{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_39703/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_39703","id":"gutenberg_39703","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39703","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Genesis","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"Produced by Free Elf, Chris Pinfield, Early English Books\nOnline and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber's Notes:\n\nThere are wide variations in spelling, spacing and punctuation. In\naddition some of the blackletter type is worn and difficult to\ninterpret.\n\nUnambiguous spelling has mostly been retained. Apparent errors that\nhave been changed are noted at the end of the text. Uncertain spelling\nhas been transcribed according to the sense of the text. The King\nJames Version (which incorporated most of Tyndale's translation) has\nalso been consulted.\n\nSpacing and punctuation have mostly been retained. Apparent errors\nthat are inconsistent with the text have been corrected. Ambiguities\nhave been transcribed according to the sense of the text.\n\nInverted or displaced type has been corrected.\n\nAbbreviating lines over letters have been transcribed as tildes (e.g.\na, [~e]), while superscript letters (also marking abbreviations) are\nindicated by \"^\" (e.g. y^e). Some paragraphs and chapter titles begin\nwith a \"\u00b6\": these have been retained. Sidenotes begin with a \"*\" and\nrefer to the \"*\" in the following paragraph. The text of some of them\n(identified below) is uncertain. Ligatures (e.g. for \"ll\") have been\nignored. Slanted bars (virgulae suspensivae) are equivalent to modern\ncommas.\n\n\n\n\n [Illustration:\n The fyrst\n boke of\n Moses called\n Genesis.]\n\n\n\n\nW. T. To the Reader.\n\n\nWhen I had translated the newe testament/ I added a pistle vnto the\nlaiter ende/ In which I desyred them y^t were learned to amend if\nought were founde amysse. But oure malicious and wylye hypocrytes\nwhich are so stubburne and hard herted in their weked abhominacios\nthat it is not possible for them to amend any thinge atall (as we see\nby dayly experience when their both lyvinges and doinges are rebuked\nwith the trouth) saye/ some of them that it is unpossible to translate\nthe scripture in to English/ some that it is not lawfull for the laye\npeople to have it in their mother tonge/ some that it wold make them\nall heretykes/ as it wold no doute from many thinges which they of\nlonge tyme haue falsly taught/ ad that is the whole cause wherfore\nthey forbyd it/ though they other clokes pretende. And some or rather\nevery one/ saye that it wold make them ryse ageynst the kinge/ whom\nthey them selves (vnto their damnatyo) never yet obeyed. And leste the\ntemporall rulars shuld see their falsehod/ if the scripture cam to\nlight/ causeth them so to lye.\n\nAnd as for my translatio in which they afferme vnto the laye people\n(as I haue hearde saye) to be I wotte not how many thousande\nheresyes/ so that it ca not be m[~e]ded or correcte/ they haue yet\ntaken so greate payne to examyne it/ & to compare it vnto that they\nwold fayne haue it and to their awne imaginations and iugglinge\ntermes/ and to haue some what to rayle at/ and vnder that cloke to\nblaspheme the treuth/ that they myght with as litle laboure (as I\nsuppose) haue translated the moste parte of the bible. For they which\nin tymes paste were wont to loke on no more scripture then they founde\nin their duns or soch like develysh doctryne/ haue yet now so narowlye\nloked on my translatyon/ that there is not so moch as one I therin if\nit lacke a tytle over his hed/ but they haue noted it/ and nombre it\nvnto the ignorant people for an heresy. Fynallye in this they be all\nagreed/ to dryve you from the knowlege of the scripture/ & that ye\nshall not haue the texte therof in the mother tonge/ and to kepe the\nworld styll in darkenesse/ to the ntent they might sitt in the\nconsciences of the people/ thorow vayne superstition and false\ndoctrine/ to satisfye their fylthy lustes their proude ambition/ and\nvnsatiable covetuousnes/ and to exalte their awne honoure aboue kinge\n& emperoure/ yee & above god him silfe\n\n\u00b6 A thousand bokes had they lever to be put forth agenste their\nabhominable doynges and doctrine/ then that the scripture shulde come\nto light. For as long as they may kepe that doune/ they will so darken\nthe ryght way with the miste of their sophistrye/ and so tangle\nth[~e] that ether rebuke or despyse their abhominations with\nargumentes of philosophye & with wordly symylitudes and apparent\nreasons of naturall wisdom. And with wrestinge the scripture vnto\ntheir awne purpose clene contrarye vnto y^e processe/ order and\nmeaninge of the texte/ and so delude them in descantynge vppon it with\nalligoryes/ and amase th[~e] expoundinge it in manye senses before the\nvnlerned laye people (when it hath but one symple litterall sense\nwhose light the owles ca not abyde) that though thou feale in thyne\nharte and arte sure how that all is false y^t they saye/ yet coudeste\nthou not solve their sotle rydles.\n\n\u00b6 Which thinge onlye moved me to translate the new testament. Because\nI had perceaved by experyence/ how that it was impossible to stablysh\nthe laye people in any truth/ excepte y^e scripture were playnly layde\nbefore their eyes in their mother tonge/ that they might se the\nprocesse/ ordre and meaninge of the texte: for els what so ever truth\nis taught them/ these ennymyes of all truth qwench it ageyne/ partly\nwith the smoke of their bottomlesse pyite wherof thou readest\napocalipsis .ix. that is/ with apparent reasons of sophistrye &\ntraditions of their awne makynge/ founded with out grounde of\nscripture/ and partely in iugglinge with the texte/ expoundinge it in\nsoch a sense as is impossible to gether of the texte/ if thou see the\nprocesse ordre and meaninge therof.\n\n\u00b6 And even in the bisshope of londons house I entended to have done\nit. For when I was so turmoyled in the contre where I was that I coude\nno lenger there dwell (the processe wherof were to longe here to\nreherce) I this wyse thought in my silfe/ this I suffre because the\nprestes of the contre be vnlerned/ as god it knoweth there are a full\nignorant sorte which haue sene no more latyn then that they read in\ntheir portesses and missales which yet many of them can scacely read\n(excepte it be Albertus de secretis mulier[~u] in which yet/ though\nthey be never so soryly lerned/ they pore day and night and make notes\ntherin and all to teach the mydwyves as they say/ and linwod a boke of\nconstitutions to gether tithes/ mortuaryes/ offeringes/ customs/ and\nother pillage/ which they calle/ not theirs/ but godes parte and the\ndeuty of holye chirch/ to discharge their consciences with all: for\nthey are bound that they shall not dimynysh/ but encreace all thinge\nvnto the vttmost of their powers) and therfore (because they are thus\nvnlerned thought I) when they come to gedder to the alehouse/ which is\ntheir preachinge place/ they afferme that my sainges are heresy. And\nbesydes y^t they adde to of thir awne heddes which I never spake/ as\nthe maner is to prolonge the tale to shorte the tyme with all/ and\naccuse me secretly to the chauncelare and other the bishopes officers/\nAnd in deade when I cam before the chauncelare/ he thretened me\ngrevously/ and revyled me and rated me as though I had bene a dogge/\nand layd to my charge wherof there coude be none accuser brought forth\n(as their maner is not to bringe forth the accuser) and yet all the\nprestes of y^e contre were y^t same daye there. As I this thought the\nbishope of london came to my remembrance whom Erasmus (whose tonge\nmaketh of litle gnattes greate elephates and lifteth vpp aboue the\nstarres whosoever geveth him a litle exhibition) prayseth excedingly\namonge other in his annotatyons on the new testament for his great\nlearninge. Then thought I/ if I might come to this mannes service/ I\nwere happye. And so I gate me to london/ & thorow the accoyntaunce of\nmy master came to sir harry gilford the kinges graces controller/ ad\nbrought him an oration of Isocrates which I had translated out of\ngreke in to English/ and desyred him to speake vnto my lorde of london\nfor me/ which he also did as he shewed me/ ad willed me to write a\npistle to my lorde/ and to goo to him my silf which I also did/\nand delivered my pistle to a servant of his awne/ one wyllyam\nhebilthwayte/ a ma of myne old accoynta[~u]ce. But god which kneweth\nwhat is within hypocrites/ sawe that I was begyled/ ad that that\ncouncell was not the nexte way vnto my purpose. And therfore he gate\nme no favoure in my lordes sight\n\n\u00b6 Wherevppo my lorde answered me/ his house was full/ he had mo th[~e]\nhe coude well finde/ and advised me to seke in london/ wher he sayd I\ncoude not lacke a service/ And so in london I abode almoste an yere/\nand marked the course of the worlde/ and herde oure pratars/ I wold\nsay oure preachers how they bosted them selves and their hye\nauthorite/ and beheld the pompe of oure prelates and how besyed they\nwere as they yet are/ to set peace and vnite in the worlde (though it\nbe not possible for them that walke in darkenesse to cotinue longe in\npeace/ for they can not but ether stoble or dash them selves at one\nthinge or a nother that shall clene vnquyer all togedder) & sawe\nthinges wherof I deferre to speake at this tyme and vnderstode at the\nlaste not only that there was no rowme in my lorde of londons palace\nto translate the new testament/ but also that there was no place to do\nit in all englonde/ as experience doth now openly declare.\n\n\u00b6 Vnder what maner therfore shuld I now submitte this boke to be\ncorrected and amended of them/ which can suffer nothinge to be well?\nOr what protestacyon shuld I make in soch a matter vnto oure prelates\nthose stubburne Nimrothes which so mightely fight agenste god and\nresiste his holy spirite/ enforceynge with all crafte and sotelte to\nqwench the light of the everlastinge testament/ promyses/ and\napoyntemente made betwene god & vs: and heapinge the firce wrath of\ngod vppon all princes and rulars/ mockinge th[~e] with false fayned\nnames of hypocrysye/ and servinge their lustes at all poyntes/ &\ndispensinge with th[~e] even of the very lawes of god/ of which\nChriste him silf testifieth Mathew .v. y^t not so moch as one tittle\ntherof maye perish or be brok[~e]. And of which the prophete sayth\nPsalme .cxix. Thou haste comaunded thy lawes to be kepte meod/ y^t is\nin hebrew excedingly/ with all dilig[~e]ce/ might & power/ and haue\nmade th[~e] so mad with their iugglinge charmes and crafty persuasios\nthat they thinke it full satisfaction for all their weked lyvinge/ to\ntorme[~e]t soch as tell th[~e] trouth/ & to borne the worde of their\nsoules helth & sle whosoever beleve theron.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 A prologe shewinge the vse of the scripture\n\n\nThough a man had a precious iuell and a rich/ yet if he wiste not the\nvalue therof nor wherfore it served/ he were nother the better nor\nrycher of a straw. Eyen so though we read the scripture & bable of it\nnever so moch/ yet if we know not the vse of it/ and wherfore it was\ngeven/ and what is theim to be sought/ it profiteth vs nothinge at\nall. It is not ynough therfore to read and talke of it only/ but we\nmust also desyre god daye and night instantly to open oure eyes/ ad to\nmake vs vnderstond and feale wherfore the scripture was geuen/ that we\nmaye applye the medicyne of the scripture/ every ma to his awne sores/\ninlesse then we entend to be ydle disputers/ and braulers aboute vayne\nwordes/ ever gnawenge vppon the bitter barcke with out and newer\nattayninge vnto the swete pith with in/ and persequutinge one an other\nfor defendinge of lewde imaginacions and phantasyes of oure awne\ninvencyon\n\n\u00b6 Paule in y^e thyrde of y^e secode epistle to Tymothe sayth/ y^t the\nscripture is good to teache (for y^t ought m[~e] to teach & not\ndreames of their awne mak[~i]ge/ as y^e pope doth) & also to improve/\nfor y^e scripture is y^e twichstone y^t tryeth all doctrynes/ & by y^t\nwe know the false from y^e true. And in the .vi. to the ephesians he\ncalleth it the swerd of the spirite/ by cause it killeth hyppocrites\nand vttereth ad improveth their false inventyons. And in the .xv. to\nthe Romayns he sayth all that are wryten/ are wryten for oure\nlearninge/ that we thorow pacyence and cosorte of the scripture myght\nhave hope. That is/ the ensamples that are in the scripture comforte\nvs in all oure tribulacyons/ and make vs to put oure truste in god/\nand pacyently to abyde his leysure. And in the .x. of the firste to\nthe Corinthyans he bringeth in examples of the scripture to feare vs\nand to bridle the fleshe/ that we caste not the yoke of the lawe of\ngod from of oure neckes/ and fall to lustynge and doinge of evill.\n\n\u00b6 So now the scripture is a light and sheweth vs the true waye/ both\nwhat to do/ and what to hope. And a defence from all erroure/ and a\ncomforte in adversyte that we despayre not. and feareth vs in\nprosperyte that we synne not Seke therfore in the scripture as thou\nreadest it first the law/ what god comaundeth vs to doo. And\nsecundarylye the promyses/ which god promyseth vs ageyne/ namely in\nChriste Iesu oure lorde. Then seke ensamples/ firste of comforte/ how\ngod purgeth all them that submitte them selves to walke in his wayes/\nin the purgatorye of tribulatyon/ delyveringe them yet at the latter\nende/ and never soferinge any of them to perysh/ that cleave faste to\nhis promyses. And fynallye/ note the ensamples which are writen\nto feare the flesh that we synne not. That is/ how god suffereth the\nvngodlye and weked synners that resiste god and refuse to folow him/\nto contynue in their wekednesse/ ever waxinge worse and worse vntyll\ntheir synne be so sore encreased and so abhomynable/ that if they\nshuld longer endure they wold corrupte the very electe. But for the\nelectes sake god sendeth th[~e] preachers. Neverthelesse they harden\ntheir hartes agenste the truth/ and god destroyeth th[~e] vtterlye and\nbegynneth the world a new.\n\n\u00b6 This comforte shalt thou evermore finde in the playne texte and\nliterall sense. Nether is there any storye so homely/ so rude/ yee or\nso vyle (as it semeth outwarde) wherin is not exceadinge greate\ncomforte. And when some which seme to them selves great clarkes saye:\nthey wott not what moare profite is in many geftes of the scripture if\nthey be read with out an allegorye/ then in a tale of robenhode/ saye\nthou: that they were wryten for oure consolacyon and comforte/ that we\ndespayre not/ if soch like happen vnto vs. We be not holyer then Noe/\nthough he were once dronke. Nether bettter beloved then Iacob/ though\nhis awne sonne defyled his bedde. We be not holyer then lot/ though\nhis doughters thorow ignorance deceaved him/ nor paradventure holyer\nthen those doughters. Nether are we holyer then David/ though he brake\nwedlocke and vppon the same commytted abhomynable murther. All those\nmen have witnesse of the scripture that they pleased god and ware\ngood men both before that those thinges chaunsed them and also after.\nNeverthelesse soch thinges happened them for oure ensampler not that\nwe shuld contrafayte their evill/ but if whyle we fight with oure\nselves enforsynge to walke in the law of god (as they did) we yet fall\nlikewise/ that we despayre not/ but come agayn, to the lawes of god\nand take better holde\n\n\u00b6 We read sens the tyme of Christes deeth/ of virgins that have bene\nbrought vnto the com[~e]stues/ and theye defyled/ and of martyrs that\nhaue bene bounde and hores haue abvsed their bodyes. Why? The\niudgem[~e]tes of god are bottolesse. Soch thinges chaunced partely for\nensamples/ partely God thorow synne healeth synne Pryde can nether be\nhealed nor yet appere but thorow soch horrible deades. Paraduenture\nthey were of y^e popes secte ad reioysed fleshly/ thinkinge that\nheaven came by deades and not by Christ/ and that the outwarde dead\niustyfyed them & made them holy and not the inward spirite receeved by\nfayth and the consent of the harte vnto the law of god.\n\n\u00b6 As thou readeste therfore thinke that every sillable pertayneth to\nthyne awne silf/ and sucke out the pithe of the scripture/ and arme\nthy silf ageynst all assaultes. Firste note with stronge faith the\npower of god in creatinge all of nought Then marke the grevous fall of\nAdam and of vs all in him/ thorow the light regard[~i]ge of the\ncommaundement of god. In the .iii. Chapitre God turneth him vnto Abel\nand then to his offeringe/ but not to Cain and his offeringe. Where\nthou seest that though the deades of the evel apere outwardly as\ngloryous as the deades of the good: yet in the sight of god which\nloketh on the harte/ the deade is good because of the man/ and not the\nman good because of his deade. In the vj. God sendeth Noe to preach to\nthe weked and geueth them space to repent: they wax hard herted/ God\nbringeth them to nought And yet saveth Noe: even by the same water by\nwhich he destroyed them. Marke also what folowed the pryde of the\nbuyldinge of the toure of Babel\n\nConsydre how God sendeth forth Abraha out of his awne contre in to a\nstrange lande full of weked people/ and gave him but a bare promesse\nwith him that he wold blesse him and defende him. Abraham beleved: and\nthat worde saued and delyuered him in all parelles: so that we se/ how\nthat mannes life is not mayntayned by bred onlye (as Christe sayeth)\nbut moch rather by belevinge the promyses of god. Behold how soberly\nand how circ[~u]spectly both Abraham and also Isaac behaue them selves\namoge the infideles. Abraham byeth that which might have ben geven him\nfor nought/ to cutte of occasions. Isaac when his welles which he had\ndigged were taken from him/ geveth rowme and resisteth not. More over\nthey creand sowe and fede their catell/ and make confederacyons/ ad\ntake perpetuall truce/ and do all outward thinges: Even as they do\nwhich have no faith/ for god hath not made vs to be ydle in this world\nEvery man must worke godly and truly to the vttmoste of the power that\ngod hath geven him: and yet not truste therin: but in goddes worde or\npromesse: and god will worke with vs and bringe that we do to good\neffecte. And th[~e] when oure power will extend no further/ goddes\npromesses wyll worke all alone\n\n\u00b6 How many thinges also resisted the promesses of god to Iacob? And\nyet Iacob coniureth god with his awne promesses sayenge: O god of my\nfather Abraham: and god of my father Isaac/ O lorde which saydeste\nvnto me returne vnto thyne awne contre/ and vnto the place were thou\nwaste borne and I wil do the good I am not worthy of the leste of\nthose mercyes/ nor of that trouth which thou haste done to thy seruant\nI went out but with a staffe/ and come home with ij droves/ delyver me\nout of the handes of my brother Esau/ for I feare hym greatly &c. And\ngod delyvered him/ and will likewyse all that call vnto his promesses\nwith a repentinge herte/ were they never so great synners. Marke also\nthe weake infirmites of the ma He loveth one wife more then a nother/\none sonne more then a nother. And se how god purgeth him. Esau\nthreteneth him: Laban begyleth him. The beloued wife is longe baren:\nhis doughter is ravyshed: his wife is defyled/ and that of his awne\nsonne. Rahel dieth/ Ioseph is taken a way/ yee and as he supposed rent\nof wild beastes And yet how gloryous was hys ende? Note the wekenesse\nof his Children/ yee and the synne of them/ and how god thorow their\nawne wekednes saved them. These ensamples teach vs that a man is not\nattonce parfecte the firste daye he beginneth to lyve wel They that be\nstronge therfore muste suffre with the weake/ and helpe to kepe them\nin vnite & peace one with a nother vntill they be stroger\n\nNote what the brothren sayde when they were tached in Egipte/ we haue\nverelye synned (sayde they) ageynste oure brother in y^t we sawe the\nanguysh of his soule when he besought vs/ and wold not heare him: ad\ntherfore is this tribulation come vppon vs. By which ensample thou\nseiste/ how that conscience of evyll doenges findeth men out at the\nlaste. But namely in tribulacyon and adversyte: there temptacyon and\nalso desperacyon: yee and the verye paynes of hell find vs out: there\nthe soule feleth the ferse wrath of god and wyssheth mountaynes to\nfalle on her and to hyde her (yf it were possible) fro the angrye face\nof god.\n\nMarke also how greate evelles folow of how litle an occasion Dina\ngoeth but forth alone to se the doughters of the contre/ and how\ngreate myscheve and troble folowed? Iacob loved but one sonne more\nthan a nother/ ad how grevous murther folowed in their hartes? These\nare ensamples for oure learninge to teach vs to walke warely and\ncirc[~u]spectlye in the worlde of weake people/ that we geve no ma\noccasions of evyll\n\n\u00b6 Finally/ se what god promysed Ioseph in his dreames. Those promesses\naccopanyed him all ways/ and went doune wyth him even in to the depe\ndongeon/ And brought him vppe agayne/ And never forsoke him till all\nthat was promysed was fulfilled. These are ensamples wryt[~e] for our\nlearn[~i]ge (as paule seyth) to teach vs to truste in god in y^e\nstroge fyre of tribulation and purgatorye of oure flesh. And that they\nwhich submytte them selves to folow god shuld note and marke soch\nthinges/ for theyr lerninge and comforte/ is the frute of the\nscripture and cause why it was wryten: And with soch a purpose to\nreade it/ is the waye to everlastynge life and to those ioyfull\nblyssinges that are promysed vnto all nacyons in the seade of Abraham/\nwhich seade is Iesus Christe oure lorde/ to whom be honoure and prayse\nfor ever and vnto god oure father thorow him.\n\nAMEN.\n\n\n\n\nThe fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis\n\n\n\n\nThe fyrst Chapiter.\n\n\nIn the begynnynge God created heaven and erth. The erth was voyde and\nemptie/ ad darcknesse was vpon the depe/ and the spirite of god moved\nvpon the water\n\nThan God sayd: let there be lyghte and there was lyghte. And God sawe\nthe lyghte that it was good: & devyded the lyghte from the darcknesse/\nand called the lyghte daye/ and the darcknesse nyghte: and so of the\nevenynge and mornynge was made the fyrst daye\n\nAnd God sayd: let there be a fyrmament betwene the waters/ ad let it\ndevyde the waters a sonder. Than God made the fyrmament and parted the\nwaters which were vnder the fyrmament/ from the waters that were above\nthe fyrmament: And it was so. And God called the fyrmament heaven/ And\nso of the evenynge and morninge was made the seconde daye.\n\nAnd God sayd/ let the waters that are vnder heaven gather them selves\nvnto one place/ that the drye londe may appere: And it came so to\npasse. And god called the drye lande the erth and the gatheringe\ntogyther of waters called he the see. And God sawe that it was good\n\nAnd God sayd: let the erth bringe forth herbe and grasse that sowe\nseed/ and frutefull trees that bere frute every one in his kynde/\nhavynge their seed in them selves vpon the erth. And it came so to\npasse: ad the erth brought forth herbe and grasse sowenge seed every\none in his kynde & trees berynge frute & havynge their seed in th[~e]\nselves/ every one in his kynde. And God sawe that it was good: and\nth[~e] of the evenynge and mornynge was made the thyrde daye.\n\nThan sayd God: let there be lyghtes in y^e firmament of heaven to\ndevyde the daye fro the nyghte/ that they may be vnto sygnes/ seasons/\ndays & yeares. And let them be lyghtes in the fyrmament of heav[~e]/\nto shyne vpon the erth. & so it was. And God made two great lyghtes A\ngreater lyghte to rule the daye/ & a lesse lyghte to rule the nyghte/\nand he made sterres also. And God put them in the fyrmament of heaven\nto shyne vpon the erth/ and to rule the daye & the nyghte/ ad to\ndevyde the lyghte from darcknesse. And god sawe y^t it was good: and\nso of the evenynge ad mornynge was made the fourth daye.\n\nAnd God sayd/ let the water bryng forth creatures that move & have\nlyfe/ & foules for to flee over the erth vnder the fyrmament of\nheaven. And God created greate whalles and all maner of creatures that\nlyve and moue/ which the waters brought forth in their kindes/ ad all\nmaner of federed foules in their kyndes. And God sawe that it was\ngood: and God blessed them saynge. Growe and multiplye ad fyll the\nwaters of the sees/ & let the foules multiplye vpo the erth. And so of\nthe evenynge & morninge was made the fyfth daye.\n\nAnd God sayd: leth the erth bring forth lyvynge creatures in thir\nkyndes: catell & wormes & beastes of the erth in their kyndes/ & so it\ncame to passe. And god made the beastes of the erth in their kyndes/ &\ncatell in their kyndes/ ad all maner wormes of the erth in their\nkyndes: and God sawe that it was good.\n\nAnd God sayd: let vs make man in oure symilitude ad after oure\nlycknesse: that he may have rule over the fysh of the see/ and over\nthe foules of the ayre/ and over catell/ and over all the erth/ and\nover all wormes that crepe on the erth. And God created man after hys\nlycknesse/ after the lycknesse of god created he him: male & female\ncreated he them.\n\nAnd God blessed them/ and God sayd vnto them. Growe and multiplye and\nfyll the erth and subdue it/ and have domynyon over the fysh of the\nsee/ and over the foules of the ayre/ and over all the beastes that\nmove on the erth.\n\nAnd God sayd: se/ I have geven yow all herbes that sowe seed which\nare on all the erth/ and all maner trees that haue frute in them and\nsowe seed: to be meate for yow & for all beastes of the erth/ and vnto\nall foules of the ayre/ and vnto all that crepeth on the erth where in\nis lyfe/ that they may haue all maner herbes and grasse for to eate/\nand even so it was. And God behelde al that he had made/ ad loo they\nwere exceadynge good: and so of the evenynge and mornynge was made the\nsyxth daye\n\n\n\n\nThe seconde Chapter.\n\n\nThus was heav[~e] & erth fynished wyth all their apparell: ad [~i] y^e\nseu[~e]th daye god ended his worke which he had made & rested in y^e\nseventh daye fro all his workes which he had made. And God blessed y^e\nseventh daye/ and sanctyfyed it/ for in it he rested from all his\nworkes which he had created and made.\n\n\u00b6 These are the generations of heaven & erth when they were created/\nin the tyme when the LORde God created heaven and erth and all the\nshrubbes of the felde before they were in the erthe. And all the\nherbes of the felde before they sprange: for the LORde God had yet\nsent no rayne vpon the erth/ nether was there yet any man to tylle the\nerth. But there arose a myste out of the ground and watered all the\nface of the erth: Then the LORde God shope man/ even of the moulde of\nthe erth and brethed into his face the breth of lyfe. So man was made\na lyvynge soule.\n\n\u00b6 The LORde God also planted a garden in Eden from the begynnynge/ and\nthere he sette man whom he had formed. And the LORde God made to\nsprynge out of the erth/ all maner trees bewtyfull to the syghte and\npleasant to eate/ and the tree of lyfe in the middes of the garden:\nand also the tree of knowlege of good and euell.\n\n\u00b6 And there spronge a rever out of Eden to water the garden/ and\nthence devided it selfe/ and grewe in to foure principall waters. The\nname of the one is Phison/ he it is that compasseth all the lande of\nheuila/ where gold groweth. And the gold of that contre ys precious/\nthere is found bedellion and a stone called Onix. The name of the\nseconde ryver is Gihon/ which compassyth all the lande of Inde. And\nthe name of the thyrde river is Hidekell/ which runneth on the easte\nsyde of the assyryans And the fourth river is Euphrates.\n\n\u00b6 And the LORde God toke Adam and put him in the garden of Eden/ to\ndresse it and to kepe it: and the LORde God comaunded Ada saynge: of\nall the trees of the gard[~e] se tho[~u] eate. But of the tre of\nknowlege of good and badd se that thou eate not: for even y^e same\ndaye thou eatest of it/ thou shalt surely dye.\n\n\u00b6 And the LORde God sayd: it is not good that man shulde be alone/ I\nwill make hym an helper to beare him company: And after y^t the LORde\nGod had make of the erth all maner beastes of the felde/ and all maner\nfoules of the ayre/ he brought them vnto Adam to see what he wold\ncall them. And as Ada called all maner livynge beastes: ev[~e] so are\ntheir names. And Adam gave names vnto all maner catell/ and vnto the\nfoules of the ayre/ and vnto all maner beastes of the felde. But there\nwas no helpe founde vnto Adam to beare him companye\n\nThen the LORde God cast a slomber on Adam/ and he slepte. And then he\ntoke out one of his rybbes/ and in stede ther of he fylled vp the\nplace with flesh. And the LORde God made of the rybbe which he toke\nout of Adam/ a woma and brought her vnto Adam. Then sayd Ada this is\nonce bone of my boones/ and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called\nwoman: because she was take of the man. For this cause shall a man\nleve father and mother & cleve vnto his wyfe/ & they shall be one\nflesh. And they were ether of them naked/ both Adam and hys wyfe/ ad\nwere not ashamed:\n\n\n\n\nThe .iij. Chapter\n\n\nBut the serpent was sotyller than all the beastes of the felde which\ny^e LORde God had made/ and sayd vnto the woman. Ah syr/ that God hath\nsayd/ ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden. And the\nwoman sayd vnto the serpent/ of the frute of the trees in the garden\nwe may eate/ but of the frute of the tree y^t is in the myddes of the\ngarden (sayd God) se that ye eate not/ and se that ye touch it not:\nlest ye dye.