall witte / wisdom / vnderstondinge / reason / will / & good entent before he be otherwyse & cleane cōtrary taught of goddes sprete & haue receaued other witt vnderstondinge / reason ād will / is flesh / worldlye and wrought [...] abominable blidnesse / with which a man can but soke him self / his awne profyte / glory & honoure / euē in very spirituall matters. As if I were alone in a wildernesse where no man were to seke profite or prayse of yet if I wold seke heuē of god there / I coude of myne awne naturall gyftes seke it no no [Page] ther wayes then for the merites and deseruinges of my good workes and to entre therin by another waye then by yt dore christ / which were very theste / for christ is lord ouer all and what so euer any man wil haue of god / he must haue it geuen him frelye for christes sake. Now to haue heauen for myne awne deseruinge / is myne awne prayse and not christes. For I can not haue it by fauoure & grace in christ and by myne awne merites also▪ For fregeuinge and deseruinge can not stōd together.

Yf thou wilt vowe of thy goodes vnto god thou must put salt vnto this sacrifice: that is thou must ministre knowlege in this deade as Peter teacheth .ij. pet .i. Thou must put oyle of gods worde in thy lāpe & do it accordinge to knowlege / if thou wayte for the comynge of the bridegrome to entre in with him in to his rest. Thou wilt hāge it aboute the image to moue men to deuocyon. Denocyon is a feruent loue vnto gods cōma [...]dmentes and a desyre to be with god and with his euer lastinge promyses. Now shall the sight of soch riches as are shewed at saynt thomas shryne or at walsingham moue a man to loue the cō maundmētes of god better and to desyre to be loosed from his flesh and to be with god / or shall it not rather make his poore herte sigh because he hath no soch at home and to wysh parte of it in another place? [Page] The preast shall haue it in gods stead. Shall the preast haue it? Yf the preast be bought with christes bloude / thē he is christes seruaū te & not his awne & ought therefore to feade christes flocke with christes doctryne & to ministre christes sacramētes vnto thē purely for very loue & not for felthy lucres sake or to be lord ouer thē as Peter teacheth .i. pet .v. & paule Actes .xx. Besyde this christ is oures ād is a gifte geuen vs / & we be heyres of christ & of all that is christes Wherfore the preastes doaryne is oures & we heires of it / it is y• fode of oure soules. Therfore if he ministre it not truly ād frely vnto vs with out sellinge / he is a thefe & a soule murtherar: ād euen so is he if he take vppon him to fede vs & haue not wherewith. And for a like conclusyon because we also with all that we haue be christes / therfore is the preast heyre with vs also of all that we haue receaued of god / wherfore in as moch as y• preast wayteth on y• worde of god ād is oureseruaunte therin / therfore of right we are his dettars & owe him a sufficyent lyuinge of oure goodes / ād euen therto a wiffe of oure doughters owe we vnto him if he requyre her. And now when we haue appoynted him a sufficiēt liuinge / whether in tythes rentes or in yerelye wages / he ought to be cō tent & to require no more nor yet to receaue any more / but to be an ensample of sobernesse & of dispysinge worldly thinges vnto the ensample [Page] of his parysheonars.

Wilt thou vowe to offre vnto y• poore people? that is pleasaunte in y• sight of god / for they be lefte here to do oure almes apō in christes stead & they be y• right heyres of all oure abundaūce & ouerplus. Moreouer we must haue a scole to teach goddes worde ī (though it neded not to be so costely) & therfore it is law full to vowe vnto the buyldinge or mayntenaūce therof & vnto helpinge of all good werkes. And we ought to vowe to paye custome / tolle / rent & all maner dutyes and what soeuer we owe: for that is gods commaundmēt

Yf thou wilt vowe pilgrimage / thou must put salt therto in like maner if it shalbe accepted / if thou vowe to go ād viset the poore or to here gods worde or what soeuer edifieth thy soule vnto loue & good worke after knowlege or what soeuer god cōmaūdeth / it is well done and a sacrifyce that sauoreth well ye will happlye saye / that ye will go to this or y• place because god hath chosen one place more then another and will heare youre peticyen more in one place then another. As for youre prayer it must be accordīge to goddes worde. Ye may not desyer god to take vēgeaunce on him whō goddes worde [...]eacheth you to pytye & to praye for. And as for y• other glose / y• god will heare you more ī one place thē in another / I suppose it sal infatu [...]t [...]m / salt vnsauerye / for if it were wisdome how coude [Page] we excuse the deeth of steuē Actes .vij. which dyed for yt article that god dwelleth not in tē ples made with hādes we that beleue in god are y• temple of god sayth paule / if a man loue god & kepe his worde he is the tēple of god & hath god presently dwellinge in him / as witnesseth christ Johan .xiiij. sayēge: If a mā loue me he will kepe my worde / & thē my father will loue him & we will come vnto him and dwell with him. And in the .xv. he sayth: if ye abyde in me and my wordes also abyde in you / then axe what ye will & ye shall haue it. If thou beleue in christ & hast the promyses which god hath made the in thyne harte / thē go on pilgrymage vnto thyne awne haite ād there praye & god will heare y• for his mercy and truthes sake and for his sonne christes sake and not for a few stones sakes. What careth god for the temple? The very beestes in that they haue liffe in them be moch better then an hepe of stonnes couched to gether.

To speake of chastite / it is a gif e not geuen vnto all persones testifyeth both christ and also his apostle Paule / wherfore all persones maye not vowe it. Moreouer there be causes wherfore many persones maye better lyue chast at one tyme then at another. Many maye lyue chast at twentye and thirtye for certayne colde diseases folowinge them / which at .xl. when their helth is come cannot do so. Many be occupyed with wylde [Page] phantasyes in their youth yt they care not for mariage which same when they be warē sad shalbe greatly desyrouse / yt is a daungerous thynge to make synne where none is ād to for swere y• benefyte of god & to bynde thy self vnder payne of dānacyon of thy soule that thou woldest not vse the remeadye that god hath created if nead requyred. ¶ Another thinge is this / beware that thou ge [...]t the not a false fayned chastite made with ye vngodly perswasions of saynte H [...]erō or of Ouide in his fylthye boke of the remedye agenst loue / lest when thorow soch imaginacyons thou hast vtterlye despysed / defyed ād abhorred all voman kynde / thou come in to soch case thorow the firce wrath of god / yt thou canst nether lyue chast nor fynde in thy harte to marye ād so be cōpelled to faule into the abhominacion of the pope agenst nature and kynde.

Moreouer god is a wyse father & knoweth all y• infirmityes of his children & also mercy full / ād therfore hath created a remedye without synne ād geuen therto his fauoure and blessinge. Let vs not be wyser then god with oure ymaginacyōs nor tēpte him / for as godly chastite is not euery mās gyfre: euen so he y• hath it to daye hath not power to continue it at his awne pleasure / nether hath god [...]romy sed to geue it him still & to cure his infirmytyes with out his naturall remeadye no more then he hath promysed to slake his hongre [Page] with out meate or thirst with out drinke.

Wherfore other let all thinges byde fre as wise god hath created them & nother vowe that which god requyreth not nor for swere that which god permitteth the with his fauoure and blessinge also: or els if thou wilt neades vowe / then vowe godly & vnder a cōdityon / y• thou wilt contynue chast / so longe as god geueth the yt gyfte ād as longe as nether thyne awne necessyte nether cheryte toward thy neighboure nor y• authorite of thē vnder whose power thou arte dryue ye vnto the contrarye.

The purposse of thy vowe must be salted also with ye wisdom of god. Thou mayest no [...] vowe to be iustefyed therbye or to make satisfaction for thy synnes or towynne heauē nor an hyer place: for then didest thou wrōge vnto the bloude of christ & thy vowe were playne Idolatrye & abhominable in y• sight of god. Thy vowe must be only vnto ye furtheraunce of ye commaūdmētes of god / which are as I haue sayde nothinge but y• taminge of thy mē bres & the seruice of thy neyghboure: that is if thou thyncke thy backe to weake for the burthen of wedlocke & y• thou canst not rule thy wiff / children seruaūtes and make prouision for thē godlye & with out ouermoch busyenge and vnquyetyngethy self ād drounynge thy self in worldly busynesse vnchristenlye or that thou canst serue thy neyghboure in some office better beynge chast then maryed. And then [Page] thy vowe is good & lawfull. And eu [...] so must thou vowe abstinēce of meates & [...] ynkes so far forth as it is profitable vnto thy neyghbours & vnto y• tamīge of thy flesh: But thou mayst vowe nether of them vnto y• sleynge of thy bodye. As Paule cōmaūdeth tymothe to drincke wyne & no moare water because of his diseases. Thou wilt saye y• timothy had not happlye forsworne wyne. I thinke the same and that the apostles forsware not wedlocke though many of them lyued chast nother yet any meate or drincke / though they absteyned from thē / & that it were good for vs to folow their ensample. How be it though I vowe & swere ād thynke on none exceptyon / yet is the breakynge of gods cōmaūdmētes except & all chaunces that hāge of god. As if I swere to to be in a certayne place at a certayne houre to make a louedaye with out exception / yet if the kinge in the meane tyme commaunde me a nother waye / I must goo by gods commaūdment ād yet breake not myne othe. And in like case if my father and mother be seke and requyre my presence / or if my wiff / children or houshold be visited that my assistence be requyred / or if my neyghbours house be a fyre at the same houre and a thousand soch chaunces: in which all I breake myne oth and am not forsworne and so forth. Read gods word diligently and with a good herte and it shall teach the all thynges.

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The fourthe boke of Moses called Numeri.
¶ The .iiij. boke of Moses / called Numeri.

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ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai / in the tabernacle of witnesse / the fyrst daye of the seconde moneth / ād in the seconde yere after they were come out of y• lott de of Egipte sayenge: take ye the summe of al the multitude of the childern of Israel / in the it kynredes and housholdes of their fathers and numbre thē by name all that are males / polle by polle / frō .xx. yere & aboue: euen all yt are able to goo forthe in to warre in Israell / thou & Aarō shall nūbrethē in their armie [...] / & with you shalbe of euery try be a heed man in the house of his father.

And these are the names of y• mē yt shall s [...]ō de with you [...]in Rubē / Elizur ye sonne of Sedeur: In Simeō / Selumiel ye sonne of Su [...] Sadar: In y• try be of Iuda / Nahesson ye sonne of Aminadab: In Isachar / Nathaneel ye sonne of Zuar: In Sebulō / uliab y• sonne of Helō. Amōge y• childern of Ioseph: In Ephraī / Elisam a y• sonne of Amihud: In Manasse / Gamaliel y• sōne of Peda zur: In B [...] Iamin / Abidan the sonne of Gedeom: In Dan / Ahieser the sonne of Amnn Sadai: In Asser / Pagiel the sonne of Ochran: In Gad / Eliasaph the sōne of Deguel: In Naphtaly / Ahira the sonne of Enan.

[Page]These were councelers of the congregacion and lordes in the trybes of their fathers & captaynes ouer thousandes in Israel. And Moses and Aaron roke these men aboue named and gathered all the congregacion together / the fyrst daye of the seconde moneth / and rekened them after their byrth & kinredes and houses of their fathers by name frō .xx. yere & aboue hed by hed: as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses / euē so he numbred them in ye wildernesse of Sinai.

And the childern of Ruben Israels eldest sonne in their generacions / kynredes ād houses of their fathers / whē they were numbred eueryman by name / all that were males frō xx. yere and aboue / as many as were able to goo forth in warre: were numbred in the trybe off Ruben / xlvi. thousande and fyne hundred.

Among the childern of Simeon: their generacion in their kynredes and housses of their fathers (when euery mans name was tolde) of all the males from .xx. yeres and aboue / whatsoeuer was mete for the warre: were numbred in the trybe of Simeon .lix. thousande and .iij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Sad: their generacion in their kynredes and housholdes of their fathers / when thei were tolde by name / frō xx. yere and aboue / all that were mete for the warre: were numbred in the tribe of Sad. xl [...] [Page] thousande / sixe hundred and fyftie.

Amonge the childern of Iuda: their generacion in their kinredes and housses of their fathers (by the numbre of names) from .xx. yere and aboue / all that were able to warre / were tolde in the trybe of Iuda .lxxiiij. thousande and sixe hundred.

Amonge the childern of Isachar: their generacion / in their kinredes and houses of their fathere (when their names were counted) from .xx. yere ād aboue / whatsoeuer was apte for warre: were numbred in ye trybe of Isachar .liiij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

Among the children of Sebulon: their generacion / in their kynredes and houses of their fathers (after the numbre of names) from xx. yere and aboue / whosoeuer was mete for the warre: were counted in ye trybe of Sebulō ivij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Joseph: fyrst amō ge the childern of Ephraim: their generacion / in their kynredes and housses of theyre fathers (when the names of all that were apte to the warre were tolde) from .xx. yeres and aboue: were in numbre in the trybe off Ephraim / xl. thousande and syxe hundred.

Amonge the childern of Manasse: their generacion / in their kynredes and houses of their fathers (when the names of all yt were apte to warre were tolde) from .xx. and aboue [Page] were numbred in the tribe of Manasse. xxxij thousand and two hundred.

Amonge the childern of Ben Jamin: their generacion / in their kynredes and housses of their fathers (by the rale of names) from twentye yere and aboue of all that were mete for warre / were numbred in the trybe off Ben Jamin .xxxv. thousande / and .iiij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Dan: their generacion in theyr kynreddes and housses off theyr fa [...]hers (in the summe of names) off all that was apte to warre from twentye yere and aboue / were numbred in the trybe of Dan .lxij. thousande and .vij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Aser: their generacyon / in their kynredes & houses of their fathers (when thei were summed by name) from .xx. yeres & aboue / all that were apte to warre were numbred in the tribe of Aser .xli. thousande and .v. hundred.

Amōge the childern of Nepthali: their generacion / in their kynredes & housses of their fathers (when their names were tolde) from xx. yeres ād aboue / what soeuer was mete [...]o warre: were numbred in the trybe of Nephtali .liij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

These are the numbres which Moses ād Aarō numbred with ye .xij. princes of Israel: of euery housse of their fathers a man. And all the numbres of the children of Israel / in [Page] the housses of their fathers / from twentye yere and aboue / whatsoeuer was mete for the warre in Israell / drewe vnto the summe of syxe hundred thousande / fyue hundred and .l. But the leuires in the tribe off their fathers were not numbred amonge them.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: only se that thou numbre not the trybe of Leui / nether take the summe of them amonge the childern of Israel. But thou shalt appoynte the leuites vnto the habitaciō of witnesse / and to all the apparell thereof and vnto all that longeth thereto. For they shall bere the tabernacle and all the ordinaunce thereof / and they shall ministre it and shall pitche their tentes rounde aboute it. And when the tabernacle goeth forth the leuites shall take it doune: and when the tabernacle is pitched / they shall sett it vpp: for yf any straunger come nere / he shall dye. And the childern of Israel shall pitch their tentes / euery man in his owne companye and euery mā by his awne standert thorow out all their hostes. But the leuites shall pitche rounde aboute the habitacion of witnesse / that there fall no wrath vpon the congregacion of the childrē of Israel / and the leuites shall wayte apon the habitacion of witnesse. And the childern of Israel dyd acordinge to all that the Lord commaunded Moses.

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ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: The childern of Israel shall pirch: euery man by his owne standert with the armes of their fathers houses / a waye from the presence of the tabernacle of witnesse.

On the east syde towarde the rysynge of y• sonne / shall they of the standert of the hoste of Iuda pitch with their armes: And Nahe sson the sonne of Aminabab shal [...]e captaine ouer the sonnes of Iuda. And his hoste and the numbre of them .lxxiiij. thousande and. vi hundred. And nexte vnto him shall the trybe of Isachar pitche and Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar captayne ouer y• childrē of Isachar: his hoste and the numbre of them .liiij. thousande and .iiij. hundred. And than the trybe of Zabulon: with Eliab the sonne of Helen / captayne ouer the childern of Zabulon / and his hoste in the numbre of them: lvij. thousande and .iiij. hundred. So that all they that perteyne vnto the host of Iuda / are an hundred thousande .lxxxvi. thousande ād .iiij. hundred in their companies: and these shall god in the forefront / wen they iurney.

And on the southsyde / the standert of the hoste of Ruben shall lye with their companes and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ruben / Elizur the sonne of Sedeur / ād his hoste and the numbre of them .xlvi. thousande / [Page] and .v. hundred. And fast by him shall y• trybe of Simeon pitche / and the capteyne ouer y• sonnes of Simeon. Selumiel the sonne of zu ri Sadai / & his hoste and the nūbre of them lix thousande and .iij. hundred And the trybe of Gad also: And the captayne ouer the sonnes of Gad / Eliasaph the sonne of Deguel and his hoste and the numbre of them .xlv. thousande .vi. hundred and .l. So that all y• numbre that pertayne vnto the hoste of Ruben / are an hundred thousande .li. thousande iiij. hundred & fyftie / with their companyes / and they shall be the seconde in the iourney

And the tabernacle of witnesse with the hoste of the leuites / shall goo in the myddes of y• hostes: as they lye in their tētes / euen so shall they procede in the iurney / euery man in his quarter aboute their standertes

On the west syde / the standarte and the hoste of Ephraim shall lye with their companies. And the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ephraim / Elisama the sonne of Amthud: & his hoste and the numbre of them .xl. thousande & v. hundred. And fast by him / the trybe of Manasse / and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Manasse / Gamaleel y• sonne of Peda zur and his hoste and the numbre of them .xxxij. thousande and .ij. hundred. And the trybe of Ben Iamin also: and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ben Iamin / Abidan the sonne of Gedeoni / ād his hoste and the numbre of thē [Page] xxxv. thousande and .iiij. hundred. All the nū bre that perteyned vnto the hoste of Ephraim / were an hundred thousand .viij. thousande and an hundred in their hostes: and they shalbe the thryde in the iurneye

And the standert and the hoste of Dan shall lye on the north syde with their companyes: & the captayne ouer y• childrē of Dan / Ahiezer the sonne of Ammi Sadai: and his hoste and the nūbre of them .lxij. thousande & vij. hundred. And fast by him shall the trybe of Asser pitche: and the captayne ouer the sō nes of Asser / Pagiel the sonne of Ochran: & his hoste & the nūbre of them xli. thousande & v. hundred. And the trybe of Naphtali also / and the captayne ouer y• childern of Naphta li: Ahira the sonne of Enan: & his hoste and the nūbre of them .liij. thousande & iiij. hūdred So y• the hole nūbre of all that perteyned vnto y• hoste of Dan / was an hūdred thousande lvij. thousande & .vi. hūdred. And they shalbe the last in y• iurney with their stādertes.

These are y• sūmes of y• childern of Ysrael in the housses of their fathers: euen all the nū bres of the hostes with their cōpanies .vi. hū dred thousande .iij. thousande .v. hūdred and fyftie. And yet y• lenites werenot nūbred amō ge the childern of Ysrael / as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And y• childern of Ysrael dyd acordynge to all that the Lorde cōmaū ded Moses / & so they pitched with their standertes / [Page] and so they iurneyd: euery man in his kynred / and in the houssholde of his father.

¶ The .iij. Chapter.

THese are the generacions of Aaron and Moses / when the Lorde spake vnto Moses in mount Sinai / and these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the eldest sonne / and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar. These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron which were preastes anoynted and their handes fylled to mynistre but Nadab and Abihu dyed before the Lorde / as they broughte straunge fyre before the Lorde in the wyldernesse of Sinai / and had no childern. And Eleazar and Ithamar mynistred in the syght of Aaron their father.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge brynge the trybe of leui / and set them before Aaron the preast / and let them serue him ād wayte apon him & apon all the multitude / before the tabernacle of witnesse / to doo the seruyce of the habitacion. And they shall wayre apō all y• apparell of y• tabernacle of witnesse & apon y• childern of Ysrael / to doo y• seruyce of the habitaciō. And thou shalt geue the leuites vnto Aaron & his sonnes / for they are geuen vnto him of y• childern of Ysrael. And thou shalt appoīte Aarō & his sonnes to way te on their preastes office: & the straūger y• cometh nye / shall dye for it.

And y• Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: beholde / I haue takē the leuites frō amonge y• [Page] childern of Ysrael / for all the firstborne that openeth the matryce amonge the childern of Ysrael / so that the leuites shall be myne: because all the first borne are myne: for y• same daye that Ismote all the fyrstborne in the lande of Egipte / Ihalowed vnto me all the firstborne in Ysrael / both man and beest / and myne they shall be: for I am the Lorde.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai sayenge: Numbre the childern of Leui in y• housses of their fathers and Rynredes / all yt are males from a moneth olde and aboue. And Moses numbred them at the worde of the Lorde / as he was cō maūded. And these are y• names of y• childrē of Leui: Gerson / Cahath & Merari. And y• se arethe names of the childern of Gerson in their kynredes: Libni and Semei. And the sōnes of Cahath in their kynredes were Amram. Iezehar. Hebron and Vsiel. And the sonnes of Merari in their kynredes were Maheli and Musi. These are the kynredes of Leui in the housses of their fathers.

And of Gerson came the kynred of y• Libnites and the Semeites / which are the kynredes of the Gersonites. And ye summe of them (when all the males were tolde) from a moneth olde and aboue / were .vij. thousande and fyue hundred. And the kynredes of the Gersonites pitched behynde the habitacion west warde. And the captayne of the must aw [...]ciēt [Page] housse amonge ye Gersonires / was Eliasaph the sonne of La [...]l. And the office of the childern of Gerson in the tabernacle of witnesse was the habitacion and the tente with the coueringe theroff and the hangynge of the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and the hangynges of the courte / and the curtayne of the dore of the courte: which courte went rounde aboute the dwellynge / and the alter / and the cordes yt perteyned vnto all the seruyce therof

And of Cahath came the kynred of y• Amramites and the kynred of the Iezeharites & of the Hebronites and of the Vsielites: And these are the kynredes of y• Cahathites. And the numbre of all the males from a moneth olde and aboue / was .viij. thousande and sixe hundred: which wayted on ye holy place. And the kynred of the childern of Cahath / pitched on y• southsyde of y• dwellynge And y• captayne in y• most auncyent housse of the kynredes of the Cahathites / was Elizaphan thesonne of Vsiel / and their office was: the arcke / the table / the candelsticke / and the alter and the holy vessels to minystre with and the vayle with all that serued there to. And Eleazar y• sonne of Aaron the preast / was captayne ouer all the captaynes of the Leuites / and had the ouer syghte of them that wayted vppon the holythynges.

And of Merari came the kynredes of the Mahelites and of the Musites: and these [Page] are the kynredes of the Merarites. And the nūbre of them (when all the males frō a moneth olde ād aboue was tolde) drewe vnto. vi thousande & .ij. hundred. And ye captayne of the most auncient housse amonge the kynredes of the Merarites / was Zuriel the sonne of Abihail which pitched on the north syde of the dwellynge. And the office of the sonnes of Merari was: the bordes of y• dwellynge & the barres / pilers with the sokettes thereof / and all the instrumētes there of & all that serued thereto: & the pilers of the courte rounde aboute and their sokettes / with their pynnes & cordes. But on ye fore front of ye habitaciō ād before the tabernacle of witnesse castwarde / shall Moses and Aaron & his sōnnes pytch and wayte on the sanctuary in the steade of y• childern of Ysrael. And the straunger yt cometh nye / shall dye for it. And the hole summe of the leuites which Moses & Aar [...]n nū bred / at ye cōmaūdmēt of ye Lorde thorow out their kynredes euen / of all ye males of a moneth olde & aboue / was .xxij. thousande.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Numbre all ye first borne that are males amōge the childern of Ysrael / frō amoneth olde & aboue and take y• numbre of their names. And thou shalt appoynte y• leuites to me the Lorde / for all the firstborne amōge y• childern of Ysrael and the catell of y• leuites for the firstborne of the childern of Ysrael. And Moses nūbred [Page] as y• Lorde cōmaūded him / all the firstborne of ye childern of Ysrael. And all the firstborne males / in y• summe of names / from amoneth olde and aboue / were numbred .xxij. thousande .ii. hundred and .lxxiij.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayen [...]e: take the leuites for all the fyrstborne of the childern of Israel / ād the catell of the leuites for their catell: & the leuites shalbe myne whiche am the Lorde. And for the redemynge of the two hundred and .lxxiij. whiche are moo than the leuites in the firstborne of the children of Israel / take .v. sycles of euery pece / after the sycle of ye holy place .xx. geras the sycle. And gene y• money wherewith the odde numbre of them is redemed / vnto Aaron ād his sonnes. And Moses toke the redempciō money of the ouerplus that were moo then the leuites / amonge the firstborne of the childern of Israel: & it came to a thousande .iij. hundred & .lxv. sycles / of the holye sycle. And he gaue that redempcion money vnto Aaron & his sonnes at the worde of the Lorde / euen as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

¶ The .iijj. Chapter.

ANd ye Lord spake vnto Moses & Aarō & bade thē take ye summe of ye childern of Cahath frō amonge ye sonnes of leui / in their kynredes and housses of their fathers / from xxx. yere and abo [...] vntill fyftie / all that were able to warre / for to doo the worke in [Page] the tabernacle of witnesse: euen in the most holy place. And when y• hoste remoueth / Aaron ād his sonnes shall come and take donne the vayle and couer the arcke of witnesse there with / and shall put there on a couerynge of taxus skynnes / and shall sprede a cloth yt is altogether of Iacyncte aboue all / and put the stanes thereof in. And apon the shewe table / they shall sprede a cloth of Iacyncte / and put thereō / the dishes / spones / flat peces and pottes to poure with / and the dayly bred shal be thereon: and they shall spred apon them a couerynge of purple / and couer the same with a couerynge of taxus skynnes / and put the staues thereof in.

And they shall take a cloth of Iacyncte & couer the candelsticke of light and hir lāpes and his snoffers and fyre pannes and all hir oyle vessels which they occupye aboute it / & shall put apon her and on all hir instrumentes / a couerynge of taxus skynnes / and put it apon staues. And apon the golden alter they shall sprede a cloth of Iacyncte / and put on hir staues. And they shall take all the [...]higes which they occupye to minystre with in y• holy place / & put a cloth of Iacyncte apon them and couer them with a couerynge of taxus skynnes and put them on staues. And they shall take a waye the asshes out of the alter / and sprede a searlet cloth thereon: I put aboute it / the fyre pannes / the flesh hokes / the shoness / [Page] the basens and all that belongeth vnto the alter / and they shall sprede apon it a coueryng of taxus skynnes and put on the staues of it.

And when Aaron and his sonnes haue made an ende of couerynge the sanctuary ād all the thinges of the sancruarye / agenst that the hoste remoue / then the sonnes of Cahath shall come in for to bere / and so let them not twich the santuary lest they dye. And this ys the charge of the sonnes of Cahath in therabernacle of witnesse. And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the preast / shall haue the charge to prepare oyle for the lightes and swete cens / & the dayly meatofferynge and the anoyntinge oyle / and the ouersyghte of all the dwellynge and of all that therein is: both ouer the sanctuary & ouer all that pertayneth thereto.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses & Aaron sayenge: destroye not the trybe of the kynredes of the Cahathites / from amonge the leuites. But thus doo vnto them that they maye lyve and not dye / whē they goo vnto ye most holy place. Aaron and his sonnes shall goo in and put them / euery man vnto his sernyce and vnto his burthen. But let them not goo in to se when they couer the sanctuarye / lest they dye.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge Take the summe of the childern of Gerson / in the houses of their fathers ād in their kyn [Page] redes: from .xxx. yere and aboue / vntyll .l. all that are able to goo forth in warre / for to doo seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse. And this is the seruyce of the kynred of the Gersoni tes / to serue and to beare. They shall bere the curtaynes of the dwellynge and the roffe of ye tabernacle of witnesse and his couerynge ād the coueryng of tarus skynnes that is an hye aboue apon it / and the hangynge of the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse: and the hanginge of the courte and the hangynge of the gate of the courte that is rounde aboute the dwellynge and the altare / and the cordes of them / and all the instrumentes that serue vnto them and all that is made for them. And at the mouth of Aaron and his sonnes / shall all the seruyce of the children of the Gersonites be done / in all their charges and in all their seruyce / and ye shall appoynte them vnto al their charges that they shall wayte apō. And this is the seruyce of the kynred of the children of the Gersonires in y• tabernacle of witnesse / and their wayte shalbe in the honde of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast.

And thou shalt numbre the sonnes of Merari in their kynredes and in the houses of the ir fathers / from .xxx. yeres and aboue vnto .l. All that is able to goo forth in warre / to doo the seruyce of the tabernacle of witnesse. And this is the charge that they must wayte [Page] vppon in all that they must serue in the tabernacle of witnesse. The bordes of the dwellynge / and the barres / pylers / and sokettes thereof / and the pylers of the courte rounde aboute / and their sokettes / pynnes and cordes with all that pertayneth and serueth vnto them. And by name ye shall reken the thynges that they must wayte apon to bere. Thys is the seruyce of the kynreddes of the sonnes of Merari in all theyr seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse by the hande of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast.

And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the multitude numbred the sonnes of the Cahathites in their kynredes and housses of theire fathers / from .xxx. yere and aboue vnto fyftie / all that were able to goo forth in the hoste and to do seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse. And the numbre of them in their kynredes were two thousande / seuen hundred and .l. These are the numbres of the kynredes of the Cahathites / of all that dyd seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse / whyche Moses and Aaron dyd numbre at the commaundment of the Lorde by the hā de of Moses.

And the sonnes of Gerson were numbred in their kynredes and in the housses of their fathers / from .xxx. yere vp vnto fyftye / [Page] all that were able to goo forth in the hoste for to doo servycr in the tabernacle of witnesse. And the numbre of them in their kynredes / and in the housses of their fathers / was two thousande / sixe hundred and xix. This is the numbre of the kynredes of the sonnes of Gerson / of all that dyd seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse / which Moses and Aaron dyd numbre at the commaundement of the Lorde.

And the kynredes of the sonnes of Merari were numbred in their kynredes and in the houses of their fathers / from .xxx. yere vp vn to fyftie. all that were able to goo forth with the hoste / ro do seruice in y• tabernacle of witnesse. And the numbre of them was in theyr kynredes / thre thousande and two hundred. This is the numbre of the kynredes of y• sonnes of Merari / whiche Moses and Aaron numbred at the byddynge of the Lorde / by y• hande of Moses.

The whole summe which Moses / Aaron and the lordes of Israell numbred amonge the leuites in their kynredes and housholdes of their fathers / from .xxx. yere vpp vnto. [...]. euery man to doo his office and seruyce and to bere his burthen in the tabernacle of witnesse: was .viij. thousonde / fyue hundred ād lxxx. which they numbred at the commaundement of the Lorde by the honde of Moses euery man vnto his seruyce and burthen: as [Page] the Lorde commaunded Moses.

¶ The. fyfte Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: commaunde the childern of Israel that they put out of the hoste / all the lepers and all that haue yssues and all that are defyled apon the deed / whether they be males or females ye shall put them out of the hoste / that they defyle not the tentes amō ge which I dwell. And the childern of Israel dyd so / and put them out of the hoste: euen as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses / so dyd the childern of Israel.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel: whether it be man or woman / whē they haue synned any maner of synne which a man doeth wherewith a man trespaseth agenst the Lorde / so that the soule hath done amysse: then they shall knowlege their synnes which they haue done / and restore a gayne the hurte that they haue done in the hole / and put the fyfteYf ye hau [...] false gott [...] goodes & n [...] mā to restor [...] it vnto / the [...] b [...]inge i [...] vn to y• pope ād he will dispēce with [...] parte of it moare thereto / and geue it vnto him whom he hath trespased agenste. But and yf he that maketh the amendes have no man to doo it to / then the amendes that is made shalbe the Lordes and the preastes / besyde the ram of the attonement offerynge where with he maketh an attonemēt for hymselfe [Page] And all heue offerynges of all the halowed thinges which the childern of Israel brynge vnto the preaste / shalbe the preastes / and euery mans halowed thinges shalbe his awne / but what soeuer any man geueth the preast / it shalbe the preastes.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israell and saye vnto them. Yf any mans wyfe goo a syde and trespase agaynst hym / so that another man lye with her fleshely and the thynge be hydd from the eyes of hir husbonde and is not come to lighte that she is defyled (for there is no witnesse agenst her) in as moche as she was not taken with the maner / and the sprere of gelousye cometh apon him and he is gelouse ouer his wyfe and she defyled / Or happely the sprete of gelousye cometh apon him / and he is gelouse ouer hys wyfe ād she yet vndefyled. Thē let hyr husbonde bringe her vnto the preaste and brynge an offerynge for her: the tenthe parte of an Epha of barlye meele / but shall poure none oyle therevnto / nor put frankencens thereon: for it is an offerynge of gelousye / and an offerynge that maketh remembraunce of synne.

And let the preast brynge her and sett her before the Lorde / and let him take holy water in an erthen vessell & of the dust that is in y• flore of the habyracyon / and put it in to the [Page] water. And the preast shall set the wyfe before the Lorde and vncouer hir heed / and put the memoryall of the offerynge in hyr handes whiche is the gelousye offerynge / and y• preast shall haue bytter and cursynge water in his hande / and he shall coniure her and shall saye vnto her. Yf no man haue lyen wyth the nether haste gone asyde / and defyled thy selfe behynde thy husbonde / then haue thou no harme of this bytter cursynge water.

But and yf thou hast gone asyde behynde thyne husbonde and art defyled and some other man hath lyen with the besyde thyne husbonde (and let the preaste coniure her with the coniuracyon of the curse and saye vnto her) the Lorde make the a curse and a coniuracyon amonge thy people: so that the Lorde make thy thye rotte / and thy bely swell and thys bytter cursynge water goo in to the bowels of the / that thy bely swell and thy [...]rot [...]e / and the wyfe shall saye Amen Amen.

And the preast shall wrytte this curse in a byll and wasshe it out in the bytter water. And when the cursynge water ys yn her that it is bytter / then let the preast take the gelousy offerynge out of the wyfes hande / and waue it before the Lorde / and brynge i [...] vnto the altare: and he shall take an handefull [Page] off the memoryall offerynge and burne it apon the alter / and then make her dryncke the water and when he hath made her drynke the water. Yf she be defyled and haue trespased agenst her husbond / then shall the cursynge water goo in to her and be so bitter / y• hir bely shall swell and hir thye shall ro [...]te / & she shalbe a curse amonge hir people. And yf she be not defyled but is cleane / then she shall haue no harme / but that she maye conceaue.

This is the lawe of gelonsye / when a wyfe goeth a syde behynde hyr husbonde ād is defyled / or when the spirite of gelousye cometh apon a man / so that he is gelouse ouer his wife: then he shall beinge her before the Lorde / and the preast shall ministre all thie lawe vn to her / & the man shalbe giltlesse / & the wyfe shall bere hir synne.

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto y• childrē of Israel & saye vnto them: when ether man or woman appo [...]nteth to vowe a vowe of abstinence for to abstene vnto the Lorde / he shall abstene from wyne and stronge drynke / and shall dryncke no vynegre of wyne or of stronge drynke / nor shal drynke what soeuer is pressed out of grapes: & shal eate no fresh grapes nether yet dryed [Page] / as lōge as his absimēce ēdureth. Moreouer he shall eate nothyng y• is made of the vynetre / no n [...] so moch as y• cornel [...] or the huske of the grape.

And as longe as the vowe of his abslin [...] ce endureth / there shall no rasure nor sheres come apon his heed / vntill his dayes be out which he fas [...]eth vnto the Lorde / and he shalbe holy and shall let the lockes of his heer growe. As longe as he ab [...]en [...]th vnto the Lorde he shall come at no deed bodye: he shall not make him selfe vncleane at the deeth of his father / mother / brother or syster. for the abstinē ce of his God is apon his heed. And therfore as longe as his abstynence lasteth / he shal [...] be hely vnto the Lorde.

And yf i [...] fortune that any man by chaunce dye sedenly before him / and defyle the heed of his abstinēce / [...]hen must he shaue his heed the daye of his [...]l [...]syng [...] ▪ euen the seuenth daye he shall shaue it. And the eyght daye he shall brynge .ij. turtels or .ij. yonge pigeons to the preast / vnto y• dore of y• tabernacle of witnesse And y• preast shall offer the one for a synofferynge and the other for a burntofferynge & make an aronement for him / as concernynge that he synned apon the deed / and shall also halowe his heed the same daye and he shall abstene vpto the Lorde theryme of his abstinencye / and shall brynge a lambe of a [...] yere olde for a trespace offerynge: but the dayes y• [Page] were before are lost / because his abstinence was defyled. ¶ This is the lawe of the absteyner / when the tyme of his abstinēce is out. he shalbe broughte vnto y• dore of y• tabernacle of witnesse & he shall brynge his offerynge vnto y• Lord: an he lābe of a yere olde with out blemysh f [...]r a burntofferynge & a she lambe of a yere olde without blemysh for a synofferynge / a ram without blemysh also for a peaseofferynge / & a basket of swete breed of fyne floure myngled with oyle & wafers of swete bred anoyntyd with oyle with meatofferynges ād drynkofferynges that longe thereto.

And the preast shall brynge him before y• Lorde & offer his synofferynge & his burntofferynge / & shall offer y• ram for a peaseofferynge vnto y• Lorde with the basker of swete brede / ād the preast shall offer also his meat offerynge & his drynckofferynge. And y• abs [...]yner shall shaue his heed in y• dore of y• tabernacle of witnesse ād shall take the heer of his sober heed & put it in y• fyre which is vnder the peaseofferynge. Then the preast shall take the sodden shulder of y• ram ād one swete cake out of y• basket & one swete wafer also ād put them in the hāde of the abste [...]ner after he hath shanē his abstinēce of / & the preast shall waue them vnto the Lorde / which offerynge shalbe holy vnto the preast with y• wauebrest and heue shulder: & then the abs [...]eyner may [...] drynke wyne. This is the lawe of the absieyner [Page] which hath vowed his offerynge vnto [...] Lorde for his abstynence / besydes that his hā de can gete And acordyng to the vowe which he vowed / euen so he must doo in the lawe of his abstinence.

