The first book of Moses called Genesis.  

W. T. To the Reader.  
WHen I had translated the new testament/ I added a pistle unto the latter end/ In which I desired them that were learned to amend if aught were found amiss. But our malicious and wily hypocrites which are so stubborn and hard hearted in their wicked abominations that it is not possible for them to amend any thing atall (as we see by daily experience when their both lyvinges and doings are rebufed with the troth) say/ some of them that it is impossible to translate the scripture in to English/ some that it is not lawful for the lay people to have it in their mother tongue/ some that it would make them all heretyfes/ as it would no doubt from many things which they of long time have falsely taught/ and that is the whole cause wherefore they forbid it/ though they other cloaks pretend. And some or rather every one/ say that it would make them rise against the king/ whom they themselves (unto their damnatyon) never yet obeyed. And left the temporal rulars should see their falsehood/ if the scripture came to light/ causeth them so to lie.  
And as for my translated in which they affirm unto the lay people (as I have heard say) to be I wot not how many thousand heresies/ so that it can not be mended or correct/ they have yet taken so great pain to cramyne it/ & to compare it unto that they would fain have it and to their own imaginations and iugglin goe terms/ and to have some what to rail at/ and under that cloak to blaspheme the truth/ that they might with as little labour (as I suppose) have translated the most part of the bible. For they which in times paste were wont to look on no more scripture than they sound in their duns or such like develysh doctrine/ have yet now so narrowly looked on my translation/ that there is not so much as one I therein if it lack● a title over his head/ but they have noted it/ and number it unto the ignorant people for anheresy. finally in this they be all agreed/ to drive you from the knowledge of the scripture/ & that ye shall not have the terte thereof in the mother tongue/ and to keep the world still in darkness/ to th'intent they might sirt in the consciences of the people/ thorough vain superstition and false doctrine/ to satisfy their filthy lusts their proud ambition/ and unsatiable covetousness/ and to exalt their own honour above king & emperor/ ye & above god him self  
¶ A thousand books had they liefer to be put forth agensce their abominable doings and doctrine/ then that the scripture should come to light. For as long as they may keep that down/ they will so darken the right way with the mist of their sophistry/ and so tangle them that either rebuke or despise their abhommations with arguments of philosophy & with worldly symylitudes and apparent reasons of natural wisdom. And with wresting the scripture unto their own purpose clean contrary unto the process/ order and meaning of the text/ and so delude them in descanting upon it with all ligoryes/ and amaze them expounding it in many senses before the unlearned lay people (when it hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide) that though thou feal in thine heart and art sure how that all is false that they say/ yet coudeste thou not solve their soot riddles.  
¶ Which thing only moved me to translate the new testament. Because I had perceived by experience/ how that it was impossible to stablish the lay people in any truth/ except the scripture were plainly laid besore their eyes in their mother tongue/ that they might see the process/ order and meaning of the text: for else what so ever truth is taught them/ these enemies of all truth qwench it again/ partly with the smoke of their bottomless pyite whereof thou readest apocalypsis ix that is/ with apparent reasons of sophistry & traditions of their own making/ founded with out ground of scripture/ and partly in juggling with the text/ expounding it in such a sense as is impossible together of the text/ if thou see the process order and meaning thereof.  
¶ And even in the bishop of londons house I intended to have done it. For when I was so turmoiled in the conire where I was that I could no longer there dwell (the process whereof were to long here to rehearse) I this wise thought in my self/ this I suffer because the priests of the country be unlearned/ as god it knoweth there are a full ignorant sort which have seen no more latin than that they read in their portesses and missales which yet many of them can scarcely read (except it be Albertus desecretis mulierum in which yet/ thought they be never so soryly learned/ they poor day and night and make notes therein and all to teach the mydwyves as they say/ and linwod a book of constitutions together tithes/ mortuaries/ offerings/ customs/ and other pillage/ which they call/ not theirs/ but gods part and the duty of holy church/ to discharge their consciences with all for they are bound that they shall not dimynysh/ but increase all thing unto the utmost of their powers) and therefore (because they are thus unlearned thought I) when they come to gedder to the alehouse/ which is their preaching place/ they affirm that my sainges are heresy. And besides that they add to of their own heads which I never spoke/ as the manner is to prolong the tale to short the time with all/ and accuse me secretly to the chauncelare and other the bishops officers/ And indeade when I came before the chauncelare/ he threatened me grevously/ and rexyled me and rated me as though I had been a dog/ and laid to my charge whereof there could be none accuser brought forth (as their manner is not to bring forth the accuser) and yet all the priests of the country were that same day there. As I this thought the bishop of london came to my remembrance whom Erasmus (whose tongue maketh of little gnats great elephants and lifteth up above the stars whosoever giveth him a little exhibition) praiseth exceedingly among other in his annotatyons on the new testament for his great learning. Then thought I/ if I might come to this man's service/ I were happy. And so I gate me to london/ & thorough the accoyntaunce of my master came to sir harry gilford the kings grace's countroller/ and brought him an oration of Isocrates which I had translated out of greek in to English/ and desired him to speak unto my lord of london for me/ which he also did as he showed me/ and willed me to write a pistle to my lord/ and to god to him my silf which I also did/ and delivered my pistle to a servant of his own/ one wyllyam he bil●hwayte/ a man of mine old accoyntaunce. But god which knoweth what is within hypocrites/ saw that I was beguiled/ and that that council was not the next way unto my purpose. And therefore he gate me no favour in my lords sight ¶ Whereupon my lord answered me/ his house was full/ he had more than he could well find/ and advised me to seek in london/ where he said I could not lack a service/ And so in london I abode almost an year/ and marked the course of the world/ and heard our pratars/ I would say our preachers how they boasted themselves and their high authority/ and beheld the pomp of our prelate's and how busied they were as they yet are/ to set peace and unite in the world (though it be not possible for them that walk in darkness to continued long in peace/ for they can not but either stumble or dash themselves at one thing or another that shall clean unquyer all together) & saw things whereof I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of londons palace to translate the new testament/ but also that there was no place to do it in all england/ as experience doth now openly declare. ¶ Under what manner therefore should I now submit this book to be corrected and amended of them/ which can suffer nothing to be well▪ Or what protestation should I make in such a matter unto our prelate's those stubbutne N●mrothes which so mightily fight against god and resist his holy spirit/ enforcing with all craft and sotelte to qwench the light of the everlasting testament/ promises/ and as poyntement made between god & us: and heaping the sirce wrath of god upon all princes and rulars/ mocking them with false feigned names of hypocrisy/ and serving their lusts at all points/ & dispensinge with them even of the very laws of god/ os which christ him silf testifieth Matthew .v. that not so much as one tittle thereof may perish or be broken. And of which the prophet faith Psalm cxvii Thou haste commanded thy laws to be kept meod/ that is in hebrew exceedingly/ with all diligence/ might & power/ and have made them so mad with their juggling charms and crafty persuasions that they think it full satisfaction for all their wicked living/ to torment such as tell them troth/ & to borne the word of their soul's health & slay whosoever believe thereon.  
¶ Notwithstondinge yet I submit this book and all other that I have other made or translated/ or shall in time to come (if it be gods will that I shall further labour in his hervest) unto all them that submit themselves unto the word of god/ to be corrected of them/ ye and moreover to be disalewed & also burnt/ if it seem worthy when they have examined it with the Hebrew/ so that they first put forth of their own translating another that is more correct.   

¶ A prologue shewing the use of the scripture  
THough a man had a precious jewel and a rich/ yet if he wist not the value thereof nor wherefore it served/ he were neither the better nor ryeher of a straw. Eyen so though we read the scripture & babble of it never so much/ yet if we know not the use of it/ and wherefore it was given/ and what is them to be sought/ it profiteth us nothing at all. It is not enough therefore to read and talk of it only/ but woe must also desire god day and night instantly to open our eyes/ and to make us understand and feal wherefore the scripture was given/ that we may apply the medicine of the scripture/ every man to his own sores/ inlesse than we intend to beydle disputers/ and brawlers about vain words/ ever gnaw enge upon the bitter bark with out and newer attaining unto the swetepith with in/ and persecutinge one and other for defending of lewd imaginations and fantasies of our arene invention  
¶ Paul in the third of the second epistle to Tymo the saith/ that the scripture is good to teach (for that aught men to teach & not dreams of their own makige/ as the pope doth) & also to improut/ for the scripture is the twichstone that trieth all doctrines/ & by that we know the false from the true. And in the vi to the ephesians he calleth it the sword of the spirit/ by cause it killeth hyppocrites and uttereth and improveth their false inventyons. And in the. ●●. to the romans he saith all that are written/ are written for our learning/ that we thorough patience and consort of the scripture might have hope. That is/ the ensamples that are in the scripture comfort us in all our tribulations/ and make us to put our trust in god/ and patiently to abide his leisure. And in the ten of the first to the Corinthyans' he bringeth in examples of the scripture of fear us and to bridle the flesh/ that we cast not the yoke of the law of god from of our necks/ and fall to lusting and doing of evil.  
¶ So now the scripture is a light and showeth us the true way/ both what to do/ and what to hope. And a defence from all error/ and a comfort in adversyte that we despair not. and feareth us in prosperity that we sin not Sense therefore in the scripture as thou readest it first the law/ what god commandeth us to do. And secundarylye the promises/ which god promiseth us again/ namely in Christ jesus our lord. Then seek ensamples/ first of comsorte/ how god purgeth all them that submit themselves to walk in his ways/ in the purgatory of tribulatyon/ delyveringe them yet at tie latter end/ and never soferinge any of them to perish/ that cleave fast to his promises. And finally/ note the ensamples which are written to fear the flesh that we sin not. That is/ how god suffereth the ungodly and wicked sinners that resist god and refuse to follow him/ to continue in their wickedness/ ever waxing worse and worse until their sin be so sore increased and so abominable/ that if they should longer endure they would corrupt the very elect. But for the elects sake god sendeth them preachers. Nevertheless they harden their hearts against the truth/ and god destroyeth them utterly and beginneth the world a new.  
¶ This comfort shalt thou evermore find in the plain text and luerall sense. Nether is there any story so homely/ so rude/ ye or so vile (as it seemeth outward) wherein is not exceeding great comfort. And when some which seem to themselves great clerks say: they wot not what more profit is in many gests of the scripture if they be read with out an allegotye/ then in a tale of robenhode/ say thou: that they were written for our consolation and comfort/ that we despair not/ if such likehappen unto us. We be not holier than No/ though he were once drunk. Nether better beloved than jacob/ though his own son defiled his bed. We be not holier than lot/ though his daughters thorough ignorance deceived him/ nor peradventure holier than those daughters. Nether are we holier than David/ though he broke wedlock and upon the same committed abominable murder. All those men have witness of the scripture that they pleased god and aware good men both before that those things chanced them and also aster. Nevertheless such things happened them foroure ensampler not that we should contrafayte their evil/ but if while we fight with ourselves enforcing to walk in the law of god (as they did) we yet fall likewise/ that we despair not/ but come again▪ to the laws of god and take better hold  
¶ We read since the time of Christ's death/ of virgins that have been brought unto the comen stews/ and theyedefyled/ and of martyrs that have been bound and whores have ab●sed their bodies. Why: The judgements of god are bottomless. Soch things chanced partly for ensamples/ partly God thorough sin healeth sin Pride can net her be healed nor yet appear but thorough such horrible deeds. Peradventure they were of the pope's sect and rejoiced fleshly/ thinking that heaven came by deeds and not by Christ/ and that the outward dead justified them & made them holy and not the inward spirit receeved by faith and the consent of the heart unto the law of god.  
¶ As thou readeste therefore think that every syllable pertaineth to thine own silf/ and suc●e out the pith of the scripture/ and arm thy silf against all assaults. first note with strong faith the power of god in creating all of nought Then mark the grevous fall of Adam and of us all in him/ thorough the lightregardinge of the commandment of god. In the three chapiter God turneth him unto Abel and then to his offering/ but not to Cain and his offering. Where thou seest that though the deeds of the evel apere outwardly as glorious as the deeds of the good: yet in the sight of god which looketh on the heart/ the dead is good because of the man/ and not the man good because of his dead. In the vj. God sendeth No to preach to the wicked and giveth them space to repent: they wax hard hearted/ God bringeth them to nought And yet saveth No: even by the same water by which he destroyed them. Mark also what followed the pride of the building of the ●oure of Babel  
consider how God sendeth forth Abraham out of his own country in to a strange landefull of wicked people/ and gave him but a bare promise with him that he would bless him and defend him. Abraham believed: and that word saved and delivered him in all parels: so that we see/ how that man's life is not maintained by bred only (as Christ sayeth) but much rather by belevinge the promises of god. Behold how soberly and how circumspectly both Abraham and also Isaac behave themselves among the infideles. Abraham buyeth that which might have been given him for nought/ to cut of occasions. Isaac when his wells which he had digged were taken from him/ giveth room and resisteth not. More over they creand sow and feed their cattles/ and make confederacyons/ and take perpetual truce/ and do all outward things: Even as they do which have no faith/ for god hathnot made us to beydle in this world Every man must work godly and truly to the uttmoste of the power that god hath given him: and yet not trust therein: but in god's word or promise: and god will work with us and bring that we do to good effect. And then when our power will extend no further/ god's promesses will work all alone  
¶ How many things also resisted the promesses of god to jacob? And yet jacob coniureth god with his own promesses savenger O god of my father Abraham: and god of my father Isaac/ Olorde which saydeste unto me return unto thine own country/ and unto the place were thou waste borne and I will do the good jam not worthy of the lest of those mercies/ nor of that troth which thou haste done to thy servant I went out but with a staff/ and come ●ome with ij droves/ delyver me out of the hands of my brother Esau/ for I fear him greatly etc. And god delyvered him/ and will likewise all that call unto his promesses with a repenting heart/ were they never so great sinners. Mark also the weak infirmities of the man He loveth one wife more than another/ one son more than another. And see how god purgeth him. Esau threateneth him: Laban beguileth him. The beloved wife is long barren: his daughter is ravyshed: his wife is defiled/ and that of his own son. Rahel dieth/ joseph is taken a way/ ye and as he supposed rend of wild beasts And yet how glorious was his end? Note the weakness of his Children/ ye and the sin of them/ and how god thorough their own wekednes saved them. These ensamples teach us that a man is not attonce perfect the first day he beginneth to live well They that be strong therefore must suffer with the weak/ and help to keep them in unite & peace one with another until they bestronger  
Note what the brethren said when they were tached in Egipte/ we have verily sinned (said they) against our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought rs/ and would not hear him: and therefore is this tribulation come upon us. By which ensample thou sayest/ how that conscience of evil doenges findeth men out at ●he last. But namely in tribulation and adrersyte: there temptation and also desperation: ye and the very pains of hest find us out: there the soul feeleth the fierce wrath of god and wisheth mountains to fall on her and to hide her (if it were possible) from the angry face of god.  
Mark also how great evelles follow of how little an occasion Sina goeth but forth alone to see the daughters of the country/ and how great mischief and trouble followed? jacobloved but one son more than another/ and how grevous murder followed in their hearts? These are ensamples for our learning to teach us to walk warily and circumspectly in the world of weak people/ that we give no man occasions of evil ¶ Finally/ see what god promised Joseph in his dreams. Those promesses accompanied him all ways/ and went down with him even in to the deep dungeon/ And brought him up again/ And never for soak him till all that was promised was fulfilled. These are ensamples written for our learning (as paul saith) to teach us to trust in god in the strong fire of tribulation and purgatory of our flesh. And that they which submit themselves to follow god should note and mark such things/ for their learning and comfort/ is the fruit of the scripture and cause why it was written: And with such a purpose to read it/ is the way to everlasting life and to those joyful blyssinges that are promised unto all nations in the seed of Abraham/ which seed is Jesus Christ our lord/ to whom be honour and praise for ever and unto god our father thorough him.  
AMEN.   

The first book of Moses called Genesis  

The first Chapter.  
IN the beginning God created heaven and earth. The earth was void and empty/ and darkness was upon the deep/ and the spirit of god moved upon the water  
Than God said: let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good: & divided the light from the darkness/ and called the light day/ and the darkness night: and so of the evening and morning was made the first day  
And God said: let there be a firmament between the waters/ and let it divide the waters asunder. Than God made the firmament and parted the waters which were under the firmament/ from the waters that were above the firmament: And it was so. And God called the firmament heaven/ And so of the evening and morning was made the second day  
And God said/ let the waters that are under heaven gather themselves unto one place/ that the dry land may appear: And it came so to pass. And god called the dry land the earth and the gathering together of waters called ●e the see. And God saw that it was good  
And God said: let the earth bring forth herb and grass that sow seed/ and fruitful trees that bear fruit every one in his kind/ having their seed in themselves upon the earth. And it came so to pass: and the earth brought forth herb and grass sowing seed every one in his kind & trees bearing fruit & having their seed in themselves/ every one in his kind. And God saw that it was good: and then of the evening and morning was made the third day.  
Than said God: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night/ that they may be unto signs/ seasons/ days & years. And let them be lights in the firmament of heaven/ to shine upon the earth. & so it was. And God made two great lights A greater light to rule the day/ & a less light to rule the night/ and he made stars also. And God put them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth/ and to rule the day & the night/ and to divide the light from darkness. And god saw that it was good: and so of the evening and morning was made the fourth day.  
And God said/ let the water bring forth creatures that move & have life/ & fowls for to flee over the earth under the firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and all manner of creatures that lyoe and move/ which the waters brought forth in their kinds/ and all manner of feathered fowls in their kinds. And God saw that it was good: and God blessed them saying. Grow and multiply and fill the waters of the sees/ & let the fowls multiply upon the earth. And so of the evening & morning was madethe fifth day.  
And God said let the earth bringforth living creatures in their kinds: cattles & worms & beasts of the earth in their kinds/ & so it came ●o pass. And god made the beasts of the earth in their kinds/ & cattles in their kinds/ and all manner worms of the earth in their kinds: and God saw that it was good.  
And God said: let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule over the fish of the see/ and over the fowls of the air/ and over cattles/ and over all the earth/ and over all worms that creep on the earth. And God created man after his likeness/ after the likeness of god created he him: male & female created he them.  
And God blessed them/ and God said unto them. Grow and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it/ and have dominion over the fish of the see/ and over the fowls of the air/ and over all the beasts that move on the earth.  
And God said: se/ I have given you all herbs that sow seed which are on all the earth/ and all manner trees that have fruit in them and sow seed: to be meat for you & for all beasts of the earth/ and unto all fowls of the air/ and unto all that creepeth on the earth where in is life/ that they may have all manner herbs and grass for to eat/ and even so it was. And God beheld all that he had made/ and loo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning was made the sixth day   

The second Chapter.  
Thus was heaven & earth finished with all their apparel: and in the seventh day god ended his work which he had made & rested in the seventh day from all his works which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day/ and sanctified it/ for in it he rested from all his works which he had created and made.  
¶ These are the generations of heaven & earth when they were created/ in the time when the Lord God created heaven and earth and all the shrubs of the field before they were in the earth. And all the herbee of the field before they sprang: for the Lord God had yet sent no rain upon the earth/ neither was there yet any man to till the earth. But there arose a mist out of the ground and watered all the face of the earth▪ Then the Lord God sh●pe man/ even of the mould of the earth and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.  
¶ The Lord God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning/ and there he set man whom he had form. And the Lord God made to spring out of the earth/ all manner trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant ●o eat/ and the tree of life in the mids of the garden: and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  
¶ And there sprung a river out of Eden to water the garden/ and thence divided itself/ and grew into four principal waters. The name of the one is Phison/ he it is that compasseth all the land of hevila/ where gold groweth. And the gold of that countries precious/ there is found bdellium and a stone called Onyx. The name of the second ryver is Gihen/ which compasseth all the land of Ind. And the name of the third river is Hidekell/ which runneth on the east side of the assyrians And the fourth ●●ver is Euphrates.  
¶ And the Lord God took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden/ to dress it and to keep it: and the Lord God commanded Adam saying: of all the trees of the garden see thoum eat. But of the tree of knowledge of good and bad see that thou eat not: for even the same day thou eatest of it/ thou shalt surely die.  
¶ And the Lord God said: it is not good that man should be alone/ I will make him an helper to bear him company: And after that the Lord God had make of the earth all manner beasts of the field/ and all manner fowls of the air/ he brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And as Adam called all manner living beasts: even so are their names. And Adam gave names unto all manner cattles/ and unto the fowls of the air/ and unto all manner beasts of the field. But there was no help found unto Adam to bear him company  
Then the Lord God cast a slumber on Adam/ and he slept. And then he took o●● one of his rib/ and instead there of he filled up the place with flesh. And the Lord God made of the rib which he took out of Adam/ a woman and brought her unto Adam. Then said Adam this is once bone of my bones/ and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was take of the man. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother & cleve unto his wife/ ● they shall be one flesh. And they were ●ther of them naked/ both Adam and his wife/ and were not ashamed:   

The three Chapter  
But the serpent was sotyller than all the beasts of the field which the Lord God had made/ and said unto the woman. Ah sir/ that God hath said/ ye shall not eat of all manner trees in the garden. And the woman said unto the serpent/ of the fruit of the trees in the garden we may eat/ but of the fruit of the tree that is in the mids of the garden (said God) see that ye eat not/ and se that ye touch it not: lest ye die.  
Then said the serpent unto the woman: ●ush ye shall not die: But God doth know/ that whensoever ye should eat of it/ your eyes should be opened and ye should be as/ God and know both good and evil. And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of and lusty unto the eyes and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate/ and gave unto her husband also with her/ and he ate. And the eyes of both them were opened/ that they understood how that they were naked. Than they sowed fig leves together and made them apurns.  
And they herd the voice of the Lord God as he walked in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam hid himself and his wife also from the face of the Lord God/ among the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called Adam and said unto him where art thou? And he answered. Thy voice I hard in the garden/ but I was afraid because I was naked/ and therefore hid myself. And he said: who told the that thou wast naked? hast thou eaten of the tree/ of which I bade the that thou shouldest not eat? And Adam answered. The woman which thou gavest to bear me company she took me of the tree/ and I ate. And the Lord God said unto the woman: wherefore diddest thou so? And the woman answered/ the serpent deceived me and I ate.  
¶ And the Lord God said unto the serpene because thou haste so done most cursed be thou of all cattles and of all beasts of the field: oppon thy belly shalt thou go: and earth shalt thou eat alldayes of thy life. Morover I will put haired between the and the woman/ and between thy seed and ●yr seed. And that seed shall tread the on the heed/ and thou shalt tread it on the heel.  
And unto the woman he said: I will surely increase thy sorrow and make the oft with child/ and with pain shalt thou be deleverd: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule the.  
And unto Adam he said: for as much as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife/ and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded the saying: see thou eat not thereof: cursed be the earth for thy safe. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life/ And it shall bear thorns and thistles unto the. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field: In the sweet of thy face shalt thou eat breed/ until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art/ and unto earth shalt thou return.  
And Adam called his wife Heva/ because she was the mother of all that liveth And the Lord God made Adam and his wife garments of skins/ and put them on them. And the Lord God said: loo/ Adam is become as it were one of us/ in knowledge of good and evil. But now lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the three of life and eat and live ever.  
And the Lord God cast him out of the garden of Eden/ to till the earth whence he was taken. And he cast Adam out/ and set at the enteringe of the garden Eden/ Cherubin with a naked sword moving in and out/ to keep the way to the tree of life.   

¶ The four Chapter.  
ANd. Adam lay with ●eua is wife/ which conceived and bare Cain/ and said: I have gotten amam of the Lord. And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd/ And Cain became a ploughman.  
And it fortuned in process of time/ that Cain brought of the fruit of the earth: an offering unto the Lord. And Abel/ he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the Lord looked unto Abel and to his offeing: but unto Cain and unto his offering/ looked he not. And Cain was wrath exceadingly/ and loured. And the Lord said unto Cain: why art thou angry/ and why loureste thou? Wottest thou not if thou dost well thou shalt receive it? But & if thou dost evil/ by & by thy sin lieth open in the door. Not withstanding let it be subdued unto thee/ and see thou rule 
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And as soon as they were in the fields/ Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him And the Lord said unto Cain: where is Abel thy brother: And he said: I can not tell/ am I my brother's keeper? And he said: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me out of the earth. And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth/ which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thy ne hand. For when thou tyllest the ground she shall hence forth not give her power unto the. A vagabond and a runagate shalt thou be upon the earth.  
And Cain said unto the Lord: my sin is greater/ then that it may be forgiven. Behold thou castest me out this day from of the face of the earth/ and from thy sight must I hide myself and I must be wand'ring and a vagabond upon the earth: Morover whosoever findeth me/ will kill me. And the Lord said unto high Not so/ but whosoever slayeth Cain shallbe punished vij fold. And the Lord put * a mark upon Cain that no māyt found him should kill him▪ And Cain went out from the face of the Lord and dwelled in the land Nod/ on the east side of Eden.  
And Cain lay with his wife/ which conceived and bare Henoth. And he was building a city and called the name of it after the name of his son/ Henoch. And Henoch bega● Irad. And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat Lamech.  
And Lamech took him two wyves: the one was called Ada/ and the other Zilla. And Ada bore jabal/ of whom came they that dwell in tents and possess cattles. And his brother's name was jubal: of him came all that exercise themselves on the harp and on the organs And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker in metal and a father of all that grave in brass and yeron. And Tubalcains sister was called Naema.  
Then said Lamech unto his wyves Ada and Zilla: hear my voice ye wyves of Lamech and hearken unto my words/ for I have slain a man and wounded myself/ and have sla in a youngman/ and got myself stripes: For Cain shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times seven fold.  
¶ Adam also lay with his wife yet again/ and she bore a son and called his name Seth For god (said she) hath given me another son For Abel whom Cam slew. And Seth begat a son and called his name Enos. And in that time began men to call on the name of the Lord.   

The .v. Chapter.  
This is the bo●e of the generation of man/ In thedaye when God created man and made him after the similitude of god Male and female made he then and called their name's man/ in the day when they were created. And when Adam was an hundred and thirty year old/ he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he begat Seth/ were eight hundred year/ and begat sons and daughters. and all the days of Adam which he lived/ were ix hundred and xxx year/ and than he died.  
And Seth lived an hundred and .v. years/ and begat Enos. And after he had begot Enos he lived eight hundred and vij year/ and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth were ix hundred and twelve year/ and died.  
And Enos lived. lxxxx. year and begat kenan. And Enos after he begat kenan/ lived viii. hundred and xu year/ and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enos were. ix hundred and .v. year/ and than he died.  
And kenan lived lxx year and begat Mahalaliel. And kenan after he had begot Mahalaliel/ lived eight hundred and xl year and begat sonne● and daughters: and all the days of kenan were ix hundred and ten year/ and than be died.  
And Mahalaliel lived .lxv. year/ and begat Jared. And Mahalaliel after he had begot Jared lived eight hundred and xxx year and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Mahalalyell were eight hundred ninety and .v. year/ and than he died  
And Jared lived an hundred and lxij year and begat Henoch: and Jared lived after he begat Henoch eight hundred year and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were ix hundred and lxij year/ and than he died.  
And Henoch lived .lxv. year and begat Mathusala. And Henoch walked with god after he had begot Mathusala three hundred year/ and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and .lxv. year. and than Henoch lived a godly life/ and was no more seen/ for God took him away.  
And Mathusala lived an hundred and lxxxvij. year and begat Lamech: and Mathusala after he had begot Lamech/ lived vij hundred and lxxxij year/ and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Methusalem were ix hundred. lxix year/ and than he died.  
And Lamech lived an hundred lxxxij year & begat a son and called him No saying. This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the Lord hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he had begot Noah v. hundred/ ninety and .v. year/ and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were vij hundred lxxvij year/ and than he died. And when Noah was .v. hundred year old/ he begat Sem/ Ham and japhet.   

¶ The uj Chapter.  
ANd it came to pass/ when men begun to multiply upon the earth and had be got them daughters/ the sons of God saw the daughters of men that/ they were fair/ and took unto them wives/ which they best liked among them all. And the LORd said: My spirit shall not allway stryve with man/ for they are flesh. Nevertheless I will give them yet space/ and hundred and twenty years  
There were tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone in unto the daughters of men and had begotten them children/ the same children were the mightiest of the world and men of renown And when the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth/ and that all the imagination and toughtes of his heart was only evil continually/ he repent that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart. And said: I will destroy mankind which I have made/ from of the face of the earth: both man/ beast/ worm and foul of the air/ for it repenteth me that I have made them. But yet Noah found gracein the sight of the Lord.  
These are the generations of Noe. Noah was a righteous man and ●nco●rapte in his time/ & walked with god. And Noah begat three sons: Sem/ Ham and japheth And the earth was corrupt in the sight of god and was full of mischief. And God looked upon the earth/ and loo● was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way upon the earth.  
Than said God to Noah: the end of all flesh is come before me/ for the earth is full of there mischief. And loo/ I will destroy them with the earth. Make the an ark of pine tree/ and make chambers in the ark/ and pitch it within and without with pitch. And of this fashion shalt thou make it.  
The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubytes/ and the breadth of it l cubytes/ and the height of it xxx cubytes. A window shalt thou make above in the ark. And within a cubit compass shalt thou finysh it. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side of it: and thou shalt make it with iij lofts one above an other. For behold I will bring in a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh from under heaven/ wherein breath of life is so that all that is in the earth shall perish. But I will make mine appointment with thee/ that both thou shalt come in to the ark and thy sons/ thy wife and thy sons wyves with the.  
And of all that ly●eth what soever flesh it be/ shalt thou bring in to the ark/ of every thing a pair/ to keep them a live with the. And male and female see that they be/ of birds in their kind/ and of beasts in their kind/ and of all manner of worms of the earth in their kind: a pair of every thing shall come unto the to keep them a live. And take unto the of all manner of meat that may be eaten & lay it up in store by thee/ that it may be meat both for the and for them: and Noah did according to all that God commanded him.   

The vij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Noah: go in to the ark both thou and all th● houssold. For the have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of all clean beasts take unto the vij of every kind the male and his female And of unclean beasts a pair/ the male and his female: likewise of the birds of the air seven. of every kind/ male and female to save seed upon all the earth. For vij days hence will I send rain upon the earth xl days & xl nights and will destroy all manner of things that Tha●e made/ from of the face of the earth..  
And Noah did according to all that the lord commanded him: and Noah was, vi. hundred year old/ when the flood of water came upon the earth: and Noah went and his sons and his wife and his sons wyves with him/ in to the ark from the waters of the flood. And of clean beasts and of beasts that ● are unclean and of birds and of all that creepeth upon the earth/ came in by couples of every kind unto Noah in to the ark: a male and a female: even as God commanded Noe. And the seventh day the waters of the flood came upon the earth.  
In the vi hundred year of noah's life/ in the second month/ in the. xvij day of the month/ that same day were all the founteynes of the gre●e deep broken up/ & the windows of heaven were opened/ and there fell a rain upon the earth xl days and xl nights.  
And the self same day went No/ Sem/ Ham and japheth/ noah's sons/ and noah's wife and the. ii●. wives of his sons with them in to the ark: both they and all manner of beasts in their kind/ & all manner of cattles in their kind & all manner of worms that creep upon the earth in their kind/ and all manner of birds in there kind./ and all manner off fowls what soever had feders. And they came unto Noah in to the ark by couples/ of all flesh that had breath of life in it. And they that came/ came male and female of every flesh acordige as God commanded him: & the Lord shytt the door upon him  
And the flood came xl days & xl nights upon the earth/ & the water increased and bore up the ark and it was lift up from of the earth And the water prevailed and increased exceadingly upon the earth: and the ark went upon he top of the waters.  
And the waters prevailed exceedingly above measure upon the earth/ so that all the high hills which are under all the parts of heaven/ were covered: even xu cubytes high prevailed the waters/ so that the hills were covered.  
And all flesh that moved on the earth/ both birds cattles and beasts perished/ with all that crept on the earth and all men: so that all that had the breath of life in the nostrils of it thorough out all that was on dry land died.  
Thus was destroyed all that was upon the earth/ both man/ beasts/ worms and fowls of the ay●●▪ so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noah was reserved only and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters nee valved upon the earth/ an hundred and fifty days.   

The eight Chapter.  
ANd god remembered Noah & all the beasts & all the cattles the were with him in the ark And god made a wind to blow upon the earth/ & the waters ceased: and the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain of heaven was forbidden/ and the waters returned from of the earth and abated after the end of an hundred and l days.  
And the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat/ the xvij day of the vij month. And the waters went away and decreased until the x. month. And the first day of the tenth month/ the tops of the mounteyns appeared.  
And after the end of xl days. No opened the window of the ark which he had made/ and sent forth a raven/ which went out/ ever going and coming again/ until the waters were dreyed up upon the earth  
Then sent he forth a dove from him/ to we●e whether the waters were fallen from of the earth. And when the dove could find no resting place for her foot/ she returned to him again unto the ark/ for the waters were upon the face of all the earth. And he put out his hand and took her and pulled her to him in to the ark  
And he abode yet vij days more/ and sent out the dove again out of the ark/ And the dove came to him again about eventyde/ and behold: There was in her mouth a leaf of an olive tree which she had plucked whereby Noah perceived that the waters were abated ●ppon the earth. And he tarried yet vij other days/ and sentforth the dove/ which from thence forth came no more again to him.  
And it came to pass/ the sixth hundred and one year and the first day of the first month/ that the matters were dried up upon the earth. And Noah took off the hatches of the ark and looked: And behold/ the face of the earth was dry. So by the xxvij day of the second month the earth was dry.  
And God spoke unto No saying: come out of the ark/ both thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons wives with the. And all the beasts that are with the whatsoever flesh it be/ both foul and cattles and all manner worms that creep on the earth/ bring out with thee/ and let them move/ grow and multiply upon the earth. And Noah came out/ and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him. And all the beasts/ and all the worms/ and all the fowls/ and all that moved upon the earth/ came also out of the ark/ all of one kind together.  
And Noah made an altar unto the LORD/ and took of all manner of clean beasts and all manner of clean fowls/ and offered sacrifice upon the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart: I will henceforth no more curse the earth for: man's sake/ for the imagination of man's heart i● ●●ell/ even from the very youth of him. moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that ●yveth as I have done. Nether shall sowing ●yme and harvest/ cold/ and heat/ somere & ●yn 
* This law and such like to execute/ were kings and rulars ordey/ ned of God wherefore they ought not to suffer the pope's Caimes thus to shed blood theirnot shed again/ neither yet to set up their abominable sanctuaries & neck verses clean against the ordinance of god/ but unto their damnation  ●er/ day and night cease/ as long as the earth endureth.   

¶ The ix Chapter.  
ANd God blessed No● and his sons/ and said unto them▪ Increase and multiply and fill the ert●.  
The fear also and dread of you be upon all beasts of the earth/ and upon all fowls of the air/ and upon all that creepeth on the earth/ and upon all fishes of the see/ which are given unto your hands And all that moveth upon the earth having life/ shall be your meat: Even as the green herbs/ so give I you all thine ●e. Only the flesh with his life which is his ●loud/ se that ye eat not.  
● For verily the blood of you wherein your lie ●es are will I require: Even of the hand of all ●eastes will I require it/ And of the hand of ●an and of the hand off every man's brother/ ●yll I require the life of man: so that he which ●hedeth man's blood/ shall have his blood ●hed by man again: for God made man after ●is own likeness. See that ye increase/ and ●axe/ and be occupied upon the earth/ & multiply therein.  
furthermore God spoke unto Noah & to his sons with him saying: see/ I make my bond with you and your seed after you/ and with all living thing that is with you: both foul and cattles/ and all manner best of the earth that is with you/ of all that cometh out of the ark/ what soever best of the earth it be.  
I make my bond with you/ that hence forth all flesh shall not be destroyed with that waters of any flood/ and that hence forth there shall not be a flood to destroy the earth.  
And God said. This is the token of my bond which I make between me and you/ and between all living thing that is with you for ever: I will set my bow in the clouds/ and ●● shall be a sign of the appointment made between me and the earth: So that when I bring in clouds upon the earth/ the bow shall appear in the clouds. And than will I think upon my testament which I have made between me and you/ and all that liveth what soever flesh it be▪ So that henceforth there shall be no more wa●ters to make a flood to destroy all flesh.  
The bow shallbe in the clouds/ and I will look upon it/ to remember the everlasting testment between God and all that liveth upon the earth/ what soever flesh it be. And God said unto Noah: This is the sign of the testament which I have made between me and all flesh is on the earth.  
The sons of Noah that came out of the a●● ke were: Gem/ Ham and japheth. And Ham he is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of No/ and of these was all the world overspread.  
And No being an husband man/ went forth and planted a vineyard and draneke of the wine and was drunk/ and lay uncovered in the midst of his ●ent. And Ham the father of Canaan saw his father's brevities/ & told his ij. brethren that were without. And Sem and japheth took a mantel and put it on both there shuldere and went backward/ and covered there father's secrets/ but there faces were backward So that they saw not there father's nakedness. As soon as Noah was awaked from his wine and wist what his youngest son had done unto him/ he said: cursed be Canaan/ and a servant of all servants be he to his brethren. And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem/ and Canaan be his servant God increase japheth that he may dwell in the tents of Sem. And Canaan be their servant.  
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and l year: So that all the days of Noah were ix. hundred and l year/ and than he died.   