\n\nThen sayd the serpent vnto the woman: tush ye shall not dye: But God\ndoth knowe/ that whensoever ye shulde eate of it/ youre eyes shuld be\nopened and ye shulde be as God and knowe both good and evell. And the\nwoman sawe that it was a good tree to eate of and lustie vnto the eyes\nand a pleasant tre for to make wyse. And toke of the frute of it and\nate/ and gaue vnto hir husband also with her/ and he ate. And the eyes\nof both of them were opened/ that they vnderstode how that they were\nnaked. Than they sowed fygge leves togedder and made them apurns.\n\nAnd they herd the voyce of the LORde God as he walked in the gard[~e]\nin the coole of the daye. And Adam hyd hymselfe and his wyfe also from\nthe face of the LORde God/ amonge the trees of the garden. And the\nLORde God called Adam and sayd vnto him where art thou? And he\nanswered. Thy voyce I harde in the garden/ but I was afrayd because I\nwas naked/ and therfore hyd myselfe. And he sayd: who told the that\nthou wast naked? hast thou eaten of the tree/ of which I bade the that\nthou shuldest not eate? And Adam answered. The woman which thou gavest\nto bere me company she toke me of the tree/ ad I ate. And the LORde\nGod sayd vnto the woman: wherfore didest thou so? And the woman\nanswered/ the serpent deceaved me and I ate.\n\n\u00b6 And the LORde God sayd vnto the serp[~e]t because thou haste so done\nmoste cursed be thou of all catell and of all beastes of the feld:\nvppo thy bely shalt thou goo: and erth shalt thou eate all dayes of\nthy lyfe. Morover I will put hatred betwene the and the woman/ and\nbetwene thy seed and hyr seed. And that seed shall tread the on the\nheed/ ad thou shalt tread hit on the hele.\n\nAnd vnto the woman he sayd: I will suerly encrease thy sorow ad make\nthe oft with child/ and with payne shalt thou be deleverd: And thy\nlustes shall pertayne vnto thy husbond and he shall rule the.\n\nAnd vnto Ada he sayd: for as moch as thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy\nwyfe/ and hast eaten of the tree of which I commaunded the saynge: se\nthou eate not therof: cursed be the erth for thy sake. In sorow shalt\nthou eate therof all dayes of thy lyfe/ And it shall beare thornes ad\nthystels vnto the. And thou shalt eate the herbes of y^e feld: In the\nswete of thy face shalt thou eate brede/ vntill thou returne vnto the\nerth wh[~e]ce thou wast tak[~e]: for erth thou art/ ad vnto erth shalt\nthou returne.\n\nAnd Ada called his wyfe Heua/ because she was the mother of all that\nlyveth. And the LORde God made Adam and hys wyfe garmentes of skynnes/\nand put them on them. And the LORde God sayd: loo/ Adam is become as\nit were one of vs/ in knowlege of good and evell. But now lest he\nstrech forth his hand and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate and\nlyve ever.\n\nAnd the LORde God cast him out of the garden of Eden/ to tylle the\nerth wh[~e]ce he was taken. And he cast Ada out/ and sette at y^e\nenteringe of the garden Eden/ Cherubin with a naked swerde movinge in\nand out/ to kepe the way to the tree of lyfe.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .iiij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Adam lay wyth Heua ys wyfe/ which conceaved and bare Cain/ and\nsayd: I haue goten a ma of the LORde. And she proceded forth and bare\nhys brother Abell: And Abell became a sheperde/ And Cain became a\nploweman.\n\nAnd it fortuned in processe of tyme/ that Cain brought of the frute of\nthe erth: an offerynge vnto the LORde. And Abell/ he brought also of\nthe fyrstlynges of hys shepe and of the fatt of them. And the LORde\nloked vnto Abell and to his offeynge: but vnto Cain and vnto his\noffrynge/ looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceadingly/ and loured.\nAnd the LORde sayd vnto Cain: why art thou angry/ and why loureste\nthou? Wotest thou not yf thou dost well thou shalt receave it? But &\nif thou dost evell/ by & by thy synne lyeth open in the dore. Not\nwithstondyng let it be subdued vnto the/ ad see thou rule it. And\nCain talked wyth Abell his brother.\n\nAnd as soone as they were in the feldes/ Cain fell vppon Abell his\nbrother and slewe hym And y^e LORde sayd vnto Cain: where is Abell thy\nbrother? And he sayd: I can not tell/ am I my brothers keper? And he\nsayd: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth vnto\nme out of the erth. And now cursed be thou as pertaynyng to the erth/\nwhich opened hyr mouth to receaue thy brothers bloud of thyne hande.\nFor when thou tyllest the grounde she shall h[~e]ceforth not geve hyr\npower vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the\nerth.\n\n[Sidenote: * Of this place no doute y^e pope which in all thinges\nmaketh h[~i] self equal with God toke an occasion to marke all his\ncreatures: and to forbid vnder payne of excomunicatio y^t no ma\n(whether he were k[~i]ge or emperowre) be so hardy to punishe them for\nwhat so euer myschef they doo. The crowne is to th[~e] a licence to do\nwhat they wyste a protectio & a sure sentuarye.]\n\nAnd Cain sayd vnto the LORde: my synne is greater/ then that it may be\nforgeven. Beholde thou castest me out thys day from of the face of the\nerth/ and fro thy syghte must I hyde my selfe ad I must be wandrynge\nand a vagabunde vpon the erth: Morover whosoever fyndeth me/ wyll kyll\nme. And the LORde sayd vnto h[~i] Not so/ but whosoever sleyth Cain\nshalbe punyshed .vij. folde. And y^e LORde put * a marke vpo Cain that\nno ma y^t founde hym shulde kyll hym. And Cain went out fro the face\nof the LORde and dwelt in the lande Nod/ on the east syde of Eden.\n\nAnd Cain laye wyth hys wyfe/ which conceaved and bare Henoch. And he\nwas buyldinge a cyte and called the name of it after the name of hys\nsonne/ Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad. And Irad begat Mahuiael. And\nMahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat Lamech.\n\nAnd Lamech toke hym two wyves: the one was called Ada/ and the other\nZilla. And Ada bare Iabal/ of whome came they that dwell in tentes ad\npossesse catell. And hys brothers name was Iubal: of hym came all that\nexcercyse them selves on the harpe and on the organs And Zilla she\nalso bare Tubalcain a worker in metall and a father of all that grave\nin brasse and yeron. And Tubalcains syster was called Naema.\n\nThen sayd Lamech vnto hys wyves Ada ad Zilla: heare my voyce ye wyves\nof Lamech and herken vnto my wordes/ for I haue slayne a man and\nwounded myselfe/ and haue slayn a yongman/ and gotte my selfe\nstrypes: For Cain shall be avenged sevenfolde: but Lamech seventie\ntymes sevenfolde.\n\n\u00b6 Adam also laye with hys wyfe yet agayne/ and she bare a sonne ad\ncalled hys name Seth For god (sayd she) hath geven me a nother sonne\nFor Abell whom Cain slewe. And Seth begat a sonne and called hys name\nEnos. And in that tyme began men to call on the name of the LORde.\n\n\n\n\nThe .v. Chapter\n\n\nThys is the boke of the generacion of man/ In the daye when God\ncreated man and made hym after the symilytude of god Male and female\nmade he th[~e] and called their names man/ in the daye when they were\ncreated. And when Adam was an hundred and thyrty yere old/ he begat a\nsonne after hys lycknesse and symilytude: and called hys name Seth.\nAnd the dayes of Adam after he begat Seth/ were eyght hundred yere/\nand begat sonnes and doughters. and all the dayes of Adam which he\nlyved/ were .ix. hundred and .xxx. yere/ and then he dyed.\n\nAnd Seth lyved an hundred and .v. yeres/ and begat Enos. And after he\nhad begot Enos he lyved .viij. hundred and .vij. yere/ and begat\nsonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Seth were .ix. hundred and\n.xij. yere/ and dyed.\n\nAnd Enos lyved .lxxxx. yere and begat kenan. And Enos after he begat\nkenan/ lyved viij. hundred and .xv. yere/ and begat sonnes and\ndoughters: and all the dayes of Enos were .ix hundred and .v. yere/\nand than he dyed.\n\nAnd kenan lyued .lxx. yere and begat Mahalaliel. And kenan after he\nhad begot Mahalaliel/ lyved .viij. hundred and .xl. yere and begat\nsonnes and doughters: and al the dayes of kenan were .ix. hundred and\n.x. yere/ and than he dyed.\n\nAnd Mahalaliel lyued .lxv. yere/ and begat Iared. And Mahalaliel after\nhe had begot Iared lyved .viij. hundred and .xxx. yere and begat\nsonnes and doughters: and all the dayes of Mahalalyell were .viij.\nhundred nynetye and .v. yeare/ and than he dyed\n\nAnd Iared lyved an hundred and .lxij. yere and begat Henoch: and Iared\nlyved after he begat Henoch .viij. hundred yere and begat sonnes and\ndoughters. And all the dayes of Iared were .ix. hundred and .lxij.\nyere/ and than he dyed.\n\nAnd Henoch lyved .lxv. yere ad begat Mathusala. And Henoch walked wyth\ngod after he had begot Mathusala .iij. hundred yere/ and begat\nsonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Henoch were .iij. hundred\nand .lxv. yere. and than Henoch lyved a godly lyfe/ and was nomore\nsene/ for God toke hym away.\n\nAnd Mathusala lyved an hundred and lxxxvij. yere and begat Lamech: and\nMathusala after he had begot Lamech/ lyved .vij. hundred and .lxxxij.\nyere/ ad begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Methusala\nwere .ix. hundred .lxix yere/ and than he dyed.\n\nAnd Lamech lyved an hundred .lxxxij. yere & begat a sonne and called\nhym Noe sayng. This same shall comforte vs: as concernynge oure worke\nand sorowe of oure handes which we haue aboute the erthe that the\nLORde hath cursed. And Lamech lyved after he had begot Noe v. hundred/\nnynetie and .v. yere/ and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the\ndayes of Lamech were .vij. hundred .lxxvij. yere/ and than he dyed.\nAnd when Noe was .v. hundred yere olde/ he begat Sem/ Ham and Iaphet.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .vj. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd it came to passe/ wha men bega to multiplye apo the erth ad had\nbegot them doughters/ the sonnes of God sawe the doughters of men that\nthey were fayre/ and toke vnto them wyves/ which they best liked amoge\nth[~e] all. And the LORd sayd: My spirite shall not all waye stryve\nwithe man/ for they are flesh. Nevertheles I wyll geue them yet space/\nand hundred and .xx. yeres\n\nThere were tirantes in the world in thos dayes. For after that the\nchildren of God had gone in vnto the doughters of men and had begotten\nthem childern/ the same childern were the mightiest of the world and\nmen of renowne And whan the LORde sawe y^t the wekednesse of man was\nencreased apon the erth/ and that all the ymaginacion and toughtes of\nhis hert was only evell continually/ he repented that he had made man\napon the erth and sorowed in his hert. And sayd: I wyll destroy\nmankynde which I haue made/ fro of the face of the erth: both man/\nbeast/ worme and foule of the ayre/ for it rep[~e]teth me that I haue\nmade them. But yet Noe found grace in the syghte of the LORde.\n\nThese are the generatios of Noe. Noe was a righteous man and\nvncorrupte in his tyme/ & walked wyth god. And Noe begat .iij. sonnes:\nSem/ Ham and Iapheth And the erth was corrupte in the syghte of god\nand was full of mischefe. And God loked vpon the erth/ ad loo it was\ncorrupte: for all flesh had corrupte his way vppon the erth.\n\nThan sayd God to Noe: the end of all flesh is come before me/ for the\nerth is full of there myschefe. And loo/ I wyll destroy them with the\nerth. Make the an arcke of pyne tree/ and make chaumbers in the arcke/\nand pytch it wythin and wythout wyth pytch. And of this facion shalt\nthou make it.\n\nThe lenth of the arcke shall be .iij. hundred cubytes/ ad the bredth\nof it .l. cubytes/ and the heyth of it .xxx. cubytes. A wyndow shalt\nthou make aboue in the arcke. And wythin a cubyte compasse shalt thou\nfinysh it. And the dore of the arcke shalt thou sette in y^e syde of\nit: and thou shalt make it with iij loftes one aboue an other. For\nbehold I wil bringe in a floud of water apon the erth to destroy all\nflesh from vnder heaven/ wherin breth of life is so that all that is\nin the erth shall perish. But I will make myne apoyntement with the/\nthat both thou shalt come in to y^e arcke and thy sonnes/ thy wyfe and\nthy sonnes wyves with the.\n\nAnd of all that lyveth what soever flesh it be/ shalt thou brynge in\nto the arcke/ of every thynge a payre/ to kepe them a lyve wyth the.\nAnd male and female se that they be/ of byrdes in their kynde/ and of\nbeastes in their kynde/ and of all maner of wormes of the erth in\ntheir kinde: a payre of every thinge shall come vnto the to kepe them\na lyve. And take vnto the of all maner of meate y^t may be eaten &\nlaye it vp in stoore by the/ that it may be meate both for y^e and for\nth[~e]: and Noe did acordynge to all that God commaunded hym.\n\n\n\n\nThe .vij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd the LORde sayd vnto Noe: goo in to the arcke both thou and all thy\nhoussold. For the haue I sene rightuous before me in thys generacion.\nOf all clene beastes take vnto the .vij. of every kynde the male and\nhys female And of vnclene beastes a payre/ the male and hys female:\nlykewyse of the byrdes of the ayre vij. of every kynde/ male and\nfemale to save seed vppon all the erth. For .vij. dayes hence wyll I\nsend rayne vppo the erth .xl. days & .xl. nyghtes and wyll dystroy all\nmaner of thynges that I haue made/ from of the face of the erth..\n\nAnd Noe dyd acordynge to all y^t the lorde comaunded hym: and Noe was\n.vi. hundred yere olde/ when the floud of water came vppon the erth:\nand Noe went and his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyves wyth\nhym/ in to the arke from the waters of the floud. And of clene beastes\nand of beastes that are vnclene and of byrdes and of all that crepeth\nvppo the erth/ came in by cooples of every kynde vnto Noe in to the\narke: a male and a female: even as God commaunded Noe. And the seventh\ndaye the waters of the floud came vppon the erth.\n\nIn the .vi. hundred yere of Noes lyfe/ in the secode moneth/ in the\n.xvij daye of the moneth/ y^t same daye were all the founteynes of the\ngrete depe broken vp/ & the wyndowes of heav[~e] were opened/ ad there\nfell a rayne vpon the erth .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes.\n\nAnd the selfe same daye went Noe/ Sem/ Ham and Iapheth/ Noes sonnes/\nand Noes wyfe and the .iij. wyues of his sonnes wyth them in to the\narke: both they and all maner of beastes in their k[~i]de/ & all maner\nof catell in their kynde & all maner of wormes that crepe vppon the\nerth in their kynde/ and all maner of byrdes in there kynde./ and all\nmaner off foules whatsoever had feders. And they came vnto Noe in to\nthe arke by cooples/ of all flesh y^t had breth of lyfe in it. And\nthey that came/ came male ad female of every flesh acord[~i]ge as God\ncomaunded hym: & y^e LORde shytt the dore vppo him\n\nAnd the floud came .xl. dayes & .xl. nyghtes vppon the erth/ & the\nwater increased and bare vp the arcke ad it was lifte vp from of the\nerth And the water prevayled and increased exceadingly vppon the erth:\nand the arke went vppo the toppe of the waters.\n\nAnd the waters prevayled excedingly above mesure vppo the erth/ so\nthat all the hye hylles which are vnder all the partes of heaven/ were\ncovered: ev[~e] .xv. cubytes hye prevayled the waters/ so that the\nhylles were covered.\n\nAnd all fleshe that moved on the erth/ bothe birdes catell and beastes\nperisshed/ with al that crepte on the erth and all men: so that all\nthat had the breth of liffe in the nostrels of it thorow out all that\nwas on drye lond dyed.\n\nThus was destroyed all that was vppo the erth/ both man/ beastes/\nwormes and foules of the ayre/ so that they were destroyed from the\nerth: save Noe was reserved only and they that were wyth hym in the\narke. And the waters prevayled vppon the erth/ an hundred and fyftye\ndayes.\n\n\n\n\nThe .viij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd god rem[~e]bred Noe & all y^e beastes & all y^e catell y^t were\nwith h[~i] in y^e arke And god made a wynde to blow vppo y^e erth/ &\ny^e waters ceased: ad y^e fountaynes of the depe ad the wyndowes of\nheav[~e] were stopte and the rayne of heaven was forbidd[~e]/ and the\nwaters returned from of y^e erth ad abated after the ende of an\nhundred and .l. dayes.\n\nAnd the arke rested vppo the mountayns of Ararat/ the .xvij. daye of\nthe .vij. moneth. And the waters went away ad decreased vntyll the x.\nmoneth. And the fyrst daye of the tenth moneth/ the toppes of the\nmounteyns appered.\n\nAnd after the ende of .xl. dayes. Noe opened the wyndow of the arke\nwhich he had made/ ad sent forth a raven/ which went out/ ever goinge\nand cominge agayne/ vntyll the waters were dreyed vpp vppon the erth\n\nThen sent he forth a doue from hym/ to wete whether the waters were\nfallen from of the erth. And when the doue coude fynde no restinge\nplace for hyr fote/ she returned to him agayne vnto the arke/ for the\nwaters were vppon the face of all the erth. And he put out hys honde\nand toke her and pulled hyr to hym in to the arke\n\nAnd he abode yet .vij. dayes mo/ and sent out the doue agayne out of\nthe arke/ And the doue came to hym agayne aboute eventyde/ and\nbeholde: There was in hyr mouth a lefe of an olyve tre which she had\nplucked wherby Noe perceaved that the waters wer abated vppon the\nerth. And he taried yet .vij. other dayes/ and sent forth the doue/\nwhich from thence forth came no more agayne to him.\n\nAnd it came to passe/ the syxte hundred and one yere and the fyrst\ndaye of the fyrst moneth/ that the waters were dryed vpp apon the\nerth. And Noe toke off the hatches of the arke and loked: And beholde/\nthe face of the erth was drye. So by the .xxvij. daye of the seconde\nmoneth the erth was drye.\n\nAnd God spake vnto Noe saynge: come out of the arcke/ both thou and\nthy wyfe ad thy sonnes and thy sonnes wyues with the. And all the\nbeastes that are with the whatsoever flesh it be/ both foule and\ncatell and all maner wormes that crepe on the erth/ brynge out with\nthe/ and let them moue/ growe ad multiplye vppon the erth. And Noe\ncame out/ ad his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyues with hym.\nAnd all the beastes/ and all the wormes/ and all the foules/ and all\nthat moved vppon the erth/ came also out of the arke/ all of one kynde\ntogether.\n\nAnd Noe made an aulter vnto the LORDE/ and toke of all maner of clene\nbeastes and all maner of clene foules/ and offred sacrifyce vppon the\naulter. And the LORDE smellyd a swete savoure and sayd in his hert: I\nwyll henceforth no more curse the erth for mannes sake/ for the\nimagynacion of mannes hert is evell/ even from the very youth of hym.\nMorouer I wyll not destroy from henceforth all that lyveth as I haue\ndone. Nether shall sowynge tyme and harvest/ colde/ and hete/ somere &\nwynter/ daye and nyghte ceasse/ as longe as the erth endureth.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .ix. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd God blessed Noe and his sonnes/ and sayd vnto them: Increase and\nmultiplye and fyll the erth.\n\nThe feare also and drede of yow be vppon all beastes of the erth/ and\nvppon all foules of the ayre/ ad vppon all that crepeth on the erth/\nand vppon all fyshes of the see/ which are geuen vnto youre handes And\nall that moveth vppon the erth havynge lyfe/ shall be youre meate:\nEuen as y^e grene herbes/ so geue I yow all thynge. Only the flesh\nwith his life which is his bloud/ se that ye eate not.\n\n[Sidenote: * This lawe and soch like to exequute/ were kinges and\nrulars ordeyned of God wherfore they ought not to suffre the popes\nCaimes thus to shede bloud theirs not shed ageyne/ nether yet to sett\nvpp their abhominable s[~e]tuaryes & necke verses cleane agenste the\nordinaunce of god/ but vnto their danacyon]\n\n* For verely the bloude of yow wherein youre lyves are wyll I\nrequyre: Eu[~e] of the hande of all beastes wyll I requyre it/ And of\nthe hande of man and of the hand off euery mannes brother/ wyll I\nrequyre the lyfe of man: so y^t he which shedeth mannes bloude/ shall\nhaue hys bloud shed by man agayne: for God made man after his awne\nlyckness. See that ye encrease/ and waxe/ and be occupyde vppon the\nerth/ & multiplye therein.\n\nFarthermore God spake vnto Noe & to hys sonnes wyth hym saynge: see/ I\nmake my bod wyth you and youre seed after you/ and wyth all lyvynge\nthinge that is wyth you: both foule and catell/ and all maner beste of\nthe erth that is wyth yow/ of all that commeth out of the arke/ what\nsoeuer beste of the erth it be.\n\nI make my bonde wyth yow/ that hence forth all flesh shall not be\ndestroyed wyth y^e waters of any floud/ ad y^t hence forth there shall\nnot be a floud to destroy the erth.\n\nAnd God sayd. This is the token of my bode which I make betwene me and\nyow/ ad betwene all lyvynge thyng that is with yow for ever: I wyll\nsette my bowe in the cloudes/ and it shall be a sygne of the\nappoyntment made betwene me and the erth: So that when I bryng in\ncloudes vpo y^e erth/ the bowe shall appere in y^e cloudes. And than\nwyll I thynke vppon my testament which I haue made betwene me and yow/\nand all that lyveth what soeuer flesh it be. So that henceforth there\nshall be no more waters to make a floud to destroy all flesh.\n\nThe bowe shalbe in the cloudes/ and I wyll loke vpon it/ to remembre\nthe euerlastynge testament betwene God and all the lyveth vppon the\nerth/ what soeuer flesh it be. And God sayd vnto Noe: This is the\nsygne of the testament which I have made betwene me and all flesh y^t\nis on the erth.\n\nThe sonnes of Noe that came out of the arke were: Sem/ Ham and\nIapheth. And Ham he is the father of Canaa. These are the .iij.\nsonnes of Noe/ and of these was all the world overspred.\n\nAnd Noe beynge an husbad man/ went furth and planted a vyneyarde and\ndrancke of the wyne and was droncke/ and laye vncouered in the myddest\nof his t[~e]t. And Ham the father of Canaan sawe his fathers\nprevytees/ & tolde his ij. brethren that were wythout. And Sem and\nIapheth toke a mantell and put it on both there shulders ad went\nbackward/ ad covered there fathers secrets/ but there faces were\nbackward So that they sawe not there fathers nakydnes. As soone as Noe\nwas awaked fro his wyne and wyst what his yongest sonne had done vnto\nhym/ he sayd: cursed be Canaan/ ad a seruante of all seruantes be he\nto his brethren. And he sayd: Blessed be the LORde God of S[~e]/ and\nCanaan be his seruante. God increase Iapheth that he may dwelle in the\ntentes of Sem. And Canaan be their seruante.\n\nAnd Noe lyved after the floude .iij. hundred and .l. yere: So that all\nthe dayes of Noe were ix. hundred and .l. yere/ ad than he dyed.\n\n\n\n\nThe .x. Chapter.\n\n\nThese are the generations of the sonnes of Noe: of Sem/ Ham and\nIapheth/ which begat them children after the floude.\n\nThe sonnes of Iapheth were: Gomyr/ Magog/ Madai/ Iauan/ Tuball/ Mesech\nand Thyras. And the sonnes of Gomyr were: Ascenas Riphat and Togarma.\nAnd the sonnes of Iauan were: Elisa/ Tharsis/ Cithim and Dodanim. Of\nthese came the Iles of the gentylls in there contres/ every man in his\nspeach/ kynred and nation.\n\nThe sonnes of Ham were: Chus Misraim Phut and Canaan. The sonnes of\nChus: were Seba/ Heuila/ Sabta/ Rayma and Sabtema. And the sonnes of\nRayma were: Sheba/ & Dedan. Chus also begot Nemrod/ which bega to be\nmyghtye in the erth. He was a myghtie hunter in the syghte of the\nLORde: Where of came the proverbe: he is as Nemrod that myghtie hunter\nin the syghte of the LORde. And the begynnynge of hys kyngdome was\nBabell/ Erech/ Achad and Chalne in the lande of Synear: Out of that\nlande came Assur and buylded Ninyue/ and the cyte rehoboth/ and Calah\nAnd Ressen betwene Ninyue ad Chalah. That is a grete cyte. And Mizraim\nbegat ludim/ Enamim/ Leabim/ Naphtuhim/ Pathrusim & Casluhim: from\nwhence came the Philystyns/ and the Capthiherynes.\n\nCanaan also begat zidon his eldest sonne & Heth/ Iebusi/ Emori/\nGirgosi/ Hiui/ Arki/ Sini/ Aruadi/ Zemari and hamati. And afterward\nsprange the kynreds of the Canaanytes And the costes of the Canaanytes\nwere fro Sydon tyll thou come to Gerara & to Asa/ & tyll thou come to\nSodoma/ Gomorra/ Adama Zeboim: ev[~e] vnto Lasa. These were the\nchyldre of Ham in there kynreddes/ tonges/ landes and nations.\n\nAnd Sem the father of all y^e childr[~e] of Eber and the eldest\nbrother of Iapheth/ begat children also. And his sonnes were: Elam\nAssur/ Arphachsad/ Lud ad Aram. And y^e childree of Aram were: Vz/\nHul/ Gether & Mas And Arphachsad begat Sala/ and Sala begat Eber. And\nEber begat .ij. sonnes. The name of the one was Peleg/ for in his tyme\nthe erth was devyded. And the name of his brother was Iaketan:\n\nIaketan begat Almodad/ Saleph/ Hyzarmoueth/ Iarah/ Hadoram/ Vsal/\nDikela/ Obal/ Abimael/ Seba/ Ophir/ Heuila & Iobab. All these are the\nsonnes of Iaketan. And the dwellynge of them was from Mesa vntill thou\ncome vnto Sephara a mountayne of the easte lande. These are the sonnes\no Sem in their kynreddes/ languages/ contrees and nations. These are\nthe kynreddes of the sonnes of Noe/ in their generations and nations.\nAnd of these came the people that were in the world after the floude.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xi. chapter.\n\n\nAnd all the world was of one tonge and one language. And as they came\nfrom the east/ they founde a playne in the lande of Synear/ and there\nthey dwelled. And they sayd one to a nother: come on/ let us make\nbrycke ad burne it wyth fyre. So brycke was there stone and slyme was\nthere morter And they sayd: Come on/ let vs buylde vs a cyte and a\ntoure/ that the toppe may reach vnto heauen. And let vs make us a\nname/ for perauenture we shall be scatered abrode over all the erth.\n\nAnd the LORde came downe to see the cyte and the toure which the\nchildern of Ada had buylded. And the LORde sayd: See/ the people is\none and haue one tonge amonge them all. And thys haue they begon to\ndo/ and wyll not leaue of from all that they haue purposed to do. Come\non/ let vs descende and myngell theire tonge even there/ that one\nvnderstonde not what a nother sayeth. Thus y^e LORde skatered them\nfrom thence vppon all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cyte.\nWherfore the name of it is called Babell/ because that the LORDE there\nconfounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from\nthence/ skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.\n\nThese are the generations of Sem: S[~e] was an hundred yere olde and\nbegat Arephachsad ij. yere after the floude. And S[~e] lyved after he\nhad begot Arphachsad .v. hundred yere an begat sonnes and doughters.\n\nAnd Arphacsad lyued .xxxv. yere and begat Sala/ and lyved after he\nhad begot Sala iiij. h[~u]dred yere & .iij & begat sonnes and\ndoughters. And Sala was .xxx. yere old and begat Eber/ ad lyued after\nhe had begot Eber .iiij. h[~u]dred and thre yere/ ad begat sonnes and\ndoughters\n\nWhen Eber was .xxxiiij. yere olde/ he begat Peleg/ and lyued after he\nhad begot Peleg/ foure hundred and .xxx. yere/ and begat sonnes and\ndoughters.\n\nAnd Peleg when he was .xxx. yere olde begat Regu/ and lyued after he\nhad begot Regu .ij. hundred and .ix. yere/ and begat sonnes and\ndoughters.\n\nAnd Regu when he had lyued .xxxij. yere begat Serug/ and lyued after\nhe had begot Serug .ij. hundred and .vij. yere/ and begat sonnes and\ndoughters.\n\nAnd when Serug was .xxx. yere olde/ he begat Nahor/ and lyued after he\nhad begot Nahor .ij. hundred yere/ and begat sonnes & doughters.\n\nAnd Nahor when he was .xxix. yere olde/ begat Terah/ and lyved after\nhe had begot Terah/ an hundred and .xix. yere/ and begat sonnes and\ndoughters.\n\nAnd when Terah was .lxx. yere olde/ he begat Abram/ Nahor and Haran.\n\nAnd these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram/ Nahor and\nHaran. And Haran begat Lot. And Haran dyed before Terah his father in\nthe londe where he was borne/ at Vr in Chaldea. And Abram and Nahor\ntoke them wyves. Abras wyfe was called Sarai. And Nahors wyfe Mylca\nthe doughter of Haran which was father of Milca ad of Iisca. But Sarai\nwas baren and had no childe.\n\nThan toke Terah Abram his sonne and Lot his sonne Harans sonne/ &\nSarai his doughter in lawe his sone Abrams wyfe. And they went wyth\nhym from Vr in Chaldea/ to go in to the lade of Chanaan. And they came\nto Haran and dwelled there. And when Terah was ij. hundred yere old\nand .v. he dyed in Haran.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xij. Chapter.\n\n\nThen the LORde sayd vnto Abra Gett the out of thy contre and from thy\nkynred/ and out of thy fathers house/ into a londe which I wyll shewe\nthe. And I wyll make of the a myghtie people/ and wyll blesse the/ and\nmake thy name grete/ that thou mayst be a blessinge. And I wyll blesse\nth[~e] that blesse the/ ad curse th[~e] that curse the. And in the\nshall be blessed all the generations of the erth.