And the Lorde talked with Moses sayeng [...] speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes sayē [...] of this wise ye shall blesse the childern of [...]ere of ye se that Aarō / wher he lift vpp his hande and blessed the people / was not dumme as oure bisshopes be. Ysrael saynge vnto them.

The lordeblesse the and kepe the.

The lorde make his face shyne apon the & be mercyfull vnto the.

The lorde lifte vpp his countena [...]nce apō the / and geue the peace For ye shall put my name apon the childern of Ysrael / that Imaye blessethem.

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

ANd when Moses had full sett vp the habitacion and anoynted it ād sanctifyed it and all the apparell thereof / and had anoynted and sanctifyed y• alter also and all the vessels there of: then the prynces of Ysrael heedes ouer the housses of their fathers which were the lordes of the trybes that stode ād numbred / offered ād broughte their giftes before the Lorde sixe couered charettes and .xij. [...]xen: two and two a charet and an oxe euery man / and they broughte them before the habitacion.

[Page]And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge take it of them and let them be to do the seruy [...] ce of y• tabernacle of witnesse / and geue them vnto the leuites / euery man acordynge vnto his office And Moses toke the charettes ād the oxen / & gaue them vnto the leuites: ij. charettes and .iiij. oxen he gaue vnto the sonnes of Gerson acordynge vnto their office. And iiij. charettes and eyght oxen he gaue vnto y• sonnes of Merari acordynge vnto their offices / vnder the handes of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast. But vnto the sonnes of Cahath he gaue none / for the office that perteyned to them was holy / & therfore they must bere vppon shulders.

And the princes offered vnto the dedycatynge of the alter in the daye yt it was anoyn ted / and brought their giftes before the alter And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: let the priches brynge their offerynges / euery daye one prynce / vnto the dedicatynge of the alter.

He that offered his offerynge y• first daye / was Nahesson the sonne of Aminadab of the trybe of Iuda. And his offerynge was: a syluer charger / of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weight: and a syluer boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle / both of them full of fyne whe [...] flou re myngled with oyle for a meat offerynge: & a spone of .x. sicles of golde full of cens: & an oxe / a ram ād a lambe of a yere olde for burn [...] offerynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: [Page] and for pease offerynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of a yere olde. and this was the gifte of Nahesson the sonne of Aminadab.

The seconde daye / dyd Nathancel offer / y• sonue of Zuar / captayne ouer Yfachar. And his offerynge which he broughte was: a syluer charger of an hundred & .xxx. sicles weyght / and a syluern boule of lxx. sicles / of y• holy sicle: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens: and an oxe / a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges: ād for peaseofferyn ges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was y• offerynge of Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar.

The thyrde daye / Eliab the sonnne of Helon the chefest amonge the childern of Zabulon / brought his offerynge. And his offerynge was / a syluer charger of an hundred and. xxx sicles weyghte / and a siluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle / & both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meat offerynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cēs: and an oxe and a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an hegoore for a synofferynge: and for peascofferynges .ij. oxen. v rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Eliab the sonne of Helon.

The fourtdaye / Elizur the sonne of Sedeur / chefe lorde amonge the childern of Ruben / [Page] broughte his offerynge. And his gifte was: a syluer charger of an hundred and. xxx sicles weyghte / and a syluern boule of .lxx. [...]icles of the holy sicle / & both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens: and an oxe / a ram & a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Elizur the sonne of Sedeur.

The fyfth daye / Selumiel y• sonne of Zuri Sadai / chefe lorde amonge the childern of Simeon / offered. whose gifte was: a syluer charger of an hundred & .xxx. sicles weyghte: and a syluer boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle: ād both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: & a golden spone of x. sicles full of cens. And an oxe / a ram ād a lābe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / ād an he goote for a synofferynge: & for peaseofferiges .ij. oxen .v. rāmes .v. he gootes ād .v. lābe [...] of a yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Selumielthe sonne of Zuri Sadai.

The sixte daye / Eliasaph y• sonne of [...]eguel the chefe lorde amonge the childern of Gad / offered. whose gifte was: a syluer charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weyghte: and a syluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy [Page] sicle: & both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens. And an oxe / a ram ād a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / & an he goote for a synofferynge: And for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lābes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Eliasaph the sonne of [...]eguel.

The seuenth daye / Elisama the sonne of Amiud / y• chefelorde of y• childern of Ephraim / offered. And his gifte was: a siluern charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weyght: ād a syluern boule of lxx. sicles of the holy sicle: ād both full of fyne floure myngled with oyl [...] for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of. x sicles / full of cens. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / ād an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes & v. lambes of a yere olde. And this was ye offerynge of Elisama the sonne of Amiud.

The .viij. daye / offered Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur / the chefe lorde of the childern of Manasse. And his gifte was: a sylueren charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weyght: and a syluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the hely sicle: ād both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: & a golden spone of .x. sycles / full of cēs. And an oxe / a ram [Page] and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes / fyue he gootes and fyue lābes of a yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Gamaliel the sonne of Peda zur.

The .ix. daye / Abidan y• sonne of Gedeoni y• chefelord amōge y• childern of Ben Iamm offered. And his gifte was: a syluern charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles wey g [...]t: & a syluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle / and both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of x. sicles / full of cens. and an oxe / a ram and a lambe of one yere olde for burntofferynges: & an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes & v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Abidan the sonne of Gedeoni.

The .x. daye / Ahieser the sonne of Ammi Sadai / chefelorde amōge ye children of [...]an offered. And his gifte was: a syluern charger of an hundred and .xxx. sycles weyght: a syluern boule of seuentye sicles of the holy sycle: and both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens: and an oxe / a rā and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes / fyue he gootes and fyue lābes of a yere olde. And [Page] this was the offrynge of Ahieser the sonne of Ammi Sadai.

The .xi. daye / Pagiel the sonne of Ochran the chefe Lorde amonge the childern of Asser offered: And his gifte was: a syluerē charger of an hundred and .xxx. sycles weyghte: a sylueren boule of .lxx. sycles of the holye sycle and both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meateoffrynge: and a golden spone of .x. sycles / full of cens. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of one yere olde for burntofferinges: and an he goote for a synneofferynge: ād for peaceofferynges: two oxen / fyue rammes v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Pagiel ye sonne of Ochran.

The .xij. daye / Ahira the sonne of Enan / chefe lorde amonge the childern of Nephtali offered. And his gifte was: a sylueren charger of an hundred and .xxx. sycles weyghte: a sylueren boule of .lxx. sycles of the holye sycle / both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of twentye sycles / full of cens. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of one yere olde for burntofferynges: and an he goote for a synneofferinge: and for peaceofferynges / two oxen .v. rā mes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Ahira / the sonne of Enan.

Of this maner was the dedicacyon of the [Page] alter / when it was anoynted: vnto the whiche was broughte of the prynces of Israel .xij. chargers of syluer .xij. syluern boules and. xij spones of golde: euery charger contaynynge an hundred and .xxx. sycles of syluer / and euery boule .lxx. so that all the syluer of all the vessels / was two thousande and .iiij. hundred sycles of the holy sycle. And the .xij. golden spones which were full of cens / contayned ten sycles a pece of the holy sycle: so that all the golde of the spones / was an hundred and .xx. sycles.

All the oxen that were broughte for the burntoffrynges were .xij. and the rāmes. xij & the lābes .xij. of a yere olde a pece / with the meateofferynges: with he gootes for synneyr offrynges. And all the oxē of the peaceofferynges were .xxiiij. the rammes .lx. the gootes .lx. and lambes of a yere olde a pece .lx. & this was the dedicacion of the alter / after ye it was anoynted.

And when Moses was gone in to the tabernacle of witnesse to speke with hī / he hardethe voyce of one speakinge vnto him from of the mercy seate that was apon the arcke of witnesse: euen from betwene the two cher [...] byns he spake vnto him.

¶ The .viij. Chapter.

[Page]ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto Aaron and saye vnto hym: when thou puttest on the lampes se that they lighte all seuen apon the forefront of the candelsticke. And Aaron dyd euen so / and put the lampes apon the forefrōt of the candelsticke / as the Lorde commaunded Moses / and the worke of the candelsticke was of stiffe golde: both the shaft and the floures thereof. And accordinge vnto the visyon whiche the Lorde had shewed Moses / euen so he made the candelsticke.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: take the leuites from amonge the childern of Israel / and clense them. And this deo vnto them when thou clensest them / sprinckle water of purifyenge apon them and make a rasure to runne alonge apon all the fleshe of them / and let them washe their clothes / and then they shall be cleane. And let them take a bollocke and his meatofferynge / fyne floure myngled with oyle: & another bollocke shalt thou take to be a synneofferynge.

Than brynge the lennes before the tabernacle of witnesse and gather the hole multitude of the chyldern of Israel together. And bringe the lemtes before the Lorde / and let the childern of Israel put their handes apon the leuites. And let Aaron heue the lemtes before the LORDE / for an heueofferynge [Page] geuen of the childern of Israel / ād thē let them be appoynted to wayte apon the seruyce of the Lorde.

And let the leuites put their handes vpō the heedes of the bollockes / and then offer them: the one for a synne offerynge and the other for a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde / to make an attonement for the leuites. And make the leuites stonde before Aaron & hys sonnes / and heue them to be a heueofferynge vnto the Lorde. And thou shalt separate the leuites / from amonge the childern of Israel / that they be myne: and after that let them goo and do the seruice of the tabernacle of witnesse. Clense them and waue them / for they are geuen vnto me from amonge the childrē of Israel: for I haue taken them vnto me for all y• firstborne that opē any matrice amōge the childern of Israel.

For all the fyrstborne among the childern of Israel are myne both man and beest: because the same tyme that I smote the fyrstborne in the lande of Egipte / I sanctyfyde them for my selfe: and I haue taken the Leuites for all the fyrstborne amonge the childern of Israel / and haue geuen them vnto Aaron and his sonnes from amonge the childern of Israel / to doo the seruyce of the childern of Israel in the tabernacle of witnesse and to make an attonement for the chyldern of Israell / that there be no plage amonge the childern [Page] of Ysraell / yf they come nye vnto the sanctuary.

And Moses and Aaron and all the congregacion of the childern of Israel dyd vnto the leuites acordynge vnto all that y• Lorde commaunded Moses. And the leuites purifyed them selues / and wasshed their clothes. And Aaron waued them before y• Lorde / and made an attonement for them to clense them. And after that they went into doo their seruyce in the tabernacle of wytnesse / before Aaron and his sonnes. And acordinge as the Lorde had commaunded Moses as concernynge the leuites / euen so they dyd vnto them.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: this shalbe the maner of the leuites: from xxv. yere vppwarde they shall goo in to wayte vppon the seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse / and at fyftye they shall ceasse waytynge apon the seruyce thereof / and shall laboure no moare: but shall ministre vnto their bretheren in the tabernacle of witnesse / and there wayte / but shall doo no moare seruyce. And se that thou doo after this maner vnto the leuites in their waytynge tymes.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

[Page]ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai / in the fyrste moneth of the seconde yere / after they were come out of the londe of Egipte sayeng: let y• childern of Israel offer Passe ouer in his season euen the .xiiij. daye of this moneth at euen they shall kepe it in his season / accordynge to all the ordinaunces & maners thereof. And Moses bade the childern of Ysrael that they shulde offer Passeouer / & they offered Passeouer the .xiiij. daye of the first moneth at euen in the wildernesse of Sinai: and dyd acordinge to all that the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And it chaunced that certayne men whyche were defyled with a deed corse that they myghte not offer Passeouer the same daye / came before Moses and Aaron the same daye / and sayde: we are defyled apon a deed corse / wherfore are we kepte backe that we maye not offer an offerynge vnto the Lorde in the due season / amonge the childern of Israell? And Moses sayde vnto them: tary / that I maye heare what the Lorde wille commaunde you And the Lord spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israell and saye. Yf any man amonge you or youre childern after you be vncleane by the reason of a cōrse or is in the waye ferre of / then [...]t hym offer Passeouer vnto y• Lorde: the. xiiij [Page] daye of the seconde moneth at euen / and eate it with swete bred and soure herbes / ād let them leaue none of it vnto the mornynge nor breake any boone of it. And acordynge to all the ordinaunce of the Passeouer let them offer it.

But yf a man be cleane and not let in a iurney / and yet was negligent to offer Passeouer / the same soule shall perish from his people / because he brought not an offerynge vnto the Lorde in his due season: and he shall bere his synne. And when a straunger dwelleth amonge you and will offer Passeouer vnto the Lorde / accordynge to the ordinaunce of Passeouer and maner thereof shall he offre it. And ye shall haue one lawe both for the straunger and for him that was borne at home in the lande.

And the same daye that the habitaciō was reered vpp / a cloude couered it an hye apon the tabernacle of witnesse: and at euen there was apon the habitacyon / as it were the symilitude of fyre vntyll the mornynge. And so it was allwaye / that the cloude couered it by daye / and the symylitude of fyre by nyghte. And when the cloude was taken vpp from of the tabernacle / then the childern of Israel iurneyed: and where the cloude abode there the childern of Israel pitched their tentes. At the mouthe of the Lorde the childern of Israell iurneyed / and at the mouthe of [Page] the Lorde they pitched. And as longe as the cloude abode apon the habitacion / they laye styll / and when the cloude taryed still apon the habitacion longe tyme / the childern of Israell wayted apon the Lorde and iurneyed not.

Yf it chaunched that the cloude abode any space of tyme apon the habitacion / then they kepte their tentes at the mouth of the Lorde: and they iurneyed also at the commaundement of the Lorde. And yf it happened that the cloude was apon the habitacion from euen vnto mornynge and was taken vpp in y• mornynge / then they iurneyed. Whether it was by daye or by nyghte that ye cloude was taken vpp / they iurneyed. But when y• cloude taryed two dayes or a moneth or a longe season apon the habitacion / as longe as it taried thereon / the childern of Israel kepte ther [...] tentes and iurneyed not. And as soone as the cloude was taken vpp / they iurneyed. It the mouth of the Lorde they rested / and at the commaundment of the Lorde they iurneyed. And thus they kepte the wayte of the Lorde / at the commaundement of the Lorde by the hande of Moses.

¶ The .x. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Make the two trompettes of harde syluer / that thou mayst vse thē to call the congregacion together / and when [Page] the hoste shall iurney. when they blowe with them / all the multitude shall resorte to the / vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. Yf but one trumpet blowe only / then the princes which are heedes ouer the thousandes of Ysrael shall come vnto the. And when ye trompe the first tyme / the hostes that lye on the east partes shall goo forwarde. And when ye trō pe the seconde tyme / then the hostes that lye on y• south syde shall take their iurney: for they shall trompe when they take their iurneyes. And in gatherynge the congregacion together / ye shall blowe and not trompe. And the sonnes of Aaron thè preastes shall blowe the trompettes and shall haue them and it shalbe alawe vnto you for euer & amonge youre children after you.

And when ye shall goo to warre in youre londe agenst youre enymies that vexe you / ye shall trompe with the trompettes and ye shalbe remēbred before the Lorde youre GodHēce oure belles were fert. and saued from youre enymies. Also when ye be mery in youre fest dayes and in the first dayes of youre monethes / ye shall blowe the trompettes ouer youre burnt sacrifices and pease offerynges / that it maye be a remēbraū ce of you before youre God. I am the lorde youre God.

And it came to passe the .xx. daye of the seconde moneth in y• seconde yere / that the cloude was take vpp from of the habitacion of [Page] witnesse. And the childern of Israel toke their iurney out of the deserte of Sinai / and the cloude rested in y• wildernesse of Parā. And y• first toke their iurney at the mouth of the Lorde / by the honde of Moses: euen the standerte of y• hoste of Iuda remoued first with their armies / whose captayne was Nahesson y• sonne of Aminadab. And ouer the hoste of y• trybe of the childern of Isachar / was Nathaneel the sonne of zuar. And ouer the hoste of y• try be of the childern of Zabulon / was Eliab the sonne of Helon. And the habitacion was taken doune: and the sonnes of Gerson and Merari went forth bearynge the habitacion

Then the standert of the hoste of Ruben went forth with their armies / whose captayne was Elizur the sonne of Sedeur. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of ye childern of Simeon / was Selumiel the sonne of Deguel. Then the Cahathites went forwarde and bare the holy thynges / and the other dyd set vp the habitacion agenst they came.

Then the standert of the hoste of the childern of Ephraim went forth with their armies / whose captayne was Elisama the sonne of Amiud. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of the sonnes of Manasse / was Samaleel the sonne of Pedazur. And ouer the hoste of the tr [...] be of the sonnes of Ben Iamin / was Abidan [Page] the sonne of Gedeoni.

And hynmost of all the hoste came the standert of the hoste of the childern of Dan with their armies: whose captayne was / Ahiezar the sonne of Ammi Sadai. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of the childern of Asser / was Pagiel the sonne of Ochran. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of the childern of Naphtali / was Ahira the sonne of Enan / of this maner were the iurneyes of the childern of Israel / with▪ their armies when they remoued.

And Moses sayde vnto [...]obab the sonne of Ragnel the Madianyte / Moses father lawe: we goo vnto the place of which the Lorde sayde I will geue it you. Goo with us ād we will doo the good / for the Lorde hath promysed goode vnto Israel. And he sayde vnto him: I will not: but will goo to myne awne londe and tomy kynred. And Moses sayde oh nay / leaue us not / for thou knowest where is best for us to pitche in the wildernesse: and thou shalt be oure eyes And yf thou goo with us / loke what goodnesse the Lorde sheweth apon us / the same we will shewe apon the

And they departed from the mount of the Lorde .iij. dayes iurney / and the arcke of the testament of the Lorde went before [Page] them in the .iij. dayes iurney to serche out a restynge place for them. And the cloude of the Lorde was ouer them by daye / when they went out of the tentes.

And when the arcke went forth / Moses sayde Ryse vp Lorde and lat thine enemies be scatered / and let them that hate the flee before the. And when the arcke rested / he sayde returne Lorde / vnto the many thousandes of Ysrael.

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

ANd the people waxed vnpacient / vnd it displeased the cares of the Lorde. And when the Lorde herde it he was wroth / and the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge them and consumed the vtter most of the hoste. And the people cried vnto Moses / & he made intercession vnto the Lorde and the fyre qwenched. And they called y• name of the place Tabera because the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge them.

And the rascall people that was amonge them fell a lustynge / And the childern of Ysrael also went to and wepte and sayde: who shall geue us flesh to eate? we remembre the fysh which we shulde eate in Egipte for noughte / and of the Cucumbers and melouns / lekes / onyouns and garleke. But now oure soules ar dryed awaye / for oure eyes loke on nothynge els / sane apon Manna.

The Manna was as it had bene co [...]ander [Page] seed / and to see to lyke Bedellion. And y• people went aboute and gathered it / & groū de it in milles or bett it in morters and boke it in pannes and made cakee of it. And the tast of it was like vnto the tast of an oylecake And when the dewe fell aboute ye hoste in the nyghte / the Manna fell therewithe.

And when Moses herde the people wepe in their housholdes euery man in the dore of his tent / then the wrath of the Lorde waxed whote excedyngly: and it greued Moses also. And Moses sayde vnto the Lorde: wherfore dealest thou so cruelly with thi seruaunte: wherfore doo I not fynde fauoure in thi syghte / seynge that thou puttest the weyght of this people apon me? haue I conceyued all this people / or haue I begote them / that thou shuldest saye vnto me / carye them in thi bosome (as a nurse beareth the suckynge childe) vnto the londe which thou swarest vnto their fathers? where shulde I haue flesh to geue vnto all this people? For they wepe vnto me sayenge: geue us flesh that we maye eate. I [...] not able to bere all this people alone / for it is to heuy for me. Wherfore yf thou deale thus with me / fyll me / I praye the / yf I haue founde fauoure in thi syght and let me not se my wrechidnesse.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: gather vnto me .lxx. of the elders of Ysrael / which thou knowest that they are the elders of y• people [Page] and officers ouer them / and brynge them vnto the tabernacle of witnesse / and let them stonde there with the. And I wyll come doune and talke with the there / and take of y• spirite which is apon the and put apon them / ād they shall bere with them the burthen of the people / and so shalt thou not beare alone.

And saye vnto y• people: halowe youre selues agenst to morow / that ye maye eate flesh for ye haue whyned in the eares of the Lorde saynge: who shall geue vs flesh to eate / for we were happie when we were in Egipte? therfore the Lorde will geue you flesh / and ye shall [...]ate: Ye shall not eate one daye only other .ij. or .v. dayes / other .x. or .xx. dayes: but euen a moneth longe / ād vntill it come out at the nostrels of you / that ye be ready to perbrake: because that ye haue cast y• Lorde a syde which is amonge you / and haue wepte before him saynge: why came we out of Egipte.

And Moses sayde: sixe hundred thousande fotemen are there of the people / amonge which I am. And thou hast sayde: I will [...] [...]e them flesh and they shall care [...] moneth [...]ō ge Shall the she [...]e ād the oxen be slayne for them to fy [...]d [...] them / ether shall all the fysh of the see be gathered together to serue them? And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: is the lordes hande waxed shorte? Thou shalt se whe [Page] ther my worde shall come to passe vnto the or not.

And moses went out and tolde the people the sayenge of the Lorde / and gathered the lxx. elders of the people / and sett them rounde aboute the tabernacle. And the Lorde came doune in a cloude and spake vnto him / ād toke of the sprete that was apon him / ād put it apon the .lxx. elders. And as the spirite rested apon them / they prophecied and did nought els. But there remayned .ij. of y• mē in the hoste: the one called Eldad / ād the other Medad. And the spirite rested apon them for they were of them that were written / but they wē [...] not out vnto the tabernacle: and they prophecied in the hoste.

And there ran a younge & tolde Moses and sayed: Eldad ād Medad do prophecye in the hoste. And Iosua the sonne of Nil the seruaunte of Moses which he had chosen out / answered and sayed: master Moses / forbyd them. And Moses sayed vnto him: enuy est thou for my sake? wolde God that all theThe p [...]p [...] wold that [...] ne of the lordes people coud prophecie & that none had his spirite. Lordes people coude prophecye / and that the Lorde wolde put his spirite apon them. And then both Moses and the elders of Israel / gat them in to the hoste.

And there went forth a wynde frō y• lorde and brought quayles from the see and let [Page] them fall aboute the hoste / euen a dayes intney rounde aboute on euery syde of the hoste / and .ij. cubetes hye apon the erth. And the people stode vpp all that nyghte and on the morowe / ād gathered quayles. And he that gathered the lest / gathered .x. homers full. And they kylled them rounde aboute the hoste

And whyle the flesh was yet betwene theirteeth / yer it was chewed vpp / the wrath of the Lorde waxed whore apon the people / and the Lorde slewe of the people an exceadynge myghtie slaughter. And they called the name of the place / the graues of lust: because they buried the people that lusted there.

And the people toke their iurney from the graues of lust vnto hazeroth / and bode at ha [...]roth.

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

ANd Mir Jam and Aaron spake agēst Moses / because of his wife of inde which he had taken: for he had taken to wyfe one of India. And they sayed: doth y• Lorde speake ōly thorow Moses? doth he not speake also by us? And the Lorde herde it. But Moses was a very meke man aboue all the men of the erthe. And y• Lorde spake attonce vnto Moses vnto Aaron & Mir Jam: come out ye .iij. vnto the tabernacle of witnesse: and they came out all thre.

And the Lorde came doune in the piler of the cloude and stode in the dore of the tabernacle [Page] and called Aaron ād Mir Jam. And they went out both of them. And he sayed: heare my wordes. Yf there be a prophet of the Lordes amonge you / I will shewe my selfe vnto him in a vision and will speake vnto him in a dreame: But my servaunte Moses is not so / which is faythfull in all myne housse. Vnto him I speake mouth to mouth and he seeth the syght and the facyon of the Lorde / ād notthorow rydels. Wherfore the were ye notafrayed to speake agenst my servaunte Moses?

And the Lorde was angrye with them and went his waye / and the cloude departed from of the tabernacle. And beholde / Myr-Jam was become leprous / as it were snowe And when Aaron looked apon Mir Jam and sawe that she was leprous / he sayed vnto Moses: Oh I beseche the my lorde / put not the synne apon vs which we haue folishly commytted and synned. Oh / let her not be as one that came deed oute of his mothers wombe: for halfe hyr fleshe is eaten awaye.

And Moses cryed vnto the Lorde sayenge: Oh god / heale her. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: Yf hir father had spitte in hyr face / sholde she not be ashamed .vij. dayes? let her be shut out of the hoste .vij. dayes / & after that let her be receyued in agayne. And Mir Jam was shett out of the hoste .vij. dayes: ād the people remoued not / till she was [Page] broughte in agayne. And afterwarde they remoued from▪ Hazeroth / and pitched in y• weldernesse of Pharan.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Sende men out to serche the londe of Canaan / which I geue vnto the childern of Israel: of euery trybe of their fathers a man and let them all be soche as are ruelars amonge them. And Moses at the commaundement of the Lorde sent forth out of the wildernesse of Pharan: soche men as were all heedes amonge the childern of Israel / whose names are these.

In the trybe of Ruben / Sammua y• sonne of Zacur: In the trybe of Symeon / Saphat the sonne of Hori. In the trybe of Iuda Caleph the sonne of Jephune. In the trybe of Isachar / Igeal the sonne of Joseph. In the trybe of Ephraim / Hosea the sonne of Nun. In the trybe of Ben Jamin / Paltithe sonne of Raph [...]. In the trybe of Zabulon / Gadiel the sonne of Sodi. In the trybe of Joseph: In the trybe of Manasse / Gaddi the sonne of Susi. In the trybe of Dan / Amiel the sonne of Gemali. In the trybe of Asser / Sethur the sonne of Micheel. In the trybe of Nephrali / Nahebi the sonne of Vaphsi. In the trybe of Gad / Guel the sonne of Machi. These are the names of the men whiche Moses sent to [Page] spie out the londe. And Moses called the name of Hosea the sonne of Nun / Josua.

And Moses sent them forth to spie out the lande of Canaan / and sayed vnto them: get you southwarde and goo vpp in to the hye contre / and see the londe what maner thynge it is ād the people that dwelleth therein: whether they be stronge or wele / ether fewe or many / and what the londe is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad / and what maner of cities they dwell in: whether they dwell intentes or walled townes / ād what maner of londe it is: whether it be fatt or leane / & whether there betrees therein or not. And be of a good corage / and brynge of the frutes of the londe. And it was aboute the tyme that grapes are first rype.

And they went vp and serched out the lande from the wildernesse of Zin vnto Rehob as men goo to Hemath / and they ascended vnto the south and came vnto Hebron / where Ahiman was and Sefai and Thalman [...] the sonnes of Enacke. Hebron was bylt .vij. yere before Zoan in Egipte. And they came vnto the ryuer of Escol and they cutt doune there a braunch with one clouster of grapes & bare it apō a staffe betwene twayne / & also of the pomgranates & of the fygges of the place. The ryuer was called Escol / because of the clouster of grapes whiche the childern of Israel cutt doune there.

[Page]And they turned backe agayne from serchinge the londe / at .xl. dayes ende. And thei went and came to Moses and Aaron & vnto all the multitude of the childern of Israel / vnto the wildernesse of Pharan: euen vnto Cades / and broughte them worde and also vnto all the congregacion / and shewed them the frute of the lande. And they tolde him sayenge: we came vnto the londe wether thousendedst vs / & surely it is a lōde that floweth with milke & honye & here is of the frute of it Neuerthelesse the people be stronge y• dwell in the londe / and the cities are walled and erceadinge greate / and moreouer / we sawe the childrē of Enack there. The amaleckes dwel in the south cuntre / and the Hethites / Iebu sites and the Amorites dwell in the moūraynes / and the Cananites dwell by the see ād alonge by the coste of Iordayne.

And Caleb stylled the murmure of the people agenst Moses sayenge: let vs goo vp and conquere it / for we be able to ouercome it. But the men that went vpp with him / sayde: We be not able to goo vpp agenst the people / for they are stronger then we: And they broughte vpp an euell reporte of the londe which they had serched / vnto the childern of Israel sayenge. The londe which we haue gone thorowe to serche it out / is a londe that cateth vpp the inhabiters thereof / and the people that we sawe in it are men of stature. [Page] And there we sawe also geantes / the childrē of Enack which are of the geaūtes. And we semed in oure syght as it were greshoppers` and so we dyd in their sighte.

¶ The .xiiij. Chapter.

ANd all the multitude cryed out / & the people wepte thorow out that nyght / & all the childern of Ysrael murmured agenst Moses & Aaron. And the hole congregacion sayed vnto them: wolde god that we had dyed in the loud of Egipte / ether we wolde that we had dyed in thys wildernesse. Wherfore hath the Lorde broughte vs vnto this londe to fall apon the swerde / that both oure wy [...]es / & also oure childrē shulde be a praye? is it not better that we returne vnto Egipte agayne? And they sayde one to another: let vs make a captayne and returne vnto Egipte agayne.

And Moses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregacion of the multitude of the childern of Israel. And Iosua the sonne of Nun / and Caleb the sonne of Iephune which were of them that serched the londe rent their clothes and spake vnto all the companye of the childern of Ysrael saynge: The londe which we walked thorowe to serche it / is a very good lande. Yf the Lorde haue lust to vs / he will bringe vs in to this londe & geue it vs / which is a lond y• floweth with mylke & hony. But in any wise rebell not agenst [Page] the Lorde / Moreouer feare ye not the people of the londe / for they are but bred for vs. Their shylde is departed from them / & the Lorde is with vs: feare them not therfore.

And all the whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glorie of the Lorde appered in the tabernacle of witnesse / vnto all the childern of Israel. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: Howe longest all thys people rayle apon me / and how longe will it be / yer they beleue me / for all my signes whiche I haue shewed amonge them? I will smyte them with the p [...]stilence & destroy thē / and will make of the a greatter nacion and a mightier then they.

And Moses sayed vnto the Lorde: thenThe Pope wolde not so haue prayed if thei had bene aboute to stone him. the Egiptians shall heare it / for thou broughtest this people with thy mighte from amonge them. And it wilbe tolde to the inhabiters of this lande also / for they haue herde likewise / that thou the Lorde art amōge this people / ād yt thou art sene face to face / & y• t [...]y cloude stondeth ouer them & that thou goest before them by daye tyme in a piler of a cloude / & in a piler of fyre by nyght. Yf thou shall kill all this people as thei were but one mā then the nacions which haue herde the fame of the / will speake sayenge: because yt Lorde was not able to bringe in this people in to [...] londe which he swore vnto them / therfore he slewe them in the wildernesse.

[Page]So now lat the power of my Lord be greate / acordynge as thou hast spoken sayenge: the Lorde is longe yer he be angrye / ād full of merey / and suffereth synne and trespace / and leaueth no man innocent / and visiteth the vnryghtuousnesse of the fathers vppon y• childern / euē vpō yt thirde & fourth generacion. be mercyfull I beseche y• therfore / vnto ye synne of this people acordinge vnto thi greate mercy / & acordinge as thou hast forgeuē this people from Egipte euen vnto this place.

And the Lorde sayed: I haue forgeuē it / acordynge to thy request. But as trulye as Ilyue / all the erth shalbe fylled with my glorye. For of all those mē whiche haue sene my glorye & my miracles which I dyd in Egipte & in y• wildernesse / & yet haue tempted me now this .x. tymes & haue not herkened vnto my voyce / there shall not one se the lond whiche I sware vnto their fathers / nether shall any of thē that rayled apō me / se it. But my servan̄te Caleb. because there is another maner sprite with hi / & because he hath folowed me vnto the vttmost: him I will bringe in to the lond which he hath walked in / & his seed shall conquere it / & also the Amalechites ād Cananites which dwell in the lowe contrees Tomorowe turne you and gete you in to the wildernesse: euen the waye towarde the re [...] see.

[Page]And the Lorde spake vnto Moses ād Aaron sayenge: how longe shall this euell multitude murmure agenst me? I haue herde y• murmurynges of y• childern of Ysrael whyche they murmure agenste me. Tell them / y• the Lorde sayeth. As truely as I lyue / I wil do vnto you euen as ye haue spoken in myne eares. Youre carkasses shall lye in this wildernesse / nether shall any of these numbres which were numbred from .xx. yere & aboue of you which haue murmured agenst me come in to the londe ouer which I lifted myne hande to make you dwell therein / saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune / and Iosua the sonne of Nun.

And youre childern whiche ye sayed shuld be a praye / thē I will bringe in / & they shall knowe the londe which ye haue refused / and youre carkesses shall lye in this wildernesse And youre childern shall wādre in this wildernesse .xl. yeres & suffre for youre whoredome vntill your carkasses be wasted in the wildernesse / after the numbre of the dayes in which ye serched out y• londe .xl. dayes / & euery daye a yere: so that they shall bere your vnrightuousnes .xl. yere / & ye shall fele my vengeaunce I the Lorde haue sayed yt I will do it vnto all this euell congregacion y• are gathered together agenst me: euen in thys wildernesse ye shalbe consumed / and here ye shall dye.

[Page]And the men which Moses sent to serche the londe / and which (when they came agayne) made all the people to murmure agenst it in that they broughte vpp a slaunder apon y• londe: dyed for their bryngenge vp that euell slaunder apon it / and were plaged before the Lorde. But Iosua the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephune which were of y• mē that went to serche the londe / lyued still. And Moses tolde these sayenges vnto all the childern of Ysrael / and the people toke great sorowe.

And they rose vp yerlee in the mornynge &Blinde reasō which yerwhile wolde not let them beleue in Gods worde / teacheth them now to trust in their awne workes. gau them vpp in to the toppe of the mountayne sayenge: lo we be here / ād will goo vpp vn to the place of which the Lorde sayed / for we haue synned. And Moses sayed: wherfore will ye goo on this maner beyonde the worde of the Lorde? it will not come well to passe goo not vpp for the Lorde is not amonge you that ye be not slayne before youre enemyes. For the Amalechytes and the Cananites are there before you / & ye will fall apon the swerde: because ye are turned a waye from y• Lorde / and therfore the Lorde wyll not be with you.

But they were blynded to goo vpp in to y• hyll toppe: Neuer the lather / the arke of the testament of the Lorde and Moses departed not out of the hoste. Then the Amalekytes ād the Cananites which dwelt in that hill / came [Page] doune and sinote them and hewed thē: euen vnto Horma.

¶ The .xv. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayē ge: speake vnto the childern of Israel & saye vnto them: when ye be come in to y• londe of youre habitacion which I geue vnto you / and will offre an offerynge apon the fyre vnto the Lorde / whether it be a burnt offerynge or a speciall vowe or frewill offerynge or yf it be in youre principall festes to make a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde / of the oxen o [...] of the flocke.

Then / let him that offereth his offerynge vnto the Lorde / brynge also a meat offerynge of a tenth deale of floure myngled with the fourth parte of an hin of oyle / and the fourth parte of an hin of wine for a drynk offerynge and offer with y• burnt offerynge or any other offerynge when it is a lambe. And vnto a rā thou shalt offer a meat offerynge of .ij. tenth deales of floure / myngled with y• thyrde parte of an hin of oyle / and to a drynk offerynge thou shalt offer the thyrde parte of an hin of wyne / to be a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde.

When thou offerist an oxe to a burnt offerynge or in any speciall vowe or pease offeringe vnto the Lorde / then thou shalt brynge vn to an oxe / a meat offerynge of .iij. tenth deales [Page] of floure myngled with halfe an hin of oyle. And thou shalt brynge for a drynk offerynge halfe an hin of wyne / that is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. This is the maner that shalbe done vnto one oxe / one ram a lambe or a kyd. And acordynge to the numbre of soche offerynges / thou shalt encrease y• meat offerynges and the drynk offerynges

All that are of youre selues shall do these thinges after this maner / when he offereth an offerynge of swete sauoure vnto the L [...]de And yf there be a straunger with you or be amonge you in youre generacions / and will offer an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto y• Lorde: euen as ye do / so he shall doo. One ordynaunce shall serue both for you of the congregacion / and also for the straunger. And it shalbe an ordynaunce for euer amonge youre childern after you / that the straunger and ye shalbe lyke before the Lorde. One lawe and one maner shall serue / both for you and for y• straunger that dwelleth with you.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye vnto them: When ye be come into the londe whether I will brynge you / then whē ye will eate of the bred of the londe / ye shall geue an heue offerynge vnto the Lorde. Ye shall geue a cake of the first of youre dowe vnto an heue offerynge: as ye do the heue offerynge of the barne / euen so ye shall heue it. [Page] Of the first of youre dowe ye must geue vnto the Lorde an heue offerynge / thorow out youre generacions.

Yf ye ouerse youre selues and obserue not all these commaundmētes which the Lorde hath spoken vnto Moses / & all that the Lorde hath commaunded you by y• hāde of Moses / from the first daye forwarde that the Lorde commaunded amonge youre generacion: when oughte is commytted ignorantly before the eyes of the congregacion / then all the multitude shall offer a calfe for a burnt offerynge to be a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde / & the meat offerynge and the drynk offerynge there to / acordynge to the maner: and an he goote for a synofferynge. And the preast shall make an aronement for all the multitude of y• childern of Israel / ād it shalbe forgeuen the for it was ignoraunce. And they shall brynge their giftes vnto the offerynge of the Lorde / and their synofferynge before the Lorde for their ignoraunce. And it shalbe forgeuen vnto all the multitude of the childern of Israel / & vnto the straunger that dwelleth amōge you: for the ignorauncye perteyneth vnto all the people.

Yf any one soule synne thorow ignoraunce he shall brynge a she goote of a yere olde for a synofferynge. And the preast shall make an atonement for the soule that synned ignorauntly with the synofferynge before the [Page] Lorde and reconsyle him / and it shalbe forgeuen him. And both thou that art borne one of the childern of Israel and the straunger that dwelleth amonge you shall haue both one lawe / yf ye synne thorow ignorauncye.

And the soule that doth ought presumpmously / whether he be an Israelite or a straū ger / the same hath despysed the Lorde. And that soule shalbe destroyed from amonge his people / because he hath despised the worde of the Lorde a hath brokē his cōmaūdmentes / y• soule therfore shall perysh ād his synne shalbe apon him.