The ten Chapter.  
THese are the generations of the sons of No: of Gem/ Ham and japheth/ which begat them children after the flood.  
The sons of Japhet were: Gomyr/ Magog/ Madai/ Javan/ Tubal/ Mesech and Thyras. And the sons of Gomyr were: Ascenas Ripha● and Togarma. And the sons of Javan were: Elisa/ Tharsis/ Cithim and Dodanim. Of these came the Isles of the gentylls in there contres/ every man in his speech/ kindred and nation.  
The sons of Ham were: Chus Misraim Phut and Canaan. The sons of Chus: were Seba/ Hevila/ Sabta/ Rayma and Sab●ema. And the sons of Rayma were: Sheba/ & De dan. Chus also begot Nemrod/ which begun to be mighty in the earth. He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the Lord: Where of came the proverb: he is as Nemrod that mighty hunter in the sight of the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel/ Erech/ Achad and Chalne in the land of Synear: Out of that land came Assur and builded Ninive/ and the city reho both/ and Calah And Ressen between Ninyve and Chalah. That is a great city. And Mizraim begat ludim/ Enanum/ Leabim/ Naphtuhim/ Pathrusim & Castuhim: from whence came the Philystyns/ and the Capth●herynes.  
Canaan also begat zidon his eldest son & Heth/ Jebusi/ Emori/ Girgosi/ Him/ Arki/ Simo ni/ Aruadi/ Zemari and hama●. And afterward sprang the kindred's of the Canaanytes And the costs of the Canaanytes were from Sydon till thou come to ●erara & to Asa/ & till thou come to Sodoma/ Gomorra/ Adama Zeboim: even unto Lasa. These were the children of Ham in there kynreddes/ tongues/ lands and nations.  
And Sem the father of all the children of Eber and the eldest brother of Japhet/ begat children also. And his sons were: Elam Assur/ Arphachsad/ Lud and Aram. And the childree of Aram were: Vz/ Hul/ Gether & Mas And Arphachsad begat Sala/ and Sala begat Eber. And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg/ for in his time the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Jaketan:  
Jaketan begat Almodad/ Saleph/ Hyzarmoneth/ Jarah/ Hadoram/ Vsal/ Dikela/ Obal/ Abimael/ Seba/ Ophir/ Hevila & Jobab. All these are the sons of Jaketan. And the dwelling of them was from Mes● until thou come unto Sephara a mountain of the east land. These are the sons o Sem in their kynreddes'/ languages/ contrees and nations. These are the kindreds of the sons of No/ in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.   

¶ The xi chapter.  
ANd all the world was of one tongue and one language. And as they came from the east/ they found a plain in the land of Synear/ and there they dwelled. And they said one to another: come on/ let us make brick and burn it with fire. So brick was there stone and slime was there mortar And they said: Come on/ let us build us a city and a tour/ that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name/ for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth.  
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tour which the children of Anan had builded. And the Lord said: See/ the people is one and have one tongue among them all. And this have they begun to do/ and will not leave of from all that they have purposed to do. Come on/ let us descend and myngell their tongue even there/ that one understand not what another sayeth. Thus the Lord skatered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left of to build the city. Wherefore the name of it is called Babel/ because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world. And because that the Lord from thence/ skatered them abroad upon all the earth.  
These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred year old and begat Arcphachsad ij. year after the flood. And Sem lived after he had begot Arphachsad .v. hundred year an begat sons and daughters.  
And Arphacsad lived xxxv year and begat Sala/ and lived after he had begot Sala iiij. hundred year &. iij & begat sons and daughters. And Sala was xxx year old and begat Eber/ and lived after he had begot Eber four hundred and three year/ and begat sons and daughters  
When Eber was xxxiiij year old/ he begat Peleg/ and lived after he had begot Peleg/ four hundred and xxx year/ and begat sons and daughters.  
And Peleg when he was xxx year old begat Regu/ and lived after he had begot Regu two hundred and ix year/ and begat sons and daughters.  
And Regu when he had lived xxxij year begat Serug/ and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and vij year/ and begat sons and daughters.  
And when Serug was xxx year old/ he begat Nahor/ and lived after he had begot Nahor two hundred year/ and begat sons & daughters.  
And Nahor when he was xxix year old/ begat Terah/ and lived after he had begot Terah/ an hundred and▪ nineteen. year/ and begat sons and daughters.  
And when Terah was lxx year old/ he begat Abram/ Nahor and Baran.  
And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram/ Nahor and Baran. And Baran begat Lot. And Baran died before Terah his father in the land where he was borne/ at Vr in Chaldea. And Abram and Nahor took them wydes. Abrans' wife was called Sarai. And Nahors wife Mylca the daughter of Baran which was father of Milca and of jisca. But Garat was barren and had no child.  
Than tofe Terah Abram his son and Lot his son Barans son/ & Sarai his daughter in law his son Abraham's wife. And they went with him from Vr ●● Chaldea/ to go in to the land of Chanaan. And they came to Baran and dwelled there. And when Terah was ij. hundred year old and .v. he died in Baran.   

¶ The twelve Chapter.  
THen the Lord said unto Abram Get the out of thy country and from thy fynred/ and out of thy father's house/ into a land which I will show the. And I will make of the a mighty people/ and will bless thee/ and make thy name great/ that thou mayst be a blessing. And I will bless than that bless thee/ and curse than that curse the. And in the shall be blessed all the generations of the erih.  
And Abram went as the Lord bad him/ and Lot went with him. Abram was .lxxv. year old/ when he went out of Baran. And Abram took. Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son/ with all their goods which they had gotten and souls which they had begotten in Baran. And they departed to go in to the land of Chanaan. And when they were come in to the land of Chanaan/ Abram went forth in to the land till he came unto a place called Sychem/ and unto the oak of More. And the Canaanytes dwelled then in the land.  
Then the Lord appeared unto Abram and said: unto thy seed will I give thy slande. And he builded an altar there unto the LORD which appeared to him. Then departed he thence unto a mountain that lieth on the east side of BETHEL and pitched his tent: BETHEL being on the west side/ and Ay on the cast ● And he builded there an altar unto the Lord/ and called on the name of that Lord. And than Abram departed and took his journey southward  
After this there came a dearth in the land. And Abram went down in to Egipte to sojourn there/ for the dearth was sore in the land. And when he was come nigh for to enter in to Egipte/ he said unto Sarai his wife. Behold/ I know that thou art a fair woman toloke upon. It will come to pass therefore when the Egyptians see thee/ that they will say: she is his wife. And so shall they slay me and save the. Say I pray the therefore that thou art my sister/ that I may far the better by reason of the and that my soul may live for thy sake.  
As soon as he came in to Egipte/ the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair. And Pharaos' lords saw her also/ and praised her unto Pharaoh: So that she was taken in to Pharaos' house/ which entreated Abram well for her sake/ so that he had sheep/ oxsen and he asses/ men servants/ maid servants/ she asses and camels.  
But God plagued Pharaoh/ and his house with great plagues/ because of Sarai Abraham's wife. Then Pharaoh called Abram and said: why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore toldest thou me not that she was thy wife? Why saidest thou that she was thy sister/ and causedest me to take her to my wife? But now loo/ there is the wife/ take her and be walking. Pharaoh also gave a charge unto his men over Abram/ to lead him out/ with his wife and all that he had.   

¶ The xiij Chapter.  
THan Abram departed out of Egipte/ both he and his wife and all that he had/ and Lot with him unto the south. Abram was very rich in cattles/ silver & gold. And he went on his journey from the south even unto BETHEL/ and unto the place where his tent was at the first time between BETHEL and Ay/ and unto the place of the altar which he made before. And there called Abram upon the name of the Lord.  
Lot also which went with him had sheep/ cattles and tents: so that the land was not abill to receive/ them that they might dwell together/ for the substance of their riches was so great/ that they could not dwell together▪ And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abraham's cattles/ and the herdsmen of Lot's cattles. Moreover the Cananytes and the Pherysites dwelled at that time in the land.  
Than said Abram unto Lot: let there be no strife I pray the between the and me and between my herdsmen and thine/ for we be brethren. Is not all the hole land before thee? Depart I pray the fro me. If thou wilt take the left hand/ I will take the right: Or if thou take the right hand I will take the left. And Lot life up his eyes and beheld all the country about jordane/ which was a plenteous country of water every where/ before the Lord destroyed Sodoma and Gomorra. Even as the garden of the Lord/ & as the land of Egipte till thou come to Zoar.  
Than Lot chose all the costs of Jordane and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan. And lot in the cities of the plain/ & tented till he came to Sodom. But the men of sodom were wicked and sinned exceedingly against the Lord.  
And the Lord said unto Abram/ after that Lot was departed from him: lift up thine eyes & look from the place where thou art/ northward/ southward/ eastward and westward/ for all the land which thou sayest will I give unto the & to thy seed forever. And I will make thy seed/ as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth/ than shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise and walk about in the land/ in the length of it and in the breadth for I will give it unto the.  
Than Abram took down his tent/ & went and dwelled in the okegrove of Mamre which is in Ebron and builded there an altar to the Lord.   

The xiiij Chapter.  
ANd it chanced within a while/ that Amraphel king of Synear/ Arioch king of Ellasar/ Redorlao●er king of Elam and Thydeall king of the na●●●ons: made war with Bera king of Sod●h and with Birsa king of Gomorra. And with Sineab king of Adama/ & with Semeaber king of Zebo●●/ and with the king of Bela Which Bela is called Zoar. All these came together unto the vale of siddim which is now the salt see Twelve year were they subject to king kedorlaomer/ and in the xiij year rebelled.  
Therefore in the xiiij year came kedorlaomer and the kings that were with him/ and smote the Raphayms in Astarath Rarnaim/ and the Susims in Hain/ and the Emyms in Sabe Rariathaim/ and the Horyms in their own mount Seir unto the plain of Pharan/ which bordreth upon the wilderness. And then turned they and came to the well of iugment which is Cades/ and smote all the country of the Amalechites/ and also the amorytes that dwell ●n Hazezon Thamar.  
Than went out the king of Sodom/ and the king of Gomorra/ and the king of Adama and the king of Zebo●m/ and the king of Bela no● called Zoar. And set their men in array to fight with them in the vale of siddim/ that is to say/ with kedorlaomer the king of Elam and with Thydeall king of the Nations/ and with Amraphel king of Synear. And with ●noch king of Ellasar: four kings against ●●. And that vale of siddim was full of slime pits.  
And the kings of Sodom and Gomo●ra fled/ and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains. And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorra and all their victuals/ and went their way. And they took Lot also Abraham's brothers son and his good (for he dwelled at Sodom) and departed:  
Than came one that had escaped/ and told Abram the Hebrew which dwelled in the okegrove of Man●e the Amoryte brother of Eschol and Aner: which were confederate with Abram. When Abram heard that his brother was taken/ he harnessed his servants borne in his own house three hundred & xviij and followed till they came at Dan. And set himself and his servants in array/ & fell upon them by night/ & smote them/ & chased them away unto Hoba: which lieth on the left hand of Da● mascos/ and brought again all the goods/ ● also his brother Lot/ and his goods/ the we●●e also and the people.  
And as he returned again from the slaughter of kedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him/ than came the king of Sodom against him unto the vale of Save whi●● now is called kings dale.  
Than Melchisedech king of Salem brought forth breed and wine. And he being the priest of the most highest God/ blessed him saying. Blessed be Abram unto the most highest God/ possessor of heaven and earth. And blessed be God the most highest/ which hath delivered thine enemies in to thy hands. And Ab●● gave him tithes of all.  
Than said the king of Sodom unto Abram: give me the souls/ and take the goods to thyself. And Abram answered the king of Sodom: I lift up my hand unto the Lord God most high possessor of heaven and earth/ that I will not take of all that is thine/ so much as a thread or a shoulacher/ lest thou shouldest say I have made Abram rich. Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me. Aner/ Escholl & Mamre. Let them take their parts.   

xv. Chapter.  
AFter these deeds/ the word of God came unto Abram in a vision saying fear not Abram/ I am thy shield/ and thy reward sholbe exceeding great. And Abram answered: Lord jehovah what wilt thou give me: I go childless/ and the cater of mine housse/ this Eleasar of Damascus hath a son. And Abram said: se/ to me hast thou given no seed: lo/ a lad borne in my house shall be mine heir.  
And behold/ the word of the Lord spoke unto Abram saying: He shall not be thine heir/ but one that shall come out of thine own body shallbe thine heir.  
And he brought him out at the doors and said. Look up unto heaven and tell the stars/ if thou be able to number them. And said unto him Even so shall thy seed be.  
And Abram believed the Lord/ and it was counted to him for rightwesaes. And he said unto him: I am the Lord that brought the out of Vr in Chaldea to give the this land to possess it.  
And he said: Lord God/ whereby shall I know that I shall possess it? And he said unto him: take an heifer of three year old/ and a she got of three years old/ and a three year old ram/ a turtle dove and a young pigeon. And he took all these and divided them in the mids/ and laid every piece/ one over against another. But the fowls divided he not. And the birds fell on the care●ses/ but Abram drove them away. And when the son was down/ there fell a slumber upon Abram. And loo/ fear and great darkness came open him.  
And he said unto Abram: know this of a surety/ that thy seed shallbe a stranger in a land that pertaineth not unto them. And they shall make bondmen of them and entreat them evil iiij. hundred years. But the nation whom there shall serve/ will I judge. And after ward shall they come out with great substance. Eueverthelesse thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace/ and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age: and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again/ for the wickedness of the Amo●tes is not yet full.  
When the son was down and it was waxed dark: behold/ there was a smoking furnisse and a fire brand that went betwenae the said pieces.  
And that same day the Lord made a covenaunte with Abram saying: unto thy seed will I give this land/ from the ryver of Egypte/ even unto the great ryver euphrates: the kenytes/ the kenizites/ the ●admonites/ the Bethites/ the Pherezites/ the Raphanus/ the Amoiytes/ the Canaanites/ the Gergesues and the jebusites.   

The xvi Chapter.  
SArai Abraham's wife bore him no children. But she had an hand maid an Egyptian/ whese name was ●agar. Wherefore she said unto Abram. Behold the Lord hath closed me/ that I can not bear. I pray the god in unto my maid/ peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her And Abram heard the voice of Sarai. Than Sarai Abraham's wife took Hagar her maid the Egitian (after Abram had dwelled▪ ●. year ●n the land of Canaan● and gave her to her husband Abram/ to be his wife.  
And he went in unto Hagar/ & she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceyved her mastresse was despised in her sight. Than said Sarai unto Abram: Thou dost me unrighte/ for I have given my maid into thy bosom: & now because she saith that she hath conceived/ I am despised in her sight: the Lord judge between the and me. Than said Abram to Sarai▪ behold/ thy maid is in thy hand/ do with her as it pleaseth the.  
And because Sarai fared foul with her/ she fled from her. And the angel of the Lord found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness: even by a well in the way to Sur. And he said▪ Hagar Sarais maid/ whence comest thou and whether wilt thou go? And she answered: I flee from my mastresse Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her: return to thy mastresse again/ & submit thyself under her hands.  
And the angel of the Lord said unto h●● I will so increase thy seed/ that it shall no● be numbered for multitude. And the Lords angel said further unto her: se/ thou art with child and shalt bear a son/ and shalt ca●● his name Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation. ●e will be a wild man/ and his hand will be against every man & every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren.  
And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: thou art the God that lookest on me/ for she said: I have of a surety seen here the back parties of him that saith me. Wherefore she called the well/ the well of the living that saith me which well is between Cades & Bared.  
And Hagar bore Abram a son/ and Abram called his son's name which Hagar bore Ishmael. And Abram was lxxxvi year old/ when Hagar bore him Ishmael.   

¶ The xvij Chapter.  
WHen Abram was ninety year old & ix. the Lord appeared to him saying: I am the almighty God: walfe be fore me and be uncorrupt. And I will make my bond between the and me/ and will multiply the exeedingly. And Abram fell on his face. And God talked moreover with him saying: I am/ behold my testament is with thee/ that thou shalt be a father of many nations. Therefore/ shalt thou no more be called Abram/ but thy name shallbe Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee/ and I will multiply the exeedingly/ and will make nations of thee: ye and lings shall spring out of the.  
Moreover I will make my bond between me and thee/ and thy seed after thee/ in their times to be an everlasting testament/ So that I will be God unto the and to thy seed after the. And I will give unto the and to thy seed after thee/ the land where in thou art a stranger: Even all the land of Canaan/ foran everlasting possession/ and will be their God.  
And God said unto Abraham: So thou keep my testament/ both thou & thy seed after the in their times: This is my testament which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee/ that ye circumcise all your men children ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh/ and it shall be a token of the bond betwixt me and you. And every man-child when it is viii. days old/ shall be circumcised among you in your generations/ and all sernauntes also borne at home or bought with money though they be strangers and not of thy seed. The servant borne in thy housse/ and he also that is bought with money/ must needs be circumcised/ that my testament may be in your flesh/ for an everlasting bond. If there be any uncircuncysed man-child/ that hath not the forskynne of his flesh cut of/ his soul shall perish from his people: because he hath broken my testament  
And God said unto Abraham. Sarai thy wife shall no more be called Sarai: but Sara shall her name be. for I will bless her & give the a son of her and will bless her: so that people/ ye and kings of people shall spring of her. And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed/ and said in his heart: shall a child be borne unto him that is an hundred year old/ and shall Sara that is ninety year old/ bere● And Abraham said unto God. O that Ishmael might live in thy sight.  
Then said God: na/ Sara thy wife shall bear the a sonneand thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my bond with him/ that it shall be an everlasting bond unto his seed after him. And as concerning Ishmael also/ I have heard thy request: loo/ I will bless him and increase him/ and multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget/ and I will make a great nation of him. But my bond will I make with Isaac/ which Sara shall bear unto thee: even this time twelve month.  
And God left of talking with him/ and departed up from Abraham. And Abraham took Ishmael his son & all the servants borne in his house and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren among the men of Abraham's housse/ and circumcised the foreskin of their flesh/ even the self same day/ as God had said unto him. Abraham was ninety year old and ix when he cut of the foreskin of his flesh. And Ishmael his son was xiij year old/ when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised. The self same da●e was Abraham circumcised & Ishmael his son●e. And all the men in his housse/ whether they were borne in his house or bought with money (though they were strangers) were circumcised with him.   

¶ The xviij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord appeared unto him in the okegrove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day. And he lift up his eyes and looked: and lo/ three men stood not far from him. And when he saw them/ he ran against them from the tent door/ and fell to the ground and said: Lord if▪ I have found favour in thy sight/ go not by thy servant. Let a little water be fett/ & wash your feet/ and rest youre selves under the tree: And I will fett a mo●sell of breed/ to comfort your hearts withal. And than go your ways/ for even therefore are ye come to your servant. And they answered: Do even so a● thou hast said.  
And Abraham went a pace in to his tent unto Sara and said: make ready at once three pe●kes of fine meal/ kneade it and make cakes. And Abraham ran unto his beasts and felt ● calf that was tender and good/ and gave it ●● to a young man which made it ready attonce. And he took butter & myl●ke and the calf which he had prepared/ and set it before them/ and so de himself by them under the tree: and they ate.  
And they said unto him: Where is Sara thy wife? And he said: in the tent. And he said: I will come again unto the as soon as the fruit can live. And loo: Sara thy wife shall have a son. That heard Sara/ out of the tent door which was behind his back. Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken in age/ and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wyves. And Sara laughed in herself saying: Now I am waxed old/ shall I give myself to lust/ and my lord old also?  
Than said the Lord unto Abraham: wherefore doth Sara laugh saying: shall I of asuer●ebere a child/ now when I am old? is the thing to hard for the Lord to do? In the time appointed will I return unto thee/ as soon as the fruit can have life/ And Sara shall have a son. Than Sara denied it saying: I laughed not/ for she was afraid. But he said: yes thou laughtest.  
Than the men stood up from thence and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham that thing which I am about to do/ saying that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people/ and all the nations of the earth shallbe blessed in him? For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him/ that they keep the way of the Lord/ to do after right and conscience/ that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him.  
And the Lord said? The cry of Sodom and Gomo●ra is great/ and there sin is exceeding grevous. I will go down and see whether they have done all to gedder according to that cry which is come unto me or not/ that I may know. And the men departed thence and went to Sodomeward. But Abraham stood yet before the Lord/ & drew near & said Wilt thou destroy the rightwes with the wicked? If there be l rightwes within the city/ wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of l rightwes that are therein? That be far from thee/ that thou shouldest do after this manner/ to slay the rightwes with the wicked/ and that the rightwes should be as the wicked: that befarre from the. Should not the judge of all the world do according to right? And the Lord said: If I find in Sodom l rightwes within the cy●e/ I will spare all the place for their sakes.  
And Abraham answered and said: behold I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord/ and yet am but dust and ashes. What though there lack .v. of l rightwes/ wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of v? And he said: If I find there xl and .v. I will not destroy them.  
And he spoke unto him yet again and said: what if there be xl. found there: And he said: I will not do it for forties sake. And he said: O let not my Lord be angry/ that I speak. What if there be found xxx there? And he said: I will not do it/ if I find xxx there. And he said: Oh/ se/ I have begun to speak unto my Lord/ what if there be twenty found there? And he said: I will not destroy them for twenties sake. And he said. O let not my Lord be angry/ that I speak yet/ but even once more only. What if ten be found there?. And he said: I will not destroy them for ten safe.  
And the Lord went his way as soon as he had le●te comening with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place   

¶ The xix Chapter.  
ANd there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Let sat at the gate of the city. And Lorrique saw them/ and rose up against them/ and he bowed him self to be ground with his face. And he sayde● See lords/ turn in I pray you in to your servants house and tarry all night & wash your feet/ & rise up early and go on your ways. And they said: nay/ but we will bide in the streets all night. And he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and en●●ed in to his house/ and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes/ and they ate.  
But before they went to rest/ the men of the city of Sodom compassed the house round about both old and young/ all the people from all quarters. And they called unto Lot and said unto him: where are the men which came in to thy house to night? bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them.  
And Lot went out at doors unto them and shoot the door after him and said: nay for god's sake brethren/ do not so wekedly. Behold I have two daughters which have known no man/ then will I bring out unto you: do with them as it seemeth you good: Only unto these men do nothing/ for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said: come hither. And they said: camest thou not in to so georne/ and wilt thou be now a judge? we will surely deal worse with the than with them  
And as they pressed sore upon Lot and began to breaf● up the door/ the men put forth their hands and pulled ●ot in to the house to them and short to the door. And the men that were at the door of the house/ they smote with blindness both small and great: so that they could not find the door.  
And the men said moreover unto ● ot: If thou have yet here any son in law or sons or daughters or what so ever thou hast in the city/ bring it out of this place: for we must destroy this place/ because the cry of them is great before the Lord. Wherefore he hath sent ●● to destroy it.  
And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons in law which should have married his daughters/ and said: stand up and get you out of this place/ for the Lord will destroy the cite. But he seemed as though he had mocked/ unto his sons in law.  
And as the morning arose the angels caused Lot to speed him saying. stand up/ take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand/ lest thou perish in the sin of the city. And as he prolonged the time/ the men caught both him/ his wife and his two daughters by the hands/ because the Lord was merciful unto him/ and they brought him forth and set him without the city.  
When they had brought them out/ they said: Save thy life and look not behind the neither tarry thou in any place of the country/ but save thyself in the mountain/ lest thou perish. Than said Lot unto them: Oh nay my lord: behold/ in as much as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight/ now make thy mercy great which thou showest unto me in saying my life. For I can not save myself in the mountains/ lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die. Behold/ here is a city by/ to flee unto/ and it is a little one: let me save myself therein: is it not a little one/ that my soul may live?  
And he said to him: see I have received thy request as concerning this thing/ that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee/ and save thyself there/ for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither. And therefore the name of the city is called Zoar. And the son was upon the earth when Lot was entered into Zoar.  
Than the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomoara/ brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven/ and overthrew those cities and all the region/ and all that dwelled in the cities/ and that that grew upon the earth. And lots wife looked behind her/ and was turned in to a pillar of salt.  
Abraham rose up early and got him to the place where he stood before the Lord/ and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold/ the smoke of the country arose as it had been the smoke of a sornace. But yet when God destroyed the ●●nes of the region/ he thought a 'pon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowenge/ when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.  
And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountains and his two daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he dwelled therefore in a cave/ both he and his two daughters also.  
Than said the elder unto the younger o●●e father is old/ and there are no more men in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the world. Come therefore/ let us give our father wine to drink/ and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father. And thry gave their father wine to drink that same night. And the elder daughter went and lay with her father. And he perceived it not/ neither when she lay down/ neither when she rose up.  
And on the morrow the elder said unto the younger: behold/ yesternyghte lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink this night also/ and go thou and lie with him/ and let us save seed of our father. And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not: neither when she lay down/ neither when she rose up.  
Thus were both the daughters of let with child by their father And the elder bare a son and called him Moab/ which is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger bore a son●e and called him Ben Am●●/ which is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.   

The twenty Chapter.  
ANd Abraham departed thence toward the sou●hcontre and dwelled between ●ades and Sur and sogeorned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sara his wife/ that she was his sister. Than Ab●melech king of Gerar sent and fett Sara away.  
And God came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him: See/ thou art but a deed man for the woman's safe which thou hast taken away/ for she is a man's wife. But Abimelech had not yet come nigh her/ and therefore said: lord wilt thou slay rightewes people? said not he unto me/ that she was his sister? ye and said not she herself that he was her brother? with a pure heart and innocent hands have I done this.  
And God said unto him in a dream. I wots it well that thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart. And therefore I kept y● that thou shouldest not sin against me/ neither suffered I the to come nigh her. Now therefore deliver the man his wife again/ for he is a prophet. And let him pray fo: the that thou mayst live. But and if thou deliver her not again/ be sure that thou shalt die the death/ with all that thou hast.  
Than Abimelech rose up be times in the morning and called all his servants/ and told all these things in their ears/ and the men were sore afraid. And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him: What hast thou don● unto us/ & what have I offended thee/ that thou shouldest b●ynge on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. And Abimelech said moreover unto Abraham: What sawest thou that moved the to do this thing?  
And Abraham Answered. I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place/ and that they should slay me for my wives safe: yet in very deed she is my sister/ the daughter of my father/ but not of my mother● and became my wife. And after God caused me to wander out of my father's house/ I said unto her: This kindness shalt thou show unto me in all places where we come/ that thou say of me/ how that I am thy brother.  
Than took Abimelech sheep and oxen/ men▪ servants and wemenseruauntes and gave them unto Abraham/ and delivered him Sara his wife again. And Abimelech said: behold the land lieth be fore thee/ dwell where it pleaseth the best. And unto Sara he said: See I have given thy brother a thousende pieces of silver/ behold he shall be a covering to thine eyes unto all that are with the and unto all men and an excuse.  
And so Abraham prayed unto God/ and God healed Abimeleh and his wife and his maidens/ so that they bore. For the Lord had closed to/ all the matryces of the house of Abimelech/ because of Sara Abraham's wife.   

The xxj Chapter  
THe lord visited Sara as he had said and did unto her according as he had spoken. And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age even the same season which the Lord had appointed. And Abraham called his sons name that was borne unto him which Sara bore him Isaac: & Abram circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old/ as God commanded him And Abraham was an hundred year old▪ when his son Isaac was borne unto him.  
And Sara said: God hath made me a laughing stock: for all that hear/ will laugh at me She said also: who would have said unto Abraham/ that Sara should have given children suck/ or that I should have borne him a son in his old age: The child grew and was weaned/ and Abraham made a great feast/ the same day that Isaac was weaned.  
Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which she had borne unto Abraham/ a mocking. Then she said unto Abraham: put away this bondemayde and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac: But the words seemed very greavous in Abraham's syc●hte/ because of his son. Than the Lord said unto Abraham: let it not be greavous unto thee/ because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee/ hear her voice/ for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Moreover of the son of the Bondwoman will I make a nation/ because he is thy seed.  
And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took breed and a bottle with water/ and gave it unto Hagar/ putting it on her shoulders with the lad also/ and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Berseba. When the water was spent that was in the bottle/ she cast the lad under a bush and went & sat her out of sight a great way/ as it were a bowshote off: For she said: I will not see the lad die. And she sat down out of sight/ and lift up her voice and wept.  
And God heard the voice of the child. And the angel of God called Hagar out of heaven and said unto her: What aileth the Hagar? Fear not/ for God hath herd the voice of the child where he lieth. Arise and lift up the lad/ and take him in thy hand/ for I will make off him a great people. And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.  
And she went and filled the bottle with water/ and gave the boy drink. And God was with the lad/ and he grew and dwelled in the wilderness/ and became an archer. And he dwelled in the wilderness of Pharan. And his mother got him a wife out of the land of Egypte.  
And it chanced the same season/ that Abimelech and Phicoll his chief captain spoke unto Abraham saying: God is with the in all that thou doist. Now therefore swear unto me even here by God/ that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children/ nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger/ according unto the kindness that I have showed the. Then said Abraham: I will swear.  
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water/ which Abimelech servants had taken away. And Abimelech answered I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not/ neither heard I of it/ but this day.  
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave t●●● unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together. And Abraham se● seven. lambs by themselves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham: what mean these vij lamdes which thou hast set by themselves. And he answered: seven. lambs shalt thou take of my hand/ that it may be a witness unto me/ that I have digged this well: Wherefore the place is called Berseba/ because they swore both of them. Thus made they a bond together at Berseba.  
Than Abimelech and Phicoll his chief captain rose up and turned again unto the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a wood in Berseba/ and called there/ on the name of the Lord the everlasting God: and dwelled in the Phelistinlande a long season   

¶ The xxij Chapter.  
AFter these deeds/ God did prove Abraham & said unto him: Abraham. And he answered: here am I And he said: take thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest/ & get the unto the land of Moria/ and sacrifice him there for a sacrifice upon one of the mountains which I will show the Than Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass/ and took two of his meinie with him/ and Isaac his son: and clove woe for the sacrifice/ and rose up and go●t him to the place which God had appointed him.  
The third day Abraham lift up his eyes and saw the place a far of/ and said unto his young men: bide here with the ass. I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again unto you. And Abraham took the wood of the sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son/ and took fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both of them together.  
Than spoke Isaac unto Abraham his father & said: My father? And he answered here am I my son. And he said: See here is fire and wodd/ but where is the sheep for sacrifice? And Abraham said: my son/ God will provide him a sheep for sacrifice. So went they both together.  
And when they came unto the place which God showed him/ Abraham made an altar there and dressed the wood/ and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar/ above upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand/ and took the knife to have killed his son.  
Than the angel of the Lord called unto him from heaven saying: Abraham/ Abraham. And he answered: here am I And he said: lay not thy hands upon the child neither do any thing at all unto him/ for now I know that thou fearest God/ in that thou hast not kept thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold/ there was a ram caught by the horns in a thykette. And he went and took the ram and offered him up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son And Abraham called the name of the place/ the Lord will see: wherefore it is a comen saying this day: in the mount will the Lord be seen.  
And the Angel of the Lord cried unto Abraham from heaven the second time saying: by myself have I sooor●e (saith the Lord) because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son/ that I will bless th' and multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the see side. And thy seed shall possess the ●ates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed/ because thou hast obeyed my voice  
Go turned Abraham again unto his young men/ and they rose up and went together to Berinthia seba. And Abraham dwelled at Berseba  
And it chanced after these things/ that one told Abraham saying: Behold/ Milcha she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nachor: Hus his eldest son and Bus his brother/ and Remuell the father of the Smans'/ and Cesed/ and Haso/ and Pildas'/ and jedlaph/ and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eight did Milcha bear to Nachor Abraham's brother. And his concubine called Rheuma she bore also Tebah/ Saham/ Thahas and Maacha.   

¶ The xxiij Chapter.  
SAra was an hundred and xxvij year old (for so long lived she) and than died in a head city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Than Abraham came to mome Sara and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up from the course and talked with the sons of heath saying: I am a stranger and a foryner among you/ give me a possession to bury in with you/ that I may bury my dead out of my sight.  
And the children of heath answered Abraham saying unto him: hear us lord/ thou art a prince of God among us. In the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: None of us shall forbydd the his sepulchre/ that thou shouldest not bury thy dead therein. Abraham stood up & bowed him self before the people of the land the children of heth.  
And he comened with them saying: If it be your minds that I shall bury my dead out of my sight/ hear me and speak for me to Ephron the son of Zoar: and let him give me the dubill cave which he hath in the end of his field/ for as much money as it is worth/ let him give it me in the presence of you/ for a possession to bury in. For Hephron dwelled among the children of heth.  
Than Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city/ saying: Not so/ my lord/ but hear me: The field give I thee/ and the cave that therein is/ give I the also/ And even in the presence of the sons of my people give jit the to bury thy deed in. Than Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land and spoke unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country saying: I pray the hear me/ I will give sylver for the field/ take it of me/ ●o so will I bury my deed there.  
Ephron answered Abraham saying unto him My lord/ hearken unto me. The land is worth iiij. hundredth sycles of silver: But what is that betwixt the and me● bury thy deed. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weyde him the sylver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sycles of currant money among merchants  
Thus was the field of Ephron where in the dubbill cave is before Ma●re: even the field & the cave that is therein and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about/ made sure unto Abraham for a possession/ in the sight of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the city. And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Manre/ otherwise called Ebron in the land of Canaan. And so both the field and the cave that is therein/ was made unto Abraham/ a sure possession to bury in/ of the sons of Heth.   