\n\nAnd Abram w[~e]t as the LORde badd hym/ and Lot went wyth hym. Abram\nwas .lxxv. yere olde/ when he went out of Haran. And Abram toke Sarai\nhis wyfe ad Lot his brothers sonne/ wyth all their goodes which they\nhad goten and soulles which they had begoten in Haran. And they\ndeparted to goo in to the lade of Chanaan. And when they were come in\nto the lande of Chanaan/ Abram went furth in to the lade tyll he came\nvnto a place called Sychem/ and vnto the oke of More. And the\nCanaanytes dwelled then in the lande.\n\nThen the LORde apeared vnto Abram ad sayd: vnto thy seed wyll I geue\nthys lade. And he buylded an aultere there vnto the LORDE which\napeared to hym. Then departed he thence vnto a mountayne that lyeth on\nthe east syde of BETHEL and pytched his tente: BETHEL beynge on the\nwest syde/ and Ay on the east: And he buylded there an aulter vnto the\nLORde/ and called on the name of y^e LORde. And than Abram departed\nand toke his iourney southwarde\n\nAfter thys there came a derth in the lande. And Abram went doune in to\nEgipte to soiourne there/ for the derth was sore in the lande. And\nwhen he was come nye for to entre in to Egipte/ he sayd vnto Sarai his\nwife. Beholde/ I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke apo. It\nwyll come to passe therfore wh[~e] the Egiptians see the/ that they\nwyll say: she is his wyfe. And so shall they sley me and save the.\nSaye I praye the therfore that thou art my sister/ that I maye fare\nthe better by reason of the and that my soule may lyue for thy sake.\n\nAs soone as he came in to Egipte/ the Egiptias sawe the woman that she\nwas very fayre. And Pharaos lordes sawe hir also/ and praysed hir vnto\nPharao: So that she was taken in to Pharaos house/ which entreated\nAbram well for hir sake/ so that he had shepe/ oxsen ad he asses/ men\nseruantes/ mayde seruates/ she asses and camels.\n\nBut God plaged Pharao/ and his house wyth grete plages/ because of\nSarai Abrams wyfe. Then Pharao called Abram and sayd: why hast thou\nthus dealt with me? Wherfore toldest thou me not that she was thy\nwyfe? Why saydest thou that she was thy sister/ and causedest me to\ntake hyr to my wyfe? But now loo/ there is the wife/ take hir ad be\nwalkynge. Pharao also gaue a charge vnto his men over Abram/ to leade\nhym out/ wyth his wyfe and all that he had.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xiij. Chapter.\n\n\nThan Abram departed out of Egipte/ both he and his wyfe and all that\nhe had/ and Lot wyth hym vnto the south. Abram was very rych in\ncatell/ syluer & gold. And he went on his iourney fro the south even\nvnto BETHEL/ ad vnto the place where his tente was at the fyrst tyme\nbetwene BETHEL and Ay/ and vnto the place of the aulter which he made\nbefore. And there called Abram vpon the name of the LORde.\n\nLot also which went wyth hym had shepe/ catell and tentes: so that the\nlonde was not abill to receaue/ them that they myght dwell to gether/\nfor the substance of their riches was so greate/ that they coude not\ndwell to gether And there fell a stryfe betwene the herdmen of Abrams\ncatell/ and the herdmen of Lots catell. Moreouer the Cananytes and the\nPherysites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.\n\nThan sayd Abram vnto Lot: let there be no stryfe I praye the betwene\nthe and me and betwene my herdmen and thyne/ for we be brethren. Ys\nnot all the hole lande before the? Departe I praye the fro me. Yf thou\nwylt take the lefte hande/ I wyll take the right: Or yf thou take the\nright hande I wyll take the left. And Lot lyft vp hys eyes and beheld\nall the contre aboute Iordane/ which was a plenteous contre of water\nevery where/ before the LORde destroyed Sodoma and Gomorra. Even as\nthe garden of the LORde/ & as the lande of Egipte tyll thou come to\nZoar.\n\nThan Lot chose all the costes of Iordane ad toke hys iourney from the\neast. And so departed the one brother from the other. Abram dwelled in\nthe lande of Canaan. And lot in the cytes of the playne/ & tented tyll\nhe came to Sodome. But the men of sodome were wyked and synned\nexceadyngly agenst the LORde.\n\nAnd the LORde sayed vnto Abram/ after that Lot was departed from hym:\nlyfte vp thyne eyes & loke from y^e place where thou art/ northward/\nsouthward/ eastward and westward/ for all the lande which thou seiste\nwyll I gyue vnto the & to thy seed forever. And I wyll make thy seed/\nas the dust of the erth: so that yf a ma can nombre the dust of the\nerth/ than shall thy seed also be nombred. Aryse and walke aboute in\nthe lande/ in the length of it ad in the bredth for I wyll geue it\nvnto the.\n\nThan Abra toke downe hys tente/ & went and dwelled in the okegrove of\nMamre which is in Ebron and buylded there an altar to the LORde.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xiiij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd it chaunsed within a while/ that Amraphel kynge of Synear/ Arioch\nkynge of Ellasar/ Kedorlaomer kynge of Elam and Thydeall kynge of the\nnations: made warre wyth Bera kynge of Sodoh and with Birsa kynge of\nGomorra. And wythe Sineab kynge of Adama/ & with Semeaber kynge of\nZeboim/ and wyth the kynge of Bela Which Bela is called Zoar. All\nthese came together vnto the vale of siddim which is now the salt see\nTwelve yere were they subiecte to kinge kedorlaomer/ and in the .xiij.\nyere rebelled.\n\nTherfore in the .xiiij. yere came kedorlaomer and the kynges that were\nwyth hym/ and smote the Raphayms in Astarath Karnaim/ and the Susims\nin Ham/ ad the Emyms in Sabe Kariathaim/ and the Horyms in their awne\nmounte Seir vnto the playne of Pharan/ which bordreth vpon the\nwyldernesse. And then turned they and came to the well of iugmente\nwhich is Cades/ and smote all the contre of the Amalechites/ and also\nthe amorytes that dwell in Hazezon Thamar.\n\nThan went out the kynge of Sodome/ and the kynge of Gomorra/ and the\nkinge of Adama and the kynge of Zeboijm/ and the kynge of Bela now\ncalled Zoar. And sette their men in aray to fyghte wyth them in the\nvale of siddim/ that is to say/ wyth kedorlaomer the kynge of Elam and\nwith Thydeall kynge of the Nations/ and wyth Amraphel kynge of Synear.\nAnd with Arioch kynge of Ellasar: foure kynges agenste v. And that\nvale of siddim was full of slyme pyttes.\n\nAnd the kynges of Sodome and Gomorra fled/ and fell there. And the\nresydue fled to the mountaynes. And they toke all the goodes of\nSodome and Gomorra and all their vitalles/ ad went their waye. And\nthey toke Lot also Abrams brothers sonne and his good (for he dwelled\nat Sodome) and departed:\n\nThan came one that had escaped/ and tolde Abram the hebrue which\ndwelled in the okegrove of Mamre the Amoryte brother of Eschol and\nAner: which were confederate wyth Abram. When Abram herde that his\nbrother was taken/ he harnessed his seruantes borne in his owne house\n.iij. hundred & .xviij. ad folowed tyll they came at Dan. And sette\nhymselfe ad his seruantes in aray/ & fell vpon them by nyght/ & smote\nthem/ & chased them awaye vnto Hoba: which lyeth on the lefte hande of\nDamascos/ and broughte agayne all the goodes/ & also his brother Lot/\nad his goodes/ the wem[~e] also and the people.\n\nAnd as he retourned agayne from the slaughter of kedorlaomer and of\nthe kynges that were with hym/ than came the kynge of Sodome agaynst\nhym vnto the vale of Saue which now is called kynges dale.\n\nThan Melchisedech kinge of Salem brought forth breed and wyne. And he\nbeynge the prest of the most hyghest God/ blessed hym saynge. Blessed\nbe Abram vnto the most hyghest God/ possessor of heaven and erth. And\nblessed be God the most hyghest/ which hath delyvered thyne enimies in\nto thy handes. And Abra gaue hym tythes of all.\n\nThan sayd the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram: gyue me the soulles/ and\ntake the goodes to thy selfe. And Abram answered the kynge of Sodome:\nI lyfte vpp my hande vnto the LORde God most hygh possessor of heaven\nad erth/ that I will not take of all y^t is thyne/ so moch as a thred\nor a shoulachet/ lest thou shuldest saye I haue made Abra ryche. Saue\nonly that which the yonge men haue eaten ad the partes of the men\nwhich went wyth me. Aner/ Escholl & Mamre. Let them take their partes.\n\n\n\n\nxv. Chapter.\n\n\nAfter these deades/ y^e worde of God came vnto Abram in a vision\nsaynge feare not Abram/ I am thy shilde/ and thy rewarde shalbe\nexceadynge greate. And Abram answered: LORde Iehouah what wilt thou\ngeue me: I goo childlesse/ and the cater of myne housse/ this Eleasar\nof Damasco hath a sonne. And Abram sayd: se/ to me hast thou geven no\nseed: lo/ a lad borne in my housse shal be myne heyre.\n\nAnd beholde/ the worde of the LORde spake vnto Abram sayenge: He shall\nnot be thyne heyre/ but one that shall come out of thyne awne bodye\nshalbe thyne heyre. And he brought him out at the doores ad sayde.\nLoke vpp vnto heaven and tell the starres/ yf thou be able to nobre\nthem. And sayde vnto him Even so shall thy seed be.\n\nAnd Abram beleved the LORde/ and it was counted to him for rightwesnes.\nAnd he sayde vnto hym: I am the LORde that brought the out of Vr in\nChaldea to geue this lande to possesse it.\n\nAnd he sayde: LORde God/ whereby shall I knowe that I shall possesse\nit? And he sayde vnto him: take an heyfer of .iij. yere olde/ and a\nshe gotte of thre yeres olde/ and a thre yere olde ram/ a turtill doue\nand a yonge pigeon. And he toke all these and devyded them in the\nmyddes/ and layde euery pece/ one over agenst a nother. But the foules\ndevyded he not. And the byrdes fell on the carcases/ but Abra droue\nth[~e] awaye. And when the sonne was doune/ there fell a slomber apon\nAbram. And loo/ feare and greate darknesse came apon hym.\n\nAnd he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertie/ that thi seed shalbe\na straunger in a lande that perteyneth not vnto th[~e]. And they shall\nmake bondmen of them and entreate them evell iiij. hundred yeares. But\nthe nation whom they shall serue/ wyll I iudge. And after warde shall\nthey come out wyth greate substace. Neuerthelesse thou shalt goo vnto\nthi fathers in peace/ ad shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:\nad in the fourth generation they shall come hyther agayne/ for the\nwekednesse of the Amorites ys not yet full.\n\nWhen the sonne was doune and it was waxed darcke: beholde/ there was a\nsmokynge furnisse and a fyre brand that went betwene the sayde peces.\n\nAnd that same daye the LORde made a covenaunte with Abram saynge: vnto\nthy seed wyll I geue thys londe/ fro the ryver of Egypte/ even\nvnto the greate ryver euphrates: the kenytes/ the kenizites/ the\nCadmonites/ the Hethites/ the Pherezites/ the Raphaims/ the Amorytes/\nthe Canaanites/ the Gergesites and the Iebusites.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xvi. Chapter.\n\n\nSarai Abrams wyfe bare him no childerne. But she had an hand mayde an\nEgiptian/ whose name was Hagar. Wherfore she sayde vnto Abram. Beholde\nthe LORde hath closed me/ that I can not bere. I praye the goo in vnto\nmy mayde/ peradu[~e]ture I shall be multiplyed by meanes of her And\nAbram herde the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai Abrams wife toke Hagar hyr\nmayde the Egitian (after Abram had dwelled .x. yere in the lande of\nCanaan) and gaue her to hyr husbonde Abram/ to be his wyfe.\n\nAnd he wente in vnto Hagar/ & she conceaved. And when she sawe that\nshe had conceyved hyr mastresse was despised in hyr syghte. Than sayd\nSarai vnto Abram: Thou dost me vnrighte/ for I haue geuen my mayde\ninto thy bosome: & now because she seyth that she hath coceaved/ I am\ndespysed in hyr syghte: the LORde iudge betwene the and me. Than sayde\nAbra to Sarai: beholde/ thy mayde is in thy hande/ do with hyr as it\npleaseth the.\n\nAnd because Sarai fared foule with her/ she fled from her. And the\nangell of the LORde founde her besyde a fountayne of water in the\nwyldernes: euen by a well in the way to Sur. And he sayde: Hagar\nSarais mayde/ whence comest thou and whether wylt thou goo? And she\nanswered: I flee from my mastresse Sarai. And the angell of the LORde\nsayde vnto her: returne to thy mastresse agayne/ & submytte thy selfe\nvnder her handes.\n\nAnd the angell of y^e LORde sayde vnto her: I will so encrease thy\nseed/ that it shall not be numbred for multitude. And the LORdes\nangell sayd further vnto her: se/ thou art wyth childe and shalt bere\na sonne/ and shalt call his name Ismael: because the LORDE hath herde\nthy tribulation. He will be a wylde man/ and his hande will be agenst\nevery man/ & euery mans hande agenst him. And yet shall he dwell faste\nby all his brothren.\n\nAnd she called the name of the LORde that spake vnto her: thou art the\nGod that lokest on me/ for she sayde: I haue of a suertie sene here\nthe backe parties of him that seith me. Wherfore she called the well/\nthe well of the lyuynge that seith me which well is betwene Cades &\nBared.\n\nAnd Hagar bare Abram a sonne/ and Abram called his sons name which\nHagar bare Ismaell. And Abram was .lxxxvi. yere olde/ when Hagar bare\nhim Ismael.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xvij. Chapter.\n\n\nWhen Abram was nynetye yere olde & ix. the LORde apeared to hym\nsayenge: I am the almyghtie God: walke before me ad be vncorrupte. And\nI wyll make my bonde betwene the and me/ and wyll multiplye the\nexcedyngly. And Abra fell on his face. And God talked moreover with\nhym saynge: I am/ beholde my testam[~e]t is with the/ that thou shalt\nbe a father of many natios. Therfore/ shalt thou no more be called\nAbram/ but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue\nI made the/ and I will multiplye the excedyngly/ and wyll make nations\nof the: yes and kynges shall sprynge out of the.\n\nMoreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the/ and thy seed after\nthe/ in their tymes to be an everlastynge testament/ So that I wyll\nbe God vnto the and to thy seed after the. And I will geue vnto the ad\nto thy seed after the/ the lande where in thou arte a straunger: Euen\nall the lande of Canaan/ for an everlastynge possession/ and wil be\ntheir God.\n\nAnd God sayde vnto Abraha: Se thou kepe my testamente/ both thou & thy\nseed after the in their tymes: This is my testamente which ye shall\nkepe betwene me and you and thy seed after the/ that ye circ[~u]cyse\nall youre men childern Ye shall circumcyse the foreskynne of youre\nflesh/ ad it shal be a token of the bond betwixte me and you. And\neuery manchilde when it is viij. dayes olde/ shal be circ[~u]cysed\namonge you in youre generations/ and all seruauntes also borne at home\nor boughte with money though they be straungers and not of thy seed.\nThe seruaunte borne in thy housse/ ad he also that is bought with\nmoney/ must needes be circumcysed/ that my testament may be in youre\nflesh/ for an everlastynge bonde. Yf there be any vncircuncysed\nmanchilde/ that hath not the forskynne of his flesh cutt of/ his soule\nshall perish from his people: because he hath brok[~e] my testam[~e]t\n\nAnd God sayde vnto Abraham. Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called\nSarai: but Sara shall hir name be. For I will blesse her & geue the a\nsonne of her and will blesse her: so that people/ ye and kynges of\npeople shall springe of her. And Abraham fell vpon his face ad\nlaughte/ and sayd in his harte: shall a childe be borne vnto hym that\nis an hundred yere olde/ ad shall Sara that is nynetie yere olde/\nbere? And Abraha sayde vnto God. O that Ismaell myghte lyve in thy\nsyghte.\n\nTh[~e] sayde God: na/ Sara thy wife shall bere the a sonne/ ad thou\nshalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my bonde with him/ that it\nshall be an everlastynge bonde vnto his seed after him. And as\nconcernynge Ismaell also/ I haue herde thy request: loo/ I will blesse\nhim and encrease him/ and multiplye him excedyngly. Twelve prynces\nshall he begete/ and I will make a great nation of him. But my bonde\nwill I make with Isaac/ which Sara shall bere vnto the: even this tyme\ntwelue moneth.\n\nAnd God left of talkynge with him/ and departed vp from Abraham. And\nAbraham toke Ismaell his sonne & all the servauntes borne in his\nhousse and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren\namonge the m[~e] of Abrahas housse/ and circumcysed the foreskynne of\ntheir flesh/ even the selfe same daye/ as God had sayde vnto him.\nAbraham was nynetie yere olde and .ix. when he cutt of the foreskynne\nof his flesh. And Ismaell his sonne was .xiij. yere olde/ when the\nforeskynne of hys flesh was circumcysed. The selfe same daye was\nAbraha circ[~u]cised & Ismael his sonne. And all the men in his\nhousse/ whether they were borne in his housse or bought wyth money\n(though they were straungers) were circumcysed with him.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xviij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd the LORde apeared vnto him in the okegrove of Mamre as he sat in\nhis tent dore in the heate of the daye. And he lyfte vp his eyes and\nlooked: ad lo/ thre men stode not farr from hym. And wh[~e] he sawe\nthem/ he ran agenst them from the tent dore/ and fell to the grounde\nand sayde: LORde yf I haue founde fauoure in thy syght/ goo not by thi\nseruaunte. Let a litle water be fett/ & wash youre fete/ and rest\nyoure selves vnder the tree: And I will fett a morsell of breed/ to\ncomforte youre hartes wythall. And tha goo youre wayes/ for even\ntherfore ar ye come to youre servaunte. And they answered: Do even so\nas thou hast sayde.\n\nAnd Abraha went a pace in to his tent vnto Sara ad sayde: make redy\nattonce thre peckes of fyne meale/ kneade it and make cakes. And\nAbraham ran vnto his beastes and fett a calfe that was tendre and\ngood/ and gaue it vnto a yonge man which made it redy attonce. And he\ntoke butter & mylcke and the calfe which he had prepared/ and sett it\nbefore them/ and stode hymselfe by them vnder the tree: and they ate.\n\nAnd they sayde vnto him: Where is Sara thy wife? And he sayde: in the\ntent. And he sayde: I will come agayne vnto the as soone as the frute\ncan lyue. And loo: Sara thy wife shall haue a sonne. That herde Sara/\nout of the tent doore which was behind his backe. Abraham and Sara\nwere both olde and well stryken in age/ and it ceased to be with Sara\nafter the maner as it is wyth wyves. And Sara laughed in hir selfe\nsaynge: Now I am waxed olde/ shall I geue my selfe to lust/ and my\nlorde olde also?\n\nThan sayd the LORde vnto Abraha: wherfore doth Sara laughe saynge:\nshal I of a suertie bere a childe/ now when I am olde? is the thinge\nto harde for the LORde to do? In the tyme appoynted will I returne\nvnto the/ as soone as the frute can haue lyfe/ And Sara shall haue a\nsonne. Than Sara denyed it saynge: I laughed not/ for she was afrayde.\nBut he sayde: yes thou laughtest.\n\nThan the men stode vp from thence and loked towarde Sodome. And\nAbraham went with them to brynge them on the waye. And the LORde\nsayde: Can I hyde from Abraham that thinge which I am aboute to do/\nseynge that Abraham shalt be a great ad a myghtie people/ and all the\nnations of the erth shalbe blessed in him? For I knowe him that he\nwill commaunde his childern and his housholde after him/ y^t they\nkepe the waye of the LORde/ to do after righte and conscyence/ that\nthe LORde may brynge vppon Abraham that he hath promysed him.\n\nAnd the LORde sayde: The crie of Sodome and Gomorra is great/ and\nthere synne is excedynge grevous. I will go downe and see whether they\nhaue done all to gedder acordynge to that crye which is come vnto me\nor not/ that I may knowe. And the m[~e] departed th[~e]ce and went to\nSodomeward. But Abraham stode yet before y^e LORde/ & drewe nere &\nsayde\n\nWylt thou destroy the rightwes with the wyked? Yf there be .l.\nrightwes within the cyte/ wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place\nfor the sake of .l. rightwes that are therin? That be farre from the/\nthat thou shuldest be after thys maner/ to sley the rightwes with the\nweked/ ad that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that be farre from\nthe. Shulde not the iudge of all y^e worlde do acordynge to righte?\nAnd the LORde sayde: Yf I fynde in Sodome .l. rightwes within the\ncyte/ I will spare all the place for their sakes.\n\nAnd Abraham answered and sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to\nspeake vnto y^e LORde/ ad yet am but dust ad asshes. What though there\nlacke .v. of .l. rightwes/ wylt thou destroy all the cyte for lacke of\n.v? And he sayde: Yf I fynde there .xl. and .v. I will not destroy\nthem.\n\nAnd he spake vnto him yet agayne and sayde: what yf there be xl.\nfo[~u]de there: And he sayde: I wyll not do it for forties sake. And\nhe sayde: O let not my LORde be angrye/ that I speake. What yf there\nbe fo[~u]de .xxx. there? And he sayde: I will not do it/ yf I finde\n.xxx. there. And he sayde: Oh/ se/ I haue begonne to speake vnto my\nLORde/ what yf there be .xx. founde there? And he sayde: I will not\ndistroy th[~e] for tw[~e]ties sake. And he sayde: O let not my LORde\nbe angrye/ that I speake yet/ but eu[~e] once more only. What yf ten\nbe founde there? And he sayde: I will not destroy th[~e] for .x. sake.\n\nAnd the LORde w[~e]t his waye as soone as he had lefte comenynge with\nAbraha. And Abraham returned vnto his place\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xix. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd there came .ij. angells to Sodome at euen. And Lot satt at the\ngate of the cyte. And Lot sawe th[~e]/ and rose vp agaynst them/ and\nhe bowed hym selfe to the grounde with his face. And he sayde: Se\nlordes/ turne in I praye you in to youre servauntes house and tary all\nnyghte & wash youre fete/ & ryse vp early and go on youre wayes. And\nthey sayde: nay/ but we will byde in the streates all nyghte. And he\ncopelled them excedyngly. And they turned in vnto hym and entred in to\nhis house/ and he made them a feaste and dyd bake swete cakes/ and\nthey ate.\n\nBut before they went to rest/ the men of the cyte of Sodome compassed\nthe house rownde aboute both olde and yonge/ all the people from all\nquarters. And they called vnto Lot and sayde vnto him: where are the\nmen which came in to thy house to nyghte? brynge th[~e] out vnto vs\nthat we may do oure lust with them.\n\nAnd Lot went out at doores vnto them and shote the dore after him and\nsayde: nay for goddes sake brethren/ do no so wekedly. Beholde I haue\ntwo doughters which haue knowne no man/ th[~e] will I brynge out vnto\nyou: do with them as it semeth you good: Only vnto these men do\nnothynge/ for therfore came they vnder the shadowe of my rofe. And\nthey sayde: come hither. And they sayde: camest thou not in to\nsogeorne/ and wilt thou be now a iudge? we will suerly deale worse\nwith the than with them\n\nAnd as they preased sore vppon Lot and beganne to breake vp the doore/\nthe men put forth their handes and pulled Lot in to the house to them\nand shott to the doore. And the men that were at the doore of the\nhouse/ they smote with blyndnesse both small and greate: so that they\ncoude not fynde the doore.\n\nAnd the men sayde moreover vnto Lot: Yf thou have yet here any sonne\nin lawe or sonnes or doughters or what so euer thou hast in the cyte/\nbrynge it out of this place: for we must destroy this place/ because\nthe crye of th[~e] is great before the LORde. Wherfore he hath sent vs\nto destroy it.\n\nAnd Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which shulde haue\nmaried his doughters/ and sayde: stonde vpp and get yow out of this\nplace/ for the LORde will destroy the cite. But he semed as though he\nhad mocked/ vnto his sonnes in law.\n\nAnd as the mornynge arose the angells caused Lot to spede him saynge.\nStonde vp/ take thy wyfe and thy two doughters and that that is at\nhande/ lest thou perish in the synne of the cyte. And as he prolonged\nthe tyme/ the men caught both him/ his wife ad his two doughters by\nthe handes/ because the LORde was mercyfull vnto him/ ad they brought\nhim forth and sette him without the cyte.\n\nWhen they had brought them out/ they sayde: Saue thy lyfe and loke not\nbehynde the nether tary thou in any place of the contre/ but saue thy\nselfe in the mountayne/ lest thou perisshe. Than sayde Lot vnto them:\nOh nay my lorde: beholde/ in as moch as thy servaunte hath fownde\ngrace in thy syghte/ now make thi mercy great which thou shewest vnto\nme in savinge my lyfe. For I can not saue my selfe in the mountayns/\nlest some misfortune fall vpon me and I dye. Beholde/ here is a cyte\nby/ to flee vnto/ and it is a lytle one: let me saue my selfe therein:\nis it not a litle one/ that my soule may lyue?\n\nAnd he sayde to him: se I haue receaved thy request as concernynge\nthis thynge/ that I will nott overthrowe this cytie for the which\nthou hast spoken. Haste the/ ad saue thy selfe there/ for I can do\nnothynge tyll thou be come in thyder. And therfore the name of the\ncyte is called Zoar. And the sone was vppon the erth when Lot was\nentred into Zoar.\n\nThan the LORde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorra/ brymstone and fyre from\nthe LORde out of heaven/ and overthrewe those cyteis and all the\nregion/ and all that dwelled in the cytes/ and that that grewe vpon\nthe erth. And lots wyfe loked behynde her/ ad was turned in to a\npillare of salte.\n\nAbraham rose vp early and got him to the place where he stode before\nthe LORde/ and loked toward Sodome and Gomorra and toward all the\nlonde of that contre. And as he loked: beholde/ the smoke of the\ncontre arose as it had bene the smoke of a fornace. But yet wh[~e] God\ndestroyed the cities of y^e regio/ he thought a pon Abraha: and sent\nLot out from the dager of the overthrowenge/ when he overthrewe the\ncyties where Lot dwelled.\n\nAnd Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountayns ad his .ij.\ndoughters with him for he feared to tary in Zoar: he dweld therfore in\na caue/ both he and his .ij. doughters also.\n\nThan sayde the elder vnto the yonger oure father is olde/ and there\nare no moo men in the erth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all\nthe world. Come therfore/ let vs geue oure father wyne to dryncke/ and\nlet vs lye with him that we may saue seed of oure father. And they\ngaue their father wyne to drynke that same nyghte. And the elder\ndoughter went and laye with her father. And he perceaued it not/\nnether when she laye doune/ nether when she rose vp.\n\nAnd on the morewe the elder sayde vnto the yonger: beholde/ yesternyghte\nlaye I with my father. Let us geue hym wyne to drinke this nyghte\nalso/ and goo thou and lye with him/ and let us saue seed of oure\nfather. And they gaue their father wyne to drincke that nyghte also.\nAnd the yonger arose and laye with him. And he perceaved it not:\nnether when she laye downe/ nether when she rose vp.\n\nThus were both the doughters of lot with childe by their father And\nthe elder bare a sone and called hym Moab/ which is the father of the\nMoabytes vnto this daye. And the yonger bare a sonne and called hym\nBen Ammi/ which is the father of the childern of Ammon vnto this daye.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xx. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Abraham departed thence towarde the southcontre and dwelled\nbetwene Cades and Sur ad sogeorned in Gerar. And Abraham sayde of Sara\nhis wyfe/ that she was his sister. Than Abimelech kynge of Gerar sent\nand fett Sara awaye.\n\nAnd God came to Abimelech by nyghte in a dreame and sayde to him: Se/\nthou art but a deed man for the womas sake which thou hast taken\nawaye/ for she is a mans wyfe. But Abimelech had not yet come nye her/\nand therfore sayde: lorde wilt thou sley rightewes people? sayde not\nhe vnto me/ that she was hys sister? yee and sayde not she herself\nthat he was hir brother? wyth a pure herte and innocent handes haue I\ndone this.\n\nAnd God sayde vnto him in a dreame. I wot it well that thou dydest it\nin the purenesse of thi herte. And therfore I kepte y^e that thou\nshuldest not synne agenst me/ nether suffred I the to come nygh her.\nNow therfore delyuer the ma his wyfe ageyne/ for he is a prophete. And\nlet him praye for the that thou mayst lyue. But and yf thou delyuer\nher not agayne/ be sure that thou shalt dye the deth/ with all that\nthou hast.\n\nThan Abimelech rose vp be tymes in the mornynge and called all his\nservauntes/ and tolde all these thinges in their eares/ and the men\nwere sore a frayde. And Abimelech called Abraham and sayde vnto him:\nWhat hast thou done vnto vs/ & what haue I offended the/ that thou\nshuldest brynge on me and on my kyngdome so greate a synne? thou hast\ndone dedes vnto me that ought not to be done. And Abimelech sayde\nmorouer vnto Abraham: What sawest thou that moved the to do this\nthinge?\n\nAnd Abraham Answered. I thought that peradv[~e]ture the feare of God\nwas not in this place/ and that they shulde sley me for my wyfes\nsake: yet in very dede she is my sister/ the doughter of my father/\nbut not of my mother: and became my wyfe. And after God caused me to\nwandre out of my fathers house/ I sayde vnto her: This kyndnesse shalt\nthou shewe vnto me in all places where we come/ that thou saye of me/\nhow that I am thy brother.\n\nThan toke Abimelech shepe and oxen/ menservauntes and wemenseruauntes\nand gaue them vnto Abraham/ and delyvered him Sara his wyfe agayne.\nAnd Abimelech sayde: beholde the lande lyeth be fore the/ dwell where\nit pleaseth y^e best. And vnto Sara he sayde: Se I haue geuen thy\nbrother a thousande peeces of syluer/ beholde he shall be a couerynge\nto thyne eyes vnto all that ar with the and vnto all men and an\nexcuse.