And whyle the childern of Ysrael were in the wildernesse / they founde a man gatherynge stickes vppon the Sabath daye. And they y• founde him gatherynge stickes / broughte him vnto Moses and Aaron and vnto all y• congregacion: ād they put him in warde / for it was not declared what shulde be done vnto him. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: y• mā shall dye. let all the multitude stone him with stones without the hoste. And all y• multitude broughte him without the hoste ād stoned him with stones / and he dyed as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Ysrael and byd them / that they make them gardes apon the quarters of their garmētes thorow out their generacions / ād let them make the gardes [Page] of ribandes of Iacyncte And the garde shallGods signes were to put men in remēbraunce of his worde / that they shuld not seke a waye to please God after their awne imaginacion. be vnto you to loke apon it / that ye remembre all the commaundmentes of the Lorde and doo them: that ye seke not a waye after youre awne hertes and after youre awne eyes / for to goo a whooringe after them: but that ye remembre and doo all my commaundmentes and be holy vnto youre God / for I am y• Lorde youre God / which broughte you out of y• londe of Egipte / to be youre God. I am the Lorde God.

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

ANd Corah the sonne of Iezehar the sonne of Cahath the sonne of Leui: & Dathan & Abiram the sonne of Eliab / and On the sonne of Peleth / the sonne of Ruben: stode vpp before Moses / with other of the childern of Israel .ij. hundred and fyftie / heedes of the congregacion / and councelers / and men of fame / and they gathered thē selues together agenst Moses and Aaron & sayed vnto them: ye haue done ynough. For all the multitude are holy euery one of them / and the Lorde is amonge them. Why therfore heue ye youre selues vpp aboue the congregacion of the Lorde.

When Moses herde it / he fell apon his face and spake vnto Corah and vnto all his companye sayenge: tomorow the Lorde will shewe who is his and who is holy / and will take them vnto him / and whom so euer he [Page] hath chosen / he will cause to come to him. This doo: take fyre pannes / thou Corah and all thi companye / and do fyre therein ād put cēs thereto before the Lorde tomorowe: And then whom soeuer the Lorde doeth chose / the same is holy. Ye make ynough to doo ye childern of Leui.

And Moses sayed vnto Corah: heare ye childern of leui / Semeth it but a small thynge vnto you / that y• God of Israel hath separated you frō the multitude of Israel to brynge you to him / to doo the seruyce of the dwellynge place of the Lorde / and to stonde before the people to minystre vnto them? he hath taken the to him and all thi brethern the sonnes of leui with the / and ye seke the office of y• preast also. For which cause both thou and all thi companye are gathered together agenst the Lorde: for what is Aaron / that ye shulde murmure agenst him.

And Moses sent to call Dathan ād Abiram the sonnes of Eliab / and they answered: we will not come. Semeth it a small thynge vnto the that thou hast broughte us out of a londe that floweth with mylke and honye / to kyll us in y• wildernesse. But that thou shuldest reygne ouer us also? More ouer thou hast broughte us vnto no londe that floweth with mylke and honye / nether hast geuen us possessions of feldes or of vynes. Echer wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men: we wyll [Page] not come.

And Moses waxed very angrye and sayed vnto the Lorde: Turne not vnto their offerynges. I haue not taken so moch as an asseCan ourepre lates so saye? from them / nether haue vexed any of them. Then Moses sayed vnto Corah: Be thou ād all thy companye before the Lorde: both thou / they and Aaron to morowe. And take euery man his censer and put cens in them / & come before the Lorde euery man with hys censer: two hundred and fyftie censers / and Aaron with his censer. And they toke euery man his censer and put fyre in them & layed cens thereon / and stode in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and Moses & Aaron also. And Corah gathered all the congregacyon agenst them vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse.

And the glorye of the Lorde appered vnto all the congregacion. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: separate youre selues from this congregacion / that I maye consume them a tonce. And they fell apon their faces and sayed: O most myghtie God of the spirites of all fleshe / one mā hath synned / and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude? And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the congregacion and saye: Gett you awaye from aboute the dwellynge of Corah / Dathan & Abiram.

And Moses rose vpp and went vnto Dathan [Page] & Abirā / & the elders of Israel folowed him. And he spake vnto the congregacyon sayenge: departe from the tentes of these weked men and twyche nothinge of theres: lest ye peryshe in all there synnes. And they gate them from the dwellynge of Corah / Dathan and Abiram / on euery syde. And Dathan and Abiram came out & stode in ye dore of there tētes with their wyues / their sonnes and their childern.

And Moses sayed: Hereby ye shall knowe that the Lorde hath sent me to doo all the se workes / and that I haue not done them of myne awne mynde: Yf these men dye the comon deth of all men or yf they be visyted after the visitacion of all men / then the Lorde hath not sent me. But and yf the Lorde make a newe thinge / and the erth open hir mouthe and swalowe them and all that pertayne vnto them / so that they goo doune quycke in to hell: then ye shall vnderstōd / that these mē haue rayled apon the Lorde.

And as soone as he had made an ende of speakynge all these wordes / the grounde cla [...]e a sunder that was vnder them / and y• erth opened hir mouthe and swalowed them and their housses and all the mē that were with Corah and all their goodes. And they and all that pertayned vnto them / went doune alyue vnto hell / and the erthe closed apon them / and they peryshed from amonge the [Page] congregacyon. And all Israel that were aboute them / fledde at the crye of them. For they sayed: The erthe myghte happelye swalowe vs also. And there came oute a fyre from the Lorde and consumed the two hundred and fyftye men that offred cens.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Speake vnto Eleazer the sonne of Aaron the preaste and let him take vppe the censers oute of the burnynge and scater the fyre here and there / for the censers of these synners are halowed in theyr deethes: and let them be beten in to thyne pla [...]es and fastened apon the altare. For they offred thē before the Lorde / and therfore they are holye and they shalbe a sygne vnto the childern of Israel.

And Eleazar the preast toke the brasen censers which they that were burnt had offered / and bet them and fastened them vppon the altare / to be a remembraunce vnto the childern of Israel / that no straunger whiche is not of the seed of Aaron / come nere to offer cens before the Lorde / that he be not made like vnto Corah and his companye: as the Lorde sayed vnto him by the hande of Moses.

And on the morowe all the multitude of the childern of Israell murmured agenste Moses and Aaron sayenge: ye haue kylled [Page] the people of the Lorde. And when the multitude was gathered agenste Moses and Aaron / they loked towarde the tabernacle of witnesse. And beholde / the cloude had couered it and the glorye of the Lorde appeared. And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witnesse. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Gett you from this congregacyon / that I maye consume them quyckelye. And they fell apon theyr faces.

And Moses sayde vnto Aaron: take a censer and put fyre therein out of the alter / and poure on cens / and goo quyckly vnto the cō gregacion and make an attonement for thē. For there is wrath gone oute from the Lorde / and there is a plage begone. And Aaron toke as Moses commaunded him / and ran vnto the congregacion: and beholde / the plage was begone amonge the people / and he put on cens / and made an attonement for the people. And he stode betwene the deed / and them that were alyue / and the plage ceased. And the numbre of them that dyed in the plage / were .xiiij. thousande and seuen hundred: besyde them that dyed aboute the busynes of Corah. And Aaron went agayne vnto Moses vnto the dore off the tabernacle of witnesse / and the plage ceased.

¶ The .xvij. Chapter.

[Page]ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and take of them / for euery pryncypall housse a rod / of their princes ouer the housses of their fathers: euen .xij. roddes / and wryte euery mans name apon his rod. And wryte Aarons name apon the staffe of Leui: for euery heedman ouer the housses of their fathers shall haue a rod. And put thē in the tabernacle of witnesse where I wyll mete you. And his rod whom I chose / shall blossome: So I wyll make cease from me the grudgynges of the childern of Israel which they grudge agenst you.

And Moses spake vnto the childern off Israel / and all the prynces gaue him for euery prynce ouer their fathers housses / a rod: euen. xij roddes / and the rod of Aaron was amonge the rodes. And Moses put y• roddes before the Lorde in the tabernacle of witnesse. And on the morowe / Moses went in to the tabernacle: and beholde / the rod of Aaron of the housse of Leui was budded & bare blosomes and almondes. And Moses broughte out all the staues from before the Lorde / vnto all the childern of Israel / & thei loked apon them / and toke euery man his staffe.

And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: brynge Aarons rod agayne before the witnesse to be kepte for a token vnto the childern of re [Page] bellyon / that their murmurynges maye ceasse frome / that they dye not. And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaunded him. And the childern of Israel spake vnto Moses sayenge: beholde / we are destroyed and all come to nought: for whosoeuer cometh nyethe dwellynge of the Lord / dyeth. Shall we vtterly consume awaye?

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde sayed vnto Aaron▪ Thou and thy sonnes and thy fathers housse with the / shall bere the faute of that whiche is done amysse in the holy place. And thou and thy sonnes with the / shall beare the fame of that whiche is done amysse in youre preasthode. And thy brethern also y• tribe of l [...]ui / y• trybe of thy father take with the / and let them be yoyned vnto the and ministre vnto the. And thou and thy sonnes with the shall ministre before the tabernacle of witnesse. And let them wayte apon the and apon all the tabernacle: only let them not come nye the holy vessels & the alter / that both they ād ye also dye not. And let them be by the and wayte on the tabernacle of witnesse / and on all the seruyce of the tabernacle / and let no straunger come nye vnto you.

Wayte therfore apon the holye place and [Page] apon the alter / yt there fall no moare wrath apon the childern of Israel: beholde / I haue taken youre brethern the leuites from amonge childern of Israel / to be youres / as giftes geuen vnto the Lorde to doo the seruyce of the tabernacle of witnesse. And se that both thou and thy sonnes with the take hede vnto youre preastes office / in all thinges that pertayne vnto the alter and within the vayle. And se that ye serue / for I haue geuē youre preastes office vnto you for a gifte to do seruyce: & the straunger that cometh nye / shall dye.

And the Lorde spake vnto Aaron: beholde / I haue geuen the the kepynge of myne heueofferynges in all the halowed thynges of the childern of Israel. And vnto the I haue geuen them vnto anoyntynge ād to thy sonnes: to be a dutye for euer. This shall be thyne of most holy sacrifyces: All their giftes / thorow out all their meatofferynges synneoffrynges and trespaceoffrynges whiche they bringe vnto me: They shalbe most holy vnto the ād vnto thy sonnes. And ye shall eate it in the most holye place: all that are males shall eate of it: for it shalbe holye vnto the.

And this shalbe thyne: the heueofferynge of their giftes / thorow out all the waueofferynges of the childern of Israel / for I haue geuen them vnto the and thy sonnes / [Page] and thy doughters with the / to be a dutye for euer: and all that are cleane in thy house / shall eate of it / all the fatt of the oyle / of the wyne and of the corne: their first frutes which they geue vnto the Lorde that haue I geuen vnto the. The first frutes of all that is in their londes whiche they brynge vnto the Lorde / shalbe thyne: and all that are cleane in thyne housse / shall eate off it.

All dedicate thinges in Israel / shalbe thine. All that breaketh the matrice of all flesh that men bringe vnto the Lorde / bothe of man and beest / shalbe thyne. Neuerthelater, the firstborne of man shalbe redemed / and the firstborne of vncleane beestes shalbe redemed. And their redemptions shalbe at a moneth olde / valowed at .v. sycles of syluer / of the holy sycle. A sycle maketh twentye Geras. But the firstborne of oxen / shepe & goo tes shall not be redemed. For they are holy / and thou shalt sprinkle their bloud apon the alter / and shalt burne their fatt to be a sacrifyce of a swete sauoure vnte the Lorde.

And the flesh of them shalbe thyne / as the waue brest and all the right shulder is thyne. All the holy heueofferynges whiche the childern of Israel heue vnto ye Lorde / I geue the & thy sonnes & thi doughters with the to be a dutye for euer. And it shalbe a salted couenaunte for euer / before the Lorde: vnt [...] the and to thy seed with the.

[Page]And the Lorde spake vnto Aaron: thou shalt haue none enheritaunce in their lande / nor parte amonge them. For I am thy parte and thy enheritaunce among the childern of Israel. And beholde I haue geuen the children of Leui / the tenth in Israel to enherite / for the seruyce whiche they serue in the rabernacle of witnesse / that the childrē of Israel henceforth come ne [...]nye the tabernacle of witnesse / and beare synne and dye. And the leuites shall do the seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse and beare their synne / and it shalbe a lawe for euer vnto youre childern after you: But amongethe children of Israel they shall enheret none enheritaunce. ForOures / will haue tithes & landes & rē tes & kingdomes & emperies and all. therithes of the childern of Israel whiche they heve vnto the Lorde / I haue geuen the Leuites to enherett. Wherfore I haue sayed vnto them: Amonge the chyldern off Israell ye shall enherett none enheritaunce.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the leuites and saye vnto thē: when ye take of the childern of Israel therithes whiche I haue geuen you of them to youre enheritaunce / ye shall take an heueoffrynge of that same forthe Lorde: euen the tenth of that tythe. And it shalbe rekened vnto you for youre heueofferynge / euen as though ye gaue corne out of the barne or a full offerynge from the wyne presse, [Page] And of this maner ye shall heue an heueofferynge vnto y• Lorde / of all youre tithes which ye receaue of the childern of Israel / & ye shall geue there of the Lordes heueofferinge vnto Aaron the preast Of all youre giftes / ye shall take out the Lordes heue offerynge: euen the fatt of all their halowed thynges.

And thou shalt saye vnto them: when ye haue take a wayethe fatt of it from it / it shalbe counted vnto the leuites / as y• encrease of corne and wyne And ye shall care it in all places both ye and youre housholdes / for it is youre rewarde for youre seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse. And ye shall beare no synne by y• reason of it / when ye haue taken from it the fatt of it: nether shall ye vnhalowe y• halowed thynges of the childern of Israel / and so shall ye not dye.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: this is the ordynaunce of the lawe which y• Lorde cōmaū deth sayenge: speake vnto y• childern of Israel and let them take the a redd cowe with out spot wherein is no blemysh / & which neuer bare yocke apō her. And ye shall geue her vnto Eleazer the preast / and he shall brynge her with out the hoste and cause her to be slayne before him.

And Eleazar y• preast shall take of hir bloude vppon his fynger / and sprynkle it streghe [Page] towarde the tabernacle of witnesse. vi [...]. tymes And he shall cause the cowe to be burnt in his syghte: both skyn / flesh and bloude / with the doūge also. And let the preast take cipresse wodd / and Isope and purple cloth / and cast it apon the cowe as she burneth. And let the preast wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water / and then come in to the hoste / and y• preast shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.

And he that burneth her / shall wash his clothes in water a bathe his flesh also in water / ād be vncleane vntill euen. And one that is cleane / shall goo and take vpp the asshes of the cowe / and put them without the hoste in a cleane place / where they shall be kepte to make sprynklynge water for the multitude ofHēce came holy water the childern of Israel: for it is a synofferynge And let him that gathereth the asshes of the cowe / wash his clothes / and remayne vncleane vntill euen. And this shalbe vnto the childern of Israel ād vnto the straunger y• dwelleth amonge them / a maner for euer.

He that twycheth any deed persone / shalbe vncleane .vii. dayes. And he shall purifye him selfe with the asshes the thyrde daye ād then he shalbe cleane the seuenth daye. And yf he purifye not himselfe the thyrde daye / thē the seuenth daye / he shall not be cleane. Who soeuer twicheth any persone y• dyeth a sprynkleth not him selfe / defyleth the dwellynge of [Page] the Lorde: ād therfore that soule shalbe roted out of Israel / because he hath not sprynkled the sprynklynge water vppon him. he shalbe vncleane / and his vnclennesse shall remayne vppon him.

This is the lawe of the man that dyeth in in a tent: all that come in to the tent and all y• is in the tent / shalbe vncleane. vij dayes. And all the vessels that be opē which haue no lyd nor couerynge apon them / are vncleane. And who soeuer twicheth one that is slayne with a swerde in the feldes / or a deed persone / or a bone of a deed man / or a graue: shall be vncleane .vij. dayes.

And they shall take for an vncleane persone / of the burnt asshes of the synofferynge / & put runnynge water thereto in to a vessell. And a cleane persone shall take Isope and dyppe it in the water / and sprynkle it apon y• tent and apon all the vessells and on the son that were there / and apon him that twyched a bone or a slayne persone or a deed body or a graue. And the cleane persone shall sprynkle apon the vncleane the thyrde daye and the seuenth daye. And the seuenth daye he shall purifie him selfe and wasshe his clothes and bathe him selfe in water / and shalbe cleane at euen.

Yf any be vncleane and sprynkle not him selfe / the same soule shalbe destroyed frō amō ge the congregacion: for he hath defyled [Page] the holy place of the Lorde. And he that sprynkleth ye sprynklynge water / shall wassh his clothes.

And he that twicheth the sprynklynge water / shalbe vncleane vntill euē. And what soeuer yt vncleane persone twicheth / shalbe vncleane. And the soule that twicheth it / shalbe vn cleane vntill the euen.

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

ANd the whole multitude of y• childern of Israel / came in to the deserte of Sin in the first moneth / & the people dwelt at cades. And there dyed Mir Iam / & was buried there. More ouer there was no water for the multitude / wherfore they gathered thē selues together agēst Moses and agēst Aaron. And the people chode with Moses and spake sayenge: wold God that we had perysshed when oure brethern perysshed before ye Lorde. Why haue ye brought the congregacion of the Lorde vnto this wildernesse / that both we & oure catell shulde dye here? Wherfore brought ye us out of Egipte / to brynge us into this vngracious place / which is no place of seed nor offygges nor vynes nor of pomgranates / nether is there any water to drynke?

And Moses and Aaron went from the congregacion vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and fell apon their faces. And ye glorye of the Lorde appered vnto them. And [Page] the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: take y• staffe / and gather thou and thi brother Aarō the congregacion together / and saye vnto the rocke before their eyes / that he geue forth his water. And thou shalt brynge thē water out of the rocke and shalt geue the company drynke / and their beesse also.

And Moses toke the staffe from before ye Lorde / as he commaunded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregacion together before the rocke / ād he sayed vnto thē heare ye rebellyons / must we f [...]t you water out of this rocke? And Moses lifte vp his hā de with his staffe and smote the rocke .ij. tymes / and the water came out abundantly / & the multitude dranke and their beesse also.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses & Aaron: Because ye beleued me not / to sanctifye me in the eyes of the childern of Israel / therfore ye shall not brynge this congregacion in to the londe which I haue geuen them. This is the water ofstryffe / because the childern of Israel stroue with the Lorde / & he was sanctifyed apon them.

And Moses sent messengers from cades vnto the kynge of Edome. Thus sayeth thi brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trauell yt hath happened us / how oure fathers wēt doune in to Egipte / and how we haue dwelt in Egipte a longetyme / and how the Egip [...]ans vexed both us and oure fathers. Then [Page] we cryed vnto the Lorde and he herde oure voyces / and sent an angell and hath fett us out of Egipte. And beholde / we are in Cades & citi [...] harde by the borders of thi contre let us goo a good felowshipe thorow thi contre we wyll not goo thorow the feldes nor thorow the vyneyardes / nether will we drynke of the water of the fountaynes: but we will goo by the hye waye and nether turne vnto ye ryghte hande nor to ye lefte / vntill we be past thi contre.

And Edom answered him: Se thou come not by me / lest I come out agēst the with the swerde And the childern of Israel sayed vnto him: we will goo by the beeten waye: & yf ether we or oure catell drynke of thi water / we will paye for it / we wyll doo nomoare but passe thorow by sote only. And he sayed: ye shall not goo thorow. And Edom came out agenst him with moch people and with a myghtie power. And thus Edom denyed to geue Israel passage thorow his contre. And Israel turned a waye from him.

And the childern of Israel remoued frō Cades and went vnto mount Hor with all the congregacion. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor / harde vppon the costes of the londe of Edom sayenge: let Aaron be put vnto his people / for he shall not come in to the londe which I haue [Page] geuen vnto the childern of Israel: because ye dishobeyed my mouth at the water of stryffe Take Aaron and Eleazer his sonne / & brynge them vpp in to mount Hor / and stryppe Aaron out of his vestimentes and put them apon Eleazer his sonne / ād let Aaron be put vnto his people and dye there.

And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaunded: and they went vpp in to mount Hor in the syghte of all the multitude. And Moses toke off Aarons clothes and put them apon Eleazer his sonne / and Aaron dyed there in the toppe of the mount. And Moses & Eleazer came doune out of the mount. And all ye Hence co [...]etousnes fett monethes myndes and hath encreased thē with yeres myndes ād seuen yeres mīdes ye as longe as the wife liveth she must once in the yere offer some what for her olde husbond. housse of Israel morned for Aarō .xxx. dayes

The .xxi. Chapter.

ANd when kynge Arad the cananite which dwelt in the south parties / harde tell that Israel came by the waye that the spies had founde out: he came and foughte with Israel and toke some of them presoners. Then Israel vowed a vowe vnto the Lorde and sayed: Yf thou wilt geue this people in to oure hādes / we will destroye their cities. And the Lorde herde ye voyce of Israel / ād delyuered them the Cananites. And they destroyed both them and their cities / and called the place Horma.

[Page]Then they departed from mount hortowarde the redd se: to compasse the londe of Edō. And the soules of the people faynted by the waye. And the people spake agenst God and agenst Moses: wherfore hast thou brought us out of Egipte / for to dye in the wildernesse for here is nether bred nor water / and oure soules lotheth this lyghte bred.

Then the Lorde sent fyrie serpentes amō ge the people / which stonge them: so that moch people dyed in Israel. And the people came to Moses and sayed: we haue synned / for we haue spoken agenst the Lorde and agenst the make intercession to the Lorde / that he take a wayethe serpentes from us And Moses made intercession for the people. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: make the a serpent ād hā ge it vpp for a sygne / and lett as many as are bytten loke apon it and they shall lyue. And Moses made a serpent of brasse ād sert it vp for a sygne And when the serpentes had bytten any man / he went and behelde the serpent of brasse and recouered.

And the childern of Israel remoued and pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth and laye at Egebarim in the wildernesse which is before Moab on the cast syde. And they remoued thence / and pitched ap [...] the ryuer of zarad. And they departed thence and pitched on the other syde of Arnō / which ryuer is in the wildernesse / and cometh out of [Page] the costes of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab / betwene Moab and the Amorites. Wherfore it is spoken in the boke of the warre of the Lorde: goo with a violence / both on the ryuer of Arnon and on the ryuers heed / whiche sho [...]eth doune to dwell at Ar / and leneth vppon the costes of Moab.

And from thence they came to Bear / whiche is the well whereof the Lorde spake vnto Moses: gather the people together / that I maye geue them water. Then Israel sange this songe: Aryse vpp well / synge thereto: The well whiche the rulers dygged and the captaynes of the people with the helpe of the lawegeuer and with their staues.

And from this wildernesse they went to Ma [...]ana / and from Ma [...]ana to Nahali [...]l / and from Nahali [...]l to Bamoth / and from Bamoth to the valay that is in the felde of Moab in the toppe of Pisga which boweth towarde the wildernesse.

And Israel sent messengers vnto Sihō / kynge of the Amorites sayenge: let vs goo thorow thy londe. we will not turne in to thy feldes nor in to thy vyneyardes / nether drynke of the water of the welles: but we will goo alonge by the comon waye / vntill we be past thy contre. And Sihō wolde geue Israel no licence to passe thorow his contre / but gathered all his people together & went out agēst [Page] Israel in to the wildernesse. And he came to Iaheza and foughte with Israel.

And Israel smote him with the edge of the swerde and conquered his londe / from Arnon vnto Iabock: euen vnto the childern of Ammon. for the borders of the childern of Ammon / are stronge. And Israel toke all these cities & dwelt in all y• cities of y• Amorites: in Esbon and in all the townes that longe there to. For Esbon was the citie of Sihon the kinge of the Amorites which Sihon had fought before with the kinge of the Moabites / ād had taken all his londe out of his hande / euen vnto Arnon.

Wherfore it is a prouerbe: goo to Hesbō and let the citie of Sihon be bylt ād made redye for there is a fyre gone out of Hesbon & a flame frō the citie of Sihō ād hath cōsumed Ar of the Moabites and the men of the hylles of Arnon. Wo be to the Moab: o people of Chemos ye are forloren. His sonnes are put to flighte & his doughters brought captyne vnto Sihon kinge of the Amorites. There lighte is out from Hesbon vnto [...] bon and we made a wildernesse euen vnto Nopha whiche reacheth vnto Mediba. And thus Israell dwelt in the londe of the Amorites.

And Moses sent to serche oute Iaezer / & they toke the townes belongynge thereto ād conquered the Amorites that were there. [Page] And then they turned and went vppe towarde Bason. And Og the kynge of Bason came out agenst them / both he and all his people / to warre at Edrei. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: feare him not / for I haue delyuered him in to thy handes with all his people and his lande. And thou shalt do with him as thou dydest with Sihon the kynge of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And they smote him and his sonnes and all hys people / vntyll there was nothinge left him. And they conquered his lande. And y• children of Israel remoued and pitched in the feldes of Moab / on the other syde of Iordane / by Iericho.

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

ANd Balac the sonne of Ziphor sawe all that Israel had done to the Amorites / and the Moabites were sore a frayed of the people / because they were many / and abhorred the childern of Israel: And Moab sayed vnto the elders of Madian / now this companye hath lickte vpp all that are rounde aboute vs / as an oxe lycketh vp the grasse of the felde. And Balac the sonne of Ziphor was kinge of the Moabites at that tyme.

And he sent messangers vnto Balam the sonne of Beor / the interpreter whiche dwelt vppon the ryuer of the lande of the childern [Page] of his folke / to call him sayenge: beholde / there is a people come out of Egipte which couereth the face of the erthe and lye euen harde by me. Come nowe a felashippe and curse me this people. For they are to myghtie for me / so pera [...]enture I myghte be able to smyte them and to dryue them oute of the londe. For I wote that whome thou blessest shalbe blessed / and whome thou cursest shalbe cursed.

And the elders of Moab went with the elders of Madian / and the rewarde of the sothe sayenge in their handes. And they came vnto Balam and tolde him the wordes of Balac. And he sayed vnto them: tary here all nyghte and I will bringe you worde / euen as the Lorde shall saye vnto me. And the lordes of Moab abode with Balam.

And god came vnto Balam and sayed: what men are these which are with the▪ And Balam sayed vnto god: Balac the sonne of Ziphor kynge of Moab hath sent vnto me sayenge: beholde / there is a people come out of Egipte and couereth the face of the erthe: come now therfore and curse me them / that so peraduenture I maye be able to ouercome them in batell / and to dryue thē out. And god sayed vnto Balam: thou shalt not goo with them / nether curse the people / for they are blessed.

[Page]And Balam rose vp in the mornynge & sayed vnto the lordes of Balac: gett you vnto youre lande / for the Lorde will not suffre me to goo with you. And the lordes of Moab rose vpp and went vnto Balac and sayed Balam wolde not come with vs. And Balac sent agayne a greatter companye of lordes ād more honorable than they. And they came to Balam and tolde him: Thus sayeth Balac the sonne of Ziphor: oh / let nothynge lett the to come vnto me / for I will greatly promote the vnto great honoure / ād will doo whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me / come therfore I praye the / curse me this people.

And Balam answered and sayed vnto the servauntes of Balac: Yf Balac wolde geue me his housfull of syluer and golde / I can goo no further than the worde of the Lorde my god / to do lesse or moare. Neuerthelesse tarye ye here all nyghte: that I maye were / what the Lorde will saye vnto me once moare. And God came to Balam by nyghte and sayed vnto him: Yf the men come to fett the / ryse vppe and goo with them: but what I saye vnto the / that onlye thou shalt doo.

And Balam rose vppe carly and sadelde his asse and went with the lordes of Moab / But God was angrye because he went. And the angell of the Lorde stode in the waye agenste hym. And he ryd vppon hys [Page] asse and two seruauntes with him. And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde stonde in the waye and his swerde drawen in his hande / she turned a syde oute of the waye and went out in to the felde. And Balam smote the asse / to turne her in to the waye.

And the angell of the Lorde went and stode in a path betwene the vyneyardes / where was a wall on the one syde and another on the other. When the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde / she wrenshed vnto the walle and thrust▪ Balams fote vnto the wall / and he smote her agayne. And the angell of y• Lorde went forder and stode in a narowe place / where was no waye to turne / ether to the right hande or to the lyfte. And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde / she fell downe vnder Balam: & Balam was wroth & smote the asse with a staffe.

And the Lorde opened the mouthe of the asse / and she sayed vnto Balam: what haue I done vnto the / that thou smytest me this. iij tymes? And Balam sayde vnto the Asse: because thou hast mocked me? I wolde that I had a swerde in myne hande / that I myghte now kyll the. And the asse sayed vnto Balam: am not I thyne asse whiche thou hast rydden vppon sence thou wast borne vn to this daye? Was I euer wont to do so vnto [Page] the? And he sayed / nay.

And the lorde opened the eyes of Balam that he sawe the angell of the Lorde stondinge in the waye / with his swerde drawen in his honde. And he bowed him selfe and fell flatt on his face. And y• angell of y• Lord sayed vnto him: Wherfore smytest thou thyne asse this .iij. tymes? beholde / I came oute to resyst the / for the waye is contrary vnto me: and the asse sawe me and avoyded me thre tymes: or else (had she not turned fro me) I had suerly slayne the and saued her alyue. And Balam sayed vnto the angell of y• Lorde: I haue synned: for I wist not that thou stodest in the waye agenst me. Now therfore yf it displease thyne eyes / I will turne agayne. And the angell sayde vnto Balam / goo with the men: but in any wise / what I saye vnto the / that saye. And Balam went with the lordes of Balac.

And when Balac herde that Balā was come he went out agenst him vnto a cytie off Moab that stode in the border of Arnō / whiche was the vttmost parte of his c [...]ntre. And Balac sayed vnto Balam: dyd I not sende for the / to call the? wherfore camest thou not vnto me? thinkest thou that I am not able to promote the vnto honoure? And Balam sayed vnto Balac: Loo I am come vnto the. But I can saye nothynge at all [Page] saue what God putteth in my mouthe that must I speake. And Balam went with Balac / and they came vnto the cytie of Buzoth. And Balac offered oxen and shepe / & sent for Balam and for the lordes that were with hym.

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

ANd on the mornynge Balac toke Balam and brought him vpp in to the hye place of Baall / ād thē ce he sawe vnto the vttmost parte of the people. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: bylde me here seven alters and prouyde here seuē oxen and seuen rammes. And Balac dyd as Balam sayed. And Balac and Balam offered on euery alter an oxe and a ram. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: stonde by the sacrifyce / whyle I goo to wete whether the Lorde will come ād mete me: & what soeuer he sheweth me / I will tell the / and he went forthwith.

And god came vnto Balam / and Balam sayed vnto him: I haue prepared .vij. alters / and haue offered apō euery alter / an oxe & a ram. And y• Lorde put a sayenge in Balās mouth & sayed: goo agayne to Balac & saye on this wyse. And he went agayne vnto him and loo / he stode by his sacrifice / both he ād all the lordes of Moab. And he began hys parable and sayed: Balac the kinge of [Page] Moab hath fett me fro Mesopotamia out of the mountaynes of the easte sayenge: come & curse me Iacob / come and defye me Israel. How shall I curse whom God curseth notThe pope cā tell howe. and how shall I defye whom the Lorde defyeth note from the toppe of y• rockes Ise him and from the hylles I beholde him: loo / ye people shall dwell by him selfe and shall not be re [...]ened amōge other nacions. Who can tell the dust of Iacob & the numbre of the fourth parte of Israel. I praye God that my soule / maye dye the deeth of the righteous / ād that my last ende maye be like his.

And Balac sayed vnto Balam / what hast thou done vnto me? I fett y• to curse myne enemyes: and beholde / thou blessest them. And he answered and sayed: must I not kepe that and speake it / which the Lorde hath put in my mouthe? And Balac sayed vnto him: Come I praye the with me vnto another place / whence thou shalt se them / and shalt se but y• vtmoste parte of them ād shalt not se them all and curse me them there.

And he brought him in to a playne felde where men myght se farre / euen to the toppe of Pisga / and bylt .vij. alters and offered an oxe and a rā on euery alter. And he sayed vnto Balac: stonde here by thi sacrifyce whyle I goo yonder. And the Lorde mett Balam and put wordes in his mouth and sayed: goo agayne vnto Balac ād thus saye. And when [Page] he came to him: beholde / he stode by his sacrifyce and the lordes of Moab with him And Balac sayed vnto him: what sayeth y• Lorde?

And he toke vp his parable and sayed: ryse vpp Balac and heare / and herken vnto me thou sonne of Ziphor The Lorde is not a mā / that he can lye / nether the sonne of a mā that he can repent: shulde he saye and not doo / or shulde he speake and not make it good? beholde / I haue begon to blesse and haue blessed / and can not goo backe there fro. He beheld no wikednesse in Iacob nor sawe Idolatrye in Israel: The Lorde his God is with him / and the trompe of a kynge amonge thē. God that broughte them out of Egipte / is as the strength of an vny corne vnto them / for there is no sorcerer / in Iacob / nor soth sayer in Israel. When the tyme cometh / it wylde sayed of Iacob & of Israel / what God hath wrought Beholde / y• people shall ryse vp as a lyonesse and heue vpp hym selfe as a lion / & shall not lye downe agayne / vntill he haue eaten of the praye and drenke of the bloude of them that are slayne.

And Balac sayed vnto Balam: nether curse them nor blesse thē. And Balam answered ād sayed vnto Balac: tolde not I the sayē ge / all that the Lorde byddeth me / y• I must doo? And Balac sayed vnto Balam: come I praye the / I will brynge the yet vnto another place: so per auenture it shall please God / that [Page] thou mayst curse thē there. And Balac broughte Balam vnto the toppe of Peor / that boweth towarde the wildernesse. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: make me here .vij. alters / & prepare me here .vij. bollockes and .vij. rāmes And Balac dyd as Balam had sayed / and offered a bollocke and a ram on euery alter.

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter.

WHen Balam sawe that it pleased y• Lorde that he shulde blesse Israel / he went not as he dyd twyse before to fett sothsayenge / but sett his face towarde y• wildernesse / and lyfte vpp his eyes and loked apon Israel as he laye with his trybes / and the spirite of God came apon him. And he toke vp his parable and sayed: Balā the sonne of Beor hath sayed / and the man whose eye is open hath sayed: he hath sayed which heareth the wordes of God and seeth the visions of the allmightie / which falleth downe & his eyes are opened.

How goodly are the tentes of Iacob and thi [...]e habitacions Israel / euen as the brode [...]leyes and as gardens by the ryuers syde / as the tentes which the Lorde hath pitched & as [...]perstrces apon the water. The water shall flowe out of his boket and his seed shall be many waters / and his kynge shalbe hyer then Agag / And his kyngdome [Page] shalbe exalted. God that broughte him out of Egipte is as the strenght of an vnycorne vnto him / and he shall eate the nacions that are his enemies and breake their bones and perse them thorow with his arowes. He couched him selfe and laye d [...]ne as a lion and as a lyonesse / who shall stere him vp? blessed is he that blesseth the / ād cursed is he that curseth the.

And Balac was wroth with balam and smote his handes together / and sayed vnto him: I sent for the to curse myne enemyes: & beholde / thou hast blessed them this thre tymes / and now gett the quyckly vnto thi place. I thoughte that I woldè promote the vnto honoure / but the Lorde hath kepte the backe from worshepe. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: tolde I not thi messēgers which thou sentest vnto me sayenge: Yf balac wolde geue me his house ful of syluer ād golde / I can not passe the mouth of the Lorde / to doo ether good or bad of myne awne mynde. What the Lorde sayeth / that must I speake. And now beholde / I goo vnto my people: come let me shewethe / what this people shall doo tothi folke in the later dayes.

And he began his parable ād sayed: Balam the sonne of Beor hath sayed / and y• man that hath his eye open hath sayed / & he hath sayed that heareth the wordes of God & hath the knowlege of the most hye and beholdeth y• [Page] vision of the allmightie / and when he falleth downe hath his eyes opened. I se him but not now / I beholde him but not nye. There shall come a starre of Jacob and rysea cepter of Israel / which shall smyte yt coostes of Mo ab and vndermyne all the childern of Seth. And Edom shalbe his possession / and y• possession of Seir shalbe their enimyes / and Israel shall doo manfully. And out of Jacob shall come he that shall destroye the remnaūt of the cities.

And he loked on Amaleck and began his parable and sayed: Amaleck is the first of the nacions / but his latter ende shall perysh utterly. And he loked on the Renites / and toke his parable and sayed: stronge is thi dwellynge place and put thinest apon a rocke / Neuer the later thou shalt be a burnynge to Rain / vntill Assur take y• prisoner. And he toke his parable & sayed: Alas / who shall lyue when God doeth this? The shippes shall come out of the coste of Cittim and subdue Assur and subdue Eber / and he him selfe shall perysh at the last. And Balam rose vp and went and dwelt in his place: and Balac also went his waye.

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

ANd Israel dwelt in Sittim / and the people began to commytt whoredome with the doughters of Moab / which called the people vnto y• sacrifyce of their goddes. [Page] And the people are and worshipped their goddes / and Israel coupled him selfe vnto Baal Peor. Then ye Lorde was angrie with Israel / and sayed vnto Moses: take all y• heedes of the people / and hange them vp vnto yt Lorde agenst the sonne / that the wrath of the Lorde mayeturne awaye from Israel. And Moses sayed vnto the iudges of Israel: goo and slee those men that ioyned thē selues vnto Baal Peor.

And beholde / one of the childern of Israel came and broughte vnto his brethern / a Madianitish wife euen in the sighte of Moses & in the sighte of all the multitude of ye childern of Israel / as they were wepynge in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And when Phineas the sonne of Eleazer the sonne of Aarō the preast sawe it / he rose vp out of the companye and toke a wepon in his hande / and wēt after the man of Israel in to the horchousse / & thrust them thorow: both the man of Israel and also the woman euen thorow the belye of hir. And the plage ceased from the childern of Israel. And there dyed in the plage .xxiiij. thousande.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Phineas the sonne of Eleazer the sonne of Aaron the preast / hath turned myne anger awaye from the childern of Israel / because he was gelous for my sake amonge them / that I had not cōsumed the childern of Israel in my [Page] gelousye. Wherfore saye: beholde / I geue vnto him my couenaunte of pease / and he shall haue it and his seed after him / euen the couenaunte of the preastis office for euer / because he was gelous for his Gods sake and made an atonement for the childern of Israel.