¶ The xxiiij Chapter  
ABraham was old and stricken in days/ and the Lord had blessed him in allthinges. And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hand under my thy that I may make the swear by the Lord that is God of heaven and God of the earth/ that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son/ of the daughters of the canaanytes/ among which I dwell. But shalt go unto my country and too my kindred/ and there take a wife unto my son Isaac.  
Than said the servant unto him: what and if the woman will not agree to come with me unto this land/ shall I bring thy son again unto the land which thou camest out of▪ And Abraham said unto him: beware of that/ that thou b●●ge not my son thither. The Lord God of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land where I was borne/ and which spoke unto me and swore unto me saying: unto thy seed will I give this land/ he shall send his angel before thee/ that thou mayst take a wife unto my son from thence. Nevertheless if the woman will not agree to come with the than shalt thou be with out danger of this oath. But above all thing bring not my son thither again. And the servant put his hand under the thy of Abraham and swore to him as concerning that matter.  
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed/ and had of all manner goods of his master with him/ and stood up and went to Mesopotamia/ unto the cyree of Nahor. And made his camels to lie down without the city by a well's side of water/ at even: about the time that women come out to draw water/ and he said.  
Lord God of my master Abraham/ send me good speed this day/ & show mercy unto my master Abraham. ●o I stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of this city will come out to draw water: Now the damsel to whom I say/ stoop down thy pitcher and let me drink. If she say/ drink/ and I will give thy camels drink also/ the same is she that thou hast ordained for they servaunte Isaac: ye & thereby shall I know that thou hast showed mercy on my master.  
And it came to pass yet he had leeft spaking / that Aebecca came out/ the daughter of bethuel/ son to Melcha the wife of Nahor Abraham's brother/ and her pitcher upon her shoulder: The damsel was very fair to look upon/ and yet a maid and unknown of man.  
And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up again. Then the servant rann● unto her and sa●de: let me syppe a little water of thy pither. And she said: drink my lord.  
And she besied and la●e down her pitcher upon ●●● arm and gave him drink. And when she had given him drink/ she said: I will draw water for thy camels also/ until they have drunk enough. And she poured out her pitcher in to the trough hastily and ran again unto the well/ to fe●t water: and drew for all his camels.  
And the fellow wondered at her. But held his peace/ to we●e whether the Lord had made his ●ou●ney prosperous or not. And as the camels had left drinking/ he took an earring of half a sickle weght and. ij golden bracelets for her ●andes/ of ten sycles weight of gold and said unto her: whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there room in thy father's house/ for us to lodge in▪ And she said unto him: I am the daughter of bethuel the son of M●●cha which she bore unto Nahor: and said moreover unto him: we have litter and pravonder enough and also room to lodge in.  
And the man bowed himself and worshipped the Lord and said: blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham which ceaseth not to deal mercifully and truly with my master/ And hath brought me the way to my master's brother's house. And the damsel ran & told them of her mother's house these things. And Rebecca had a brother called Laban.  
And Laban ran out unto the man/ to the well: for as soon as he had seen the earrings and the bracelets ●pon his sister's hands/ and heard the words of Rebecca his sister saying thus said the man unto me/ than he went out unto the man. And ●oo/ he stood yet with the camels by the well side. And Laban said: come in thou blessed of the Lord. Wherefore standest thou without? I have dressed the house and made room for the camels. And than the man came in to the house. And he unbrydeld the camels: 
God bleseth us whē●●e giveth us ●is benefices: and cur●●th us/ w●en he takes them a ●aye.  and brought ●●●ter and pravonder for the camels/ and water to w●she his feet and their feet that were with him/ and there was meat set before him to eat.  
But he said: I will not eat/ until I have said mine earende: And he said/ say on. And he said: I am Abraham's servant/ & the LORD hath * blessed my master out of measure that he is become great and hath given him sheep oxen/ silver and gold/ men servants/ maid servants/ camels and asses. And Sara my master's wife bore him a son/ when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.  
And my master made mes●ere saying: Thou shalt not take a wife to my son/ among the daughters of the cananyres in whose land I dwell. But thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred/ and there take a wife unto my son. And I said unto my master. What if the wife will not follow me▪ And he said unto me: The Lord before whom I walk/ will send his angel with the and prosper thy journey that thou shalt take a wife for my son/ of my kindred and of my father's house. But and if (when thou comest unto my kindred) they will not give the one/ than shall thou bear no peril of mine oath.  
And I came this day unto the well and said: O Lord/ the God of my master Abraham/ if it be so that thou makest my journey which I go/ prosperous: behold/ I stand by this well of water/ And when a virgin cometh forth to draw water/ and I say to her: give me a little water of thy pitcher to drink/ and she say again to me: drink thou/ and I will also draw water for thy camels: that same is the wife/ whom the Lord hath prepared for my master's son.  
And before I had made an end of speaking in mine heart: behold Rebecca came forth/ and her pitcher on her shoulder/ and she went down unto the well and drew. And I said unto her give me drink. And she made haste and took down her p●●cher from of her/ and said: drink/ and I will give thy camels drink also. And I drank/ and she gave the camels drink also. And I asked her saying: whose daughter art thou? And she answered: the daughter of Bathuell Nahors son whom Milca bore unto him.  
And I put the earring upon her face and the bracelets upon her hands. And I bowed myself and worshepped the Lord and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham which had brought me the right way/ to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son. Now therefore if ye will deal mercifully and truly with my master/ tell me. And if no/ tell me also: that I may turn me to the right hand or to the left.  
Than answered Laban and Bathuel saying: The thing is proceeded even out of the lord/ we can not therefore say unto thee/ either good or bad: Behold Rebecca before thy face/ take her and go/ and let her be thy master's sons wives/ even as the Lord hath said▪ And when Abraham's servant heard their words/ he bowed himself unto the Lord/ ●●a●● upon the earth. And the sero●unte took forth 〈◊〉 of silver and jewels of gold and raiment/ and gave them to Rebecca: But unto her brother & to her mother/ he gave spices. And then they ate and drank/ both he and the men that were with him/ and tarried all night and rose up in the morning.  
And he said: let me depart unto my master. But her brother and her mother said: let the damsel abide with us a while/ and it be but even ten days/ and than go thy ways. And he said unto them/ hinder me not: for the lord hath prospered my journey. Send me away that I may go unto my master. And they said: let us call the damsel/ and wit what she saith to the matter. And they called forth Rebecca and said unto her: wilt thou go with this man▪ And she said: Ye.  
Than they brought Rebecca their sister on the way and her norse and Abraham's servant/ and the men that were with him. And they 
* To bless a man's neighbour is t● pray for hand to wiss him good and not 〈…〉 wag two gers ou● him.  blessed Rebecca & said unto her: Thou art our sister/ grow in to thousand thousands/ & thy seed possess the gates of their emmes. And Rebecca arose & her damsels/ & sat them up upon the camels & went their way after the man. And the servaunte took Rebecca & went his way  
And Isaac was a coming from the well of the living & saying/ for he dwelled in the s●uth country/ & was gone out to walk in his meditations before the even tide. And he lift up his eyes & looked/ & behold the camels were coming. And Rebecca lift up her eyes/ & when she saw Isaac/ she lighted of the camel and said unto the servant: what man is this that cometh against us in the field? And the servant said: it is my master. And then she took her mantel and put it about her. And the servant told Isaac all that he had done. Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Saras tent/ and took Rebecca & she became his wife/ & he loved her: & so was Isaac comforted over his mother.   

The xxv Chapter  
Abraham took him another wife called Retura/ which bare him Simram/ Jacksam/ Medan/ Midian jesback & Suah. And J●cksan begat Seba & Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Assurim/ Letusim & Leumim. And the sons of Midian were Epha/ Epher/ Hanoch/ Abida & Elda. All these were the children of Bethura. But Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. And unto the sons of his concubines he have gifts/ and sent them away from Isaac his son (while he yet lived) east waro/ unto the east country.  
These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: an hundred & .lxxv. year and than fell seek and died/ in a lusty age (when he had lived enough) and was put unto his people. And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron son of Zoar the Hittite before Man●e. Which field abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried and Sara his wife. And after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son which dwelled by the well of the lyvige & siege.  
These are the generations of Ishmael Abraham's son/ which Hagar the Egyptian Saras hand maid bare unto Abraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael/ with their names in their kinreddes. The eldest son of Ishmael Neu●●oth/ them Redar/ Adbeel/ Mibsan/ Misma Duma/ Masa/ Hadar/ Thema/ jetur/ Naphis & Redma. These are the sons of Ishmael/ and these are their names/ in their towns and castles twelve princes of nations. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: an hundred and. xxxvij year/ & than he f●ll seek & died & was laid unto his people. And he dwelled from Euila unto Sur that is before Egypte/ as men go toward the Assyrians. And he died in the presence of all his brethren.  
And these are the generations of Isaac Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac. And Isaac was xl year old when he took Rebecca to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Sirian of Mesopotamia & sister to jaban the Sirien.  
And Isaac made intercession unto the Lord for his wife: because she was barren: and the Lord was entreated of him/ & Rebecca his wife conceived: and the children strove together within her, them she said: if it should go so to pass/ what helpeth it that I am with child? And she went & axed the Lord. And the Lord said unto her there are two manner of people in the womb and ij. nations shall springe out of thy bowels/ and the one nation shallbe mightier than the other/ and the eldest shallbe servaunte unto the younger.  
And when her time was come to be delivered behold: there were two twins in her womb. And he that came out first/ was red & rough over all as it were an hide: and they called his name Esau. And after ward his brother came out & his hand holding Esau by the heel. Wherefore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was lx yereolde when she bore them: and the boys grew/ and Esau beam a cunning hunter & a till man. But Jacob was a simple man & dwelled in the tents. Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venyson/ but Rebecca loved Jacob  
Jacob sod pottage & Esau came from the field & was fainne/ & said to Jacob: let me syppe of that red pottage/ for I am faynne. And therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said: sell ●e this day thy birthright. And Esau answered: Loo I am at the point to die/ & what profit shall this birthright do me? And Jacob said/ swear to me then this day. And he swore to him & sold his birthright unto Jacob.  
Than Jacob gave Esau breed & pottage of red rise. And he ate & drunk & rose up and went his way. And so Esau regarded not his birthright.   

The xxvi Chapter.  
ANd there fell a dearth in the land/ passing the first dearth that fell in the days of Abraham. Wherefore Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistians unto Gerar. Then the Lord appeared unto him ● said go not down in to Egipte/ but bide in the land which I say unto thee: Sogeorne in this land/ & I will be with y● & will bless y●: for unto the & unto thy seed I will give all these contreis' And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father/ & will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven/ & will give unto thy seed all these countries. And thorough thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed/ because that Abraham hearkened unto m● voice & kept mine ordinances/ commandments/ statutes & laws  
And Isaac dwelled in Gerar. And the men of the place asked him of his wife/ & he said that she was his sister: for he feared to call her his wife lest the men of the place should have killed him for her sake/ because she was bewtyf●llto the eye. And it happened after he had been there long time/ that Abimelech king of the Philistians looked out at a window & saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca his wife. And Abimelech send for Isaac & said: se/ she is of a surety thy wife/ and why saidest thou that she was thy sister? And Isaac said unto him: I thought that I might perad venture have died for her sake. Then said Abimelech: why hast thou done this unto us? one of the people might lightly have line by thy wife & so shouldest thou have brought sin upon us Than Abimelech charged all his people saying: he that toucheth this man or his wife/ shall surely ●ye for it.  
And Isaac sowed in the land/ & found in the same year an hundred bushels: for the Lord blessed him/ & the man waxed mighty/ & went forth & grew till he was exceeding great/ that he had possession of sheep/ of oxen & a mighty household: so that the Philestians had envy at him: In so much that they stopped & filled up with earth/ all the wells which his father's servants digged in his father abraham's tyme. Than said Abin elcch unto Isaac: get the from me/ for thou art myhhtier than we a great deal.  
Than Isaac departed thence & pitched his tent in the valley Gerar & dwelled there▪ And Isaac digged again/ the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father which the Philestians had stop after ● death of Abraham/ & gave them the same names which his father gave them. As Isaac's servants digged in the valley/ they found a well of springing water. And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen saying: the water is ours Than called he the well Eseck because they strove with him.  
Than digged they another well/ & they strove for that also. Therefore called he it Sitena. And than he departed thence & digged another well for the which they strove not: therefore called he it Rehoboth sainge: the Lord hath now made us room & we are increased upon the earth. Afterward departed he thence & came to Berseba  
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night & said. I am the God of Abraham thy father/ fear not for I am with the & will bless the & multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. And than he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord/ & there pitched his tent. And there Isaac's servants digged a well.  
Than came Abimelech to him from Gerar & Ahusath his friend and Phicol his chief captain. And Isaac said unto them: wherefore come ye to me/ siege ye hate me & have put me away from you? Than said they: we saw that the Lord was with thee/ and therefore we said that there should be an oath betwixt us and thee/ & that we would make a bond with thee: that thou shouldest do us no hurt/ as we have not touched the and have done unto the nothing but good/ and sand the away in prace: for thou art now the blessed of the Lord. And he made them a feast/ and they ate and drunk. And they lose up by times in the morning and swore one to another. And Isaac sent than away. And they departed from him in peace.  
And the same day came Isaac's servants & told him of a well which they had digged: & said unto him/ that they had found water. And he called it Seba/ wherefore the name of the cy●● is called Berseba unto this day.   

The xxvij Chapter.  
WHen Esau was xl year old/ he took to wife judith the daughter of Bery an Hittite/ and Basmath the ●●ughter of Elon an Hittite also/ which were dishobedient unto Isaac and Rebecca▪ And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old & his eyes were dim/ so that he could not see. Than ca●●ed he Esau his eldest son & said on to him: my son. And he said unto him: hear am I. And he said: behold/ I am old and know not the day of my death: Now therefore take thy weapons/ thy quiver & thy bow/ & get the rothe fields & take me some venison & make me meat such as I love/ & bring it me & let me eat that my sou●●▪ may bless the before that I die:  
But Rebecca hard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And as soon as Esau was gone to the field to catch venison & to bring it/ she spoke unto jacob her son saying? Behold I have herd thy father talking with Esau thy brother & saying: bring me venison & make me meat that I may eat & bless the before the Lord yet I die. Now therefore my son hear my voice in that which I command thee: get the to the flock/ & bring me thence two good fiddes/ & I will make meat of them forthi father/ soch as he loveth. And thou shalt bring it to thy father & he shall eat/ that he may bliss the before his death  
Than said jacob to Rebecca his mother. Behold Esau my brother is rugh & jam smooth. my father shall peradventure feel me/ and I shall seem unto him as though I went about to be guile him/ & so shall he bring a curse upon me & not a blessing: & his mother said unto him. Upon me be thy curse my son/ only hear my voice & go and fetch me them. And jacob went and fett them and brought them to his mother.  
And his mother made meat of them according as his father loved And she went and fett goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau which she had in the house with her/ and put them upon jacob her youngest son/ and she put the skins upon his hands & upon the smooth of his neck. And she put the meat & breed which she had made in the hand of her son jacob  
And he went in to his father saying: my father/ And he answered: here am I/ who art thou my son? And jacob said unto his father: I am Esau thy eldest son/ I have done according as thou badst me/ up and sit and eat of my venison/ that thy soul may bless me. But Isaac said unto his son. How cometh it that thou hast found it so quickly my son? He answered: The Lord thy god brought it to my hand. Than said Isaac unto jacob: come near and let me feel the my son/ whether thou be my son Esau or not. Than went jacob to Isaac his father/ & he felt him & said the voice ●● jacobs' voice/ but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he knew him not/ because his hands were rough as his brother Esau● hands? And so he blessed him.  
And he axed him/ art thou my son Esau? And he said: that I am. Than said he: bring me and let me eat of my sons venison/ that my soul may bless the. And he brought him/ and he ate. And he brought him wine also/ and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto him: come near and kiss me my son. And he went to him & kissed him. And he smelled the savour of his raiment & blessed him & said See/ the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the lord hath blessed. God give the of the dew of heaven & of the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn & wine. People be thy servants & nations bow unto the. Be lord over thy brethren/ and thy mother's children stoop unto the. Cursed be he that curseth thee/ & lessed be he that blesseth the.  
As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing/ jacob & jacob was scace gone out from the preasence of Isaac his father: then came Esau his brother from his hunting: And had made also meat/ and brought it in unto his father & said unto him: Arise my father & eat of thy sons venison/ that thy soul may bless me. Than his father Isaac said unto him. Who art thou? he answered I am thy eldest son Esau.  
And Isaac was greatly astonied out of measure and said: Where is he then that hath hunted venison and brought it me/ and I have eaten of all before thou cames●/ and have blessed him/ and he shall be blessed still. When Esau heard the words of his father/ he cried out greatly & bitterly above measure/ and said unto his father: bless me also my father. And he said thy brother came with subtilty/ and hath taken away thy blessing. Than said he: He may well be called jacob/ for he hath undermined me now two times/ first he took away my birthright: and se/ now hath he taken away my blessing also. And he said/ hast thou kept neu●● a blessing for me?  
Isaac answered and said unto Esau: behold I have made him thy Lord & all his mother's children have I made his servants. Moreover with come and wine have I stablesshed him/ what can I do unto the now my son? And Esau said unto his father? hast thou but that one blessing my father? bless me also my father: so lifted up Esau his royce & wept Than Isaac his father answered & said unto him  
Behold thy dwelling place shall have of the fatness of the earth/ & of the dew of heaven from above. And with thy sword shalt thou live and shalt be thy brother's servant But the time will come/ when thou shalt get the mastery/ and louse his yoke from of thy neck.  
And Esau hated jacob because of the blessing that his father blessed him with all/ & said in his heart: The days of my father's sobowe are at hand/ for I will slay my brother jacob. And these words of Esau her eldest son/ were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called jacob her youngest son/ and said unto him: behold thy brother Esau threateneth to kill thee: Now therefore my son hear my voice/ make the ready & flee to Laban my brother at Ha●an Andtarie with him a while/ until thy brother's fierceness be suaged/ and until the brother's wrath turn away from thee/ and he forget that which thou hast done to him. Than will I send and fett the away from thence. Why should I lose you both in one day.  
And Rebecca spoke to Isaac: I am weary of my life/ for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth/ soch one as these are/ or of the daughters of the land/ what lust should I have to live.   

¶ The xxviij Chapter.  
THan Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him/ and charged him and said unto him: see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan/ but arise and get the to Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father: and there take the a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. And God allmightte bless thee/ increase the and multiply the that thou mayst be a number of people/ and giveth the blessing of Abraham: both to the and to thy seed with the that thou mayst possess the land (wherein thou art a strangere) which God gave unto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob/ to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban/ son of Bethuel the Sirien/ and brother to Rebecca jacob's & Esau's mother.  
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob/ and sent him to Mesopotamia/ to fett him a wife thence/ and that/ as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying: see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan: and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother/ & was gone unto Mesopotamia: and saying also that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father: Then went he unto Ishmael/ and took unto the wives which he had/ Mahala the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son/ the sister of Nabaioth to be his wife.  
Jacob departed from Berseba and went toward Haran/ and came unto a place and tarried there all night/ because the son was down. And took a stone of the place/ and put it under his head/ and laid him down in the same place to sleep. And he dreamt: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth/ and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see/ the angels of God went up and down upon it/ ye and the Lord stood upon it and said.  
I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which thou sleepest upon will I give the and thy seed. And thy seed shallbe as the dust of the earth: And thou shalt spread abroad: west/ east/ north and south. And thorough the and thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. And see I am with thee/ and willbe thy keeper in all places whother thou goest/ & will bring y● again in to this land: Nether will I leave the until I have made good/ all that I have promised the.  
When Jacob was awaked out of his sleep/ he said: surely the Lord is in this place/ and I was not aware. And he was afraid & said how fearful is this place? it is none other/ but even the house of God and the gate of heaven. And Jacob stood up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head/ and pitched it up an end and poured oil on the top of it. And he called the name of the place bethel/ for in deed the name of the city was called Lus before tyme.  
And Jacob vowed a vow saying: If God will be with me and will keep me in this tourney which I go and will give me bread to eat and cloothes to put on/ so that I come again unto my father's house in safety: then shall the Lord be my God/ and this stone which I have set up an end/ shallbe gods house/ And of all that thou shalt give me/ will I give the tenth unto the.   

¶ The xxix Chapter.  
THen Jacob lift up his feet & went toward the east country. And as he looked about/ behold there was a well in the field/ and three flocks of sheep lay thereby (for at that well were the flocks watered) & there lay a great stone at the well mouth And the manner was to bring the flocks thither/ & to roull the stone from the wells mouth and to water the sheep/ and to put the stone again upon the wells mouth unto his place.  
And Jacob said unto them: brethren/ whence be ye? and they said: of Haran are we. And he said unto them: know ye Laban the son of Nahor. And they said: we know him. And he said unto them: is he in good health? And they said: he is in good health: and boholde/ his daughter Rahel cometh with the sheep. And he said: lo/ it is yet a great while to night/ neither is it time that the cattles should be gathered together: water the sheep and go and feed them. And they said: we may not/ until all the flocks be brought together & the stone be rolled from the wells mouth/ and so we water our sheep.  
While he yet talked with them/ Rahel came with her father's sheep/ for she kept them. As soon As Jacob saw Rahel/ the daughter of Laban his mother's brother/ and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother/ he went and rolled the stone from the wells mouth/ and watered the sheep of Laban his mother's brother And Jacob kissed Rahel/ and lift up his voice and wept: and told her also that he was her father's brother and Rebeccas' son. Then Rahel ran and told her father.  
When Laban herd tell of Jacob his sister's son/ he ran against him and embraced him & kissed him and brought him in to his house. And then Jacob told Laban all the matter And then Laban said: well/ thou art my bone & my flesh, Abide with me the space of a month. And afterward Laban said unto Jacob: though thou be my brother/ shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me what shall thy wages be? And Laban had two daughters/ the eldest called Lea and the youngest Rahel. Lea was tender eyed: But Rahel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved her well/ and said: I will serve the vij year for Rahel thy youngest daughter. And Laban answered: it is better that I give her thee/ than to another man? bide therefore with me.  
And Jacob served vij years for Rahel/ and they seemed unto him but a few days? for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban/ give me my wife/ that I mayely e with her for the time appointed me is come.  
Than Laban bade all the men of that place/ and made a feast. And when even was come/ he took Lea his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her. And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea/ Zilpha his maid/ to be her servant.  
And when the morning was come/ behold it was Lea. Than said he to Laban: wherefore hast thou played thus with me? did not I serve the for Rahel/ wherefore then hast thou be guiled me? Laban answered: it is not the manner of this place/ to mar the youngest before the eldest. Pass out this week/ & than shall this also be given the for the service which thou shal● serve me yet vij years more. And Jacob did even so/ and passed out that week/ & than he gave him Rahel his daughter to● wife also. And Laban gave to Rahel his daughter/ Bilha his handmaid to be her servant. So lay he by Rahel also/ and loved Rahel more than Lea/ and served him yet vij years more.  
When the Lord saw that Lea was despised/ he made her fruitful: but Rahel was barren. And Lea conceived and bore a son/ and called his name Reuben/ for she said:: the Lord hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me. And she conceived again and bore a son/ and said: the Lord hath herd that I am despised/ and hath therefore given me this son also/ and she called him Simeon. And she conceived yet and bore a son/ and said: now this once will my husband keep me company/ because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. And she conceived yet again/ and bare a son saying? Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Juda/ and left bearing.   

¶ The xxx Chapter  
WHen Rahel saw that she bore Jacob no children/ she envied her sister & said unto Jacob: give me children/ or else I am but deed. Than was Jacob wrooth with Rahel saying: Am I in gods stead which keepeth from the the fruit of thy womb? Then she said: here is my maid Bilha: go in unto her/ that she may bear upon my lap/ that I may be increased by her. And she gave him Bilha her hand maid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her/ And Bilha conceived and bare Jacob a son. Than said Rahel. God hath given sentence on my side/ and hath also heard my voice/ and hath given me a son. Therefore called she him Dan. And Bilha Rahels' maid conce●ued again and bare Jacob another son. And Rahel said. God is turned/ and I have made a change with my sister/ & have gotten the upper hand. And she called his name Nepthali  
When Lea saw that she had left bearing/ she took Silpha her maid and gave her ●acob to wife. And Silpha Leas made bare Jacob a son. Than said Lea: good luck: and called his name God. And Silpha Leas maid bare Jacob another son. Than said Lea: happy am I/ for the daughters will call me blessed. And called his name Asser.  
And Reuben went out in the wheatharuest & found mandragoras in the fields/ and brought them unto his mother Lea. Than said Rahel to Lea give me of thy sons mandragoras. And Lea answered: is it not enough/ that thou hast taken away my housbonde/ but wouldest take away my sons mandragoras also? Than said Rahel well/ let him sleep with the this night/ for thy sons mandragoras. And when Jacob came from the fields at even/ Lea went our to mere him/ & said: come into me/ for I have bought the with my sons mandragoras.  
And he slept with her that night. And God heard Lea/ that she conceived and bore onto Jacob the .v. son. Than said Lea. God hath give me my reward/ because I gave my maiden to my housbond/ and she called him Isachar. And Lea conceived yet again and bare Jacob the sexte son. Than said she: God hath endued me with a good dowry. Now will my husband dwell with me/ because I have borne him vi sons: and called his name Zabulon. After that she bore a daughter and called her Dina.  
And God remembered Rahel/ heard her/ and made her fruitful: so that she conceived and bore a son and said God hath taken away my rebuke. And she called his name Joseph saying The lord give me yet another son.  
As soon as Rahel had home Joseph/ Jacob said to Laban: Send me away that I may go unto mine own place and country/ give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee/ and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done the. Than said Laban unto him: If I have found favour in thy sight (for I suppose that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake) appoint what thy reward shallbe/ and I will give it y●. But he said unto him/ thou knowest what service I have done y●/ & in what taking thy cattles have been under me: For it was but little that thou hadst before I came/ and now it is increased in to a multitude ● and the LORD hath blessed the for my sake. But now when shall I make provysion for mine own house also? And he said: what shall I give thee? And Jacob answered: thou shalt give me nothing at all/ if thou wilt do this one thing for me: And then will I turn again & feed thy sheep and keep them.  
I will go about all thy sheep this day/ and separate from them all the sheep that are spotted and of dyverse colours/ and all black sheep among the lambs and the party and spotted among the kids: And then such shallbe my reward. So shall my righteousness answer for me: when the time cometh that I shall receive my reward of thee: Go that what soever is not speckeld and party among the gootes and black among the lambs/ let that be theft with me.  
Than said Laban: ●oo/ I am content/ that it be according as thou hast said. And he took out that same day the he goats that were party & of diverse colours/ & all the she goats that were spotted and party coloured/ & all that had white in them/ & all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons/ & set three days ourney ●betwixte himself & Jacob. And so Jacob kept the e rest of Laban's sheep.  
Jacob took rods of green popular/ hazel/ & of chestnottrees/ & peeled white streaks in them & made the white apere in the staves: And he put the staves which he had peeled/ even before yy ● sheep / in the gutters & watering droughts/ when the sheep came to drink: that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the sheep conceived before the staves & brought forth streaked/ spotted & party. Then jacob parted the lambs/ & turned the faces of the sheep toward spotted things/ & toward allinaner of black things thorough out the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by themself/ which he put not unto the flocks of Laban. And allway in the first bucking time of the sheep/ jacob put the staves before the sheep in the gutters▪/ that they might conceive before the staves/ But in the latter bucking time/ he put them not there: so the last hrode was Laban's and the first Jacob'S. And the man became exceeding rich & had many sheep/ maydeseruauntes/ manservants/ camels & asses.   

¶ The xxxi Chapter.  
ANd jacob heard the words of Laban's sons how they said: jacob hath taken away all that was our father's/ and of our father's goods/ hath he gotten all this honour. And jacob beheld the countenance of Laban/ that it was not toward him as it was in times past.  
And the Lord said unto jacob: turn again in to the land of thy fathers & to thy kindred/ & I willbe with thee. Than jacob sent & called Rahel & Lea to the field unto his sheep/ & said unto them: Ice your father's countenance that it is not toward me as in times past. moreover the God of my father hath been with me. And ye know how that I have served your father with all my might. And your father hath deceived me & changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me. When he said the spotted shallbe thy wages/ than all the sheep bore spotted. If he said the streaked shallbe th● reward/ than bare all the sheep streaked: thus hath God: aken away your father's cattles & given them me. For in bucking time/ I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream: and behold/ the rams that bucked the sheep were streaked/ spotted and party. And the angel of God spoke unto me in a dream saying: jacob. And I answered: here am I And he said: lift up thine eyes and see/ how all the ●āmes that leap upon the sheep are streaked/ spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban doth unto y●. I am the god of bethel where thou anoynteddest the stone and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get the out of this country/ and return unto the land/ where thou wast borne. Than answered Rahel & Lea & said unto him: we have no part nor inheritance in our father's house he cownteth us even as strangers/ for he hath sold us/ and hath even eaten up the price of us. Moreover all the riches which God hath take from our father/ that is ours and our children's. Now therefore what so ever God hath said unto thee/ that do. Than jacob rose up & set his sons and wives up upon camels/ & carried away all his cattles & all his substance which he had got in Mesopotamia/ for to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. Laban was gone to shear his sheep/ & Rahel had stolen her father's images. And jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Sirien/ & told him not that he fled. So fled he & all that he had/ & made himself ready/ & passed over the rivers/ and set his face straight toward the mount Gilead.  
Apon the third day after/ was it told Laban that jacob was fled. Than he took his brethren with him and followed after him vij days journey and over took him at the mount Gilead. And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night/ and said unto him: take heed to thy self/ that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good. And Laban over took jacob: and jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead. Than said Laban to jacob: why hast thou this done unknowing to me/ and hast carried away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword? Wherefore goest thou away secretly unknown to me & diddest not tell me/ that I might have brought that on the way with mirth/ singing/ tymrells and harppes/ and hast not suffered me to kiss my children & my daughters. Thou wast a fool to do it/ for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spoke unto me yesterday saying take heed that thou speak not to jacob ought save good. And now though thou wentest thy way because thou longest after thy father's house/ yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?  
jacob answered & said to Laban: because I was afraid/ & thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters fro me. But with whom soever thou findest thy god's/ let him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me/ & take it to thee: for jacob witted not that Rahel had stolen them. Than went Laban in to jacobs' tent/ & in to Leas tent/ & in to two maidens tents: but found them not. Than went he out of Leas tent/ & entered in to Rahels' tent. And Rahel ●oke the images/ & put them in the camels straw & sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not. Than said she to her father: my lord/ be not angry that Ican not rise up before thee/ for the disease of women is come upon me. So searched be/ but found them not.  
jacob was wrooth & chode with Laban: jacob also answered and said to him: what have I tre●●aced or what have I offended/ that thou foloweddest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuff/ and what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? put it here before thy brethren & mine/ & let them judge betwixt us both. This xx. year that I have been with thee/ thy sheep and thy ●●oores have not been baren/ and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. What soever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto y●/ but made it good mysilf: of my hand didst thou require it/ whether it was stolen by day or night Moreover by day the heat consumed me/ and the cold by night/ and my sleep departed fro mine eyes.  
Thus have I been twenty year in thy house/ and served the xiiij years for thy two daughters/ and vi. year for thy sheep/ and thou hast changed my reward ten times. And except the God of my father/ the God of Abraham and the God who me Isaac feareth/ had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation/ and the labour of my hands: and rebuked the yester day.  
Laban answered and said unto jacob: the daughters are my daughters/ and the children or my children/ and the sheep are my sheep/ and all that thou seist is mine. And what can I do this day unto these my daughters/ or unto their children which they have borne? Now therefore come on/ let us make a bond/ I and thou together/ and let it be a witness between the & me. Than took jacob a stone and set it up an end/ and said unto his brethren/ gather stones And they took stones and made an heap/ and they ate there/ upon the heap. And Laban called ●●egar Sahadutha/ but jacob called it Gylead.  
Than said Laban: this heap ●e witness between the and me this day (therefore is it called Gilead) and this ●o●e●ill which the lord seeth (said he) be witness between me and the when we are departed one from another: that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wyves unto them. Here is no man with us: behold/ God is witness betwixt the and me. And Laban said moreover to jacob: behold/ this heap & this mark which I have set here/ betwixt me and thee: this heap be witness and also this mark/ that I will not come over this heap to thee/ and thou shalt not come over this heap and this mark/ to do any harm. The God of Abraham/ the God of Nahor and the God of their father's/ be judge betwixt us.  
And jacob swore by him that his father Isaac feared. Then jacob did sacrifice upon the mount/ and called his brethren to eat breed. And they are breed and tarried all night in the hill. And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his children and his daughters/ and blessed than and departed and went unto his place again. But jacob went forth on his journey. And the angels of God came & met him. And when jacob law them/ he said: this is gods host: and called the name of that same place/ Mahanaim.   

¶ The xxxij Chapter.  
Jacob sent meessengers before him to Esau his brother/ unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom. And he commanded them saying: see that ye speak after this manner to my lord Esau: thy servant jacob saith thus. I have sogerned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time: & have gotten oxen/ asses and sheep/ menservauntes' & we manseruauntes/ & have sent to show it un lord/ that I may find grace in thy sight.  
And the messengers came again to jacob saying: we came unto thy brother Esau/ and he cometh against the and four hundred men with him. Than was jacob greatly afraid/ and witted not which way to turn himself/ and divided the people that was with him & the sheep/ oxen and camels/ in to two companies/ and sayder If Esau come to the one part and smite it/ the other may save itself.  

* Prayer is to cleave unto the promises of god with a sironge faith and to beseech god with a fervent desire that he will fulfil them for his mercy & truth only. As jacob here doth.  And jacob said: O god of my father Abraham/ and God of my father Isaac: Lord which saidest unto me/ return unto thy country and to thy kindred/ and I will deal well with the. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this jordane/ and now have I gotten two droves Delyver me from the hands of my brother Esau/ for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with the children. Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good/ and wouldest make ●● seed as the sand of the see which can not be numbered for multitude.  
And he tarried there that same night/ & took of that which came to hand/ a present/ unto Esau his brother: ij hundred she goats and xx he goats: ij hundred sheep and xx rams: thirty mylch camels with their colts: xl kine and x bulls: xx she asses and x fools and delivered them unto his servants/ every droove by themselves/ and said unto them: go forth before me and put a space betwixt every droove. And he commanded the formestsaing  
When Esau my brother meeteth the and asketh the saying: whose servant art thou & whither goest thou/ & whose are these that go before thee: thou shalt say/ they be thy servant jacobs'/ & are a present sent unto my lord Esau/ and behold/ he himself cometh after us. And so commanded he the second/ and even so the third/ and likewise all that followed the drooves saying/ of this manner see that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him/ and say more over. Behold thy servant jacob cometh after us/ for he said. I will pease his wrath with the present that goth before me and afterward I will see him myself/ so peradventure he will receive me to grace.  
So went the present before him and he tarried all that night in the tent/ and rose up the same night and took his two wyves and his two maidens & his. x●. sons/ & went over the ford jabok. And he took them and sent them over the river/ and sent over that he had and tarried behind himself alone.  
And there wrasiled a man with him unto the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he could not prevail against him/ he smote him under the thy/ and the senowe of jacobs' thy shrank as he wrestled with him. And he said: let me go/ for the day breaketh. And he said: I will not let the go/ except thou bless me. And he said unto him: what is thy name? He answered: jacob. And he said: thou shalt be called jacob no more/ but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed.  
And jacob asked him saying/ tell me thy name. And he said/ wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there. And jacob called the name of the place Peniel/ for I have seen God face to face/ and yet is my life reserved. And as he went over Peniel/ the son rose upon him/ and he halted upon his thy: wherefore the children of Israel ●a●e not of the senow that shrancke under the thy/ unto this day: because that he smote jacob under the thy in the senow that sh●oncke.   

The xxxiij Chapter.  
Jacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come/ & with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rahel and unto the ij. maidens. And he put the maidens and their children formest/ and Lea and her children after/ and Rahel and joseph hindermost. And he went before them and fell on the ground▪ ●ij▪ times/ until he came unto his brother.  
Esau ran against him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him/ and they wept. And he lift up his eyes and saw the wyves and their children/ and said: what are these which thou there hast? And he said: they are the children which God hath given thy servant. Than came the maidens forth/ and did their obaysaunce. Lea also and her children came and did their obaysaunce. And last of all came Joseph and Rahel and did their obaysaunce.  
And he said: what meanyst thou with all the drooves which I met. And he answered: to find grace in the sight of my lord. And Esau said: I have enough my brother/ keep that thou hast unto thy silf. Jacob answered: oh nay but if I have found grace in thy sight/ receive my present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as though I had seen that face of God: wherefore receive me to grace and take my blessing that I have brought thee/ for God hath given it me freely. And I have enough of all things. And so he compelled him to take it.  
And he said: let us take our journey and go/ and I will go in thy company. And he said unto him: my lord knoweth that I have tender children/ ewes and kine with young under mine hand/ which if men should ouerdry●● but even one day/ the hold flock would die. Let my lord therefore go before his servant and I will drive fair and softly/ according as the cattles that goth before me and the children/ be able to endure: until I come to ●● lord unto Seir.  
And Esau said: let me yet leave some of my folk with the. And he said: what needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord So Esau went his way again that same day unto Seir. And Jacob took his journey toward Sucoth/ and built him an house/ and made booths for his cattles: whereof the name of the place is called Sucoth.  
And Jacob went to Salem to the city of Si them in the land of Canaan/ after that he was come from Mesopotamia/ and pitched before the city/ and bought a parcel of ground where he ●ttched his tent/ of the children of Hemor Sichems' father/ for an hundred lambs. And he made there an altar/ and there called upon the mighty God of Israel.   

The xxxiiij Chapter.  
DIna the daughter of Lea which she bore unto Jacob/ went out to see the daughters of the land. And Eichen the son of Hemo: the Hevite lord of the country/ saw her/ & took her/ & lay with her/ and forced her: & his heart lay unto Dina the daughter of Jacob. And he loved that damsel & spoke kidly unto her/ & spoke unto his father Hemo● saying/ get me this maiden unto my wife.  
And jacob heard that he had defiled Dina his daughter/ but his sons were with the cattles in the field/ and therefore he held his peace/ until they were come. Then Hemor the father of Sichem went out unto jacob/ to comen with him. And the sons of jacob came out of the field as soon as they heard it/ for it grieved them/ and they were not a little wrooth/ because he had wrought folly in Israel/ in that he had lain with jacobs' daughter/ which thing ought not to be done.  
And Hemor comened with them saying? the soul of my son Sichem longeth for your daughter give her him to wife/ and make marriages with us: give your daughters unto us/ and take our daughters unto you/ and dwell with us/ & the land shall be at your pleasure/ dwell and do your business/ and have your possessions there in. And Sichem said unto her father and her brethren: let me find grace in your eyes/ and what soever ye appoint me/ that will I give. Axe freely of me both the dowry & gifts/ and I will give according as ye say unto me/ and give me the damsel to wife.  
Then the sons of jacob answered to Sichem and Hemor his father deceytefully/ because he had defiled Dina their sister. And they said unto them/ we can not do this thing/ that we should give our sister to one that is uncircumcised/ for that were a shame unto us. Only in this will we consent unto you? If ye will be as we be/ that all the men children among you be circumcised/ than will we give our daughter to you and take yours to us/ and will dwell with you and be one people. But and if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised/ than will we take our daughter and go our ways.  
And their words pleased Hemor and Sichem his son. And the young man deferred not for to do the thing/ because he had a lust to jacobs' daughter: he was also most set by of all that were in his father's house. Than Hemor and Sichem went unto the gate of their city/ and comened with the men of their city saying. These men are peaceable with us/ & will dwell in the land and do their occupation therein And in the land is room enough for them/ let us take their daughters to wives and give them ours: only herm will they consent unto us for to dwell with us and to be one people: if all the men children that are among us be circumcised as they are. Their goods & their substance and all their cattles are ours/ only let us consent unto them/ that they may dwell with us.  
And unto Hemor and Sichem his sonneharkened all that went out at the gate of his city. And all the men children were circumcised what soever went out at the gates of his city. And the third day when it was painful to them/ ij. of the sons of jacob Simeon & Levi Dinas brethren/ took either of them his sword & went in to the city boldly/ and slew all that was male/ and slew also H●m●● and Sichem his son with the edge of the sword/ and took Dina their sister out of Sichems' house/ and went their way.  
Than came the sons of jacob upon the deed/ and spoiled the city/ because they had defiled their sister: and took their sheep/ oxen asses and what so ever was in the city and also in the fields. And all their goods/ all their children and their wives took they captive/ and made hanock of all that was in the houses.  
And jacob said to Simeon and Levi: ye have troubled me and made me stink unto the inhabitatours of the land/ both to the Can●anytes and also unto the Pherezites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me & ●ley me/ and so shall I and my house be destroyed. And they answered: should they deal with our sister a● with an whore?   