\n\nAnd so Abraham prayde vnto God/ and God healed Abimeleh and his wyfe\nand hys maydens/ so that they bare. For the LORde had closed to/ all\nthe matryces of the house of Abimelech/ because of Sara Abrahams wyfe.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxj. Chapter\n\n\nThe lorde visyted Sara as he had sayde and dyd vnto her acordynge as\nhe had spoken. And Sara was with childe and bare Abraha a sonne in his\nolde age euen the same season which the LORde had appoynted. And\nAbraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him which Sara bare\nhim Isaac: & Abra circ[~u]cysed Isaac his sone wh[~e] he was .viij.\ndayes olde/ as God commaunded him And Abraha was an hundred yere olde/\nwhen his sonne Isaac was borne vnto him.\n\nAnd Sara sayde: God hath made me a laughinge stocke: for all y^t\nheare/ will laugh at me She sayde also: who wolde haue sayde vnto\nAbraham/ that Sara shulde haue geuen childern sucke/ or y^t I shulde\nhaue borne him a sonne in his olde age: The childe grewe and was\nwened/ and Abraham made a great feast/ the same daye that Isaac was\nwened.\n\nSara sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egiptian which she had borne vnto\nAbraham/ a mockynge. Then she sayde vnto Abraham: put awaye this\nbondemayde and hyr sonne: for the sonne of this bondwoman shall not be\nheyre with my sonne Isaac: But the wordes semed verey greavous in\nAbrahams syghte/ because of his sonne. Than the LORde sayde vnto\nAbraham: let it not be greavous vnto the/ because of the ladd and of\nthy bondmayde: But in all that Sara hath saide vnto the/ heare hir\nvoyce/ for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Moreouer of the sonne of\nthe Bondwoman will I make a nation/ because he is thy seed.\n\nAnd Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng and toke brede and a bottell\nwith water/ and gaue it vnto Hagar/ puttynge it on hir shulders wyth\nthe lad also/ and sent her awaye. And she departed and wadred vpp and\ndoune in the wyldernes of Berseba. When the water was spent that was\nin the botell/ she cast the lad vnder a bush and went & sate her out\nof syghte a great waye/ as it were a bowshote off: For she sayde: I\nwill not se the lad dye. And she satt doune out of syghte/ and lyfte\nvp hyr voyce and wepte.\n\nAnd God herde the voyce of the childe. And the angell of God called\nHagar out of heaven and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the Hagar? Feare\nnot/ for God hath herde the voyce of the childe where he lyeth. Aryse\nand lyfte vp the lad/ and take hym in thy hande/ for I will make off\nhim a greate people. And God opened hir eyes and she sawe a well of\nwater. And she went and fylled the bottell with water/ and gaue the\nboye drynke. And God was wyth the lad/ and he grewe and dweld in the\nwildernesse/ and became an archer. And he dweld in the wyldernesse of\nPharan. And hys mother gott him a wyfe out of the land of Egypte.\n\nAnd it chaunced the same season/ that Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe\ncaptayne spake vnto Abraham saynge: God is wyth the in all that thou\ndoist. Now therfore swere vnto me even here by God/ that thou wylt not\nhurt me nor my childern/ nor my childerns childern. But that thou\nshalt deale with me and the contre where thou art a straunger/\nacordynge vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed the. Then sayde\nAbraham: I wyll swere.\n\nAnd Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water/ which Abimelech\nservauntes had taken awaye. And Abimelech answered I wyst not who dyd\nit: Also thou toldest me not/ nether herde I of it/ but this daye.\n\nAnd Abraham toke shepe and oxen and gaue them vnto Abimelech. And they\nmade both of them a bonde together. And Abraham sett vij. lambes by\nthem selues. And Abimelech sayde vnto Abraham: what meane these .vij.\nlambes which thou hast sett by them selues. And he answered: vij.\nlambes shalt thou take of my hande/ that it maye be a wytnesse vnto\nme/ that I haue dygged this well: Wherfore the place is called\nBerseba/ because they sware both of them. Thus made they a bonde to\ngether at Berseba.\n\n Than Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe\n captayne rose vp and turned agayne vnto the\n lande of the Philistines. And Abraham planted\n a wodd in Berseba/ and called there/\n on the name of the LORde\n the everlastynge God: and\n dwelt in the Phelistin\n lade a longe\n season\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxij. Chapter.\n\n\nAfter these dedes/ God dyd proue Abraham & sayde vnto him: Abraham.\nAnd he answered: here am I. And he sayde: take thy only sonne Isaac\nwhome thou louest/ & get the vnto the lande of Moria/ and sacrifyce\nhim there for a sacrifyce vpon one of the mountayns which I will shewe\nthe Than Abraham rose vp early in the mornynge and sadled his asse/\nand toke two of his meyny wyth him/ and Isaac his sonne: ad clove wod\nfor the sacrifyce/ and rose vp and gott him to the place which God had\nappoynted him.\n\nThe thirde daye Abraham lyfte vp his eyes and sawe the place a farr\nof/ and sayde vnto his yong men: byde here with the asse. I and the\nlad will goo yonder and worshippe and come agayne vnto you. And\nAbraham toke the wodd of the sacrifyce and layde it vpon Isaac his\nsonne/ and toke fyre in his hande and a knyfe. And they went both of\nthem together.\n\nThan spake Isaac vnto Abraham his father & sayde: My father? And he\nanswered here am I my sonne. And he sayde: Se here is fyre and wodd/\nbut where is the shepe for sacrifyce? And Abraham sayde: my sonne/ God\nwyll prouyde him a shepe for sacrifyce. So went they both together.\n\nAnd when they came vnto the place which God shewed him/ Abraha made an\naulter there and dressed the wodd/ ad bownde Isaac his sonne and\nlayde him on the aulter/ aboue apon the wodd. And Abraham stretched\nforth his hande/ and toke the knyfe to haue kylled his sonne.\n\nThan the angell of the LORde called vnto him from heauen saynge:\nAbraham/ Abraham. And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: laye not\nthy handes apon the childe nether do any thinge at all vnto him/ for\nnow I knowe that thou fearest God/ in y^t thou hast not kepte thine\nonly sonne fro me. And Abraham lyfted vp his eyes and loked aboute:\nand beholde/ there was a ram caught by the hornes in a thykette. And\nhe went and toke the ram and offred him vp for a sacrifyce in the\nsteade of his sonne And Abraham called the name of the place/ the\nLORde will see: wherfore it is a com[~e] saynge this daye: in the\nmounte will the LORde be sene.\n\nAnd the Angell of the LORde cryed vnto Abraham from heaven the seconde\ntyme saynge: by my selfe haue I sworne (sayth the LORde) because thou\nhast done this thinge and hast not spared thy only sonne/ that I will\nblesse the and multiplye thy seed as the starres of heaven and as the\nsonde vpo the seesyde. And thy seed shall possesse the gates of hys\nenymies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the erth be blessed/\nbecause thou hast obeyed my voyce\n\nSo turned Abraham agayne vnto his yonge men/ and they rose vp and\nw[~e]t to gether to Berseba. And Abraham dwelt at Berseba\n\nAnd it cha[~u]sed after these th[~i]ges/ that one tolde Abraham\nsaynge: Beholde/ Milcha she hath also borne childern vnto thy brother\nNachor: Hus his eldest sonne and Bus his brother/ and Kemuell the\nfather of the Sirians/ and Cesed/ and Haso/ and Pildas/ and Iedlaph/\nand Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These .viij. dyd Milcha bere\nto Nachor Abrahams brother. And his concubyne called Rheuma she bare\nalso Tebah/ Gaham/ Thahas and Maacha.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6The .xxiij. Chapter.\n\n\nSara was an hundred and .xxvij. yere olde (for so longe lyued she) and\nthan dyed in a heade cyte called Hebron in the londe of Canaan. Than\nAbraham came to morne Sara and to wepe for her. And Abraham stode vp\nfrom the coorse and talked with the sonnes of heth saynge: I am a\nstraunger ad a foryner amonge yow/ geue me a possession to bury in\nwith you/ that I may bury my dead oute of my sighte.\n\nAnd the children of heth answered Abraham saynge vnto him: heare vs\nlorde/ thou art a prynce of God amonge vs. In the chefest of oure\nsepulchres bury thy dead: None of vs shall forbydd y^e his sepulcre/\ny^t thou shuldest not bury thy deade therein. Abraha stode vp & bowed\nh[~i] selfe before y^e people of y^e lade y^e childr[~e] of heth.\n\nAnd he comoned with them saynge: Yf it be youre myndes y^t I shall\nbury my deade oute of my sighte/ heare me ad speke for me to Ephron\nthe sonne of Zoar: and let him geue me the dubill caue which he hath\nin the end of his felde/ for as moch money as it is worth/ let him\ngeue it me in the presence of you/ for a possession to bury in. For\nHephron dwelled amoge y^e childern of heth.\n\nThan Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham in the audy[~e]ce of the\nchildern of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his cyte/\nsaynge: Not so/ my lorde/ but heare me: The felde geue I the/ and the\ncaue that therein is/ geue I the also/ And even in the presence of the\nsonnes of my people geve I it the to bury thy deede in. Than Abraham\nbowed himselfe before the people of the lade and spake vnto Ephro in\nthe audyence of the people of the contre saynge: I praye the heare me/\nI will geue sylver for the felde/ take it of me/ ad so will I bury my\ndeed there.\n\nEphron answered Abraha saynge vnto him My lorde/ harken vnto me. The\nlande is worth iiij. hundreth sycles of syluer: But what is that\nbetwixte the and me? bury thy deede. And Abraham harkened vnto Ephron\nand weyde him the sylver which he had sayde in the audyence of the\nsonnes of Heth. Euen .iiij. h[~u]dred syluer sycles of currant money\namonge marchauntes\n\nThus was the felde of Ephron where in the dubbill caue is before\nMamre: euen the felde & the caue that is therein and all the trees of\nthe felde which growe in all the borders rounde aboute/ made sure vnto\nAbraham for a possession/ in the syghte of the childern of Heth and of\nall that went in at the gates of the cyte. And then Abraham buried\nSara his wyfe in the double caue of the felde that lyeth before Mare/\notherwise called Ebron in the lande of Canaan. And so both the felde\nad the caue that is therein/ was made vnto Abraham/ a sure possession\nto bury in/ of the sonnes of Heth.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxiiij. Chapter\n\n\nAbraham was olde and stryken in dayes/ and the LORde had blessed him\nin all thinges. And he sayde vn to his eldest servaunte of his house\nwhich had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hande vnder my thye\nthat I maye make the swere by the LORde that is God of heauen and God\nof the erth/ that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne/ of the\ndoughters of the canaanytes/ amonge which I dwell. But shalt goo vnto\nmy contre and to my kynred/ and there take a wyfe vnto my sonne Isaac.\n\nTha sayde the seruaunte vnto him: what ad yf the woma wyll not agree\nto come with me vnto this lade/ shall I brynge thy sonne agayne vnto\nthe lande which thou camest out of? And Abraha sayde vnto him: bewarre\nof that/ that thou br[~i]ge not my sonne thither. The LORde God of\nheauen which toke me from my fathers house and from the lande where I\nwas borne/ and which spake vnto me and sware vnto me saynge: vnto thy\nseed wyll I geue this lande/ he shall sende his angell before the/ y^t\nthou mayst take a wife vnto my sonne from thence. Neuerthelesse yf the\nwoma will not agree to come with the than shalt thou be with out\ndaunger of this ooth. But aboue all thinge brynge not my sonne thyther\nagayne. And the seruaunte put his hand vnder the thye of Abraham and\nsware to him as concernynge that matter.\n\nAnd the seruaunte toke .x. camels of the camels of his master and\ndeparted/ and had of all maner goodes of his master with him/ and\nstode vp and went to Mesopotamia/ vnto the cytie of Nahor. And made\nhis camels to lye doune without the cytie by a wels syde of water/ at\neuen: aboute the tyme that women come out to drawe water/ and he\nsayde.\n\nLORde God of my master Abraha/ sende me good spede this daye/ & shewe\nmercy vnto my master Abraham. Lo I stonde here by the well of water\nand the doughters of the men of this citie will come out to drawe\nwater: Now the damsell to whome I saye/ stoupe doune thy pytcher and\nlet me drynke. Yf she saye/ drynke/ and I will geue thy camels drynke\nalso/ y^e same is she that thou hast ordened for they servaunte Isaac:\nyee & therby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my master.\n\nAnd it came to passe yer he had leeft spakynge/ that Rebecca came\nout/ the doughter of Bethuell/ sonne to Melcha the wife of Nahor\nAbrahams brother/ and hir pytcher apon hir shulder: The damsell was\nvery fayre to loke apon/ and yet a mayde and vnknowen of man. And she\nwent doune to the well and fylled hyr pytcher and came vp agayne. Then\nthe seruaunte ranne vnto her and sayde: let me syppe a litle water of\nthi pitcher. And she sayde: drynke my lorde.\n\nAnd she hasted and laie downe her pytcher apon hyr arme and gaue him\ndrinke. And wh[~e] she had geven hym drynke/ she sayde: I will drawe\nwater for thy camels also/ vntill they haue dronke ynough. And she\npoured out hyr pitcher in to the trough hastely and ranne agayne vnto\nthe well/ to fett water: and drewe for all his camels.\n\nAnd the felowe wondred at her. But helde his peace/ to wete whether\nthe LORde had made his iourney prosperous or not. And as the camels\nhad lefte drynckynge/ he toke an earynge of halfe a sicle weght and\n.ij golden bracelettes for hyr hades/ of .x. sycles weyght of gold and\nsayde vnto her: whose doughter art thou? tell me: ys there rowme in\nthy fathers house/ for vs to lodge in? And she sayde vnto him: I am\nthe doughter of Bethuell the sonne of Milcha which she bare vnto\nNahor: and sayde moreouer vnto him: we haue litter and prauonder\nynough and also rowme to lodge in.\n\nAnd the man bowed himselfe and worshipped the LORde and sayde: blessed\nbe the LORde God of my master Abraham which ceasseth not to deale\nmercyfully and truly with my master/ And hath brought me the waye to\nmy masters brothers house. And the damsell ranne & tolde them of her\nmothers house these thinges. And Rebecca had a brother called Laban.\n\nAnd Laban ranne out vnto the man/ to the well: for as soone as he had\nsene the earynges and the bracelettes apon his sisters handes/ ad\nherde the wordes of Rebecca his sister saynge thus sayde the man vnto\nme/ than he went out vnto the man. And loo/ he stode yet with the\ncamels by the well syde. And Laban sayde: come in thou blessed of the\nLORde. Wherfore stondest thou without? I haue dressed the house and\nmade rowme for the camels. And than the ma came in to the house. And\nhe vnbrydeld the camels: and brought litter and prauonder for the\ncamels/ and water to weshe his fete and their fete that were with him/\nand there was meate sett before him to eate.\n\n[Sidenote: * God blesseth vs wh[~e] he geveth vs his benefites: and\ncurseth vs/ when he taketh them awaye.]\n\nBut he sayde: I will not eate/ vntill I haue sayde myne ear[~e]de: And\nhe sayde/ saye on. And he sayde: I am Abrahas servaunte/ & the LORDE\nhath * blessed my master out of measure that he is become greate\nand hath geven him shepe oxen/ syluer and golde/ menservauntes/\nmaydeservauntes/ camels ad asses. And Sara my masters wyfe bare him a\nsonne/ wh[~e] she was old: and vnto him hath he geven all that he\nhath.\n\nAnd my master made me swere saynge: Thou shalt not take a wyfe to my\nsonne/ amonge the doughters of the cananytes in whose lade I dwell.\nBut thou shalt goo vnto my fathers house and to my kynred/ and there\ntake a wyfe vnto my sonne. And I sayde vnto my master. What yf the\nwyfe will not folowe me? And he sayde vnto me: The LORde before whome\nI walke/ will sende his angell with the and prosper thy iourney that\nthou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne/ of my kynred and of my fathers\nhouse. But and yf (when thou comest vnto my kynred) they will not geue\nthe one/ tha shalt though bere no perell of myne oothe.\n\nAnd I came this daye vnto the well and sayed: O LORde/ the God of my\nmaster Abraha/ yf it be so that thou makest my iourney which I go/\nprosperous: behold/ I stode by this well of water/ And when a virgyn\ncometh forth to drawe water/ and I saye to her: geue me a litle water\nof thi pitcher to drynke/ and she saye agayne to me: dryncke thou/ and\nI will also drawe water for thy camels: that same is the wife/ whom\nthe LORde hath prepared for my masters sonne.\n\nAnd before I had made an ende of speakynge in myne harte: beholde\nRebecca came forth/ and hir pitcher on hir shulder/ and she went doune\nvnto the well and drewe. And I sayde vnto her geue me dryncke. And she\nmade hast and toke doune hir pitcher from of hir/ ad sayd: drinke/ and\nI will geue thy camels drynke also. And I asked her saynge: whose\ndoughter art thou? And she answered: the doughter of Bathuell Nahors\nsonne whome Milca bare vnto him.\n\nAnd I put the earynge vpon hir face and the bracelettes apon hir\nhondes. And I bowed my selfe and worshepped the LORde and blessed the\nLORde God of my master Abraha which had brought me the right waye/ to\ntake my masters brothers doughter vnto his sonne. Now therfore yf ye\nwill deall mercyfully and truly with my master/ tell me. And yf no/\ntell me also: that I maye turne me to the right hande or to the left.\n\nThan answered Laban and Bathuel saynge: The thinge is proceded even\nout of the lorde/ we can not therfore saye vnto the/ ether good or\nbad: Beholde Rebecca before thy face/ take her and goo/ and let her be\nthy masters sonnes wife/ euen as the LORde hath sayde. And wh[~e]\nAbrahams servaunte herde their wordes/ he bowed himselfe vnto the\nLORde/ flatt vpon the erth. And the servaunte toke forth iewells of\nsyluer and iewelles of gold and rayment/ and gaue them to Rebecca: But\nvnto hir brother & to hir mother/ he gaue spyces. And then they ate\nand dranke/ both he and the men that were with him/ and taried all\nnyghte and rose vp in the mornynge.\n\nAnd he sayde: let me de parte vnto my master. But hir brother and hir\nmother sayde: let the damsell abyde with vs a while/ ad it be but even\n.x. dayes/ and than goo thy wayes. And he sayde vnto them/ hinder me\nnot: for the lorde hath prospered my iourney. Sende me away y^t I maye\ngoo vnto my master. And they sayde: let vs call the damsell/ and witt\nwhat she sayth to the matter. And they called forth Rebecca ad sayde\nvnto her: wilt thou goo with this ma? And she sayde: Yee.\n\n[Sidenote: * To bless a mas neyboure is to praye for him ad to wisshe\nhim goode and not to wagge .ij. f[~i]gers ouer him.]\n\nThan they broughte Rebecca their sister on the waye and her norse and\nAbrahas servaunte/ and the men that were wyth him. And they *\nblessed Rebecca & sayde vnto her: Thou are oure sister/ growe in to\nthousande thousandes/ & thy seed possesse y^e gates of their enimes.\nAnd Rebecca arose & hir damsels/ & satt th[~e] vp apo the camels &\nwent their waye after the man. And y^e servaunte toke Rebecca & went\nhis waye\n\nAnd Isaac was a com[~i]ge from the well of y^e lyvynge & seynge/ for\nhe dwelt in the south cotre/ & was gone out to walke in his meditatios\nbefore y^e eu[~e] tyde. And he lyfte vp his eyes & loked/ & beholde\ny^e camels were cominge. And Rebecca lyfte vp hir eyes/ & wh[~e] she\nsawe Isaac/ she lyghted of the camel ad sayde vnto y^e servaunte: what\nma is this y^t cometh agenst vs in the feld? And the serva[~u]te\nsayde: it is my master. And then she toke hir mantell ad put it aboute\nher. And the serva[~u]te tolde Isaac all that he had done. Th[~e]\nIsaac broughte her in to his mother Saras tente/ ad toke Rebecca & she\nbecame his wife/ & he loved her: & so was Isaac coforted over his\nmother.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxv. Chapter\n\n\nAbraha toke h[~i] another wyfe cald Ketura/ which bare h[~i] Simram/\nIacksan/ Medan/ Midia Iesback & Suah. And Iacksan begat Seba & Deda.\nAnd the sonnes of Dedan were Assurim/ Letusim & Leumim. And the sonnes\nof Midian were Epha/ Epher/ Hanoch/ Abida & Elda. All these were the\nchildern of Kethura. But Abraha gaue all that he had vnto Isaac. And\nvnto the sonnes of his concubines he gaue giftes/ and sent them awaye\nfrom Isaac his sonne (while he yet lyved) east ward/ vnto the east\ncontre.\n\nThese are the dayes of the life of Abraha which he lyved: an h[~u]dred\n& .lxxv. yere and than fell seke ad dyed/ in a lustie age (wh[~e] he\nhad lyved ynough) ad was put vnto his people. And his sonnes Isaac ad\nIsmael buried him in the duble caue in the feld of Ephro sone of Zoar\nthe Hethite before Mamre. Which felde abraha boughte of the sonnes of\nHeth: There was Abraha buried and Sara hys wyfe. And after y^e deeth\nof Abraha God blessed Isaac his sonne which dweld by the well of the\nlyv[~i]nge & se[~i]ge\n\nThese are the generatios of Ismael Abrahas sonne/ which Hagar the\nEgiptia Saras hand mayde bare vnto Abraham. And these are the names of\nthe sones of Ismaell/ with their names in their k[~i]reddes. The\neldest sone of Ismael Neuatoth/ th[~e] Kedar/ Adbeel/ Mibsa/ Misma\nDuma/ Masa/ Hadar/ Thema/ Ietur/ Naphis & Kedma. These are the sones\nof Ismael/ and these are their names/ in their townes and castels\n.xij. princes of natios. And these are the yeres of the lyfe of\nIsmael: an h[~u]dred and .xxxvij yere/ & than he fell seke & dyed &\nwas layde vnto his people. And he dweld from Euila vnto Sur y^t is\nbefore Egypte/ as men go toward the Assirias. And he dyed in the\npresence of all his brethren.\n\nAnd these are the generatios of Isaac Abrahas sonne: Abraha begat\nIsaac. And Isaac was .xl. yere olde wh[~e] he toke Rebecca to wyfe the\ndoughter of Bethuel the Sirian of Mesopotamia & sister to Iaban the\nSirian.\n\nAnd Isaac made intercessio vnto y^e LORde for his wife: because she\nwas bar[~e]: and y^e LORde was [~i]treated of h[~i]/ and Rebecca his\nwife coceaued: and y^e childern stroue together with[~i] her. th[~e]\nshe sayde: yf it shulde goo so to passe/ what helpeth it y^t I am with\nchilde? And she went & axed y^e LORde. And y^e LORde sayde vnto her\nthere are .ij. maner of people in thi wombe and ij. nations shall\nspringe out of thy bowels/ and the one nation shalbe myghtier than\nthe other/ and the eldest shalbe servaunte vnto the yonger.\n\nAnd wh[~e] hir tyme was come to be delyuered beholde: there were .ij.\ntwyns in hir wobe. And he that came out first/ was redde & rough ouer\nall as it were an hyde: and they called his name Esau. And after ward\nhis brother came out & his hande holdynge Esau by the hele. Wherfore\nhis name was called Iacob. And Isaac was .lx. yere olde wh[~e] she\nbare th[~e]: and the boyes grewe/ and Esau bcame a conynge hunter & a\ntyllman. But Iacob was a simple man & dwelled in the tentes. Isaac\nloved Esau because he dyd eate of his venyso/ but Rebecca loued Iacob.\n\nIacob sod potage & Esau came from the feld & was fa[~i]tte/ & sayd to\nIacob: let me syppe of y^t redde potage/ for I am fayntte. And\ntherfore was his name called Edom. And Iacob sayde: sell me this daye\nthy byrthrighte. And Esau answered: Loo I am at the poynte to dye/ and\nwhat profit shall this byrthrighte do me? And Iacob sayde/ swere to me\nthen this daye. And he swore to him & sold his byrthrighte vnto Iacob.\n\nThan Iacob gaue Esau brede & potage of redde ryse. And he ate & dronke\n& rose vp and went his waye. And so Esau regarded not his byrthrighte.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxvi. Chapter.\n\n\n\nAnd there fell a derth in y^e lande/ passinge the first derth y^t fell\nin the dayes of Abraham. Wherfore Isaac went vnto Abimelech kinge of\ny^e Philistias vnto Gerar. Th[~e] the LORde apeared vnto him & sayde\ngoo not doune in to Egipte/ but byde in y^e land which I saye vnto\ny^e: Sogeorne in this lade/ & I wyll be with y^e & wyll blesse y^e:\nfor vnto the & vnto thy sede I will geue all these cotreis And I will\nperforme the oothe which I swore vnto Abraha thy father/ & will\nmultiplye thy seed as y^e starres of heav[~e]/ & will geue vnto thy\nseed all these contreis. And thorow thy seed shall all the natios of\nthe erth be blessed/ because y^t Abraha harkened vnto mi voyce & kepte\nmine ordina[~u]ces/ coma[~u]dm[~e]tes/ statutes & lawes\n\nAnd Isaac dwelled in Gerar. And y^e m[~e] of the place asked h[~i] of\nhis wife/ & he sayde y^t she was his sister: for he feared to calle\nher his wife lest the m[~e] of the place shulde haue kylled hym for\nhir sake/ because she was bewtyfull to y^e eye. And it happened after\nhe had bene there longe tyme/ y^t Abimelech kinge of y^e Philistias\nloked out at a wyndow & sawe Isaac sportinge with Rebecca his wife.\nAnd Abimelech sende for Isaac & sayde: se/ she is of a suertie thi\nwife/ and why saydest thou y^t she was thi sister? And Isaac saide\nvnto h[~i]: I thought y^t I mighte peradventure haue dyed for hir\nsake. Th[~e] sayde Abimelech: whi hast thou done this vnto vs? one of\ny^e people myght lightely haue lyne by thy wife & so shuldest thou\nhaue broughte synne vpon vs Tha Abimelech charged all his people\nsaynge: he y^t toucheth this man or his wife/ shall surely dye for it.\n\nAnd Isaac sowed in y^e lade/ & founde in y^e same yere an h[~u]dred\nbushels: for y^e LORde blessed h[~i]/ & the man waxed mightye/ &\nw[~e]t forth & grewe till he was exceadinge great/ y^t he had\npossessio of shepe/ of ox[~e] & a myghtie housholde: so y^t the\nPhilestians had envy at him: In so moch y^t they stopped & fylled vp\nwith erth/ all the welles which his fathers servauntes dygged in his\nfather Abrahams tyme. Than sayde Abimelech vnto Isaac: gett the fro\nme/ for thou art myghtier then we a greate deale.\n\nThan Isaac departed thense & pitched his tente in the valey Gerar &\ndwelt there. And Isaac digged agayne/ the welles of water which they\ndygged in the dayes of Abraha his father which the Philestias had\nstoppe after y^e deth of Abraha/ & gaue th[~e] the same names which\nhys father gaue th[~e]. As Isaacs serua[~u]tes dygged in the valey/\nthey founde a well of springynge water. And the herdm[~e] of Gerar dyd\nstryue with Isaacs herdm[~e] saynge: the water is oures Than called he\nthe well Eseck because they stroue with hym.\n\nThan dygged they another well/ & they stroue for y^t also. Therfore\ncalled he it Sitena. And than he departed th[~e]se & dygged a nother\nwell for the which they stroue not: therfore called he it Rehoboth\nsa[~i]ge: y^e LORde hath now made vs rowme & we are encreased vpo the\nerth. Afterward departed he th[~e]ce & came to Berseba\n\nAnd the LORde apered vnto h[~i] the same nyghte & sayde. I am the God\nof Abraha thy father/ feare not for I am with the & will blesse\nthe & multiplye thy sede for my serua[~u]te Abrahams sake. And than he\nbuylded an aulter there and called vpo the name of the LORde/ & there\npitched his tente. And there Isaacs servauntes dygged a well.\n\nThan came Abimelech to him fro Gerar & Ahusath his frende and Phicol\nhis chefe captayne. And Isaac sayde vnto th[~e]: wherfore come ye to\nme/ se[~i]ge ye hate me & haue put me awaye fro you? Than sayde they:\nwe sawe that the LORde was with the/ and therfore we sayde that there\nshulde be an oothe betwixte vs ad the/ & that we wolde make a bonde\nwith the: y^t thou shuldeste do vs no hurte/ as we haue not touched\nthe and haue done vnto the nothinge but good/ and s[~e]d the awaye in\npeace: for thou art now the blessed of the LORde. And he made th[~e] a\nfeast/ and they ate ad droke. And they rose vp by tymes in the\nmornynge and sware one to another. And Isaac sent th[~e] awaye. And\nthey departed from him in peace.\n\nAnd y^t same daye came Isaacs serva[~u]tes & tolde h[~i] of a well\nwhich they had dygged: & sayde vnto h[~i]/ that thei had founde water.\nAnd he called it Seba/ wherfore the name of the cyte is called Berseba\nvnto this daye.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxvij. Chapter.\n\n\nWhen Esau was .xl. yere olde/ he toke to wyfe Iudith the doughter of\nBery an Hethite/ and Basmath the doughter of Elon an Hethite also/\nwhich were dishobedient vnto Isaac and Rebecca. And it came to passe\nthat Isaac wexed olde & his eyes were dymme/ so that he coude nat see.\nTha called he Esau his eldest sonne & sayde vnto him: mi sonne. And he\nsayde vnto hym: heare am I. And he sayde: beholde/ I am olde ad knowe\nnot the daye of mi deth: Now therfore take thi weap[~e]s/ thy quiver &\nthi bowe/ & gett the to the feldes & take me some venyson & make me\nmeate such as I loue/ & brynge it me & let me eat that my soull may\nblesse the before that I dye:\n\nBut Rebecca hard wh[~e] Isaac spake to Esau his sonne. And as soone as\nEsau was gone to the felde to catche venyson & to br[~i]ge it/ she\nspake vnto Iacob hir sonne sainge: Behold I haue herde thi father\ntalkinge with Esau thy brother & saynge: bringe me venyson & make me\nmeate that I maye eate & blesse the before the LORde yer I dye. Now\ntherfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I comaunde the: gett\nthe to the flocke/ & bringe me th[~e]ce .ij. good kiddes/ & I will\nmake meate of th[~e] for thi father/ soch as he loueth. And thou shalt\nbr[~i]ge it to thi father & he shal eate/ y^t he maye blysse the\nbefore his deth\n\nThan sayde Iacob to Rebecca his mother. Beholde Esau mi brother is\nrugh & I am smooth. Mi father shal peradu[~e]ture fele me/ ad I shal\nseme vnto h[~i] as though I w[~e]t aboute to begyle h[~i]/ & so shall\nhe br[~i]ge a curse vpo me & not a bless[~i]ge: & his mother saide\nvnto him. Vppo me be thi curse my sonne/ only heare my voyce & goo and\nfetch me them. And Iacob went ad fett them and brought them to his\nmother.