The name of the Israelite which was smytten with the Madianitish wife / was S [...]ri the sonne of Sal [...] / a lorde of an aunciēt honsse amonge the Simeonites. And the name of the Madianitish wife / was Cosbi the doughter of Zur and heed ouer the people of a [...] auncient housse in Madian.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: vexe the Madianites and smyte them / for they haue troubled you with their wiles with the which they haue begyled you / thorow P [...] or and thorow their syster Cosby y• doughter of a lorde in Madian / which was slayne in y• daye of the plage for Peors sake.

¶ The .xxvi. Chapter.

ANd after the plage / y• Lorde spake vnto Moses and vnto Eleazer sayenge: take the number of all the multitude of the childern of Israel from .xx. yere ād aboue thorow out their fathers housses / all that are able to goo to warre in Israel. And Moses & Eleazer the preast tolde them in the feldes [Page] of Moab / by Iordane fast by Iericho / from xx. yere and aboue / as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And the childern of Israel that came out of Egipte / were.

Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel. The childern of Ruben were / Hanoch / of whome cometh the kynred of the Hanochires: & of Palu / cometh the kynred of the Pal [...]tes: And of Hesron / cometh the kynred of the Hesronites: and of Carmi / cometh the kynred of the Carmites. These are the kynredes of the Rubenites / which were in numbre .xliij. thousande .vij. hūdred an .xxx. And the sonnes of Palu were Eliab. And the sonnes of Eliab were: Nemuel / Darhan and Abiram.

This is that Dathan and Abiram councelers in the cōgregacion / which stroue agēst Moses and Aaron in the companye of Corah / when they stroue agenst the Lorde. And the erth opened hir mouth ād swalowed thē and Corah also / when the multitude dyed / what tyme the fyre consumed .ij. hundred and fiftie men / and they became a signe: Notwithstondynge / the childern of Corah dyed not.

And the childern of Simeon in their kynredes were: Nemuel / of whom cometh y• kynred of the Nemuelites: Iamin / of whom cometh the kynred of the Iaminytes: Iachin / of whom cometh the kynred of the Iachi [...]es: Serah / of whome cometh the kynred of the Serahites: Saul / of whom cometh the kynred [Page] of the Saulites. These are the kynredes of the Simeonites: in numbre .xxij. thousande and .ij. hundred.

And the childern of Gad in their kynredes were: Zephon / of whom cometh the kynred of the Zephonites: and of Haggi / cometh the kynred of the Haggites: and of Suni / cometh the kynred of the Sunites: and of A seni / cometh the kynred of the A senites: and of Eri cometh the kynred of the Erites: and of Arod cometh the kynred of the Arodites: and of Ar [...]el cometh the kynred of the Arielites. These are the kynredes of the children of Gad / in numbre .xl. thousande and .v. hundred.

The childern of Iuda: Er and Onā / whiche dyed in the londe of Canaan. But the childern of Iuda in their kynred were: Sela of whom cometh the kynred of the Selamires: and of Phares cometh the kynred of y• Pharesites: and of Serah cometh the kynred of the Serahites. And the childern of Phares were Hesron / of whom cometh the kynred of the Hesronites: and of Hamul cometh y• kynred of the Hamulites. These are the kynredes of Iuda / in numbre .lxxvi. thousande and .v. hundred.

And the childern of Isachar in their kyndes were: Tola / of whō cometh y• kynred of the Tolaites: & Phuva / of whō cometh y• kinred of the Ph [...]aites: and of Iasub cometh [Page] the kynred of the Iasubites: and of Symron cometh the kynred of the Sunronites. These are y• kynredes of Isachar in numbre. lxiiij thousande and .iij. hundred.

The childern of Zabulon in their kynredes were: Sered / of whom cometh the kynred of the Seredites: and Elon / of whom cometh the kynred of the Elonites: and of Iaheliel / cometh the kynred of the Iehalelites. These are the kynredes of Zabulon: in numbre .lx. thousand & .v. hundred.

The children of Ioseph in their kinredes were: Manasse ād Ephraim. The childern of Manasse: Machir / of whom cometh the kynred of the Machirites. And Machir begat Gilead / of whom cometh the kinred off the Gileadites. And these are the childern of Gilead: Hieser / of whom cometh the kynred of the Hieserites: and of Helech cometh the kynred of the Helechites: and of Asriel y• kinred of the Asric [...]tes: and of Sichem cometh the kinred of the Sichimites: & of Simida cometh the kinred of the Simidites: & of Hepher cometh the kinred of the Hepherites. And Zelaphead the sonne of Hepher had no sonnes bu [...] doughters And y• names of y• doughters of Zelaphead were: Mabe la / Noa / Hagla / Milcha ād Thirza. These are the kinredes of Manasse / in numbre / lij. thousande and seuen hundred.

These are the childern of Ephraim in their [Page] kinredes: Suthelah / of whom cometh the kinred of the Suthelahi [...]es: and Becher / of whom cometh the kinred of the Becher [...]tes: & of Thaha cometh the kynred of the Thahanites. And these are the childern of Suthelah: Eran / of whom cometh the kynred of the Eranites. These are the kynredes of the childern of Ephraim in numbre .xxxij. thousande & .v. hundred. And these are the childern of Ioseph in their kinredes.

These are the childern of Ben Iamin in their kinredes: Bela / of whom cometh the kinred of the Belaites: and of Asbel cometh the kinred of the Asbelites: and of Ahiram / the kinred of the Ahiramites: and of Suphā the kinred of the Suphamites: and of Hupham the kinred of the Huphamites. And the childern of Bela were A [...]d and Naamā fro whence come the kinredes of the Ardites and of the Naamites. These are the childern of Ben Iamin in their kinreddes / and in numbre .xlv. thousande and syxe hundred.

These are the childern of Dan in their kynreddes: Suham / of whom cometh the kynred of the Suhamites. These are the kynreddes of Dan in their generacyons. And all the kynreddes of the Suhamites were in numbre .lxiiij. thousand ād iiij. hundred.

The childern of Asser in their kynredes [Page] were: Jemna / of whom cometh the kynred of the Jemnites: ād Jsui / of whom cometh the kinred of the Jsuites: & of Bria cometh the kinred of the Br [...]tes. And the childern of bria were Heber / of whom cometh y• kynred of the Heberites: and of Malchiel came the kynred of the Malchielites. And y• doughter of Asser was called Sarah. These are the kinredes of Asser in numbre .liij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

The childern of Nephtali in their kynreddes were: Jaheziel / of whom came the kynred of the Jahezielites: and G [...]i / of whom came the kynred of the Gimites: & of Jezer / came the kynred of the Jezerites: and of Silem the kynred of the Silemites. These are the kinredes of Naphtali in their generaciōs in numbre .xlv. thousande and .iiij. hundred. These are the numbres of the childern of Israel: sixe hundred thousande / & a thousande vij. hundred and .xxx.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: vnto these the londe shalbe deuyded to enherett / acordinge to the numbre of names: to many thou shalt gene y• moare enheritaunce & to fewe y• lesse: to euery tribe shall y• enheritaūce be geuē acordinge to ye numbre therof. Notwithstondinge / y• londe shalbe deuyded by lott / & acordinge to ye names of ye tribes of their fathers / thei shall enherett: & acordinge [...] lott thou shalt deuyde their lond / h [...]th [Page] to the many and to the fewe.

These are the summes of y• leuites in the in kinredes: of Gerson / came the kynred of ye Gersonites: and of Cahath came the kinred of the Cahathites: and of Merari came the kinred of the Merarites. These are the kynredes of Leui: the kinred of the Libnites / the kynred of the Hebronites / the kynred of the Mahelites / the kynred of the Musites / the kynred of the Rarahites.

Rahath begate Amram / and Amrams wife was called Jochebed a doughter oflein / which was borne him in Egipte. And she bare vnto Amram / Aaron / Moses and Mir Jam their syster. And vnto Aaron were borne / Nadab / Abihu / Eleazer and Jthamar. But Nadab and Abihu dyed / as they offered straunge fyre before the Lorde. And the numbre of them was .xxiij. thousande / of all the males from a moneth olde and aboue For they were not numbred amonge ye children of Israel / because there was no enheritaunce geuen them amonge the childern off Israel.

These are the numbres of the childern of Israel which Moses and Eleazer the preast numbred in the feldes of Moab / fast by Jordane nye to Jericho. And amonge these there was not a man of the numbre of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron tolde in the wildernesse of Sinai. For the Lorde [Page] sayed vnto them / that they shulde dye in ye wildernesse & that there shulde not be lefte a man of them: saue Caleb the sonne of Jephune & Josua the sonne of Nun.

¶ The .xxvij. Chaptre

ANd the doughters of Zelaphead the sonne of Heber the sonne of Gilead / the sonne of Machirthe sonne of Manasse / of the kinredes of Manasse the sonne of Joseph (whose names were Mahcla / Noa / Hagla / Melcha and Thirza) came & stode before Moses and Eleazer the preast ād before the lordes & all the multitude in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse sayenge: oure father dyed in the wildernesse / & was not amonge the companye of them that gathered them selues together agenst the Lorde in the congregacion of Corah: But dyed in his awne synne / and had no sonnes. Wherfore shulde the name of oure fathers be taken awaye from amonge hys kynred / because he had no sonne? Geue vnto vs a possessyon amonge the brethern of oure father.

And Moses broughte their cause before the Lorde. And ye Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: The doughters of Zelaphead speke righte: thou shalt geue them a possession to en [Page] herett amonge their fathers brethern / & shall turne the enheritaunce of their father vnto them. And speake vnto the childern of Israel sayenge: Yf a man dye and haue no sonne ye shall turne his enheritaunce vnto his doughter. Yf he haue no doughter / ye shall geue his enheritaunce vnto his brethern. Yf he haue no brethern / ye shall geue his enheritaunce vnto his fathers brethern. Yf he haue no fathers brethern / ye shall geue his enheritaunce vnto him that is nexte to him of his kinred / & let him possesse it. And this shalbe vnto the childern of Israel an ordynaunce / and a lawe / as the Lorde hath commaūded Moses.

And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: get ye vpp in to this mount Aabrun / and beholde / the londe which I haue geuen vnto the children of Israel. And whē thou hast sene it / thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people also / as Aaron thy brother was gathered vnto his people. For ye were disobedient vnto my mouthe in the deserte of Zin in y• stryfe of the congregacion / that ye sanctified me not in the water before their eyes. That is the water of stryfe in cades in the wildernesse of Zin. And MosesO faithfull & mercifull Moses ful onlike oure Balams. spake vnto the Lorde sayenge: let the Lorde God of the spirites of all flesh / sett a man ouer the congregacion / which maye goo in & out before them / and to lede them in and oute [Page] that the congregacion of the Lorde be not as a flocke of shepe without a sheparde.

And ye Lorde sayed vnto Moses: take Josua the sonne of Nun in whom there is spirite / and put thyne handes apon him / and setThere was [...]f likelyhod a [...]ryght stonne [...] the ephod / [...]here [...] the hie [...]reast loked & [...]awe the will [...]f God in ty [...]es of neade / [...]s thou mayst [...]e in the story of Dauid: This was the [...]aner of the Ebrues to ma [...]e their office [...]s & of this maner did the apostle make de [...]kons / preastes & bishopes / with oute any other ceremony as thou [...]eist ī thactes / ād mayst gather of paul to Timothe: Bred is here borowed & takē for all maner of sode generally: him before Eleazer the preast and before all the congregacion and geue him a charge in their fyghte. And put of thi prayse apon him that all the companye of ye childern of Israel maye heare. And he shall stonde before Eleazer y• preast which shall axe councell for him after y• maner of the * lighte before ye Lorde: And atthe mouth of Eleazer shall both he and all the childern of Israel with him and all the congregacion / goo in and out.

And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaū ded him / and he toke Josua and sett him before Eleazer the preast and before all the congregacion / & * put his handes apon him & gaue him a charge / as the Lorde commaunded thorow the hande of Moses.

¶ The .xxviij. Chaptre

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: geue ye childern of Israel a charge and saye vnto them / that they take hede to offer vnto me y• offryng of my * bred in the sacrifyce of swete sauoure / in his due season. And saye vnto thē. This is y• offerynge which ye shall offer vnto ye Lorde .ij. lābes [Page] of a yeare olde with out spot daye by daye to be a burntofferynge perpetually. One lambe thou shalt offer in the mornynge / and ye other [...]t euen / And thereto y• tēth parte of an Epha offloure for a me [...]offerynge myngled with beten oyle / the fourth parte of an hin: which is a dayly offerynge ordened in the mount Sinai vnto a swete sauoure in the sacrifyce of y• Lorde. And the drynkofferynge of the same: the fourth parte of an hin vnto one lambe / & poure the drynkofferynge in the holy place / to be good drynke vnto the Lorde. And y• other lambe thou shalt offer at euen / with the meat offerynge and the drynkofferynge after y• maner of the mornynge: a sacrifyce of a swe [...]e sanoure vnto the Lorde.

And on the Sabbath daye .ij. lambes of a yere olde a pece and with out spot / and two tēthdeales of floure for a meatofferynge myngled with oyle / and the drynkofferynge thereto. This is the burrtofferynge of euery Sabbath / besydes the dayly burntofferynge and his drynkofferynge.

And in the first daye of youre monethes / ye shall offer a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde: two yonge bollockes / and a ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde without spott / and .iij. tēthdeales of floure for a meatofferynge mingled with oyle vnto one bollocke / and .ij. tēthdeales of floure for a meatofferynge myngled with oyle vnto one rā. And euermoare / [Page] [...] tēth deale of floure myngled with oyle / for a meatofferinge vnto one lābe. That is a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure in the sacrifyce of the Lorde. And their drynkofferynges shal be halfe an hin of wyne vnto one bollocke / ād the thyrde parte of an hin of wyne vnto a ram and the fourth parte of an hin vnto a lambe. This is the burntofferynge of euery moneth thorow out all the monethes of the yere: & one he goote for a synofferynge vnto the Lorde / which shalbe offered with the dayly burntofferynge and his drynkofferynge.

And the .xiiij. daye of the first moneth shalbe Passeouer vnto the Lorde. And y• .xv. daye of the same moneth shalbe a feast / in which vij. dayes men must eate vnleuēded bred The first daye shalbe an holy feast / so that ye shall do no maner of laboryous worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde .ij. bollockes / one ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde without spott / and their meatofferynge of floure myngled with oyle .iij. tenthdeales vnto a bollocke / and .ij. tenthdeales vnto a ram / and euermoare one tenthdeale vnto a lambe / thorow out the .vij. lambes: & an hegoote for a synofferynge to make an atonement for you. And ye shall offer these / besyde the burntofferynge in ye mornynge that is allway offered. And after this manerye shall offer thorow out the .vij. dayes / the fode of the sacrifice of swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. [Page] And it shalbe done besydethe dayly burntofferynge and his drynkofferynge. And the seuenth daye shall be an holy feast vnto you / so that ye shall doo no laboryous wo [...]ke therein.

And the daye of youre first frutes when ye brynge a new meatofferynge vnto the Lorde in youre wekes / shalbe an holy feast vnto you: so that ye shall doo no laboryous worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde .ij. younge bollockes / and a ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde a pece / with their meatofferynges of floure myngled with oyle .iij. tenthdeales vnto a bollecke .ij. tenthdeales to a ram / ād euermoare one tenthdeale vnto a lambe thorow out the .vij. lambes / ād an he goote to make an atonement for you. And this ye shall doo besydes the dayly burntofferynge / and his meatofferynge: & they shalbe without spot / with their drynkofferynges.

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

ANd y• first daye of ye .vij. moneth shalbe an holy feast vnto you / ād ye shall doo no laboryous worke therein. It shalbe a daye of tromperblowynge vnto you. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto ye Lorde: one younge bollocke & one rā & .vij. lābes of a yere olde a pece that are pure. And their meatofferinges of floure [Page] myngled with oyle: iij tenth deales vnto the bollocke / and .ij. vnto the ram / and one tenth deale vnto one lambe thorow the .vij. lambes And an he goote for a synofferynge to make an atonement for you / besyde the burntofferynge of the moneth and his meatofferynge and besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meatofferynge / and the drynkofferynges of the same: acordynge vnto the maner of them for a sauoure of swetnesse in the sacrifice of y• Lorde.

And the tenth daye of that same seuenth moneth shalbe an holy feast vnto you / and ye shall humble youre soules and shall doo no maner worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde of a swete sauoure: one bollocke / and a ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde a pece / without faute & their meatofferynges of floure myngled with oyle: iij. tenth deales to a bollocke / ād .ij. to a rā and all waye a tenth deale vnto a lambe / thorow out the .vij. lambes And one he goote for a synofferynge / besyde y• synofferynge of atonement and the dayly burntofferynge / and y• meate and drynkofferynges that longe to the same.

And the .xv. daye of the seuenth moneth shalbe holy daye & ye shall doo no laboryous worke therein / and ye shall kepe a feast vnto y• Lorde of .vij. dayes longe. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto the [Page] Lorde: xiij. bollockes .ij. rammes and .xiiij. lā bes which are yerelynges and pure / with oyle iij tenth deales vnto euery one of the .xiij. bollockes .ij. tē [...]h deales to ether of the rammes / and one tenth deale vnto eche of the .xiiij. lambes. And one he goote vnto a synofferynge / besyde y• dayly burntofferynge with his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the seconde daye .xij. younge bollockes .ij. rammes & .xiiij. yerlynge lambes without spot: & their meatofferynges and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes and lambes / acordynge to the numbre of them & after the maner And an he goote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge ād his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the thyrde daye .xi. bollockes .ij. rammes & .xiiij. yerelynge lambes without spot: & their meate and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes & lambes / after the numbre of thē & acordynge to the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge & his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the fourth daye .x. bollockes .ij. rammes & .xiiij. lābes / yerelynges & pure: ād their meate & drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes rāmes & lābes / acordynge to their nūbre and after the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge ād his meate and drynkofferynges.

[Page]And the fyfte daye .ix. bollockes .ij. rāmes and .xiiij. lambes of one yere olde a pece without spott. And their meat and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rāmes and lambes / acordynge to the numbre of them and after the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the syxte daye .viij. bollockes .ij. rammes ād. xii [...]j. yerelynge lambes without spot And their meate and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes and lambes / acordynge to the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the seuenth daye .vij. bollockes .ij. rā mes and .xiiij. lambes that are yerelynges & pure. And their meate and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes and lābes / acordynge to their numbre & to the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde ye dayly burntofferynge and his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the eyght daye shalbe the conclusionOut of soch come oure octaues ād feastes of eight dayes longe. of y• feaste vnto you / & ye shall doo no maner laboryous worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde: one bollocke / one rā & .vij. yerelynge lā bes without spott. And the meate & drynkofferynges vnto the bollocke / rā and lābes / acordynge to their nūbres & acordynge to y• maner. [Page] And an he goote for a synofferynge besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meate & drynkofferynges.

These thinges ye shall doo vnto the Lorde in youre feastes: besyde youre vowes and [...]rewyll offerynges / in youre burntofferinges meatofferynges / drynkofferynges and pease offerynges. And Moses tolde the childern of Israel / acordynge to all that the Lorde commaunded him.

¶ The .xxx. Chapter.

ANd Moses spake vnto the heedes ofHēce was fetrthe exā ple of oure vowes of chastite / obediens and willfull pouertie: oure offerynges ād oure pilgremage. the trybes of y• childern of Israel sayē ge: this is the thynge which the Lorde commaundeth. Yf a man vowe a vowe vnto the Lorde or swere an othe ād bynde his soule / he shall not goo ba [...]ke with his worde: but shal fulfyll all y• proceadeth out of his mouth

Yf a damsell vowe a vowe vnto y• Lorde & binde herselfe beynge in hir fathers housse and vnmaried: Yf hir father heare hir vowe & bonde which she hath made vppon hir soule / & holde his pease thereto: then all hir vowes & bōdes which she hath made vppō hir soule shall stonde in effecte. But & yf hir father for byd her the same daye that he heareth it / none of hir vowes nor bondes which she hath made vppon hir soule shalbe of value / ād the Lorde shall forgeue her / because hir father forbade her.

Yf she had an husbonde when she vowed [Page] or pronounsed oughte out of hir lippes wherewith she bonde hir soule / and hir husbonde her de it and helde his peace there at the same daye he herde it: Then hir vowes and hir bondes wherewith she bounde hir soule / shal stonde in effecte. But ād yf hir husbonde forbade her the same daye that he herde it / than hath he made hir vowe which she had vppō her of none effecte / and that also whiche she pronounsed with hir lippes wherewith she bounde hir soule / and the Lorde shall forgeue her.

The vowe of a wedowe and of her that is deuorsed / & all that they haue bound their soules with all / shall stonde in effecte with them.

Yf she vowed in her husbandes housse or bounde her soule with an oth / and her husbande herde it and helde his peace and forbade her not: then all her vowes and bondes wherewith she bound her soule / shall stō de. But yf her husbande disanulled them y• same daye that he herde them / then nothing that proceded out of her lippes in vowes ād boundes wherewith she bounde her soule shall stonde in effecte: for her husbande hath lowsed them / and the Lorde shall forgeue her.

All vowes and othes that binde to humble the soule / maye her husbande stablish or breake. But yf her husbande hold his peace from one daye vnto another / then he stablisheth [Page] all her vowes and boundes whiche she had vppon her / because he helde his peace the sa [...]e daye that he herde them. And yf he afterwarde breake them / he shall beare her synne him. self.

These are the ordinaunces which y• Lorde commaunded Moses / betwene a man and his wife / and betwene the father and his doughter / beyenge a damsell in hir fathers housse.

¶ The .xxxi. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: auenge the childern of Israel of the Madianites / and afterwarde be gathered vnto thy people. And Moses spake vnto the folke sayenge: Harnesse some of you vnto warre / and let them goo apon the Madianites and auenge the Lorde of the Madianitis. Ye shall sende vnto the warre a thousande of euery try be thorow out all the trybes of Israel. And there were taken oute of the thousandes of Israel .xij. thousande prepared vnto warre / of euery trybe a thousande. And Moses sent them a thousande of euery trybe / with Phineas the sonne of Eleazer the preaste to warre / and the holye vessels & the trompettes to blowe with in his honde.

And they warred agenst the Madianites / as the Lorde commaunded Moses / ād [Page] [...]lewe all the males. And they slewe the kynges of Madian among other that were slayne: Eui / Rekem / Zur / Hur and Reba: fyne kynges of Madian. And they slewe Balā the sonne of Beor with the swerde. And the childern of Israel toke all the wemen of Madian presoners and their childern / and spoyled all their catell / their substance and their goodes. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt / and all their castels with fyre. And they roke all the spoyle and all they coude catche / both of men and beestes. And they broughte the captyues and that which they had taken and all the spoyle vnto Moses and Eleazer the preast ād vnto the companye of the childern of Israel: euen vnto the hoste / in y• feldes of Moab by Jordanenye to Jericho.

And Moses and Eleazer the preast and all the lordes of the congregacion went out of the hoste agenst them. And Moses was angrie with the officers of the hoste / with y• captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundredes / which came from warre and batayle / and sayde vnto them: Haue ye saued the wemen alyue? beholde / these caused the childern of Israel thorow Balam / to commytt trespace agēst y• Lorde / by y• reason of Peor / & their folowed a plage amōge y• congregacion of the Lorde. Nowe therfore slee all the men childern and the wemen that haue ly [...] [Page] with men fleshlye: But all the wemen children that haue not lyen with men / kepe alyue for youre selues. And lodge without the hoste .vij. dayes all that haue killed any persone & all that haue twiched any dead body / & purifye both youre selues & youre presoners the .iij. daye & the .vij. And sprinkle all youre raymentes & all that is made of skynnes / & all worke of gootes heer / ād all thynges made of wodd.

And Eleazer the preast sayed vnto all y• mē of warre which went out to batayle: this is the ordinaunce of the lawe which the Lorde commaunded Moses: Gold / syluer / brasse / yeron / tyn & leed / & all that maye abyde y• fyre / ye shall make it goo thorow the fyre / ād then it is cleane. Neuerthelater / it shalbe sprinkled with sprinklinge water. And all y• soffereth not the fyre / ye shall make goo thorow the water. And wash youre clothes the seuenth daye / & then ye are cleane. And afterwarde come in to the hoste.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: take the summe of the praye that was taken / both of the wemē & of catell / thou & Eleazer the preast and the auncient heedes of y• congregacion. And deuyde it into two parties / betwene them that toke the warre vppō thē and went out to batayle and all the congregacion. And take a porcion vnto the Lorde of the men of warre whiche went o [...]te to [Page] batayle one of fyue hundred / of the women and of the oxen and of the asses and of the shepe: and ye shall take it of their halfe and geue it vnto Eleazer the preast / an heueofferynge vnto the Lorde. And of the halfe of y• childern of Israel / take one of fystye / of y• wemen / of the oxen / of the asses and of the shepe / and of all maner of beestes / & geue them vnto the leuites which wayte apon ye habitacion of the Lorde.

And Moses and Eleazer the preast did as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And y• botye and the praye which the men of warre had caught / was .vi. hundred thousande & lxxv. thousande shepe: ād .lxxij. thousande ox en: & .lxi. thousande asses: & .xxxij. thousande wemen that had lyen by no man.

And the halfe which was the parte of thē that wēt out to warre / was .iij. hundred thousande and .xxxvij. thousande and fyue hundred shepe: And the Lordes parte of the shepe was .vi. hundred and .lxxv. And the oxen were .xxxvi. thousande / of which the Lordes parte was .lxxij.. And the asses were .xxx. thousande and fyue hundred / of whiche the Lordes parte was .lxi.. And the wemen were .xvi. thousande / of which the Lordes parte was .xxxij. soules. And Moses gaue that summe which was the Lordes heueofferynge vnto Eleazer the preast: as the Lorde cō maunded Moses.

[Page]And the other halfe of the childern of Israel whiche Moses seperated from the men of warre (that is to were / the halfe that pertayned vnto the congregacion) was .iij. hundred thousande and .xxxvij. thousande and fyue hundred shepe: and .xxxvi. thousande oxen: and .xxx. thousande asses and fyue hū dred: and .xvi. thousande wemen. And Moses toke of this halfe that pertayned vnto the childern of Israel: one of euery fyftie / both of the wemen & of the catell / and gaue them vnto the leuites which wayted vppon the habitacion of the Lorde / as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And the officers of thousandes of the hoste / the captaynes ouer the thousandes and the captaynes ouer the hundreds came forth & sayed vnto Moses: Thy servauntes haue taken the summe of the men of warre / which were vnder oure hande / & there lacked not one man of them. We haue therfore broughte a present vnto the Lorde what euery man founde of Jewels of golde / cheyns / bracelettes / ringes / earynges & spangels / to make an attonement for oure soules before the Lorde.

And Moses & Eleazer toke the golde off them: Jewels of all maner facions. And all the golde of the heueoffrynge of the Lord / of the captaynes ouer thousandes & hundreds was .xvi. thousand .vij. hundred & .l. sycles / [Page] which y• mē of warre had spoyled / euery man for him selfe. And Moses & Eleazer y• preast toke the golde of the captaynes ouer the thousandes & ouer the hundreds / & brought it in to the tabernacle of witnesse: to be a memoriall vnto y• childern of Israel / before y• Lorde.

¶ The▪ xxxij. Chapter.

THe childern of Rubē & the childern of Gad / had an exceadinge greate multitude of catell. And whē they sawe the lōde of Iaeser & the lōde of Gilead y• it was an apte place for catell / they came & spake vnto Moses & Eleazer y• preast & vnto y• lordes of y• cōgregaciō sayenge. The lōde of Ataroth Dibo & Beon / whiche contre y• Lorde smote before the congregacion of Israel: is a londe for catell and we thy servauntes haue catell wherfore (sayed they) yf we haue founde grace in thy syghte / let this londe be geuen vnto thy servauntes to possesse / and bringe vs not ouer Iordane.

And Moses sayed vnto the childrē of Gad and of Ruben: shall youre brethern goo to warre and yetarye here? Wherfore discorage ye the hertes of the children of Israel for to goo ouer in to the londe which the Lorde hath geuē them? This dyd youre fathers / whē I sent them from Cades bernea to sethe londe. And they went vp euen vnto the ryuer of Escol & sawe the londe / & discoraged the he [...] tes of the childern of Israel / that they shulde [Page] not goo into the londe whiche the Lorde had geuen them.

And the Lorde was wroth the same tyme and sware sayenge: None of the men that came out of Egipte frō twentye yere olde and aboue / shall se the londe whiche I swore vnto Abraham / Isaac and Iacob / because they haue not continually folowed me: saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune the Benesite / & Iosua the sonne of Nun / for they haue folowed me continually. And the Lorde was angrie with Israel / and made them wandre in the wildernesse .xl. yere / vntill all the generacion that had done euell in the syghte of the Lorde were consumed.

And beholde / ye are rysen vp in youre fathers stede / the encrease of synfull men / to augmente the ferse wrath of the Lorde to Israel warde. For yf ye turne awaye from after him / he wyll yet agayne leue the people in the wildernesse / so shall ye destroy all this folke.

And they went nere him ād sayed: we will bylde shepefoldes here for oure shepe and for oure catell / and cities for oure childern: But we oure selues will go ready armed before ye childern of Israel / vntill we haue broughte them vnto their place. And oure childrē shall dwell in the stronge cities / because of the inhabiters of the londe. And we will not returne vnto oure housses / vntill the childern off [Page] Israel haue enhereted: euery man his enheritaunce. For we will not enheret with them on yonder syde Iordane forwarde / because oure enheritaunce is fallen to vs on this syde Iordane eastwarde.

And Moses sayed vnto them: Yf ye will do this thing / that ye will go all harnessed before the Lorde to warre / and will go all of you in harnesse ouer Iordane before y• Lorde / vntill he haue cast out his enemyes before him / & vntill the londe be subdyed before y• Lorde: then ye shall returne & be without sinne agenst the Lorde & agenst Israel / & thie lō de shalbe youre possession before the Lorde. But & yf ye will not do so / beholde / ye synne agenst the Lorde: ād be sure youre synne will fynde you out. Bilde youre cities for youre childern & foldes for youre shepe / & se ye do y• ye haue spoken.

And the childern of Gad & of Ruben spake vnto Moses sayenge: thy servauntes will do as my lorde commaundeth. Oure childrē oure wines substāce & all oure catell shall remayne here in the cities of Gilead. But we thi servauntes will goo all harnessed for the warre vnto batayle before the Lorde / as my lorde hath sayed.

And Moses cōmaūded Eleazer y• preast & Iosua y• sonne of Nun & the aunciēt hedes of the tribes of the childern of Israel / & sayed vnto them: Yf the childern of Gad and Ruben [Page] will goo with you ouer Iordane / all prepared to syghte before the Lorde: then when the lande is subdued vnto you / geue them the londe of Gilead to possesse / but & yf they will not goo ouer with you in harnesse / then they shall haue their possessions amonge you in y• londe of Canaan. And the childern of Gad & Ruben answered sayenge: that which y• Lorde hath sayed vnto thi seruaūtes we will doo We wil goo harnessed before the Lorde in to the londe of Canaan / & the possession of oure enheritaunce shalbe on this syde the Iordane.

And Moses gaue vnto y• childern of Gad and of Ruben & vnto halfe the try be of Manasse the sonne of Ioseph / the kyngdome of Sihon kynge of the Amorites / and the kyngdome of Ogkynge of Basan / the lande that longed vnto the cities thereof in the costes of the contre rounde aboute. And the childern of Gad bylt Dibō / ataroth / Aroer / Atroth / So phan / Iaeser / Iegabcha / Bethnimra & Betharan stronge cities / and they bylt foldes for their shepe. And the childern of Ruben bylt Besebon / Elalea / Ririathaim / Nebo / Baal Meon and turned their names / and Sibama also: & gaue names vnto the cities which they bylt.

And the childern of Machir the sonne of Manasse went to Gilead and token / and put out the Amorites y• were therein. And Moses [Page] gaue Gilead vnto Machir the sonne of Manasse / & he dwelt therein. And Iair the sonne of Manasse wēt & toke y• small townes thereof / & called thē the townes of Iair. And Nobah went & toke kenath with the townes longinge thereto / & called it Nobah after his awne name.

¶ The .xxxiij. Chapter

THese are the iurneyes of the childern of Israel which went out of the lande of Egipte with their armies vnder Moses ād Aaron. And Moses wrote their goenge out by their iurneyes at y• cōmaundment of the Lorde: euen these are y• iurneyes of their goenge out. The childern of Israel departed from Rahēses the .xv. daye of the first moneth / on y• morowe after Passeouer & went out with an hye hande in the syghte of all Egipte / while the Egiptians buried all their firstborne which the Lorde had smoten amonge thē. And vppō their goddes also the Lorde dyd execucion. And y• childern of Israel remoued from Rahemses and pitched in Sucoth.

And they departed frō Sucoth & pitched their tentes in Ethā / which is in the edge of y• wyldernesse. And they remoued frō Ethā ād turned vnto the entrynge of Hiroth which is before ba all Zephon / & pitched before Migdol. And they departed frō before Hiroth & went thorow the myddes of the see in to the wildernesse / & wēr .iij. dayes iurney in y• wildernesse [Page] of Ethā / & pirched in Marah. And they remoued frō Marah & wēt vnto Elim where were .xij. fountaynes ād .lxx. datetrees and they pitched there.

And they remoued from Elim & laye fast by the red see. And they remoued frō the red see & laye in y• wildernesse of Sin. And they toke their iurney out of y• wildernesse of Sin / & sett vpp their tentes in Daphka. And they departed from Daphka / and laye in Alus. And they remoued from Alus / & laye at Raphedim / where was no water for the people to drynke. And they departed from Raphedim / and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai

And they remoued from the deserte of Sinai / & lodged at the graues of lust. And they departed from the sepulchres of lust / ād laye at Haseroth. And they departed from Hazeroth / & pitched in Rithma. And departed frō Rithma and pitched at Rimon Parez. And they departed from Rimon Parez / & pitched in Libna. And they remoued from Libna / & pitched at Rissa And they iurneyed frō Rissa ād pitched in Rehelatha. And they went frō Rehclatha / & pitched in moūt Sapher And they remoued from mount Sapher / and laye in Harada. And they remoued from Harada / and pitched in Makeheleth.

And they remoued from Makeheloth / & laye at Tahath / ād they departed frō Tahath & pitched at Tharath And they remoued frō [Page] Tharath / and pitched in Mithca. And they went from Mithca / and lodged in Hasmona. And they departed from Hasmona / and laye at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth / and pitched amonge the childern of Iaecon. And they remoued from the childern of Iaecon / ād laye at Hor gidgad. And they went from Hor gidgad / and pitched in Iathbatha. And they remoued from Iathbatha / and laye at Abrona. And they departed from Abrona / and laye at Ezeon gaber. And they remoued from Ezeon gaber / and pitched in the wildernesse of Zin / which is Cades.

And they remoued from Cades / & pitched in mount Hor / in y• edge of the londe of Moab. And Aaron the preast went vpp in to mount Hor at the commaūdment of y• Lorde & dyed there / euen in the fortieth yere / after the childern of Israel were come out of y• londe of Egipte / & in the first daye of the fyfte moneth. And Aaron was an hundred ād xxxiij. yere olde when he dyed in mount Hor

And kinge Erad the canaamte which dwelt in y• south of ye lond of canaā / herd y• the childern of Israel were come.

And they departed frō mount Hor / & pitched in Zalmona. And they departed from Zalmona / & pitched in Phimon / & they departed from Phimon / & pitched in Oboth. And they departed frō Oboth / & pitched in Igim [Page] Abarim in the borders of Moab. And they departed from Igim / and pitched in Dibon Gad. And they remoued from Dibon Gad / and laye in Almon Diblathama. And they remoued from Almon Diblathama / ād pitched in y• mountaynes of Abarim before Nibo. And they departed from the mountaynes of Abarim / & pitched in the feldes of Moab fast by Iordane nye to Iericho. And they pitched apon Iordayne / from Beth Haiesmoth vnto y• playne of Sitim in y• feldes of Moab

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the feldes of Moab by Iordayne nye vnto Iericho / sayēge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye are come ouer Iordane in to the londe of Canaan / sethat ye dryue out all the inhabiters of the londe before you / & destroy their Ymaginacions & all their Ymages of Metall / ād plucke downe all their alters bylt on hilles: And possesse ye londe & dwell therein / for I haue geuen you the londe to enioye it. And ye shall deuyde the enheritaunce of the londe by lott amonge youre kynreddes / ād geue to the moo the moare enheritaunce / & to the fewer the lesse enheritaunce. And youre enheritaunce shalbe in y• tryhes of youre fathers / in y• place where euery mans lott falleth.

But and yf ye will not dryne out the inhabiters of y• londe before you / then these which ye let remayne of thē / shalbe thornes in youre [Page] eyes and dartes in youre sydes / & shall vexe you in the lōde wherein ye dwell. More ouer it will come to passe / y• I shall doo vnto you as I thought to doo vnto them.

¶ The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: cōmaūde the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye come in to the londe of Canaan / this is the londe that shall fall vnto youre enheritaunce / the londe of Canaan with all hir costes. And youre south quarter shalbe from the wildernesse of Zin alonge by the coste of Edom / so that youre south quarter shalbe from the syde of the salte see eastwarde / & shall fet a compasse frō the south vpp to Acrabim / & reach to Zinna. And it shall goo out on y• south side of Cades Bernea / & goo out also at Hazar Adar / and goo alōge to Azmon. And shall fet a cōpasse from Azmon vnto the ryuer of Egipte / and shall goo out at the see.

And youre west quarter shall be the greate see / which coste shalbe youre west coste.

And this shalbe youre north quarter: ye shall compasse from the great see vnto moūt Hor. And from mount Hor / ye shall compasse & goo vnto Hemath / and the ende of y• coste shalbe at Zedada / & the coste shall reach out to Ziphron and goo out at Hazor Enan. And this shalbe youre north quarter.