¶ The xxxv Chapter  
ANd God said unto jacob/ arise and get the up to bethel/ & dwell there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee/ when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. Than said jacob unto hi● household & to all that were with him/ put away the strange gods that are among you & make youre selves clean/ & change your garments/ & let us arise & go up to bethel/ that I may make an altar there/ unto God which heard me in the day of my tribulation & was with me in the way which I went.  
And they gave unto jacob all the strange gods which were under their hands/ and all their carynges which were in their ears/ and jacob hid them under an ooke at Sichem. And they departed▪ And the fear of God fell upon the cities that were round about them/ that they durst not follow after the sons of jacob. ●o came jacob to Lus in the land of Canaan/ otherwise called bethel/ with all the people that was with him. And he builded there an ●ulter/ and called the place Elbethell: because that God appeared unto him there/ when he fled from his brother.  
Then died Debor● Rebeccas' norse/ and was buried ben●●he bethel under an ooke. And the name of it was called the ooke of lamentation.  
And God appeared unto jacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia/ & blessed him and said unto him: thy name is jacob. notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called jacob/ but Israel shallbe thy name. And so was his name called Israel.  
And God said unto him: I am God almighty/ grow and multiply: for people and a multitude of people shall spring of thee/ ye and kings shall come out of they loins. And the land which I gave Abraham & Isaac/ will I give unto thee/ & unto thy seed after the will I give it also. And god departed from him in the place where he talked with him. And jacob set up a mark in the place where he talked with him: even a pillar of stone/ & powered drynkeoffringe thereon and powered also oil thereon/ and called the name of the place where God spoke with him/ bethel.  
And they departed from Bethel/ & when he was but a field breed from Ephrath/ Rahel began to travel. And in travelling she was in peril. And as she was in pains of her labour/ the midwife said unto her: fear not/ for thou shalt have this son also. Then as her soul was a departing/ that she must die: she called his name Ben O●i. But his father called him Ben jamin. And thus died Rahel and was buried in the way to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem. And jacob set up a pillar upon her grave/ which is called Rahels' grave pillar unto this day. And Israel went thence and pitched up his tent beyond the tour of Eder.  
And it chanced as Israel dwelled in that land/ that Reuben went & lay with Bilha his father's concubine/ & it came to Israel's ear. The sons of jacob were twelve in number. The sons of Lea. Reuben jacobs' eldest son/ & Simeon/ Levi/ juda/ Isacha●/ & Zabulon The sons of Rahel: joseph & Ben jamin. The sons of Bilha Rahels' maid: Dan & Nepthali. The sons of Zilpha Leas maid Gad & Aser. Thes are the sons of jacob which were borne him in Mesopotamia.  
Then jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre a principal city/ otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham & Isaac sogeorned as strangers. And the days of Isaac were an hundred & lxxx years: & than fell he seek & died/ and was put unto his people: being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and jacob buried him.   

The xxxvi Chapter.  
THese are the generations of Esau which is called Edom. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan Ada the daughter of Elon an Hittite/ & Ah●libama the daughter of Ana/ which Ana was the son of Zibeon an Hevite/ And Basmath Ismaels' daughter & sister of Nebaioth. And Ada bore unto Esau/ Eliphas: and Basmath bare Reguel: And Ahalibama bore jeus/ jaelam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau which were borne him in the land of Canaan.  
And Esau took his wives/ his sons and daughters and all the souls of his house: his goods and all his cattles and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan/ and went in to a country away from his brother jacob: for their riches was so much/ that they could not dwell together/ and that the land where in they were strangers/ could not receive them: because of their cattles. Thue dwelled Esau in mount Seir/ which Esau is called Edom  
These are the generations of Esau sather of the edomites in mount Seir/ & these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphas the son of Ada the wife of Esau/ and Reguel the son of Basmath the wife of Esau also. And the sons of Eliphas were. Theman/ Omar/ Zepho/ Gactham and kenas. And th●●na was concubine to Eliphas Esau's son/ and bare unto Eliphas/ Amalech. And these be the sons of Ada Esau's wife. And these are the sons of Reguel: Nahath/ Serah/ Samma and Misa: these were the sons of Basmath Esau's wife. And these were the sons of Ahalibama Esau's wife the daughter of Ana son of Zebcon/ which she bore unto Esau: jeus/ jealam and Rorah.  
These were dukes of the sons of Esau. The children of Eliphas the first son of Esau were these: duke Theman/ duke Omar/ duke Zepho/ duke Renas/ duke Rorah/ duke Gaetham & duke Amalcch: these are the dukes that came of Eliphas in the land of Edom/ and these were the sons of Ada▪  
These were the children of ●eguel Esau's son: duke ●●ahath/ duke Serah/ duke Samma/ duke Misa. These are the dukes that came of Reguel in the land of Edom/ and these were the sons of Basmath Esau's wife.  
These were the children of Ahalibama Esau's wife: duke jeus/ duke jaelam/ duke Rorah these dukes. ame of Ahalibama the daughter of Ana Esau's wife. These are the children of Esau/ and these are the dukes of them: which Esau is called Edom:  
These are the children of Seir the Horite/ the in habitoure of the land: Lothan/ Sobal/ Zibeon/ Ana/ Dison/ Eser and Disan. These are the dukes of the horites the children of Seir in the land of Edom. And the children of Lothan were: Hori and Hemam. And Lothans' sister was called Thimna.  
The children of Sobal were these: Alvan/ Manahath/ Ebal/ Sepho & Onan. These were the children of Zibeon. A●a & ana/ this was that Ana the sound the mules in the wilderness/ as be fed his father Zibeons asses. The children of Ana were these. Dison and Ahalibama the daughter of Ana.  
These are the children of Dison. Hemdan Esban/ jethran & C●erā. The children of E●e● were these/ Bilhan/ Seavan & Aka●. The children of Disan were: Vz and Aran.  
These are the dukes that came of Hori: duke Lothan/ duke Sobal/ duke Zibeon/ duke Ana duke Dison/ duke Ezer/ duke Disan. These be the dukes that came of Hoary in their duked●s in the land of Seir.  
These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king among the children of Israel. Bela the son of Bcor reigned in ●domca/ and the name of his city was Sinhaba. And when Bela died/ jobab the son of Serah out of Bezara/ reigned in his stead. When jobab was dead/ Husam of the land of Themany reigned in his stead. And after the death of Husam/ Hadad the son of Bedad which stew the Madianytes in the field of the Moabites/ reigned in his stead/ and the name of his city was Av●●h. When Hadad was dead/ Samla of Masteka reigned in his stead. When Samla was dead/ Saul of the ryver Rchoboth reigned in his stead. When Saul was dead/ Baal hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. And after the death of Baal Hanan the son of Achbor/ Hadad reigned in his stead/ and the name of his city was Pagu. And his wife's name Mchetabeel the daughter of matred the daughter of Mesaab.  
These are the names of the dukes that came of Esau/ in their kynreddds/ places and names: Duke Thimma/ duke Alva/ duke jetheth duke Ahalibama/ duke Ela/ duke Pinon/ duke Renas/ duke Theman/ duke Mibzar/ duke Magdiel/ duke Iram. These be the dukes of Edomea in their habitations/ in the land of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the edomites.   

¶ The xxxvij Chapter.  
ANd Jacob dwelled in the land wherein his father was a stranger/ that is to say in the land of Canaan. And these are the generations of Jacob: when joseph was. x●ij. year old/ he kept sheep with his brethren/ and the lad was with the sons of Bilha & of Zilpha his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them. And Israel loved Joseph more than all his children/ because he begat him in his old age/ and he made him a coote of many colours.  
When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren/ they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him. Moreover Joseph dreamt a dreawe and told it his brethren: wherefore they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them hear I pray you this dream which I have dreamt: Behold we were making she●●s in the fold: and loo/ my sheaf arose and stood up right/ and yours stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf. Than said his brethren unto him: what/ shalt thou be our king or shalt thou reign over us? And they hated him yet the in more/ because of his dream and of his words.  
And he dreamt yet another dream & told it his brethren saying: behold/ I have had one dream more: me thought the son and the moon and xi stars made obaysaunce to me. And when he had told it unto his father and his brethren/ his father rebuked him and said unto him: what meaneth this dream which thou hast dreamt: shall I and thy mother and thy brethren come and fall on the ground before thee? And his brethren hated him/ but his father noted the saying.  
His brethren went to keep their father's sheep in Sichem/ and Israel said unto joseph: do not thy brethren keep in Sichem? come that I may send y● to them. And he answered here am I And he said unto him: go and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the sheep/ and bring me word again: And sent him out of the vale of Hebron/ for to go to Sichem.  
And a certain man found him wand'ring out of his way in the field/ and axed him what he sought. And he answered: I seek my brethren/ tell me I pray the where they keep sheep And the man said/ they are departed hence/ for I heard them say/ let us go unto Dothan. Thus went joseph after his brethren/ and found them in Dothan.  
And when they saw him a far of before he came at them/ they took council against him/ for to slay him/ and said one to another/ Behold this dreamer cometh/ come now and let us slay him and cast him in to some pit/ and let us say that some wicked beast hath devoured him/ and let us see what his dreams will come to.  
When Reuben heard that/ he went about to rid him out of their hands and said/ let us not kill him. And Reuben said moreover unto them/ shed not his blood/ but cast him in to this pit that is in the wilderness/ and lay no hands upon him: for he would have rydd him out of their hands and delivered him to his father again.  
And as soon as joseph was come unto his brethren/ they strypte him out of his gay coote that was upon him/ and they took him and cast him in to a pit: But the pit was empty and had no water therein. And they s●tt them down to eat breed. And as they life up their eyes and looked about/ there came a company of Ismaelites from Gilead/ and their camels laden with spicery/ balm/ and my●re/ and were going down in to Egipte.  
Than said juda to his brethren/ what availeth it that we slay our brother/ and keep his blood secret? come on/ let us sell him to the Ismaelites/ and let not our hands be defiled upon him: for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. Than as the Mad●anites merchant men passed by/ they drew joseph out of the pit and sold him unto the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought him into Egipte.  
And when Reuben came again unto the pit and found not joseph there/ he rend his cloothes and went again unto his brethren saying: the lad is not yonder/ and whether shall I go? And they took joseph's coote and killed a goote/ & dipped the coote in the blood. And they sent that gay coote & caused it to be brought unto their father and said: This have we found: se/ whether it be thy sons coote or no. And he knew it saying: it is my sons coat a wicked beast hath devoured him/ and joseph is rend in pieces. And jacob rend his cloothes/ and put sack cloth about his loins/ and sorrowed for his son a long season.  
Than came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted/ but said: I will go down in to the grave unto my son/ morning. And thus his father wept for him. And the Madianytes sold him in Egipte unto Putip●ar a lord of Pharaos': and his chief marshal.   

¶ The xxxviij Chapter.  
ANd it fortuned at that time that judas went from his brethren & got him to a man called Hira of Odollam/ and there he saw the daughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he took her and went in unto her. And she conceived and bore a son and called his name E●. And she conceived again and bore a son and called him Onan. And she conceived the third time & bore a son/ whom she called Sela: & he was at Chesyb when she bore 'em.  
And judas gave E● his eldest son/ a wife whose name was Thamar. But this E● judas eldest son was wicked in the sight of the Lord/ wherefore the Lord slew him. Than said judas unto Onan: go in to thy brother's wife and Marie her/ and stir up seed unto thy brother. And when Onan perceived that the seed should not be his: therefore when he went in to his brother's wife/ he spilled it on the ground/ because he would not give seed unto his brother. And the thing which he did/ displeased the Lord/ wherefore he slew him also. Than said judas to Thamar his daughter in law: remain a widow at thy father's house/ till Sela my son be grown: for he feared lest he should have died also/ as his brethren did. Thus went Thamar & dwelled in her father's house.  
And in process of time/ the daughter of Sua judas wife died. Than judas when he had left morning/ went unto his sheep shearers to Thimnath with his friend Hira of Odollam. And one told Thamar saying: behold/ thy father in law goth upto Thimnath/ to shear his sheep. And she put her widows garments of from her and covered her with a clock/ and disgyssed herself: And sat her down at the entering of Enaim which is by the high ways side to Thimnath/ for because she saw that Sela was grown/ and she was not given unto him to wife.  
When juda saw her/ he thought it had been an hoore/ because she had covered her face. And turned to her unto the way and said/ come I pray thee/ let me lie with thee/ for he knew not that it was his daughter in law. And she said what wilt thou give me/ for to lie with me? Than said he/ I will send the a kid from the flock. She answered/ Than give me a pledge till thou send it. Than said he/ what pledge shall I give thee? And she said: thy sygnett/ thy neck lace/ and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave it her and lay by her/ and she was with child by him. And she got her up and went and put her mantel from her/ and put on her widows raiment again.  
And judas sent the kid by his neybure of O●ollam/ for to fetch out his pledge again from the wife's hand. But he found her not. Than asked he the men of the same place saying: where is the whore that sat at Enaim in the way? And they said: there was no whore here. And he came to juda again saying: I can not find her/ and also the men of the place said: that there was no whore there. And juda said: let her take it to her/ lest we be shamed: for I sent the kid & thou couldst not find her.  
And it came to pass that after three moan▪ thes/ one told juda saying: Thamar thy daughter in law hath played the whore/ and with playing the whore is become great with child. And juda said: bring her forth and let her be brent. And when they brought her forth/ she sent to her father in law saying: by the man unto whom these things pertain/ am I with child. And said also: look whose are this seal necklace/ and staff. And juda knew them saying: she is more rightwes than I/ because I gave her not to Sela my son. But he lay with her no more.  
When time was come that she should be delivered/ behold there was two twins in her womb. And as she travelled/ the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound a reed thread about it saying: this will come out first. But he plucked his hand back again/ and his brother came out. And she said: wherefore hast thou rend a rent upon thee? and called him Pharez. And afterward came out his brother that had the read thread about his hand/ which was/ called Zarah.   

¶ The xxxix Chapter.  
joseph was brought unto Egipte/ and Pu●iphar a lord of Pharaos': and his chief marshal an Egyptian/ bought him of the Ismaelites which brought him thither And the Lord was with joseph/ and he was a lucky fellow and continued in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the ORde was with him and that the Lord made all that he did prosper in his hand: Wherefore he found grace in his master's sight/ and served him. And his master made him ruler of his house/ and put all that he had in his hand. And as soon as he had made him ruler over his house and over all that he had/ the Lord blessed this Egyptians house for joseph's sake/ and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had: both in the house and also in the fields. And therefore he left all that he had in joseph's hand/ and looked upon nothing that was with him/ save only on the bread which he ate. And joseph was a goodly person & a well favoured  
And it fortuned after this/ that his master's wife cast her eyes upon joseph and said come lie with me. But he denied and said to her: Behold/ my master woteth not what he hath in the house with me/ but hath committed all that he hath to my hand He him self is not greater in the house than I/ and hath kept nothing from me/ but only the because thou art his wife. How than ca● I do this great wykydnes/ for to sin against God? And after this manner spoke she to joseph day by day: but he hearkened not unto her/ to sleep near her or to be in her company.  
And it fortuned about the same season/ that joseph entered in to the house/ to do his business: and there was none of the household by/ in the house. And she caught him by the garment saying: come sleep with me. And he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand/ and was fled out/ she called unto the men of the house/ and told them saying: See/ he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to do us shame. for he came in to me/ for to have slept with me. But I cried with a loud voice. And when he hard/ that I lift up my voice and cried/ he left his garment with me and fled away and got him out.  
And she laid up his garment by her/ until her lord came home. And she told him according to these words saying. This hebrews servant which thou hast brought unto us came in to me to do me shame. But as soon as I life up my voice and cried/ he left his garment with me and fled out. When his master heard the words of his wife which she told him saying: after this manner did thy servant to me/ he waxed wrooth.  
And he took joseph and put him in prison: even in the place where the kings prisoners lay bound. And there continued he in preson. But the Lord was with joseph and showed him mercy/ and got him favour in the ●yghte of the keeper of the preson which com● mytted to Ioseph● hand all the presoners that were in the preson house. And what soever was done there/ that did he. And the keeper of the prison looked unto nothing that was under his hand/ because the Lord was with him/ & because that what soever he did/ the Lord made it come luckily to pass.   

The xl. chapter.  
ANd it chanced after this/ that the chief butler of the king of Egipte and his chief baker had offended there lord the king of Egypte. And Ph●rao was angry with them and put them in ward in his chief marshal's house: even in the pre son where joseph was bound. And the chief marshal gave joseph a charge with them/ & he served them. And they contynuaed a season in ward.  
And they dreamt either of them in one night: both the butler and the baker of the king of Egipte which were bound in the preson house/ either of them his dream/ and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation When joseph came in unto them in the morning/ and looked upon them: behold/ they were sad. And he asked them saying/ wherefore look ye so sadly to day? They answered him/ we have dreamt a dream/ and have no man to declare it. And joseph said unto them. Interpreting belongeth to God but tell me yet.  
And the chief butler told his dream to joseph and said unto him. In my dream me thought there stood a vine before men/ and in the vine were lij branches/ and it was as though it budded/ & her blossons shottforth: & the grapes there of waxed ripe. And I had Pharaos' cup in my hand/ and took of the grapes and wrong them in to Pharaos' cup/ & delyvered Pharaos' cup into his hand.  
And joseph said unto him/ this is the interpretation of it. The three branches are thr● days: for within three days shall Pharaoh life up thine head/ and restore the unto▪ thine office again/ and thou shalt deliver Pharaos' cup in to his hand/ after the old manner/ even as thou didst when thou wast his butler. But think on me with thee/ when thou art in good case/ and show mercy unto me. And make mention of me to Pharaoh/ and help to bring me out of this house: for I was stolen out of the land of the hebrews/ & here also have I do ne nothing at all wherefore they should have put me in to this dungeon.  
When the chief baker saw that he had well interpretate it/ he said unto joseph/ me thought also in my dream/ that I had three wyker baskets on my head: And in the uppermost basket/ of all manner bakemeats for Pharaoh. And the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head  
joseph answered and said: this is the interpretation thereof. The three baskets are three days/ for this day three days shall Pharaoh take thy head from thee/ and shall hang the on a tree/ and the birds shall eat thy flesh from of the.  
And it came to pass the third day which was Pharaos' birth day/ that he made a feast unto all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief buttelar and of the chief baker among his servants. And restored the chief buttelar unto his buttelarshipe again/ and he wretched the cup in to Pharaos' hand/ ano hanged the chief baker: even as joseph had interpretated unto them. notwithstanding the chief buttelar remembered not joseph/ but forgot him.   

The xli chapter.  
ANd it fortuned at two years end/ that Ph●rao dreamt/ and thought that he stood by a rivers side/ and that there came out of the ryver vij goodly kine and fat fleshed/ and fed in a meadow. And him though that vij other kine came up after them out of the ryver evelfavored and lean fleshed and stood by the other upon the brink of the river. And the evil favoured and lenefleshed kine ate up the vij well-favoured and fat kine: and ●e awoke their with.  
And he slept again and dreamt the second time/ that vij ears of corn grew upon one stalk rank and goodly. And that vij thin ears blasted with the wind/ sprung up after them: and that the vij thin ears devowrerd the vij rank and full ears. And than Pharaoh awaked: and se/ here is his dream. When the morning came/ his spirit was troubled And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypte and all the wise men there of/ and told them his dream: but there was none of them that could interpretate it unto Pharaoh.  
Than spoke the chief buttelar unto Pharaoh saying. I do remember my fault this day. Pharaoh was angry with his servants/ and put in ward in the chief marshal's house both me and the chief baker. And we dreamt both of us in one night and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation.  
And there was with us a young man/ a Hebrew borne/ servaunte unto the chief marshal. And we told him/ and he declared our dreams to us according to either of our dreams. And as he declared them unto us/ even so it came to pass. I was restored to mine office again/ and he was hanged.  
Than Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of preson. And he shaved himself and changed his raiment/ & went in to Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: I have dreamt a dream and no man can interpretate it/ but I have herd say of the y● as soon as thou hearest a dream/ thou dost interpretate it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh saying: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace without me.  
Pharaoh said unto Joseph: in my dream me thought I stood by a rivers side/ and there came out of the ryver seven fat fleshed and well favoured kine/ and fed in the meadow. And then vij other kine came up after them/ poor and very evil favoured and lean fleshed: so that I never saw their like in all the land of Egipte in evil favordnesse. And the vij lean and evil favoured kine ate up the first vij fat kine And when they had eaten them up/ a man could not perceive that they had eaten them: for they were still as evil favoured as they were at the beginning. And I awoke.  
And I saw again in my dream vij ears spring out of one stalk full and good/ and vij other ears wytherd/ thin and blasted with wind/ spring up after them. And the thin ears devoured the vij good ears. And I have told it unto the soothsayers / but no man can tell me what it meaneth.  
Then Joseph said unto Pharaoh: both Pharaos' dreams are one. And god doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven. good kine are. seven years: & the vij good ears are vij year also/ and is but one dream. Likewise/ the vij thin and evil favoured kine that came out after them/ be vij years: and the vij empty and blasted ears shallbe seven. years of hunger. This is that which I said unto Pharaoh/ that God doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do.  
Behold there shall come vij year of great plenteousness through out all the land of Egypte. And there shall arise after them seven. years of hunger. So that all the plenteousness shallbe forgotten in the land of Egipte. And the hunger shall consume the land: so that the plenteousness shall not be once asene in the land by reason of that hunger that shall come after/ for it shallbe exceeding great And as concerning that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh the second time/ it betokeneth that the thing is certanly prepared of God/ and that God will shortly bring it to pass.  
Now therefore let Pharaoh provided for a man of understanding and wisdom/ and set him over the land of Egipte. And let Pharaoh make officers over the land/ and take up the fift part of the land of Egipte in the seven. plenteous years and let them gather all the food of these good years that come/ and lay up corn under the power of Pharo: that there may be food in the cities/ and there let them kept it: that there may be food in store in the land/ against the vij years of hunger which shall come in the land of Egipte/ and that the land perish not thorough hunger.  
And the saying pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. Than said Pharaoh unto his seruavauntes: where shall we find such a man as this is/ that hath the spirit of God in him? wherefore Pharaoh said unto Joseph: for as much as God hath showed the all this/ there is no man of understanding nor of wisdom like unto the Thou therefore shalt be over my house/ and according to thy word shall all my people obey: only in the kings seat will I be above the. And he said unto Joseph: behold/ I have set the over all the land of Egipte. And he took off his ring from his fingers/ and put it upon joseph's fingers/ and arrayed him in raiment of bisse/ and put a golden chain about his neck and set him upon the best charet that he had save one. And they cried before him Abrech/ and that Pharaoh had made him ruelar over all the land of Egipte.  
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: I am Pharaoh/ without thy will/ shall no man lift up other his hand or foot in all the land of Egipte. And he called joseph's name Zaphnath Paenea. And he gave him to wife Asnath the daughter of Potiphara priest of On. Than went Joseph abroad in the land of Egipte. And he was xxx year old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egipte. And than Joseph departed from Pharaoh/ and went thorough out all the land of Egipte.  
And in the vij plenteous years they made sheves and gathered up all the food of the vij plenteous years which were in the land of Egipte and put it in to the cities. And he put the food of the fields that grew round about every city: even in the same. And Joseph laid up corn in store/ like unto the sand of the see in multitude out of measure/ until he left nombring: For it was with out number.  
And unto Joseph were borne two sons before the years of hunger came/ which Asnath the daughter of Potiphara priest of On/ bare unto him. And he called the name of the first son Manasse/ for God (said he) hath made me forget all my labour & all my father's household. The second called he Ephraim/ for God (said he) hath caused me to grow in the land of my trouble.  
And when the vij years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypte were ended/ than came the vij years of dearth/ according as Joseph had said. And the dearth was in all lands: but in the land of Egipte was there yet food. When now all the land of Egipte began to hunger/ than cried the people to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all Egipte: go unto Joseph/ and what he saith to you that do And when the dearth was thorough out all the land/ Joseph opened all that was in the cities and sold unto the Egyptians And hunger waxed sore in the land of Egipte. And all countries came to Egipte to Joseph for to buy corn: because that the hunger was so sore in all lands.   

¶ The xlij Chapter.  
WHen jacob saw that there was corn to be sold in Egipte/ he said unto his sons: why are ye negligent? behold/ I have heard that there is corn to be sold in Egipte. get you thither and buy us corn from thence/ that we may live and not die. So went joseph's ten brethren down to buy corn in Egipte/ for Benjamin joseph's brother would not jacob send with his other brethren: for he said: some misfortune might happen him  
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among other that came/ for there was dearth also in the land of Canaan. And Joseph was governor in the land/ and sold corn to all the people of the land. And his brethren came/ and fell flat on the ground before him. When Joseph saw ●●s brethren/ he knew them: But made strange unto them/ and spoke rughly unto them saying: Whence come ye? and they said: out of the land of Canaan/ to buy victual. Joseph knew his brethren/ but they knew not him.  
And Joseph remembered his dreams which he dreamt of them/ and said unto them: ye are spies/ and to see where the land is weak is your coming. And they said unto him: nay my lord: but to buy victual thy servants are come. We are all one man's sons/ and mean truly/ and thy servants are no spies. And he said unto them: nay verily/ but even to see where the land is weak is your coming. And they said: we thy servants are twelve brethren/ the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is yet with our father/ and one no man woteth where he is.  
Joseph said unto them/ that is it that I said unto you/ that ye are surely spies. Here by ye shall be proved. For by the life of Pharaoh/ ye shall not go hence/ until your youngest brother be come hither. Send therefore one off you and let him set your brother/ and ye shallbe in preason in the mean season. And thereby shall your words be proved/ whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh/ ye are but spies. And he put them in ward three days.  
And Joseph said unto them the third day: This do and live/ for I fear Good If ye mean no hurt/ let one of your brethren be bound in the preason/ and go ye and bring the necessary food unto your households/ and bring your youngest brother unto me: that your words may be believed/ and that ye die not And they did so.  
Than they said one to another: we have verily sinned against our brother/ in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us/ & would not hear him: therefore is this troubyll come upon us. Reuben answered them saying: said I not unto you that ye should not sin against the lad? but ye would not hear And now verily see/ his blood is required.  
They were not aware that Joseph understood them/ for he spoke unto them by an interpreter. And he turned from them and wept/ and than turned to them again and comened with them/ and took out Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes/ and commanded to fill their sacks with corn/ and to put every man's money in his sack/ and to give them victual to spend by the way. And so it was done to them.  
And they jaded their asses with the corn and departed thence. And as one of them opened his sack/ for to give his ass provender in the I●ne/ he spied his money in his sack's mouth And he said unto his brethren: my money is restored me again/ & is even in my sacks mouth Than their hearts failed them/ and were astoynyed and said one to another: how cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?  
And they came unto jacob their father unto the land of Canaan/ and told him all that had happened them saying. The lord of the land spoke rughly to us/ and took us for spies to search the countte. And we said unto him: we mean truly and are no spies. We be twelve bretren sons of our father/ one is away/ and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.  
And the lord of the country said unto us: here by shall I know if ye mean truly: leave one of your brethren here with me/ and take food necessary for your households and get you away/ and bring your youngest brother unto me And thereby shall I know that ye are no spies/ but mean truly: So will I deliver you your brother again/ and ye shall occupy in the land.  
And as they emptied their sacks/ behold: everymen bundle of money was in his sack And when both they and their father saw the bundles of money/ they were afraid.  
And Jacob their father said unto them▪ We have ye rob of my children: Joseph is away/ and Simeon is away/ and ye will take Ben Jamin away. All these things fall upon me. Reuben answered his father saying: Slec my two sons/ if I bring him not to the again. deliver him therefore to my hand/ and I will bring him to the again: And he said: my son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead/ and he is left alone Moreover some miss fortune might happen upon him by the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my grey head with sorrow unto the grave.   

¶ The xliij Chapter.  
ANd the dearth waxed sore in the land. And when they had eat up that corn which they brought out of the land of Egipte/ their father said unto them: go again and by us a little food. Than said Juda unto him: the man did testify unto us saying: look that ye see not my face except your brother be with you. Therefore if thou wilt send our brother with us/ we will go and buy the food. But if thou wilt not send him/ we will not go: for the man said unto us: look that ye see not my face/ except your brother be with you.  
And Israel said: wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me/ as to tell the man that ye had yet another brother? And they said: The man asked us of our kindred saying: is your father yet alive? have ye not another brother? And we told him according to these words. How cowd we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with us? Than said Juda unto Israel his father: Send the lad with me/ and we will rise and go/ that we may live and not die: both we/ thou and also our children. I willbe surety for him/ and of my hands require him. If I bring him not to the and set him before thine eyes/ than let me bear the blame for ever. For except we had made this tarrying: by this we had been there twice and come again.  
Than their father Israel said unto them: If it must needs be so now: than do thus/ take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels/ and bring the man a present/ a courtesy bawlme/ and a courtesy of honey/ spices and myrrh/ dates and almonds. And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again in your sacks/ take it again with you in your hands/ peradventure it was some over sight.  
Take also your brother with you/ and arise and go again to the man. And God almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man and send you your other brother and also Ben Jamin/ and I willbe as a man rob of his children.  
Thus took they the present and twice so much more money with them/ and Benjamin. And rose up/ went down to Egipte/ and presented themself to Joseph. When Joseph saw BenJamin with them/ he said to the ruler of his house: bring these men home/ and slay and make ready: for they shall dine with me at none. And the man did as Joseph bade/ and brought them in to joseph's house.  
When they were brought to joseph's house/ they were afraid and said: be cause of the money that came in our sacks mouths at the first time/ be we brought/ to pike a quarrel with us & to lay some thing to our charge: to bring us in bondage and our asses also. Therefore came they to the man that was the ruler over joseph's house/ and comened with him at the door and said:  
Sir/ we came hither at the first time to buy food/ and as we came to an Inn and opened our sacks: behold/ every man's money was in his sack with full weghte: But we have brought it again with us/ & other money have we brought also in our hands/ to buy food/ but we can not tell who put our money in our sacks.  
And he said: be of good cheer/ fear not: Your God and the God of your fathers hath put you that treasure in your sacks/ for I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to them and led them into joseph's house/ & gave them water to wash their feet/ and gave their asses provender: And they made ready their present against Joseph came at none/ for they heard say that they should dine there.  
When Joseph came home/ they brought the present in to the house to him/ which they had in their hands/ and fell ●●at on the ground be for him. And he welcomed them courteously saying: is your father that old man which ye told me of/ in good health? and is he yet alive▪ they answered: thy servant our father is in good health/ and is yet alive. And they bowed themselves and fell to the ground.  
And he lift up his eyes & beheld his brother Ben Jamin his mother's son/ & said: is this your youngest brother of whom ye said unto me? And said: God be merciful unto that my son. And Joseph made haste (for his heart did melt upon his brother) and sought for to weep/ & entered in to his chamber/ for to weep there. And he washed his face and came out & refrained himself/ & bade set bread on the table  
And they prepared for him by himself/ and for them by themselves/ and for the Egyptians which ate with him by themselves/ because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the hebrews/ for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And they sat before him: the eldest according unto his age/ and the youngest according unto his youth. And the men marveled among themselves. And they brought rewards unto them from before him: but Ben Jamins part was five times so much as any of theirs. And they ate and they drunk/ and were drunk with him.   

The xliiij Chapter.  
ANd be commanded the rueler of his house saying: fill the men's sacks with food/ as much as they can carry/ and put every man's money in his bag mouth/ and put my silver cup in the sacks mouth of the youngest and his come money also. And he did as Joseph had said. And in the morning as soon is it was light/ the men were let go with their asses.  
And when they were out of the city and not yet far away/ Joseph said unto the ruler of his house: up and follow after the men and overtake them/ and say unto them: wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? is that not the cup of which my lord drinketh/ and doth he not prophesy therein? ye have evil done that ye have done.  
And he overtook them and said the same words unto them. And they answered him: wherefore saith my lord such words? God forbydd that thy servanuntes should do so. Behold/ the money which we found in our sacks mouths/ we brought again unto thee/ out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of my lords house/ either silver or gold? with whosoever of thy servants it be found let him die/ and let us also be my lords bondmen. And he said: Now therefore according unto your words/ he with whom it is found/ shallbe my servant: but ye/ shallbe harmless.  
And attonce every man took down his sack to the ground/ and every man opened his sack. And he searched/ and began at the eldest & left at the youngest. And the cup was found in Ben Jamins sack. Then they rend their clothes/ and jaded every man his ass and went again unto the city. And Juda and his brethren came to joseph's house/ for he was yet there/ and they fell before him on the ground. And Joseph said unto them: what deed is this which ye have done? witted ye not that such a man as I can prophesy?  
Then said Juda: what shall we say unto my lord/ what shall we speak or what excuse can we make? God hath found out the wickedness of thy servants. Behold/ ●oth we and he with whom the cup is found/ be thy servants. And he answered: God forbid that I should do so/ the man with whom the cup is found/ he shallbe my servant: but go ye in peace unto your father.  
Then Juda went unto him and said: oh my lord/ let thy servant speak a word in my lords audience/ and be not wrooth with thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. My lord axed his servant saying: have ye a father or a brother? And we answered my lord/ we have a father that is old/ and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead/ & he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.  
Then said my lord unto his servants bring him unto me/ that I may set mine eyes upon him. And we answered my lord/ that the lad could not go from his father/ for if he should leave his father/ he were but a deed man. Than saidest thou unto thy servants: except your youngest brother come with you/ lo●e that ye see my face no more.  
And when we came unto thy servaunt our father/ we showed him what my lord had said. And when our father said unto us/ go again and buy us a little food: we said/ that we could not go. Nevertheless if our youngest brother go with us than will we go/ for we may not see the man's face/ except our youngest brother be with us. Then said thy servaunt our father unto us. Ye know that my wife bore me two sons. And the one went out from me and it is said of a surety that he is torn in pieces of wild beasts/ and I saw him not se●ce. If ye shall take this also away from me and some miss fortune happen upon him/ then shall ye bring my grey heed with sorrow unto the grave.  
Now therefore when I come to thy servaunt my father/ if the lad be not with me: seeing that his life hangeth by the lads life/ then as soon as he seeth that the lad is not come/ he will die. So shall we thy servants bring the grey head of thy servaunt our father with sorrow unto the grave. For I thy servaunt became surety for the lad unto my father & said: if I bring him not unto the again. I will bear the blame all my life long. Now therefore let me thy servaunt bide here for the lad/ & be my lords bondman: & let the lad go home with his brethren. For how can I go unto my father/ and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father.   

The xlv Chapter.  
ANd Joseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him/ but commanded that they should go all out from him/ and that there should be no man with him/ while he uttered himself unto his brethren. And he wept aloud/ so that the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it. And he said unto his brethren: I am Joseph: doth my father yet live? But his brethren could not answer him/ for they were abashed at his presence.  
And Joseph said unto his brethren: come near to me/ and they came near. And he said: I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold in to Egipte. And now be not grieved therewith/ neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes/ that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life. For this is the second year of dearth in the land/ and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earring nor hervest.  
Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision/ that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not ye that sent me hither/ but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharaoh and lord over all his house/ and ●ueler in all the land of Egipte. Hast you and go to my father and tell him/ this sayeth thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord over all Egipte. Come down unto me and tarry not/ And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gosan & be by me: both thou and thy children/ and thy children's children: and thy sheep/ and beasts and all that thou hast. There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet v years of dearth/ lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.  
Behold/ your eyes do se/ and the eyes also of my brother Ben Jamin/ that I speak to you by mouth. Therefore tell my father of all my bonoure which I have in Egipte and of all that ye have seen/ and make haste and bring in father hither. ¶ And he fell on his brother Ben Jamis neck & wept/ & Ben Jamin wept on his neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that/ his brethren talked with him. And when the ridynges was come unto Pharaos' house that Josephes' brethren were come/ ●● pleased Pharaoh well and all his servants.  
And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph: say unto thy brethren/ this do ye: lad your beasts and get you hence/ And when ye be come unto the land of Canaan/ take your father and your households and come unto me/ and I will give you the best of the land of Egipte/ and ye shall eat the fat of the land. And commanded also. This do ye: take charettes with you out of the land of Egipte/ for your children and for your wives: and bring your father and come. Also/ regard not your stuff/ for the goods of all the land of Egipte shallbe yours.  
And the children of Israel did even so/ And Joseph gave them charettes at the commandment of Pharaoh/ and gave them ●●tayle also to spend by the way. And he gave unto each of them change of raiment: but unto Ben Jamin he gave iij. hundred pieces of silver and .v. change of raiment. And unto his father he sent after the same manner: x. he asses laden with good out of Egipte/ and ten she asses laden with corn/ bred and meat: to serve his father by the way. So sent he his brethren away/ and they departed. And he said unto them: see that ye fall no● out by the way.  
And they departed from Egipte and came in to the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father/ and told him saying▪ Joseph is yet a live and is governor over all the land of Egipte. And jacob's heart wavered/ for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph which he had said unto them. But when he saw the charettes which Joseph had sent to carry him/ then his spirits revived. And Israel said. I have enough/ if Joseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him/ yet that I die.   