\n\nAnd his mother made meate of them accordinge as his father loued And\nshe went and fett goodly rayment of her eldest sonne Esau which she\nhad in the house with hir/ and put them vpon Iacob hir yongest sonne/\nad she put the skynnes vpon his hades & apon the smooth of his necke.\nAnd she put y^e meate & brede which she had made in the hode of hir\nsonne Iacob\n\nAnd he went in to his father saynge: my father/ And he aswered: here\nam I/ who are thou my sonne? And Iacob sayde vnto his father: I am\nEsau thy eldest sonne/ I haue done acordinge as thou baddest me/ vp\nand sytt and eate of my venyson/ that thi soule maye blesse me. But\nIsaac sayde vnto his sonne. How cometh it that thou hast fownde it so\nquicly my sonne? He answered: The LORde thy god brought it to my\nhande. Than sayde Isaac vnto Iacob: come nere and let me fele the my\nsonne/ whether thou be my sonne Esau or not. Than went Iacob to Isaac\nhis father/ & he felt him & sayde the voyce is Iacobs voyce/ but the\nhades ar y^e hades of Esau. And he knewe him not/ because his handes\nwere rough as his brother Esaus handes: And so he blessed him.\n\nAnd he axed him/ art thou my sonne Esau? And he sayde: that I am. Than\nsayde he: brynge me and let me eate of my sonnes venyson/ that my\nsoule maye blesse the. And he broughte him/ and he ate. And he\nbroughte him wyne also/ and he dranke. And his father Isaac sayde\nvnto him: come nere and kysse me my sonne. And he w[~e]t to him &\nkissed him. And he smelled y^e sauoure of his raym[~e]t & blessed\nh[~i] & sayde See/ y^e smell of my sone is as y^e smell of a feld\nwhich the lorde hath blessed. God geue the of y^e dewe of heav[~e] &\nof the fatnesse of the erth and pl[~e]tie of corne & wyne. People be\nthy servauntes & natios bowe vnto the. Be lorde ouer thy brethr[~e]/\nand thy mothers children stoupe vnto the. Cursed be he y^t curseth\nthe/ & blessed be he that blesseth the.\n\nAs soone as Isaac had made an end of bless[~i]g/ Iacob and Iacob was\nscace gone out fro the preasence of Isaac his father: then came Esau\nhis brother fro his huntynge: And had made also meate/ and brought it\nin vnto his father & sayde vnto him: Aryse my father & eate of thy\nsonnes venyson/ that thy soule may blesse me. Tha his father Isaac\nsayde vnto him. Who art thou? he answered I am thy eldest sonne Esau.\n\nAnd Isaac was greatly astoyned out of mesure and sayde: Where is he\nthen that hath h[~u]ted venyson and broughte it me/ and I haue eaten\nof all before thou camest/ and haue blessed him/ ad he shall be\nblessed styll. Wh[~e] Esau herde the wordes of his father/ he cryed\nout greatly & bitterly aboue mesure/ and sayde vnto his father: blesse\nme also my father. And he sayde thy brother came with subtilte/ ad\nhath tak[~e] awaye thy blessynge. Then sayde he: He maye well be\ncalled Iacob/ for he hath vndermyned me now .ij. tymes/ fyrst he toke\nawaye my byrthrighte: and se/ now hath he taken awaye my blessynge\nalso. And he sayde/ hast thou kepte neuer a blessynge for me?\n\nIsaac answered and sayde vnto Esau: beholde I haue made him thi LORde\n& all his mothers childern haue I made his seruauntes. Moreouer wyth\ncorne ad wyne haue I stablesshed him/ what ca I do vnto the now my\nsonne? And Esau sayde vnto his father: hast thou but y^t one blessynge\nmy father? blesse me also my father: so lyfted vp Esau his voyce &\nwepte Tha Isaac his father answered & sayde vnto him\n\nBeholde thy dwellynge place shall haue of the fatnesse of the erth/ &\nof the dewe of heauen fro aboue. And wyth thy swerde shalt thou lyue\nand shalt be thy brothers seruaunte But the tyme will come/ when thou\nshalt gett the mastrye/ and lowse his yocke from of thy necke.\n\nAnd Esau hated Iacob because of the blessynge y^t his father blessed\nhim with all/ & sayde in his harte: The dayes of my fathers sorowe are\nat hade/ for I will sley my brother Iacob. And these wordes of Esau\nhir eldest sonne/ were told to Rebecca. And she sente ad called Iacob\nhir yongest sonne/ and sayde vnto h[~i]: beholde thy brother Esau\nthreatneth to kyll the: Now therfore my sone heare my voyce/ make the\nredie & flee to Laba my brother at Haran And tarie with him a while/\nvntill thy brothers fearsnes be swaged/ and vntill thy brothers wrath\nturne away from the/ and he forgett that which thou hast done to him.\nTha will I sende and fett the awaye from thence. Why shulde I lose you\nboth in one daye.\n\nAnd Rebecca spake to Isaac: I am wery of my life/ for feare of the\ndoughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wife of the doughters of Heth/ soch\none as these are/ or of the doughters of the lande/ what lust shulde I\nhaue to lyue.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxviij. Chapter.\n\n\nThan Isaac called Iacob his sonne and blessed him/ ad charged him and\nsayde vnto him: se thou take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan/\nbut aryse ad gett the to Mesopotamia of the house of Bethuel thy\nmothers father: and there take the a wife of the doughters of Laban\nthi mothers brother. And God allmightie blesse the/ increase the and\nmultiplie the that thou mayst be a nombre of people/ and geue the the\nblessynge of Abraham: both to the and to thy seed with the that thou\nmayst possesse the lade (wherein thou art a strangere) which God gaue\nvnto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Iacob/ to goo to Mesopotamia vnto\nLaban/ sonne of Bethuel the Sirien/ and brother to Rebecca Iacobs &\nEsaus mother.\n\nWhen Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob/ and sent him to\nMesopotamia/ to fett him a wife thence/ and that/ as he blessed him\nhe gaue him a charge saynge: se thou take not a wife of the doughters\nof Canaan: and that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother/ & was gone\nvnto Mesopotamia: and seynge also that the doughters of Canaan pleased\nnot Isaac his father: Then went he vnto Ismael/ and toke vnto the\nwiues which he had/ Mahala the doughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne/ the\nsister of Nabaioth to be his wife.\n\nIacob departed from Berseba and went toward Haran/ and came vnto a\nplace and taried there all nyghte/ because the sonne was downe. And\ntoke a stone of the place/ and put it vnder his heade/ and layde him\ndowne in the same place to slepe. And he dreamed: and beholde there\nstode a ladder apon the erth/ and the topp of it reached vpp to\nheau[~e]. And se/ the angells of God went vp and downe apon it/ yee ad\nthe LORde stode apon it and sayde.\n\nI am the LORde God of Abraham thi father and the God of Isaac: The\nlonde which thou slepest apon will I geue the and thy seed. And thy\nseed shalbe as the dust of the erth: And thou shalt spreade abrode:\nwest/ east/ north and south. And thorow the and thy seed shall all the\nkynreddes of the erth be blessed. And se I am with the/ and wylbe thy\nkeper in all places whother thou goost/ & wyll brynge y^e agayne in to\nthis lande: Nether will I leaue the vntill I haue made good/ all that\nI haue promysed the.\n\nWhen Iacob was awaked out of his slepe/ he sayde: surely the LORde is\nin this place/ ad I was not aware. And he was afrayde & sayde how\nfearfull is this place? it is none other/ but euen the house of God\nand the gate of heau[~e]. And Iacob stode vp early in the mornynge and\ntoke the stone that he had layde vnder his heade/ and pitched it vp an\nende and poured oyle on the topp of it. And he called the name of the\nplace Bethell/ for in dede the name of the citie was called Lus before\ntyme.\n\nAnd Iacob vowed a vowe saynge: Yf God will be with me and wyll kepe me\nin this iourney which I goo and will geue me bread to eate and\ncloothes to put on/ so that I come agayne vnto my fathers house in\nsaftie: then shall the LORde be my God/ and this stone which I haue\nsett vp an ende/ shalbe godes house/ And of all that thou shalt geue\nme/ will I geue the tenth vnto the.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxix. Chapter.\n\n\nThen Iacob lyfte vp his fete & w[~e]t toward the east countre. And as\nhe loked aboute/ behold there was a well in the feld/ and .iij.\nflockes of shepe laye therby (for at that well were the flockes\nwatered) & there laye a great stone at the well mouth And the maner\nwas to brynge the flockes thyther/ & to roull the stone fro the welles\nmouth and to water the shepe/ and to put the stone agayne vppon the\nwells mouth vnto his place.\n\nAnd Iacob sayde vnto th[~e]: brethern/ wh[~e]ce be ye? and they sayde:\nof Haran ar we. And he sayde vnto th[~e]: knowe ye Laban the sonne of\nNahor. And they sayde: we knowe him. And he sayde vnto th[~e]: is he\nin good health? And they sayde: he is in good health: and beholde/ his\ndoughter Rahel cometh with y^e shepe. And he sayde: lo/ it is yet a\ngreat whyle to nyghte/ nether is it tyme y^t the catell shulde be\ngathered together: water the shepe and goo and fede th[~e]. And they\nsayde: we maye not/ vntill all y^e flockes be brought together & the\nstone be roulled fro the wells mouth/ and so we water oure shepe.\n\nWhyle he yet talked with th[~e]/ Rahel came with hir fathers shepe/\nfor she kepte them. As soone As Iacob sawe Rahel/ the doughter of\nLaban his mothers brother/ and the shepe of Laban his mothers brother/\nhe went and rowled the stone fro the wells mouth/ and watered the\nshepe of Laba his mothers brother And Iacob kyssed Rahel/ and lyfte vp\nhis voyce and wepte: and tolde her also y^t he was hir fathers brother\nand Rebeccas sonne. Th[~e] Rahel ranne and tolde hir father.\n\nWhen Laban herd tell of Iacob his sisters sonne/ he ranne agaynst him\nand enbraced h[~i] & kyssed him ad broughte him in to his house. And\nth[~e] Iacob told Laba all y^e matter And th[~e] Laba sayde: well/\nthou art my bone & my flesh. Abyde with me the space of a moneth. And\nafterward Laban sayd vnto Iacob: though thou be my brother/ shuldest\nthou therfore serue me for nought? tell me what shall thi wages be?\nAnd Laban had .ij. doughters/ the eldest called Lea and the yongest\nRahel. Lea was tender eyed: But Rahel was bewtifull ad well fauored.\nAnd Iacob loued her well/ and sayde: I will serue the .vij. yere for\nRahel thy yongest doughter. And Laban answered: it is better y^t I\ngeue her the/ than to another man: byde therfore with me.\n\nAnd Iacob serued .vij. yeres for Rahel/ and they semed vnto him but a\nfewe dayes/ for the loue he had to her. And Iacob sayde vnto Laban/\ngeue me my wife/ that I maye lye with hir For the tyme appoynted me is\ncome.\n\nThan Laban bade all the men of that place/ and made a feast. And when\neu[~e] was come/ he toke Lea his doughter and broughte her to him and\nhe went in vnto her. And Laban gaue vnto his doughter Lea/ Zilpha his\nmayde/ to be hir seruaunte.\n\nAnd when the mornynge was come/ beholde it was Lea. Than sayde he to\nLaban: wherfore hast thou played thus with me? dyd not I serue the for\nRahel/ wherfore than hast thou begyled me? Laban answered: it is not\nthe maner of this place/ to marre the yongest before the eldest. Passe\nout this weke/ & tha shall this also be geven the for y^e seruyce\nwhich thou shalt serue me yet .vij. yeres more. And Iacob dyd eu[~e]\nso/ and passed out that weke/ & than he gaue h[~i] Rahel his doughter\nto wyfe also. And Laban gaue to Rahel his doughter/ Bilha his\nhandmayde to be hir serva[~u]te. So laye he by Rahel also/ and loved\nRahel more than Lea/ and serued him yet .vij. yeres more.\n\nWhen the LORde sawe that Lea was despised/ he made her frutefull: but\nRahel was baren. And Lea conceaued and bare a sonne/ ad called his\nname Rub[~e]/ for she sayde: the LORde hath loked apon my tribulation.\nAnd now my husbonde will loue me. And she conceaued agayne and bare a\nsonne/ and sayde: the LORde hath herde that I am despised/ ad hath\ntherfore geuen me this sonne also/ and she called him Simeon. And she\nconceaued yet and bare a sonne/ ad sayde: now this once will my\nhusbonde kepe me company/ because I haue borne him .iij. sonnes: and\ntherfore she called his name Levi. And she conceaued yet agayne/ and\nbare a sonne saynge: Now will I prayse the LORde: therfore she called\nhis name Iuda/ and left bearynge.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxx. Chapter\n\n\nWhen Rahel sawe that she bare Iacob no childern/ she enuied hir sister\n& sayde vnto Iacob: geue me childern/ or ells I am but deed. Than was\nIacob wrooth with Rahel saynge: Am I in godes steade which kepeth fro\nthe the frute of thi wobe? Th[~e] she sayde: here is my mayde Bilha:\ngo in vnto her/ that she maye beare vpo my lappe/ that I maye be\nencreased by her. And she gaue him Bilha hir hadmayde to wife. And\nIacob w[~e]t in vnto her/ And Bilha conceaued and bare Iacob a sonne.\nThan sayde Rahel. God hath geuen sent[~e]ce on my syde/ and hath also\nherde my voyce/ and hath geuen me a sonne. Therfore called she him\nDan. And Bilha Rahels mayde coceaued agayne and bare Iacob a nother\nsonne. And Rahel sayde. God is turned/ and I haue made a chaunge with\nmy sister/ & haue got[~e] y^e vpper hade. And she called his name\nNepthali\n\nWh[~e] Lea sawe that she had left bearinge/ she toke Silpha hir mayde\nand gaue her Iacob to wiffe. And Silpha Leas mayde bare Iacob a sonne.\nThan sayde Lea: good lucke: and called his name Gad. And Silpha Leas\nmayde bare Iacob an other sonne. Tha sayd Lea: happy am I/ for the\ndoughters will call me blessed. And called his name Asser.\n\nAnd Rub[~e] w[~e]t out in the wheat haruest & fo[~u]de mandragoras in\nthe feldes/ and brought th[~e] vnto his mother Lea. Than sayde Rahel\nto Lea geue me of thy sonnes madragoras. And Lea answered: is it not\nynough/ y^t thou hast tak[~e] awaye my housbode/ but woldest take\nawaye my sonnes mandragoras also? Than sayde Rahel well/ let him slepe\nwith the this nyghte/ for thy sonnes mandragoras. And wh[~e] Iacob\ncame from the feldes at euen/ Lea went out to mete him/ & sayde: come\nin to me/ for I haue bought the with my sonnes mandragoras.\n\nAnd he slepte with her that nyghte. And God herde Lea/ y^t she\ncoceaved and bare vnto Iacob y^e .v. sonne. Than sayde Lea. God hath\ngeu[~e] me my rewarde/ because I gaue my mayd[~e] to my housbod/ and\nshe called him Isachar. And Lea coceaued yet agayne and bare Iacob the\nsexte sonne. Than sayde she: God hath endowed me with a good dowry.\nNow will my housbond dwell with me/ because I haue borne him .vi.\nsonnes: and called his name Zabulo. After that she bare a daughter and\ncalled her Dina.\n\nAnd God rem[~e]bred Rahel/ herde her/ and made her frutefull: so that\nshe coceaued and bare a sonne and sayde God hath tak[~e] awaye my\nrebuke. And she called his name Ioseph saynge The lorde geue me yet\nanother sonne.\n\nAs soone as Rahel had borne Ioseph/ Iacob sayde to Laban: S[~e]de me\nawaye y^t I maye goo vnto myne awne place and c[~u]tre/ geue me my\nwives and my childern for whome I haue serued the/ and let me goo: for\nthou knowest what seruyce I haue done the. Than sayde Laban vnto\nh[~i]: If I haue fownde fauoure in thy syghte (for I suppose y^t the\nLORde hath blessed me for thy sake) appoynte what thy rewarde shalbe/\nand I will geue it y^e. But he sayde vnto hym/ thou knowest what\nseruyce I haue done y^e/ & in what takynge thy catell haue bene vnder\nme: for it was but litle that thou haddest before I came/ and now it\nis encreased in to a multitude/ and the LORDE hath blessed the for my\nsake. But now when shall I make provysion for myne awne house also?\nAnd he sayde: what shall I geue the? And Iacob answerd: thou shalt\ngeue me nothinge at all/ yf thou wilt do this one thinge for me: And\nthen will I turne agayne & fede thy shepe and kepe them.\n\nI will go aboute all thy shepe this daye/ and separate fro th[~e] all\nthe shepe that are spotted and of dyverse coloures/ and all blacke\nshepe amonge the lambes and the partie and spotted amonge the kyddes:\nAnd then such shalbe my rewarde. So shall my rightwesnes answere for\nme: when the tyme commeth that I shall receaue my rewarde of the: So\nthat what soeuer is not speckeld and partie amonge the gootes and\nblacke amonge the lambes/ let that be theft with me.\n\nThan sayde Laban: loo/ I am cont[~e]te/ that it be acordinge as thou\nhast sayde. And he toke out that same daye the he gootes that were\npartie & of dyuerse coloures/ & all the she gootes that were spotted\nand partie coloured/ & all that had whyte in th[~e]/ & all the blacke\namonge the lambes: ad put th[~e] in the kepinge of his sonnes/ & sett\nthre dayes iourney betwixte h[~i]selfe & Iacob. And so Iacob kepte y^e\nrest of Labas shepe.\n\nIacob toke roddes of grene popular/ hasell/ & of chestnottrees/ &\npilled whyte strakes in th[~e] & made the white apere in the staues:\nAnd he put the staues which he had pilled/ eu[~e] before y^e shepe/\nin the gutters & watrynge troughes/ wh[~e] the shepe came to\ndrynke: y^t they shulde coceaue wh[~e] they came to drynke. And the\nshepe coceaued before the staues & brought forth straked/ spotted &\npartie. Th[~e] Iacob parted the labes/ & turned the faces of the shepe\ntoward spotted thinges/ & toward allmaner of blacke thinges thorow out\nthe flockes of Laba. And he made him flockes of his owne by th[~e]\nselfe/ which he put not vnto the flockes of Laba. And allwaye in the\nfirst buckinge tyme of the shepe/ Iacob put the staues before the\nshepe in the gutters/ y^t they myghte conceaue before the staues/ But\nin the latter buckynge tyme/ he put them not there: so the last brode\nwas Labas and the first Iacobs. And the man became excedynge ryche &\nhad many shepe/ maydeseruauntes/ menseruauntes/ camels & asses.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxxi. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Iacob herde the wordes of Labas sonnes how they sayde: Iacob hath\ntak[~e] awaye all that was oure fathers/ and of oure fathers goodes/\nhath he got[~e] all this honoure. And Iacob behelde the countena[~u]ce\nof Laban/ that it was not toward him as it was in tymes past.\n\nAnd the LORde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne in to the lade of thy\nfathers & to thy kynred/ & I wilbe with y^e. Tha Iacob sent & called\nRahel & Lea to the felde vnto his shepe/ & sayde vnto th[~e]: I se\nyoure fathers countena[~u]ce y^t it is not toward me as in tymes past.\nMorouer y^e God of my father hath bene with me. And ye knowe how that\nI haue serued youre father with all my myghte. And youre father hath\ndisceaued me & chaunged my wages .x. tymes: But God suffred him not to\nhurte me. When he sayde the spotted shalbe thy wages/ tha all the\nshepe bare spotted. Yf he sayde the straked shalbe thi rewarde/ tha\nbare all the shepe straked: thus hath God tak[~e] awaye youre fathers\ncatell & geu[~e] th[~e] me. For in buckynge tyme/ I lifted vp myne\neyes and sawe in a dreame: and beholde/ the rammes that bucked the\nshepe were straked/ spotted and partie. And the angell of God spake\nvnto me in a dreame saynge: Iacob. And I answered: here am I. And he\nsayde: lyfte vp thyne eyes ad see/ how all the rames that leape vpon\nthe shepe are straked/ spotted and partie: for I haue sene all\nthat Laban doth vnto y^e. I am y^e god of Bethell where thou\nanoynteddest the stone ad where thou vowdest a vowe vnto me. Now aryse\nand gett the out of this countre/ ad returne vnto the lade/ where thou\nwast borne. Than answered Rahel & Lea & sayde vnto him: we haue no\nparte nor enheritaunce in oure fathers house he cownteth us eu[~e] as\nstraungers/ for he hath solde vs/ and hath euen eaten vp the price of\nvs. Moreouer all the riches which God hath tak[~e] from oure father/\nthat is oures and oure childerns. Now therfore what soeuer God hath\nsayde vnto the/ that doo. Tha Iacob rose vp & sett his sones and wiues\nvp vpon camels/ and caried away all his catell & all his substace\nwhich he had gott[~e] in Mesopotamia/ for to goo to Isaac his father\nvnto the lade of Canaan. Laba was gone to shere his shepe/ & Rahel had\nstoll[~e] hir fathers ymages. And Iacob went awaye vnknowynge to Laban\nthe Siri[~e]/ & tolde him not y^t he fled. So fled he & all y^t he\nhad/ & made him self redy/ & passed ouer the ryuers/ and sett his face\nstreyght towarde the mounte Gilead.\n\nApo the thirde day after/ was it tolde Laba y^t Iacob was fled. Tha he\ntoke his brethr[~e] with him and folowed after him .vij. dayes iourney\nand ouer toke him at the mounte Gilead. And God came to Laba the Siria\nin a dreame by nighte/ and sayde vnto him: take hede to thi selfe/\nthat thou speake not to Iacob oughte save good. And Laba ouer toke\nIacob: and Iacob had pitched his t[~e]te in y^t mounte. And Laban with\nhis brethern pitched their t[~e]te also apon the mounte Gilead. Than\nsayde Laba to Iacob: why hast thou this done vnknowynge to me/ and\nhast caried awaye my doughters as though they had bene tak[~e] captyue\nwith swerde? Wherfore wentest thou awaye secretly vnknowne to me &\ndidest not tell me/ y^t I myghte haue broughte y^e on the waye with\nmyrth/ syngynge/ tymrells and harppes/ and hast not suffred me to\nkysse my childern & my doughters. Thou wast a fole to do it/ for I am\nable to do you evell. But the God of youre father spake vnto me\nyesterdaye saynge take hede tha thou speake not to Iacob oughte saue\ngoode. And now though thou w[~e]test thi waye because thou logest\nafter thi fathers house/ yet wherfore hast thou stollen my goddes?\n\nIacob answerd & sayde to Laba: because I was afrayed/ & thought that\nthou woldest haue tak[~e] awaye thy doughters fro me. But with whome\nsoeuer thou fyndest thy goddes/ let him dye here before oure\nbrethr[~e]. Seke that thine is by me/ & take it to the: for Iacob wist\nnot that Rahel had stoll[~e] th[~e]. Tha w[~e]t Laba in to Iacobs\nt[~e]te/ & in to Leas t[~e]te/ & in to .ij. maydens tentes: but fownde\nth[~e] not. Tha w[~e]t he out of Leas t[~e]te/ & entred in to Rahels\nt[~e]te. And Rahel toke the ymages/ & put them in the camels strawe &\nsate doune apo th[~e]. And Laba serched all the t[~e]te: but fownde\nth[~e] not. Tha sayde she to hir father: my lorde/ be not angrye y^t I\nca not ryse vp before the/ for the disease of wem[~e] is come apon me.\nSo searched he/ but fo[~u]de th[~e] not.\n\nIacob was wrooth & chode with Laba: Iacob also answered and sayde to\nhim: what haue I trespaced or what haue I offended/ that thou\nfoloweddest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuffe/ and what hast\nthou founde of all thy housholde stuffe? put it here before thi\nbrethern & myne/ & let th[~e] iudge betwyxte vs both. This xx. yere\ny^t I haue bene wyth the/ thy shepe and thy gootes haue not bene\nbaren/ and the rammes of thi flocke haue I not eat[~e]. What soeuer\nwas torne of beastes I broughte it not vnto y^e/ but made it good my\nsilf: of my hade dydest thou requyre it/ whether it was stollen by\ndaye or nyghte Moreouer by daye the hete consumed me/ and the colde by\nnyghte/ and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.\n\nThus haue I bene .xx. yere in thi house/ and serued the .xiiij. yeres\nfor thy .ij. doughters/ and vi. yere for thi shepe/ and thou hast\nchanged my rewarde .x. tymes. And excepte the God of my father/ the\nGod of Abraha and the God whome Isaac feareth/ had bene with me:\nsurely thou haddest sent me awaye now all emptie. But God behelde my\ntribulation/ and the laboure of my handes: and rebuked the yester\ndaye.\n\nLaban answered ad sayde vnto Iacob: the doughters are my doughters/\nand the childern ar my childern/ and the shepe are my shepe/ ad all\nthat thou seist is myne. And what can I do this daye vnto these my\ndoughters/ or vnto their childern which they haue borne? Now therfore\ncome on/ let us make a bonde/ I and thou together/ and let it be a\nwytnesse betwene the & me. Than toke Iacob a stone and sett it vp an\nende/ ad sayde vnto his brethern/ gather stoones And they toke stoones\nad made an heape/ and they ate there/ vpo the heape. And Laba called\nit Iegar Sahadutha/ but Iacob called it Gylead.\n\nThan sayde Laban: this heape be witnesse betwene the and me this daye\n(therfore is it called Gilead) and this totehill which the lorde\nseeth (sayde he) be wytnesse betwene me and the when we are departed\none from a nother: that thou shalt not vexe my doughters nether shalt\ntake other wyves vnto them. Here is no man with vs: beholde/ God is\nwytnesse betwixte the and me. And Laban sayde moreouer to Iacob:\nbeholde/ this heape & this marke which I haue sett here/ betwyxte me\nand the: this heape be wytnesse and also this marcke/ that I will not\ncome ouer this heape to the/ ad thou shalt not come ouer this heape ad\nthis marke/ to do any harme. The God of Abraham/ the God of Nahor and\nthe God of theyr fathers/ be iudge betwixte vs.\n\nAnd Iacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. Then Iacob dyd\nsacrifyce vpon the mounte/ and called his brethern to eate breed. And\nthey ate breed and taried all nyghte in the hyll. And early in the\nmornynge Laban rose vp and kyssed his childern and his doughters/ and\nblessed th[~e] and departed and w[~e]t unto his place agayne. But\nIacob went forth on his iourney. And the angells of God came & mett\nhim. And when Iacob sawe them/ he sayde: this is godes hoost: and\ncalled the name of that same place/ Mahanaim.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxxij. Chapter.\n\n\nIacob sente meessengers before him to Esau his brother/ vnto the londe\nof Seir and the felde of Edom. And he comaunded them saynge: se that\nye speake after this maner to my lorde Esau: thy seruaunte Iacob\nsayth thus. I haue sogerned ad bene a straunger with Laban vnto\nthis tyme: & haue gotten oxen/ asses and shepe/ menservauntes &\nwemanseruauntes/ & haue sent to shewe it mi lorde/ that I may fynde\ngrace in thy syghte. And the messengers came agayne to Iacob sainge:\nwe came vnto thi brother Esau/ and he cometh ageynst the and .iiij.\nhundred men with h[~i]. Than was Iacob greatlye afrayde/ and wist not\nwhich waye to turne him selfe/ and devyded the people that was with\nhim & the shepe/ oxen and camels/ in to .ij. companies/ and sayde: Yf\nEsau come to the one parte and smyte it/ the other may saue it selfe.\n\n[Sidenote: * Prayer is to cleave vnto the promyses of god with a\nstroge fayth and to besech god with a fervent desyre that he will\nfulfyll them for his mercye & truth onlye. As Iacob here doth.]\n\n* And Iacob sayde: O god of my father Abraham/ and God of my father\nIsaac: LORde which saydest vnto me/ returne vnto thy cuntre and to thy\nkynrede/ and I will deall wel with the. I am not worthy of the leaste\nof all the mercyes and treuth which thou hast shewed vnto thy\nseruaunte. For with my staf came I over this Iordane/ and now haue I\ngoten .ij. droves Delyver me from the handes of my brother Esau/ for I\nfeare him: lest he will come and smyte the mother with the childern.\nThou saydest that thou woldest surely do me good/ and woldest make mi\nseed as the sonde of the see which can not be nombred for multitude.\n\nAnd he taried there that same nyghte/ & toke of that which came to\nhande/ a preasent/ vnto Esau his brother: ij hundred she gootes ad xx\nhe gootes: ij hundred shepe and xx rammes: thyrtye mylch camels with\ntheir coltes: xl kyne ad x bulles: xx she asses ad x foles and\ndelyuered them vnto his seruauntes/ euery drooue by them selues/ ad\nsayde vnto them: goo forth before me and put a space betwyxte euery\ndrooue. And he comaunded the formest saynge\n\nWh[~e] Esau my brother meteth the ad axeth the saynge: whose\nserua[~u]te art thou & whither goost thou/ & whose ar these that goo\nbefore y^e: thou shalt say/ they be thy seruaunte Iacobs/ & are a\npresent sent vnto my lorde Esau/ and beholde/ he him selfe cometh\nafter vs. And so comaunded he the seconde/ ad euen so the thirde/ and\nlykewyse all that folowed the drooues sainge/ of this maner se that ye\nspeake vnto Esau wh[~e] ye mete him/ ad saye more ouer. Beholde thy\nseruaunte Iacob cometh after vs/ for he sayde. I will pease his wrath\nwith the present y^t goth before me and afterward I will see him\nmyself/ so peradventure he will receaue me to grace.\n\nSo went the pres[~e]t before him ad he taried all that nyghte in the\ntente/ ad rose vp the same nyghte ad toke his .ij. wyves and his .ij.\nmaydens & his .xi. sonnes/ & went ouer the foorde Iabok. And he toke\nthem ad sent th[~e] ouer the ryuer/ ad sent ouer that he had ad taried\nbehinde him selfe alone.\n\nAnd there wrastled a man with him vnto the breakynge of the daye. And\nwhen he sawe that he coude not prevayle agaynst him/ he smote h[~i]\nvnder the thye/ and the senowe of Iacobs thy shranke as he wrastled\nwith him. And he sayde: let me goo/ for the daye breaketh. And he\nsayde: I will not lett the goo/ excepte thou blesse me. And he sayde\nvnto him: what is thy name? He answered: Iacob. And he sayde: thou\nshalt be called Iacob nomore/ but Israell. For thou hast wrastled with\nGod and with men ad hast preuayled.