[Page]And ye shall compasse youre east quarter frō Hazar Enan to Sephain And the coste shall goo downe from Sephain to Ribla on the east syde of Ain. And then descende and goo out at the syde of the see of Chinereth eastwarde. And then goo downe alonge by Iordayne / and leue at the salte see. And this shall be youre lōde with all the costes thereof rounde aboute.

And Moses commaunded the childern of Israel sayēge: this is the lōde which ye shall enherett by lotte / and which the Lorde cōmaū ded to geue vnto .ix. trybes and an halfe: for the trybe of the childern of Ruben haue receaued / in the houssholdes of their fathers / and the trybe of the childern of Gad in their fathers houssholdes / & halfe the trybe of Manasse / haue receaued their enheritaunce / that is to were .ij. trybes and an halfe haue receaued their enheritaunce on y• other syde of Iordayne by Iericho castwarde / towarde the sonne rysynge.

And the Lorde spake to Moses sayenge: These are the names of y• men / which shall deuyde you the londe to enherett. Eleazer y• preast / ād Iosua the sonne of Nun. And ye shall take also a lorde of euery trybe to deuyde the londe / whose names are these: In the trybe of Iuda / Caleb y• sonne of Iephune. And in y• trybe of y• childern of Simeon / [...]emuel y• sō ne of Amiud / ād in y• tribe of Bē Iamin / Elidad [Page] the sonne of Cis [...]on. And the in trybe of ye childern of Dan / the lorde Bucki the sonne of Iagli. And amonge the childern of Ioseph: in the trybe of the childern of Manasse / the lorde Hamel the sonne of Ephod. And in the trybe of the childern of Ephraim / ye lorde Cemuel the sonne of Siphtan. And in the trybe of the sonnes of Zabulon / ye lorde Elizaphan the sonne of Parnac. And in the trybe of the childern of Isachar / the lorde Palthiel ye sonne of Asan. And in the trybe of the sonnes of Asser / the lorde Ahihud ye sonne of Selomi. And in the trybe of the childern of Naphtali / the lorde Peda El the sonne of Ammihud. These are they which the Lorde commaūded to deuyde the enheritaūce vnto the childern of Israel / in the londe of Canaan.

¶ The .xxxv. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in y• feldes of Moab by Iordayne Iericho sayenge: commaunde the childern of Israel / that they geue vnto the leuites of the enheritaūce of their possession: cities to dwell in. And ye shall geue also vnto the cities of y• leuites / suburbes rounde aboute them. The cities shalbe for them to dwell in / and y• suburbes for their catell / possession and all maner bestes of theirs.

And the suburbes of the cities which ye shall geue vnto the lemtes / shall reach from the wall of ye citie outwarde / a thousande cubites [Page] rounde aboute. And ye shall measure without the citie / and make the vtmost border of the eastsyde: two thousande cubites / And the vtmost border of the south syde: two thousande cubetes / And the vtmost border of the west syde: two thousande cubetes: and the vtmost border of the north syde: two thousande cubetes also: and the citie shalbe in the myddes. And these shall be the suburbes of their cities.

And amonge the cities which ye shall geue vnto the leuites / there shall be sixe cities of fraundyes which ye shall geue to that intent that he which killeth / maye flye thyder. And to them ye shall adde .xlij. cities mo: so that all the cities which ye shall geue the leuites shalbe .xlviij. with their suburbes.

And of the cities which ye shall geue oute of the possessyons of the childern of Israel / ye shall geue many out of their possessions that haue moche and fewe out of their possessiōs that haue litle: so that euery tribe shall geue of his cities vnto the leuites / acordinge to the enheritaunce which he enhereteth.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye be come ouer Jordayne into the londe of Canaan / ye shall bylde cities whiche shalbe preuyleged townes for you: that he whiche sleeth a man vnwares / maye flyethither. And the cities shalbe to [Page] flee from the executer of bloude / that he whyche kylled dye not / vntill he stonde before the congregacion in indgement. And of these vi. fre cities which ye shall geue .iij. ye shallThe righte vse of senetuaryes. geue on this syde Jordayne and. i [...]j. in y• londe of Canaan. And these sixe fre cities shalbe for the childern of Israel & for the straunger & for him that dwelleth amonge you / y• all thei which kill any persone vnwares / maye fl [...]rhuher.

Yf any man smyte another with a wepō of yerne that he dye / than he is a murtherer / & shall dye for it.

Yf he smyte him with a throwinge stone that he dye therwith / then he shall dye: for he is a murtherer and shalbe slayne therfore.

Yf he smyte him with a handwepon of wodd that he dye therwith / then he shall dye: for he is a murtherer and shalbe slayne the [...]fore.

The iudge of bloude shall [...]ee the murtherer / as sone as he fyndeth him: Yf he [...]h [...]ust him of hate or hourle at him with layenge of wayte that he dye or smyte him with his hande of enuye that he dye / he that smote him shall dye / for he is a murtherer. The iustice of bloude shall slee him as soone as he fyndeth him.

But and yf he pusshed him by chaunce & not of hate or cast at him with any maner of [Page] thynge and nor of layenge of wayte: or cast any maner of stone at him that he dye therewith / and sawe him not: And he cast it apon him and he dyed / but was not his enemyes nether soughte him ony harme: Then the cō gregacion shall iudge betwene the sleer ād the executer of bloude in soche cases. And the congregacion shall delyuer the sleer out of the hande of the iudge of bloude / and shall restore him agayne vnto the fraun [...]esed cytye / whother he was fleed. And he shall byde there vnto the dethe off the hye prcaste whiche was anoynted with holy [...]yle.

But and yf he came without the borders of his preuyleged citie whether he was fled / yf the bloudvenger fynde him without the borders of his fre towne / he shall slee the murtherer and be giltlesse / because he shulde haue bidden in his fre towne vntyll the deth of the hye preaste / and after the deth of the hye preast / he shall returne agayne vnto the londe of his possessyon. And this shalbe an ordinaunce and a lawe vnto you / amonge youre childern after you in all youre habitacions.

Whosoeuer sleeth / shalbe [...]laine at ye mouthe of witnesses. For one witnesse shall not answere agenste one persone to put him to deeth. Moreouer ye shall take none amendes for the lyfe of the murtherer whiche is [Page] worthy to dye: But he shall be putto deeth. Also ye shall take none atonement for him y• is fled to a fre citie / that he shulde come agayne and dwell in the londe before the deeth of the hye preast.

And se that ye polute not the londe which ye are in / for bloude defyleth the londe. And the londe can none other wyse be clensed of y• bloude that is shed therein / but by the bloude of it that shed it. [...]efyle notherfore the londe which ye in habitt / & in the myddes of which I also dwell / for I am y• Lorde which dwell amonge the childern of Israel.

¶ The .xxxvi. Chapter.

ANd the auncyēt heedes of the childern of Gilead the sonne of Machir y• sonne of Manasse of the kynred of y• childern of Joseph / came forth and spake before Moses and the prynces which were aunciēt heedes amōge the childern of Israel & sayed: The Lorde commaunded my lorde to geue y• lande to enherette by lotte to the childern of Israel. And then my lord commaunded in y• name of the Lorde to geue the enheritaunce of Zelaphead oure brother vnto his doughters. Now when any of the sonnes of the trybes of Israel take them to wy [...]es / then shall their enheritaunce be taken from the enheritaunce of oure fathers / and shall be put vnto the enheritaunce of the trybe in which they [Page] are and shalbe taken from the lott of oure enheritaunce. And when the fre yere cometh vnto the childern of Israel / then shall their enheritaunce be put vnto the enheritaunce of the trybe where they are in / and so shall their enheritaunce betaken awaye from the enheritaunce of the trybe of oure fathers.

And Moses commaunded the childern of Israel at the mouth of the Lorde sayenge: the trybe of y• childern of Joseph haue sayed well. This therfore doeth the Lorde commaū de the doughters of Zelaphead sayenge: let them be wy [...]es to whom they thē silfe thynke best / but in the kynred of the trybe of their father shall they marye / that the enheritaunce of the childern of Israel roole not from trybe to trybe. But that the childern of Israel maye abyde / euery man in the enheritaunce of the trybe of his fathers And euery doughter that possesseth any enheritaunce amonge the trybes of the childern of Israel / shalbe wife vnto one of the kynred of the trybe of hir father / that the childern of Israel maye enioy euery man the enheritaunce of his father / & that the enheritaunce goo not from one trybe to another: but that the trybes of the childern of Israel / maye abyde euery man in his awne enheritaunce.

And as the Lorde commaunded Moses euen so dyd the doughters of Zelaphead: Mahela. Thirza / Hagla / Milca and Noa / [Page] [...]d were maried vnto their fathers brothers sonnes / of the kynted of the childern of Manasse the sonne of Joseph: ād so they had their enheritaunce in the trybe of the kynred of their father.

These are the commaundmentes & lawes which the Lorde commaunded thorow Moses / vnto the childern of Israel in the feldes of Moab apon Jordayne nye vnto Jerich [...].

¶ The ende of the .iiij. boke of Moses.

Deuteronomy

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A PROLOGE IN TO THE fyfte boke of Moses, called Deuteronomye.

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THis is a boke worthye to be rede in daye and nyghte and neuer to be oute of handes. For it is the most excellent of all the bokes of Moses It is easye also and light and a very pure gospell that is to wete, a preachinge of fayth and loue: deducinge the loue to God oute of faith, and the loue of a mans neyghboure out of the loue of God. Herin also thou mayst lerne right meditacion or contemplacyon, which is nothing els saue the callynge to mynde and a repeatyng in the hert of the gloriouse ād wonderfull deades of God, and of his terreble handelinge off his enemyes and mercyfull entreating of them that come when he calleth them which thinge this boke doth and almost nothinge els.

In the .iiij. first chaptres he reherseth the benefites of God done vnto thē, to prouoke thē to loue, ād his mightie deades done aboue all naturall power ād beyonde all naturall capacite of faith, that they might beleue God ād trust in him and in his strength. And thyrdlye he reherseth the firce plages of God vppon hys enemyes and on them which thorowe impacientie and vnbele [...]e fell from him: partelye to [Page] tame and abate the appetites of the fleshe whiche alwaye fyght agenst the spirite, and partely to bridle the wilde raginge lustes of thē in whom was no spirite: that though they had no power to do good of loue, yet at the lest waye they shulde absteyne from outwarde euell for feare of wrath and cruell vengeaunce whiche shuld fall vppon them and shortly finde them oute, yf they cast vpp goddes nurter and runne at ryotte beyonde his lawes and ordinaunces. Moreouer he chargeth them to put nought to nor take oughte awaye from goddes wordes, but to be diligent onlye to kepe them in remē braunce and in the harte and to teache theire childern, for feare of forgettinge. And to beware ether of makynge imagerye or of bowinge them selues vnto images sayenge: Ye sar [...]e no image when God spake vnto you, but herde avoyce onlye and that voyce kepe and therunto cleaue, for it is youre liffe and it shall saue you. And finally yf (as the frayltie of al flesh is) they shall haue fallen from God and he haue brought them in to troble, aduersyte, ād cō braunce ād all necessite: yet yf they repent and turne, he promyseth them that God shall remē bre his mercie ād receave thē to grace agayne

In the fifte he repeteth the .x. commaūdmē tes and that they myght se a cause to do them [Page] of loue, he biddeth them remembre that they were bounde in Egipte and how God delyuered them with a mightie hande and a stretchedout arme, to serue him and to kepe his commaundmentes: as Paule sayeth that we are bought with Christes bloude ād therfore are his servauntes ād not oure awne, ād ought to seke his will and honoure onlye ād to loue ād serue one another for his sake.

In the sixte he setteth out the fountayne off all commaundmentes: that is, that they beleue how that there is but one God that doeth all, and therfore ought onlye to be loued with all the herto, all the soule and all the myghte. For loue only is the fulfillinge of the commaundementes, as Paule also sayeth vnto, the Romaynes and Galathians likewise. He warneth thē also that they forgett not the commaundmentes, but teach thē their childern ād to shew the ir childern also how God delyuered thē out of the bondage of the Egiptiās to serue him and his commaundmētes, that the childern myght se a cause to worke of loue, likewise.

The seuēth is all together of faith: he remoueth all occasiōs that might withdrawe them from the fayth, and pulleth them also from all confidence in them selues, and sturreth thē vp to trust in god boldlye and onlye.

[Page]Of the eyght chaptre thou seyst how that the cause of all temptation is, that a mā might so his awne herte. For whē I am brought in to that extremite that I must ether suffre or forsake god, then I shall feale how moch I beleue and trust in him, and how moch I loue him. In like maner, yf my brother do me euel for my good, then yf I loue him when there is no cause in him, I se that my loue was of god, ād euē so yf I then hate him, I feale and peaceave that my loue was but wordly, And finallye he sturreth thē to the fayth ād loue of god, ād dryveth them frō all confidence of their awne selves.

In the nynth also he moueth thē vnto faith and to put their trust in god, and draweth thē from confidence of them selues by rehearsinge all the wekednesse which they had wrought from the first daye he knew them vnto that same daye. And in the end he repeteth how he coniured god in horeb ād ouer came him with prayer, where thou mayest lerne the right maner to praye.

In the tenth he rekeneth vpp the pith of all lawes and the kepinge of the lawe in the harte: which is to feare god loue him ād serue him with all their harte soule and mighte ād kepe his commaundmentes of loue. And he sheweth a reason why they, shuld that doo: euen [Page] because god is lord of heuen and erth ād hath also done all for them of his awne goodnesse without their deservinge. And then out of the loue vnto god he bringeth the love vnto a mans neyghboure sayenge: god is lorde aboue all lordes and loveth all his seruauntes indiffe rently, as well the poore and feble and the straunger, as the rich and mightye, ād therfore wil that we loue the poore and the straunger. And he addeth a cause, for ye were straungers and god deliuered you and hath brought you vnto a londe where ye be at home. Loue the straunger therfore for his sake.

In the .xi. he exhorteth them to loue and feare god, and reherseth the terrible dedes off god vppon his enemies, and on them that rebelled agenst him. And he testifyeth vnto thē both what will folow yf they loue and feare god, and whate also yf they despise him ād breake his commaundment.

In the .xij. he cōmaundeth to put out of the waye all that might be an occasion to hurte the fayth and forbiddeth to do ought after their awne mindes, or to altre the worde of god.

In the .xiij. he forbiddeth to herken vnto ought saue vnto gods worde: no though he which coūseleth cotrarye shuld come with miracles, as Paule doth vnto the Galathians.

[Page]In the. xiiij the beestes are forbiddē, partely for the vnclennesse of thē, ād partely to cause hate betwene the hethē ād thē, that they haue no cōuersatiō to gether, in that one abhorreth whatt the other eateth. Vnto this .xv. chaptre all pertayne vnto faith and loue cheflye. And in this .xv. he beginneth to entreate moare speciallye of thinges pertayninge vnto the comenwelth ād equite ād exhorteth vnto the loue of a mans neyghboure. And in the .xvi. amonge other he forgetteth not the same. And in the xvij. he ent [...]eateth of right and equite chefly, in so moche that when he loketh vnto faithe and vnto the, punyshment of ydolatres, he yet endeth in a lawe of loue and equite: forbiddinge to comdemne any man vnder lesse them twoo witnesses at the lest and commaundeth to bringe the trespacers vnto the open gate of the citye where all men goo in and out, that all men might heare the cause and se that he had but right. But the pope hath founde a better waye, even to apposse him with out any accusare ād that secretlye, that no man knowe whether he haue right or no, other hate his articles or answere: for feare lest the people shuld serch whether it [...]re so or no.

In the. xviij he forbiddeth all false and de [...]elish crastes that hurte true fayth. Moreouer [Page] because the people coude not heare the voyce of the lawe spokē to thē in fire, he promiseth thē another prophete to brīge thē better tydinges which was spokē of christ oure sauiour.

The .xix. ād so forth vnto the ende of the xxvij. is almost al together of love vnto oure neygboures ād of lawes of equite ād honestye with now ād then a respecte vnto fayth.

The .xxviij. is a terreble chaptre ād to be trē bled at: A christē mans harte might wel bleed for sorow at the readinge of it, for feare of the wrath that is like to come vpō us accordinge vnto all the curses which thou there readest. For acordinge vnto these curses hath god delt with all nacions, after they were fallē in to the abhominacions of blindnesse.

The .xxix. is like terreble with a godly lessō in the ende that we shuld leue serchīge of goddes secrettes ād geue diligēce to walke accordinge to that he hath opened vnto us. For the kepīge of the cōmaūdmētes of god teacheth wisdome as thou mayeste se in the same chapter, where Moses sayeth, kepe the cōmaūdmē tes, that ye maye vnderstod whate ye ought to do. But to serch goddes secretes blīdeth a mā as it is wel proved by the swarmes of oure sophisters, whose wise bokes are now whē we loke ī the scripture, foūde but ful of folishnesse.

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The first Chapter of Deuteronomye

THese be the wordes which Moses spake vnto all Israel, on the other syde Iordayne in the wildernesse and in the feldes by the red see, betwene Pharā ād Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Disahab .xij. dayes iurney from Horeb vnto Cades bernea, by the waye that leadeth vnto mount Seir. And it fortuned the first daye of the .xi. moneth in the fortieth yere, that Moses spake vnto the childern of Israel acordinge vnto all that the Lorde had geuen him in commaundment vnto them, after that he had smote Sihon the kynge of the Amorites which dwelt in Hesbon, and Og kinge of Basan which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei.

On the other syde Iordayne in the londe of Moab, Moses begane to declare this lawe saynge: the Lorde oure God spake vnto us in Horeb sayenge: Ye haue dwelt longe ynough in this mount: departe therfore and take youre iurney and goo vnto the hilles of the Amorites and vnto all places nye there vnto: both feldes, hilles and dales: and vnto the south and vnto the sees syde in the londe of Canaan, and vnto libanon: euen vnto the greate ryuer Euphrates. [Page] Beholde, I haue set the londe before you: goo in therfore and possesse the londe which the Lord sware vnto youre fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to geue vnto them and their seed after them.

And I sayde vnto yov the same season: I am not able to bere you myselfe alone. For the Lorde youre God hath multiplyed you: so that ye are this daye as the starres of heauen in numbre (the Lorde god of youre fathers make you a thousande tymes so many moo as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promysed you) how (sayde I) can I myselfe alone, beare the combraunce, charge and stryste that is amonge you: brynge therfore men of wisdome and of vnderstondinge and expert knowne amonge youre trybes, that I maye make them ruelars ouer you.

And ye answered me and sayed: that which thou hast spoken is good to be done. And then I toke the heedes of youre trybes, men of wysdome and that were expert, and made them ruelers ouer you: captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundredes ouer fyftye and ouer ten, and officers amonge youre trybes.

And I charged youre Iudges the same tymeIudges. sayenge: heare youre brethern and iudge [Page] righteously betwene euery man and his brother and the straunges that is with him. Se that ye knowe no man in Iudgement: but heare the small as well as the greate and be afrayed of no man, for the lawe is Gods. And the cause that is to harde for you, brynge vnto me and I will heare it. And I commaunded you the same season, all the thinges which ye shul de doo.

And then we departed from Horeb and walked thorow all that greate and terreble wildernesse as ye haue sene alonge by the waye that ledeth vnto the hilles of the Amorites, as the Lorde oure God commaunded us, and came to Cades bernea. And there I sayed vnto you: Ye are come vnto the hilles of the Amorites, which the Lorde oure God doth geue vnto us. Beholde the Lorde thi God hath sett the londe before the, goo vpp and conquere it, as the Lorde God of thy fathers sayeth vnto the: feare not, nether be discoraged.

And then ye came vnto me euery one and sayed: Let us sende men before us, to serche us out the londe and to brynge us worde agayne, both what waye we shall goo vpp by, and vnto what cities we shall come. And the sayenge pleassed me well [Page] and I toke .xij. men of you, of euery trybe one. And they departed and went vp in to the hye contre and came vnto the ryuer Escoll, and serched it out, and toke of the frute of the londe in their hondes and brought it doune vnto us and brought us worde agayne and sayde: it is a good lande which the Lorde oure God doeth geue us.

Notwithstondinge ye wolde not consente to goo vpp, but were dishobedient vnto the mouth of the Lorde youre God, ād murmured in youre tentes and sayde: because the Lorde hateth us, therfore he hath brought us out of the londe of Egipte, to delyuer us in to the handes of the Amorites and to destroye us. How shall we goo vpp? Oure brethern haue discoraged oure hartes sayenge: the people is greater and taller than we, ād the cities are greatte and walked euen vpp to heauen, and moreouer we haue sene the sonnes of the Enakimes there.

And I sayed vnto you: dreade not nor be afrayed of thē: The Lorde youre God which goeth before you, he shall fyghte for you, acordynge to all that he dyd vnto you in Egipte before youre eies ād in the wildernesse: as thou hast sene how that the Lorde thy God bare the as a man shulde beare his sonne, thorow [Page] out all the waye which ye haue gone, vntill ye came vnto this place. And yet for all this sayenge ye dyd not beleue the Lorde youre God which goeth the waye before you, to serche you out a place to pitche youre tentes in, in fyre by nyght, that ye myghte se what waye to go and in a cloude by daye.

And the Lorde herde the voyce of youre wordes and was wroth and swore sayenge, there shall not one of these men of this frowarde generacion se that good londe which I sware to geue vnto youre fathers, saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune, he shall se it, and to him I will geue the londe which he hath walked in ād to his childern, because he hath contynually folowed the Lorde. Likewise the Lorde was angrye with me for youre sakes sayenge: thou also shalt not go in thiter. But Iosua the sōne of Nun which stondeth before the, he shall go in thither. Bolde him therfore for he shall deuyde it vnto Israel. Moreouer youre childern which ye sayed shulde be a praye, and youre sonnes which knowe nether good nor bad this daye, they shall goo in thither ād vnto them I will geue it, ād they shall enioye it. But as for you, turne backe and take youre iurneye in to the wildernesse: euen the waye to the reed see.

Than ye answered and sayed vnto me: We [Page] haue synned agenst the Lorde: we will goo vp and fyghte, acordinge to all that the Lorde oure God cōmaunded us. And whē ye had gyrde on euery man his wepons of warre and were ready to goo vp in to the hilles, the Lorde sayed vnto me: saye vnto thē, se that ye go not vp and that ye fighte not, for I am not amōge you lest ye be plaged before youre enemies. *. And whē I told you ye wold not heare: butHere thou se [...]st the verey image of the papistes. For thei like wise where Gods worde is, there they beleue not ād where it is not there they be bold. disobeyed the mouth of the Lorde, and went presumptously vp in to the hilles.

Thē the Amorites which dwelt in those hilles, came out agenst you and chased you as bees doo, and hewed you in Seir, euē vnto Horma. And ye came agayne and wepte before the Lorde: but the Lorde wolde not heare youre voyce nor geue you audience. And so ye abode in Cades alōge season, acordinge vnto the tyme that ye there dwelt.

The .ij. Chapter.

THen we turned and toke oure iurney in to the wildernesse, euen the waye to the red see as the Lord cōmaunded me. And we compassed the mountayns of Seir a lōge tyme Thē the Lorde spake vnto me saienge: Ye haue cōpassed this mountayns lōge ynough, turne you northwarde. And warne the people sayenge: [Page] Ye shall goo thorow the costes of youre brethern the childern of Esau which dwell in Seir, and they shalbe afrayed of you: But take good hede vnto youreselues that ye prouoke thē not, for I wil not geue you of their lōde, no not so moch as a fo [...]e breadeth: because I haue geuē mount Seir vnto Esau to possesse. Ye shall bye meate of thē for money to [...] and ye shall bye water of thē for money to dr [...]k [...]. For the Lorde thy God hath blessed the in all the workes of thine hāde, ād knew the as thou wē test thorow this greate wildernesse. Moreouer the Lorde thi God hath bene with the this. xl yeres, so that thou hast lacked nothinge.

And whē we were departed from oure brethern the childern of Esau which dwelt in Seir by the felde waye from Elath ād Ezion Gaber, we turned ād went the waye to the wildernesse of Moab. Thē the Lorde sayed vnto me se that thou vexe not the Moabites, nether prouoke thē to batayle for I will not geue the of their lōde to possesse: because I haue geuē Ar vnto the childern of loth to possesse. The Emimes dwelt there in in tymes past, a people greate, many ād tal, as the Enakimes: which also were takē for geantes as the Enakimes: And the Moabites called thē Emymes. In like maner the Horimes dwelt in Seir before time which [Page] the childern of Esau cast out, ād destroyed thē before them and dwelt there in their stede: as Israel dyd in the londe of his possessiō which the Lorde gaue them

Now ryse vpp (sayed I) ād get you ouer the ryuer Zared: ād we went ouer the ryuer Zared. The space in which we came from Cades bernea vntill we were come ouer the ryuer Zared was .xxxviij. yeres: vntill all the generacion of the men of warre were wasted out of the host as the Lorde sware vnto thē. For in dede the hande of the Lorde was agēst thē, to destroye them out of the host, till they were consumed.

And as soone as all the men of warre were consumed and deed from amonge the people, then the Lorde spake vnto me sayenge. Thou shalt goo thorow Ar the coste of Moab this daye, and shalt come nye vnto the childern of Ammon: se that thou vexe them not, nor yet prouoke them. For I will not geue the of the londe of the childern of Ammon to possesse, because I haue geuen it vnto the childern of loth to possesse. That also was taken for a londe of geauntes and geauntes dwelt therim in olde tyme, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumyms. A people that was great, many and taule, as the Enakyms. But the [Page] Lorde destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they cast them out and they dwelt there ī their steade: as he dyd for the childern of Esau which dwell in Seir: euē as he destroyed the horyms before them, ād they cast them out and dwell in their steade vnto this daye. And the Avims which dwelt in Hazarim euē vnto Aza, the Caphthoryms which came out of Caphthor destroyed them and dwelt in the ir rowmes.

Ryse vp, take youre yourney and goo ouer the ryuer Arnon. Beholde, I haue geuen in to thy hād Sihō the Amorite kynge of Hesbō, ād his londe. Goo to and conquere and prouoke hīto batayle. This daye I will begynne to send the feare and dreade of the vppon all nacions that are vnder al portes of heauen: so that whē they heare speake of the, they shall tremble and quake for feare of the.

Then I sent messengers out of the wildernesse of kedemoth vnto Syhon kynge of Hesbon, with wordes of peace saynge: Let me goo thorow thy londe. I will goo allweyes alonge by the hye waye and will nether turne vnto the righte hande nor to the left. Sell me meate for money for to eate, and geue me drinke for money for to drynke: I will goo thorowe by fote only (as the childern of Esau dyd vnto me whiche [Page] dwell in Seir and the Moabites whiche dwell in Ar) vntyll I be come ouer Iordayne, in to the londe which the Lorde oure God geueth vs.

But Sihon the kinge of Hesbon wolde not let vs passe by him, for the Lord thy God had hardened his sprite and made his herte tough because he wold delyuer him in to thy hondes as it is come to passe this daye.

And the Lorde sayed vnto me: beholde, I haue begonne to set Sihon and his londe before the: goo to and conquere, that thou mayst possesse his londe. Then both Sihon and all his people came out agenst vs vnto batayle at Iahab. And the Lorde set him before vs, and we smote hym and his sonnes and all hys people.

And we toke all his cities the same season, and destroyed all the cities with men, wemen, and childern ād let nothinge remayne, saue the catell only we caught vnto oure selues and the spoyle of the cities which we toke, from Aroer vppon the brynke off the riuer off Arnon, and the citie in the ryuer, vnto Gilead: there was not one citye to stronge for vs. The Lorde oure God delyuered all vnto vs: only vnto the londe of the childern of Ammon ye came not, nor vnto all the coste of the riuer labockner [Page] vnto the cities in the mountaynes, nor vnto what soeuer the Lorde oure God forba de vs.

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THen we turned and went vpp the waye to Basan. And Og the kinge of Basan came out agenst vs. both he and all his people to batayle at Edrey. And the Lorde sayed vnto me: feare him not, for I haue delyuered him and all his people ād his lande in to thy hande ād thou shalt deale with hī as thou dealest with Sihon kynge of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And so the Lorde oure God delyuered in to oure handes, Og also the kinge off Basan and al his folke, And we smote him vntyll noughte was left him.

And we toke all his cities the same ceason (for there was not a citie whiche we toke not from them) euen .iij. score cities, all the region of Argob, the kyngdome of Og in Basan. All these cities were made stronge with hye walles, gates and barres, besyde vnwalled townes a greate maynye. And we vtterly destroyed them, as we played with Sihon kynge off Hesbon: bringing to nought al the cities with men, wemen and childern. But all the catell and the spoyle of the cities, we caughte for [Page] oure selues.

And thus we toke the same ceason, the lō de out of the hande of two kynges of the Amorites on the other syde Iordayne, from the ryuer of Arnon vnto mount Hermon (which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion, but the Amorites call it Senyr) all the cities in the playne ād all Gilead and all Basan vnto Salcha and Edrei, cities of the kingdome of Og in Basan. For only Og kynge of Basan remayned of the remnaūt of the geauntes: beholde, his yernen bed is yet at Rabath amonge the childern off Ammō .ix. cubettes longe ād, iiij. cubetes brode, of the cubettes of a man.

And when we had conquered this londe the same tyme, I gaue from Aroer which is apon the riuer of Arnon, and halfe mount Gile ad and the cities thereof vnto the Rubenites, and Gadites. And the rest of Gilead and all Basan the kingdome of Og, I gaue vnto the halfe trybe of Manasse: all the regiō of Argob with all Basan was called the londe of geauntes. Iair the sonne of Manasse toke all the region of Argob vnto the costes of Gesuri ād Ma [...]chati, and called the townes of Basan after his owne name: the townes of Iair vnto thys daye. And I gaue half Gilead vnto Machir. And vnto Ruben ād Gad, I gaue from Gilead [Page] vnto the ryuer of Arnon ād half the valey ād the coste, euē vnto the ryuer Iabock which is the border of the childern of Ammon, and the feldes ād Iordayne with the coste, from Cenereth even vnto the see in the felde which is the salt see vnder the sprynges off Pisga eastwarde.

And I commaunded you the same tyme (ye Ruben ād Gad) sayeng: the Lorde your God hath geuen you this londe to enioye it: se that ye go harnessed before youre brethern the childern of Israel, all that are mē of warre amonge you. Youre wyues only youre childern ād youre catell (for I wote that ye haue moch catell) shall abyde in youre cities which I haue geuen you, vntyll the Lorde haue geuē rest vnto your brethern as well as vnto you, and vntyll they also haue conquered the londe which the Lorde youre God hath geuen them beyonde lordayne: and then returne agayne euery mā vnto his possession which I haue geuē you.

And I warned Iosua the same tyme sayeng thyne eyes haue sene all that the Lorde youre God hath done vnto these two kynges, euēso the Lorde will doo vnto all kyngdomes whither thou goest. Feare them not, for the Lorde youre God he it is that fighteth for you.

And I besoughte the Lorde the same tyme [Page] sayenge: O lorde Iehoua, thou hast begonne to shewe thy servaunte thy greatnesse and thy mightie hande for there is no God in heauen nor in erth that can do after thy workes and after thy power: let me goo ouer ād se the good londe that is beyonde Iordayne, that goodly hye contre and Libanon. But the Lorde was angrie with me for youre sakes and wolde not heare me, but sayed vnto me, be content, and speake henceforth no moare vnto me of this matter, Get the vp in to the toppe of Pisga ād lifte vpp thine eyes west, north, south ād easte, ād beholde it with thyne eyes for thou shalt not goo ouer this Iordayne. Moreouer, charge Iosua and corage him and bolde him. For he shall go ouer before his people, and he shall deuyde the londe which thou shalt se vnto them. And so we abode in the valaye besyde Beth Peor.

¶ The .iiij. Chapter.

ANd now herken Israel vnto the ordinaunces ād lawes which I teache you▪ for to doo them, that ye maye lyue ād goo ād conquereNo▪ n [...] yet corrupt it with false glos [...]s to cō [...]me Aristotle: but rebuke Aristotles false lerninge therewith. the londe which the Lorde God of youre fathers geueth you. Ye shall put nothinge vnto the worde which I commaunde you nether doo ought there from, that ye maye kepe [Page] the commaundmentes off the Lorde youre God which I commaunde you. Youre eyes haue sene what the Lorde dyd vnto Baal Peor: for al the men that folowed Baal Peor, the Lorde youre God hath destroyed f [...]om amō ge you: But ye that claue vnto the Lorde youre God, are alyue euery one of you this daye. Beholde, I haue taught you ordinaunces and lawes, soche as the Lorde my God commaū ded me, that ye shulde do euē so in the londe whether ye goo to possesse it

Kepe them therfore and doo them, for that is youre wisdome and vnderstandynge in the syghte of the nacyons: whiche when they haue herde all these ordinaunces, shall saye: O what a wyse and vnderstondynge people is this greate nacion. For what nacyon is so greate that hath Goddes so nye vnto hym: as the Lorde oure God is nye vnto vs, in all thinges, when we call vnto hym? Yee, and what nacyon is so greate that hath ordinaunces and lawes so ryghtuousse, as all thys lawe whiche I sett before you this daye.

Take hede to thy selfe therfore only ād kepe thy soule diligently, that thou forgett not the thinges which thyne eyes haue sene and that they departe not out of thyne harte, all theTeach youre childern. dayes of thine life: but teach them thy sonnes, [Page] ād thy sonnes sonnes. The daye that I stode before the Lorde youre god in Horeb, whē he sayed vnto me, gather me the people together, that I maye make them heare my wordes that they maye lerne to f [...]re me as longe as thei lyue vppon the erth and that they maye teache their childern: ye came ād stode also vnder the hyll ād the hyll burnt with fire: euen vnto the myddes of heauē, ād there was darcknesse, clowdes ād myst. And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the fire ād ye herde the voyce of theThe voice is all to gether: vnto that image ought men [...]o bow [...] there hertes. wordes: But sawe no ymage, saue herde a voyce only,

And he declared vnto you his couenaunt, which he commaunded you to doo, euen▪ x. verses and wrote them in two tables of stone. And the Lorde commaunded me the same season to teache you ordynaunces and lawes, for to doo them in the londe whether ye goo to possesse it

Take hede vnto youre selues diligently as pertayninge vnto youre soules, for ye sawe no maner of ymage the daye when the Lorde spake vnto you in Horeb out of the fire: lest ye marre youre selues and make you grauen ymages after whatsoeuer likenesse it be: whether after the likenesse of mā or womā or any mane beest that is on the erth or of any maner f [...]th [...] [Page] red foule that fleth in the ayre, or of any maner worme that crepeth on the erth or of any maner fysh that is in the water beneth the erth: Ye and leste thou ly [...]e vpp thyne eyes vnto heuen, and when thou seyst the sonne and the mone and the starres and what soeuer is contayned in heauen, shuldest be disceaued and shuldest bow thi selfe vnto them ād s [...]rue the thinges which the Lorde thy God hath distributed vnto all nacions that are vnder al quarters of heauen.

For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye. Forthermoare, the Lorde was angrye with me for youre sakes and sware, that I shulde not goo ouer Iordane and that I shulde not goo vnto that good londe, which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enherytaunce. For I must dye in this londe, and shall not goo ouer Iordane: But ye shall goo ouer and conquere that good londe

Take hede vnto youre selues therfore, that ye forgett not the appoyntment of the Lorde youre God which he made with you, and that ye make you no grauen ymage of what soeuer it be that the Lorde thi God hath forbidden [Page] the. For the Lorde thi God is a cōsuminge fyre, and a gelouse God.

Yf after thou hast gotten childern and childerns childern and hast dwelt longe in the londe, ye shall marre youre selues and make grauen ymages after the liknesse of what so euer it be, and shall worke wekednesse in the syghte of the Lorde thy God, to prouoke him. I call heauen and erth to recorde vnto you this daye, that ye shall shortely peressh from of the londe whether ye goo ouer Iordayne to possesse it: Ye shall not prolonge youre dayes therin, but shall shortly be destroyed. And the Lorde shall scater you amonge nacions, and ye shalbe lefte few in numbre amonge the people whother the Lorde shall brynge you: and there ye shall serue goddes which are the workes of mans hande, wod and stone which nether se nor heare nor eate nor smell.

Neuer the later ye shall seke the Lorde youre God euen there, and shalt fynde him yf thou seke him with all thine herte and with all thy soule. In thi tribulacion and when all these thinges are come apon the, euen in the later dayes, thou shalt turne vnto the Lorde thy God, and shalt herken vn [Page] to his voyce. For the Lorde thy God is a pitiefull God: he will not forsake the nether destroye the, nor forgett the appoyntmēt made with thy fathers which he sware vnto them.

For axe I praye the of the dayes that are past which were before the, sence the daye that God created man vppon the erth and from the one syde of heauen vnto the other whether any thinge hath bene lyke vnto this greate thinge or whether any soche thinge hath bene herde as it is, that a nacion hath herde the voyce of God speakinge out of fyre as thou hast herde, and yet lyued? ether whether God assayed to goo and take him a people from amonge nacions, thorow temptacions and sygnes and wonders and thorow warre and with a mightie hande and a stretched out arme and wyth myghtye terreble sightes, acordynge vnto all that the Lorde youre God dyd vnto you in Egipte before youre eyes.

Vnto the it was shewed, that thou myghtest knowe, how that the Lorde he is God and that there is none but he.

Out of heauen he made the heare his voyce to nurter the▪ and vppon erth he shewed [Page] the his greate fyre, and thou hardest his wordes out of the fyre. And because he loued thy fathers, therfore he chose their seed after them and broughte the out with his presence and with his myghtye power of Egipte: to thrust out nations greater ād myghtyer then thou before the, to bringe the in and to geue the their londe to enheritaunce: as it is come to passe this daye.

Vnderstonde therfore this daye and turne it to thine herte, that the Lorde he is God in heauen aboue and vppon the erth beneth there is no moo: kepe therfore his ordynaunces, and his commaundmentes which I commaun de the this daye, that it maye goo well with the and with thi childern after the and that thou mayst prolonge thy dayes vppon the erth which the Lorde thi God geueth the for euer.