The xlvi Chapter.  
ISrael took his journey with all that he had/ and came unto Berseba and offered offerings unto the God of his father Isaac. And God said unto Israel in a vision by night/ and called unto him: Jacob Jacob. And he answered: here am I And he said: I am that mighty God of thy father/ fear not to go down in to Egipte. For I will make of the there a great people. I will go down with that in to Egipte/ & I will also bring the up again/ & Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.  
And Jacob rose up from Berseba. And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father/ and their children and their wives in the charettes which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattles and the goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan/ and came in to Egipte: both Jacob and all his seed with him/ his sons and his sons sons with him: his daughters and his sons daughters and all his seed brought he with him in to Egipte.  
These are the names of the children of Israel which came in to Egipte/ both Jacob and his sons: Reuben jacob's first son. The children of Reuben: Hanoch/ Pallu/ Hezron and Charnn. The children of Simeon: Jemuel/ Jamin/ Ohad/ Jach●/ Zohar and Saul the son of a Cananitish woman The children of Leu●: Gerson/ Rahath and Merari. The children of juda: Er/ Onan/ Sela/ Pharez and Zerah/ but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The children of Pharez/ Hezron & Hamul. The children of Isachar: Tola/ Phuva job and Sem●on. The children of Sebulon: Sered/ Elon and Jaheleel. These be the children of Lea which she bore unto Jacob in Mesopotamia with his daughter Dina. All these souls of his sons and daughters make. thirty and vi  
The children of Gad: Ziphion/ Haggi/ Suni/ Ezbon/ Eri/ Arodi and Ar●li. The children of Affer: Jemna/ Jesua/ Jesui/ Brya and Serah their sister. And the children of Biya were Heber and Malchiel. These are the children of Silpha whom Loban gave to Lea his daughter. And these she bore unto Jacob in number xvi. souls.  
The children of Rahel jacob's wife: Joseph and been Jamin. And unto Joseph in the land of Egipte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which Asnath the daughter of Potiphara priest of On bare unto him. The children of Ben-Jamin: Bela/ Becher/ Asbel/ Gera/ Naeman/ Ehi Ros Mupim/ Hupun and Ard. These are the children of Rahel which were borne unto Jacob: xiv. souls all together.  
The children of Dan: Husim. The children of Nepthali? Jahezeel/ Guni/ Jezer and Sistem. These are the sons of Bilha which Laban gave unto Rahel his daughter/ and she bore these unto Jacob/ all together vij souls All the souls that came with Jacob in to Egipte which came out of his loins (beside his sons wives) were all together lx and vi souls. And the sons of Joseph/ which were borne him in egypt were two souls: So that all the souls of the house of Jacob which came in to Egipte are lxx.  
And he sent juda before him unto Joseph that the way might be showed him unto Gosan/ and they came in to the land of Gosan And Joseph made ready his charet and went against jsrael his father unto Gosan/ and presented himself unto him/ and fell on his neck and wept upon his neck a good while.  
And Israel said unto Joseph: Now C●am content to die/ in somoch I have seen thee/ that thou art yet alive.  
And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house: I will go & show Pharaoh and tell him: that my brethren and my father's house which were in the land of Canaan are come unto me/ and how they are shepherds (for they were men of cattles) and they have brought their sheep and their oxen and all that they have with them. If Pharaoh call you and axe you what your occupation is/ say: thy servants have been occupied about cattles/ from our chilhode unto this time: both we and our father's/ that ye may dwell in the land of Gosan. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that seed sheep.   

¶ The xlvij Chapter.  
ANd Joseph went and told Pharaoh and said: my father and my brethren their sheep and their beasts and all that they have/ are come out of the land of Canaan and are in the land of Gosan. And Joseph took a part of his brethren: even five of them/ and presented them unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: what is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh: seaders of sheep are thy servants/ both we and also our fathers. They said moreover unto Pharaoh: for to sogeorne in the land are we come/ for thy servants have no pasture for their sheep so sore is the fameshment in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let thy servants dwell in the land of Gosan.  
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: thy father and thy brethren are come unto the. The land of Egipte is open before thee: In the best place of the land make both thy father and thy brethren dwell: And even in the land of Gosan let them dwell. Moreover if thou know any men of activyte among them/ make them rulers over my cattles. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh axed Jacob/ how old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: the days of my pilgrimage are an hundred and xxx years▪ Few and evil have the days of my life been/ and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out▪ from him. And Joseph prepared dwellings for his father and his brethren/ and gave them possessions in the land of Egipte/ in the best of the land: even in the land of Raemses/ as Pharaoh commanded. And Joseph made provision for his father/ his brethren and all his father's household/ as young children are fed with bread.  
There was no bread in all the land/ for the dearth was exceadige sore: so that the land of Egipte & the land of ●anaan/ were famished by the reason of the dearth. And Joseph brought together all the money that was found in that land of Egipte and of Canaan/ for the come which they bought: & he laid up the money in Pharaos' house.  
When money failed in the land of Egipte & of Canaan/ all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said: give us sustenance: wherefore sufferest thou us to die before thee/ for our money is spent. Then said Joseph: bring your cattles/ and I will give you for your cattles/ if ye be without money. And they brought their cattles unto Joseph. And he gave them bread for horses and sheep/ and oxen and asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattles that year.  
When that year was ended/ they came unto him the next year and said unto him: we will not hide it from my lord/ how that we have neither money nor cattles for my lord: there is no more left for my lord/ but even our bodies and our lands. Wherefore latest thou us die before thine eyes/ and the land to go to nought? buy us and our lands for bread: and let both us and our lands be bond to Pharaoh. Eeve us seed▪ that we may live & not die/ & that the land god not to waste.  
And Joseph bought all the land of Egipte for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians sold every man his land because the dearth was sore upon them: and so the land became Pharaos'. And he appointed the people unto the cities/ from one side of Egipte unto the other: only the land of the priests bought he not. For there was an ordinance made by Pharaoh for the 
* The blind guides get previleges from bearing with their brethren contrary to Christ's law of love. And of these priests of idols did ●ure compassinge yvetrees learn to creep up by little & little & to compass the great trees of the world with hypocrisy/ and to thrust the ro●es of idola tysse superstition in to hem & to so 〈…〉 out y●●uce f then with heir poe●●ye/ till all be seer bows and no thing green save their own com● wealth.  pre astes/ that they should eat that which was appointed unto them: which Pharaoh had given them wherefore they sold not their lands.  
Then joseph said unto the folk: behold I have bought you this day and you●e lands for Pharaoh. Take there seed and go sow the land. And of the increase/ ye shall give the fift part unto Pharaoh/ and four partee shallbe your own/ for seed to sow the field: and for you/ and them of your households/ and for your children/ to eat. And they answered: Thou haste saved our lyves Let us find grace in the sight of my lord/ and let us he Pharaos' servants. And joseph made it a law over the land of Egipte unto this day: that men must give Pharaoh the fift part/ except the land of the priests only/ which was not bond unto Pharaoh.  
And Israel dwelled in Egipte: even in the country of Gosan. And they had their possessions therein/ and they grew and multiplied exceadingly. Moreover jacob lived in the land of Egipte xvij years/ so that the hole age of jacob was an hundred and xlvij year.  
When the time drewenye/ that Israel must die: he sent for his son joseph and said unto him: If I have found grace in thy sight/ put thy hand under my thy and deal mercifully and truly with me/ that thou bury me not in Egipte: but let me lie by my father's/ and c●rie me out of Egipte/ and bury me in their burial. And he answered: I will do as thou hast said. And he said: swear unto me: and he swore unto him. And than Israel bowed him unto the beds head.   

The xlviij Chapter.  
AFter these deeds/ tidings were brought unto joseph/ that his father was seek. And he took with him his ij. ●onnes/ Manasses and Ephraim. Then was it said unto jacob: behold/ thy son joseph cometh unto the. And Israel took his strength unto him/ and satt up on the bed/ and said unto joseph: God almighty appeared unto me at ●us in the land of Canaan/ and blessed me/ and said unto me: behold/ I will make the grow and will multiply thee/ and will make a great number of people of thee/ and will give this land unto the and unto thy seed after y● unto an everlasting possession. Now therefore thy two sons Manasses and Ephraim which were borne unto the before I came to thee/ into Egipte/ shallbe mine: even as Reuben and Simeon shall they be unto me And the children which thou getteest after them/ shallbe thine own: but shallbe caller with the names of their brethren in their inheritances.  
And after I came from Mesopotamia/ Rabel died upon my ●ande in the land of Canaan/ by the way: when I had but a fields breed to go unto Ephrat. And I buried her there in the way to Ephrat which is now called Bethlehem.  
And Israel beheld josephes' sons & said: what are these? And joseph said unto his father: they are my sons/ which God hath given me here. And he said: bring them to me/ and let me bless them. And the eyes of Israel were dim for age/ so that he could not see. And he brought them to him/ and he kissed them and embraced them. And Israel said unto joseph: I had not thought to have seen thy face/ and yet loo/ God hath showed it me and also thy seed. And joseph took them away from his lap/ and they fell on the ground before him.  
Than took joseph them both: Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and Manasses in his left hand/ toward Israel's right hand/ and brought them unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head which was the younger/ and his life hand upon Manasses heed/ crossing his hands/ for manasses was the elder. And he blessed joseph saying: God before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac did wal●e/ and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day/ And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil/ bless these lads: that they may be called after my name/ and after my father Abraham and Isaac/ and that they may grow and multiply ap● the earth.  
When joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim/ it displeased him. And he lift up his father's hand/ to have removed it from Ephraim's head unto Manasses head/ and said unto his father: Not so my father/ for this is the eldest. Put thy right hand upon his head. And his father would not/ but said: I ●nowe it well my son/ I ●nowe it well. He shallbe also a people and shallbe great. But of a troth his younger brother shallbe greater than he/ and his seed shall be full of people. And he blessed them saying. At the ensample of these/ the Israelites shall bless and say: God ma●e the as Ephraim and as Manasses. Thus set he Ephraim before Manasses.  
And Israel said unto joseph: behold/ I die. And god shallbe with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. Moreover I give unto thee/ a portion of land above thy brethren/ which I got out of the hands of the Amoo●tes with my sword and with my bow.   

The xlix Chapter.  
ANd jacob called for his sons and said: come together/ that I may tell you what shall hap you in the last days. Gather you together and hear ye sons of jacob/ and her●en unto Israel your father.  
Reuben/ thou art mine eldest son/ my might and the beginning of my strength/ chief in receiving and chief in power. As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest/ for thou wenst up upon thy father's bed/ and than defyledest thou my couch with going up.  
The brethren Simeon and Levi/ weked instruments are their weapons. In to their secrettes come not my soul/ and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled▪ forin their wrath they slew a man/ and in their their selfewill they houghed an ox. Cursed be their wrath for it was strong/ and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore divide them in jacob/ & scatter them in Israel.  
juda/ thy brethren shall praise thee/ & thine hand shallbe in the neck of thine enemies/ & thy father's children shall stoop unto the. juda is a lion's whelp. Fron spoil my son thou art come an high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion/ and as a lioness. Who dare steer him up? The sceptre shall not depart from juda/ nor a ruler from between his legs/ until Silo come/ unto whom the people shall hearken. He shall bind his fool unto the vine/ and his asses colt unto the vine branch/ and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantel in the blood of grapes/ his eyes are roudier than wine/ and his teeth whit●er then milk.  
Zabulon shall dwell in the haven of the see and in the port of ships/ & shall reach unto Sidon.  
Isachar is a strong ass/ he couched him down between two borders/ and saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant/ and bowed his shoulder to bear/ and became a servant unto tribute.  
Dan shall judge his people/ as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shallbe a serpent in the way/ and an edder in the path/ and bite the horse heel's/ so that his rider shall fall backward. After thy saving look I Lord.  
God/ men of war shall ●●ade him. And he shall turn them to flight.  
Off Asser cometh fat breed/ and he shall give pleasures for a king.  
Nepthali is a swift hind/ and giveth goodly words.  
That flourishing child joseph/ that flourishing child and goodly unto the eye: the daughters come forth to bear rule. The shooters have envied him and chide with him and hated him/ and yet his bow bode fast/ & his arms and his hands were strong/ by the hands of the mighty God of jacob: out of him shall come an herd man a stone in Israel. Thy father's God shall help thee/ & the almighty shall bless the with blessings from heaven above/ and with blessings of the water that lieth under/ & with blessings of the breasts & of the womb● The blessings of thy father were strong: even as the blessings of my elders/ after the desire of the highest in the world/ and these blessings shall fall on the head of joseph/ and on the top of the head of him that was separat from his brethren.  
Ben jamin is a raucshing wolf. In the morning he shall devour his pray/ and at night he shall divide his spoil.  
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel/ & this is that which their father spoke unto them when he blessed them/ every man with a several blessing. And he charged them and said unto them. I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my father's/ in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hethyte/ in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field. Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in. There they buried Abraham and Sara his wife/ there they buried Isaac & Rebecca his wife. And there I buried Lea: which field & the cave that is therein/ was bought of the children of Heth.  
When jacob had commanded all that he would unto his sons/ be plucked up his feet upon the bed and died/ and was put unto his people. And joseph fell upon his father's face/ and wept upon him/ and kissed him.   

The l Chapter.  
ANd joseph commanded his servants that were Physicians/ to embawme his father/ and the physicians enbalmed Israel xl days long/ for so long doth the embawminge last/ & the Egyptians bewepte him lxx days.  
And when the days of weeping were ended/ joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh saying: If I have found favour in your eyes/ speak unto Pharaoh and tell him/ how that my father made me swear and said: loo/ I die/ se that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let me go and bury my father/ and than will I come again. And Pharaoh said/ go and bury thy father/ according as he made the swear.  
And joseph went up to bury his father/ and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh that were the elders of his house/ and all the elders of Egipte/ and all the house of joseph and his brethren & his father's house: only their children & their sheep and their cattles left they behind them in the land of Gosan. And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.  
And when they came to that field of Atad beyond jordane/ there they made great & exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his father vij days. When the enhabiters of the land the Cananytes saw the mourning in the field of A●ad/ they said: this is a great mourning which the Egyptians make. Wherefore the name of the place is called Abel mizraim/ which place lieth beyond Jordane. And his sons did unto him according as he had commanded them.  
And his sons carried him in to the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in/ of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre. And Joseph returned to Egipte again and his brethren/ and all that went up with him to bury his father/ assoon as he had buried him.  
When joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead/ they said: Joseph might for tune to hate us and reward us again a●● the evil which we did unto him. They did therefore a commandment unto Joseph saying: thy father charged before his death saying. This wise say unto Joseph/ forgive I pray the the trespass of thy brethren & their sin/ for they rewarded the evil. Now therefore we pray the● forgive the trespass of the servants of thy fathers God. And Joseph wept when they spa●e unto him.  
And his brethren came and fell before him and said: behold we he thy servants. And Joseph said unto them: fear not/ for am not I under god? Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass/ as it is this day/ even to save much people a live fear not therefore/ for I will care for you and for your children/ and he spoke kindly unto them.  
Joseph dwelled in Egipte and his father's house also/ and lived an hundred & ten year. And Joseph saw Ephraim's children/ even unto the third generation. And unto Machir the son of Manasses were children borne/ & sat on joseph's knees.  
And Joseph said unto his brethren: I die And God will surly visit you and bring you out of this land/ unto the land which he swore unto Abraham/ Isaac and Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said: God will not fail but visit you/ see therefore that ye carry my bones hence. And so Joseph died/ when he was an hundred and ten year old. And they enba▪ w●●ed him and put him in a chest in Egipte.   
The end of the first book of Moses.   

¶ A table expounding certain words  

Abrech/ tender father/ or as some will/ bow the knee.  
Arefy/ a ship made flat as it were a chest or a coffer.  
Bisse: fine white/ whether it be s●lfe or linen.  
Bless: gods blessings are his gifts/ as in the first chapter he blessed them saying: grow & multiply & have dominion etc. And in the ix chapter he blessed ●o● & his sons & gave than dominion over all beasts & authority to ●a●e them And god blessed Abraham with cattles and other riches. And Jacob desired Esau to receive the blessing which he brought him/ that is the present & gift. God blessed the vij day/ that is/ ga●e it a pre-eminence that men should rest therein from bodily labour & learn to know the will of god & his laws & how to work their works godly all the w●ke after. God also blesseth all nations in Abraham's seed/ that is/ he turneth his love & favour unto them and giveth them his spirit and knowledge of the true way/ and lust and power to walk therein/ and all for Christ's sake Abraham's son.  
Cain/ so is it written in Hebrew. Notwitstondinge whether we call him Cain or caim it maketh no matter/ so we understand the meaning. Every land hath his manner/ that we call John the welchemen call Evan: the douch hā●●. Soch difference is between the Ebrue/ greek and latin: and that maketh them that translate out of the Hebrew vary in names from them that translate out of latin or greek.  
Curse: Gods curse is the taking away of his benefits. As god cursed the earth and made it barren. So now hunger/ dearth/ war/ pestilence and such like are yet right curses and signs of the wrath of God unto the unbelievers: but unto them that know Christ/ they are very blessings and that wholesome cross & true purgatory of our flesh/ thorough which all must go that will live godly and be saved: as thou readest Ma● .v. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for righteousness sake. etc. And hebrews xi The lord chastiseth whom he loveth and s●orgeth all the children that he receiveth.  
Eden: pleasure  
Firmament: the skye●  
Faith is the belevinge of god's promesses & a sure trust in the goodness and truth of god. Which faith justfieth Abraham gene. xu and was the mother of all his good works which he afterward did. For faith is the goodness of all works in the sight of God. Good works are things of gods commandment wrought in faith. And to sow a show at the commandment of god to do thy neighbour service withal/ with faith to be saved by Christ (as god promiseth us.) is much better than to build an abbey of thine own imagination/ trusting to be saved by the feigned works of hypocrites. Jacob rob Laban his uncle: Moses rob the Egyptians: And Abraham is about to slay and burn his own son: And all are holy works/ because they were wrought in faith at god's commandment. To steel/ rob and murder are no holy works before worldly people: but unto them that have their trust in god: they are holy when god commandeth them. What god commandeth not getteth no reward with god. Holy works of men's imagination receive their reward here/ as Christ testifieth Math uj How be it of faith & works I have spoken abundantly in mammon. Let him that desireth more seek there.  
Grace: favour/ As ●oe found grace/ that is to say favour and love.  
Ham and Cam all one.  
jehovah is god's name/ neither is any creature so called. And it is as much to say as one that is of himself and dependeth of nothing. Moreover as oft as thou seist Lord in 'gree▪ at letters (except there be any error in the prentinge) it is in hebrewe jehovah/ thou that art or he that is.  
Marshal/ in Hebrew he is called Sar tabaim/ as thou wouldest say/ lord of the slaughtermen And though that Tabaim be taken for cooks in many places/ for the cooks did ●le the beasts themselves in those days: yet it may be taken for them that put men to execution also. And that me thought it should here best signify in as much as he had the oversight of the kings preson and the kings presoners were they never so great men were under his custody And therefore I call him chief marshal an officer as is the lefetenaunte of the tour/ or master of the marshalsye.  
slime was their mortar xi Chapter/ And slime pits. x●ij. chapter: that slime was a fattenesse that os●dout of the earth like unto tar/ And thou mayst call it cement/ if thou wilt.  
Siloh after some is as much to say as sent/ & after some happy/ and after some it signifieth Mesias/ that is to say anointed and that we call Christ after the greek word. And it is a prophesy of Christ: For after that all that other tribes were in captivity & their kingdom destroyed/ yet the tribe of juda had a ruler of the samebloud/ even unto the coming of Christ. And about the com●ge of Christ the Roman conquered them/ and the Emperor gave the kingdom of tribe juda unto Herode which was a stranger/ even an Edomite of the generation of Esau.  
Testament here/ is an appointment made between god and man/ and god's promises. And sacrament is a sign representing soch an appoyn●●ment and promises: As the rainbow representeth the promise made to ●oe/ that god will no more drown the world. And circumcision representeth the promises of god to Abraham on the one side/ and that Abraham and his s●ed should circumcise and cut off the lusts of their fresh/ on the other side/ to walk in the ways of the lord: As baptism which is come in the room thereof▪ now signifieth on the one side/ how that all that repent and believe are washed in Christ's blood: And on the other side/ how that the same must quench and drown the lusts of the flesh/ to follow the steps of Christ.  
There were tyrants in the earth in those days/ for the sons of god saw the daughters of men. etc. The sons of god were the prophets children/ which (though they succeeded there fathers) fell yet from the right way/ and thorough falsehood of hypocrisy subdued the world under them and became tyrants/ As the successors of the apostles have played with us.  
Vapour/ a dewymiste/ as the smoke of a sethy●● g● pot.  
To walk with god is to live godly and to walk in his commandments. Enos walked with god and was no more seen: that is/ he lived godly and died/ God took him away: that is/ god hid his body/ as he did Moses and Aaron's: lest haply they should have made an Idol of him/ for he was a great preacher and an holy man.  

Zap●nath paenea/ words of Egipte are they (as I suppose) and as much to say: as a man to whom secret things be opened/ or an expounder of secret things as some interpret it.  
That Joseph brought the egiptians in to such subjection would seem unto some a very cruel dead: how be it it was a very equal way. For they paid but the fift part of that that grew on the ground. And therewith were they q●ytt of all duties/ both of rent/ custom/ tribute & ●oll. And the king therewith found them lords and all ministers and defended them. We now pay half so much unto the priests only/ beside their other craft ye exactions. Then pay we rend yearly/ though there grow never so little on the ground/ And yet when the king calleth pay we never the less. So that if we look indifferently/ their condition was easyar them ours/ and but even a very indifferent way/ both for the comen people and the king also. See therefore that thou look not on the ensamples of the scripture with worldly eyes: lest thou prefer Cain before Abel/ Ishmael before Isaae/ Esau before Jacob/ Reuben before Juda/ Sarah before Pharez/ Manasses before Ephraim. And even the worst before the best/ as the manner of the world is.     

¶ Emprented at Malborow in the land of Hesse/ by me Hans Luft/ the year of our Lord. M. CCCCC. thirty. the xvij days of Janu arij.    


A PROLOGUE IN TO THE second book of Moses called Exodus.  
OF the preface upon Genesis mayst thou understand how to behave thy silf in this book also and in all other books of the scripture. Cleave unto the text and plain story and endevoure thy silf to search out the meaning of all that is described therein and the true sense of all manner of speakings of the scripture of proverbs, similitudes and borrowed speech, whereof I entreated in the end of the obedience, and beware of soot allegories. And note every thing earnestly as things pertaining unto thine own heart and soul. For as god used him sylf unto them of the old testament, even so shall he unto the worlds end use him silf unto us which have received his holy scripture and the testimony of his son jesus. As god doth all things here for them that believe his promises and hearken unto his commandments and with patience cleave unto him and walk with him: even so shall he do for us, if we receive the witness of Christ with a strong faith and endure patiently following his steps. And on the otherside, as they that fell from the promises of god thorough unbelief and from his law and ordinances thorough impatiency of their own lusts, were for saken of god and so perished: even so shall we as many as do likewise and as many as mock with the doctrine of christ and make a cloak of it to live fleshly and to folowoure lusts.  
Note thereto how god is found true at the last, and how when all is past remedy and brought into desperation, he than fulfilleth his promises, and that by an abject and a castawaye, a despised and a refused person: ye and by away impossible to believe.  
The cause of all captivity of god's people is this. The world ever hateth them for their faith and trust which they have in god: but in vain until they fall from the faith of the promises and love of the law and ordinances of god, and put their trust in holy deeds of their own finding and live all together at their own lust and pleasure without regard of god or respect of their neighbour. Then god forsaketh us and sendeth us in to captivity for our dishonouring of his name and despising of our neighbour. But the world persecuteth us for our faith in christ only (as the pope now doth) and not for our wicked living For in his kingdom thou mayst quietly and with licence and under a protection do what so ever abomination thy heart lusteth: but god persecuteth us because we abuse his holy testament, and because that when we know the truth we follow it not.  
Note also the mighty hand of the Lord how he playeth with his adversaries and provoketh them and stirreth them up a little and a little, and delivereth not his people in an hour: that both the patience of his elect and also the worldly wit and wily policy of the wicked wherewith they fight against god, might appear.  
Mark the longesoferinge and soft patience of Moses and how he loveth the people and is ever between the wrath of god and then and is ready to live and die with them and to be put out of the book that god had written for their sakes (as Paul for his brethren Roma ix) and how he taketh his own wrongs patiently and never avengeth him silf. And make not Moses a figure of Christ with Rochestre: but an ensample unto all princes and to all that are in authority how to rule unto god's pleasure and unto their neighbours profette. For there is not a perfecter life in this world both to the honour of god and profit of his neighbour nor yet a greater cross, them to rule christianly. And of Aaren also see that thou make no figure of christ until he come unto his sacrifisinge, but an ensample unto all preachers of god's word, that they add nothing unto god's word or take aught therefro.  
Note also how god sendeth his promiss to the people and Moses consermeth it with miracles and the people believe. But when temptation cometh they fall into unbelief and few bide standing. Where thou seest that all be not christian that willbe so called, and that the cross trieth the true from the feigned: for if the cross were not Christ should have dissiples enough. Whereof also thou seest what an excellent gift off god true faith is, and impossible to be had with out the spirit of god. For it is above all natural power that a man in time of temptation when god scorgeth him should believe then steadfastly how that god loveth him and careth for him and hath prepared all good things for him, and that that scorginge is as earnest that god hath elect and choose him.  
Note how oft Moses stirreth them up to believe and to trust in god, putting them in remembrance alway in time of temptation of the miracles and wonders which god had wrought before time in their eyesight. How diligently also forbiddeth he all that might with draw their hearts from god? to put nought to god's word: to take nought therefro: to do only that which is right in the sight of the Lord: that they should make no manner image to kneel down before it: ye that they should make none altar of hewed stone for fear off images: to slay the heathen idolaters utterly and to destroy their Idols and cut down their groves where they worshupped: And that they should not take the daughters of them unto their sons, nor give their daughters to the sons of them. And that whosoever moved any of them to worshuppe false gods, how so ever nigh of kin he were, they must accuse him and bring him to death, ye and wheresoever they hard of man, woman or city that worshupped false gods, they must slay them and destroy the city for ever and not build it again. And all because they should worshuppe nothing but God, nor put confidence in anythinge save in his word Ye and how warneth he to beware of witch craft, sorcery, enchantment, negromantie and all crafts of the devil, and of dreamers, sorthsayers and of myracledoers to destroy his word, and that they should suffer none such to live,  
Thou wilt happily say, They tell a man the truth. What then? God will that we care not to know what shall come. He will have us care only to keep his commandments and to commytre all chances unto him He hath promised to care for us and to keep us from all evil. All things are in his hand, he can remedy all things and will for his truths sake, if we pray him. In his promises only will he have us trust and there rest and to seek no farther.  
How also doth he provoke them to love, ever rehearsing the benefits of God done to them already and the godly promises that were to come? And how goodly laws of love giveth he? to help one another: and that a man should not hate his neighbour in his heart, but love him as him filf, Leuitici xix And what a charge giveth he in every place over the poor and needy: over the stranger friendless and widow? And when he desireth to show mercy, he rehearseth with all, the benefits of God done to them at their need, that they might sea cause at the least way in God to show mercy of very love unto their neighbours at the it need.  
Also there is no law so simple in appearance thorough out all the five books of Moses, but that there is a great reason of the making thereof if a man search diligently. As that a man is forbid to seethe a kid in his mother's milk, moveth us unto compassion and to be pytyefull, As doth also that a man shall not offer the sire or dame and the young both in one day Leuitici xxij For it might seem a cruel thing in as much as his mother's milk is as it were his blood, wherefore god will not have him sod therein: but will have a man show courtesy upon the very beasts: As in another place he commandeth that we mosel not the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn (which manner of thresshinge is used in hot contrees) and that because we should much rather not grudge to be liberal and kind unto men that do us service. Or happily God would have no such wanton meat used among his people. For the kid of itself is noryshinge and the goats milk is restauretyve, and both together might be to rank and therefore foreboden or some other like cause therewas.  
Of the ceremonies, sacrifices and tabernacle with all his glory and pomp understand, that they were not permitted only, but also commanded of God to lead the people in the shadows of Moses and night of the old testament, until the light of christ and day of the new testament were come: As children are led in the fantasies of youth, until the discretion of mansage become upon them. And all was done to keep them from idolatry. The tabernacle was ordained to the intent they might have a place appointed them to do their sacrifices openly in the sight of the people and namely of the priests which waited thereon: that it might be seen that they did all thing according to god's word, and not after the Idolatry of their own imagination. And the costliness of the tabernacle and the beauty also pertained thereunto, that they should see nothing so beautiful among the heathen, but that they should see more beautiful and wonderful at home: because they should not be moved to follow them. And in like manner the divers fashions of the sacrifices and ceremonies was to occupy their minds that they should have no lust to follow the heathen: and the multitude of them was, that they should have so much to do in keeping them that they should have no leisure to imagine other of their own: ye and that god's word might be by in all that they did, that they might have their faith and trust in God, which he can not have, that either followeth his own inventions, or traditions of men's making with out God's word.  
Finally God hath two testaments: the old and the new. The old testament is those temporal promises which God made the children of Israel of a good land and that he would defend them, and of wealth and prosperity and of temporal blessings of which thou readest over all the law of Moses, But namely Leuitici. xxv●. And Deuteromij xxviij and the avoiding of all threatenings and curses off which thou readest likewise every where▪ but specially in the two places above rehearsed, and the avoydinge of all punishment ordained for the transgressers of the law.  
And the old testament was bilt all together upon the keeping of the law and ceremonies and was the reward of keeping of them in this life only, and reached no further than this life and this world, as thou readest levi xviij a man that doth them shall live there in which text Paul rehearseth Rom. ten and Gala. three That is, he that keepeth them shall have this life glorious according to all the promises and blessings of the law, and shall avoid both all temporal punishment of the law, with all the threatenings and cursings also. For neither the law, even of the ten commandments nor yet the ceremonies justified in the heart before god, or purified unto the life to come. Insomoch that Moses at his death even xl year after the law and ceremonies were given complaineth saying: God hath not given you an heart to understand, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear unto this day. As who should say, god hath given you ceremonies, but ye know not the use of them, and hath given you a law, but hath not written it in your hearts.  
Wherefore serveth the law then, if it give us no power to do the law? Paul answereth thee, that it was given to utter sin only and to make it appear. As a corosye is laid unto an old sore, not to heal it, but to steer it up and to make the disease alive, that a man might feal in what ioperdye he is and how nigh death and not aware, and to make away unto the healing plaster. Even so saith Paul Gala three The law was given because of transgression (that is, to make the sin alive that it might be felt and seen) until the seed came unto whom it was promised: that is to say, until the children of faith came, or until Christ that seed in whom god promised Abraham that all nations of the world should be blessed, came. That is, the law was given to utter sin, death damnation and curse, and to dryve unto Christ in whom forgiveness, life, justifying and blessings were promised, that we might see so great love of god to us ward in christ, that we henceforth overcome with kindness might love again and of love keep the commandments. So now he that goeth about to quiette his conscience and to justify him silf with the law, doth but heal his wondes with freatige coresyes. And he that goeth about to purchase grace with ceremonies, doth but suck the alepope to qwench his thirst, in as much as the ceremonies were not given to justify the heart, but to signify the justifying: and forgiveness that is in Christ's blood  
Of the ceremonies that they justify not, thou readest. hebrews ten It is impossible that sin should be done away with the blood of oxen and gootes. And of the law thou readest. Gala. three If there had been a law given that could have quykened or given life, than had righteousness or justifying come by the law in deed. Now the law not only quickeneth not the heart, but also woundeth it with conscience of sin and ministereth death and damnation unto her: ij. Corin three so that she must needs die and be damned except she find other remedy, so far it is of that she is justified or holp by the law.  
The new testament is those everlasting promises which are made us in christ the Lord thorough out all the scripture. And that testament is built on faith and not on works. For it is not said of that testament he that worketh shall live: But he that believeth shall live, as thou readest. joan three God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that none which believe in high should perish but have everlasting life.  
And when this testament is preached and believed, the spirit entereth the heart and quickeneth it, and giveth her life and justifieth her. The spirit also maketh the law a lively thing in the heart, so that a man bringeth forth good works of his own accord without compulsion of the law, without fear of threatenings or cursings: ye and with out all manner respect or love unto any temporal pleasure, But of the very power of the spirit received thorough faith, As thou readest. joan i He gave them power to be the sons of God in that they believed on his name. And of that power they work: so that he which hath the spirit of christ is now no more a child: he neither learneth or worketh now any longer for pain of the rod or for fear of boogges or pleasure of apples, But doth allthings of his own courage As christ sayeth. joan vij He that believeth on me shall have rivers of living water flowing out of his belie. That is, All good works and all gifts of grace springe out of him naturally and by their own accord. Thou neadest not to wrest good works out of him as a man would wring veriuce out of crabs: Nay they flow naturally out of him as springs out off hills or rocks.  
The new testament was ever, even from the beginning of the world. For there were alway promises of Christ to come by faith in which promises the elect were then justified inwardly before God, as outwardly before the world by keeping of the law and ceremonies  
And in conclusion as thou sayst blessings or cursings follow the keeping or breaking of the law of Moses: even so naturally do blessings or cursings follow the breaking or keeping of the law of nature, out of which spring all our temporal laws. So that when the people keep the temporal laws of their land temporal prosperity and all manner of such temporal blessing as thou readest of in Moses do accompany them and fall upon them. And contrariwise when they sin unpunished, and when the rulars have no respect unto natural equity or honesty, them God sendeth his curses among them, as hunger, dearth, murrain baning, pestilence, war, oppression with strange and wonderful diseases and newekyndes of misfortune and evil luck,  
If any man axe me, seeing that faith justifieth me why I work? I answer love compelleth me For as long as my soul fealeth what love god hath showed me in Christ, I can not but love god again and his will and commandments and of love work them, nor can they seem hard unto me. I think not myself better for my working, nor seek heaven nor an higher place in heaven because of it. For a christian worketh to make his weak brother perfecter, and not to seek an higher place in heaven. I compare not my filf unto him that worketh not: No, he that worketh not to day shall have grace to turn and to work tomorrow, and in the mean season I pity him and pray for him. If I had wrought the will of god these thousand years, and another had wrought the will of the devil as long and this day turn and be as well willing to suffer with Christas' ●, he hath this day overtaken me and is as far come as I, and shall have as much reward as I. And I envy him not, but rejoice most of all as of loft treasure found. For if I be of god, I have this thousand year sofred to win him for to come and praise the name of God with me: this. M. years I have prayed sorrowed, longed, sighed and sought for that which I have this day found, and therefore rejoice with all my might and praise God for his grace and mercy.   


ALbe, a long garment of white linen.  
arkly, a coffer or chest as our shrines save it was flat, and the sample of our shrines was taken thereof.  
Boothe, an house made of bows.  
breastlap or brestflappe, is such a flap as thou seist in the breast of a cope.  
Consecrate, to appoint a thing to holy uses.  
Dedicate, purific or sanctify.  
Ephod, is a garment somewhat like an amyce, save the arms came thorough and it was gird to.  
Geeras, in weight as it were an english halff. penny or somewhat more.  
Heveo●●ringe because they were hoven up before the Lord.  
House, he made them houses: that is, he made a kindred or a multitude of people to springe out of them: as we say the house of David for the kindred of David.  
Peaceoffringe: offerings of thanks giving of the votion, and not for conscience of sin and trespass.  
Pollute, defile  
¶ reconcile, to make at one and to bring in grace or favour.  
Sanctefie to elense and purify, to appoint a thing unto holy uses and to separate from unclean and unholy uses.  
¶ Sanctuary, a place hallowed and dedicated unto god.  
¶ Tabernacle, an house made tentwise, or as a pavelion.  
Tunicle, much like the uppermost garment of the deuken.  
¶ Waveoffringe, because they were waven in the priests hands to divers quarters▪  
Worshuppe: by worshuppinge whether it be in the old testament or the new, understand the bowenge of a man's self upon the ground: As we oft-times as weknele in our prayers ●owe ourselves and lie on our arms and hands with our face to the ground.    

The second book of Moses, called Exodus.  
¶ The second book of Moses called Exodus.  