\n\nAnd Iacob asked him sainge/ tell me thi name. And he sayde/ wherfore\ndost thou aske after my name? and he blessed him there. And Iacob\ncalled the name of the place Peniel/ for I haue sene God face to face/\nand yet is my lyfe reserved. And as he went ouer Peniel/ the sonne\nrose vpon him/ and he halted vpon his thye: wherfore the childern of\nIsraell eate not of the senow that shrancke vnder the thye/ vnto this\ndaye: because that he smote Iacob vnder the thye in the senow that\nshroncke.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxxiij. Chapter.\n\n\nIacob lyfte vp his eyes and sawe hys brother Esau come/ & with him\n.iiij. hundred men. And he deuyded the childern vnto Lea and vnto\nRahel and vnto y^e ij. maydens. And he put the maydens ad their\nchildern formest/ ad Lea and hir childern after/ and Rahel ad Ioseph\nhindermost. And he went before them and fell on the grownde .vij.\ntymes/ vntill he came vnto his brother.\n\nEsau ranne agaynst him and enbraced hym and fell on his necke and\nkyssed him/ and they wepte. And he lifte vp his eyes and sawe the\nwyves and their childern/ and sayde: what are these which thou there\nhast? And he sayde: they are the childern which God hath geuen thy\nseruaunte. Than came the maydens forth/ ad dyd their obaysaunce. Lea\nalso and hir childern came and dyd their obaysaunce. And last of all\ncame Ioseph and Rahel and dyd their obaysaunce.\n\nAnd he sayde: what meanyst thou with all y^e drooues which I mett. And\nhe answered: to fynde grace in the syghte of my lorde. And Esau sayde:\nI haue ynough my brother/ kepe that thou hast vnto thy silf. Iacob\nanswered: oh nay but yf I haue founde grace in thy syghte/ receaue my\npreas[~e]t of my hade: for I haue sene thy face as though I had sene\ny^e face of God: wherfore receaue me to grace and take my blessynge\nthat I haue brought the/ for God hath geuen it me frely. And I haue\nynough of all thynges. And so he compelled him to take it.\n\nAnd he sayde: let vs take oure iourney and goo/ and I will goo in thy\ncopany. And he sayde vnto him: my lorde knoweth that I haue tendre\nchildern/ ewes and kyne with yonge vnder myne hande/ which yf men\nshulde ouerdryue but euen one daye/ the hole flocke wolde dye.\nLet my lorde therfore goo before his servaunte and I will dryue fayre\nand softly/ accordynge as the catell that goth before me and the\nchildern/ be able to endure: vntill I come to mi lorde vnto Seir.\n\nAnd Esau sayde: let me yet leaue some of my folke with the. And he\nsayde: what neadeth it? let me fynde grace in the syghte of my lorde\nSo Esau went his waye agayne y^e the same daye vnto Seir. And Iacob\ntoke his iourney toward Sucoth/ and bylt him an house/ and made\nboothes for his catell: wherof the name of the place is called Sucoth.\n\nAnd Iacob went to Salem to y^e cytie of Sichem in the lande of Canaa/\nafter that he was come from Mesopotamia/ and pitched before the cyte/\nand bought a parcell of ground where he pitched his tent/ of the\nchildern of Hemor Sichems father/ for an hundred lambes. And he made\nthere an aulter/ and there called vpon the myghtie God of Israell.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxxiiij. Chapter.\n\n\nDina the doughter of Lea which she bare vnto Iacob/ went out to see\nthe doughters of the lande. And Sich[~e] the sonne of Hemor the Heuite\nlorde of the countre/ sawe her/ & toke her/ & laye with her/ and\nforced her: & his harte laye vnto Dina y^e doughter of Iacob. And he\nloued y^e damsell & spake k[~i]dly vnto her/ & spake vnto his father\nHemor saynge/ gett me this mayd[~e] vnto my wyfe.\n\nAnd Iacob herde that he had defyled Dina his doughter/ but his sonnes\nwere with the catell in the felde/ and therfore he helde his peace/\nvntill they were come. Then Hemor the father of Sichem went out vnto\nIacob/ to com[~e] with him. And the sonnes of Iacob came out of the\nfelde as soone as they herde it/ for it greued them/ and they were not\na litle wrooth/ because he had wrought folie in Israell/ in that he\nhad lyen with Iacobs doughter/ which thinge oughte not to be done.\n\nAnd Hemor comened with th[~e] sainge: the soule of my sonne Sich[~e]\nlogeth for youre doughter geue her him to wyfe/ and make mariages with\nvs: geue youre doughters vnto vs/ ad take oure doughters vnto you/ and\ndwell with vs/ & the lande shall be at youre pleasure/ dwell and do\nyoure busynes/ and haue youre possessions there in. And Sichem sayde\nvnto hyr father and hir brethern: let me fynde grace in youre eyes/\nand what soeuer ye apoynte me/ that will I geue. Axe frely of me both\nthe dowry & gyftes/ and I will geue acordynge as ye saye vnto me/ and\ngeue me the damsell to wyfe.\n\nThen the sonnes of Iacob answered to Sichem ad Hemor his father\ndeceytefully/ because he had defyled Dina their syster. And they sayde\nvnto them/ we can not do this thinge/ y^t we shulde geue oure syster\nto one that is vncircumcysed/ for that were a shame vnto vs. Only in\nthis will we consent vnto you: Yf ye will be as we be/ that all the\nmen childern amonge you be circumcysed/ tha will we geue oure doughter\nto you and take youres to vs/ and will dwell with you and be one\npeople. But and yf ye will not harken vnto vs to be circumcysed/ than\nwill we take oure doughter and goo oure wayes.\n\nAnd their wordes pleased Hemor and Sichem his sonne. And the yonge man\ndeferde not for to do the thinge/ because he had a lust to Iacobs\ndoughter: he was also most sett by of all that were in his fathers\nhouse. Tha Hemor and Sichem went vnto the gate of their cyte/ and\ncomened with the men of their cyte saynge. These men ar peasable with\nvs/ & will dwell in the lade and do their occupatio therin And in the\nland is rowme ynough for th[~e]/ let vs take their doughters to wyues\nand geue them oures: only herin will they consent vnto vs for to dwell\nwith vs and to be one people: yf all the men childern that are amonge\nvs be circumcysed as they are. Their goodes & their substance and all\ntheir catell are oures/ only let vs consente vnto them/ that they maye\ndwell with vs.\n\nAnd vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonne harkened all that went out at the\ngate of his cyte. And all the menchildern were circumcysed whatsoeuer\nwent out at the gates of his cyte. And the third daye when it was\npaynefull to them/ ij. of the sonnes of Iacob Simeon & Leui Dinas\nbrethren/ toke ether of them his swerde & went in to the cyte boldly/\nand slewe all y^t was male/ and slewe also Hemor and Sichem his sonne\nwith the edge of the swerde/ ad toke Dina their sister out of Sichems\nhouse/ and went their waye.\n\nThan came the sonnes of Iacob vpon the deede/ and spoyled the cyte/\nbecause they had defyled their sister: and toke their shepe/ oxen\nasses and what so euer was in the cyte and also in y^e feldes. And all\ntheir goodes/ all their childern and their wyues toke they captyue/\nand made havock of all that was in the houses.\n\nAnd Iacob sayde to Simeon and Leui: ye haue troubled me ad made me\nstyncke vnto the inhabitatours of the lande/ both to the Canaanytes\nand also vnto the Pherezites. And I am fewe in nombre. Wherfore they\nshall gather them selves together agaynst me & sley me/ and so shall I\nand my house be dystroyed. And they answered: shuld they deall with\noure sister as wyth an whoore?\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxxv. Chapter\n\n\nAnd God sayd vnto Iacob/ aryse ad get the vp to Bethell/ & dwell\nthere. And make there an aulter vnto God that apeared vnto the/ when\nthou fleddest from Esau thy brother. Than sayd Iacob vnto his\nhousholde & to all y^t were with him/ put away the stra[~u]ge goddes\nthat are amonge you & make youre selues cleane/ & chaunge youre\ngarm[~e]tes/ & let vs aryse & goo vp to Bethell/ y^t I maye make an\naulter there/ vnto God which herde me in the daye of my tribulatio &\nwas wyth me in the waye which I went.\n\nAnd they gaue vnto Iacob all the straunge goddes which were vnder\ntheir handes/ ad all their earynges which were in their eares/ and\nIacob hyd them vnder an ooke at Sichem. And they departed. And the\nfeare of God fell vpon the cyties that were rounde aboute them/ that\nthey durst not folowe after the sonnes of Iacob. So came Iacob to Lus\nin the lande of Canaan/ otherwise called Bethell/ with all the people\nthat was with him. And he buylded there an aulter/ and called the\nplace Elbethell: because that God appered vnto him there/ when he fled\nfrom his brother.\n\nThan dyed Debora Rebeccas norse/ and was buryed benethe Bethell vnder\nan ooke. And the name of it was called the ooke of lamentation.\n\nAnd God appeared vnto Iacob agayne after he came out of Mesopotamia/ &\nblessed him and sayde vnto him: thy name is Iacob. Not withstondynge\nthou shalt be no more called Iacob/ but Israel shalbe thy name. And so\nwas his name called Israell.\n\nAnd God sayde vnto him: I am God allmightie/ growe and multiplye: for\npeople and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the/ yee ad kynges\nshall come out of they loynes. And the lande which I gaue Abraha &\nIsaac/ will I geue vnto the/ & vnto thi seed after the will I geue it\nalso. And god departed fro him in the place where he talked with him.\nAnd Iacob set vp a marke in the place where he talked with him: euen a\npilloure of stone/ & powred drynkeoffringe theron and powred also oyle\nthereon/ and called the name of the place where God spake with him/\nBethell.\n\nAnd they departed from Bethel/ & when he was but a feld brede from\nEphrath/ Rahel began to trauell. And in travelynge she was in perell.\nAnd as she was in paynes of hir laboure/ the mydwyfe sayde vnto her:\nfeare not/ for thou shalt haue this sonne also. Then as hir soule was\na departinge/ that she must dye: she called his name Ben Oni. But his\nfather called him Ben Iamin. And thus dyed Rahel ad was buryed in the\nwaye to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem. And Iacob sett vp a\npiller apon hir graue/ which is called Rahels graue piller vnto this\ndaye. And Israell went th[~e]ce and pitched vp his tent beyonde the\ntoure of Eder.\n\nAnd it chaunced as Israel dwelt in that lande/ that Ruben went & laye\nwith Bilha his fathers concubyne/ & it came to Israels eare.\nThe sonnes of Iacob were .xij. in nombre. The sonnes of Lea. Ruben\nIacobs eldest sonne/ & Simeo/ Leui/ Iuda/ Isachar/ & Zabulon The\nsonnes of Rahel: Ioseph & Ben Iamin. The sonnes of Bilha Rahels mayde:\nDan & Nepthali. The sonnes of Zilpha Leas mayde Gad & Aser. Thes are\nthe sones of Iacob which were borne him in Mesopotamia.\n\nThen Iacob went vnto Isaac his father to Mamre a pr[~i]cipall cyte/\notherwise called Hebron: where Abraha & Isaac sogeorned as straungers.\nAnd the dayes of Isaac were an hundred & .lxxx. yeres: & than fell he\nseke & dyed/ ad was put vnto his people: beynge olde and full of\ndayes. And his sonnes Esau ad Iacob buried him.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xxxvi. Chapter.\n\n\nThese are the generations of Esau which is called Edo. Esau toke his\nwyues of the doughters of Canaan Ada the doughter of Elon an Hethite/\n& Ahalibama the doughter of Ana/ which Ana was the sonne of Zibeon an\nheuyte/ And Basmath Ismaels doughter & sister of Nebaioth. And Ada\nbare vnto Esau/ Eliphas: and Basmath bare Reguel: And Ahalibama bare\nIeus/ Iaelam and Korah. These are the sonnes of Esau which were borne\nhim in the lande of Canaan.\n\nAnd Esau toke his wyues/ his sonnes and doughters and all the soules\nof his house: his goodes and all his catell and all his substance\nwhich he had gott in the land of Canaan/ ad went in to a countre awaye\nfrom his brother Iacob: for their ryches was so moch/ that they coude\nnot dwell together/ and that the land where in they were straungers/\ncoude not receaue th[~e]: because of their catell. Thus dwelt Esau in\nmo[~u]te Seir/ which Esau is called Edo.\n\nThese are the generations of Esau father of the Edomytes in mounte\nSeir/ & these are the names of Esaus sonnes: Eliphas the sonne of Ada\nthe wife of Esau/ ad Reguel the sonne of Basmath the wife of Esau\nalso. And the sonnes of Eliphas were. Theman/ Omar/ Zepho/ Gaetham and\nkenas. And thimna was concubyne to Eliphas Esaus sonne/ and bare vnto\nEliphas/ Amalech. And these be the sonnes of Ada Esaus wyfe. And these\nare the sonnes of Reguel: Nahath/ Serah/ Samma and Misa: these were\nthe sonnes of Basmath Esaus wyfe. And these were the sonnes of\nAhalibama Esaus wyfe the doughter of Ana sonne of Zebeo/ which she\nbare vnto Esau: Ieus/ Iealam and Korah.\n\nThese were dukes of the sonnes of Esau. The childern of Eliphas the\nfirst sone of Esau were these: duke Theman/ duke Omar/ duke Zepho/\nduke Kenas/ duke Korah/ duke Gaetham & duke Amalech: these are y^e\ndukes that came of Eliphas in the lande of Edom/ ad these were the\nsonnes of Ada.\n\nThese were the childern of Reguel Esaus sonne: duke Nahath/ duke\nSerah/ duke Samma/ duke Misa. These are the dukes that came of Reguel\nin the lande of Edom/ ad these were the sonnes of Basmath Esaus wyfe.\n\nThese were the childern of Ahalibama Esaus wife: duke Ieus/ duke\nIaelam/ duke Korah these dukes came of Ahalibama y^e doughter of Ana\nEsaus wife. These are the childern of Esau/ and these are the dukes of\nthem: which Esau is called Edom:\n\nThese are the children of Seir the Horite/ the inhabitoure of the\nlande: Lothan/ Sobal/ Zibeon/ Ana/ Dison/ Eser and Disan. These are\nthe dukes of y^e horites the childern of Seir in the lande of Edom.\nAnd the children of Lothan were: Hori and Hemam. And Lothans sister\nwas called Thimna.\n\nThe childern of Sobal were these: Alvan/ Manahath/ Ebal/ Sepho & Onam.\nThese were the childern of Zibeo. Aia & ana/ this was y^t Ana y^t\nfo[~u]de y^e mules in y^e wildernes/ as he fed his father Zibeons\nasses. The childern of Ana were these. Dison and Ahalibama y^e\ndoughter of Ana.\n\nThese are the childern of Dison. Hemdan Esban/ Iethran & Chera. The\nchildern of Ezer were these/ Bilhan/ Seavan & Akan. The childern of\nDisan were: Vz and Aran.\n\nThese are the dukes that came of the Hori: duke Lothan/ duke Sobal/\nduke Zibeo/ duke Ana duke Dison/ duke Ezer/ duke Disan. These be the\ndukes that came of Hory in their dukedos in the land of Seir.\n\nThese are the kynges that reigned in the lande of Edom before there\nreigned any kynge amonge the childern of Israel. Bela the sonne of\nBeor reigned in Edomea/ and the name of his cyte was Dinhaba. And when\nBela dyed/ Iobab the sonne of Serah out of Bezara/ reigned in his\nsteade. When Iobab was dead/ Husam of the lande of Themany reigned in\nhis steade. And after the deth of Husam/ Hadad the sonne of Bedad\nwhich slewe the Madianytes in the feld of the Moabytes/ reigned in his\nsteade/ and the name of his cyte was Avith. Wh[~e] Hadad was dead/\nSamla of Masreka reigned in his steade. Wh[~e] Samla was dead/ Saul of\nthe ryver Rehoboth reigned in his steade. When Saul was dead/ Baal\nhanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his steade. And after the deth of\nBaal Hanan the sonne of Achbor/ Hadad reigned in his steade/ and the\nname of his cyte was Pagu. And his wifes name Mehetabeel the doughter\nof matred the doughter of Mesaab.\n\nThese are the names of the dukes that came of Esau/ in their kynredds/\nplaces and names: Duke Thimma/ duke Alua/ duke Ietheth duke Ahalibama/\nduke Ela/ duke Pinon/ duke Kenas/ duke Theman/ duke Mibzar/ duke Magdiel/\nduke Iram. These be the dukes of Edomea in their habitations/ in the\nlande of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the Edomytes.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxxvij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Iacob dwelt in the lande wherein his father was a straunger/ y^t\nis to saye in the lande of Canaan. And these are the generations of\nIacob: when Ioseph was .xvij. yere olde/ he kepte shepe with his\nbrethren/ and the lad was with the sonnes of Bilha & of Zilpha his\nfathers wyues. And he brought vnto their father an euyll saynge y^t\nwas of them. And Israel loued Ioseph more than all his childern/\nbecause he begat hym in his olde age/ and he made him a coote of many\ncoloures.\n\nWhen his brothren sawe that their father loued him more than all his\nbrethern/ they hated him and coude not speke one kynde worde vnto him.\nMoreouer Ioseph dreamed a dreame and tolde it his brethren: wherfore\nthey hated him yet the more. And he sayde vnto them heare I praye yow\nthis dreame which I haue dreamed: Beholde we were makynge sheues in\nthe felde: and loo/ my shefe arose and stode vp right/ and youres\nstode rounde aboute and made obeysaunce to my shefe. Than sayde his\nbrethren vnto him: what/ shalt thou be oure kynge or shalt thou reigne\nouer us? And they hated h[~i] yet the more/ because of his dreame and\nof his wordes.\n\nAnd he dreamed yet another dreame & told it his brethren saynge:\nbeholde/ I haue had one dreame more: me thought the sonne and the\nmoone and .xi. starres made obaysaunce to me. And when he had told it\nvnto his father and his brethern/ his father rebuked him and sayde\nvnto him: what meaneth this dreame which thou hast dreamed: shall I\nand thy mother and thy brethren come and fall on the grounde before\nthe? And his brethern hated him/ but his father noted the saynge.\n\nHis brethren went to kepe their fathers shepe in Sichem/ and Israell\nsayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethern kepe in Sichem? come that I may\nsend y^e to th[~e]. And he answered here am I And he sayde vnto him:\ngoo and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the shepe/ and\nbrynge me worde agayne: And sent him out of the vale of Hebron/ for to\ngo to Sichem.\n\nAnd a certayne man found him wandrynge out of his waye in the felde/\nad axed him what he soughte. And he answered: I seke my brethren/ tell\nme I praye the where they kepe shepe And the man sayde/ they are\ndeparted h[~e]ce/ for I herde them say/ let vs goo vnto Dothan. Thus\nwent Ioseph after his brethren/ and founde them in Dothan.\n\nAnd wh[~e] they sawe him a farr of before he came at them/ they toke\ncouncell agaynst him/ for to sley him/ and sayde one to another/\nBeholde this dreamer cometh/ come now and let us sley him and cast\nhim in to some pytt/ and let vs saye that some wiked beast hath\ndeuoured him/ and let us see what his dreames wyll come to.\n\nWhen Ruben herde that/ he w[~e]t aboute to ryd him out of their handes\nand sayde/ let vs not kyll him. And Ruben sayde moreouer vnto them/\nshed not his bloude/ but cast him in to this pytt that is in the\nwildernes/ and laye no handes vpon him: for he wolde haue rydd him out\nof their handes and delyuered him to his father agayne.\n\nAnd as soone as Ioseph was come vnto his brethren/ they strypte him\nout of his gay coote that was vpon him/ and they toke him and cast him\nin to a pytt: But the pytt was emptie and had no water therein. And\nthey satt them doune to eate brede. And as they lyft vp their eyes and\nloked aboute/ there came a companye of Ismaelites from Gilead/ and\ntheir camels lad[~e] with spicery/ baulme/ and myrre/ and were goynge\ndoune in to Egipte.\n\nThan sayde Iuda to his brethr[~e]/ what avayleth it that we sley oure\nbrother/ and kepe his bloude secrett? come on/ let us sell him to the\nIsmaelites/ and let not oure handes be defyled vpon him: for he is\noure brother and oure flesh. And his brethren were content. Than as\nthe Madianites marchaunt men passed by/ they drewe Ioseph out of the\npytt and sold him vnto the Ismaelites for .xx. peces of syluer.\nAnd they brought him into Egipte.\n\nAnd when Ruben came agayne vnto the pytt and founde not Ioseph there/\nhe rent his cloothes and went agayne vnto his brethern saynge: the lad\nis not yonder/ and whether shall I goo? And they toke Iosephs coote ad\nkylled a goote/ & dypped the coote in the bloud. And they sent that\ngay coote ad caused it to be brought vnto their father and sayd: This\nhaue we founde: se/ whether it be thy sones coote or no. And he knewe\nit saynge: it is my sonnes coote a wicked beast hath deuoured him/ and\nIoseph is rent in peces. And Iacob rent his cloothes/ ad put sacke\nclothe aboute his loynes/ and sorowed for his sonne a longe season.\n\nThan came all his sonnes ad all his doughters to comforte him. And he\nwold not be comforted/ but sayde: I will go doune in to y^e grave vnto\nmy sonne/ mornynge. And thus his father wepte for him. And the\nMadianytes solde him in Egipte vnto Putiphar a lorde of Pharaos: and\nhis chefe marshall.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxxviij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt\nhim to a man called Hira of Odollam/ and there he sawe the doughter of\na man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he toke her ad went in vnto her. And\nshe conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name Er. And she\nconceaued agayne and bare a sonne and called him Onan. And she\nconceaued the thyrde tyme & bare a sonne/ whom she called Sela: & he\nwas at Chesyb when she bare hem.\n\nAnd Iudas gaue Er his eldest sonne/ a wife whose name was Thamar. But\nthis Er Iudas eldest sonne was wicked in the syghte of the LORde/\nwherfore the LORde slewe him. Than sayde Iudas vnto Onan: goo in to\nthi brothers wyfe and Marie her/ and styrre vp seed vnto thy brother.\nAnd when Onan perceaued that the seed shulde not be his: therfore when\nhe went in to his brothers wife/ he spylled it on the grounde/ because\nhe wold not geue seed vnto his brother. And the thinge which he dyd/\ndispleased the LORde/ wherfore he slew him also. Than sayde Iudas to\nThamar his doughter in lawe: remayne a wydow at thi fathers house/\ntyll Sela my sonne be growne: for he feared lest he shulde haue dyed\nalso/ as his brethren did. Thus went Thamar & dwelt in hir fathers\nhouse.\n\nAnd in processe of tyme/ the doughter of Sua Iudas wife dyed. Than\nIudas when he had left mornynge/ went vnto his shepe sherers to\nThimnath with his frende Hira of Odollam. And one told Thamar saynge:\nbeholde/ thy father inlawe goth vp to Thimnath/ to shere his shepe.\nAnd she put hyr wydows garm[~e]tes of from her and couered her with a\nclooke/ and disgyssed herself: and sat her downe at the entrynge of\nEnaim which is by the hye wayes syde to Thimnath/ for because she\nsawe that Sela was growne/ and she was not geu[~e] vnto him to wife.\n\nWhen Iuda sawe her/ he thought it had bene an hoore/ because she had\ncouered hyr face. And turned to her vnto the waye and sayde/ come I\npraye the/ let me lye with the/ for he knewe not that it was his\ndoughter in lawe. And she sayde what wylt thou gyue me/ for to lye\nwith me? Tha sayde he/ I will sende the a kydd fro the flocke. She\nanswered/ Than geue me a pledge till thou sende it. Than sayde he/\nwhat pledge shall I geue the? And she sayde: thy sygnett/ thy\nneckelace/ and thy staffe that is in thy hande. And he gaue it her and\nlay by her/ and she was with child by him. And she gatt her vp and\nwent and put her mantell from her/ ad put on hir widowes rayment\nagayne.\n\nAnd Iudas send the kydd by his neybure of Odollam/ for to fetch out\nhis pledge agayne from the wifes hande. But he fownde her not. Than\nasked he the men of the same place saynge: where is the whoore that\nsatt at Enaim in the waye? And they sayde: there was no whoore here.\nAnd he came to Iuda agayne saynge: I can not fynde her/ and also the\nmen of the place sayde: that there was no whoore there. And Iuda\nsayde: let her take it to her/ lest we be shamed: for I sente the kydd\n& thou coudest not fynde her.\n\nAnd it came to passe that after .iij. monethes/ one tolde Iuda\nsaynge: Thamar thy doughter in lawe hath played the whoore/ and with\nplaynge the whoore is become great with childe. And Iuda sayde: brynge\nher forth ad let her be brente. And when they brought her forth/ she\nsent to her father in lawe saynge: by the ma vnto whome these thinges\npertayne/ am I with childe. And sayd also: loke whose are this seall\nnecklace/ and staffe. And Iuda knewe them saynge: she is more rightwes\ntha I/ because I gaue her not to Sela my sone. But he laye with her\nnomore.\n\nWhen tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered/ beholde there was\n.ij. twynnes in hyr wobe. And as she traveled/ the one put out his\nhande and the mydwife toke and bownde a reed threde aboute it saynge:\nthis wyll come out fyrst. But he plucked his hande backe agayne/ and\nhis brother came out. And she sayde: wherfore hast thou rent a rent\nvppon the? and called him Pharez. And afterward came out his brother\nthat had the reade threde about his hade/ which was called Zarah.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xxxix. Chapter.\n\n\nIoseph was brought vnto Egipte/ ad Putiphar a lorde of Pharaos: ad his\nchefe marshall an Egiptian/ bought him of y^e Ismaelites which brought\nh[~i] thither And the LORde was with Ioseph/ and he was a luckie\nfelowe and continued in the house of his master the Egiptian. And his\nmaster sawe that the LORde was with him and that the LORde made all\nthat he dyd prosper in his hande: Wherfore he founde grace in his\nmasters syghte/ and serued him. And his master made him ruelar of his\nhouse/ and put all that he had in his hande. And as soone as he had\nmade him ruelar ouer his house ad ouer all that he had/ the LORde\nblessed this Egiptians house for Iosephs sake/ and the blessynge of\nthe LORde was vpon all that he had: both in the house and also in the\nfeldes. And therfore he left all that he had in Iosephs hande/ and\nloked vpon nothinge that was with him/ saue only on the bread which he\nate. And Ioseph was a goodly persone & a well favored\n\nAnd it fortuned after this/ that his masters wife cast hir eyes vpon\nIoseph and sayde come lye with me. But he denyed and sayde to her:\nBeholde/ my master woteth not what he hath in the house with me/ but\nhath commytted all that he hath to my hande He him selfe is not\ngreatter in the house than I/ ad hath kepte noth[~i]ge fro me/ but\nonly the because thou art his wife. How than can I do this great\nwykydnes/ for to synne agaynst God? And after this maner spake she to\nIoseph daye by daye: but he harkened not vnto her/ to slepe nere her\nor to be in her company.\n\nAnd it fortuned aboute the same season/ that Ioseph entred in to the\nhouse/ to do his busynes: and there was none of the houshold by/ in\nthe house. And she caught him by the garment saynge: come slepe with\nme. And he left his garment in hir hande ad fled and gott him out When\nshe sawe that he had left his garm[~e]t in hir hande/ and was fled\nout/ she called vnto the men of the house/ and tolde them saynge: Se/\nhe hath brought in an Hebrewe vnto vs to do vs shame. for he came in\nto me/ for to haue slept wyth me. But I cried with a lowde voyce. And\nwhen he harde/ that I lyfte vp my voyce and cryed/ he left his garment\nwith me and fled awaye and got him out.\n\nAnd she layed vp his garment by her/ vntill hir lorde came home. And\nshe told him acordynge to these wordes saynge. This Hebrues servaunte\nwhich thou hast brought vnto vs came in to me to do me shame. But as\nsoone as I lyft vp my voyce and cryed/ he left his garment with me and\nfled out. When his master herde the woordes of his wyfe which she\ntolde him saynge: after this maner dyd thy servaunte to me/ he waxed\nwrooth.\n\nAnd he toke Ioseph and put him in pryson: euen in the place where the\nkynges prisoners laye bounde. And there contynued he in preson. But\nthe LORde was with Ioseph ad shewed him mercie/ and gott him fauoure\nin the syghte of the keper of y^e preson which commytted to Iosephs\nhade all the presoners that were in the preson housse. And what soeuer\nwas done there/ y^t dyd he. And the keper of the preso loked vnto\nnothinge that was vnder his hande/ because the LORde was with him/ &\nbecause that whatsoeuer he dyd/ the LORde made it come luckely to\npasse.\n\n\n\n\nThe xl. Capter.\n\n\nAnd it chaunced after this/ that the chefe butlar of the kynge of\nEgipte and his chefe baker had offended there lorde the kynge of\nEgypte. And Pharao was angrie with them and put th[~e] in warde in his\nchefe marshals house: euen in y^e preson where Ioseph was bownd. And\nthe chefe marshall gaue Ioseph a charge with them/ & he serued them.\nAnd they contynued a season in warde.\n\nAnd they dreamed ether of them in one nyghte: both the butlar and the\nbaker of the kynge of Egipte which were bownde in the preson house/\nether of them his dreame/ and eche manes dreame of a sondrie\ninterpretation When Ioseph came in vnto them in the mornynge/ and\nloked apon them: beholde/ they were sadd. And he asked them saynge/\nwherfore loke ye so sadly to daye? They answered him/ we haue dreamed\na dreame/ and haue no man to declare it. And Ioseph sayde vnto\nth[~e]. Interpretynge belongeth to God but tel me yet.\n\nAnd the chefe butlar tolde his dreame to Ioseph and sayde vnto him. In\nmy dreame me thought there stode a vyne before me/ and in the vyne\nwere .iij. braunches/ and it was as though it budded/ & her blossos\nshottforth: & y^e grapes thereof waxed rype. And I had Pharaos cuppe\nin my hande/ and toke of the grapes and wronge them in to Pharaos\ncuppe/ & delyvered Pharaos cuppe in to his hande.\n\nAnd Ioseph sayde vnto him/ this is the interpretation of it. The .iij.\nbraunches ar thre dayes: for within thre dayes shall Pharao lyft vp\nthine heade/ and restore the vnto thyne office agayne/ and thou shalt\ndelyuer Pharaos cuppe in to his hade/ after the old maner/ even as\nthou dydest when thou wast his butlar. But thinke on me with the/ when\nthou art in good ease/ and shewe mercie vnto me. And make mencion of\nme to Pharao/ and helpe to brynge me out of this house: for I was\nstollen out of the lande of the Hebrues/ & here also haue I done\nnoth[~i]ge at all wherfore they shulde haue put me in to this dongeon.