Then Moses seuered .iij. cities on the other syde Iordane towarde the sonne rysynge, that he shulde fle thiter which had kylled his neygh boure vnwares and hated him not in tyme past and therfore shulde fle vnto one of the same cities and lyue: Bezer in the wildernesse euen in the playne contre amonge the Rubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead amonge the Gaddites and Solan in Basan amonge the Manassites.

[Page]This is the lawe which Moses set before the children of Israel, and these are the witnesse, ordinaunces and statutes which Moses tolde the childern of Israel after they came out of Egipte, on the other syde Iordayne in the valey besyde Beth Peor in the londe of Sihō kinge of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon, whom Moses and the childern of Israel smote after they were come out of Egipte, ād conquered his lande and the lande of Og kinge of Basan .ij. kynges of the Amorites on the other syde Iordayne towarde the sonne rysynge: from Aroar vppon the bancke of the ryuer Arnon, vnto mount Sion which is called Hermon ād all the feldes on the other sydel or dayne eastwarde: euen vnto the see in the felde vnder the springes of Pisga.

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ANd Moses called vnto all Israell and sayed vnto them: Heare Israel the ordynaunces and lawes which I speke in thyne eares this daye, and lerne them and take hede that ye doo them. The Loode oure God made an appoyntment with us in Horeb. The Lorde made not this bonde with oure fathers, but with us: we are they, which are [Page] al heare a lyue this daye. The Lord talked with you face to face in the moūt out of the fyre. And I stode betwene the Lorde and you the same tyme, to shewe you the sayenge of the Lorde. For ye were afrayed of the fyre and therfore went not vpp in to the mount and he sayed.

I am the Lorde thy God which brought the out of the lōde of Egipte the housse of bō dage. Thou shalt haue therfore none other goddes in my presence.

Thou shalt make the no grauen Image off any maner lykenesse that is in heauen aboue,Image or in the erth beneth, or in the water beneth the erth. Thou shalt nether bowe thy self vnto them nor serue them, for I the Lorde thy God. am a gelouse God, visettinge the wikednesse of the fathers vppon the childern, euen in the thyrde and the fourth generacion, amonge them that hate me: and shew mercye apon thousandes amonge them that loue me and kepe my commaundmentes.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse, that taketh his name in vayne.

Kepe the Sabbath daye that thou sanctifi [...] [Page] it, as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded the. Syxe dayes thou shalt laboure and doo all that thou hast to doo, but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God: thou shalt doo no maner worke, nether thou nor thy sonne nor thy doughter nor thy seruaunte nor thy mayde nor thine oxe nor thyne asse nor any of thi catell nor the straunger that is within thy cytye, that thy seruaunte and thy mayde maye rest as well as thou * And remembre that thouGod sheweth a cause why we oughte to kepe his commaundmentes the pope doth not. wast a seruaunte in the londe of Egypte and how that the Lorde God, brought the out thence with a myghtye hande and a stretched out arme. For which cause the Lorde thy God commaundeth the to kepe the Sabbath daye.

Honoure thi father and thi mother, as the Lord thi God hath cōmaūded the: that thou mayst prolonge thi dayes, and that it maye go well with the on the londe, which the Lorde thi God geueth the.

Thou shalt not slee.

Thou shalt not breake wedlocke.

Thou shalt not steale.

Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agenst thy neghboure,

Thou shalt not luste after thi neghbours [Page] wife: thou shat not couet thi neyghbours housse, felde, seruaunte, mayde, oxe, asse nor ought that is thi neghbours.

These wordes the Lorde spake vnto al youre multitude in the mount out of the fyre, cloude and darcknesse, with a loude voyce and added nomoare there to, and wrote them in .ij. tables of stone and delyuered them vnto me.

But as soone as ye herde the voyce out off the darcknesse and sawe the hill burne with fyre, ye came vnto me all the heedes of youre tribes and youre elders: and ye sayed: beholde, the Lorde oure God hath shewed us his glorye and his greatnesse, and we haue herde his voyce out of the fyre, and we haue sene this daye that God maye talke with a man and he yet lyue. And now wherfore shulde we dye that this greate fyre shulde consume us: Yf we shulde heare the voyce of the Lorde oure God any moare, we shulde dye. For what is any flesh that he shulde heare the voyce of the lyuynge God speakynge out of the fyre as we haue done and shulde yet lyue: Goo thou ād heare all that the Lorde oure God sayeth, and tell thou vnto us all that the Lorde oure God sayeth vnto the, and we will heare it and doo it.

[Page]And the Lorde herde the voyce of youre wordes when ye spake vnto me, and he sayed vnto me: I haue herde the voyce of the wordes of this people which they haue spokē vnto the they haue well sayed all that they haue sayed. Oh that they had soche an herte with them to feare me ād kepe all my commaundmentes alwaye, that it myghte goo well with them and with their childern for euer. Goo ād saye vnto them: gett you in to youre tentes agayne, but stonde thou here before me and I will tell the all the commaundmentes, ordinaunces ād lawes which thou shalt teache thē, that they may doo them in the londe whiche I geue them to possesse.

Take hede therfore that ye do as the Lordewalke strayght. youre God hath commaunded you, and turne not asyde: ether to the righte hande or to the lefte: but walke in all the wayes which the Lorde youre God hath cōmaunded you, that ye maye lyve and that it maye goo well with you ād that ye maye prolonge youre dayes in the lond whiche ye shall possesse.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

THese are the commaundmentes, ordinaunces and lawes which the Lorde youre God commaunded to teach you, that ye might doo them in the londe whother ye goo to possesse [Page] it: that thou mightest feare the Lorde thy God, to kepe all his ordinaunces and his commaundmentes which I commaunde the, both thou and thy sonne and thy sonnes sonne all dayes off thy lyfe, that thy dayes maye be prolonged. Heare therfore Israel and take hede that thou doo thereafter, that it maye goo well with the and that ye maye encrease myghtely: euē as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promysed the, a lōde that floweth with mylk ād hony

Heare Israel, the Lorde thy God is Lorde only and thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thyne harte, with all thy soule and withIt is heresy with vs for a laye [...]ā to lo [...]e of gods [...] orde or to reade it. all thy myght. And these wordes which I commaunde the this daye, shalbe in thine herte ād thou shalt whett them on thy childern, and shalt talke of them when thou art at home in thyne housse and as thou walkest by the waye, ād when thou lyest doune and when thou rysest vpp: and thou shalt bynde them for a sygne vppon thyne hande. And they shalbe papers off remembraunce betwene thyne eyes, and shalt write them vppon the postes of thy housse ād vppon thy gates.

And when the Lorde thy God hath borught the in to the lond which he sware vnto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to geue the with greate and goodly cities which thou byldest [Page] not, and housses f [...]l of all maner goodes which thou filledest not, and welles dygged which thou dyggedest not, ād vynes and olyue trees which thou plantedest not, ād whē thou hast eaten, and art full: Then beware lest thou forget the Lorde which broughte the out off the lande of Egipte the housse of bondage. But feare the Lorde thy God and serue hym, and swere by his name, and se that ye walke not after straunge goddes of the Goddes off the nacyons whiche are aboute you. For the Lorde thy God is a gelouse God among you lest the wrath of the Lorde thy God waxe hotte vppon the and destroye the from the erth.

Ye shall not tempte the Lorde youre God as ye dyd at Masa. But se that ye kepe the commaundmentes of the Lorde youre God, hisRight in god d [...]s sight is that he commaundeth witnesses and his ordinaunces which he hath commaunded the, and se thou doo that which is right and good in the syghte of the Lorde: that thou mayst prospere and that thou mayst goo ād cōquere that good lāde which the Lordesware vnto thy fathers, and that the Lorde maye cast out all thine enemies before the as he hath sayed.

When thy sonne axeth the in tyme to comeTeach youre childern. sayenge: What meaneth the witnesses, ordinaunces [Page] and lawes which the Lorde oure God hath commaunded you? Then thou shalt saye vnto thy sonne: We were bondmen vnto Pharao in Egipte, but the Lorde brought vs out of Egipte with a mightie hande. And the Lorde shewed signes and wondres both greate ād evell vppon Egipte, Pharao and vppon all his housholde, before oure eyes and broughte vs from thence: to brynge vs in ād to geue vs the londe which he sware vnto oure fathers. And therfore cōmaunded vs to do all these ordinaunces ād for to feare the Lord oure God, for oure welth alwayes and that he might saue vs, as it is come to passe this daye. Moreouer itThe outwarde deade is rightuousnesse vnto the avoid [...]nge of punishmēt, threteninges ād curses ād [...]o opt [...] [...]e temporall blessiges: but vnto the lif [...] to come thou must haue the rightuousnesse of faith ād there by receau [...] forgeue [...]esse of [...]nnes ād promise of [...] ā [...] [...] to worke of [...]o [...]. shalbe rightuousnes vnto vs before the Lorde oure God, yf we take hede to kepe all these cō maundmētes as he hath commaunded vs,

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

WHē the Lorde thy God hath brought the in to the lond whither thou goest to possesse it, and hath cast out manye nacions before the: the Hethites, the Girgosites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pher [...]sites, the Heuites and the Iebusites: vij. nacions moo in numbre ād mightier than thou: ād whē the Lorde thy God hath sett them before the that thou shuldest smyte them se that thou vtterly destroye them and make no couenaunt [Page] with them nor haue compassion on them. Also thou shalt make no mariages with them, nether geue thy doughter vnto his sonne nor take his doughter vnto thy sonne. For they will make youre sonnes departe frome and serue straunge Goddes, and then will the wrath off the Lorde waxe whote vppon you ād destroye you shortely.

But thus ye shall deale with them: ouerthrowe their alters, breake doune their pilers, cut doune their groves ād burne their ymages with fyre. For thou art an holy nacion vnto the Lorde thy God the Lorde thy God hath chosen the to be a seuerall people vnto himsilf of all nacions that are vppon the erth. It was notGods aw [...] goodnesse ād [...]is awne trueth causeth h [...] to worke. because of the multitude of you aboue all nacions, that the Lorde had lust vnto you and chose you. For ye were fewest of all nacions: But because the Lorde loued you and because he wolde kepe the othe which he had sworne vnto youre fathers, therfore he brought you out of Egipte with a mightie hande ād delyuered you out of the housse of bondage: euē frō the hande of Pharao kinge of Egipte.

Vnderstonde therfore, that the Lorde thy God he is God and that a true God, which kepeth poyntment and mercy vnto them that loue him and kepe his commaundmentes, euen [Page] thorowe out a thousande generacions and rewardethBefore his [...]ace [...]n his presēce, whi [...]e he loketh on. them that hate him before his face so that he bringeth them to noughte, and wil not def [...]erre the tyme vnto him that hateth hī but will rewarde him before his face. Kepe therfore the commaundmentes, ordinaunces and lawes which I commaunde you this daye, that ye doo them.

Yf ye shall herken vnto these lawes ād shall obserue and do them, then shall the Lorde thy God kepe poyntment with the and the mercy which he swore vnto thy fathers and will loue the, blesse the and multiplye the: he will blesse the frute of thy wombe and the frute of thi felde, thy corne, thy wyne and thy oyle, the frute of thyne oxen and the flockes of thy shepe in the londe which he swore vnto thy fathers to geuethe. Thou shalt be blessed aboue all nacions, there shalbe nether man nor woman vnfrutefull amonge you, nor any thinge vnfrutefull amonge youre catell. Moreouer the Lorde will turne from the all maner infirmityes, and will put none off the euell dyseases off Egipte (whiche thou knowest) apon the, but wyll sende them vppon them that hate the.

Thou shalt bringe to nought all nacions which the Lorde thy God delyuereth the thyne [Page] eye shall haue no pitie vppon them nether shalt thou serue their goddes, for that shalbe thy decaye. Yf thou shalt saye in thine hert these nacions are moo than I, how cā I cast themGod is as able [...]o [...] also to deliuer vs out of the captiui te of the pop [...] out? Feare thē not, but remēbre what the Lorde thy god dyd vnto Pharao ād vnto all Egipte, ād the greate temptacions which thine eyes sawe, ād the signes ād wonders ād mightie hā de ād stretched out arme wherewith the Lord thy god broughte the out: euē so shall the Lorde thy God doo vnto all the nacions of which thou art afrayed.

Thereto, the Lorde thy God will send hornettes amonge them vntyll they that are lefte, and hyde them selues frō the, be destroyed. Se thou feare thē not for the lord thi god is amōg you a mightie god ād a terrible. The Lord thy god will put out these naciōs before the a litle ād a litle: thou maist not cōsume thē at ōce lest the beestes of the felde encrease vpō the. And the lorde thy god shall delyuer thē vnto the ād sterre vp a mightie tēpest amōge thē, vntil thei be brought to nought. And he shal deliuer their kinges in to thine hāde, ād thou shalt destroye their names frō vnder heauē. There shal no mā stonde before the, vntill thou haue destroyed them. The images of their goddes thou shalt burne with fire, ād se that thou couet not [Page] the syluer or golde that is on them nor take it vnto the, lest thou be snared therewith. For it is an abhominacyon vnto the Lorde thy God. Brynge not therfore the abhominacyon to thyne housse, lest thou be a damned thynge as it is: but vtterlye defye it and abhorre it, for it is a thinge that must be destroyed.

¶ The .viij. Chaptre.

All the commaundmentes which I commaunde the this daye ye shal kepe for to do them, that ye maye lyue and multiplye and goo and possesse the londe whiche the Lorde sware vnto youre fathers. And thinke on all the waye which the Lorde thy God led the this .xl. yere in the wildernesse, for to humble the ād to proue the, to wete what was in thine herte, whether thou woldest kepe his commaundmentes or no, He humbled the and made the hongre and fed the with man which nether thou nor thy father kn [...]we of▪ to make the know that a man must not lyue by bred only: but byThe word is life al that procedeth out of them outh of the Lorde must a man lyue. Thy rayment waxed not olde vppon the, nether dyd thy fete swell thys xl. yere.

Vnderstonde therfore in thine herte, that as a man [...]ereth his sonne, euen so the Lorde thy God [...]reth the. Kepe therfore the commaundmentes [Page] of the Lorde thy God that thou walke in his wayes and that thou feare him For the Lorde thy God bringeth the in to a good lande, a londe of riuers of water, of foū tens and of springes that springe out both in valayes and hylles: a londe of whete and of barly, of vynes, figtrees and pomgranates, a lond of olyuetrees with oyle and of honye: a lande wherin thou shalt not eate bred in scarcenesse, and where thou shalt lacke nothinge, a londe whose stones are yerne, and out of whose hylles thou shalt dygge brasse. When thou hast eaten therfore and filled thy selfe, then blesse the Lord for the good lond which he hath geuen the.

But bewarre that thou forgett not the Lorde thy God, that thou woldest not kepe his cō maundmentes, lawes and ordinaunces which I commaunde the this daye: yee and when thou hast ea [...]ē ād filled thy selfe ād hast bylt goodly housses ād dwelt therin, ād when thy beesse ād thy shepe are waxed manye ād thy syluer ād golde is multiplied ād all that thou hast encreased, then bewarre lest thine herte ryse ād thou forgett the Lorde thy God which brought the out of the londe of Egipte the housse of bondage, ād which led the in the wildernesse both greate ād terreble with firye serpentes ād scorpions [Page] ād thurste where was no water which brought the water out of the rocke of flynt: whiche fed the in the wildernesse with Man where of thy fathers knewe not, for to humble the and to proue the, that he might doo the good at thy later ende.

And beware that thou saye not in thine herte, my power and the might of myne awne hā de hath done me all these actes: But remembreGods power worketh and not we. the Lorde thy God, how that it is he which gaue the power to do māfully, for to make good the promesse which he sware vnto thy fathers, as it is come to passe this daye,

For yf thou shalt forget the Lorde thy god and shalt walke after straunge goddes and serue them and worsheppe them, I testyfye vnto you this daye, that ye shall surely perysh. As the nacyons whiche the Lorde destroyeth before the, euen so ye shall peryshe, because ye wolde not herken vnto the voyce of the Lord youre God.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

HEare Israel, thou goest ouer Ioadayne this daye, to goo and conquere nacions greater and mightier than thy selfe, and cities greate ād walled vp to heauen, ād people greate and tall, euen the childern of the Enak [...]ms, which thou knowest and of whom thou hast [Page] herde saye who is able to stond before the childern of Enack? But vnderstonde this daye that the Lorde thy God which goeth ouer before the a consumyng fire, he shall destroye them and he shall subdue them before the. And thou shalt cast them out, and brynge them to noughte quyckely as the Lorde hath sayed vnto the.

Speake not in thyne hert, after that the Lorde thy God hath cast them out before the sayenge:where is [...] righ [...]esnesse. for my rightuousnes the Lorde hath brought me in to the possesse this lōde. Nay, but for the wekednesse of these nacions the Lord doth cast thē out before the. It is not for thy rightuousnes sake ād right hert that thou goest to possesse their lōd: But partely for the wekednesse of these naciōs, the Lord thy god doth cast thē out before the, and partly to performe that which the Lorde thy God sware vnto thi fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

Vnderstond therfore that it is not for thy rightuousnes sake, that the Lorde thy God doth geue the this good l [...]nd to possesse it, for thou art a stissenecked people. Remēbre ād forget not how thou prouokedest the Lorde thi god in the wildernesse: for sens the daye that thou camest out of the lond of Egipte vntyll ye came vnto this place, ye haue rebelled agenst the [Page] Lorde. Also in Horeb ye angred the Lorde so that the Lorde was wroth with you, euē to haue destroyed you, after that I was gone vpp in to the mount, to fett the tables of stone, the tables of appoyntment which the Lorde made with you. And I abode in the hyll .xl. dayes ād xl. nightes and nether ate bred nor dranke water. And the Lorde delyuered me two tables of stone writen with the finger of God, and in them was acordynge to all the wordes which the Lorde sayed vnto you in the mount out of the fire in the daye whē the people were gathered together.

And whē the .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes were ended, the Lorde gaue me: the two tables off stone, the tables of the testament, and sayed vnto me: Vpp, and get the doune quyckely from hence, for thy people which thou hast broughte out of Egipte, haue marred themselues.

They are turned attonce out of the waye, whiche I commaunded them, and haue made thē a god of metall. Furthermore the Lorde spake vnto me sayenge: I se this people how that it is a stiffenecked people, let me alone that I maye destroye them and put out the name off them from vnder heauen, and I will make off the a nacion both greater ād moo than they.

[Page]And I turned awaye and came doune from the hyll (and the hyll burnt with fire) and had the two tables of the appoyntment in my handes. And when I loked and sawe that ye had synned agenst the Lorde youre God and had made you a calfe of metall and had turned attonce out of the waye whiche the Lorde had commaunded you. Thē I toke the two tables and cast them out of my two handes, and brake thē before youre eyes. And I fell before the Lorde: euen as at the first tyme .xl. dayes ād. xl nightes and nether ate bred nor dranke water ouer all youre synnes whiche ye had synned in doynge wekedly in the syght of the Lorde ād in prouokinge him. For I was afrayed of the wrath and fearsnesse wherwith the Lord was angrie with you, euē for to haue destroyed you But the Lorde herde my peticion at that tyme also.

The Lorde was very angrie with Aaron also, euē for to haue destroyed him: But I made intercession for Aarō also the same tyme. And I toke youre synne, the calfe which ye had made ād burnt him with fire ād stampe him and grounde him a good, euē vnto smal dust. And I cast the dust thereof in to the broke that descended out of the mount.

Also at [...]habeera and at Masa and at the [Page] sepulchres of lust ye angred the Lorde, yee ād when the Lorde sent you from Cades Bernea sayenge: goo vpp and conquere the lond whiche I haue geuen you, ye disobeyed the mouth of the Lorde youre God, and nether beleued hī nor herkened vnto his voyce. Thus ye haue bene disobediēt vnto the Lord, sence the daye that I knew you.

And I fell before the Lorde .xl. dayes andLerne to pra [...]. xl. nightes whiche I laye there, for the Lorde was minded to haue destroyed you. But I made intercession vnto the Lorde and sayed: O Lorde Iehoua, destroye not thy people and thyne enheritaūce which thou hast delyuered thorow thi greatnesse and which thou hast brought out of Egipte with a mightie hand. Remē bre thy servauntes Abraham, Isaac and Iacob and loke not vnto the stoburnesse of this people nor vnto their wekednesse and synne: lest the londe whence thou broughtest them saye: Because the Lorde was not able to brynge them in to the londe which he promysed them and because he hated them, therfore he caried them out to destroye them in the wildernesse. Moreouer they are thy people and thine enheritaunce, whiche thou broughtest out with thy myghtye power and wyth thy stretched out arme.

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¶ The .x. Chapte.

IN the same ceason the Lord sayed vnto me hewe the two tables of stone like vnto the first and come vp vnto me in to the mount ād make the an Arke of wod, and I will wryte in the table, the wordes that were in the first tables which thou brakest, ād thou shalt put thē in the arcke. And I made an arke of sethī wod ād hewed two tables of stone like vnto the first, ād went vp in to the mountayne and the .ij. tables in myne hande.

And he wrote in the tables, acording to the first writinge (the .x. verses whiche the Lorde spake vnto you in the mount out of the fire in the daye when the people were gathered) ād gaue thē vnto me. And I departed ād came doune frō the hyll and put the tables in the arcke which I had made: ād there they remayned, as the Lorde commaunded me

And the childern of Israel toke their iurney from Beroth Bē Iakē to Mosera, where Aarō dyed ād where he was buried, ād Eleazer his sonne became preast ī his steade. And frō thē ce they departed vnto Gudgod: ād frō Gudgod to Iathbath, a lōd of riuers of water. And the same ceason the Lorde separated the trybe of Leui to beare the arcke of the appoyntment [Page] of the Lorde and to stonde before the Lorde, ād to ministre vnto him and to blesse in his name vnto this daye. Wherfore the Leuites haue no parte nor enheritaunce with their brethern. The Lorde he is their enheritaunce, as the Lorde thy God hath promysed them.

And I taried in the mount, euē as at the first tyme .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes and the Lorde herkened vnto me at that tyme also, so that the Lorde wolde not destroye the. And the Lorde sayed vnto me: vpp ād goo forth in the iurney before the people and let them goo in ād conquere the lond which I sware vnto their fathers to geue vnto them.

And now Israel what is it that the Lord thi God requyreth of the, but to feare the Lord thi God and to walke in all his wayes and to loue him and to serue the Lorde thy God with all thyne herte and with all thy soule, that thou kepe the commaundmentes of the Lorde ād his ordinaunces which I commaunde the this daye, for thy welth. Beholde, heauen and the heauen of heauens is the Lordes thy god, and the erth with all that therein is: only the Lorde had a lust vnto thy fathers to loue them, and therfore chose you theire seed after them off all nacyons, as it is come to passe this daye.

[Page]Circumcyse therfore the foreskynne of youre hartes, and be no longer sciffnecked. For the Lorde youre God, he is God of goddes and lorde of lordes, a greate God, a myghtye and a terreble which regardeth no mans person nor taketh giftes: but doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and wedowe and loueth the straunger, to geue him fode and rayment. Loue therfore the straunger, for ye were straungers youre selues in the londe of Egipte.

Thou shalt feare the Lorde thi God and serue him and cleaue vnto him ād swere by his name, for he is thi prayse ād he is thi God that hath done these greate and terreble thinges for the, which thine eyes haue sene. Thi fathers went doune in to Egipte with .lxx. soules, ād now the Lorde thi God hath made the as the starres of heauen in multitude.

The .xi. Chapter.

LOue the Lorde thi God and kepe his obseruaunces, his ordinaunces, his lawes and his commaundmentes alwaye. And call to mynde this daye that which youre childern haue nether knowen nor sene: euen the nurture of the Lorde youre God, his greatnesse, his myghtye hande and his stretched out arme: his miracles and his actes which he dyd amonge [Page] the Egiptiās, euen vnto Pharao the kinge off Egipte and vnto all his lōde: ād what he dyd vnto the host of the Egiptiās, vnto their horses ād charettes, how he brought the water of the red see vppon thē as they chased you, and how the Lorde hath brought them to nought vnto this daye: ād what he dyd vnto you in the wildernesse, vntill ye came vnto this place: ād what he dyd vnto Dathan and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab the sonne of Ruben, how the erth opened hir mouth ād swalowed thē with their housholdes and their tentes, ād all their substāce that was in their possessiō, in the myddes of Israel.

For youre eyes haue sene all the greate deades of the Lorde which he dyd. Kepe therfore al the cōmaundmentes which I cōmaunde the this daye that ye maye be stronge ād goo and conquere the londe whother ye go to possesse it, ād that ye maye prolonge youre dayes in the londe which the Lorde sware vnto youre fathers to geue vnto them ād to their seed, a londe that floweth with mylke and honye.

For the londe whother thou goest to possesse it, is not as the londe of Egipte whence thou camest out, where thou sowedest thi seed and wateredest it with thi laboure as a garden of herbes: but the londe whither ye goo ouer [Page] to possesse it, is a londe of hilles and valeyes and drynketh water of the rayne of heauē, and a londe which the Lorde thi God careth for. The eyes of the Lord thi God are always apō it, from the begynnynge of the yere vnto the later ende of the yere.

Yf thou shalt herken therfore vnto my commaundementes which I commaunde you this daye, that ye loue the Lorde youre God and serue him with all youre hertes and with all youre soules: then he will geue rayne vnto youre londe in due season, both the fyrst rayne and the later, and thou shalt gather in thy corne, thy wyne and thyne oyle. And he will sende grasse in thy feldes for thy catell: and thou shalt care and fyll thy selfe.

But bewarre that youre hertes disceaue you not that ye turne asyde and serue straunge goddes and worshepe them, and thē the wrath of the Lorde waxe hote vpon you ād shott vp the heauen that there be no rayne and that youre londe yeld not hir frute, and that ye peresh quickly from of the good lōde which the Lorde geueth you.

Putt vp therfore these my wordes in youre hertes and in youre soules, and bynde them for a sygne vnto youre handes, and lett [Page] them be as papers of remembraunce betwene youre eyes, and teach them youre childern: so that thou * talke of them when thou syttest inTalke of [...]o [...]nhod saye oure prelates thyne housse, and when thou walkest by the waye, and when thou lyest doune and when thou rysest vpp: yee and write them vppon the dorepostes of thine housse and vppon thi gates, that youre dayes may be multiplyed ād the dayes of youre childern apon the erth which the Lorde sware vnto youre fathers to geue them, as longe as the dayes of heauē last vpon the erth.

For yf ye shall kepe all these comaundmentes which I cōmaunde you, so that ye doo thē and loue the Lorde youre God and walke in all his wayes and oleaue vnto him. Then will the Lorde cast out all these nacions both greatter and myghtyer then youre selues. All the places where on the soles of youre fete shall treade, shalbe youres: euen from the wildernesse and from Libanon and from the ryuer Euphrates, euen vnto the vttemost see shall youre costes be. There shall no man be able to stonde before you: the Lorde youre God shal cast the feare and dreade of you vppō all londes whether ye shall come, as he hath sayed vnto you.

Beholde, I sect before you this daye, a blessynge [Page] and a curse: a blessynge: yf that ye herkē vnto the commaundmentes of the Lorde youre God which I cōmaūde you this daye: And a curse: yf ye will not herkē vnto the cōmaundmentes of the Lord youre God: but turne out of the waye which I commaūde you this daye to goo after straunge goddes which ye haue not knowen.

When the Lorde thi God hath brought the in to the londe whother thou goest to possesse it, then put the blessinge vppon mount Grisim and the curse vppon mount Ebal, which are on the other syde Iordane on the backe side of the waye towarde the goynge doune of the sonne in the lōde of the Cananites which dwell in the feldes ouer agenst Gilgal besyde moregroue. For ye shall goo ouer to goo and possesse the londe which the Lorde youre God geueth you, and shall conquere it ād dwell there in. Take hede therfore that ye doo al the cō maundmentes and lawes, which I sett before you this daye.

The .xij. Chapter.

THese are the ordinaunces and lawes which ye shall obserue to doo in the londe which the Lorde God of thy fathers geueth the to possesse it, as longe as ye lyue vppon the [Page] erth. Se that ye destroye all places where the nacyons which ye conquere serue their goddes, vppon hye mountaynes and on hye hilles and vnder euery grene tree. Ouerthrowe their alters and breake their pylers and burne their groues with fyre and hewdowne the ymages off theyr goddes, and brynge the names of them to noughte out of that place.

Se ye doo not so vnto the Lorde youre God but ye shall enquere the place which the Lorde youre God shall haue chosen out of all youre trybes to put his name there and there to dwell. And thyther thou shalt come, and thyther ye shall brynge youre burntsacryfices and youre offerynges, youre tithes and heueofferynges off youre handes, youre vowes and frewillofferynges and thy fyrst borne off youre oxen and off youre shepe. And there ye shall eate before the Lorde youre God, and ye shall reioyse in all that ye laye youre handes on: both ye and youre housholdes, because the Lord thy God hath blessed the.

Ye shall doo after nothinge that we doo here this daye, euery man what semeth hī good* in his awne eyes. For ye are not yet come to rest nor vnto the enheritaunce which the Lorde [Page] youre God geueth you. But ye shal goo ouer Iordayne ād dwell in the lōde which the Lorde youre God geueth you to enheret, ād he shal geue you rest frō al youre enemies rounde aboute: and ye shall dwell in safetie.

Therfore when the Lorde youre God hath chosen a place to make his name dwell there, thither ye shall brynge all that I commaunde you, youre burntsacryfices and youre offerynges, youre tithes and the heueofferynges of youre handes and all youre godly vowes which ye vowe vnto the Lorde. And ye shall reioyse before the Lorde youre God, both ye, youre sonnes and youre doughters, youre seruauntes and youre maydes and the leuite that is within youre gates for he hath nether parte nor enheritaunce with you.

Take hede that thou offer not thi burntofferynges in what soeuer place thou seyst: but in the place which the Lorde shall haue chosen amonge one of thy trybes, there thou shalt offer thi burntofferynges and there thou shalt doo all that I commaunde the. Notwitstondynge thou mayst kyll ād eate flesh in al thi cities, what soeuer thi soule lusteth after acordinge to the blessinge of the Lorde thi God which he hath geuen the both the [Page] * vncleane and the cleane mayst thou eate,Vncleane as pertayninge vn to sacrifice as beestes that had deformities: but not of the vncleane that was forbiddē euen as the roo and the hert: only eate not the bloude, but poure it apon the erth as water.

Thou mayst not eate within thi gates the tythe of thi corne, of thy wyne and of thi oyle, ether the firstborne of of thine oxen or of thy shepe, nether any of thi vowes which thou vowest, nor thi frewilofferinges or heueofferynges of thyne handes: but thou must eate them before the Lorde thi God, in the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen: both thou thi sonne and thi doughter, thi seruaunte and thy mayde ād the leuite that is within thi gates: ād thou shalt reioyse before the Lorde thi God, in al that thou puttest thine hande to. And bewarre that thou forsake not the leuite as lōge as thou lyuest vppon the erth.

Yf (when the Lorde thi God hath enlarged thi costes as he hath promysed the) thou saye: I will eate flesh, because thi soule longeth to eate flesh: then thou shalt eate flesh, what so euer thi soule lusteth. Yf the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen to put his name there be to ferre from the, then thou mayst kylle of thi oxen and of thi shepe which the Lorde hath geuen the as I haue commaunded the and thou mayst eate in thine awne citie what [Page] soeuer thi soule lusteth. Neuer the later, as the roo and the herte is eaten, euen so thou shalt eate it: the vncleane and the cleane indifferently thou shalt eate. But be strong that thou eate not the bloude. For the bloude, that is the lyfe: and thou mayst not eate the life with the flesh: thou maist not eate it: but must power it vppō the erth as water. Se thou eate it not therfore that it maye goo well with the and with thy childern after the, when thou shalt haue done that whyche is ryghte in the syghte off the Lorde.

But thy holye thinges which thou hast and thy vowes, thou shalt take and go vnto the place which the Lorde hath chosen, and thou shalt offer thy burntoffrynges, both flesh ād bloude apon the alter of the Lorde thy God, and the bloude of thine offrynges thou shalt poure out vppon the alter of the Lorde thy God, and shalt eate the flesh. Take hede and heare all these wordes which I commaunde the that it maye goo well with the and with thy children after the for euer, whē thou doest that whiche is good and right in the sighte of the Lorde thy God.

When the Lorde thy God hath destroyed the nacions before the, whother thou goest to conquere them, and when thou hast conquered [Page] them, and dwelt in their landes: Bewarre that thou be not taken, in a snare after thē, after that they be destroyed before the, and that thou axenot after their goddes saynge: how dyd these nacyons serue their goddes, that I maye doo so likewyse? Nay, thou shalt not doo so vnto the Lorde thy God: for all abhominacyons which the Lorde hated dyd they vnto their goddes. For they burnt both their sonnes ād their doughters with fire vnto their goddes. But what soeuer I commaunde you that take hede ye do: ād put nought thereto, nor take oughtPut noughte to ne [...] take ought awaye. there from.

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

YF there a ryse amonge you a prophett or a dreamer of dreames and geue the a sygne or a wondre, and that sygne or wonder which he hath sayed come to passe, and then saye: lat vs goo after straunge Goddes which thou hast not knowen, and let vs serue them: her ken not vnto the wordes of that prophete or dreamer of dreames. For the Lorde thy God tēpteth you, to wete whether ye loue the LordGod geueth vs his worde [...] cōfirmeth [...] with miracles to proue who hath a [...]r ue herte [...] we must take hede to the scripture, lest false prophetes, or false miracles deceave vs. youre God with all youre hertes ād with al youre soules. For ye must walke after the Lorde youre God ād feare him and kepe his cōmaū dmentes [Page] and herken vnto his voyce and serue him and cleaue vnto him. And that prophete or dreamer of dreames shall dye for it, because he hath spokē to turne you awaye frō the Lorde youre God which broughte you out of the londe of Egipte ād delyuered you out of the housse of bondage, to thrust the out of the waye whiche the Lorde thy God commaunded the to walke in: and so thou shalt put euell awaye from the.

Yf thy brother the sonne of thy mother or thyne awne sonne or thy doughter or the wife that lieth in thy bosome or thy frende which is as thyne awne soule vnto the▪ entyce the secretly sayenge: let vs goo and serue straunge goddes which thou hast not knowē nor yet thy fathers, of the goddes of the people whiche are roūde aboute the, whether thei benye vnto the or farre of from the, from the one ende of the lande vnto the other: Se thou consente not vnto him nor herken vnto him: no let not thyn [...] eye pitye him nor haue compassyon on hym, nor kepe him secrett, but cause him to be slayne: Thine hande shalbe first apon hym to kyll him: and then the handes off all the people. And thou shalt stone hym with stones that he dye, because he hath gone [Page] aboute to thrust the awaye from the Lord thy God which brought the out of Egipte the housse of bondage. And all Israel shall heare and feare ād shall doo no moare any soche wekednesse as this is, amonge them.

Yf thou shalt heare saye of one of thy cities which the Lorde thy God hath geuen the to dwell in, that certen beyng the childern of Beliall are gone out from amonge you and haue moued the enhabiters of their citie sayeng: lat vs goo and serue straunge Goddes whiche ye haue not knowen. Then seke and make serche and enquere diligently. Yf it be true and the thinge of a suertie that soch abhominacion is wrought among you: then thou shalt smyte the dwellers of that citie with the edge of the swerde, and destroye it mercylesse and all that is the rin, and euen the very catell thereof with the edge of the swerde. And gather all the spoyle of it in to the myddes of the streates thereof, and burne with fire: both the citie and all the spoyle thereof euery whitte vnto the Lord thy God. And it shalbe an hepe for euer and shall not be bylt agayne. And se that their cleaue nought of the damned thinge in thine hande, that the Lorde maye turne frō his fearse wrath and shewe the mercye ād haue compassion on the and multiplye the, as he hath sworne vnto [Page] thy fathers: when thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe all his cō maundmentes which I cōmaunde the thys daye so that thou doo that which is right in the eyes of the Lorde thy God.

¶ The .vj. Chapter.

YE are the childern of the Lorde youre God, cut not youre selues nor make you any baldnes betwene the eyes for any mās deeth. For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, ād the Lorde hath chosen the to be a seuerall people vnto him selfe, of all the nacyons that are vppon the erth.

Ye shall eate no maner of abhominacyon. These are the beestes which ye shall eate of: oxen, shepe and gootes, hert, too and bugle, hert [...] goote, vnicorne, origen and Camelion. And all beestes that cleaue the hoste and slytte it in to two clawes and chewe the cud, them ye shal eate. Neuerthelesse, these ye shall not eate of them that chew cud ād of thē that deuyde and cleaue the hoffe: the camell, the hare ād the conye. For they chew cud, but deuyde not the hoffe: ād therfore are vncleane vnto you: ād also the swyne. for though he deuyde the hoffe, yet he cheweth not cud, ād therfor is vncleane vn [Page] to you: Ye shall not eate of the flesh of thē nor twich the deed carkasses of them.

These ye shall eate off all that are in the waters: All that haue fynnes and scales. And what soeuer hath not finnes and scales, of that ye may not eate, for that is vncleane vn to you.

Of all cleane byrdes ye shall eate, but these are they of which ye maye not eate: the egle, the goshauke, the cormerant, the ixion, the vultur, the kyte and hyr kynde, and all kynde off rauens, the Estrich, the nyght [...]ro [...] the kuckoo, the sparowhauke and all hir kynde, the litle oule, the great oule, the backe, the bytture, the pye the storke, the heron, the Iaye in his kynde, the lapwynge, the swalowe: And all crepynge foules are vncleane vnto you and maye not be eaten of: but of all cleane foules ye maye well eate.

Ye shall eate of nothinge that dyeth alone: But thou mayst geue it vnto the straunger that is in thy citie that he eate it, or mayst sell it vnto an Aliēt. For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God. Thou shalt not seth a kyd in his mothers mylke.

Thou shalt tyeth all the encrease of thy seed that cometh out of the felde yere by yere. And thou shalt eate before the Lorde thy [Page] God in the place whiche he hath chosen to make his name dwell there the tyth off thy corne, of thy wyne and of thyne oyle, and the firstborne of thine oxen and of thy flocke that thou mayst lerne to feare the Lorde thy God allwaye.