¶ The first Chapter.  
THese are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egipte with jacob/ every man with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, juda, Isachar, Zabulon, Benjamin, Dan, Neptali, Gad and Aser. All the souls that came out of the joins of jacob, were lxx and joseph was in Egipte all ready. when joseph was dead and all his brethren and all that generation: the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed enceadinge mighty: so that the land was full of them.  
Then there rose up a new king in Egipte which knew not joseph. And he said unto his folk: behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come on, let us play wisely with them: lest they multiply, and then (if there chance any war) they join themselves unto our enemies and fight against us, and so get them out of the land.  
And he set taskemasters over them, to ke●pe them under with burdens. And they bylunto Pharaoh treasurecities: Phiton and Raamses. But the more they vexed than, the more they multiplied and grew: so that they abhorred the children of Israel. And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy, and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly  
And the king of Egipte said unto the midwifes of the hebrews women, of which the ones name was Ziphra and the other Pua: when ye mydwive the women of the hebrews and se in the birth time that it is a boy, kill it. But if it be a maid, let it live. notwithstanding the midwifes feared God, and did not as the king of Egipte commanded them: but saved the menchilderns.  
Then the king of Egipte called for the midwives and said unto them: why have ye dealt on this manner and have saved the menchilderns? And the midwifes answered Pharaoh, that the hebrews women were not as the women of Egipte: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the midwives' came at them. And God therefore dealt well with the midwives'. And the people multiplied and waxed very mighty. And because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses.  
Than Pharaoh charged all his people saying All the menchilderns that are borne, cast in to the river and save the maydchilderns a live.   

¶ The second Chapter.  
ANd there went a man of the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi. And the wife conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that it was a proper child, she hid him three months long. And when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrusshes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and put it in the flags by the rivers brink. And his sister stood a far of, to weet what would come of it.  
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to the river to wash herself, and her maidens walked a long by the rivers side. And when she saw the basket among the flags, she sent one of her maids and caused it to be fet. And when she had opened it she saw the child. and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on it and said: it is one of the hebrews children  
Then said his sister unto Pharaos' daughter: shall I go and call unto the a nurse of the hebrews women, to nurse the the child? And the maid ran and called the child's mother. Then Pharaos' daughter said unto her Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will reward the for thy labour. And the woman took the child and nursed it up.  
And when the child was grown, she brought it unto Pharaos' daughter, and it was made her son, and she called it Moses, because (said she) I took him out of the water.  
And it happened in these days when More says was waxed great, that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens, and spied an Egyptian smiting one of his brethren an Ebrue. And he looked round about: and when he saw that there was no man by, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sonde. And he went out another day: and behold, two hebrews strove together. And he said unto him that did the wrong: wherefore smitest thou thine neighbour? And he answered: who hath made the a ruler or adjudge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killed'st the Egiptain? Then Moses feared and said: of a surety the thing is known. And Pharaoh heard of it and went about to slay Moses: but he fled from Pharaoh and dwelled in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a wells side.  
The priest of Madianh a d vij daughters which came and drew water and filled the troughs, for to water their father's sheep. And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their sheep. And when they came to Raguel their father, he said: how happeneth it that ye are come so soon to day? And they answered there was an Egyptian that delivered us from the shepherds, and also drew us water & watered the sheep. And he said unto his daughters: where is he? why have ye left the man? Go call him that he may eat bread.  
And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gave Moses Zipora his daughter which bore a son, and he called him Gerson: for he said. I have been a stranger in a strange land. And she bore yet another son, whom he called Elieser saying: the God of my father is mine helper, and hath rid me out of the hands of Pharaoh.  
And it chanced in process of time, that the king of Egipte died, and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour and cried. And their complaint came up unto God from the labour. And God remembered his promise with Abraham, Isaac and jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel and knew them.   

¶ The third Chapter.  
MOses kept the sheep of jethro his father in law priest of Madian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of a bush. And he perceived that the bush burned with fire and consumed not. Than Moses said: I will go hence and see this great sight, how it cometh that the bush burneth not. And when the Lord saw that he came for to see, he called unto him out of the bush and said: Moses Moses And he answered: here am I And he said: come not hither, but put thy shoes off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of jacob And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.  
Than the Lord said: I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egipte and have heard their cry which they have of their taskemasters. For I know their sorrow and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Hevites, and of the jebusites.  
Now therefore behold, the complaint of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. But come, I will send the unto Pharaoh, that thou mayst bring my people the children of Israel out of Egipte.  
And Moses said unto God: what am I to go to Pharaoh and to bring the children of irael out of Egipte? And he said: I willbe with the. And this shallbe a token unto the that I have sent thee: after that thou hast brought the people out of Egipte, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.  
Than said Moses unto God: when I come unto the children of Israel and say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they say unto me, what is his name▪ what answer shall I gevethem? Then 
Of this word, I willbe▪ cometh the name of God jehovah which we interpret, Lord, and is as mo●h to say as I that ●●.  said God unto Moses: I willbe what I willbe: and he said, this shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I willbe did send me to you.  
And God spoke further unto Moses: thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of jacob hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial thorough out all generations. Go therefore and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them: the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of jacob, appeared unto me and said: I have be ne and seen both you and that which is done to you in Egipte. And I have said it, that I will bring you out of the tribulation of Egipte unto the land of the Canaanites, Hethites Amorites, Pherezites, Hevites and jebusites: even a land that floweth with milk and honey  
If it come to pass that they hear thy voice, then go, both thou and the elders of Israel unto the king of Egipte and say unto him: The Lord God of the hebrews hath met with us: Let us go therefore three days journey in to the wilderness, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God. notwithstanding I am sure that the king of Egipte will not let you go, except it be with a mighty hand: ye and I will therefore stretch out mine hand, and smite Egipte with all my wonders which I will do therein. And after that he will let you go.  
And I will get this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: so that when ye go, ye shall not go empty: but every wife shall borrow of her neyghbouresse and of her that sogeorneth in her house, jewels of silver and of gold and ray meant. And ye shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall rob the Egyptians.   

¶ The four chapter.  
MOses answered and said: See, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice: but will say, the Lord hath not appeared unto the. Then the Lord said unto him: what is that in thine hand? and he said, a rod. And he said, cast it on the ground, and it turned unto a serpent. And Moses run away from it. And the Lord said unto Moses: put forth thine hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod again in his hand, that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of jacob hath appeared unto the.  
And the Lord said further more unto him: thrust thine hand in to thy bosom. And he thrust his hand in to his bosom and took it out. And behold, his hand was leprous even as snow. And he said: put thine hand in to thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. If they will not believe the neither hear the voice of the first token: yet will they believe the voice of the second token But and if they will not believe the two signs neither hearken unto thy voice, then take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which thou takest out of the river shall turn to blood upon the dry land.  
And Moses said unto the Lord: oh my Lord. I am not eloquent, no not in times past and namely sense thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and slow tongued. And the Lord said unto him: who hath made man's mouth, or who hath made the dumb or the deaff, the saying or the blind? have not I the Lord? Go therefore and I willbe with thy mouth and teach the what thou shalt say.  
And he said: oh my Lord, send I pray the whom thou wilt. And the Lord was angry with Moses and said: I know Aaron thy brother the levity that he can speak. And moreover behold, he cometh out against thee, and when he saith thee, he willbe gladin his heart. And thou shalt speak unto him and put the words in his mouth, and I willbe with thy mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. And he shallbe thy spokesr●ā unto the people: he shall be thy mouth and thou shalt be his God. and take this rod in thy hand, where with thou shalt do miracles.  
And Moses went and returned to jethro his father in law again and saide unto him: let me go (I pray thee) and turn again unto my brethren which are in Egipte, that I may see whether they be yet alive. And jethro said to Moses: go in peace. And the Lord said unto Moses in Madian: return again in to Egipte for they are dead which went about to kill the And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass, and went again to Egipte, and took the rod of God in his hand.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: when thou art come in to Egipte again, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the people go. And tell Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord: Israel is mine eldest son, and therefore saith unto thee: let my son go, that he may serve me. If thou wilt not let him go: behold, I will slay thine eldest son.  
And it chanced by the way in the in, that the Lord met him and would have killed him. Than Zepora took a stone and circumcised her son and fell at his fet, and said: a bloody husband art thou unto me. And he let him go. She said a bloody husband, because of the circumcision.  
Than said the Lord unto Aaron: go meet Moses in the wilderness. And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed high And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord which he had sent by him, and all the tokens which he had charged him with all. So went Moses and Aaron and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron told all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the miracles in the sight of the people, and the people believed. And when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and had looked upon their tribulation, they bowed themselves and worshipped   

¶ The .v. Chapter.  
THen Moses and Aaron went and told Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Let my people go, that they may keep holy day unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh answered: what fellow is the Lord, that I should hear his voice for to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will let Israel go.  
And they said: the God of the hebrews hath met with us: let us go (we pray thee) iij. days journey in to the desert, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God: lest he smite us either with pestilence or with sword. Then said the king of Egipte unto them: wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their work, get you unto your labour. And Pharaoh said further more: behold, there is much people in the land, and ye make them play and let their work stand.  
And Pharaoh commanded the same day unto the taskem asters over the people and unto the officers saying: see that ye give the people no more straw to make brick with all as ye did in time passed: let them go and gather them straw themselves, and the number of brick which they were wont to make in time passed, lay unto their charges also, and minysh nothing thereof. For they be ydill and therefore cry saying: let us go and do sacrifice unto our God. They must have more work laid upon them, that they may labour therein, and than will they not turn themselves to false words.  
Than went the taskemasters of the people and the officers out and told the people saying: thus sayeth Pharaoh: I will give you no more straw, but go yourselves and gather you straw where ye can find it, yet shall none of your labour be minished. Than the people scattered abroad thorough out all the land of Egipte for to gather them stubyll to be in stead of straw.  
And the taskemasters hastied them forward saying: fulfil your work day by day, even as when straw was given you. And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaos' taskmasters had settover them, were beaten. And it was said unto them: wherefore have ye not fulfilled your tas●e in making brick, both yesterday and to day, as well as in times past.  
Than went the officers of the children of Israel and complained unto Pharaoh saying: wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? there is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us: make brick. And loo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul entreated. And he answered: ydill are ye ydill and therefore ye say: let us go and do sacrifice unto the Lord. Go therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye deliver the hole tale of brick.  
when the officers of the children of Israel saw them self in shrewd case (in that he said ye shall minysh nothing of your dalye making of brick) than they met Moses and Aaron standing in there way as they came out from Pharaoh, and said unto them: The Lord look unto you and judge, for ye have made the savour of us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and of his servants, and have put a sword in to their hands to slay us.  
Moses returned unto the Lord and said: Lord wherefore dealest thou cruelly with this people: and wherefore hast thou sent me? For sense I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath fared foul with this folk, and yet thou hast not delivered thy people at all. Then the Lord said unto Moses: Now shalt thou see what I will do unto Pharaoh, for with a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a mighty hand shall he drive them out of his land.   

¶ The uj Chapter  
ANd God spoke unto Moses saying unto him: I am the Lord, and I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac and jacob an almighty God: but in my name jehovah was I not known unto them. Moreover I made an appointment with them to give them the land of Canaan: the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, because the Egyptians keep them in bondage, and have remembered my promise  
wherefore say unto the children of Israel: I 
A promise or a testament  am the Lord, and will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and will rydd you out of their bondage, and will deliver you with a stretched out arm and with great judgements. And I will take you for my people and willbe to you a God. And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God which bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you unto the land over the which I did lift up my hand to give it unto Abraham, Isaac and jacob, and will give it unto you for a possession: even 
Temptacy o●●●ieth faith.  I the Lord, And Moses told the children of Israel even so: But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying Go and bid Pharaoh king of Egipte, that he let the children of Israel g●o out of his land. And Moses spoke before the Lord saying: behold, the children of Israel hearken not unto me, how then shall Pharaoh hear me: saying that I have uncircumcised lips. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel and unto Pharaoh king of Egipte: to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egipte.  
These be the heeds of their father's horses. The children of Reuben the eldest son of Israel are these: Hanoh, Pallu, Hezron, Charmi, these be the householders of Reuben. The children of simeon are these: Gemuel, jamin, Ohad, jachin. Zohar, and Saul the son of a Cananytesh wife: these are the kindreds of simeon  
These are the names of the children of Levi in their generations: Gerson, Kahath and Merari. And Levi lived an hundred and xxxvij year. The sons of Gerson: Libni and Semei in their kindreds. The children of Kahath: Amram, jesear, Hebron and Vsiel. And Kahath lived an hundred and xxxiij year. The children of Merari are these: Mahely and Musi: these are the kindreds of Levi in their generations.  
And Amram took jochebed his niece to wife which bore him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived an hundred and xxxvij year. The children of jezear: Korah, Nepheg and Sichri. The children of Vsiel: Misael, Elzaphan and Sithri.  
And Aaron took Elizaba daughter of Aminadab and sister of Nahason, to wife: which bore him Nadab, Abehu, Eleazar and Ithamar. The children of Korah: Assir, Elkana and Abiassaph: these are the kindreds of the Korahites. And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putuel to wife: which bore him Pinchas: these be the principal fathers of the Levites in their kindreds.  
These are that Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said: carry the children of Israel out of the land of Egipte, with their armies. These are that Moses and Aaron which spoke to Pharaoh king of Egipte, that they might bring the children of Israel out of Egipte. And in the day when the Lord spoke unto Moses in the land of Egipte, he spoke unto him saying▪ I am the Lord, see that thou speak unto Pharaoh the king of Egipte all that I say unto the. And Moses answered before the Lord: I am of uncircumcised lips, how shall Pharaoh than give me audience?   

¶ The vij chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Moses: behold, I have made the Pharaos' God, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command the and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh: that he send the children of Israel out of his land. But I will harden Pharaos' heart, that I may multiply my miracles and my wonders in the land of Egipte. And yet Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may set mine hand upon Egipte and bring out mine armies, even my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egipte, with great judgements. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I have stretched forth my hand upon Egipte, and have brought out the children of Israel from among them.  
Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them. And Moses was lxxx. year old and Aaron lxxxiij when they spoke unto Pharaoh. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: when Pharaoh speaketh unto you and saith: show a wonder, than shalt thou say unto Aaron, take the rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall turn to a serpent  
Than went Moses and Aaron in unto Pharaoh, and did even as the Lord had commanded. And Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it turned to a serpent. Than Pharaoh called for the wise men and enchanters of Egipte did in 
En● so d● o● re charmars now deceau● all princes with their sophistry▪ and turn them clean from repentance toward the law of god and from the faith that is in Christ.  like manner with there sorcery. And they cast down every man his rod, and they turned to serpents: but Aaron's rod ate up their rods: and yet for all that Pharaos' heart was hardened, so that he hearkened not unto them, even as the Lord had said.  
Than said the Lord unto Moses. Pharaos' heart is hardened, and he refuseth to let the people go. Get the unto Pharaoh in the morning, for he will come unto the water, and from the thou upon the rivers brink against he come, and the rod which turned to a serpent take in thine hand. And say unto him: the Lord God of the hebrews hath sent me unto the saying: let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: but hither to thou wouldest not hear. wherefore thus saith the Lord: hereby thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Behold, I will smite with the staff that is in mine hand upon the waters that are in the river, and they shall turn to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink: so that it shall grieve the Egyptians to drink of the water of the river.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, say unto Aaron: take thy staff and stretch out thine hand over the waters of Egipte, over their streams, rivers, ponds and all pools off water, that they may be blood, and that there may be blood in all the land of Egipte: both in vessels of wood and also of stone. And Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord commanded. And he lift up the staff and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the river, turned in to blood. And the fish that was in the river died, and the river stank: so that the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood thorough out all the land of Egipte.  
And the Enchanters of Egipte did like wise with their enchantments, so that Pharaos' heart was hardened and dydnot regard them as the Lord had said. And Pharaoh turned himself and went in to his house, and set not his heart there unto. And the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river. And it continued a week after that the Lord had smote the river.   

¶ The eight Chapter.  
THe Lord spoke unto Moses: Go unto Pharaoh and tell him, thus sayeth the Lord: let my people go, that they may serve me. If thou wilt not let them go: behold I will smite all thy land with frogs. And the river shall scrale with frogs, and they shall come up and go in to thine house and in to thy chambered where thou sleepest and upon thy bed, and in to the horses of thy servants, and upon thy people, and in to thine ovens, and upon thy victuals which thou hast in store And the frogs shall come upon the and on thy people and upon all thy servants.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, say unto Aaron: stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, rivers, and ponds. And bring up frogs upon the land of Egipte And Aaron stretched his hand over the water of Egipte, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egipte. And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcery, and the frogs came up upon the land of Egipte.  
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, pray ye unto the Lord that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the Lord. And Moses said unto Pharaoh: appoint thou the time unto me, when I shall pray for the and thy servants and thy people, to drive away the frogs from the and thy house, so that they shall remain but in in the river only. And he said tomorrow. And he said: even as thou hast said, that thou mayst know that there is none like unto the Lord our God. And the frogs shall depart from the and from thine houses and from thy servants and from thy people, and shall remain in the river only.  
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the Lord upon the appointment of frogs which he had made unto Pharaoh. And the Lord did according to the saying of Moses. And the frogs died out of the horses, courts and fields. And they gathered them together upon heppes: so that the land stank of them.  
But when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said. And the Lord said unto Moses: Say unto Aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may turn to lice in all the land of Egipte. And they did so. And Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth. and it turned to lice both in man and be'st, so that all the dust of the land turned to lice, thorough out all the land of Egipte.  
And the enchanters assayed likewise with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And the lice were both upon man and be'st. Then said the enchanters unto Pharaoh: it is the fingers of God. neverthelater Pharaos' heart was hardened and he regarded them not, as the Lord had said.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, for he will come unto the water: and say unto him, thus saith the Lord: let my people go, that they may serve me. If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, I will send all manner flies both upon the and thy servants and thy people and into thy horses. And the horses of the Egyptians shallbe full of flies, and the ground where on they are. But I will separate the same day the land of Gosan where my people are, so that there shall no flies be there: that thou mayst know that I am the Lord upon the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thine. And even tomorrow shall this miracle be done.  
And the Lord did even so: and there came noisome flies in to the house of Pharaoh, and in to his servants horses and in to all the land of Egipte: so that the land was marred with flies. Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said: Go and do sacrifice unto your God in the land. And Moses answered: it is not meet so to do. for we must offer unto the Lord our God, that which is an abhominatyon unto the Egyptians: behold, shall we sacrifice that which is an abomination unto the Egyptians before their eyes, and shall they not stone us? we will therefore go three days yournay in to the desert and sacrifice unto the Lord our God as he hath commanded us.  
And Pharaoh said: I will late you go, that ye may sacrifice unto the Lord your God in the wilderness: only go not ferrre away, and see that ye pray for me. And Moses said: behold, I will go out from the and pray unto the Lord, and the flies shall depart from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people tomorrow. But let Pharaoh from hence forth desceave no more, that he would not let the people go to sacrifice unto the Lord.  
And Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord did as Moses had said: and took away the flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people, so that there remained not one. But for all that, Pharaoh hardened his heart even then also and would not let the people go,   

¶ The ix chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh and tell him, thus sayeth the Lord God of the hebrews: send out my people that they may serve me. If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still: behold, the hand of the Lord shallbe upon thy cattles which thou hast in the field upon horses asses, camels, oxen, and sheep, with a mighty great morrayne. But the Lord shall make a division between the beasts of the Israhelites, and the beasts of the Egiptias: so that there shall nothing die of all that pertaineth to the children of Israel. And the Lord appointed a time saying: tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land.  
And the Lord did the thing on the morrow, and all the cattles of Egipte died: but of the cattles of the children of Israel died not one. And Pharaoh sent to weet: but there was not one of the cattles of the Israhelites dead. notwithstanding the heart of Pharaoh hardened, and he would not let the people go.  
And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron: take your hands full of ashes out of the furnace, and let Moses sprynkel it up in to the air in the sight of Pharaoh, and it shall turn to dust in all the land of Egipte, and shall make swelling soores with blains both on man and be'st in all the land of Egipte. And they took ashes out of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprynkeld it up in to the air: And there broke out soores with blains both in man and be'st: so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, by the reason of botches on the enchanters and upon all the Egyptians, But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, that he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said unto Moses.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and tell him, thus saith the Lord God of the hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me, or else I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and on thy people, that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth. For now I will stretch out my hand and will smite the and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perish from the earth. Yet in very deed for this cause have I stirred the up, for to show my power in thee, and to declare my name thorough out all the world.  
If it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let them go: behold, tomorrow this time I will send down a mighty great hail: even such one as was not in Egipte sense it was grounded unto this tyme. Send therefore and fet home thy beasts and all that thou hast in the field, For upon all the men and beasts which are found in the field and not brought home, shall the hail fall, and they shall die And as many as feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made the it servants and their beasts flee to house: and they that regarded not the word of the Lord, left their servants and their beasts in the field.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: stretch forth thine hand unto heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egipte: upon man and be'st, and upon all the herbs of the field in the field of Egipte. And Moses stretched out his rod unto heaven, and the Lord thundered and hailed so that the fire ran a long upon the ground. And the Lord so hailed in the land of Egipte, that there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, so grievous, that there was none such in all the land of Egipte, sense people inhabited it.  
And the hail smote in the land of Egipte all that was in the field: both man and be'st And the hail smote all the herbs of the field and broke all the trees of the field: only in the land of Gosan where the children of israel were, was there no hail. And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: I have now sinned, the Lord is rightwes and I and my people are wicked. Pray ye unto the Lord, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer.  
And Moses said unto him: assoon as I am out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail: that thou mayst know, how that the earth is the Lords, But I know that thou and thy servants yet fear not the Lord God. The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was shot up and the flax was boulled: but the where and the rye were not smeten, for they were late sown.  
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord, and the thunder and hail ceased, neither rained it any more upon the earth. when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and thunder were ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart: both he and his servants So was the heart of Pharaoh hardened, that he would not let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had said by Moses.   

¶ The ten Chapter.  
THe Lord said unto Moses: go unto Pharaoh, nevertheless I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I might show these my signs amongst them and that thou tell in the audience of thy son and of thy sons son, the pagiantes which I have played in Egipte and the miracles which I have done among them: that ye may know how that I am the Lord.  
Than Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh and said unto him: thus saith the Lord God of the hebrews: how long shall it be, or thou wilt submit thyself unto me? Let my people go that they may serve me. If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring grasshoppers in to thy land, and they shall cover the face of the earth that it can not be seen, and they shall eat the residue which remaineth unto you and escaped the hail and they shall eat all your green trees upon the field, and they shall fill thy horses and all thy servants horses, and the horses of all the Egyptians after such a manner: as neither thy fathers nor thy father's fathers have seen, sense the time they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned him self about, and went out from Pharaoh.  
And Pharaos' servants said unto him: How long shall this fellow thus plague us? Let the men go that they may serve the Lord their God, or else wilt thou see Egipte first destroyed? And than Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh, and he said unto them: Go and serve the Lord your God but who are they that shall go? And Moses answered: we must go with young and old: ye and with our sons and with our daughters, and with our sheep and oxen must we go For we must hold a feast unto the Lord.  
And he said unto them: shall it be so? The Lord be with you, should I let you go, and your children also? Take heed, for ye have so me mischief in hand. Nay not so: but go ye that are men and serve the Lord, for that was your desire. And they thrust them out of Pharaos' presence.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egipte for grasshoppers, that they come upon the land of Egipte and eat all the herbs of the land, and all that the hail left untouched. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land off Egipte, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all night. And in the morning the east wind brought the grasshoppers, and the grasshoppers went up over all the land of Egipte and lighted in all quarters off Egipte very grievously: so that before them were there no such grasshoppers, neither after them shall be. And they covered all the face of the earth, so that the land was dark therewith. And they ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruits of the trees which the hail had left: so that there was no green thing left in the trees and herbs of the field thorough all the land of Egipte.  
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste and said: I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you. forgive me yet my sin only this once, and pray unto the Lord your God that he may take away from me this death only. And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord turned the wind in to a mighty strong west wind, and it took away the grasshoppers and cast them in to the reed see: so that there was not one grasshopper left in all the costs of Egipte But the Lord hardened Pharaos' heart, ●o that he would not let the children off Israel go  
And the Lord said unto Moses: Stretch out thy hand unto heaven and let there be darkness upon the land of Egipte: even that they may feal the darkness. And Moses stretched forth his hand unto heaven, and there was a dark mist upon all the land off Egipte. iij days long so that no man saw another neither rose up from the place where he was by the space of three days, but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelled.  
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and said: go and serve the Lord, only let your sheep. and your oxen abide, but let your children go with you. And Moses answered: thou must give us also offerings and burnt-offerings for to sacrifice unto the Lord our God, Our cattle therefore shall go with us, and there shall not one hoos●e be left behind, for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God. Moreover we cannot know wherewith we shall serve the Lord, until we come thither.  
But the Lord hardened Pharaos' heart, so that he would not let them go. And Pharaoh said unto him: get the from me and take head to thyself that thou see my face no more, For when soever thou comest in my sight, thou shalt die. And Moses said: let it be as thou hast said: I will see thy face no more.   

¶ The xj Chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Moses: yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh and upon Egipte, and after that he will let you go hence. And when he letteth you go, he shall utterly drive you hence. But bid the people that every man borrow of his neighbour and every woman of her neghbouresse: jewels off silver and jewels of gold. And the Lord got the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover Moses was very great in the land of Egipte: both in the sight of Pharaoh, and also in the sight of the people.  
And Moses said: thus saith the Lord. About midnight will I go out among the Egyptians, and all the firstborn in the land of Egipte shall die: even from the firstborn off Pharaoh that sitteth on his seat, unto the first-born of the maydeservaunte that is in the mill, and all the firstborn of the cattles. And there shall be a great cry thorough out all the land off Egipte: so that there was never none like nor shall be. And among all the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, nor yet man or be'st: that ye may know, how the Lord putteth a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and fall before me and say get the out and all the people that are under thee, and than will I depart. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: Pharaoh shall not regard you, that many wonders may be wrought in the land of Egipte, And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh But the Lord hardened Pharaos' heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.   

¶ The twelve Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egipte saying: This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel saying: that they take the ten day of this month 
That I here call ashepe is in Ebrue a word indifferent to a sheep and a go●●e both.  to every household, a sheep. If the household be to few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbour that is next unto his house, take according to the number of souls, and count unto a sheep according to every man's eating A sheep with out spot and a male of one year old shall it be, and from among the lambs and the gootes shall ye take it.  
And ye shall keep him in ward, until the xiv. day of the same month. And every man of the multitude of Israel shall kill him about even. And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper dor post of the houses, wherein they eat him. And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with unlevended bread, and with sour her bes they shall eat it. S● that ye eat not thereof sudden in water, but roast with fire: both head feet and purtenance together. And see that ye let nothing of it remain unto the morning: if ought remain burn it with fire.  
Off this manner shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, and shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And ye shall eat i● in haste, 
The la●be was ●alled 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 ●●▪ a● the very ●am●●● self 〈◊〉 ●d put th● in remembrance wh●●●● signified. f●● the signs that god ordin●d 〈◊〉 signified the benefits done, or promises to come and w●re not do me as are the signs of our dom●●e▪ God the Pope.  for it is the Lords * passover, for I will go about in the land of Egipte this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land off Egipte: both of man and d●●st, and upon all the gods off Egipte will I the Lord do execution. And the blood shall be unto you a token upon the houses where in ye are, for when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land off Egipte.  
And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the Lord even thorough out your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom for ever vij days shall ye eat unlevended breed, so that even the first day ye shall put away leaven out off your horses. For whosoever eateth levended bread from the first day until the vij day, that soul shall▪ be plucked out from Israel. The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the. seven▪ also. There shall be no manner off work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat that only may ye do. And see that ye keep you to unlevended breed.  
For upon that same day I will bring your armies out off the land of Egipte, therefore ye shall observe this day and all your children after you, that it be a custom for ever. The first month and the xiiij day off the month at even, ye shall eat sweet breed unto the xxj day off the month at even again. Seven days see that there be no levended bred found in your horses. For whosoever eateth levended bred, that soul shall be rooted out from the multitude of Israel: whether he be a stranger or borne in the land. Therefore see that ye eat no levended bred, but in all your habitations eat sweet bred.  
And Moses called for the elders off Israel and said unto them: choose our and take to every household a sheep, and kill passover. And take a bunch of ysope, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike it upon the up perposte and on the two side posts, and see that none of you go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will go about and smite Egipte. And when he saith the blood upon the upper doorposte and on the two side posts, he will pass over the door and will not su●●re the destroyer to come into your house to plague you. Therefore see that thou observe this thing, that it be an ordinance to thee, and thy sons for over.  
And when ye be come into the land which the Lord will give you according as he hath 
Our signs be dumb, we know not the reason of our baptism▪ ye and we must say our prayers and our belesse in a ton gewe vnder●●onde not. And yet if we answer not our prelate's when they be angry, even as they would have it, we must to the fire with out redemption, or forswer god  promised, see that ye keep this service. * And when your children axe you what manner off service is this ye do. Ye shall say▪ it is the sacrifice of the Lords passover which passed over the horses of the children of Israel in Egipte, as he smote the Egyptians and saved our horses. Than the people bowed them selves and worshipped. And the children of Israel went and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.  
And at mydnyghte the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egipte: from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in presone, and all firstborn of the cattles. Than Pharaoh arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying thorough out Egipte, for there was no house where there was not one dead.  
And he called unto Moses and Aaron by night saying: Rise up and get you out from among my people: both ye and also the children of Israel, and go and serve the Lord as ye have said. And take your sheep and your oxen with you as ye have said, and depart and bless me also. And the Egyptians were fierce upon the people and made haste to send them out of the land: for they said: we be all deed men And the people took the dough before it was sowered which they had in store, and bound it in clothes and put it upon their shoulders And the children of Israel did according to the saying of Moses: and they borrowed of the Egyptians: jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. And the Lord got the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and so they borrowed and rob the Egyptians.  
Thus took the children of Israel their your neigh from Raemses to suchoth uj hundred thou sand men of foot, beside children. And much common people went also with them, and sheep and oxen and cattles exceeding much. And they baked sweet cakes of the dough which thy brought out of Egipte, for it was not sowered: because they were thrust out of Egipte and could not tarry, neither had they prepared them any other provision of meat.  
And the time of the dwelling of the children of Israel which they dwelled in Egipte, was four hundred and xxx year. And when the iiij. hundred and xxx years were expired, even the self same day departed all the hosts of the Lord out of the land of Egipte. This is a night to be observed to the Lord, because he brought them out of the land of Egipte. This is a night of the Lord, to be kept of all the children of Israel and of their generations after them.  
And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, this is the manner of Passeover: there shall no stranger eat there of, but all the servants that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat there of. A stranger and a hyerd servant shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten. Ye shall carry none of the flesh out at the doors: moreover, see that ye break not a bone there of. All the multirude of the children of Israel shall observe it  
If a stranger dwell among you ad will hold Passeover unto the Lord, let him circumcise all that be males, and then let him come and observe it and be taken as one that is borne in the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat there of. One manner of law shallbe unto them that are borne in the land, and unto the strangers that dwell among you And all the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. And even the self same day did the Lord bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egipte with their armies.   

The xiij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: sanctify unto me all the firstborn that open all manner matrices among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are mine. And Moses said unto the people: think on this day in which ye came out of Egipte and out of the house of bondage: for with a mighty hand the Lord brought you out from thence. See therefore that ye eat no leaven deed bred. This day come ye out of Egipte in the month of Abib.  
when the Lord hath brought the in to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Hevites and jebusites, which he swore unto thy fathers that he would give thee: a land where in milk and honey floweth, them see that thou keep this servyce in this same month. Seven days thou shalt eat sweet bred, and the vij day shall be fe●●●tfull unto the Lord. Therefore thou shalt eat sweet bred vij days, and see that there be no levended bred seen nor yet leaven among you in all your quarters.  
And thou shalt show thy son at that time 
The fathers now a days may not be s●fied to know aught of God themselves, how can they then teach their children what the ceremony meaneth.  saying: this is done, because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came out of Egipte. Therefore it shall be a sign unto the upon thine hand and a remembrance between thine eyes, that the lords law may be in thy mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord brought the out of Egipte, see thou keep therefore this ordinance in his season from year to year.  
Moreover when the Lord hath brought the in to the land of the Canaanytes, as he hath sworn unto the and to thy fathers, and hath given it thee, them thou shalt appoint unto the Lord all that openeth the matrice, and all the firstborn among the beasts which thou hast if they be males. And all the firstborn of the asses, thou shalt redeem with a sheep: if thou redeem him not, then break his neck. But all the firstborn among thy children shalt thou buy out.  
And when thy son asketh the in time to come 
Teach your children.  saying: what is this? thou shalt say unto him: with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egipte, out of the house of bondage. And when Pharaoh was loath to let us go, the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egipte: as well the firstborn of men as of beasts. And therefore I sacrifice unto the Lord all the males that open the matrice, but all the firstborn of my children I must redeem. And this shall be as a token in thine hand, and as a thing hanged up between thine eyes: because the Lord brought us out of Egipte with a mighty hand.  
when Pharaoh had let the people go, God carried them not thorough the land of the Philistines, though it were a nigh way. For God said: the people might haply repent when they see war, and so turn again to Egipte: therefore God led them about thorough the wilderness that bordreth on the red see. The children of Israel went harnessed out of the land of Egipte. And Moses took the bones of joseph with him: for he made the children of Israel swear saying: God will surely visit you, take my bones therefore away hence with you,  
And they took their journey from Suchoth: and pitched their tents in Etham in the edge of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by day in a piler of a cloud to lead them the way: and by night in a piler of fire to give them light. that they might go both by day andnyghte. And the piler of the cloud never departed by day nor the piler of fire by night out of the people's sight.   

The xiiij Chapter.  
THan the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: bid the children of Israel that they turn and pitch their tents before the entering of Hiroth between Migdole and the s● toward Baal zephon: even before that shall ye pitch upon the see. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: they are tangled in the land the wilderness hath shot them in. And I will harden his heart, that he shall follow after them, that I may get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host. that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did even so.  
And when it was told the king of Egipte that the people fled, than Pharaos' heart and all his servants turned unto the people and. said why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out of our service? and he made ready his charettes and took his people with him and took vi. hundred chosen charettes and all the charettes of Egipte and captains upon all his people. For the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egipte that he followed after the children of Israel which for all that went out thorough an high hand, And the Egyptians followed after them and overtook them where they pitched by the see, with all the horses and charettes of Pharaoh and with his horsemen and his host: even fast by the entering of Hiroth before Baal Zephon. And Pharaoh drewenye, and when the children of Isreal life up their eyes and saw how the Egyptians followed after them, they were sore a frayed and cried out unto the Lord  
Than said they unto Moses? were there no 
*  graves for us in Egipte, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egipte? Did not we tell the this in Egipte saying, let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness. And Moses said unto the people: fear ye not but stand still and behold how the Lord shall save you this day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall ye see them no more for ever till the worlds end. The Lord shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace.  
The Lord said unto Moses: wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward. But lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the see and divide it a sondre, that the children of Israel may go on dry ground thorough the midst thereof. And behold I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they may follow you. And I will get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, upon his charettes and upon his horse men. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh upon his charettes and upon his horsemen.  
And the angel of God which went before the host of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the cloudempiler that was before them removed and stood behind them and went between the host of the Egyptians and the host of Israel. It was a dark cloud, and gave light by night: so that all the night long the one could not come at the other.  
when now Moses stretched forth his hand over the see, the Lord carried away the see with a strong east wind that blewe all night, and made the see dry land and the water divided it self. And the children of Israel went in thorough the midst of the see upon the dry ground. And the water was a wall unto them, both on their right-hand and on the it left hand. And the Egyptians followed and went in after them to the midst of the see, with all Pharaos' horses, and his charettes and his horsemen.  
And in the morning watch, the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy piler, and troubled their host and smote of their charett wheels and cast them down to the ground. Than said the Egyptians: Let us i'll from Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against us. Than said the Lord unto Moses: stretch out thine hand over the see, that the water may come again upon the Egyptians upon their charettes and horsemen.  
Than stretched forth Moses his hand over the see, and it came again to his course early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it. Thus the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the see, and the water returned and covered the charettes and the housemen: so that of all the host of Pharaoh that came in to the see after them, there remained not one. But the children of Israel went upon dry land in the midst of the see, and the water was a wall unto them: both on the right hand of them and also on the lift.  
Thus the Lord delivered Israel the self same day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the see side. And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the Lord had showed upon the Egyptians, they feared the Lord: and believed both the Lord and also his servant Moses   

¶ The xu Chapter.  
THen Moses and the children off Israel sang this song unto the Lord and said  
Let us sing unto the Lord, for he is become glorious, the horse and him that road upon him hath he overthrown in the see.  
The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation.  
He is my God and I will glorify him, he is my father's God and I will lift him up an high  
The Lord is a man off war, jehovah y● his name: Pharaos' charettes and his host hath he cast in to the see.  
His jolly captains are drowned in thered see, the deep waters have covered them: they sunk to the bottom as a stone.  
Thine hand Lord is glorious in power, thine hand Lord hath all to dashed the enemy.  
And with thy great glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries, thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them: even as stobell.  
With the breath off thine anger the water gathered together and the floods stood fiyll as a rock ad the deep water congealed together in the midst off the see.  
The enemy said, I will follow and overtake them and will divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword and mine hand shall destroy them.  
Thou bluest with thy breath and the see covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters. ¶ who is like unto the o Lord among gods: who is like the so glorious in holiness fearful, laudable and that showest wonders?  
Thou stretchedest ou● thy right hand▪ and the earth swallowed them.  
And thou cariedest with thy mercy this people which thou deliverest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation.  
The nations heard and were afraid, pangs came upon the Philistines.  
Than the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest off the M●abites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint hearted.  
Let fear and dread fall upon them thorough the greatness off thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass thorough o Lord while the people pass thorough, which thou hast gotten.  
Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the place Lord which thou hast made for the to dwelled in the sanctuary Lord which thy hands have prepared.  
The Lord reign ever and allway.  
For Pharaoh went in an horseback with his charettes and horsemen in to the see, and the Lord brought the waters of the see upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land thorough the midst of the see.  
And mir jam a prophetisse the sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women came out after her with tymbrells in a dance. And mir Iam sang before them: sing ye unto the Lord, for he is become glorious in dead: the horse and his rider hath he overthrown in the see.  
Moses brought Israel from the red see, and they went out in to the wilderness of Sur.  
And they went three days long in the wilderness and could find no water. At the last they came to Mara: but they could not drink off the waters for bitterness, for they were better▪ therefore the name of the place was called Mara. Then the people murmured against Moses saying▪ what shall we drink? And Moses cried unto the Lord and he showed him a tre▪ and he cast it in to the water, and they waxed sweet.  
There he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he tempted them and said: If ye will hearken unto the voice of the Lord your 
We must do that which is right in god's sight and as his word reach eth us and no● after our own imaginac. ● o●.  God, and will do that which is right in his sight and will give an ●are unto his commandments, and keep all his ordinances: than will I put none of this diseases upon the which I brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord thy surgione.   