\n\nWhen the chefe baker sawe that he had well interpretate it/ he sayde\nvnto Ioseph/ me thought also in my dreame/ y^t I had .iij. wyker\nbaskettes on my heade: And in y^e vppermost basket/ of all maner\nbakemeates for Pharao. And the byrdes ate them out of the basket apon\nmy heade\n\nIoseph answered and sayde: this is the interpretation therof. The\n.iij. baskettes are .iij. dayes/ for this daye .iij. dayes shall\nPharao take thy heade from the/ and shall hange the on a tree/ and the\nbyrdes shall eate thy flesh from of the.\n\nAnd it came to passe the thyrde daye which was Pharaos byrth daye/\nthat he made a feast vnto all his servauntes. And he lyfted vpp the\nhead of the chefe buttelar and of the chefe baker amonge his\nservauntes. And restored the chefe buttelar vnto his buttelarshipe\nagayne/ and he reched the cuppe in to Pharaos hande/ ad hanged the\nchefe baker: eu[~e] as Ioseph had interpretated vnto th[~e].\nNotwithstonding the chefe buttelar remembred not Ioseph/ but forgat\nhym.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xli. Capter\n\n\nAnd it fortuned at .ij. yeres end/ that Pharao dreamed/ and thought\nthat he stode by a ryuers syde/ and that there came out of the ryver\n.vij. goodly kyne and fatt fleshed/ and fedd in a medowe. And him\nthough that .vij. other kyne came vp after them out of the ryver\nevelfauored and leane fleshed and stode by the other vpon the brynke\nof the ryuer. And the evill favored and lenefleshed kyne ate vp the\n.vij. welfauoured and fatt kyne: and he awoke their with.\n\nAnd he slepte agayne and dreamed the second tyme/ that .vij. eares of\ncorne grewe apon one stalke rancke and goodly. And that .vij. thynne\neares blasted with the wynde/ spronge vp after them: and that the\n.vij. thynne eares deuowrerd the .vij. rancke and full eares. And than\nPharao awaked: and se/ here is his dreame. When the mornynge came/ his\nsprete was troubled And he sent and called for all the soythsayers of\nEgypte and all the wyse men there of/ and told them his dreame: but\nthere was none of them that coude interpretate it vnto Pharao.\n\nThan spake the chefe buttelar vnto Pharao saynge. I do remembre my\nfawte this daye. Pharao was angrie with his servauntes/ and put in\nwarde in the chefe marshals house both me and the chefe baker. And we\ndreamed both of vs in one nyght and ech mannes dreame of a sondrye\ninterpretation.\n\nAnd there was with vs a yonge man/ an Hebrue borne/ servaunte vnto the\nchefe marshall. And we told him/ and he declared oure dreames to vs\nacordynge to ether of oure dreames. And as he declared them vnto vs/\neuen so it came to passe. I was restored to myne office agayne/ and he\nwas hanged.\n\nThan Pharao sent and called Ioseph. And they made him haste out of\npreson. And he shaued him self and chaunged his rayment/ & went in to\nPharao. And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I haue dreamed a dreame and no\nman ca interpretate it/ but I haue herde saye of the y^t as soone as\nthou hearest a dreame/ thou dost interpretate it. And Ioseph answered\nPharao saynge: God shall geue Pharao an answere of peace without me.\n\nPharao sayde vnto Ioseph: in my dreame me thought I stode by a ryvers\nsyde/ and there came out of the ryver vij fatt fleshed ad well fauored\nkyne/ and fedd in the medowe. And then .vij. other kyne came vp after\nthem/ poore and very euell fauored ad leane fleshed: so that I neuer\nsawe their lyke in all the lande of Egipte in euell fauordnesse. And\nthe .vij. leane and euell fauored kyne ate vpp the first .vij. fatt\nkyne And when they had eaten them vp/ a man cowde not perceaue that\nthey had eat[~e] them: for they were still as evyll fauored as they\nwere at the begynnynge. And I awoke.\n\nAnd I sawe agayne in my dreame .vij. eares sprynge out of one stalk\nfull and good/ and .vij. other eares wytherd/ thinne and blasted with\nwynde/ sprynge vp after them. And the thynne eares deuowred the .vij.\ngood eares. And I haue tolde it vnto the sothsayers/ but no man can\ntell me what it meaneth.\n\nThen Ioseph sayde vnto Pharao: both Pharaos dreames are one. And god\ndoth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to do. The vij. good kyne are .vij\nyeres: & the .vij. good eares are .vij. yere also/ and is but one\ndreame. Lykewyse/ the .vij. thynne and euell fauored kyne that came\nout after them/ are .vij. yeares: and the .vij. emptie and blasted\neares shalbe vij. yeares of hunger. This is that which I sayde vnto\nPharao/ that God doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to doo.\n\nBeholde there shall come .vij. yere of great plenteousnes through out\nall the lande of Egypte. And there shall aryse after them vij. yeres\nof hunger. So that all the plenteousnes shalbe forgeten in the lande\nof Egipte. And the hunger shall consume the lande: so that the\nplenteousnes shall not be once agene in the land by reason of that\nhunger that shall come after/ for it shalbe exceading great And as\nconcernynge that the dreame was dubled vnto Pharao the second tyme/ it\nbetokeneth that the thynge is certanly prepared of God/ ad that God\nwill shortly brynge it to passe.\n\nNow therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and\nwysdome/ and sett him over the lande of Egipte. And let Pharao make\nofficers ouer the lande/ and take vp the fyfte parte of the land of\nEgipte in the vij. plenteous yeres and let them gather all the foode\nof these good yeres that come/ ad lay vp corne vnder the power of\nPharo: that there may be foode in the cities/ and there let them kepte\nit: that there may be foode in stoore in the lande/ agaynst the .vij.\nyeres of hunger which shall come in the lande of Egipte/ and that the\nlande perishe not thorow hunger.\n\nAnd the saynge pleased Pharao ad all his seruauntes. Than sayde Pharao\nvnto his seruavauntes: where shall we fynde soch a ma as this is/ that\nhath the sprete of God in him? wherfore Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph:\nfor as moch as God hath shewed the all this/ there is no man of\nvnderstondyng nor of wysdome lyke vnto the Thou therfore shalt be ouer\nmy house/ and acordinge to thy worde shall all my people obey: only in\nthe kynges seate will I be aboue the. And he sayde vnto Ioseph:\nbeholde/ I haue sett the ouer all the lande of Egipte. And he toke off\nhis rynge from his fyngre/ and put it vpon Iosephs fingre/ and arayed\nhim in raym[~e]t of bisse/ and put a golden cheyne aboute his necke\nand set him vpon the best charett that he had saue one. And they cryed\nbefore him Abrech/ ad that Pharao had made him ruelar ouer all the\nlande of Egipte.\n\nAnd Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I am Pharao/ without thi will/ shall no\nman lifte vp ether his hande or fote in all the lande of Egipte. And\nhe called Iosephs name Zaphnath Paenea. And he gaue him to wyfe Asnath\nthe doughter of Potiphara preast of On. Than went Ioseph abrode in the\nlade of Egipte. And he was .xxx. yere olde wh[~e] he stode before\nPharao kynge of Egipte. And than Ioseph departed from Pharao/ and went\nthorow out all the lande of Egipte.\n\nAnd in the .vij. pl[~e]teous yeres they made sheves and gathered vp\nall the fode of the .vij. plenteous yeres which were in the lande of\nEgipte and put it in to the cities. And he put the food of the feldes\nthat grewe rounde aboute euery cyte: euen in the same. And Ioseph\nlayde vp corne in stoore/ lyke vnto the sande of the see in multitude\nout of mesure/ vntyll he left nombrynge: For it was with out nombre.\n\nAnd vnto Ioseph were borne .ij. sonnes before the yeres of hunger\ncame/ which Asnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On/ bare vnto\nhim. And he called the name of the first sonne Manasse/ for God (sayde\nhe) hath made me forgett all my laboure & all my fathers husholde. The\nseconde called he Ephraim/ for God (sayde he) hath caused me to growe\nin the lande of my trouble.\n\nAnd when the .vij. yeres of plenteousnes that was in the lande of\nEgypte were ended/ than came the .vij. yeres of derth/ acordynge as\nIoseph had sayde. And the derth was in all landes: but in the lade of\nEgipte was there yet foode. When now all the lande of Egipte began to\nhunger/ than cried the people to Pharao for bread. And Pharao sayde\nvnto all Egipte: goo vnto Ioseph/ and what he sayth to you that doo\nAnd when the derth was thorow out all the lande/ Ioseph opened all\nthat was in the cities and solde vnto the Egiptias And hunger waxed\nsore in the land of Egipte. And all countrees came to Egipte to Ioseph\nfor to bye corne: because that the hunger was so sore in all landes.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xlij. Chapter.\n\n\nWhen Iacob sawe that there was corne to be solde in Egipte/ he sayde\nvnto his sones: why are ye negligent? beholde/ I haue hearde that\nthere is corne to be solde in Egipte. Gete you thither and bye vs\ncorne fro th[~e]ce/ that we maye lyue and not dye. So went Iosephs ten\nbrethern doune to bye corne in Egipte/ for Ben Iamin Iosephs brother\nwold not Iacob sende with his other brethren: for he sayde: some\nmysfortune myght happen him\n\nAnd the sonnes of Israell came to bye corne amonge other that came/\nfor there was derth also in the lande of Canaan. And Ioseph was\ngouerner in the londe/ and solde corne to all the people of the londe.\nAnd his brethren came/ and fell flatt on the grounde before him. When\nIoseph sawe his brethern/ he knewe them: But made straunge vnto them/\nand spake rughly vnto them saynge: Whence come ye? and they sayde: out\nof the lande of Canaan/ to bye vitayle. Ioseph knewe his brethern/ but\nthey knewe not him.\n\nAnd Ioseph remembred his dreames which he dreamed of them/ and sayde\nvnto them: ye are spies/ and to se where the lande is weake is youre\ncomynge. And they sayde vnto him: nay my lorde: but to bye vitayle thy\nseruauntes are come. We are all one mans sonnes/ and meane truely/ and\nthy seruauntes are no spies. And he sayde vnto them: nay verely/ but\neuen to se where the land is weake is youre comynge. And they sayde:\nwe thi seruauntes are .xij. brethern/ the sonnes of one man in the\nlande of Canaan. The yongest is yet with oure father/ and one no man\nwoteth where he is.\n\nIoseph sayde vnto them/ that is it that I sayde vnto you/ that ye are\nsurelye spies. Here by ye shall be proued. For by the lyfe of Pharao/\nye shall not goo hence/ vntyll youre yongest brother be come hither.\nSende therfore one off you and lett him fett youre brother/ and ye\nshalbe in preason in the meane season. And thereby shall youre wordes\nbe proued/ whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of\nPharao/ ye are but spies. And he put them in warde thre dayes.\n\nAnd Ioseph sayde vnto th[~e] the thyrd daye: This doo and lyue/ for I\nfeare Gode Yf ye meane no hurte/ let one of youre brethern be bounde\nin the preason/ and goo ye and brynge the necessarie foode vnto youre\nhousholdes/ and brynge youre yongest brother vnto me: that youre\nwordes maye be beleved/ ad that ye dye not And they did so.\n\nThan they sayde one to a nother: we haue verely synned agaynst oure\nbrother/ in that we sawe the anguysh of his soull when he besought us/\n& wold not heare him: therfore is this troubyll come apon us. Ruben\nanswered th[~e] saynge: sayde I not vnto you that ye shulde not synne\nagaynst the lad? but ye wolde not heare And now verely see/ his bloude\nis requyred.\n\nThey were not aware that Ioseph vnderstode them/ for he spake vnto\nthem by an interpreter. And he turned from them and wepte/ and than\nturned to them agayne ad comened with them/ and toke out Simeon from\namonge th[~e] and bownde him before their eyes/ ad commaunded to fyll\ntheir sackes wyth corne/ and to put euery mans money in his sacke/ and\nto geue them vitayle to spende by the waye. And so it was done to\nthem.\n\nAnd they laded their asses with the corne and departed thence. And as\none of them opened his sacke/ for to geue his asse prauender in the\nInne/ he spied his money in his sacks mouth And he sayde vnto his\nbrethren: my money is restored me agayne/ & is eu[~e] in my sackes\nmouth Than their hartes fayled them/ and were astoynyed and sayde one\nto a nother: how cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?\n\nAnd they came vnto Iacob their father vnto the lande of Canaan/ and\ntolde him all that had happened them saynge. The lorde of the lade\nspake rughly to us/ and toke us for spyes to serche the countre. And\nwe sayde vnto him: we meane truely and are no spies. We be .xij.\nbrethren sones of oure father/ one is awaye/ and the yongest is now\nwith oure father in the lande of Canaan.\n\nAnd the lorde of the countre sayde vnto us: hereby shall I knowe yf ye\nmeane truely: leaue one of youre brethern here with me/ and take foode\nnecessary for youre housholdes and get you awaye/ and brynge youre\nyongest brother vnto me And thereby shall I knowe that ye are no\nspyes/ but meane truely: So will I delyuer you youre brother agayne/\nand ye shall occupie in the lande.\n\nAnd as they emptied their sackes/ beholde: euerymans bundell of money\nwas in his sacke And when both they and their father sawe the bundells\nof money/ they were afrayde.\n\nAnd Iacob their father sayde vnto them: Me haue ye robbed of my\nchildern: Ioseph is away/ and Simeon is awaye/ and ye will take Ben\nIamin awaye. All these thinges fall vpon me. Ruben answered his father\nsaynge: Slee my two sonnes/ yf I bringe him not to the agayne. Delyuer\nhim therfore to my honde/ and I will brynge him to the agayne: And he\nsayde: my sonne shall not go downe with you. For his brother is dead/\nand he is left alone Moreouer some mysfortune myght happen vpon him by\nthe waye which ye goo. And so shuld ye brynge my gray head with sorowe\nvnto the graue.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xliij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd the derth waxed sore in the lande. And when they had eate vp that\ncorne which they brought out of the lande of Egipte/ their father\nsayde vnto them: goo agayne and by vs a litle food. Than sayde Iuda\nvnto him: the man dyd testifie vnto vs saynge: loke that ye see not my\nface excepte youre brother be with you. Therfore yf thou wilt sende\noure brother with vs/ we wyll goo and bye the food. But yf thou wylt\nnot sende him/ we wyll not goo: for the man sayde vnto vs: loke that\nye see not my face/ excepte youre brother be with you.\n\nAnd Israell sayde: wherfore delt ye so cruelly with me/ as to tell the\nman that ye had yet another brother? And they sayde: The man asked vs\nof oure kynred saynge: is youre father yet alyue? haue ye not another\nbrother? And we tolde him acordynge to these wordes. How cowd we knowe\nthat he wolde byd vs brynge oure brother downe with vs? Than sayde\nIuda vnto Israell his father: Send the lad with me/ and we wyll ryse\nand goo/ that we maye lyue and not dye: both we/ thou and also oure\nchildern. I wilbe suertie for him/ and of my handes requyre him. Yf I\nbrynge him not to the and sett him before thine eyes/ than let me bere\nthe blame for euer. For except we had made this tari[~e]g: by this we\nhad bene there twyse and come agayne.\n\nThan their father Israel sayde vnto th[~e]: Yf it must nedes be so\nnow: than do thus/ take of the best frutes of the lande in youre\nvesselles/ and brynge the man a present/ a curtesie bawlme/ and a\ncurtesie of hony/ spyces and myrre/ dates and almondes. And take as\nmoch money more with you. And the money that was brought agayne in\nyoure sackes/ take it agayne with you in youre handes/ peraduenture it\nwas some ouersyghte.\n\nTake also youre brother with you/ and aryse and goo agayne to the man.\nAnd God almightie geue you mercie in the sighte of the man and send\nyou youre other brother and also B[~e] Iamin/ and I wilbe as a ma\nrobbed of his childern.\n\nThus toke they the present and twise so moch more money with them/ and\nBen Iamim. And rose vp/ went downe to Egipte/ and presented them selfe\nto Ioseph. When Ioseph sawe Ben Iamin with them/ he sayde to the\nruelar of his house: brynge these men home/ and sley and make redie:\nfor they shall dyne with me at none. And the man dyd as Ioseph bad/\nand brought them in to Iosephs house.\n\nWhen they were brought to Iosephs house/ they were afrayde ad sayde:\nbe cause of the money y^t came in oure sackes mouthes at the first\ntyme/ are we brought/ to pyke a quarell with vs & to laye some thinge\nto oure charge: to brynge us in bondage and oure asses also. Therfore\ncame they to the man that was the ruelar ouer Iosephs house/ and\ncomened with him at the doore and sayde:\n\nSir/ we came hither at the first tyme to bye foode/ and as we came to\nan Inne and opened oure sackes: beholde/ euery mannes money was in his\nsacke with full weghte: But we haue broght it agene with us/ & other\nmony haue we brought also in oure handes/ to bye foode/ but we can not\ntell who put oure money in oure sackes.\n\nAnd he sayde: be of good chere/ feare not: Youre God and the God of\nyoure fathers hath put you that treasure in youre sackes/ for I had\nyoure money. And he brought Simeon out to them ad led th[~e] in to\nIosephs house/ and gaue th[~e] water to washe their fete/ and gaue\ntheir asses prauender: And they made redie their present agaynst\nIoseph came at none/ for they herde saye that they shulde dyne there.\n\nWhen Ioseph came home/ they brought the present in to the house to\nhim/ which they had in their handes/ ad fell flat on the grounde befor\nhim. And he welcomed th[~e] curteously sainge: is youre father that\nold man which ye tolde me of/ in good health? and is he yet alyue?\nthey answered: thy servaunte oure father is in good health/ ad is yet\nalyue. And they bowed them selues and fell to the grounde.\n\nAnd he lyfte vp his eyes & behelde his brother Ben Iamin his mothers\nsonne/ & sayde: is this youre yongest brother of whome ye sayde vnto\nme? And sayde: God be mercyfull vnto y^e my sonne. And Ioseph made\nhast (for his hert dyd melt apon his brother) and soughte for to wepe/\n& entred in to his chambre/ for to wepe there. And he wasshed his face\nand came out & refrayned himselfe/ & had sett bread on the table\n\nAnd they prepared for him by himselfe/ and for them by them selues/\nand for the Egiptians which ate with him by them selues/ because the\nEgyptians may not eate bread with the Hebrues/ for that is an\nabhomynacyon vnto the Egiptians. And they satt before him: the eldest\nacordynge vnto his age/ and the yongest acordyng vnto his youth. And\nthe men marveled amonge them selves. And they broughte rewardes vnto\nthem from before him: but Ben Iamins parte was fyue tymes so moch as\nany of theirs. And they ate and they dronke/ and were dronke wyth him.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xliiij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd he commaunded the rueler of his house saynge: fyll the mens sackes\nwith food/ as moch as they can carie/ and put euery mans money in his\nbagge mouth/ and put my syluer cuppe in the sackes mouth of the\nyongest and his corne money also. And he dyd as Ioseph had sayde. And\nin y^e mornynge as soone as it was lighte/ the m[~e] were let goo with\ntheir asses.\n\nAnd when they were out of the cytie and not yet ferre awaye/ Ioseph\nsayde vnto the ruelar of his house: vp and folowe after the men and\nouertake them/ and saye vnto them: wherfore haue ye rewarded euell for\ngood? is that not the cuppe of which my lorde drynketh/ ad doth he not\nprophesie therin? ye haue euell done that ye haue done.\n\nAnd he ouertoke them and sayde the same wordes vnto them. And they\nanswered him: wherfore sayth my lorde soch wordes? God forbydd that\nthy servauntes shulde doo so. Beholde/ the money which we founde in\noure sackes mouthes/ we brought agayne vnto the/ out of the lande of\nCanaa: how then shulde we steale out of my lordes house/ ether syluer\nor golde: with whosoeuer of thy seruauntes it be founde let him dye/\nand let vs also be my lordes bondmen. And he sayde: Now therfore\nacordynge vnto youre woordes/ he with whom it is found/ shalbe my\nseruaunte: but ye/ shalbe harmelesse.\n\nAnd attonce euery man toke downe his sacke to the grounde/ ad every\nman opened his sacke. And he serched/ and began at the eldest & left\nat the yongest. And the cuppe was founde in Ben Iamins sacke. Then\nthey rent their clothes/ and laded euery man his asse and went agayne\nvnto the cytie. And Iuda and his brethr[~e] came to Iosephs house/ for\nhe was yet there/ ad they fell before him on the grounde. And Ioseph\nsayde vnto th[~e]: what dede is this which ye haue done? wist ye not\nthat soch a man as I can prophesie?\n\nThen sayde Iuda: what shall we saye vnto my lorde/ what shall we\nspeake or what excuse can we make? God hath founde out y^e wekednesse\nof thy seruauntes. Beholde/ both we and he with whom the cuppe is\nfounde/ are thy seruauntes. And he answered: God forbyd y^t I shulde\ndo so/ the man with whom the cuppe is founde/ he shalbe my seruaunte:\nbut goo ye in peace vn to youre father.\n\nThen Iuda went vnto him and sayde: oh my lorde/ let thy servante\nspeake a worde in my lordes audyence/ and be not wrooth with thi\nservaunte: for thou art euen as Pharao. My lorde axed his seruaunte\nsainge: haue ye a father or a brother? And we answered my lord/ we\nhaue a father that is old/ and a yonge lad which he begat in his age:\nad the brother of the sayde lad is dead/ & he is all that is left of\nthat mother. And his father loueth him.\n\nThen sayde my lorde vnto his seruauntes brynge him vnto me/ that I\nmaye sett myne eyes apon him. And we answered my lorde/ that the lad\ncoude not goo from his father/ for if he shulde leaue his father/ he\nwere but a deed man. Than saydest thou vnto thy servauntes: excepte\nyoure yongest brother come with you/ loke that ye se my face no moare.\n\nAnd when we came vnto thy servaunt oure father/ we shewed him what my\nlorde had sayde. And when oure father sayde vnto vs/ goo agayne and\nbye vs a litle fode: we sayd/ y^t we coude not goo. Neverthelesse if\noure youngeste brother go with vs then will we goo/ for we maye not\nsee the mannes face/ excepte oure yongest brother be with vs. Then\nsayde thy servaunt oure father vnto vs. Ye knowe that my wyfe bare me\n.ij. sonnes. And the one went out from me and it is sayde of a suertie\nthat he is torne in peaces of wyld beastes/ and I sawe him not sence.\nYf ye shall take this also awaye fro me and some mysfortune happen\napon him/ then shall ye brynge my gray heed with sorow vnto the grave.\n\nNow therfore wh[~e] I come to thy servaunt my father/ yf the lad be\nnot with me: seinge that his lyfe hageth by the laddes lyfe/ then as\nsoone as he seeth that the lad is not come/ he will dye. So shall we\nthy serva[~u]tes brynge the gray hedde of thy servaunt oure father\nwith sorow vnto the grave. For I thy servaunt became suertie for the\nlad vnto my father & sayde: yf I bringe him not vnto the agayne. I\nwill bere the blame all my life loge. Now therfore let me thy servaunt\nbyde here for y^e lad/ & be my lordes bondman: & let the lad goo home\nwith his brethern. For how can I goo vnto my father/ and the lad not\nwyth me: lest I shulde see the wretchednes that shall come on my\nfather.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xlv. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Ioseph coude no longer refrayne before all them that stode aboute\nhim/ but commaunded that they shuld goo all out from him/ and that\nthere shuld be no man with him/ whyle he vttred him selfe vnto his\nbrethern. And he wepte alowde/ so that the Egiptians and the house of\nPharao herde it. And he sayde vnto his brethern: I am Ioseph: doth my\nfather yet lyue? But his brethern coude not answere him/ for they were\nabasshed at his presence.\n\nAnd Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: come nere to me/ and they came\nnere. And he sayde: I am Ioseph youre brother whom ye sold in to\nEgipte. And now be not greued therwith/ nether let it seme a cruel\nthinge in youre eyes/ that ye solde me hither. For God dyd send me\nbefore you to saue lyfe. For this is the seconde yere of derth in the\nlande/ and fyue moo are behynde in which there shall nether be earynge\nnor hervest.\n\nWherfore God sent me before you to make prouision/ that ye myghte\ncontinue in the erth and to save youre lyues by a greate delyuerance.\nSo now it was not ye that sent me hither/ but God: and he hath made me\nfather vnto Pharao and lorde ouer all his house/ and rueler in all the\nland of Egipte. Hast you ad goo to my father and tell him/ this sayeth\nthy sonne Ioseph: God hath made me lorde ouer all Egipte. Come downe\nvnto me and tarye not/ And thou shalt dwell in the londe of Gosan & be\nby me: both thou and thi childern/ and thi childerns childern: and thy\nshepe/ and beestes and all that thou hast. There will I make provision\nfor the: for there remayne yet v yeres of derth/ lest thou and thi\nhoushold and all that thou hast perish.\n\nBeholde/ youre eyes do se/ and the eyes also of my brother Ben Iamin/\nthat I speake to you by mouth. Therfore tell my father of all my\nhonoure which I haue in Egipte and of all that ye haue sene/ ad make\nhast and brynge my father hither.\n\n\u00b6 And he fell on his brother Ben Iam[~i]s necke & wepte/ & Ben Iamin\nwepte on his necke. Moreouer he kyssed all his brethern and wepte apon\nthem. And after that/ his brethern talked with him. And when the\ntidynges was come vnto Pharaos housse that Iosephes brethern were\ncome/ it pleased Pharao well and all his seruauntes.\n\nAnd Pharao spake vnto Ioseph: saye vnto thy brethern/ this do ye: lade\nyoure beestes ad get you hence/ And when ye be come vnto the londe of\nCanaan/ take youre father and youre housholdes and come vnto me/ and I\nwill geue you the beste of the lande of Egipte/ and ye shall eate the\nfatt of the londe. And commaunded also. This do ye: take charettes\nwith you out of the lande of Egipte/ for youre childern and for youre\nwyues: and brynge youre father and come. Also/ regarde not your stuff/\nfor the goodes of all the londe of Egipte shalbe youres.\n\nAnd the childern of Israell dyd euen so/ and Ioseph gaue them\ncharettes at the commaundment of Pharao/ and gaue them vitayle also to\nspende by the waye. And he gaue vnto eche of them chaunge of rayment:\nbut vnto Ben Iamin he gaue iij. hundred peces of syluer and .v.\nchaunge of rayment. And vnto his father he sent after the same maner:\nx. he asses laden with good out of Egipte/ and .x. she asses laden\nwith corne/ bred and meate: to serue his father by the waye. So sent\nhe his brethern awaye/ and they departed. And he sayde vnto them: se\nthat ye fall not out by the waye.\n\nAnd they departed from Egipte and came in to the land of Canaan vnto\nIacob their father/ and told him saynge. Ioseph is yet a lyue and is\ngouerner ouer all the land of Egipte. And Iacobs hert wauered/ for he\nbeleued th[~e] not. And they tolde him all the wordes of Ioseph which\nhe had sayde vnto them. But when he sawe the charettes which Ioseph\nhad sent to carie him/ then his sprites reviued. And Israel sayde. I\nhaue ynough/ yf Ioseph my sonne be yet alyue: I will goo and se him/\nyer that I dye.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xlvi. Chapter.\n\nIsrael toke his iourney with all that he had/ and came vnto Berseba\nand offred offrynges vnto the God of his father Isaac. And God sayde\nvnto Israel in a vision by nyghte/ and called vnto him: Iacob Iacob.\nAnd he answered: here am I. And he sayde: I am that mightie God of thy\nfather/ feare not to goo downe in to Egipte. For I will make of the\nthere a great people. I will go downe with y^e in to Egipte/ & I will\nalso bringe the vp agayne/ & Ioseph shall put his hand apon thine\neyes.\n\nAnd Iacob rose vp from Berseba. And y^e sonnes of Israel caried Iacob\ntheir father/ ad their childern and their wyues in the charettes\nwhich Pharao had sent to carie him. And they toke their catell ad the\ngoodes which they had gotten in the land of Canaan/ and came in to\nEgipte: both Iacob and all his seed with him/ his sonnes and his\nsonnes sonnes with him: his doughters and his sonnes doughters and all\nhis seed brought he with him in to Egipte.\n\nThese are the names of the childern of Israel which came in to Egipte/\nboth Iacob and his sonnes: Rub[~e] Iacob's first sonne. The childern\nof Ruben: Hanoch/ Pallu/ Hezron and Charmi. The childern of Simeon:\nIemuel/ Iamin/ Ohad/ Iachin/ Zohar and Saul the sonne of a Cananitish\nwoman The childern of Leui: Gerson/ Kahath and Merari. The childern of\nIuda: Er/ Onan/ Sela/ Pharez and Zerah/ but Er and Onan dyed in the\nlande of Canaan. The childern of Pharez/ Hezro & Hamul. The childern\nof Isachar: Tola/ Phuva Iob and Semiron. The childern of Sebulon:\nSered/ Elon and Iaheleel. These be the childern of Lea which she bare\nvnto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his doughter Dina. All these soulles of\nhis sonnes and doughters make .xxx and .vi.\n\nThe childern of Gad: Ziphion/ Haggi/ Suni/ Ezbon/ Eri/ Arodi and\nAreli. The childern of Asser: Iemna/ Iesua/ Iesui/ Brya and Serah\ntheir sister: And the childern of Biya were Heber and Malchiel. These\nare the childern of Silpha whom Laba gaue to Lea his doughter. And\nthese she bare vnto Iacob in nombre xvi. soules.