Yf the waye be to longe for the, so that thou art not able to carie it, because the place is to farre from the whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen to set his name there (for the Lorde thy God hath blessed the) then make it in money and take the money in thyne hande, and goo vnto the place which the Lorde thy God hath chosen, and bestowe that moneye on what soeuer thy soule lusteth after: on oxen shepe, wyne and good drynke, and on what soeuer thy soule desyreth, and eate there before the Lorde thy God and be mery: both thou and thyne housholde and the Leuite that is in thy cytye. Se thou forsake not the Leuite, for he hath nether partenor enheritaunce with the.

At the ende of thre yere, thou shalt brynge forth all the tithes of thine encrease the same yere and laye it vpp whitin thyne awne cytye, and the Leuite shall come because he hath nether parte nor enheritaunce with the, and the straunger and the fatherlesse and the wedowe [Page] which are whithin thy citie and shall eate and fyll them selues: that the Lorde thy God maye blesse the in all the workes of thine hond which thou doest.

¶ The .xv. Chapter.

AT the ende of seuen yere thou shalt make a fre yere. And this is the maner off the fre yere, whosoever lendeth ought with his hande vnto his neyghboure, maye not axe agayne that which he hath lent, of his neyghboure or of his brother: because it is called the lordes fre yere, yet of a straunger thou maist call it home agayne. But that which thou hast with thy brother thyne hande shall remytt, and that in any wyse, that there be no begger amonge you. For the Lorde shall blesse the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the, an heritaunce to possesse it: so that thou herken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God▪ to obserue ād doo all these commaundmentes which I commaunde you this daye: ye and then the Lorde thy God shall blesse the as he [...]ath promysed the, and thou shalt lende vnto many nacyons, and shalt borowe of no man, and shalt raygne ouer many nacyons, but none shal reygne ouer the.

[Page]When one of thi brethern amonge you is waxed poore in any of thi cities within thi lō de which the Lorde thi God geueth the, se that thou harden not thine hert nor shetto thyne hande from thi poore brother: But open thyne hande vnto him and lende him sufficient for his nede which he hath. And beware that there be not a poynte of Belial in thine hert, that thou woldest saye. The seuenth yere, the yere of fredome is at honde, and therfore it greue the to loke on thy poore brother and geuest him nought and he then crye vnto the Lorde agenst the and it be synne vnto the: But geue him. and let it not greue thine hert to geue. Because that for that thinge, the Lorde thy God shall blesse the in all thi workes and in all that thou puttest thine hande to. For the londe shall neuer be without poore. Wherfore I cōmaunde the sayenge: open thine hande vnto thi brother that is neady ād poore in thy lande.

Yf thi brother an Hebrue sell him self to the or an Hebruas, he shall serue the syxe yere and the seuenth yere thou shalt lett him go fre from the. And when thou sendest hym out fre from the, thou shalt not let him goo awaye emptye: but shalt geue him of thy shepe and of thi corne and of thy wyne, and geue him off [Page] that where with the Lorde thi God hath blessed the. And remembre that thou wast a seruaunte in the londe of Egipte, and the Lorde thi God delyuered the thence: wherfore I commaunde the this thinge to daye.

But and yf he saye vnto the, I will not goo awaye from the, because he loueth the and thine housse and is well at ease with the. Then take a naule and nayle his eare too the doore there with ād let him be thi seruaunte foreuer and vnto thi mayde seruaunte thou shalt doo likewise. And let it not greue thine eyes to lett him goo out from the, for he hath bene worthe a double hired seruaunte to the in his seruyce .vi. yeres. And the Lorde thi God shall blesse the in all that thou doest.

All the firstborne that come of thine oxen and of thi shepe that are males, thou shalt halowe vnto the Lorde thi God. Thou shalt do no seruyce with the firstborne of thi shepe: but shalt eate thē before the Lord thi God yere by yere in the place which the Lorde hath chosen both thou and thine houssholde.

Yf there be any deformyte there in, whether it be lame or blinde or what soeuer euell fauerednesse it hath, thou shalt not offer it vnto the Lorde thi God: But shalt eate it in thyne awne citie, the vncleane and the cleane indifferently, [Page] as the roo and the hert. Only eate not the bloude there of, but poure it vppon the grounde as water.

The .xvi. Chapter.

OBserue the moneth of Abyb, and offer passeover vnto the Lorde thi God. For in the moneth of Abib, the Lorde thy God brought the out of Egipte by nyght. Thou shalt therfore offer passeover vnto the Lorde thi God, and shepe and oxen in the place which the Lorde shall chose to make his name dwell there. Thou shalt cate no leuē ded bred there with: but shalt eate there with the bred of tribulaciō .vij. dayes lōge. For thou camest out of the lōde of Egipte in hast, that thou mayst remembre the daye when thou camest out of the londe of Egipte, all dayes of thi life. And se that there be no leuended bred sene in all thi costes .vij. dayes longe, and that there remayne nothinge of the flesh which thou hast offered the fyrst daye at euen, vntil the mornynge.

Thou mayst not offer passeover in any of thi cities which the Lord thi god geueth the: But in the place which the Lorde thi God shall chose to make his name dwell in, there thou [Page] shalt offer Passeouer at euen aboute the goyngdoune of the sonne, euen in the season that thou camest out of Egipte. And thou shalt seth and eate in the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen, and departe on the morowe and gette the vnto thi tente. Sixe dayes thou shalt eate swete bred, and the seuenth daye is for the people to come together to the Lorde thi God, that thou mayst do no worke.

Then reken the .vij. wekes, and begynne to rekē the .vij. wekes when the syccle begynneth in the corne, and kepe the feast of wekes vnto the Lorde thi God, that thou geue a frewil offeringe of thine hāde vnto the Lord thi God acordinge as the Lorde thi God hath blessed the. And reioyse before the Lorde thi God both thou, thi sonne, thi doughter, thi seruaunte and thi mayde, and the leuite that is within thi gates, and the straunger, the fatherlesse ād the wedowe that are amonge you, in the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen to make his name dwel there. And remēbre that thouwhy. wast a seruaūte in Egipte, that thou obserue and doo these ordinaunces.

Thou shalt obserue the feast of tabernacles vij. dayes longe, after that thou hast gathered in thi corne and thi wyne. And thou shalt reioyse in that thi feast, both thou and thi sonne, [Page] thi doughter, thi seruaunte, thi mayde, the leuite, the straunger, the fatherlesse and the wedowe that are in thi cities. Seuen dayes thou shalt kepe holy daye vnto the Lorde thi God, in the place which the Lorde shal chose: for the Lorde thi God shall blesse the in all thi frutes and in all the workes of thine handes, and thou shalt be all together gladnesse. Thre tymes in the yere shall al youre males appere before the Lorde thi God in the place which he shal chose: In the feast of swete bred, in the feast of wekes and in the booth feast. And they shal not appere before the Lorde emptie: but euery mā with the gifte of his honde, acordynge to the blessinge of the Lorde thi God which he hath geuen the.

The .xvij. Chapter.

IVdges and officers thou shalt make the inIudge [...] all thi cities which the Lorde thi God geueth the thorow out thi trybes. and lett thē iudge the people righteously. Wrest not the lawe nor knowe any persone nether take any rewarde: for giftes blynde the wise and peruerte the wordes of the righteous. But in all thinge folowe righteousnesse, that thou mayst lyuc and enioye the londe which the Lord thi God geueth the.

[Page]Thou shalt plante no groue of what soeuer trees it be, nye vnto the altare of the Lorde thi God which thou shalt make the. Thou shalt sett the vpp no piler, which the Lorde thy God hateth. Thou shalt offer vnto the Lorde thy God no oxe or shepe where in is any deformyte, what soeuer euell fauerednesse it be: for that is an abhominacion vnto the Lorde thi God.

Yf there be founde amonge you in any of thi cities which the Lord thi God geueth the man or woman that hath wrought wekednesse in the sighte of the Lord thi God, that they haue gone beyonde his appoyntment, so that they haue gone and serued straūge goddes ād worshipped thē, whether it be the sonne or mone or anythinge contayned in heauē which I forbade, and it was tolde the ād thou hast herde of it: Then thou shalt enquere diligently. And yf it be true and the thinge of a suertye that soch abhomynacion is wrought in IsraelOpinly in the gates and not secretlye in preson: with lawfull witnesse and not tormentynge them or mak [...] ge them swer agen [...] thē selves or [...]or swere thē selves thē thou shalt bringe forth that mā or that woman whiche haue cōmytted that weked thinge, * vnto thi gates ād shalt stone thē with stones ād they shall dye. At the mouth of .ij. or. iij witnesses shal he that is worthy of deeth, dye: but at the mouth of one witnesse he shall not dye. And the handes of the witnesses shalbe first [Page] vppon him to kyll him, ād afterwarde the handes of all the people: so shalt thou put wekednesse awaye from the.

Yf a matter be to harde for the in iudgemēt betwene bloud and bloude, plee and plee, plage and plage in maters of strife within thi cities: Then Arise and gett the vpp vnto the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen, and goo vnto the preastes the leuites and vnto the iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and axe, and they shall shewe the how to iudge. And se that thou doo acordinge to that which they of that place which the Lorde hath chosen shew the and se that thou obserue to doo acordinge to all that they enforme the. Acordinge to the lawe which they teach the and maner of iudgement which they tell the, se that thou doo and that thou bowe not from that which they she we the, nether to the right hande nor to the lyfte.

And that man that will doo presumptuously, so that he will not herken vnto the preast that stondeth there to mynistre vnto the Lorde thi God or vnto the iudge, shall dye: and so thou shalt put awaye euell from Israel. And all the people shall heare and shall feare, and shall doo nomare presumptuosly,

[Page]When thou art come vnto the lōde which the Lorde thi God geueth the and enioyest it and dwellest therin: Yf thou shalt saye, I will sett a kinge ouer me, like vnto all the nacionskyu [...]s that are aboute me: Then thou shalt make him kinge ouer the, whom the Lorde thi God shal chose. One of thi brethern must thou make kinge ouer the, and mayst not sett a straunger ouer the which is not of thi brethern. But in ani wyse let hī not holde to many horsses, that he bringe not the people agayne to Egipte thorow the multitude of horsses, for as moch as the Lorde hath sayed vnto you: ye shall hence forth goo no moare agayne that waye. Also he shall not haue to many wyues, lest his hert turne awaye, nether shall he gather him syluer and godlde to moch.

And when he is seten vppon the seate off his kingdome, he shall write him out this seconde lawe in a boke takynge a copye of the preastes the leuites. And it shalbe with him and he shall reade there in all dayes of his lyfe* that he maye lerne to feare the Lorde his God for to kepe all the wordes of this lawe ād these ordinaunces for to doo them: that his hert aryse not aboue his brethern and that he turne not from the commaundment: ether to the righte hande or to the lifte: that both he ād his [Page] childern maye prolonge their dayes in his kingdome in Israel.

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

THe preastes the Leuites all the trybe off Leui shall haue no parte nor enheritaunceI meruel that oure diffigured coude [...] ke no figure of this all this while. with Israel. The offrynges of the Lorde ād his enheritaunce they shall eate, but shall haue no enheritaunce amonge their brethern: the Lorde he is their enheritaunce, as he hath sayed vnto them. And this is the dutie of the preastes, of the people and of them that offer, whether it be oxe or shepe: They must geue vnto the preast, the shulder and the two chekes and the maw, the firstfrutes of thy corne, wyne and oyle, and the first of thy shepesheryng must thou geue him. For the Lorde thy God hath chosen him out of all thy trybes to stonde and to ministre in the name of the Lorde: both hī and his sonnes for euer.

Yf a Leuite come out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a segeorner, ād come with all the lust of his herte vnto the place which the Lorde hath chosen: he shall there ministre in the name of the Lorde his god as all his brethern the Leuites doo whiche stonde there before the Lord. And they shall haue lyke porcyons to eate, besyde that whiche cometh to hym of the patrimonye of hys [Page] elders.

When thou art come in to the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the, se that thou lerne not to doo after the abhominacyōs of these nacyons. Let there not be founde amonge you that maketh his sonne or his doughter go thorow fyre, ether a bruterar or a maker of dismale dayes or that vseth witchcraft or a sorcerar or a charmar or that speaketh with a spirite or a sothsayer or that talketh with them that are deed. For all that doo soch thinges are abhominacion vnto the Lorde: and because of these abhominacyons the Lorde thy God doeth cast them out before the, be pure therfore with the Lorde thy God. For these nacyons whiche thou shalt conquere, herken vnto makers off dysemall dayes and bruterars. But the Lorde thy God permytteth not that to the.

The Lorde thy God will sterre vpp a prophete amonge you: euē of thy brethern like vnto me: and vnto him ye shall herken acording to all that thou desyredest of the Lorde thyChrist is here promysed a preacher off better tydinges then Mo [...]es. god in Horeb in the daye when the people were gathered sayenge: Let me heare the voyce of my Lorde God nomoare nor se this greate fire any moare, that I dye not. And the Lorde sayed vnto me: they haue well spoken, I will [Page] rayse them vpp a prophett from amonge their brethern like vnto the ād will put my wordes in to his mouth and he shall speake vnto thē al that I shall commaunde him. And whosoeuer will not kerken vnto the wordes which he shall speake in my name, I will requyre it off him.

But the prophete which shall presume to speake ought in my name which I commaunded him not to speake, and he that speaketh in the name of straunge Goddes, the same prophete shall dye. And yf thou saye in thine hert, howe shall I knowe that whiche the Lorde hath no [...] spoken? When a prophete speaketh in the name of the Lorde, yf the thynge folow not nor come to passe, that is the thinge which the Lorde hath not spoken. But the prophete hath spoken it presumptuously: be not aferde therfore of him.

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

WHen the Lorde thy Gad hath destroyed the nacyons whose londe the Lorde thy God geueth the, and thou hast conquered thē and dwellest in their cities and in their housses: thou shalt appoynte .iij. cities in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the to [Page] possesse it: thou shalt prepare the waye and deuyde the costes of thy lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the to enheret, in to .iij. partes that whosoeuer committeth murthur may flee thither.

And this is the cause of the sleyer that shalThe popis sē tuaries are of an other purpose. For he had leuer haue the frenshep of the eue [...] thē to saue them that are Good. flee thither and be saued: Yf he smyte his neghboure ignorantly and hated him not in tyme passed: As when a man goeth vnto the wodd with his neghboure to hew wod, and as his hā de fetcheth a stroke with the axe, the head slippeth from the helue and smyteth his neghboure that he dye: the same shall flee vnto one off the same cities ād be saued. Lest the executer of bloude folowe after the sleyer while his hert is whote and ouertake him, because the waye is longe, and slee him, and yet there is no cause worthy of deeth in him, in as moch as he hated not his neghbour in tyme passed. Wherfore IAs hate maketh the dead euell: so love make [...]h it good. commaunde the sayeng: se that thou appoynte out .iij. cities▪

And yf the Lorde thy God enlarge thy costes as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers and geue the all the londe which he sayed he wold geue [...]nto thy fathers (so that thou kepe all these commaundmentes to doo them, which I commaunde the this daye, that thou loue the Lord thy god ād walke in his wayes euer) then thou [Page] shalt adde .iij. cities moo vnto those .iij. that innocent bloude be not shed in thi lande which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enheret, and so bloude come vppon the,

But and yf there be any man that hateth his neyghboure and layeth awayte for him and ryseth agenst him and smyteth him that he dye, and fleeth vnto any of these cities. Then let the elders of his citie sende and fetche him thence and delyuer him in to the hondes of the iustice of bloude, and he shall dye, Let thyne eye haue no pitie on him, and so thou shalt put awaye innocent bloude from Israel, and happie arte thou.

Thou shalt not remoue thy neghbours marke which they of olde tyme haue sett in thyne enheritaunce that thou enherettest in the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enioye it.

One witnesse shall not ryse agenst a man inYes in all mater of heresie agenst holye churche▪ any maner trespace or synne, whatsoeuer synne a man synneth: But at the mouthe of two witnesses or of .iij. witnesses shall all maters be tryed.

Yf an vnrighteous witnesse ryse vp agenst a man to accuse him of trespace: then let both the men which stryue together stonde before the Lorde, before the preastes and the iudges [Page] which shalbe in those dayes, and let the iudges enquyre a good. And yf the witnesse be founde false and that he hath geuen false witnesse agenst his brother thē shall ye do vnto hī as he had tought to do vnto his brother, and so thou shalt put euel away frō the. And other shal heare ād feare ād shal hēce forth comytt no more any soch wekednesse amōg you. And let thyne eye haue no compassiō, but life for life, eye for eye, toth for toth, hande for hand, and fote for fote.

¶ The .xx. Chapter

WHen thou goest out to batayle agenste thine enemyes, and seest horses and charettes and people moo then thou, be not aforde of them, for the Lorde thy God is with the whiche broughte the out of the londe off Egipte. And when ye are come nye vnto batayle, let the preast come forth and speake vnto the people and saye vnto them: Heare Israel, ye are come vnto batayle agenste youre enemyes, let not youre hartes faynte, nether feare nor be amased nor a dreade of them. For the Lorde thy God goeth with you to fyghte for you agenste youre enemyes and to saue you.

And let the officers speake vnto the people [Page] sayenge: Yf any man haue bylt a new housseDedicat: the leui [...]es I suppose, halowed thēm as we doo oure shippes. and haue not * dedicate it, let him goo and returne to his housse lest he dye in the batayle, and another dedicate it. And yf any man haue planted a vyneyarde and haue not made it comen*, let him goo and returne agayne vntoComē: the. iij first yeres [...] frute myghte notbe eatē the fourth it might be offred ād the [...]ī [...] caten ād that ys to make it comē to bringe it to the vise of the laye people. his house, lest he dye in the batayle and another make it comen. And yf any man be betrothed vnto a wyfe and haue not taken hyr, let hym goo and returne agayne vnto his housse, lest he dye in the batayle and another take her.

And let the officers speake further vnto the people and saye. Yf any man feare and be faynte herted, let him goo and returne vnto his housse, lest his brothers hert be made faynte as well as his. And when the officers haue made an ende off speakynge vnto the people, let thē make captaynes of warre ouer them.

When thou comest nye vnto a citie to fight agenst it, offre them peace. And yf they answere the agayne peasably, and open vnto the, then let all the people that is founde therein be tributaries vnto the and serue the. But and yf they will make no peace with the, then make warre agenste the citie and besege it. [Page] And when the Lord thy God hath delyuered it in to thine handes, smyte all the males thereof with the edge of the swerde, saue the wemē and the childern and the catell and all that is in the citie and all the spoyle thereof take vnto thy selfe and eate the spoyle of thyne enemies which the Lord thy God geueth the. Thus thou shalt doo vnto all the cities whiche are a greate waye of from the ād not of the cities of these nacions.

But in the cities of these nacions which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enheret, thou shalt saue alyue nothinge that bretheth. But shalt destroye them with out redempcion, both the Hethites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pherezites, the Heuites and the Iebusites, as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded the, that they teach you not to doo after all their abhominacyons whiche they doo vnto theire goddes, and so shulde synne agenst the Lorde youre God

When thou hast beseged a citie longe tyme in makinge warre agenst it to take it, destroye not the trees thereof, that thou woldest thrust an axe vnto them. For thou mayst eate of thē, and therfore destroye them not. For the trees of the feldes are no men, that they myght come agenst the to besege the. Neuerthelater those [Page] trees which thou knowest that mē eate not of them, thou maist destroye and cutte them doune and make bolwerkes agenst the citie that maketh warre with the, vntyll it be ouerthrowne.

¶ The .xxj. Chapter.

YF one be founde slayne in the land whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the to possesse it, and lieth in the feldes, and not knowne who hath slayne him: Then let thine elders and thy iudges come forth ād meet vnto the cities that are rounde aboute the slayne. And let the elders of that citie which is nexte vnto the slayne mā, take an heyffer that is not laboured with nor hath drawen in the locke, and let them bringe her vnto a valeye where is nether earinge nor sowenge, ād strike of hir heed there in the valey.

Then let the preastes the sonnes of Leui come forth (for the Lorde thy God hath chosen them to ministre and to blesse in the name off the Lorde and therfore at their mouthe shall all strife and plage be tryed). And all the elders of the citie that is nexte to the slayne man shall wasshe their handes ouer the heyffer that is beheded in the playne, and shall answere ād saye: oure handes haue not shed this bloude ne [Page] ther haue oure eyes sene it. Be mercifull Lord vnto thy people Israel which thou hast delyuered and put not innocent bloude vnto thy people Israel: and the bloude shalbe forgeuen thē Right in the lordes sighte, ād not in thyne imaginacion. And so shalt thou put innocent bloud frō the, when thou shalt haue done that which is right in the syght of the Lorde.

When thou goest to warre agenst thyne enemies and the Lorde thy God hath delyuered them in to thine handes and thou hast take them captyue, and seist amonge the captyues a bewtifull woman and hast a fantasye vnto her that thou woldest haue her to thy wyfe. Then bringe her home to thine housse and let her shaue hir heed and pare hir nayles ād put hir rayment that she was taken in from hir, and let hir remayne in thine housse and be wepe hir father and hir mother a moneth long and after that goo in vnto her ād marie her ād let her be thi wife. And yf thou haue no fauoure vnto her, then let her go whother she lusteth: for thou mayst not sell her for monye nor make cheuesaūce of her, because thou hast hū bled her.

Yf a man haue two wyues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated▪ Yf the firstborne be the sonne of the hated: then whē [Page] he dealeth his goodes amonge his childern, he maye not make the sonne of the beloued firstborne before the sonne of the hated whiche is in deade the firstborne: But he shall knowe the sonne off the hated for his firstborne, that he geue hym dowble off all that he hath. For he is the first off his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the firstborneshippe.

Yf any man haue a sonne that is stuburne, and disobedient, that he will not herken vnto the voyce of his father and voyce of his mother, and they haue taught him nurture, but he wolde not herken vnto them: Then let his father and his mother take him and brynge hym out vnto the elders of that citie and vnto the gate of that same place, ād saye vnto the elders of the citie. This oure sonne is stoburne and disobedient and will not herken vnto oure voyce, he is a ryoter and a dronkarde. Then let all the men of that citie stone him with stones vnto deeth. And so thou shalt put euell awaye from the, and all Israel shall heare and feare.

Yf a man haue commytted a trespace worthy of deeth and is put to deeth for it and hanged on tree: let not his body remayne all nyghte vppon the tree, but burye hym [Page] the same daye. For the curse off God is on him that is hanged. Defile not thy londe therfore, whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the to enherett.

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

YF thou se thy brothers oxe or shepe goo astraye, thou shalt not with drawe thy selfe from them: But shalt brynge them home agayne vnto thy brother. Yf thy brother be not nye vnto the or yf thou knowe him not, then bringe them vnto thine awne housse and lett them be with the, vntyll thy brother axe after them, and then delyuer him them agayne. In like maner shalt thou doo with his asse, with his rayment and with all lost thinges of thy brother which he hath lost and thou hast founde, and thou maist not withdrawe thy selfe.

Yf thou se that thy brothers asse or oxe is fallen doune by the waye, thou shalt not withdrawe thy selfe from them: but shalt helpe him to heue them vp agayne.

The woman shall not weere that whiche pertayneth vnto the man, nether shall a man put on womans rayment. For all that doo so, are abhomynacyon vnto the Lorde thi God.

Yf thou chaunce vppon a byrds nest by the [Page] waye, in what soeuer tree it be or on the groū de, whether they be younge or egges, ād the da me sittenge vppon the younge or vppō the egges: Thou shalt not take the mother with the younge. But shalt in any wyse let the clame go and take the younge, that thou mayst prospere and prolonge thy dayes.

When thou byldest a new housse, thou shalt make a batelmēt vnto the roffe, that thou ladeThe housses be flatt in those cōtres. not bloude vppon thine housse, yf any mā fall there of.

Thou shalt not sowe thy vyneyarde with dyuerse sede: lest thou halowe the sede whiche thou hast sowen with the frute off thy vyneyarde.

Thou shalt not plowe with an oxe ād an as se togetherr

Thou shalt not weere a garment made of woll and flax together.

Thou shalt put rybandes vpō the .iiij. quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou couerest thy selfe.

Yf a man take a wyfe and when he hath lyen with her hate her ād leye shamefull thinges vnto hyr charge and brynge vp an euell name vppon her and saye: I toke this wyfe, and whē I came to her, I founde her not a mayde: Thē let the father of the damsell and the mother [Page] brynge forth the tokens of the damsels virginite, vnto the elders of the citie, euen vnto the gate. And let the damsels father saye vnto the elders, I gaue my doughter vnto this man to wife and he hateth her: and loo, he layeth shamefull thinges vnto hir charge saynge, I founde not thy doughter a mayde. And yet these ar the tokens of my doughters virginite. And let them sprede the vesture before the elders off the citie. Then let the elders of that citie take that man and chastyce him and merce him in an hundred sycles of syluer and geue them vnto the father of the damsell, because he hath brought vpp an euell name vppon a mayde in Israel. And she shalbe his wife, and he may not put her awaye all his dayes. But and yf the thinge be of a suertie that the damsell be not founde a virgen, let them brynge her vnto the dore of hir fathers housse, and let the men of that citie stone her with stones to de [...]th, because she hath wrought folye in Israel, to playe the whore in hir fathers housse. And so thou shalt put euell awaye from the.

Yf a man be sounde lyenge with a woman, that hath a wedded husbonde, then let thē dye etherother of thē: both the man that laye with the wife and also the wife: so thou shalt put awaye euell from Israel.

[Page]Yf a mayde be hanfasted vnto an husbonde, and then a man finde her in the towne and leye with her, then ye shall brynge them both out vnto the gates of that same citie and shall stone them with stones to deeth: The damsell because she cried not beynge in the citie: And the man, because he hath humbled his neyghbours wife, and thou shalt put awaye evell from the.

But yf a man finde a betrothed damsell in the felde and force her and leye with her: Thē the man that laye with her shall dye alone, and vnto the damsell thou shalt doo no harme: because there is in the damsell no cause of deeth. For as when a man ryseth agenste his neyghboure and sleyeth him, euē so is this matter. For he founde her in the feldes and the be trothed damsell cried: but there was no mā to succoure her.

Yf a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed ād take her ād lye with her ād be founde: Then the man that laye with her shall geue vnto the damsells father .l. sycles of syluer. And she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her, and he maye not put her awaye all hys dayes.

No man shall take his fathers wife, nor vnheale his fathers couerynge.

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¶ The .xxiij. Chapter

NOne that is gelded or hath his preuey membres cutt of, shall come in to the congregacion of the Lorde. And he that is borne of a comen woman shall not come inthe congregacion of the Lorde, no in the tenth generacyon he shall not entre in to the congregacyon of the Lorde. The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come in to the cō gregacyon of the Lorde, no not in the tenth generacion, no they shall neuer come in to the cō gregacion of the Lorde, because they met you not with bred and water in the waye when ye came out of Egipte, and because they hyred agenst the Balaam the sonne of Beor the interpreter of Mesopotamia, to curse the. Neuer thelesse the Lorde thy God wolde not herken vnto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessinge vnto the, because the Lorde thy God loued the. Thou shalt neuer therfore seke that which is prosperouse or good for them all thy dayes for euer.

Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite, for he is thy brother: nether shalt thou abhorre an Egiptian, because thou wast a straunger in hys londe. The childern that are begotten of them shall come in to the congregacyon of the Lorde in the .iij. generacion.

[Page]When thou goest out with the host agenst thine enemies, kepe the frō all wekednesse for the Lorde is amonge you.

Yf there be any man that is vncleane by the reason of vnclennesse that chaunceth hym by nyght, let him goo out of the host and not come in agayne vntyll he haue wasshed him selfe with water before the euen: ād then whē the sonne is doune, let him come in to the host agayne.

Thou shalt haue a place without the host whother thou shalt resorte to and thou shalt haue a sharpe poynte at the ende of thy wepon: and when thou wilt ease thy selfe, digge therewith and turne and couer that which is departed from the. For the Lorde thy God walketh in thyne host, to rydd the and to sett thine enemyes before the. Let thine host be pure that he se no vncleane thinge amonge you and turne from you.

Thou shalt not delyuer vnto his master the seruaunt which is escaped from his master vnto the. Let him dwel with the, euē amonge you in what place he him selfe liketh best, in one of thi cities where it is good for him, an [...] vexe him not.

There shalbe no whore of the doughters of Israel, nor whorekeper of the sonnes of Israel

[Page]Thou shalt nether brynge the hyre of an whoThe pope wil take tribute of them yet ād bisshopes, ād abo [...]es de sire no better [...]nauntes. re nor the pryce of a dogge in to the housse of the Lorde thy God, in no maner of vowe: for euē both of them are abhominacion vnto the Lorde thy God.

Thou shalt be no vsurer vnto thy brother, nether in mony nor in fode, nor in any maner thinge that is lent vppon vserye. Vnto a straū ger thou maist lende vppon vserye, but not vnto thy brother, that the Lorde thy God maye blesse the in all that thou settest thyne hande to in the londe whother thou goest to conque re it.

When thou hast vowed a vowe vnto the Lorde thy God, se thou be not slacke to paye it. For he will surely requyre it of the, and it shalbe synne vnto the. Yf thou shalt leue vowinge, it shalbe no synne vnto the: but that which is once gone out off thy lippes, thou must kepe and doo, accordynge as thou hast vowed vnto the Lorde thy god a frewilloffrynge whiche thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

When thou comest in to thy neghboures vy neyarde, thou mayst eate grapes thy belyfull at thine awne pleasure: but thou shalt put none in thy bagge.

When thou goest in to thy neyghbours corne, thou mayst plucke the eares with thine hād [Page] but thou mayst not moue a sycle vnto thy neghbours corne.

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter.

WHen a man hath taken a wyfe and maried her, yf she finde no fauoure in his eyes, because he hath spied some vnclennesse in her. Then let him write her a bylle of devor cement and put it in hir hande and sende her out of his housse. Yf when she is departed out of his housse, she goo and be another mans wife and the seconde husbonde hate her and write her a letter of deuorcement and put it in hir hande and sende her out of his housse, or yf the seconde man dye whiche toke her to wyfe. Hir first man whiche sent hir awaye maye not take her agayne to be his wyfe, in as moche as she is defiled. For that is abhominacyon in the syght of the Lorde: that thou defile not the lō de with synne, which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enherett.

When a man taketh a newe wyfe, he shall not goo a warrefare nether shalbe charged wyth any busynesse: but shalbe fre at home one yere and reioyse with his wife whiche he hath taken.

[Page]No mā shall take the nether or the vpper milstone to pledge, for then he taketh a mans lyfe to pledge.

Yf any man be founde stealynge any of his brethern the childern of Israel, ād maketh cheuesaunce of him or selleth him, the thefe shall dye. And thou shalt put euell awaye from the.

Take hede to thy selfe as concernynge the plage of leprosye, that thou obserue diligently to doo acordinge to all that the preastes the leuites shall theach the, as I commaunded themDo as the prcastes teache you: but as I haue taughte thē and not as they fay [...]e. so ye shall obserue to doo. Remembre what the Lorde thy God dyd vnto Mir Iam by the waye, after that ye were come out off Egipte.

Yf thou lende thy brother any maner soker, thou shalt not goo in to his housse to fetche a pledge: but shalt stonde without and the man to whom thou lendest, shall brynge the the pledge out at the dore. Forthermore yf it be a pore body, goo not to slepe with his pledge: but delyuer hym the pledge agayne by that the sonne goo doune, and let him slepe in his owne rayment and blesse the. And it shalbe rightuousnes vnto the, before the Lorde thy God.

Thou shalt not defraude an hyred servaunte that is nedye and poore, whether he be off thy [Page] brethern or a straunger that is in thy lond with in thy cities. Geue him his hyre the same daye, and let not the sonne goo doune thereon. For he is nedye ād therewith susteyneth his life, lest he crye agenst the vnto the Lorde ād it be synne vnto the.

The fathers shal not dye for the childern nor the childern for the fathers: but euery mā shall dye for his awne synne.

Hynder not the right of the straunger nor of the fatherlesse, nor take wedowes rayment to pledge. But remembre that thou wast a servaunte in Egipte, ād how the Lord thy God delyuered the thēce. Wherfore I cōmaūde the to doo this thinge.

When thou cuttest doune thyne herueste in the felde and hast forgotte a shefe in the felde thou shalt not goo agayne and fett it: But it shalbe for the straunger, the fatherlesse and the wedowe, that the Lorde thy God maye blesse the in all the workes of thyne hande. When thou beatest doune thyne olyue, trees thou shalt not make cleane riddaunce after the: but it shal be for the straunger, the fatherlesse and the wedowe. And when thou gatherest thy vyneyarde▪ thou shalt not gather cleane after the: but it shalbe for the straunger, the fatherlesse and the wedowe. And remembre that thou wast a [Page] seruaunte in the lond of Egipte: wherfore I cō maunde the to doo this thinge.

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

WHen there is strife betwene men, let thē come vnto the lawe, and let the iudges iustifie the rightuous and condemne the trespeaser. And yf the trespeaser be worthy of strypes, then let the iudge cause to take him doune and to bete him before his face accordynge to his trespace, vnto a certayne numbre .xl. stirpes he shall geue him and not passe: lest yf he shulde exceade and beate him aboue that with many stripes, thi brother shuld appere vngodly before thyne eyes.

Thou shalt not mosell the oxe that treadeth out the corne.

When brethern dwell together and one ofIt were hard to proue this a ceremonye them dye ād haue no childe, the wyfe of the deed shall not be geuen out vnto a straunger: but hir brotherlawe shall goo in vnto her and take her to wife and marie her. And the eldest sonne which she beareth, shall stonde vp in the name of his brother which is deed, that his name be not put out in Israel.

But and yf the man will not take his systerlawe, then let her goo to the gate vnto the elders [Page] and saye: My brotherlawe refuseth to sterre vpp vnto his brother a name in Israel, he will not marie me. Then let the elders of his citie call vnto him and comen with him. Yf he stonde and saye: I will not take her, then let his systerlawe goo vnto him in the presence of the elders and loose his showe of his fote and spytt in his face and answere and saye. So shall it be done vnto that man that will not bylde his brothers housse. And his name shalbe called in Israel, the vnshoed housse.

Yf when men stryue together, one with another, the wife of the one rūne to, for to ryd hyr husbonde out of the handes of him that smyteth him and put forth hir hande and take him by the secrettes: cutt of hir hande, and let not thine eye pitie her.

Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner weyghtes, a greate and a small: nether shalt thou haue in thine house dyuerse measures, a great ād a small. But thou shalt haue a perfect ād a iust measure: that thy dayes maye be lengthed in the londe whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the, For all that do soche thinges ād all that doo vnright, are abhominacion vnto the Lorde thy God.

[Page]Remembre what Amalech dyd vnto the by the waye after thou camest out of Egipte, he mett the by the waye and smote the hynmost of you, all that were ouer laboured and dragged by hynde, when thou wast faynted and werye, and he feared not God. Therfore when the Lorde thy God hath geuen the rest from all thyne enemyes rounde aboute, in the londe whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the to enheret and possesse: se that thou put out the name of Amalech from vnder heauen, ād forget not.

¶ The .xxvj. Chapter.

WHen thou art come in to the londe whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the to enherett and hast enioyed it and dwellest there in: take of the first of all the frute of the erthe, which thou hast brought in out of the lande that the Lorde thy God geueth the and put it in a maunde and goo vnto the place which the Lorde thy God shall chose to make his name dwell there. And thou shalt come vnto the preast that shalbe in those dayes ād saye vnto him I knowledge this daye vnto the Lorde thy God, that I am come vnto the contre whiche the Lorde sware vnto oure fathers for to geue vs.

[Page]And the preast shall take the maunde out of thine hande, and set it doune before the alter of the Lorde thy God. And thou shalt answere ād saye before the Lorde thy God: The Sirians wolde haue destroyed my father, and he went doune in to Egipte ād sogeorned there with a few folke and grewe there vnto a nacyon greate, myghtie and full of people. And the Egiptians vexed us ād troubled vs, and laded vs with cruell bondage. And we cried vn to the Lorde God of oure fathers, and the Lorde herde oure voyce and loked on oure aduersyte, laboure and oppressyon. And the Lorde brought vs out of Egipte with a mightye hande and a stretched out arme and with greate tereblenesse and with sygnes and wonders. And he hath brought vs in to this place and hath geuē vs this londe that floweth with mylke and honye. And nowe loo, I haue brought the first frutes off the londe whiche the Lorde hath geuen me. And set it before the Lorde thy God and worshepe before the Lorde thy God and reioyse ouer all the good thinges whiche the Lorde thy God hath geuē vnto the and vnto thyne housse, both thou the Leuite and the straunger that is amonge you.

When thou hast made an ende of tithynge [Page] all the tithes of thine encrease the thyrde yere, the yere of tythynge: and hast geuen it vnto the Leuite, the straunger, the fatherlesse ād the wedowe, and they haue eaten in thy gates ād fylled them selues. Then saye before the Lorde thy God: I haue brought the halowed thinges out of myne housse and haue geuen them vnto the Leuite, the straunger, the fatherlesse and the wedowe acordynge to all the commaundmentes which thou commaundest me: I haue not ouerskypped thy commaundmentes, nor forgetten them. I haue not eaten thereof in my moornynge nor taken awaye thereof vnto any vnclennesse, nor spente thereof aboute any deed corse: but haue herkened vnto the uoyce of the Lorde my God, and haue done after all that he commaūded me, loke doune from thy holy habitacyon heauen and blesse thy people Israel and the lande which thou hast geuen vs (as thou swarest vnto oure fathers) a lond that floweth with mylke and honye.

This daye the Lorde thy God hath commaunded the to doo these ordinaunces and lawes. Kepe them therfore and doo them with all thyne hert and all thy soule. Thou hast sett vpp the Lorde this daye to be thy God and to walke in hys wayes and to kepe his ordinaunces, his commaundmentes and his lawes, and [Page] to herken vnto his voyce. And the Lord hath sett the vp this daye, to be a seuerall people vnto him (as he hath promysed the) and that thou kepe his commaundmentes, and to make the hye aboue all nacyons which he hath made, in prayse, in name and honoure: that thou mayst be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath sayed.

The .xxvij. Chapter.