¶ The xuj Chapter.  
ANd they came to Elim where were. xii wells of water and lxx date trees, and they pitched there by the water. And they took their journey from Elim, and all the hole company of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which lieth between Elim and Sinai: the xu day of the second month after that they were come out of the land of Egipte. And the hole multitude of the children 
*  of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said unto them: would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egipte, when we sat by the flesh pots and ate bred our bellies full for ye have brought us out in to this wilderness to kill this hole multitude for hunger.  
Than said the Lord unto Moses: behold, I will rain bred from heaven down to you, and let the people go out and gather day by day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no. The uj day let them prepare that which they will bring in, and let it be twice as much as they gather in daily. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel: at even he shall know that it is the Lord, which brought you out of the land of Egipte and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the Lord: because he hath heard your grudgings against the Lord: for what are we that ye should murmur against us. And moreover spoke Moses. At even the Lord will give you flesh to eat and in the morning bred enough▪ because the Lord hath heard your murmur which ye murmur against him: for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.  
And Moses spoke unto Aaron: Say unto all the company of the children of Israel, come forth before the Lord, for he hath heard your grudginges. And as Aaron spoke unto the hole multitude of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness. and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud. And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, tell them therefore and say that at even they shall eat flesh, andi the morning they shall be filled with bred, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your god  
And at even the quails came and covered the ground where they lay. And in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thine as the door frost on the ground. when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: what is this? for they witted not what it was And Moses said: this is the breed which the Lord hath given you to eat. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, that ye gather every man enough for him to eat: a gomer full for a man according to the number off you, and gather every man for them which are in his tent.  
And the children of Israel did even so, and gathered some more some less, and did meet it with a gomer. And unto him that had gathered much remained nothing over, and unto him that had gathered little was there no lack: but every man had gathered sufficient for his eating. And Moses said unto them. See that no man let ought remain of it till the morning. notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses: but some of them left of it until the morning, and it waxed full of worms and st●ke and Moses was angry with them.  
And they gathered it all mornings: every man as much as sufficed for his eating, for as soon as the heat of the son came it moulte. And the uj day they gathered twice so much bred: ij. gomers for one man, and the rulers of the multitude came and told Moses. And he said unto them, this is that which the Lord hath said tomorrow is the Sabbath of the holy rest of the Lord: bake that which ye will bake and seethe that ye will seethe, and that which remaineth say up for you and keep it till the morning. And they laid it up till the morning as Moses bade ●● it stank not neither was there any worms th●● And Moses said: that eat this day: for to ●● ye it is the lords Sabbath: to day ye sh●●●● de none in the field, sixth days ye shall gather it, for the, seven. is the sabbath: there shall be none there in.  
notwithstanding there went out of the people in the seventh day for to gather: but they found none. Then the Lord saide unto Moses: how long shall it be, yet ye will keep my commandments and laws? See because the Lord hath given you a Sabbath, therefore he giveth you the uj day bred for two days. Bide therefore every man athome, and let no man go out of his place the seventh day. And the people rested the seventh day. And the house of Israel called it Man, And it was like unto Coriander seed and white, and the taste of it was like unto wafers made with honey.  
And Moses said: this is that which the 
Relics ought to be but a remembrance only.  Lord commandeth: fill a Gomor of it, that it may be kept for your children after you: that they may see the bred wherewith he fed you in wilderness, when he had brought you out of the land of Egipte. And Moses spoke unto Aaron: take a cruse and put a Gomer ●ull of man therein, and lay it up before the Lord to be kept for your children after you as the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron laid it up before the testimony there to be kept.  
And the children of Israel ate man xl year until they came unto a land inhahited. And so they ate Man, even until they came unto the bordres of the land of Canaan, And a Gomer is the tenth part of an Epha.   

The xvij Chapter.  
ANd all the company of the children of Israel went on their journeys from the wilderness of Sin at the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Raphidim: where was no water for the people to drink. And the people chode with Moses and said: give us water to drink. And Moses said unto 
*  them: why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? There the people thirsted 
*  for water, and murmured against Moses and said: wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egipte, to kill us and our children and our cattles with thirst?  
And Moses cried unto the Lord saying what shall I do unto this people? they be all most ready to stone me. And the Lord said unto Moses: go before the people, and take with the of the elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand and go. Behold, I will stand there before the upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out there of, that the people may drink. And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel And he called the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord saying: is the Lord among us or not?  
Then came Amalech and fought with Israel in Raphidim. And Moses said unto josua: chose out men and go fight with Amelech Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill and the rod of God in mine hand. And josua did as Moses bade him, and fought with the Amalechites. And Moses, Aaron and Her went up to the top of the hill. And when Moses held up his hand, Israel had the better. And when he late his hand down, Amelech had the better.  
when Moses hands were weighed, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down there on. And Aaron and Her stayed up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the son was down. And josua discomfeted Amalech and his people with the edge of his sword.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: writ this for a remembrance in a book and tell it unto josua, for I will put out the remembrance of Amalech from under heaven. And Moses made an altar and called the name of it * jehovah Nissi, for he said: the hand is on 
jehovah nissi the Lord is he that exalte●● me.  the seat of the Lord, that the Lord will have war with Amalech thorough out all generations.   

The xviij Chapter.  
IEthro the priest of Madian Moses father in law heard of all that God had done unto Moses and to Israel his people, how that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egipte. And he took Ziphora Moses wife, after she was sent back, and her two sons, of which the one was called Gerson, for he said: I have been an alien in a strange land. And the other was called Eliesar: for the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.  
And jethro Moses father in law came with his two sons and his wife unto Moses in to the wilderness: where he had pitched his tent by the mount of God. And he sent word to Moses: I thy father in law jethro am come to thee, and thy wife also, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet his father in law and did obeisance and kissed him, and they saluted etch other and came in to the tent.  
And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had happened them by the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. And jethro reioesed over all the good which the Lord had done to Israel, and because he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. And jethro said: blessed be the Lord which hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, which hath delivered his people from under the power of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, for because that they dealt proudly with them. And jethro Moses father in law offered burnt-offerings and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron and all the elder● of Israel came to eat bred with Moses father in law before God.  
And it changed on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from morning unto even. when his father in law saw all that he did unto the people, he said: what is this that thou dost unto the people? why sittest thou thy self and lettest all the people stand about the from morning unto even? And Moses said unto his father in law: because the people came unto me to seek council of God. For when they have a matter, they come unto me, and I must judge between every man and his neighbour, and must show them the ordinances of God and his laws.  
And his father in law said unto him: it is not well that thou dost. Thou dost unwisely and also this people that is with thee: because the thing is to grievous for thee, and thou art not able to do it thy self alone. But hear my royce, and I will give the council, and God shallbe with the. Be thou unto the people to Godward, and bring the causes unto God and provide them ordinances and laws, ●d show them the way wherein they must walk and the works that they must do.  
moreover seek out among all the people, men of activity * which fear God and men 
Our prelate's neither fear God, for they preach not his word true ly●ner are less cove touse than ludas: for they have rece●●ed of the de well the king dames of the ●●●h and the ●●●rie there ●● which christ refused Mathe ●4  that are true and hate couctuousnes: and make them heeds over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten. And let them judge the people at all seasons: If there beany great matter, let them bring that unto thee, and let them judge all small causes themselves, and ease thy self, and let them bear with the. If thou shalt do this thing, than thou shalt be able to endure that which God chargeth the with all, and all this people shall go to their places quietly.  
And Moses heard the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said, and chose active men out of all Israel and made them heeds over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty and over ten And they judged the people at all seasons, and brought the hard causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters themselves. And th● Moses let his father in law depart, and he went in to his own land.   

The xix Chapter.  
THe third month after the children of Israel were gone out of Egipte: the same day they came in to the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Raph● dim, and were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched their tents in the wilderness. And there Israel pitched before the mount. And Moses went up unto God.  
And the Lord called to him out of the mountain saying: thus say unto the house of lacob and tell the children of Israel, ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I took you up upon Eagles wings, and have brought you unto myself. Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine appointment: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine. Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and and holy people: these are the words which thou shalt say unto the children of Israel.  
And Moses came and called for the elders of Ifrael, and laid before them all these words which the Lord had comma unded him. And the people answered all together and said: All that the Lord hath said, we will do. And Moses brought the words of the people unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Moses: Loo, I will come unto the in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I talk with the and also believe the for ever. And Moses showed the words of the people unto the Lord  
And the Lord said unto Moses: Go unto the people and sanctific them to day and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes: that they may be ready against the third day. For the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And set marks round about the people and say: beware that ye go not up in to the mount and that ye twych not the bordres of it. for whosoever twitcheth the mount, shall surely die There shall not an hand twych it, but that he shall either be stoned or else shot thorough: whether it be be'st or man, it shall nor live. when the horn bloweth: than let them come up in to the mounten  
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified them, and they washed their clothes: And he said unto the people be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at your wives. And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed ●●ceadynge loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid. And Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God. and they stood under the hill.  
And mount Sinai was all together on a smoke: because the Lord descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kill, and all the mount was exceeding fearful. And the voice of the horn blue and waxed louder, and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him and that with a voice. And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai: even in the top of the hill, and called Moses up in to the top of the hill. And Moses went up.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: go down and charge the people that they press not up unto the Lord for to see him, and so many off them perissn. And let the priests also which come to the lords presence, sanctify them selves: lest the Lord smite them, Then Moses said unto the Lord: the people cannot come up in to mount Sinai, for thou chargedestrs saying: set marks about the hill and sanctify it.  
And the Lord said unto him: away, and get the down: and come up both thou and Aaron with the. But let not the priests and the people presume for to come up unto the Lord: lest he smite them. And Moses went down unto the people and told them.   

¶ The twenty Chapter.  
ANd God spoke all these words and said I am the Lord thy God, which have brought the out of the land of Egipte and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods in my sight.  
Thou shalt make the no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth. See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and viset the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: and yet show mercy unto thousands among them that love me and keep my commandments.  
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.  
Remember the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it. Six days mayst thou labour and do all that thou hast to do: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, neither thy manservaunte nor thy maydeservaunte, neither thy cattles neither yet the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the Lord made both heaven and earth and the see and all that in them is and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.  
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth the.  
Thou shalt not kill.  
Thou shalt not break wedlock.  
Thou shalt not steal.  
Thou shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbour  
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house: neither shalt covet thy neighbours wife, his manservaunte, his maid, his ox, his ass or ought that is his.  
And all the people saw the thunder and the 
The ●awe causeth wrath and maketh a man i'll from God: but the Gospel draweth and maketh a man bold to come unto God.  lightening and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked. And when the people saw it, they removed and stood a far of and said unto Moses: talk thou with us and we-wil hear: but let not god talk with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not.  
And the people stood a far of, and Moses went in to the thick cloud where God was And the Lord said unto Moses: thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye have seen how that I have talked with you from out of heaven. Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of silver nor gods of gold: in no wise shall ye do it. An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and there on offer thy burntoffe rings and thy peaceoffringes, and thy sheep and thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remembrance of my name, thither I will come unto the and bless the.  
But and if thou wilt make me an altar off stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou lift up thy toll upon it, thou shalt pollute it. Moreover thou shalt not go up with steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not showed there on.   

The xxj Chapter.  
THese are the laws which thou shalt set 
Laws  before them. If thou buy a servant that 
B●●deme●  is an Hebrew, sixth years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free paying nothing. If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came married, his wife shall go out with him. And if his master have given him a wife and she have borne him sons or daughters: then the wife and her children shallbe her masters and he shall go out alone. But and if the servant say I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go out free. Then let his master bring him unto the Gods and set 
Gods are the judges which are in gods stead.  him to the door or the dorepost, and bore his ear thorough with a awl, and let him be his servant for ever.  
If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the men servants do. If she please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to wife, then shall he let her go fire: to sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power, because he despised her. If he have promised her unto his son to wife, he shall deal with her as men do with their daughters. If he take him another wife, yet her food, raiment and duty off marriage shall he not minish. If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money.  
He that smiteth a man that he die, shallbe 
Murder  slain for it. If a man lay not await but God deliver him in to his hand, than I will point the a place whether he shall i'll. If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him fro mine 
But the pope saith come to ●yne altar.  altar that he die. And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for i●▪  
He that stealeth a man and selleth him (if it be proved upon him) shall be s●ayn● for it. And he that curseth his father or mother, shall be put to death for it. If men strive together and one smite another with a stone or with his fist, so that he die not, but lieth in bed: if he rise again and walk without upon his staff then shall he that smote him go quite: save only he shall bear his charges while he lay in bed and pay for his healing.  
If a man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they die under his hand, it shallbe avenged. But and if they continue a day or two, it shall not be avenged for they are his money.  
when men stry●e and smite a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be mersed, according as the woman's husband will lay to his charge, and he shall pay as the dayesmen appoint him. But and if any misfortune follow, then shall he pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wounded and stripe for stripe.  
If a man smite his servant or his maid in the eye and put it out, he shall let them go fire for the eyes sake. Also if he smite out his servants or his maids tooth, he shall let them go out free for the tothes sake. 
God so abhorreth murder, that the vnreso●able beasts must die therefore. and there flesh cast away   
If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die, than the ox shallbe stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: and his master shall go quite.  
If the ox were wont to run at men in time past and it hath been told his master, and he hath not kept him, but that he hath killed a man or a woman: then the ox shallbe stoned and his master shall die also.  
If he be set to a sum off money, than he shall give for the deliverance off his life, according to all that is put unto him.  
And whether he hath gored a son or a daughter, he shallbe served after the same manner But if it be a servaunt or a maid that the ox hath gored, than he shall give unto their master the sum of. thirty sickles, and the ox shall bestoned.  
If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not, but that an ox or an ass fall therein/ the owner off the pit shall make it good and give money unto their master, and the dead be'st shallbe his.  
If one man's ox hurt another's that he die: then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money, and the deed ox also they shall divide. But and if it be known that the ox hath used to push in times past, then because his master hath not kept him, he shall pay ox for ox. and the deed shallbe his own.   

¶ The xxij Chapter  
IF a man steake an ox or sheep and kill 
The●●e.  it or sell it, he shall restore .v. oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.  
If a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him: except the son be up when he is found, then there shallbe blood shed for him,  
A thief shall make restitution: If he have not wherewith, he shallbe sold for his theft. If the theft be found in his hand alive (whether it be ox, ass or sheep) he shall restore double.  
If a man do hurt field or vineyard, so that he put in his be'st to feed in another man's field: off the best off his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitueyon.  
If fire break out and catch in the thorns, so that the stoukes of corn or the standing corn or field be consumed therewith: he that kynled the fire shall make restitution.  
If a man deliver his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of his house: If the thief be found, he shall pay double If the thief be not found, than the goodman of the house shallbe brought unto the gods and swear, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbours good.  
And in all manner of trespass, whether it be ox, ass, sheep, raiment or any manner lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the gods. And whom the god's condemn: the same shall pay double unto his neighbour.  
If a man deliver unto his neighbour to keep, ass, ox, sheep or what soever be'st it be and it die or be hurt or driven away and no man see it: then shall an oath of the Lord go between them, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbours good, and the owner of it shall take the oath, and the other shall not make it good: If it be stolen from him, than he shall make restitution unto the owner: If it be torn with wild beasts, them let him bring record of the teering: and he shall not make it good.  
when a man borroweth ought of his neighbour if it be hurt or else die, and if the owner thereof be not by, he shall make it good: If the owner there of be by, he shall not make it good namely if it be an hired thing and came for hire.  
If a man beguile a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall endote her and take her to his wife: If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgens.  
Thou shalt not suftre a witch to live, who 
witches  soever lieth with a be'st, shallbe slain for it. He that offereth unto any gods save unto the Lord only, let him die without redemption vex not a stranger neither oppress him for ye were strangers in the land of Egipte.  
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child: * If ye shall trouble them: they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry 
Let all oppressars of the poor ●ake heed to this text.  and then will my wrath wax hoot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shallbe widows and your children fatherless.  
If thou lend money to any of my people 
Lend  that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.  
If thou take thy neighbours raiment to pledge, 
Plegge.  see that thou deliver it unto him again by that the son go down. For that is his coverlet only: even the raiment for his skin wherein heslepeth: or else he will cry unto me and I will hear him, for I am merciful.  
Thou shalt not rail upon the gods, neither 
Gods.  curse the ruler of thy people.  
Thy fruits (whether they be dry or moist) see thou keep not back. Thy firstborn son thou shalt give me: likewise shalt thou do of thine oxen and of thy sheep. Seven days it shall be with the dame, and the eight day thou shalt give it me.  
Ye shallbe holy people unto me, and therefore shall ye eat no flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. But shall cast it to dogs.   

The xxiij Chapter.  
THou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither 
False witness.  shalt put thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness:  
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest to follow many turn a sydefrom the truth, neither shalt thou paint a porre man's cause.  
when thou meetest thine enemies ox or ass going astray, thou shalt bring them to him again.  
If thou see thine enemies ass sink under his burden, thou shalt not pass by and let him alone: but shalt help him to lift him up again.  
Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit.  
Keep the far from a false matter, and the Innocent and righteous see thou slay not, for I will not justify the wicked.  
Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the saying and pervert the words of the 
Gifts.  righteous.  
Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I 
Stranger.  know the heart of stranger, because ye were strangers in Egipte.  
Six years thou shalt sow thy land and gather in the fruits thereof: and the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat: In like manner thou shalt do with thy vineyard and thine olive trees.  
Six days thou shalt do thy work and the seventh day thou shalt keep holy day, that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thy maid and the stranger may be refreshed.  
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect.  
And make no rehearsal of the names of strange gods, neither let any man hear them out of your mouths.  
Three feasts thou shalt hold unto me in a year. Thou shalt keep the feast of sweet bred that thou eat unleavened bread vij days jonge as I commanded the in the time appointed of the month of Abib, for in that month thou camest out of Egipte: and see that noman appear before me empty. And the feast of harvest, when thou reapest the firstfrutes of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field. And the feast of ingadering, in the end of the year: when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.  
Three times in a year shall all thy menchilderns appear before the Lord jehovah.  
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with levended bred: neither shall the fat of my feast remain until the morning.  
The first of the firstfrutes of thy land thou shalt bring in to the house of the Lord thy God thou shalt also not seethe a kyde in his mother's milk.  
Behold, I send mine angel before thee, to keep the in the way, and to bring the in to the place which I have prepared Beware of him and hear his voice and anger him not: for he will not spare your misdeeds, ye and my name is in him. But and if thou shalt hearken unto his voice and keep all that I shall tell thee, them I willbe an enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary unto thine adversaries.  
when mine angel goth before the and hath brought the in unto the Amorites, Hethites Pherezites, Canaanites, Hevites and jebusites and I shall have destroyed them: see thou worship not their god's neither serve them, neither do after the works of them: but overtrowe them and break down the places of them And see that ye serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bred and thy water, and I will take all sicknesses away from among you.  
Moreover there shallbe no woman childless or unfruitful in thy land, and the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my fear before the and will kill all the people whether thou shalt go. And I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee, and I will send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hevites, the Canaanites and the Hethites before the.  
I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land grow to a wilderness: and the beasts of the field multiply upon the.  
But a little and a little I will drive them out before thee, until thou be increased that thou mayst enherett the land. And I will make thy costs from the red see unto the see of the Philistenes and from the desert unto the river. I 
By the river understand the river E●phrates.  will deliver the inhabiters of the land in to thine hand, and thou shalt drive them out before the. And thou shalt make none appointment with them nor with their gods. Nether shall they dwell in thy land, lest they make the sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be thy decay.   

The xxiv. Chapter.  
ANd he said unto Moses: come unto the Lord: both thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the. lxx elders of Israel, and worship a far of. And Moses went himself alone unto the Lord, but they came not nigh, neither came the people up with him.  
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the laws. And all the people answered with one voice and said: all the words which the Lord hath said, will we do.  
Then Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early and made an altar under the hill, and twelve pilers according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel, and sent young men of the children of Israel to sacrifice burntoffrynges and to offer peaceoffrynges of oxen unto the Lord.  
And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the otherhalfe he sprenkeld on the altar. And he took the book of the appointment and red it in the audience of the people. And they saide. All that the Lord hath said, we will do and hear. And Moses took the blood and sprinkeld it on the people and said: behold, this is the blood of the appointment which the Lord hath made with you upon all these words.  
Then went Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the lxx elders of Israel up, and saw the God of Israel, and under his fere as it were a brick word of Saphir and as it were the fashion of heaven when is it clear, and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he set not his hand. And when they had seen God they ate and drunk.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: come up to me in to the hill and be there▪ and I will give the tables of stone and a law and commandments, which I have written to teach them. Then Moses rose up and his minister josua, and Moses went up in to the hill of God, and saide unto the elders: tarry ye here until we come again unto you: And behold here is Aaron and Her with you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come to them  
when Moses was come up in to the mount, a cloud covered the hill, and the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it vi days. And the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the cloud. And the fashion of the glory of the Lord was like consuming fire on the top of the hill in the sight of the children of Israel. And Moses went in to the mountain And Moses was in the mount xl days and xl. nights.   

The xxv Chapter  
ANd the Lord talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel that they give me an heveoffring, and of everey man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take it. And this is the heveoffring which ye shall take of them: gold, silver and brass: and hyacinth colour, scarlet. purple, bice and gootes here: rams skins that are red, and the skins of taxus and sethimwodd, oil for lights and spices for a anointing oil and for sweet cense: Onyx stones and set stones for the Ephod and for the 
Ephod is a garment like a● amy●e.  breastlap.  
And they shall make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. And as I have showed the the fashion of the habitation and of all the ornaments thereof, even so see that ye make it in all things.  
And they shall make an ark of sethim wodd two cubits and an half long, a cubit and an half broad and a cubitt and an half high. And thou shalt overleye it with pure gold: both within and without, and shalt make an high upon it a crown of gold round about. And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners there of two rings on the one side of it and ij. on the other. And thou shalt make staves of sethim wood and cover them with gold, and put the staves in the rings along by the sides of the ark, to bear it with all. And the staves shall abide in the rings of the ark, and shall not be taken away. And thou shalt put in the ark, the witness which I shall give the.  
And thou shalt make a merciseate of pure gold two cubytes and an half long and a cubete and an half broad. And make two cherubins off thick gold on the two ends of the mercyseat: and set the one cherub on the one end and the other on the other end of the mercyseat: so see that thou make them on the ij. ends there of. And the cherubins shall stretch their wings abroad over an high, and cover the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another: even to the mercyseat ward, shall the faces of the cherubyns be. And thou shalt put the mercyseat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the witness which I will giveth.  
There I will meet the and will common with the from upon the mercyseat from between the two cherubins which are upon the ark of witness, of all thing which I will give the in commandment unto the children of Israel.  
Thou shalt also make a table of sethim would of two cubits long and one cubett broad and a cubett and an half high. And cover it with pure gold and make there to a crown of gold round about. And make unto that an whope of four fingers broad, round about, And make a golden crown also to the whope round about. And make for it four rings of gold and put them in the corners that are on the four feet thereof: even hard under the whope shall the rings be, to put in staves to bear the table with all. And thou shalt make staves of Sethim wore and overleye them with gold, that the table may be borne with them And thou shalt make his dishes, spoons, pots and flatpeces to pour out withal, of fine gold. And thou shalt set upon the table, shewbred 
●hewbred because it was always I● the presen●● and sight of the Lord  before me allway.  
And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure thick gold with his shaft, branches, bowls, knops and flowers proceeding there out Syxe branches shall proceed out of the sides of the candlestick three out of the one side and iij. out of the other. And there shallbe three cups like unto almonds with knops and flowers upon every one of the vi branches that proceed out of the candlestick: and in the candlestick self four cups like unto almonds with their knops and flowers: that there be a knope under every two branches of the six that proceed out of the candlestick. And the knops and the branches shall be altogether, one piece of pure thick gold.  
¶ The form of the ark of witness with his staves and two cherubins.  
¶ The table of shewbreed with the loves of breed upon it, and his other vessels.  
¶ The fashion of the candlestick with his lamps, snoffers and other necessaries.  
And thou shalt make vij lamps and put them an high there on, to give light unto the other side that is over against it: with snoffers and fire pans of pure gold. And hundred pound weight of fine gold shall make it with all the apparel. And see that thou make them after the fashion that was showed the in the mount.   

The xxvi. Chapter.  
ANd thou shalt make an habitatyon with ten curtains of twined bice, hyacinth scarlet and purple, and shalt make them with cherubins of broderd work. The length of a curtain shallbe xxviij cubyttes, and the breadth four and they shallbe all of one measure: five curtains shallbe coupled together one to another: and the other five likewise shallbe coupled together one to another.  
Then shalt thou make louppes of hyacinth colour, a long by the edge of the one curtain even in the selvege of the coupling curtain. And likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the utmost curtain that is coupled therewith on the other side. fifty louppes shall thou make in the one curtain, and fifty in the edge of the other that is couppled therewith on the other side: so that the louppes be one over against another. And thou shalt make fifty  
¶ The form of the ten cortaynes of the taber nacle with their cherubins and fifty loupes.  
And thou shalt make xj curtains of goats here, to be a tent to cover the habitation The length of a curtain shallbe xxx cubits, and the breadth four and they shallbe all xi of one measure. And thou shalt couple .v. by themselves, and the other six by themselves, and shalt double the sixth in the forefront of the tabernacle, And thou shalt make fifty loupes in the edge of the utmost curtain on the one side: even in the coupling curtain, and as many in the edge of the coupling curtain on the other side. And thou shalt make fifty buttones off brass and put them on the louppes, and couple the tent together with all▪ that there may be one tabernacle.  
And the remnant that resteth in the curtains of the tent: even the breedeth of half a curtain that resteth, shallbe left on the back sides of the habitation: a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side, of that that remaineth in the length of the curtains off the tabernacle, which shall remain of other side of the habitation to cover it with all.  
And thou shalt make another covering for the tent of rams skins died red: and yet another above all of taxus skins.  
And thou shalt make boards for the habitation of sethim would to stand up right: ten cubits long shall every board be, and a cubit and an half broad. Two feet shall one board have to couple them together with all, and so thou shalt make unto all the boards of the habitation. And thou shalt make twenty boards for the habitation on the south side, and thou shalt make, xl. sockets of silver and put them under the twenty boards: two sockets under every board, for their two feet. In like manner in the northside of the habitation there shallbe twenty boards and xl sockets off silver: two sockets under every board. And for the west end off the habitation, shalt thou make six boards, and two boards more for the two west corners of the habitation: so that these two boards be coupled together beneath and likewise above with clampes. And so shall it be in both the corners. And so there shallbe eight boards in all and xvi solettes of silver: ij. sockets under every board.  
And thou shalt make bars off sethim●od five for the boards of the one side of the taber nacle, and five for the other side, and five for the boards off the west end. And the middle bar shall go along thorough the mids  
¶ The fashion of the boards of the tabernacle, with their feet, sockettes and bars▪  
¶ The fashion of the corner boards with their feet sockettes and bars.  
And thou shalt make a vayse off hyacinth, of scarlet, purple and twined bice, and shalt make it off broderd work and full of cherubins. And hang it upon four pilers of sethim wodd covered with gold and that their knops be covered with gold also and stand upon four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the veil with rings, and shall bring in within the veil, the ark of witness. And the veil shall divide the holy from the most holy.  
And thou shalt put the mercyseat upon the ark of witness in the holiest place. And thou shalt put the table without the veil and candlestick over against the table: upon the south side of the habitation. And put the table on the north side.  
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tabernacle: of lacyncte▪ off scarlet, off purple and off twined bice, wrought with needle work. And thou shalt make for the hanging, five pilers off sethim wood, and cover both them and their knops with gold, and shalt cast .v. sockets off brass for them.   

¶ The xxvij Chapter  
ANd thou shalt make an altar of sethim wood: five cubits long and .v. cubettes broad. that it be foursquare, and three cubits high. And make it horns proceeding out in the four corners of it, and cover it with brass. And make his asshepannes, shovels, basins, fleshhokes, fyrepannes and all the apparel there of, of brass after the fashion of a net, and put upon the net four rings: even in the four corners of it, and put it beneath under the compass of the altar, and let the net reach unto the one half of the altar, And make staves for the altar of sethim wood, and cover them with brass, and let them be put in rings along by the sides off the altar, to bear it with all. And make the altar hollow with boards: even as it was showed the in the mount, so let them make it,  
And thou shalt make a court unto the habitation, which shall have in the fouth side hangings of twined bice, being an hundred cubits long, and twenty pilers thereof with there xx. sockets of brass: but the knops of the  
¶ The form of the altar of the burntos●rynge with his horns, rings staves, gredyernes and other ornametes  
And in the gate of the court shallbe a veil of twenty cubits: of lacyncte, scarlet, purpul and twined bice wrought with needle work, and four pilers with their four sockets. All the pilers round about the court shallbe whoped with silver, and their knops of silver, and their sockets of brass. The length of the court, shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty, and the height five, and the hangings shallbe of twined bice and the sockets of brass. And all the vessels of the habitation to all manner service and the pins there of: ye and the pins also of the court, shallbe brass.  
¶ The figure of the ordering of all the 〈◊〉 which must stand in the tabernacle.  
And command the children of Israel that they give the pure oil olive beaten for the lights to pour all way in to the lamps. In the tabernacle of witness without the veil which is before the witness, shall Aaron and his sons dress it both even and morning 
Fron h● ce unto the books end and therow● out at the next book, thou shalt see what moved the Pope and whence he ●●ke the fashion of the garments and ornam●tes that are now used in the church and the manner of halowenge off the church, altar, chalice. ●onte, belles, and so forth, and is become as it were a priest of the old ●awe and have brought us in to ●ap●suite as it were under the ceremonies of the old law. save their: spoke and ours bedom●●●.  before the Lord: And it shallbe a duty for ever unto your generacyous after you: to be given of the children of Israel.   

The xxviij Chapter.  
ANd take thou unto thee, Aaron thy brother and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me: both Aaron, Nadab, Abiliu, Eleazar and Ithamar Aaron's sons. And thou shalt make holy raiment for Aaron thy brother, both honourable and glorious Moreover speak unto all that are wise hearted which I have filled with the spirit of wisdom: that they make Aaron's raiment to consecrate him with, that he may minister unto me.  
These are the garments which they shall make: a breastlap, Ephod, a tunicle, a straight cote, a mitre and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and his sons, that he may minister unto me. And they shall take there to, gold, lacincte, scarlet,  
¶ The form of Aaron with all his apparel.  
And they shall make the Ephod: of gold hyacinth, scarlet, purple and white twined bice with broderdworke, The two sides shall come together, clossed up in the edges thereof And the girdle of the Ephod shallbe of the same workmanship and of the same stufle: even of gold, hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice,  
And thou shalt take two onyx stones and grave in them the names of the children of Israel: six in the one stone, and the other six in the other stone: according to the order of their birth. After the work of a stonegraver, even as signets are graven, shalt thou grave the. ij stones with the names of the children of Israel, and shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the two shoulders of the Ephod, and they shallbe stones off remembrance unto the children off Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a remembrance.  
And thou shalt make hooks off gold and two chains off fine gold: lynkeworke and wreathed, and fasten the wreathed chains to the hooks.  
And thou shalt make the breastlap of ensample with broderd work: even after the work of the Ephod shalt thou make it: of gold, hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice shalt thou make it. foursquare it shall be and double, an hand breed long and an hand breed broad. And thou shalt fill it with four rows of stones. In the first row shallbe a Sardios, a Topas and Smaragdus. The second row: a Rubin, Saphir and a Diamond. The third: Lygurios an Acatt and Amethyst. The fourth: a Turcas, Onyx and jaspis. And they shallbe set in gold in their inclosers. And the stones shallbe graven as signets be graven: with the names of the children of Israel even with. xii names every one with his name according to the twelve tribes.  
And thou shalt make upon the breastlap two fastening chains of pure gold and wreathen work. And thou shalt make likewise upon the breastlap two rings of gold and put them on the edges of the breastlap, and put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are in the edges of the breastlap, And the two ends of the two chains thou shalt fasten in the two rings, and put them upon the shoulders of the Ephod: on the foreside of it.  
And thou shalt yet make two rings of gold and put them in the two edges of the breastlap even in the borders there of toward the inside of the Ephod that is over against it. And yet two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and 
Light and perfectenesse: In Hebrew it is lights and perfectnesses: and I think that the one weet stones that did glister and had light in them and the other clear stones as crystal. And the light betokened the light of Gods word and the pureness clean living acordunge to the saute and was therefore called the ensamp'e of the children of Israel, because it put them in remembrance to s●ke God's word ●d to do there of.  put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath over against the breastlap, allow where the sides are joined together upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod. And they shall bind the breastlap by his rings unto the rings of the Ephod with a lace of hyacinth, that it may lie close unto the broidered girdle of the Ephod, that the breastlap be not loosed from the Ephod.  
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastlap of ensample upon his heart, when he goth in to the holy place, for a remembrance before the Lord allway. And thou shalt put in the breastlap of ensample * light and perfectness: that they be even upon Aaron's heart when he goeth in before the Lord and Aaron shall bear the ensample of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord alway  
And thou shalt make the tunicle unto the Ephod, all together of hyacinth. And there shallbe an hole for the heed in the mids of it, and let there be a bond of woven work round about the colore of it: as it were the colore of a partlet, that it rend not. And beneath upon the hem, thou shalt make pomegranates of hyacinth, of scarlet, and of purple round about the hem, and bells of gold between them round about: that there be evera golden bell and a pomegranate, a goldem bell and a pomegranate round about upon the hem of the tunicle. And Aaron shall have it upon him when he ministereth▪ that the sound may be herd when he goeth in in to the holy place before the Lord and when he cometh out, that he die not.  
And thou shalt make a place of pure gold, and grave there on (as signettes are graven) 
That he calleth the holiness of the Lord I suppose it be this name jehovah  the holiness of the Lord, and put it on a lace of hyacinth and tie it unto the mitre, upon the forefront of it, that it be upon Aaron's forehead: that Aaron bear the sin of the holy things which the children of Israel have hallowed in all their holy gifts. And it shallbe always upon Aaron's forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.  
And thou shalt make an albe of bice, and thou shalt make a mitre of bice and a girdle of needle work.  
And thou shalt make for Aaron's sons also coats, girdles and bonnets honourable and glorious, and thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother and on his sons with him and shalt anoint them and fill their hands and consecrate them▪ that they may minister unto me. And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their privities: from the loins unto the thighs shall they reach. And they shallbe upon Aaron and his sons, when they go in to the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister in holiness, that they bear no sin and so die. And it shallbe a law for ever unto Aaron and his seed after him.   