\n\nThe childern of Rahel Iacobs wife: Ioseph and ben Iamin. And vnto\nIoseph in the lode of Egipte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which\nAsnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On bare vnto him. The\nchildern of Ben Iamin: Bela/ Becher/ Asbel/ Gera/ Naeman/ Ehi Ros\nMupim/ Hupim and Ard. These are the childern of Rahel which were borne\nvnto Iacob: xiiij. soules all to gether.\n\nThe childern of Dan: Husim. The childern of Nepthali: Iahezeel/ Guni/\nIezer and Sillem. These are the sonnes of Bilha which Laban gaue vnto\nRahel his doughter/ and she bare these vnto Iacob/ all together .vij.\nsoulles All the soulles that came with Iacob into Egipte which came\nout of his loyns (besyde his sonnes wifes) were all togither .lx. and\n.vi. soulles. And the sonnes of Ioseph/ which were borne him in egipte\nwere .ij. soules: So that all the soulles of the house of Iacob which\ncame in to Egipte are lxx.\n\nAnd he sent Iuda before him vnto Ioseph that the waye myghte be shewed\nhim vnto Gosan/ and they came in to the lande of Gosan And Ioseph made\nredie his charett and went agaynst Israell his father vnto Gosan/ ad\npresented him selfe vnto him/ and fell on his necke and wepte vpon\nhis necke a goode whyle. And Israel sayd vnto Ioseph: Now I am\ncot[~e]t to dye/ in somoch I haue sene the/ that thou art yet alyue.\n\nAnd Ioseph sayde vnto his brethr[~e] and vnto his fathers house: I\nwill goo & shewe Pharao and tell him: that my brethern and my fathers\nhousse which were in the lade of Canaan are come vnto me/ and how they\nare shepardes (for they were men of catell) and they haue brought\ntheir shepe and their oxen and all that they haue with them. Yf Pharao\ncall you and axe you what youre occupation is/ saye: thi seruauntes\nhaue bene occupyed aboute catell/ fro oure chilhode vnto this tyme:\nboth we and oure fathers/ that ye maye dwell in the lande of Gosan.\nFor an abhominacyon vnto the Egiptians are all that feade shepe.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 The .xlvij. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Ioseph w[~e]t and tolde Pharao and sayde: my father and my\nbrethern their shepe and their beastes and all that they haue/ are\ncome out of the lade of Canaan and are in the lande of Gosan. And\nIoseph toke a parte of his brethern: euen fyue of them/ and presented\nthem vnto Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto his brethern: what is youre\noccupation? And they sayde vnto Pharao: feaders of shepe are thi\nseruauntes/ both we ad also oure fathers. They sayde moreouer vnto\nPharao: for to sogeorne in the lande are we come/ for thy seruauntes\nhaue no pasture for their shepe so sore is the fameshment in the lande\nof Canaan. Now therfore let thy seruauntes dwell in the lande of\nGosan.\n\nAnd Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: thy father and thy brethren are come\nvnto the. The londe of Egipte is open before the: In the best place of\nthe lande make both thy father and thy brothren dwell: And even in the\nlond of Gosan let them dwell. Moreouer yf thou knowe any men of\nactiuyte amonge them/ make them ruelars ouer my catell. And Ioseph\nbrought in Iacob his father and sett him before Pharao And Iacob\nblessed Pharao. And Pharao axed Iacob/ how old art thou? And Iacob\nsayde vnto Pharao: the dayes of my pilgremage are an hundred and .xxx.\nyeres. Few and euell haue the dayes of my lyfe bene/ and haue not\nattayned vnto the yeres of the lyfe of my fathers in the dayes of\ntheir pilgremages. And Iacob blessed Pharao and went out from him. And\nIoseph prepared dwellinges for his father and his brethern/ and gaue\nthem possessions in the londe of Egipte/ in the best of the londe:\neu[~e] in the lande of Raemses/ as Pharao commaunded. And Ioseph made\nprouysion for his father/ his brethern and all his fathers housholde/\nas yonge childern are fedd with bread.\n\nThere was no bread in all the londe/ for the derth was excead[~i]ge\nsore: so y^t y^e lode of Egipte & y^e lode of Canaan/ were fameshyd by\ny^e reason of y^e derth. And Ioseph brought together all y^e money\ny^t was founde in y^e lade of Egipte and of Canaan/ for y^e corne\nwhich they boughte: & he layde vp the money in Pharaos housse.\n\nWhen money fayled in the lade of Egipte & of Canaan/ all the Egiptians\ncame vnto Ioseph and sayde: geue us sustenaunce: wherfore suffrest\nthou vs to dye before the/ for oure money is spent. Then sayde Ioseph:\nbrynge youre catell/ and I will geue yow for youre catell/ yf ye be\nwithout money. And they brought their catell vnto Ioseph. And he gaue\nthem bread for horses and shepe/ and oxen and asses: so he fed them\nwith bread for all their catell that yere.\n\nWhen that yere was ended/ they came vnto him the nexte yere and sayde\nvnto him: we will not hyde it from my lorde/ how that we haue nether\nmoney nor catell for my lorde: there is no moare left for my lorde/\nbut euen oure bodies and oure londes. Wherfore letest thou us dye\nbefore thyne eyes/ and the londe to goo to noughte? bye us and oure\nlandes for bread: and let both vs and oure londes be bonde to Pharao.\nGeue vs feed/ that we may lyue & not dye/ & that the londe goo not to\nwast.\n\n[Sidenote: * The bl[~i]de gydes gott previleges fro bear[~i]ge with\ntheir brethr[~e] contrarye to Christes lawe of love. And of these\nprestes of idolles did oure copass[~i]ge yvetrees lerne to crepe vp by\nlitle & litle & to copasse y^e greate trees of y^e world with\nhypocrisye/ ad to thrust y^e rodes of idolatrysse superstition in to\nth[~e] & to sucke out y^e iuce of th[~e] with their poetrye/ till all\nbe seer bowes and no thinge grene save their awne com[~e]welth.]\n\nAnd Ioseph boughte all the lande of Egipte for Pharao. For the\nEgiptians solde euery man his londe because the derth was sore apo\nthem: and so the londe became Pharaos. And he appoynted the people\nvnto the cities/ from one syde of Egipte vnto the other: only the\nlonde of the Prestes bought he not. For there was an ordina[~u]ce\nmade by Pharao for y^e * preastes/ that they shulde eate that which\nwas appoynted vnto them: which Pharao had geuen them wherfore they\nsolde not their londes.\n\nThen Ioseph sayde vnto the folke: beholde I haue boughte you this daye\nad youre landes for Pharao. Take there seed and goo sowe the londe.\nAnd of the encrease/ ye shall geue the fyfte parte vnto Pharao/ and\n.iiij. partes shalbe youre awne/ for seed to sowe the feld: and for\nyou/ and them of youre housholdes/ and for youre childern/ to eate.\nAnd they answered: Thou haste saued oure lyves Let vs fynde grace in\nthe syghte of my lorde/ and let us be Pharaos serva[~u]tes. And Ioseph\nmade it a lawe ouer the lade of Egipte vnto this daye: that men must\ngeue Pharao the fyfte parte/ excepte the londe of preastes only/ which\nwas not bond vnto Pharao.\n\nAnd Israel dwelt in Egipte: euen in the countre of Gosan. And they had\ntheir possessions therein/ and they grewe and multiplyed exceadingly.\nMoreouer Iacob lyued in the lande of Egipte .xvij. yeres/ so that the\nthe hole age of Iacob was an hundred and .xlvij. yere.\n\nWhen the tyme drewe nye/ that Israel must dye: he sent for his sonne\nIoseph and sayde vnto him: Yf I haue founde grace in thy syghte/ put\nthy hande vnder my thye and deale mercifully ad truely with me/ that\nthou burie me not in Egipte: but let me lye by my fathers/ and carie\nme out of Egipte/ and burie me in their buryall. And he answered: I\nwill do as thou hast sayde. And he sayde: swere vnto me: ad he sware\nvnto him. And than Israel bowed him vnto the beddes head.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xlviij. Chapter.\n\n\nAfter these deades/ tyd[~i]ges were brought vnto Ioseph/ that his\nfather was seke. And he toke with him his ij. sones/ Manasses and\nEphraim. Then was it sayde vnto Iacob: beholde/ thy sonne Ioseph\ncommeth vnto the. And Israel toke his strength vnto him/ and satt vp\non the bedd/ and sayde vnto Ioseph: God all mightie appeared vnto me\nat lus in the lande of Canaan/ ad blessed me/ and sayde vnto me:\nbeholde/ I will make the growe and will multiplye the/ and will make a\ngreat nombre of people of the/ and will geue this lande vnto the and\nvnto thy seed after y^e vnto an euerlastinge possession. Now therfore\nthy .ij. sones Manasses ad Ephraim which were borne vnto the before I\ncame to the/ in to Egipte/ shalbe myne: euen as Ruben and Simeo shall\nthey be vnto me And the childern which thou getest after them/ shalbe\nthyne awne: but shalbe called with the names of their brethern in\ntheir enheritaunces.\n\nAnd after I came from Mesopotamia/ Rahel dyed apon my hande in the\nlande of Canaa/ by the waye: when I had but a feldes brede to goo\nvnto Ephrat. And I buried her there in y^e waye to Ephrat which is now\ncalled Bethlehem.\n\nAnd Israel behelde Iosephes sonnes & sayde: what are these? And Ioseph\nsayde vnto his father: they are my sonnes/ which God hath geuen me\nhere. And he sayde: brynge them to me/ and let me blesse them. And the\neyes of Israell were dymme for age/ so that he coude not see. And he\nbroughte them to him/ ad he kyssed th[~e] and embraced them. And\nIsrael sayde vnto Ioseph: I had not thoughte to haue sene thy face/\nand yet loo/ God hath shewed it me and al so thy seed. And Ioseph toke\nthem awaye from his lappe/ and they fell on the grounde before him.\n\nThan toke Ioseph them both: Ephraim in his ryghte hande towarde\nIsraels left hande ad Manasses in his left hande/ towarde Israels\nryghte hande/ and brought them vnto him. And Israel stretched out his\nrighte hande and layde it apon Ephraims head which was the yonger/ and\nhis lyft hade apon Manasses heed/ crossinge his handes/ for manasses\nwas the elder. And he blessed Ioseph saynge: God before whome my\nfathers Abraham and Isaac dyd walke/ and the God which hath fedd me\nall my life longe vnto this daye/ And the angell which hath delyuered\nme fro all euyll/ blesse these laddes: y^t they maye be called after\nmy name/ and after my father Abraham and Isaac/ and that they maye\ngrowe ad multiplie apo the erth.\n\nWhen Ioseph sawe that his father layd his ryghte hande apon the heade\nof Ephraim/ it displeased him. And he lifte vpp his fathers hade/ to\nhaue removed it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head/ and sayde vnto\nhis father: Not so my father/ for this is the eldest. Put thy right\nhande apon his head. And his father wold not/ but sayde: I knowe it\nwell my sonne/ I knowe it well. He shalbe also a people ad shalbe\ngreat. But of a troth his yonger brother shalbe greater than he/ and\nhis seed shall be full of people. And he blessed them sainge. At the\nensample of these/ the Israelites shall blesse and saye: God make the\nas Ephraim and as Manasses. Thus sett he Ephraim before Manasses.\n\nAnd Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: beholde/ I dye. And god shalbe with you\nand bringe you agayne vnto the land of youre fathers. Moreover I geue\nvnto the/ a porcyon of lande aboue thy brethern/ which I gatt out of\nthe handes of the Amorites with my swerde and wyth my bowe.\n\n\n\n\nThe .xlix. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Iacob called for his sonnes ad sayde: come together/ that I maye\ntell you what shall happ[~e] you in the last dayes. Gather you\ntogether and heare ye sonnes of Iacob/ and herken vnto Israel youre\nfather.\n\nRuben/ thou art myne eldest sonne/ my myghte and the begynnynge of my\nstrength/ chefe in receauynge and chefe in power. As vnstable as water\nwast thou: thou shalt therfore not be the chefest/ for thou wenst vp\nvpo thy fathers bedd/ and than defyledest thou my couche with goynge\nvppe.\n\nThe brethern Simeon and Leui/ weked instrumentes are their wepos. In\nto their secrettes come not my soule/ and vnto their congregation be\nmy honoure not coupled: for in their wrath they slewe a man/ and in\ntheir selfewill they houghed an oxe. Cursed be their wrath for it was\nstronge/ and their fearsnes for it was cruell. I will therfore deuyde\nthem in Iacob/ & scater them in Israel.\n\nIuda/ thy brethern shall prayse the/ & thine hande shalbe in the necke\nof thyne enimies/ & thy fathers childern shall stoupe vnto the. Iuda\nis a lions whelpe. Fro spoyle my sonne thou art come an hye: he layde\nhim downe and couched himselfe as a lion/ and as a lionesse. Who dare\nstere him vp? The sceptre shall not departe from Iuda/ nor a ruelar\nfrom betwene his legges/ vntill Silo come/ vnto whome the people shall\nherken. He shall bynde his fole vnto the vine/ and his asses colt vnto\nthe vyne braunche/ ad shall wash his garment in wyne and his mantell\nin the bloud of grapes/ his eyes are roudier than wyne/ ad his teeth\nwhitter then mylke.\n\nZabulon shall dwell in the hauen of the see and in the port of\nshippes/ & shall reache vnto Sidon.\n\nIsachar is a stronge asse/ he couched him doune betwene .ij. borders/\nand sawe that rest was good and the lande that it was pleasant/ and\nbowed his shulder to beare/ and became a servaunte vnto trybute.\n\nDan shall iudge his people/ as one of the trybes of Israel. Dan shalbe\na serpent in the waye/ and an edder in the path/ and byte the horse\nheles/ so y^t his ryder shall fall backwarde. After thy sauynge loke I\nLORde.\n\nGad/ men of warre shall invade him. And he shall turne them to flyght.\n\nOff Asser cometh fatt breed/ and he shall geue pleasures for a kynge.\n\nNepthali is a swyft hynde/ ad geueth goodly wordes.\n\nThat floryshynge childe Ioseph/ that florishing childe and goodly vn\nto the eye: the doughters come forth to bere ruele. The shoters haue\nenvyed him and chyde with him ad hated him/ and yet his bowe bode\nfast/ & his armes and his handes were stronge/ by the handes of the\nmyghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde ma a stone in\nIsrael. Thi fathers God shall helpe the/ & the almightie shall blesse\nthe with blessinges from heaven aboue/ and with blessinges of the\nwater that lieth vnder/ & with blessinges of the brestes & of the\nwombe. The blessinges of thy father were stronge: euen as the\nblessinges of my elders/ after the desyre of the hiest in the worlde/\nand these blessinges shall fall on the head of Ioseph/ and on the\ntoppe of the head of him y^t was separat from his brethern.\n\nBen Iamin is a raueshynge wolfe. In the mornynge he shall deuoure his\npraye/ ad at nyghte he shall deuyde his spoyle.\n\nAll these are the .xij. tribes of Israel/ & this is that which their\nfather spake vnto them wh[~e] he blessed them/ euery man with a\nseverall blessinge. And he charged them and sayde vnto them. I shall\nbe put vnto my people: se that ye burye me with my fathers/ in the\ncaue that is in the felde of Ephron the Hethyte/ in the double caue\nthat is in the felde before Mamre in the lande of Canaan. Which felde\nAbraham boughte of Ephron the Hethite for a possessio to burye in.\nThere they buryed Abraha and Sara his wyfe/ there they buryed Isaac &\nRebecca his wyfe. And there I buried Lea: which felde & the caue that\nis therin/ was bought of the childern of Heth.\n\nWhen Iacob had commaunded all that he wold vnto his sonnes/ he plucked\nvp his fete apon the bedd and dyed/ and was put vnto his people. And\nIoseph fell apon his fathers face/ and wepte apon him/ and kyssed him.\n\n\n\n\nThe .l. Chapter.\n\n\nAnd Ioseph commaunded his seruauntes that were Phisicions/ to embawme\nhis father/ and the Physicios [~e]bawmed Israel .xl. dayes loge/ for\nso loge doth y^e embawminge last/ & the Egiptians bewepte him .lxx.\ndayes.\n\nAnd when the dayes of wepynge were ended/ Ioseph spake vnto y^e house\nof Pharao saynge: Yf I haue founde fauoure in youre eyes/ speake vnto\nPharao and tell him/ how that my father made me swere and sayde: loo/\nI dye/ se that thou burye me in my graue which I haue made me in the\nlande of Canaan. Now therfore let me goo and burye my father/ ad tha\nwill I come agayne. And Pharao sayde/ goo and burye thy father/\nacordynge as he made the swere.\n\nAnd Ioseph went vp to burie his father/ and with him went all the\nseruauntes of Pharao that were the elders of his house/ ad all y^e\nelders of Egipte/ and all the house of Ioseph ad his brethern & his\nfathers house: only their childern & their shepe and their catell\nlefte they behinde them in the lande of Gosan. And there went with him\nalso Charettes and horsemen: so that they were an exceadynge great\ncompanye.\n\nAnd when they came to y^e feld of Atad beyonde Iordane/ there they\nmade great & exceadinge sore lamentacio. And he morned for his father\n.vij. dayes. When the enhabiters of the lande the Cananytes sawe the\nmoornynge in y^e felde of Atad/ they saide: this is a greate moornynge\nwhich the Egiptians make. Wherfore y^e name of the place is called\nAbel mizraim/ which place lyeth beyonde Iordane. And his sonnes dyd\nvnto him acordynge as he had commaunded them.\n\nAnd his sonnes caried him in to the land of Canaan and buryed him in\nthe double caue which Abraha had boughte with the felde to be a place\nto burye in/ of Ephron the Hethite before Mamre. And Ioseph returned\nto Egipte agayne and his brethern/ and all that went vp with him to\nburye his father/ assone as he had buryed him.\n\nWh[~e] Iosephs brethern sawe that their father was deade/ they sayde:\nIoseph myghte fortune to hate us and rewarde us agayne all the euell\nwhich we dyd vnto him. They dyd therfore a commaundment vnto Ioseph\nsaynge: thy father charged before his deth saynge. This wise say vnto\nIoseph/ forgeue I pray the the trespace of thy brethern & their synne/\nfor they rewarded the euell. Now therfore we praye the/ forgeue the\ntrespace of the servauntes of thy fathers God. And Ioseph wepte when\nthey spake vnto him.\n\nAnd his brethern came ad fell before him and sayde: beholde we be thy\nservauntes. And Ioseph sayde vnto them: feare not/ for am not I vnder\ngod? Ye thoughte euell vnto me: but God turned it vnto good to bringe\nto passe/ as it is this daye/ euen to saue moch people a lyue Feare\nnot therfore/ for I will care for you and for youre childern/ and he\nspake kyndly vnto them.\n\nIoseph dwelt in Egipte and his fathers house also/ ad lyved an hundred\n& .x. yere. And Ioseph sawe Ephraims childern/ eu[~e] vnto the thyrde\ngeneration. And vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses were childern borne/\n& satt on Iosephs knees.\n\n And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: I die\n And God will suerlie vysett you and bringe you\n out of this lande/ vnto the lande which he sware\n vnto Abraham/ Isaac and Iacob. And Ioseph\n toke an ooth of the childern of Israel ad\n sayde: God will not fayle but vysett you/ se therfore\n that ye carye my boones hence. And\n so Ioseph dyed/ when he was an\n hundred and .x. yere olde.\n And they enbawmed him\n and\n put him in a chest in Egipte.\n\nThe end of the first boke of Moses.\n\n\n\n\n\u00b6 A table expoundinge certeyne wordes.\n\nAbrech/ tender father/ or as some will/ bowe the knee.\n\nAreke/ a shippe made flatte as it were a chest or cofer.\n\nBisse: fyne whyte/ whether it be silke or linen.\n\nBlesse: godes blessinges are his giftes/ as in the firste chaptre he\nblessed them saynge: growe & multiplye & haue dominion &c. And in the\n.ix. chaptre he blessed Noe & his sonnes & gaue th[~e] dominio over\nall beestes & authoryte to care th[~e] And God blessed Abraha with\ncatell ad other ryches. And Iacob desyred Esau to receaue y^e\nblessinge which he brought him/ y^t is the preasent & gifte. God\nblessed the .vij. daye/ y^t is/ gaue it a prehemynence y^t men shuld\nrest therein from bodely laboure & lerne to know the will of god & his\nlawes & how to worke their workes godly all the weke after. God also\nblesseth all nations in Abrahams seed/ that is/ he turneth his loue &\nfavoure vnto th[~e] and geveth th[~e] his spirite and knowledge of the\ntrue waye/ ad lust and power to walke therin/ and all for christes\nsake Abrahams sonne.\n\nCain/ so is it writen in Hebrue. Notwithstodinge whether we coll him\nCain or caim it maketh no matter/ so we vnderstand the meaninge.\nEuery lande hath his maner/ that we call Ihon the welchemen call Evan:\nthe douch hace. Soch differ[~e]ce is betwene the Ebrue/ greke and\nlaten: and that maketh them that translate out of the ebrue varye in\nnames from them that translate out of laten or greke.\n\nCurse: Godes curse is the takynge awaye of his benefytes. As god\ncursed the erth and made it baren. So now hunger/ derth/ warre/\npestilence and soch like are yet ryght curses and signes of the wrath\nof God vnto the vnbeleuers: but vnto them that knowe Christ/ they are\nvery blessinges and that wholsome crosse & true purgatorye of oure\nflesh/ thorow which all must go that will lyue godly ad be saued: as\nthou readest Mat .v. Blessed are they that suffre persecution for\nrightewesnes sake. &c. And hebrewes .xi. The lorde chastyseth whom he\nloveth and scorgeth all the children that he receaveth.\n\nEden: pleasure\n\nFirmament: the skye.\n\nFayth is the belevinge of goddes promesses & a sure trust in the\ngoodnesse and truth of god. Which faith iustifyeth Abraha gene .xv.\nand was the mother of all his good workes which he afterward did. For\nfaith is the goodnesse of all workes in the sight of God. Good workes\nare thinges of godes comaundem[~e]t wrought in faith. And to sow a\nshowe at the commaundement of god to do thy neyghboure service\nwithall/ with faith to be saved by Christ (as god promyseth vs.) is\nmoch better th[~e] to bild an abbay of thyne awne imagination/\ntrustinge to be saved by the fayned workes of hypocrites. Iacob robbed\nLaban his vncle: Moses robbed the Egiptians: And Abraha is aboute to\nslee and burne his awne sonne: And all are holye workes/ because they\nwere wrought in fayth at goddes commaundement. To stele/ robbe and\nmurther are no holye workes before worldly people: but vnto them that\nhaue their truste in god: they are holye when god commaundeth them.\nWhat god commaundeth not getteth no reward with god. Holy workes of\nmens imagination receave their rewarde here/ as Christ testyfyeth Math\n.vj. How be it of fayth & workes I haue spoken abundantly in mammon.\nLet him that desyreth more seke there.\n\nGrace: fauoure/ As Noe founde grace/ that is to saye favoure and love.\n\nHam and Cam all one.\n\nIehovah is goddes name/ nether is any creature so called. And it is as\nmoch to saye as one that is of him self and dependeth of nothinge.\nMoreouer as oft as thou seist LORde in great letters (excepte there\nbe any erroure in the pr[~e]tinge) it is in hebrewe Iehovah/ thou that\narte or he that is.\n\nMarshall/ in hebrue he is called Sar tabaim/ as thou woldest saye/\nlorde of the slaughtermen And though that Tabaim be tak[~e] for cokes\nin many places/ for the cokes did sle the beastes th[~e] selues in\nthose dayes: yet it may be taken for them that put men to execution\nalso. And that me thought it shuld here best signifye in as moch as he\nhad the oversight of the kinges preson and the kinges presoners were\nthey neuer so great m[~e] were vnder his custodye. And therfore I call\nhim cheffe marshall an officer as is the lefetenaunte of the toure/ or\nmaster of the marshalsye.\n\nSlyme was their morter .xi. Chapter/ And slyme pittes .xiiij. chapter:\nthat slyme was a fattenesse that osed out of the erth lyke vnto tarre/\nAnd thou mayst call it cement/ if thou wilt.\n\nSiloh after some is as moch to saye as sent/ & after some happie/ and\nafter some it signifieth Mesias/ y^t is to say annoynted and that we\ncall Christe after the greke worde. And it is a prophesie of Christ:\nFor after y^t all y^e other tribes were in captiuite & their kyngdom\ndestroyed/ yet the tribe of Iuda had a ruler of the same bloud/ even\nvnto the comynge of Christ. And aboute the com[~i]ge of Christ the\nRomayns conquered them/ and the Emperoure gaue the kyngdom of tribe\nIuda vnto Herode which was a straunger/ even an Edomite of the\ngeneracyon of Esau.\n\nTestam[~e]t here/ is an appoyntem[~e]t made betwene god and ma/ and\ngoddes promyses. And sacram[~e]t is a signe representinge soch an\nappoyntement and promeses: As the raynebowe representeth the promyse\nmade to Noe/ that god will no more drowne the worlde. And circumcision\nrepresenteth the promyses of god to Abraham on the one syde/ and that\nAbraha and his seed shuld circumcyse and cut off the lustes of their\nfleshe/ on the other syde/ to walke in the wayes of the lorde: As\nbaptysme which is come in the roume therof/ now signifieth on the one\nsyde/ how that all that repent and beleve are washed in Christes\nbloud: And on the other syde/ how that the same must quench ad droune\nthe lustes of the flesh/ to folow the steppes of Christ.\n\nThere were tyrantes in the erth in those dayes/ for the sonnes of god\nsawe the daughters of men. &c. The sonnes of god were the prophetes\nchilderne/ which (though they succeded there fathers) fell yet from\nthe right waye/ and thorow falsehod of hypocrysye subdued the world\nvnder them and became tyrantes/ As the successours of the apostles\nhaue played with vs.\n\nVapor/ a dewymiste/ as the smoke of a sethynge pott.\n\nTo walke with god is to lyve godly and to walke in his commaundementes.\nEnos walked with god and was no moare sene: that is/ he lyved godly\nand dyed/ God toke him awaye: that is/ god hyd his bodye/ as he did\nMoses ad Aarons: lest haplye they shuld haue made an Idoll of him/ for\nhe was a great preacher and an holye man.\n\nZaphnath paenea/ wordes of Egipte are they (as I suppose) and as moch\nto saye: as a man to whome secrete thinges be opened/ or an expounder\nof secrete thinges as some enterprete it.\n\nThat Ioseph brought the egiptians in to soch subiection wold seme vnto\nsome a very cruell deade: how be it it was a very equall waye. For\nthey payde by the fifte parte of that that grewe on the grounde. And\ntherwith were they qwytt of all duetyes/ both of rent/ custome/\ntribute & toll. And the kinge therwith founde them lordes and all\nministres and defended them. We now paye half so moch vnto the prestes\nonly/ besyde their other craftye exactions. Then paye we rent yerely/\nthough there grow never so litle on the grounde/ And yet when the\nkinge calleth paye we neuer the lesse. So that if we loke indifferently/\ntheir condition was easyar th[~e] oures/ and but even a very\nindiffer[~e]t waye/ both for the comen people and the kynge also.\n\n Se therfore that thou loke not on the ensamples\n of the scripture with worldly eyes: lest thou\n preferre Cain before Abel/ Ismael before Isaac/\n Esau before Iacob/ Ruben before Iuda/\n Sarah before Pharez/ Manasses\n before Ephraim. And euen\n the worst before the\n best/ as the maner\n of the worlde\n is.\n\n\n \u00b6 Emprented at Malborow in the lande\n of Hesse/ by me Hans Luft/\n the yere of oure Lorde\n .M.CCCCC.xxx. the\n .xvij. dayes of\n Ianuarij.\n\n\nTranscriber's Notes (continued):\n\nIn the list below biblical references are to chapters and paragraphs.\nThe latter usually extend over more than a single \"verse\".\n\n\"To the Reader\": \"sirt\" changed to \"sitt\" (para 2); \"cxvix\" to \"cxix\"\n(para 7).\n\n\"Prologue\": \"wo\" changed to \"we\" and \"arene\" to \"awne\" (para 1); \"y^e\"\nto \"y^t\" (para 9).\n\nII: \"herbee\" changed to \"herbes\" (para 2).\n\nIV: the text of the sidenote to para 4 is uncertain; in para 4 itself,\n\"hi\" changed to \"h[~i]\".\n\nV: \"MetHusala\" changed to \"Methusala\" (para 8).\n\nVII: \"u\" removed (para 2); \"he\" changed to \"the\" (para 5).\n\nIX: \"y^t\" changed to \"y^e\" (para 5).\n\nX: \"Mes:\" changed to \"Mesa\" (para 6).\n\nXIII: \"fro\" changed to \"fro\" (para 3).\n\nXV: \"oue\" changed to \"out\" (para 2).\n\nXIX: \"he\" changed to \"the\" (para 1).\n\nXXI: \"lamdes\" changed to \"lambes\" (para 8).\n\nXXII: \"th\" changed to \"the\" (para 6).\n\nXXIV: \"pither\" changed to \"pitcher\" (para 5); \"LoRDe\" to \"LORde\" (para\n8); the texts of the sidenotes to paras 10 and 17 are uncertain;\n\"emnies\" changed to \"enimes\" (para 17).\n\nXXV: \"Iacksam\" changed to \"Iacksan\" and \"haue\" to \"gaue\" (para 1);\n\"lyvige\" to \"lyv[~i]nge\" (para 2).\n\nXXVI: \"Abin elech\" changed to \"Abimelech\" and \"myhhtier\" to \"myghtier\"\n(para 3).\n\nXXVII: \"lessed\" changed to \"blessed\" (para 6).\n\nXXIX: \"boholde\" changed to \"beholde\" (para 2) and \"mayely e\" to \"may\nlye\" (para 5).\n\nXXX: \"ourney ibetwixte\" changed to \"iourney betwixte\" (para 8).\n\nXXXI: \"y^e\" changed to \"y^t\" (para 3); \"be\" to \"he\" (para 4); \"wtih\"\nto \"with\" (para 6); \"xnto\" to \"vnto\" (para 7).\n\nXXXII: \"sayder\" changed to \"sayde:\" (para 1).\n\nXXXIV: hyphen omitted after \"sonne\" (para 6).\n\nXXXVI: \"kynreddds\" changed to \"kynredds\" (para 12).\n\nXXXIX: \"ORde\" changed to \"LORde\" (para 1).\n\nXLI: \"cares\" changed to \"eares\" (twice, para 7); \"asene\" to \"agene\"\nand \"beiokeneth\" to \"betokeneth\" (para 9).\n\nXLII: \"thryd\" changed to \"thyrd\" (para 5); \"countte\" to \"countre\" and\n\"bretren\" to \"brethren\" (para 9).\n\nXLIV: \"servauntes\" changed to \"servauntes\" (para 3); \"fox\" to \"for\"\n(para 9).\n\nXLV: \"m\" changed to \"my\" (para 4).\n\nXLVI: \"C\" changed to \"I\" (para 7).\n\nXLVII: \"exceadige\" changed to \"excead[~i]ge\" (para 3); \"latest\" to\n\"letest\" (para 5); the text of the sidenote to para 6 is uncertain.\n\n\"Table\": \"Ihon\" changed to \"Ihon\" (entry for \"Cain\"); \"baptyme\"\nchanged to \"baptysme\" (entry for \"Testam[~e]t\").","title":"The First Boke of Moses called Genesis","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":43479}