ANd Moses with the elders of Israel cō maunded the people sayenge: kepe all the commaundmentes whiche I commaunde you this daye. And when ye be come ouer Iordayne vnto the londe which the Lorde thy God geueth the, sett vpp greate stones and playster them with playster, and write vpō thē all the wordes of this lawe, when thou arte come ouer: that thou mayst come in to the londe whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the: a londe that floweth with mylke and honye▪ as the Lorde God off thy fathers hath promysed the.

When ye be come ouer Iordayne, se that ye set vpp these stones which I commaunde you this daye in mount Eball, and playster them with playster. And there bylde vnto the Lord thy God, an altare of stones and se thou lifte [Page] vpp no yerne uppon them: But thou shalt make the altare of the Lorde thy God of rughstones and offer burntoffrynges thereon vnto the Lorde thy God. And thou shalt offer peaceof frynges and shalt eate there and reioyse before the Lorde thy God. And thou shalt write vppon the stones all the wordes of this lawe, manyfestly and well

And Moses with the preastes the Leuites spake vnto all Israel sayenge: take hede ād heare Israel, this daye thou art become the people of the Lorde thy God. Herken therfore vnto the voyce of the Lorde thi God ād do his cō maundmētes ād his ordinaunces which I commaunde you this daye.

And Moses charged the people the same daye sayenge: these shall stonde vppon mount Grisim to blesse the people, when ye are come ouer lordayne: Symeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, Ioseph and Ben Iamin. And these shall stonde apon mount Eball to curse: Ruben, Gad Asser, Zabulon, Dan and Neptaly. And the Leuites shall beginne ād say vnto all the men of Israel wi [...]h a loude voyce.

Cursed be he that maketh any carued image or image of metall (an abhominacion vntoHere of take the popes an occasiō to curse .iiij. tymes in the yere the Lorde, the worke of the handes of the craftesman) and putteth it in a secrett place: [Page] And all the people shall answere and saye Amen.

Cursed be he that curseth his father or hys mother, and all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that remoueth his neghbours marke and all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that maketh the blynde goo out off his waye, and all the people shall saye Amen,

Cursed be he that hyndreth the right of the straunger▪ fatherlesse and wedowe, and all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that lieth with his fathers wife because he hath opened his fathers coueringe, ād all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that lieth with any maner beest, and all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that lieth with his syster whether she be the doughter of his father or off his mother, and all the people shall saye Amen

Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in lawe, and all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that smyteth his neghboure secretly, and all the people shall saye Amē.

Cursed be he that taketh a rewarde to flee innocent bloude, and all the people shall saye Amen.

Cursed be he that mātayneth not all the wordes [Page] of this lawe to doo them, ād all the people shall saye

Amen.

¶ The .xxviij. Chapter

YF thou shalt herken diligently vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to obserue and to do all his commaundmentes whiche I commaunde the this daye. The Lorde wil set the an hye aboue all nacions of the erth. And all these blessynges shall come on the and ouer take the, yf thou shalt herken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the towne and blessed in the feldes, blessed shalbe the frute of thy body, the frute of thy grounde and the frute of thy catell, the frute of thine oxen, and thy flockes of shepe, blessed shall thine almery be ād thy store. Blessed shalt thou be, both when thou goest out, ād blessed whē thou comest in.

The Lorde shall smyte thyne enemyes that ryse agenst the before thy face. They shall come out agenst the one waye, and flee before the seuen wayes. The Lorde shal commaunde the blessynge to be with the in thy store housses ād in all that thou settest thine hande to, and will blesse the in the lande which the Lord thi god geueth the.

The Lorde shall make the an holye people [Page] vnto himselfe, as he hath sworen vnto the: yf thou shalt kepe the commaundmentes of the Lorde thy God and walke in hys wayes.

And all nacyons of the erthe shall se that thou arte called after the name of the Lorde, and they shalbe aferde off the. And the Lorde shall make the plenteous in goodes, in the frute of thy body, in the frute off thy catell and in the frute of thy grounde, in the londe whiche the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers to geue the.

The Lorde shall open vnto the his good treasure, euen the heauen, to geue rayne vnto thy londe in due ceason and to blesse all the laboures of thine hande. And thou shalt lende vnto many nacyōs, but shalt not nede to borowe thy selfe. And the Lorde shall sett the before and not behinde, and thou shalt be aboue only and not beneth: yf that thou herken vnto the commaundmentes of the Lorde thy God which I commaunde the this daye to kepe and to doo them. And se that thou bowe not from any of these wordes which I commaunde the this daye ether to the right hande or to the lefte, that thou woldest goo after straung goddes to serue them.

But and yf thou wilt not herken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God to kepe and to [Page] doo all his commaundmentes and ordinaunces which I commaunde the this daye: then all these curses shall come vppon the and ouertake the: Cursed shalt thou be in the towne, and cursed in the felde, cursed shall thyne almery be and thi store. Cursed shall the frute of thy body ād the frute of thy lond be ād the frute of thine oxen ād the flockes of thy shepe. And cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in, ād whē thou goest out.

And the Lorde shall sende vppon the cursynge, goynge to nought and complaynyng in all that thou settest thine hande to what soeuer thou doest: vntyll thou be destroyed ād brought to nought quyckely, because of the wekednesse of thyne invencyons in that thou hast forsaken the Lorde. And the Lorde shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto the, vntyll he haue consumed the from the londe whether thou goest to enioye it. And the Lorde shall smyte the with swellynge, with feuers, heet, burnynge, wetherynge, with smytynge and bia stinge. And they shall folowe the, vntyll thou perishe.

And the heauen that is ouer thy heed shalbe b [...]asse, and the erth that is vnder the yerne. And the Lorde shall turne the rayne of the lā de vnto powder ād dust: euen frō heauen they [Page] shal come doune vpō the, vntyll thou be brought to nought. And the Lorde shall plage the before thine enemyes: Thou shalt come out one waye agenst them, and flee seuen wayes before them, ād shalt be scatered amonge all the kingdomes of the erth. And thy car casse shalbe meate vnto all maner foules of the ayre ād vnto the beestes of the erth, and no man shall fraye them awaye.

And the Lorde will smyte the with the botches of Egipte and the [...]morodes, scalle and maungynesse, that thou shalt not be healed thereof. And the Lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, blyndnesse and dasynge of herte. And thou shalt grope at none daye as the blynde gropeth in darkenesse, and shalt not come to the right waye.

And thou shalt suffre wronge only and be polled euermore, and no man shall soker the, thou shalt be betrothed vnto a wife, and another shall lye with her. Thou shalt bylde an housse and another shall dwell therein. Thou shalt plante a vyneyarde, and shalt not make it comen. Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thyne eyes, ād thou shalt not eate thereof. Thine asse shalbe violently taken awaye euen before thi face, and shall not be restored the agayne. Thy shepe shalbe geuen vnto thine enemyes, ād no [Page] man shall helpe the.

Thy sonnes ād thy doughters shall be geue vnto another nacion, and thyne eyes shall se and dase vppon them all daye longe, but shalt haue no myghte in thyne hande. The frute of thy londe and all thy laboures shall a nacyon which thou knowest not, eate, ād thou shalt but soffre violence only and be oppressed alwaye: that thou shalt be cleane besyde thy selfe for the syghte of thyne eyes whiche thou shalt se.

The Lord shall smyte the with a myscheuous botche in the knees ād legges, so that thou [...]āst not be healed: euē from the sole of the fote vnto the toppe of the heed.

The Lorde shall brynge both the and thy kynge which thou hast sett ouer the, vnto a nacyon whiche nether thou nor thy fathers haue knowne, and there thou shalt serue straunge goddes: euen wodd ād stone. And thou shalt goo to wast ād be made an ensample ād a gestynge stocke vnto al naciōs whether the Lord shall carye the.

Thou shalt carie moch seed ou [...] in to the felde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the locustes shall destroye it, Thou shalt plante a vyneyarde and dresse it, but shalt nether drynke off the wyne nether gather of the grapes, [Page] for the wormes shall eate it. Thou shalt haue olyue trees in all thy costes, but shalt not be anoynted with the oyle, for thyne olyue trees shalbe rooted out. Thou shalt get sonnes ād doughters, but shalt not haue them: for they shalbe caried awaye captyue. All thy trees and frute of thy londe shalbe marred with blastynge.

The straungers that are amonge you shall clyme aboue the vpp an hye, ād thou shalt come doune beneth alowe. He shall lende the ād thou shalt not lende him, he shalbe before ād thou behynde.

Moreouer all these curses shall come vppō the and shall folowe the and ouertake the, tyll thou be destroyed: because thou herkenedest not vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe his cōmaundmētes ād ordinaunces whiche he cōmaūded the, ād they shalbe vppō the as miracles ād wonders ād vppon thy seed foreuer. And because thou seruedest not the Lorde thy God with ioyfulnesse and with a good herte for the abundaunce of all thinges, therfore thou shalt serue thyne enemye whiche the Lorde shall sende vppon the: in hunger and thrust, in nakednesse and in nede off all [...]hynge: and he shall put a yocke off yerne [...]ppon thyne necke, vntyll he haue broughte [Page] the to noughte.

And the Lorde shall brynge a nacion vppon the from a farre, euen from the ende off the worlde, as swyfte as an egle fleeth: a nacion whose tonge thou shalt not vnderstonde: a herde fauoured nacion whiche shall not regarde the person of the olde nor haue compassiō on the younge. And he shall eate the frute of thy londe and the frute of thy catell vntyll he haue destroyed the: so that he shall leaue the nether corne, wyne, nor oyle, nether the ēcrease of thyne oxen nor the flockes of thy shepe: vntyll he haue brought the to nought. And he shall kepe the in in all thy cities, vntyll thy hye ād stronge walles be come doune whereī thou trustedest, thorow all thy londe. And he shall besege the in all thy cities thorow out all thy land whiche the Lorde thy God hath geuen the.

And thou shalt eate the frute of thyne awne bodye: the flessh of thy sonnes and off thy doughters which the Lorde thy God hath geuen the, in that straytenesse and sege where▪ with thyne enemye shall besege the: so that it shall greue the man that is tender and exceadynge delycate amonge you, to loke on his brother and vppon his wife that lyeth in hys bosome ād on the remnaunte of his childern, which he hath yet lefte, for feare of geuynge [Page] vnto any of them of the flesh of hys childern, whiche he eateth, because he hath noughte lefte him in that straytenesse and sege wherewith thyne enemye shall besege the in all thy cytyes.

Yee and the woman that is so tender and delycate amonge you that she dare not auenture to sett the sole of hyr foote vppon the grounde for softnesse and tendernesse, shalbe greued to loke on the husbonde that leyeth in hir bosome and on hyr sonne and on hyr doughter: euen because of the afterbyrthe that ys come oute from betwene hyr legges, and because of hyr childern whiche she hath borne, because she wolde eate them for nede off all thynges secretly, in the straytenesse and sege wherewith thine enemye shall besege the in thy cities.

Yf thou wilt not be diligent to doo all the wordes of this lawe that are wrytten in thys boke, for to feare this glorious and fearfull name of the Lorde thy God: the Lorde will smyte both the and thy seed with wonderfull plages and with greate plages and of longe continuaunce, and with euell sekenesses and of longe duraunce. Moreouer he wyll brynge vppon the all the diseases off Egipte whiche thou wast afrayed off, and they shall cleaue [Page] vnto the. Thereto all maner sekenesse [...] and all maner plages whiche are not wrytten in the boke of this lawe, wyll the Lorde brynge vppon the vntyll thou be come to noughte. And ye shalbe lefte fewe in numbre, where to fore ye were as the starres off heauen in multitude: because thou woldest not herkē vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God.

And as the Lorde reioysed ouer you to do you good and to multiplye you: euen so he will reioyse ouer you, to destroye you and to brynge you to nought. And ye shabe wasted from of the lande whother thou goest to enioye it, And the Lorde shall scater the amonge all nacyons from the one ende of the worlde vnto the other, and there thou shalt serue straunge goddes, which nether thou nor thy fathers haue knowne: euen wod and stone.

And amonge these nacyons thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt haue no reste for the sole of thy foote. For the Lorde shall geue the there a trēblynge herte ād dasynge eyes and sorowe of mynde. And thy lyfe shall hange before the, and thou shalt feare both daye and nyghte ād shalt haue no trust in thy lyfe. In the mornynge thou shalt saye, wolde God it were nyghte. And at nyghte thou shalt saye, [Page] wolde God it were mornynge. For feare off thyne herte whiche thou shalt feare, and for the syghte of thyne eyes whiche thou shalt se.

And the Lorde shall brynge the in to Egipte agayne with shippes, by the waye which I bade the that thou shuldest se it nomoare. And there ye shalbe solde vnto youre enemyes, for bondmen and bondwemen: and yet no man shall bye you.

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

THese are the wordes of the appoyntmēt which the Lorde commaunded Moses to make with the childern of Israel in the londe of Moab, besyde the appoyntment whiche he made with them in Horeb.

And Moses called vnto all Israel and sayed vnto them: Ye haue sene all that the Lorde dyd before youre eyes in the lande of Egipte, vnto Pharao and vnto all his seruauntes, and vnto all his londe, and the greate temptacyons whiche thyne eyes haue sene and those greate myracles and wonders: and yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an herte to perceaue, nor eyes to se, nor eares to heare vnto this daye.

[Page]And I haue led you .xl. yere in the wildernesse: and youre clothes are not waxed olde vppon you, nor are thy showes waxed olde vppon thy fete. Ye haue eaten no bred nor droncke wyne or strounge dryncke: that ye myghte knowe, howe that he is the Lorde youre God.

And at the last ye came vnto this place, ād Sihon the kynge of Hesbon and Og kynge of Basan came out agenst you vnto batayle, and we smote them and toke their londe and gaue it an heritaunce vnto the Rubenites and Gadites and to the halfe tribe of Manasse. Kepe therfore the worde of this appoyntment and doo them, that ye maye vnderstonde all that ye ought to doo.

Ye stonde here this daye euery one of you before the Lorde youre God: both the heedes of youre trybes, youre elders, youre officers ād all the mē of Israel: youre childern, youre wyues and the straungere that are in thyne host, from the hewer of thy wod vnto the drawer of thy water: that thou shulddest come vnder the appoyntment of the Lorde thy God, and vnder his othe which the Lorde thy God maketh with the this daye. For to make the a people vnto him selfe, and that he maye be vnto the a God, as he hath sayed vnto the and [Page] as he hath sworne vnto thi fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

Also I make not this bonde and this othe with you only: but both with him that stōdeth here with us this daye before the Lorde oure God, and also with him that is not here with us this daye. For ye knowe how we haue dwelt in the londe of Egipte, and how we came thorow the myddes of the nacions which we passed by. And ye haue sene their abhominaciōs and their ydolles: wod, stone, siluer and golde which they had.

Lest there be amonge you man or woman kynred or trybe that turneth awaye in his hert this daye from the Lord oure God, to goo ād serue the goddes of these nacions: and lest there be amonge you some roote that bereth gall and wormwod, so that when he heareth the wordes of this curse, he blesse him selfe in his hert sayenge: I feare it not, I will therfore walke after the lust of myne awne hert, that the drounken destroye the thurstie.

And so the Lorde will not be mercyfull vnto him, but then the wrath of the Lorde ād his gelousye, smoke agenst that man, ād al the curses that are written in this boke light vppō him, and the Lorde doo out his name frō vnder heauen, and separate him vnto euell out of [Page] all the trybes of Israel acordynge vnto all the curses of the appoyntement that is written in the boke of this lawe.

So that the generacion to come of youre childern that shal ryse vpp after you ād the straunger that shall come from a ferre londe, saye when they se the plages of that londe, and the diseases where with the Lorde hath smytten it how all the londe is burnt vpp with bremstone and salt, that it is nether sowne nor beareth nor any grasse groweth therein, after the ouertrowenge of Sodome, Gomor, Adama ād Zeboim: which the Lorde ouerthrewe in his wrath and angre.

And than all nacions also saye: wherfore hath the Lorde done of this facion vnto this londe? O how fearse is this greatt wrath? And men shall saye: because they lefte the testamēt of the Lorde God of their fathers which he made with them, whē he brought them out of the lande of Egipte. And they went ād serued straunge goddes and worshipped them: goddes which they knewe not and which had geuen them nought. And therfore the wrath off the Lorde waxed whote vppon that londe to brynge vppon it all the curses that are written in this boke. And the Lorde cast them out of their londe in angre, wrath and greate furyou [Page] snesse, and cast thē in to a straunge londe, as it is come to passe this daye.

The secrettes perteyne vnto the Lorde oure God and the thinges that are opened perteyne vnto us and oure childern for euer, that we doo all the wordes of this lawe.

The .xxx. Chapter.

WHen all these wordes are come vpō the whether it be the blessinge or the cursse which I haue set before the: yet yf thou turne vnto thyne hert amonge all the nacions whother the Lorde thi God hath thruste the, and come agayne vnto the Lorde thi God ād herken vnto his voyce acordinge to all that I cō maunde the this daye: both thou and thi childern with all thine hert and all thi soule: Then the Lorde thi God wil turne thi captiuite ād haue cōppassion vpō the ād goo ād fett the agayne from all the nacions, amōge which the Lorde thi God shall haue scatered the.

Though thou wast cast vnto the extreme partes of heauen: euen from thence will the Lorde thi God gather the and from thence fett the and brynge the in to the lande which thi fathers possessed, and thou shalt enioye it. And he will shewe the kyndnesse and [Page] multiplye the aboue thi fathers. And the Lorde thi God will circumcyse thine hert and the hert of thi seed for to loue the Lorde thi God with all thine hert and all thi soule, that thou mayst lyue. And the Lorde thi God will put al these curses vpō thine enemyes and on thē that hate the and persecute the.

But thou shalt turne and herken vnto the voyce of the Lorde and doo all his commaundmentes which I commaunde the this daye And the Lorde thi God will make the plenteous in all the workes of thine hande and in the frute of thi bodye, in the frute of thi catell and frute of thi lande and in riches. For the Lorde will turne agayne and reioyse ouer the to doo the good, as he reioysed ouer thi fathers: Yf thou herken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe his commaundmentes and ordynaunces which are written in the boke of this lawe, yf thou turne vnto the Lord thi God with all thine hert and all thi soule.

For the commaundment which I commaunde the this daye, is not separated from the nether ferre of. It is not in heauen, that thou neadest to saye: who shall goo vpp for us in to heauen, and fett it us, that we maye heare it ād doo it: Nether is it beyonde the see, that thou shuldest saye: who shall goo ouer see for us and fett [Page] [...]t us that we maye heare it and doo it: But the worde is very nye vnto the: euen in thi mouth and in thine hert, that thou doo it.

Beholde I haue sett before you this daye lyfe and good, deeth and cuell: in that I commaunde the this daye to loue the Lorde thi God and to walke in his wayes and to kepe his commaundementes, his ordynaunces and his lawes: that thou mayst lyue and multipye, and that the Lorde thy God man blesse the in the londe whother thou goest to possesse it.

But and yf thyne hert turne awaye, so that thou wilt not heare: but shalt goo astraye and worshepe straunge goddes and serue them, I pronounce vnto you this daye, that ye shal surely peresh and that ye shall not prolonge youre dayes vppon the londe whother thou passest ouer Iordayne to goo and possesse it.

I call to recorde this daye vnto you, heauen and erth, that I haue sett before you lyfe and deeth, blessynge and cursynge: but chose lyfe, that thou and thi seed maye lyue, in that thou louest the Lorde thi God herkenest vnto his voyce and cleauest vnto him. For he is thi life and the lengthe of thi dayes, that thou mayst dwell vppon the erth which the Lorde sware vnto thi fathers: Abraham, Isaac and Iacob to [Page] geue them.

The .xxxi. Chapter.

ANd Moses went and spake these wordes vnto all Israel and sayed vnto them I am an hundred ād .xx. yere olde this daye, ād can nomoare goo out and in. Also the Lorde hath sayed vnto me, thou shalt not go ouer this Iordayne. The Lord youre God he will go ouer before the ād he will destroye these nacions before the, ād thou shalt cōquere thē. And Iosua he shall goo ouer before the, as the Lorde hath sayed. And the Lorde shall doo vnto them, as he dyd to Sihon ād Og kynges of the Amorites ād vnto their landes which kinges he destroyed.

And when the Lorde hath delyuered them to the, se that ye doo vnto them acordynge vnto all the cōmaundmentes which I haue cōmaunded you. Plucke vpp youre hartes and be stronge, dreade not nor be aferde of them: for the Lorde thi God him selfe will goo with the, and wil nether let the goo nor forsake the:

And Moses called vnto Iosua and sayed vnto him in the sighte of all Israel: Be strō ge and bolde, for thou must goo with this people vnto the londe which the Lorde [Page] hath sworne vnto their fathers to geue them, and thou shalt geue it them to enheret. And the Lorde he shall goo before the ād he shall be with the, and wil not let the goo nor forsake the, feare not therfore nor be discomforted.

And Moses wrote this lawe and delyuered it vnto the preastes the sonnes of Leui which bare the arke of the testament of the Lorde, and vnto all the elders of Israel, and commaunded them sayenge: At the ende of .vij. yere, in the tyme of the fre yere, in the fest of the tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appere before the Lorde thi God, in the place which he hath chosen: se that thou reade this lawe before all Israel in their eares Gather the people together: both men, wemen and childern and the straungers that are in thi cities, that they maye heare, lerne and feare the Lorde youre God, and be diligent to kepe all the wordes of this lawe, and that theyr childern which knowe nothinge maye heare and lerne to feare the Lorde youre God, as longe as ye lyue in the londe whother ye goo ouer Iordayne to possesse it.

And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: Beholde thy dayes are come, that thou [Page] must dye. Call Iosua and come and stonde in the tabernacle of witnesse, that I maye geue him a charge. And Moses and Iosua went and stode in the tabernacle off witnesse. And the Lorde apeared in the tabernacle: euen in the pyler off the cloude. And the piler of the cloude stode ouer the dore of the tabernacle.

And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: beholde, thou must slepe with thi fathers, and this people will goo a whorynge after straunge goddes off the londe whother they goo and will forsake me and breake the appoyntement which I haue made with them. And then my wrath will waxe whote agenst them, and I will forsake them and will hyde my face from them, and they shalbe consumed. And when moch aduersyte and tribulacion is come vppon them, then they will saye: because oure God is not amonge us, these tribulacions are come vppon us. But I wil hyde my face that same tyme for all the euels sake which they shall haue wrought, in that they are turned vnto straunge goddes.

Now therfore write ye this songe, and teach it the childern of Israel and put it in their mouthes that this songe maye be my witnesse [Page] vnto the childern of Israel. For when I haue brought them in to the londe whiche I sware vnto their fathers that runneth with mylke ād honye, then they will eate and fyll them selues and waxe fatt and turne vnto straunge goddes and serue them and rayle on me and breake my testament. And then when moch myschefe and tribulacion is come vppon them, this songe shall answere before them, and be a witnesse. It shall not be forgetten out of the mouthes of their seed: for I knowe their imaginacyon whiche they goo aboute euen now before I haue broughte them in to the londe which I sware. And Moses wrote this songe the same season, and taught it the childern of Israel.

And the Lorde gaue Iosua the sonne off Nun a charge and sayed: be bolde and stronge for thou shalt brynge the childern of Israel in to the lond which I sware vnto them, ād I will be with the.

When Moses had made an ende of wrytynge out the wordes of this lawe in a boke vnto the ende of them he commaunded the Leuites which bare the arcke of the testamēt of the Lorde sayenge: take the boke off thys lawe and put it by the syde of the arcke of the testament of the Lorde youre God, and let it [Page] be there for a witnesse vnto the. I For knowe thi stubernesse and thi stiffe necke: beholde, while I am yet a lyue with you this daye, ye haue bene dishobedient vnto the Lorde: ād how moch moare after my deeth.

Gather vnto me al the elders of youre trybes and youre officers, that I maye speake these wordes in their eares and call heauē ād erth to recorde agenst them. For I am sure that after my deeth, they will vtterly marre them selues and turne from the waye which I commaunded you, and tribulacion will come vppon you in the later dayes, when ye haue wrought welkednesse in the sight of the Lorde to prouoke him with the workes of youre handes. And Moses spake in the eares of all the congregacion of Israel the wordes of this songe, vnto the ende of them.

The .xxxij. Chapter.

HEare o heauen, what I shall speake and heare o erth the wordes of my mouth. My doctrine droppe as doeth the rayne, ād my speach flowe as doeth the dewe, as the mesellynge vpō the herbes, ād as the droppes vppō the grasse. For I wil call on the name of the Lorde: Magnifie the might of oure God.

[Page]He is a rocke and perfecte are his deades, for all his wayes are with discrecion. God is faithfull and without wekednesse, both rightuous and iuste is he.

The frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion hath marred them selues to him ward, ād [...]re not his sonnes for their deformities sake,

Doest thou so rewarde the Lorde? O foolish nacyon ād vnwyse. Is not he thy father ād thyne owner? hath he not made the and ordeyned the?

Remembre the dayes that are past: consydre the yeres from tyme to tyme. Axe thy father ād [...]e will shewe the, thyne elders and they wyll [...]ell the.

Whē the most hyghest gaue the nacyons an [...]nheritaunce, ād diuided the sonnes of Adam [...]e put the borders of the nacions, fast by the multitude of the childern of Israel.

For the Lordes parte is his folke, ād Israel [...] the porcion of his enheritaunce.

He founde him in a deserte londe, in a voyde ground ād a rorynge wildernesse. he led hī aboute and gaue him vnderstondynge, ād kep [...] him as the aple of his eye.

As an egle that stereth vpp hyr nest and [...]otereth ouer hyr younge, he stretched oute [...]is wynges and toke hym vpp and bare hym [Page] on his shulders.

The Lorde alone was his guyde, and there was no straunge God with him.

He sett him vpp apon an hye londe, and he ate the encrease of the feldes. And he gaue h [...] honye to sucke out of the rocke, ād oyle out of the harde stone.

With butter of the kyne and mylke of the shepe, with fatt of the lambes ād fatt ramme [...] and he gootes with fatt kydneyes and with whete. And of the bloude of grapes thou dr [...] kest wyne.

And Israel waxed fatt and kyked. Thou wast fatt, thicke and smothe, And he let God goo that made hī and despysed the rocke that saued him.

They angred him with straūge goddes ād with abhominacions prouoked him.

They offered vnto feldedeuels and not to God, ād to goddes which they knewe not ād to newe goddes that came newly vpp whiche their fathers feared not.

Of the rocke that begat the thou arte vn [...] myndefull and hast forgott God that made the.

And when the Lorde sawe it, he was angre because of the prouokynge of his sonnes and doughters.

[Page]And he sayed: I will hyde my face from thē and will se what their ende shall be. For they are a froward generacion ād childern in whō is no fayth.

They haue angred me with that whiche is no god, and prouoked me with their vanities And I agayne will angre them with thē whiche are no people, and will prouoke thē with [...] foelish nacion.

For fire is kyndled in my wrath, ād shal burne vnto the botome of heell. And shall consume the erth with her encrease, and set a fire the botoms of the mountaynes.

I will hepe myscheues vpon the ād will spē de all myne arowes at them.

Burnt with hungre ād consumed with heet and with bitter pestilence. I will also sende the [...]ethe of beestes vppon them and poyson serpentes.

Without forth, the swerde shall robbe thē off theire childern: and wythin in the chamber, feare: both younge men and younge wemen and the suckelynges with the mē of gray [...]eedes.

I haue determened to scater thē therowout [...]e worlde, ād to make awaye the remēbraunce of them from amonge men.

Were it not that I feared the raylynge off [Page] their enemyes, lest theire aduersaries wo [...]de be prowde and saye: oure hye hande hath done a [...] these workes and not the Lorde.

For it is a nacion that hath an vnhappye forcast, and hath no vnderstonge in them. [...] wolde they ware wyse and vnderstode this ād wolde consider their later ende.

Howe it cometh that one shall chace [...] thousande, and two putt ten thousande of [...] them to flyghte? excepte theire rocke had solde them, and because the Lorde had delyuered them.

For oure rocke is not as their rocke, no though oure enemyes be iudge.

But their vynes are of the vynes of Sodom, and of the feldes of Gomorra. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and theire clusters be bytter.

Their wyne is the poyson of dragons, ād the cruell gall of aspes.

Are not soch thinges layed in store with me▪ ād seeled vpp amonge my treasures?

Vengeaunce is myne and I will rewarde: their fete shall slyde, when the tyme cometh. For the tyme of their destruction is at honde, and the tyme that shall come vppon them maketh hast.

For the Lorde will doo iustice vnto hys [Page] people, and haue compassion on his servauntes. For it shalbe sene that theire power shall fayle, and at the last they shalbe presoned and forsaken.

And it shalbe sayed: where are their goddes ād their rocke wherein they trusted?

The fatt of whose sacrifices they ate and drancke the wyne of their drynckofferynges, let them ryse vpp and helpe you and be youre protection.

Se now howe that I, I am he, and that there is no God but I. I can kyll and make alyue, ād what I haue smyten that I can heale: nether y [...] there that can delyuer any man oute off my honde.

For I will lifte vp myne hande to heauē, ād will saye: I lyue euer.

Yf I whett the lyghtenynge of my swerde, and myne hande take in hande to doo iustyce, I wyll shewe vengeaunce on myne enemyes and will rewarde them that hate me.

I will make myne arowes dronkē with bloude, and my swerde shall eate flesh of the bloud of the slayne and of the captyue and of the bare heed of the enemye.

Reioyse hethen wyth hys people, for he wyll auenge the bloude off his servauntes, and wyll auenge hym off hys aduersaryes, [Page] and wilbe mercyfull vnto the londe off hys people.

And Moses went ād spake all the wordes of this songe in the eares of the people, both he and Iosua the sonne of Nun. And when Moses had spoken all these wordes vnto the ende to all Israel, then he sayed vnto them. Sett youre hertes vnto all the wordes whiche I testifye vnto you this daye: that ye commaunde them vnto youre childern, to obserue and doo all the wordes off thys lawe. For it is not a vayne worde vnto you: but it is youre lyfe, and thorow thys worde ye shall prolonge youre dayes in the lond whother ye goo ouer Iordayne to conquere it.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses the selfe same daye sayenge: get the vpp in to this mountayne Abarim vnto mount Nebo, which is in the londe of Moab ouer agenst Iericho. And beholde the londe of Canaan whiche I geue vnto the childern of Israel to possesse. And dye in the mount whiche thou goest vppon, and be gathered vnto thy people: As Aaron thy brother dyed in mounte Hor ād was gathered vnto his people. For ye trespased agenst me amonge the childern of Israel at the waters off striffe, at Cades in the wyldernesse of Zin: because ye sanctified me not amonge [Page] the childern of Israel. Thou shalt se the londe before the, but shall not goo thither vnto the londe which I geue the childern off Israel.

The .xxxiij. Chapter.

THis is the blessinge where with Moses gods man blessed the childern of Israel before his deeth sayenge: The Lord came frō Sinai and shewed his beames from Seir vnto them, and appered gloriously from mount Paran, and he came with thousandes of sayntes, and in his right hande a lawe of fyre for them How loued he the people? All his sayntes are in his honde. They yoyned thē selues vnto thy fote and receaued thi wordes. Moses gaue us a lawe which is the enheritaunce of the cō gregacion of Iacob. And he was in Israel kinge when he gathered the heedes of the people and the tribes of Israel to gether.

Ruben shall lyue and shall not dye: but his people shalbe few in numbre.

This is the blessynge of Iuda. And he sayed: heare Lorde the voyce of Iuda and bringe him vnto his people: let his handes fyght for him: but he thou his helpe agenst his enemies.

And vnto Leui he sayed: thy perfectnesse [Page] ād thi light be after thy mercyfull mā whō thou temptest at Masa ād with whom thou striuedst at the waters of strife. He that saieth vnto his father ād mother. I sawe him not, ād vnto his brethern I knewe not, and to his sonne I wote not: for they haue obserued thi wordes and kepte thy testament. They shall teach Iacob thi iudgementes ād Israel thi lawes. They shall put cens before thi nose and whole sacrifices apon thine altare. Blesse Lorde their power and accepte the workes of their hondes: smyte the backes of them that ryse agēst them and of them that hate them: that they ryse not agayne.

Vnto Ben Iamin he sayed: The Lordes derlynge shall dwell in saffetye by him and kepe him selfe in the hauen by hym contynually, and shall dwell betwene his shulders.

And vnto Ioseph he sayed: blessed of the Lorde is his londe with the goodly frutes off heauen, with dewe and with sprynges that lye beneth: and with frutes of the encrease of the sonne and with rype srute off the monethes, and with the toppes of mountaynes that were from the begynnynge and with the dayntes of hilles that last euer and with goodly frute of the erth and off [Page] the fulnesse there of. And the good will of him that dwelleth in the bush shall come vppon the heed of Ioseph and vppon the toppe of the heed of him that was separated fro amonge his brethern his bewtye is as a firstborne oxe and his hornes as the hornes of an vnycorne. And with them he shall push the nacions to gether, euen vnto the endes of the worlde. These are the many thousandes of Ephraim and the thousandes off Manasse.

And vnto Zabulon he sayed: Reioyse Zabulon in thi goenge out, and thou Isachar in thi tentes. They shall call the people vnto the hill, and there they shall offer offerynges of righteousnes. For they shall sucke of the abundaunce of the see and of treasure hyd in the sonde.

And vnto Gad he sayed: blessed is the rowmmaker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion and caught the arme ād also the toppe of the heed He sawe his begynnynge, that a parte of the teachers were hyd there ād come with the heedes of the people, and executed the righteousnes of the Lorde and his iudgementes with Israel.

And vnto Dan he sayed: Dan is a lions whelpe, he shall flowe from Basan.

[Page]And vnto Nepthali he sayed: Nephali he shall haue abundance of pleasure and shalbe fylled with the blessinge of the Lorde ād shall haue his possessions in the southwest.

And of Asser he sayed: Asser shalbe blessed with childern: he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethern and shall dyppe his fote in oyle: Yern and brasse shall hange on thi showes and thine age shalbe as thi youth.

There is none like vnto the God of the off Israel: he that sitteth vppon heauen shalbe thine helpe, whose glorie is in the cloudes, that is the dwellinge place of God from the begynnynge and from vnder the armes of the worlde: he hath cast out thine enemies before the and sayed: destroye. And Israel shall dwell in saffetye alone. And the eyes of Iacob shall loke appon a londe of corne and wyne, moreouer his heauen shall droppe with dewe. Happye art thou Israel, who is like vnto the? A people that art saued by the Lorde thy shilde and helper and swerde of thi glorye. And thyne enemyes shall hyde them selues from the, and thou shalt walke vppon their hye hilles.

The .xxxiiij. Chapter

ANd Moses went frō the feldes of Moab vpp in to mount Nebo which is the [Page] toppe of Pisga, that is ouer agenst Iericho. And the Lorde shewed him all the londe off Gilead euen vnto. Dan, and all nephtali and the londe of Ephraim and Manasse, ād all the londe of Iuda: euen vnto the vtmost see, ād the south and the region of the playne of Iericho the citye of datetrees euen vnto Zoar: And the Lorde sayed vnto him. This is the lon de which I sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob sayenge: I will geue it vnto thy seed. I haue shewed it the before thyne eyes: but thou shalt not goo ouer thither.

So Moses the seruaunte of the Lorde dyed there in the londe of Moab at the commaundment of the Lorde. And he buryed him in a valey in the londe of Moab besyde Beeth Peor: but no man wyst of his sepulchre vnto this daye. And Moses was an hundred and .xx. ye re olde when he dyed. ād yet his eyes were not dym nor his chekes abated. And the childern of Israel wepte for Moses in the feldes off Moab .xxx. dayes. And the dayes off wepynge and mornynge for Moses were ended.

And Iosua the sonne of Nun was full of the spirite of wisdome: for Moses had put his hande vppon him. And all the childe [...]n of Israel herkened vnto him and dyd as the Lorde [Page] cōmaunded Moses. But there arose not a prophett sense in Israel lyke vnto Moses, whom the Lorde knewe face to face, in all the miracles and wonders which the Lorde sent him to doo in the londe of Egipte, vnto Pharao and all his seruauntes and vnto all his londe: and in all the myghtye deades and greate tereble thinges which Moses dyd in the sight of all Israel

¶ The ende of the fifth boke of Moses.

§

Avims, A kinde of geauntes, and the worde signifieth crooked vnright or weked.

Belial weked or wekednesse, he that hath cast the yoke of God of his necke ād will not obeye god.

Bruterar, prophesiers or sothsayers.

Emims, a kinde of geaūtes so called be cause they were terreble and cruell for emin signifieth terreblenesse.

Enack, a kinde of geauntes, so called happlye because they ware cheynes aboute their neckes, for enack signifieth soch a cheyne as men weer aboute their neckes.

[Page]Horims, A kinde of geauntes, ād signifieth noble, because that of pride they called thē selues nobles or gentles.

Rocke, God is called a rocke, because both he ād his worde lasteth euer.

Whett thē on thy childern, that is exercyse thy childern in thē ād putthem in vre.

Zamzumims, a kinde of geaūtes, ād signifleth myscheuous or that be all waye imaginīge.

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[The Pentateuch]Bible. O.T. Pentateuch. English. Tyndale. 1530.

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By me Hans Luft [i.e. Johan Hoochstraten],. Imprented at Malborow in the lande of Hesse [i.e. Antwerp] :: M.CCCCC.xxx. the. xvij dayes of Januarij [17 Jan. 1530]. (In five parts.) (Each part has "prologe" by W. T[yndale].) (Imprint from colophon of pt. 1.) (Title within ornamental border.) (Signatures: [A]8 B-L8 X8 2A-I8 2K4 3A8 4A-F8 4G4 5A10 5B-I8 5K4 6A4 6B-I8.) (Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.) (The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis -- A prologe in to the seconde boke of Moses called Exodus -- The seconde boke of Moses, called Exodus -- A prologe in to the thirde boke of Moses called Leuiticus -- The thyrde boke of Moses, called Leuiticus -- A prologe in to the fourth boke of Moses, called Numeri -- The Fourthe boke of Moses called Numeri -- A Prologe in to the fyfte boke of Moses, called Deuteronomye -- [Fyfte boke of Moses called Deuteronomye].)

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