The xxix Chapter.  
THis is the thing that thou shalt do unto them when thou hallowest them to be my priests. Take one ox and two rams that are without blemish, and unleavened bred and cakes of sweet bred tempered with oil and wafers of sweet bred anointed with oil (of wheten flower shalt thou make them) and put them in a mand and bring them in the mand with the oil and the two rams.  
And bring Aaron and his sons unto the 
Of this they take the consecrating of bishops and anointing of priests, though they have altered the manner some what  door of the tabernacle of witness, and wash them with water, and take the garments, and put upon Aaron: the straight cote, and the tunicle of the Ephod, and the Ephod and the breastlap: and gerth them to him with the broidered girdle of the Ephod. And put the mitre upon his heed and put the holy crown upon the mitre. Then take the anointing oil and pour it upon his heed and anoint him. And bring his sons and put albes upon them, and gerth them with girdles: as well Aaron as his sons, And put the bonnets on them that the priests office may be theirs for a perpetual law.  
And fill the hands of Aaron and of his sons, and bring the ox before the tabernacle of witness. And let Aaron and his sons put their hands upon his heed and kill him before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of witness And take of the blood of the ox and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger and pour all the blood upon the bottom of the altar▪ and take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the ●all that is on the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is upon them: and burn them upon the alter. But the flesh of the ox and his skin ne and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire, without the host. For it is a sin-offering.  
Then take one of the rams, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram, and cause him to be slain, and take of his blood and sprenkell it round about upon the altar, and cut the ram in pieces and whesh the inwards of him and his legs, and put them unto the pieces and unto his heed, and burn the hole ram upon the alter. For it is a burntoffering unto the Lord, and a sweet savour of the lords sacrifice.  
And take the other ram and let Aaron and his sons, put their hands upon his heed and let him than be killed. And take of his blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hands, and upon the great too of their right feet: and sprenkell the blood upon the alter round about.  
Than take of the blood that is upon the altar and of the anointing oil, and sprenkell it upon Aaron and his vestiments, and upon his sons and upon their garments also. Than is he and his clothes holy and his sons and their clothes holy also  
Than take the fat of the ram and his rump and the fat that covereth the inwards and the kall of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and the right shoulder (for that ram is a fulloffring) and a symnell of bred and a cake of oiled bred and a wafer out of the baskett of sweet bred that is before the Lord, and put all upon the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons: and wave them in and out a wave-offering unto the Lord. Than take it from of their hands and but ne it upon the alter: even upon the burnt-offering, to be a savour of sweetness before the Lord. For it is a sacrifice unto the Lord.  
Then take the breast of the ram that is Aaron's fulloffring and wave it a wave-offering before the Lord, and let that be thy part. And sanctify the breast of the wave-offering and the shoulder of the heveoffring which is waved and heaved up of the ram which is the fulloffring of Aaron and of his sons. And it shall be Aaron's and his sons duty for ever, of the children of Israel: for it is an heave-offering. And the heveoffring shallbe the Lords duty of the children of Israel: even of the sacrifice of their peaceoffrynges which they have unto the Lord.  
And the holy garments of Aaron shallbe his sons after him, to anoint them therein, and to fill their hands therein. And that son that is priest in his stead after him, shall put them on seven days: that he go in to the tabernacle of witness, to minister in the holy place.  
Than take the ram that is the fulloffering and seethe his flesh in an holy place. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of him, and the bred that is in the basket: even in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And they shall eat them, because the attonment was made therewith to fill their hands and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy  
If ought of the flesh of the fulloffrynges, or of the bred remain unto the morning, thou shalt burn it with fire: for it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. And see thou do unto Aaron and his sons: even so in all things as I have commanded thee: that thou fill their hands seven days and offer every day an ox for a sin-offering for to reconcile with all. And thou shalt hallow the alter when thou reconcylest it, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it. Seven days thou shalt reconcile the altar and sanctify it, that it may be an alter most holy: 
Toch not the ci alyce nor the altar stone nor holvoyle and hold your hand on● off the font.  so that no man may twitch it but they that be consecrate.  
This is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: ij. lambs of one year old day by day for ever, the one thou shalt offer in the morning and the other at even. And unto the one lamb take a tenth deal of flower mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of an hin of wine, for a drinckeoffring. And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even and shall do thereto according to the meat-offering and drinkeoffring in the morning, to be an odour of a sweet savour of the sacrifice of the Lord. And it shallbe a continual burntoffering among your children after you, in the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord, where I will meet you to spoke unto you there. There I will meet with the children of Israel, and willbe sanctified in mine honour. And I will sanctify the tabernacle of witness and the alter: and I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons to be my priests. And moreover I will dwell among the children of Israel and willbe their God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God that brought them out of the land of Egipte for to dwell among them: even I the Lord their God,   

¶ The xxx Chapter.  
ANd thou shalt make an alter to burn ●ē see therein, of sethim would: a cubet long, and a cubet broad, even foursquare shall it be and two cubits high: with horns proceeding out of it, and thou shalt overlay it with fine gold both the roof and the walls round about, and his horns also, and shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about, and two golden rings  
¶ The form of the altar of incense with all that belongeth unto it.  
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet cense every morning when he dresseth the lamps: and likewise at even when he setteth up the lamps he shall burn cense perpetually before the Lord thorough out your generations Ye shall put no strange sense thereon, neither burnt-sacrifice nor meateoffring: neither pour any drynkeoffring thereon. And Aaron shall reconcile his horns once in a year, reych the blood of the sin-offering of reconcylige: even once in the year shall he reconcile it thorough your generations. And so is it most holy unto the Lord.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: when thou takest the sum of the children of Israel and tellest them, they shall give every man a reconciling of his soul unto the Lord, that there be no plague among them when thou tellest them. And thus much shall every man give that goeth in the number: half a sycle, after the holy sycle: a sycle is twenty geeras: and an half sycle shallbe the heveoffring unto the Lord. And all that are numbered of them that are twenty year old and above shall give an heave-offering unto the Lord. The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not go under half a sycle, when they give an heave-offering unto the Lord for the atonement of their souls. And thou shalt take the reconciling money of the children of Israel and shalt put it unto the use of the tabernacle of witness, and it shall be a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for the if fowls.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: thou shalt make a laver of brass and his foot also of brass to wash with all, and shalt put it between the tabernacle of witness and the alter and put water therein: that Aaron and his sons may wesh both their hands and their feet thereout, when they go in to the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister and to burn the lords offering, lest they die. And it shallbe an ordinance for ever unto him and his seed among your children after you.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: take principal spices: of pure myrrh five hundred sycles, of sweet cinnamon half so much  
¶ The figure of the laver of brass with his foot.  
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying: this shallbe an holy oynting oil unto me, thorough out your generations. No man's flesh shallbe anointed therewith: neither shall ye make any other after the making of it for it is holy, see therefore that ye take it for holy▪ whosoever maketh like that, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall perish from among his people.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: take unto the sweet spices: stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum and pure frankensens, of etch like much: and make cens of them compound after the craft of the apoticarye, mingled together, that it may be made pure and holy. And beat it to powder and put it before the witness in the tabernacle of witness, where I will meet thee, but let it be unto you holy. And see that ye make none after the making of that, but let it be unto you holy for the Lord. And whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall perish from among his people.   

¶ The xxxj Chapter  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: behold, I have called by name, Bezaleel the son of Vrisonne to Her of the tribe of juda. And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge: even in all manner work, to find out soot fayte, to work in gold silver and brass and with the craft to grave stones, to set and to carve in timbre and to work in all manner workmanship. And behold, I have given him to be his companion Ahaliab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom to make all that I have commanded thee: the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of witness, and the mercyseat that is there upon, all the ornaments of the tabernacle, and the the table with his ordinance, and the pure candlestick with all his apparel, and the alter of incens, and the altar of burnt-offerings with all his vessels, and the laver with his foot, and the vestiments to minister in, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to minister in, and the anointing oil and the sweet cense for the sanctuary: according to all as I have commanded the shall they do.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak 
The sabbath beside that it served to come and hear the word of god and to seek his will and to offer and reconcile them selves unto god, it was a sig●● unto the● also and did put them in remembrannce that i● was god that sanctified them with his holy spirit and not they themselves with their holy works.  unto the children of Israel and say: in any wise see that ye keep my Sabbath, for it shallbe a sign between me and you in your generations for to know, that I the Lord do sanctify you. Keep my Sabbath therefore, that it be an holy thing unto you. He that defileth it, shall be slain therefore. For whosoever worketh therein, the same soul shallbe rooted out from among his people. Six days shall men work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the holy rest of the Lord: so that whosoever doth any work in the Sabbath day, shall die for it. wherefore let the children of Israel keep the Sabbath, that they observe it thorough out their generations, that it be an appointment for ever. For it shallbe a sign between me, and the children of Israel for ever. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.  
And when he had made an end of comening with Moses upon the mount Sinai, he gave him two tables of witness: which were of stone and written with the finger of God.   

¶ The xxxij Chapter  
ANd when the people saw that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountain, they gathered themselves together and came unto Aaron and said unto him: Up and make us a god to go before us: for of this Moses the fellow that brought us out of the land off Egipte, we wot not what is become.  
And Aaron said unto them: pluck of the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and of your daughters: and bring them unto me. And all the people plucked of the golden earrings that were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron And he received them of their hands and fashioned it with a graver and made it a calf of molten metal. And they said: This is thy god O Israel, which brought the out of the land of Egipte.  
And when Aaron saw that, he made an altar before it, and made a proclamation saying tomorrow shallbe holy day unto the Lord. And they rose up in the morning and offered burnt offerings, and brought offerings of atonement also. And than they sat them down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play.  
Than the Lord said unto Moses: go get the down, for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egipte, have marred all they are turned at once out of the way which I commanded them, and have made them a calf of molten metal, and have worshipped it and have offered thereto and have said: This▪ is thy God thou Israel, which hath brought the out of the land of Egipte. And the Lord said unto Moses: behold, I see this people that it is a stife necked people, and now therefore suffer me 
The pop a would curse xx. hundred thousand as black as coals, and send them to hell for to have such a proffer, and would not have prayed ● Moses did.  that my wrath may wax hot upon them, and that I may consume them: and than will I make of the a mighty people,  
Than Moses besought the Lord his God and said: O Lord, why should thy wrath wax hot upon thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egipte with great power and with a mighty hand? wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say: For a mischief did he bring them out: even for to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth. Turn from thy fierce wrath, and have compassion over the wickedness of thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thine own self and saidst unto them: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I have said, I will give unto your seed: and they shall enheret it for ever. And the Lord refrained himself from that evil, which he said he would do unto his people.  
And Moses turned his back and went down from the hill, and the two tables of witness in his hand: which were written on both the leaves and were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables. And when josua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: there is a noise of war in the host. And he said▪ it is not the cry of them that have the mastery▪ nor of them that have the worse: but I do hear the noise of synginge.  
And as soon as he came nigh unto the host and saw the calf and the dancing, his wrath waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hand, and broke them even at the hill foot. And he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and stamped it unto powder and strewed it in the water, and made the children of Israel drink. And than Moses said unto Aaron: what did this people unto the that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them.  
And Aaron said: let not the wrath of my Lord wax fierce, thou knowest the people that they are even set on mischief: they said unto me: make us a god to go before us, for we wot not what is become of Moses the fellow that brought us out of the land of Egipte. And I said unto them▪ let them that have gold, take and bring it me: and I kest it in to the fire, and there of came out this calf  
when Moses saw that the people were naked (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame when they made insurrection) he went and stood in the gate of the host and said: If any man pertain unto the Lord, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together and came unto him. And he said unto them, thus sayeth the Lord of Israel: put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate thorough out the host: and slay every man his brother, every man his friend and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did as Moses had said. And there were slain of the people the same day, about three thousand 
The pope's bull fleeth ●oo than Aaron scalfe, ●uē an hundred thousand for one here of them.  men. Then Moses said: fill your hands unto the Lord this day, every man upon his son and upon his brother: to bring upon you a blessing this day.  
And on the morrow, Moses said unto the people: Ye have sinned a great sin. But now I will go up unto the Lord, to wit whether I can make an atonement for your sin.  
And Moses went again unto the Lord and said: Oh, this people have sinned a great sin and have made them a god of gold: Yet 
O pitiful Moses, and likewise O merciful Paul Roma ix And o abominable pope with all his merciless Idols.  forgive them their sin I pray thee: If not wipe me out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses: I will put him out of my book that hath sinned against me. But go and bring the people unto the land which I said unto thee: behold, mine angel shall go before the. neverthelater in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aron made.   

The xxxiij Chapter  
ANd the Lord said unto Moses: depart and go hence: both thou and the people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egipte, unto the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and jacob saying: unto thy seed I will give it. And I will send an angel before thee, and will cast out the Canaanytes, the Amorites, the Hethites, the Pherezites, the, Hevites and the jebusites: that thou must go in to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself, for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way. And when the people heard this evil tidings, they sorrowed: and no man did put on his best raiment.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, say unto the children of Israel: ye are a styf●necked people: I must come on's suddenly upon you, and make an end of you. But now put your goodly raiment from you, that I may weet what to do unto you. And the children of Israel laid their goodly raiment from them even under the mount Horeb.  
And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the host a far of from the host, and called it the tabernacle of witness. And all that would axe any question of the Lord, went out unto the tabernacle of witness which was without the host. And when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, all the people rose up and stood every man in his tentdore and looked after Moses, until he was gone in to the tabernacle. And as soon as Moses was entered in to the tabernacle, the clouden piler descended and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and he talked with Moses. And when all the people saw the clouden piler stand in the tabernacle door, they rose up and worshipped: every man in his tentdore.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And whem Moses turned again in to the host, the lad josua his servant the son of Nun departed not out of the tabernacle. And Moses said unto the Lord: see, thou saidest unto me: lead this people forth, but thou showest me not whom thou wilt send with me. And hast said moreover: I know the by name and thou hast also found grace in my sight: Now therefore, if I have found favour in thy sight, them show me thy way and let me know thee: that I may find grace in thy sight. And look on this also, how that this nation is thy people. 
The popish say, my chiron, my paresh my diocese, and the monks and friars say all ●●●u●●●.   
And he said: my presence shall go with thee, and I will give the rest. And he said: if thy presence go not with me, carry us not hence for how shall it be known now that both I and thy people have found favour in thy sight, but in that thou goest with us: that both I and thy people have a pr●emynence before all the people that are upon the face of the earth. And the Lord said unto Moses: I will do this also that thou hast said, for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know the by name.  
And he said: I beseech thee, show me thy glory: And he said: I will make all my good go before thee, and I will be called in this name jehovah before thee, and will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and will have compassion on whom I have compassion. And he said furthermore: thou mayst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live.  
And the Lord said: behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock, and while my glory goeth forth I will put the in a cleft of the rock, and will put mine hand upon the while I pass by. And then I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.   

The xxxiiij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Moses: hue the two tables of stone like unto the first that I may write in them the words which were in the first two tables, which thou brakest. And be ready against the morning that thou mayst come up early unto the mount of Sinai and stand me there upon the top of the mount. But let no man come up with thee, neither let any man be seen thorough out all the mount, neither let sheep nor oxen feed before the hill.  
And Moses hewed two tables of stone like unto the first and rose up early in the morning and went up unto the mount of Sinai as the Lord commanded him: and took in his hand the. i● tables of stone. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there: and he called upon the name of the Lord. And when the Lord walked before him, he cried: Lord Lord God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth▪ and keepest mercy in store for thousands, and forgevest wickedness, trespass and sin (for there is no man ynnocent before thee) and visetest the wikydnesse of the fathers upon the children and upon children's children▪ even unto the third and fourth generation. And Moses bowed himself to the earth quickly, and worshipped and said: if I have found grace in thy sight o Lord, than let my Lord go with us (for it is a stuburne people) and have mercy upon our wickedness and our sin, and let us be thine inheritance.  
And he said: behold, I make an appointment before all this people, that I will do marvels: soch as have not been done ● all the world, neither among any nation. And all the people among which thou art, shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee: keep all that I command the this day, and behold: I will cast out before thee: the Amorites, Canaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Hevites and jebusites. Take heed to thy self, that thou make no compact with the inhabiters of the land whether thou goest jest it be cause of ruin among you. But overthrow their altars and break their pilers, and cut down their grooves, for thou shalt worship no strange God For the Lord is called jealous, because he is a jealous God: lest if thou make any agreement with the inhabiters of the land, when they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice unto their gods, they call the and thou eat of their sacrifice: and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go a whoring after their gods, they make thy sons go a whoring after their gods also.  
Thou shalt make the no gods of metal The fest of sweet bread shalt thou keep, and, seven. days thou shalt eat unleavened bred (as I commanded thee) in the time appointed in the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou camest out of Egipte. All that breaketh up the matrice shallbe mine, and all that breaketh the matrice among thy cattles, if it be male: whether it be ox or sheep. But the first of the ass thou shalt by out with a sheep, or if thou redeem him not: see thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou must 
That is a god text for the pope●  needs redeem. And see that no man appear before me empty.  
Six days thou shalt work, and the seventh thou shalt rest: both from earring and reaping. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingadering at the years end. Thrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord Ichovah God of Israel: for I will cast out the nations before the and will enlarge thy costs, so that no man shall desire thy land, while thou goest up to appear before the face of the Lord thy God, thrice in the year.  
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with levended bred: neither shall aught of the sacrifice of the feast of Passeover, be left unto the morning. The first of the firstfrutes of thy land, thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. And see, that thou seethe not a kydd in his mother's milk.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: writ these words, for upon these words I have made a covenant with the and with the children of Israel. And he was there with the Lord xl days and xl nights, and neither ate bred nor drunk water. And he wrote in the tables the words of the covenant: even ten verses.  
And Moses came down from mount Sinai and the two tables of witness in his hand, and yet he wist not that the skin of his face shone with beams of his commoning with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel looked upon Moses and saw that the skin of his face shone with beams, they were afraid to come nigh him. But he called them to him, and then Aaron and all the chief of the company came unto him, and Moses talked with them.  
And at the last all the children of Israel came unto him, and he commanded them all that the Lord had said unto him in mount Sinai. And as soon as he had made an end of commoning with them, he put a covering upon his face. But whenhe went before the Lord to speak with him, he took the covering of until he came out. And he came out and spoke 
The Pope speaketh that which he is not commanded.  unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of his face shone with beams: but Moses put a covering upon his face, until he went in, to comen with him.   

The xxxv Chapter.  
ANd Moses gathered all the company of the children of Israel together, and said unto them: these are the things which the Lord hath commanded to do: Six days ye shall work, but the seventh day shall be unto you the holy Sabbath of the lords rest: so that whosoever doth any work there in, shall die. Moreover ye shall kindle no fire thorough out all your habitations upon the Sabbath day.  
And Moses spoke unto all the multitude of the children of Israel saying: this is the thing which the Lord commanded saying: give from among you an heave-offering, unto the Lord. All that are willing in their hearts, shall bring heveoffringes unto the Lord: gold, silver, brass: hyacinth, scarlet, purple, bice and gootes hare: rams skins red and taxus skins and Sethim wood: and oil for lights and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet cens: And Onixstones and stones to be set for the Ephod and for the breastlap.  
And let all them that are wyseharted among you, come and make all that the Lord hath commanded: the habitation and the tens there of with his covering and his rings, boards, bars, pilers and sockets: the ark and the staves thereof with the mercyseat and the veil that covereth it: the table and his staves with all that pertaineth thereto and the shewebred: the candlestick of light with his apparel and his lamps and the oil for the lights: the censalter and his staves, the anointing oil and the sweet cens and the hanging before the tabernacle door: the altar of burntsacrifyces and his brazen gridiron that longeth there to with his staves and all his ordinance and the laver and his foot: the hangings of the court with his pilers and their sockets, and the hanging to the door of the court: the pins of the habitation and the pins of the court with their boards: the ministering garments to minister with in holiness, and the holy vestiments of Aaron the priest and the vestiments of his sons to minister in.  
And all the company of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. And they went (as many as their hearts coraged them and as many as their spirits made them willing) and brought heveoffrynges unto the Lord, to the making of the tabernacle of witness and for all his uses and for the holy vestments. And the men came with the women (even as many as were willing hearted) and brought bracelets, earrings, rings and girdles and all manner jewels of gold. And all the men that waved waveoffrynges of gold unto the Lord and every man with whom was found hyacinth, scarlet, purple, bice or goat's hair or red skins of rams or taxus skins, brought it. And all that hoof up gold or brass, brought an heave-offering unto the Lord. And all men with whom was found sethim wood meet for any manner work or service, brought it.  
And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands, span, and brought the spun work, both of hyacinth, scarlet, purple and bice. And all the women that excelled in wisdom of heart, span the goats hair. And the lords brought Onyx stones and settstones for the Epod, and for the breast lap, and spice and oil: both for the lights and for the anointing oil and for the sweet cens. And the children of Israel brought wyllyngeoffrynges unto the Lord, both men and women: as many as their hearts made them willing to bring, for all manner works which the Lord had commanded to make by the hand of Moses.  
And Moses said unto the children of Israel: behold, the Lord hath called by name Bezabeel the son of Vri the son of Her of the tribe of juda, and hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge, even in all manner work, and to find out curious works, to work in gold, silver and brass: and with graving of stones to set, and with carving in wood, and to work in all manner of soot works. And he hath put in his heart the grace to teach: both him and Ahaliab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of graven work: they are also broderers and workers with needle, In hyacinth, scarlet, purple and bice, and are weavers that can make all manner work, and can devise soot works.   

The xxxvi Chapter.  
ANd Bezaleel wrought and Ahaliab and all wise hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom and understanding, to know how to work all manner work for the holy service, in all that the Lord commanded. And Moses called for Bezaleel Ahaliab and all the wise hearted men in whose hearts the Lord had put wisdom, even as many ab their hearts coraged to come unto the work to work it. And they received of Moses all the heveoffrynges which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the holy service to make it with all. And they brought beside that wyllyngeoffringes every morning.  
And all the wise men that wrought all the holy work, came every man from his work 
when will the Pope say hoo, and forbidden to offer for the byldinge of saint Peter's church: and when will ou●e spiritualty say hoo, and forbidden to give them more land and to make more fundacious? never verily until they have all.  which they made, and spoke unto Moses saying: the people bring to much and above that is enough to serve for the work which the Lord hath commanded to make. And then Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed thorough our the host saying: see that neither man nor woman prepare any more work for the holy heave-offering, and so the people were * forbode to bring: for the stuff they had, was sufficient for them unto all the work, to make it and to much.  
And all the wise hearted men among them that wrought in the work of the habitation made: even ten cortcynes of twined bice, hyacinth, scarlet and purple, and made them full of cherubins with broderd work. The length of one curtain was xxviij cubits and the breadth four and were all off one size. And they coupled five curteyn● by themselves, and other five by them selves. And they made fifty louppes of hyacinth along by the edge of the utmost curtain, even in the silvege of the coupling curtain: And likewise they made on the side of the utmost coupling curtain on the other side, fifty louppes they made in the one curtain, and fifty in the edge of the coupling curtain on the other side: so that the loupes were one overagenst another. And they made fifty rings of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the rings: and so was it made a dwelling place.  
And they made xi curtains of gootes here to be a tent over the tabernacle thirty. cubits long a piece and four cubits broad, and they all xi of one size.  
And they coupled .v. by themselves, and and vi by themselves, and they made fifty louppes along by the border of the utmost coupling curtain on the one side, and fifty in the edge of the coupling curtain on the other side. And they made fifty rings of brass to couple the tent together that it might be one. And they made a covering unto the tent of rams skins red, and yet another of taxus skins above all.  
And they made boards for the dwelling place of sethim wood that stood upright every board ten cubetes long and a cubet and an half broad. And they made two feet to every board of the dwelling place joining one to another. And they made twenty boards for the south side of the habitation, and xl sockets of silver under the twenty boards two sockets under every board, even for the two feet of them. And for the other side of the dwelling toward the north, they made other twenty boards with xl. sockets of silver two sockets under every board. And behind in the end of the tabernacle toward the west, they made vi boards and two other boards for the corners of the habitation behind, and they were joined close both beneath and also above with clampes, and thus they did to both the corners: so they were in all eight boards and xvi sockets, under every board two sockets.  
And they made bars of sethim wood .v. for the boards of the one side of the habitation and .v. for the other, and five for the boards of the west end of the habitation. And they made the middle bar to shoot thorough the boards: even from the one end to the other, and gainsaid the boards with gold, and made the rings of gold to thrust the bars thorough, and covered the bars with gold. And they made an hanging of hyacinth, of scarlet purple and twined bice with cherubins of broderd work. And made thereunto four pilers of sethim wood and overlayed them with gold. Their knops were also of gold, and they cast for them four sockets of silver. And they made an hanging for the tabernacle door: of hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice of needle work, and the pilers of it were five with their knops, and gainsaid the heads of them and the whooppes with gold, with their five sockets of brass.   

The xxxvij Chapter  
ANd bezalecls made the ark of sethim wodd two cubits and an half long and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubett and a half high: and gainsaid it with fine gold both within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about, and cast for it iiij. rings of gold for the four corners of it: two rings for the one side and two for the other, and made staves of Sethim wood, and covered them with gold, and put the staves in the rings along by the side of the ark to bear it with all.  
And he made the mercyseat of pure gold two cubits and a half long and one cubit and a half broad, and made two cherubins of thick gold upon the two ends off the mercyseat: One cherub on the one end, and another cherub on the other end of the mercyseat. And the cherubyns spread out their wings above an high, and covered the mercyseat therewith, And their faces were one to another: even to the mercyseat ward, were the faces of the cherubins.  
And he made the table of sethim wodd two cubits long and a cubit broad, and a cubit and an half high, and gainsaid it with fine gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about, and made thereto an whope of an hand breed round about, and made unto the whope a crown of gold round about, and cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings in the four corners by the feet: even under the whope to put staves in to bear the table with all. And he made staves of Sethim wood and covered them with gold to bear the table with all, and made the vessels that were on the table of pure gold, the dishes, spoons, flattpeces and pots to pour with all,  
And he made the candlestick of pure thick gold: both the candlestick and his shaft: with brances, bowls, knops and flowers proceeding out of it. Six branches proceeding out of the sides thereof three out of the one side and three out of the other. And on every branch were iij. cups like unto almonds, with knops and flowers thorough out the six branches that proceeded out of the candlestick. And upon the candlestick self, were four cups after the fashion of almonds with knops and flowers: under every two branches a knop. And the knops and the branches proceeded out of it, and were all one piece of pure thick gold. And he made seven lamps thereto, and the snoffers thereof, and fyrepamnes of pure gold. An hundred weight of pure gold, made both it and all that belonged thereto.  
And he made the censalter of sethin wood of a cubett long and a cubett broad: even four square and two cubits high with horns proceeding out of it. And he covered it with pure gold both the top and the sides round about and the horns of it, and made unto it a crown of gold round about. And he made two rings of gold unto it, even under the crown upon either side of it, to put staves in for to bear it with all: and made staves of sethim wood, and gainsaid them with gold. And he made the holy anointing oil and the sweet pure incens after the apothecarys craft.   

¶ The xxxviij Chapter  
ANd he made the burntoffryngealter of sethim wood, five cubits long and. v cubettes broad: even. iiij square, and three cubits high. And he made horns in the four corners of it proceeding out of it, and gainsaid it with brass. And he made all the vessels of the altar: the cauldrons, shovels, basyns, fleshokes and colepannes all of brass.  
And he made a brazen gridiron of network unto the alter round about allow beneath under the compass of the altar: so that it reached unto half the altar, and cast four rings of brass for the four ends of the gridiron to put staves in. And he made staves of sethim wood and covered them with brass, and put the staves in the rings along by the altar side to bear it with all, and made the altar hollow with boards.  
And he made the laver of brass and the foot of it also of brass, in the sight of them that did watch before the door of the tabernacle of witness.  
And he made the court with hangings of twined bice of an hundred cubits long upon the southside, and twenty pilers with twenty sockets of brass: but the knops of the pilers, and the whoops were silver. And on the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits long with twenty pilers and twenty sockets of brass, but the knops and the whopes of the pilers were of silver. And on the west side, were hangings of l cubits long, and ten pilers with their ten sockets, and the knops and the whoops of the pilers were silver. And on the east side toward the son rising, were hangings of l cubits: the hangings of the one side of the gate were xu cubits long, and their pilers three with their. iij, sockets. And off the other side of the court gate, were hangings also of xu cubits long and their pilers three with three sockets. Now all the hangings of the court round about, were of twined bice, and the sockets of the pilers were brass: but the knops and the whoops of the pilers were silver, and the heeds were overlayed with silver, and all the pilers of the court were whoped about with silver. And the hanging of the gate of the court was nedleworke: of hyacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined bice twenty cubits long and five in the breadth, according to the hangings of the court. And the pilers were four with four sockets of brass, and the knops of silver, and the heeds overlayed with silver and whoped about with silver, and all the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about were brass.  
This is the sum of the habitation of witness, which was counted at the commandment of Moses: and was the office of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar son to Aaron the priest. And Bezaleel son of Vri son to Her of the tribe of juda, made all that the Lord commanded Moses, and with him Ahaliab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a cunning graver and a worker of needle work In hyacinth, scarlet, purple and bice.  
All the gold that was occupied upon all the work of the holy place (which was the gold of the wave-offering) was, xxix. hundred weight and seven hundred and xxx sycles, according to the holy sycle. And the sum of silver that came of the multitude, was▪ v score hundred weight and a thousand seven hundred and. lxxv, sycles of the holyesycle.  
Every man offering half a sycle after the weight of the holy sycle among them that went to be numbered from twenty year old and above, among uj hundred thousand and three thousand and v. hundred and l men.  
And the .v. score hundred weight of silver, went to the casting of the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: an hundred sockets of the five score hundred weigh an hundred weight to every sokette. And the thousaude seven hundred and .lxxv. sycles, made knops to the pilers and gainsaid the heeds and whoped them.  
And the brass of the wave offering was lxx. hundred weight and two thousand, and iiij. hundred sycles. And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the brazen altar, and the brazen gridiron that longeth thereto, and all the vessels of the altar, and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins off the habitation, and all the pins of the court round about.   

¶ The xxxix Chapter.  
ANd of the hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice, they made the vestiments of ministration to do service in in that holy place, and made the holy garments that pertained to Aaron, as the Lord▪ commanded Moses.  
And they made the Ephod of gold, jacinte, scarlet, purple, and twined bice. And they did beat the gold in to thin plates, and cut it in to wires: to work it in the hyacinth, sca●let, purple and the bice, with broderd work. And they made th● sides come together, and cloosed them up by the two edges. And the broidering of the girdle that was upon it, was of the same stuff and after the same work of gold, hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And they wrought onyx stones cloosed in ouches of gold and graved as signets are graven with the names of the children of Israel, and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod that they should be a remembrance off the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And they made the bres●lappe of cunning work, after the work of the Ephod: even of gold, hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice And they made it four square and double, an hand breadth long and an hand breadth broad. And they filled it with four rows of stones (the first row: Sardios, a Topas and smaragdus. the second row: a Rubin, a Saphir and a Diamond The three row: Ligurios, an Achat and a Amethyst. The fourth row: a Turcas, an Onyx and a jaspis) closed in ouches of gold in their inclosers. And the twelve stones were graven as signet ●es with the names of the children of Israel: every stone with his name, according to the. xii tribes.  
And they made upon the breastlap, two fastening chains of wreathen work and pure gold. And they made two hokes of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings upon the two corners of the breastlap. And they put the two chains of gold in the two rings, in the corners of the breastlap. And the two ends of the two chains they fastened in the two hokes, and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod upon the forefront of it.  
And they made two other rings of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastlap along upon the edge of it, toward the inside of the Ephod that is over against it And they made yet two other gold rings, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath on the fore side of it: even where the sides go● together, above upon the broidering of the Ephod, and they strained the breastlap by his r●ges unto the rings of the Ephod, with laces of hyacinth, that it might lie fast upon the broidering of the Ephod, and should not be l●wsed from of the Ephod: as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And he made the tunicle unto the Ephod of woven work and all together of hyacinth, and the head of the tunicle was in the midst of it as the colour of a partlet, with a bond round about the colour, that it should not rend, And they made beneath upon the hem of the tunicle: pomegranates of hyacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bice, And they made little bells of pure gold, and put them among the pomegranates round about upon the edge of the tunicle a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about the hommes of the tunicle to minister in, as the Lord commanded Moses  
And they made coats of bice of woven work for Aaron and his sons, and a mitre off bice, and goodly ●onettes of bice, and linen breeches off twined bice, and a girdle of twined bysse, hyacinth, scarlet and purple: even of needle work, as the Lord commanded Moses,  
And they made the plate of the holy crown of fine gold, and wrote apō●● with graven work: the holiness of the Lord. and tied it to a lace of hyacinth to fasten it an high upon the mitre, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
Thus was all the work of the habitation of the tabernacle of witness, finished. And the children of Israel did, according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses. And they brought the habitation unto Moses: the tent and all his apparel thereof: the buttones boards, bars, pilers and sockets: and the covering of rams skins red, and the covering of taxus skins, and the hanging veil, and the ark of witness with the staves thereof, and the mercyseat: the table and all the ordinance thereof, and the shewbred, and the pure candlestick, and the lamps prepared thereunto with all the vessels thereof, and the oil for lights, and the golden altar and the anointing oil and the sweet cens, and the hanging of the tabernacle door, and the brazen altar, and the gredyern of brass longing thereunto with his bars and all his ●essels, and the laver with his foot, and the hangings of the court with his pilers and sockets, and the hanging to the court gate, his boards and pins, and all the ordinance that serveth to the habitation of the tabernacle of witness, and the ministering vestiments to serve in the holy place, and the holy vestiments of Aaron the priest and his sons raymentes to minister in: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: even so the children of Israel made all the work. And Moses beheld all the work: and see, they had done it even as the Lord commanded: and than Moses blessed them.   

¶ The xl Chapter  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: In the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the habitation of the tabernacle of witness, and put therein the ark of witness, and cover the ark with the veil, and bring in the table and apparel it, and bring in the candlestick and put on his lamps, and set the censalter of gold before the ark of witness, and put the hanging of the door unto the habitation. And set the burntostring altar before the door of the tabernacle of witness, and set the laver between the tabernacle of witness, and the alter, and put water theri, and make the court round about, and set up the hanging of the court gate.  
And take the anointing oil and anoint the habitation and all that is there in, and hallow 
Of this text the school men dispute that the very s●●e ring alone maketh the priest now also with out the brestlapp of light and perfectinesse so that they have all power thereby and what they say is done immediately whether the● send to heaven or hell, and that with out preaching either of the la●e of God o● of his holy Gospel.  it and all that belong thereto: that it may be holy. And anoint the altar of the burnt-offerings and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar that it may be most holy. And anoint also the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.  
Than bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and wash them with water. And put upon Aaron the holy vestments and anoint him and sanctify him that he may minister unto me, that their * anoyntige may be an everlasting preasthode unto them thorough out their generations. And Moses did acordige to all that the Lord commanded him.  
Thus was the tabernacle reared up the first month in the second year. And Moses reared up the tabernacle and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards and put in their bars, and reared up the pillars, and spread abroad the tent over the habitation and put the covering of the tent an high above it: as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And he took and put the testimony in the ark and set the staves to the ark and put the merciseate an high upon the ark, and brought the ark in to the habitation and hanged up the veil and covered the ark of witness, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And he put the table in the tabernacle off witness in the north side of the habitation with out the veil, and set the bred in order before the Lord, even as the Lord had commanded Moses.  
And he put the candlestick in the tabernacle of witness over against the table in the south side of the habitation, and set up the lamps before the Lord: as the Lord commanded Moses. And he put the golden altar in the tabernacle of witness before the veil, and brent sweet cens there on as the Lord commanded Moses. And set up the hanging in the door of the habitation, and set the burnt-offering alter before the door of the tabernacle of witness, and offered burnt-offerings and meatofferinges there on as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And he set the laver between the tabernacle of witness and the alter, and poured water there in to wash with all. And both Moses Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet there at: both when theywent in to the tabernacle of witness, or when they went to the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses. And he ●ered up the court round about the habitation and the alter, and set up the hanging of the court gate: and so Moses finished the work.  
And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the glory of the Lord filled the habitation: so that Moses could not enter in to the tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode there in, and the glory of the Lord filled the habitation.  
When the cloud was taken up from of the habitation, the children of Israel took their iornayes as oft as they iornayed. And if the cloud departed not, they iornayed not till it departed: for the cloud of the Lord was upon the habitation by day, and fire by night: in the sight of all the house of Israel in all their iornayes.    
The end of the second book of Moses:   


A PROLOGUE IN TO THE third book of Moses called Leviticus.  
¶ A prologue in to the third book of Moses, called Leviticus.  
THe ceremonies which are described in the book following, were chiefly ordained off God, (as I said in the end of the prologue upon Exodi) to occupy the minds of that people the Israelites, and to keep them from serving of God after the imagination of their blind zeal and good intent: that their conscience● might be established and they sure that they pleased God therein, which were impossible, if a man did of his own heed that which was not commanded of God nor depended of any appointment made between him and God. Soch ceremonies were unto them as an A. B. C. to learn to tell and read, and as a nurse to feed them with milk and pap, and to speak unto them after their own capacity and to lisp the words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again. For all that were before Christ were in the infancy and childhod of the world and saw that son which we see openly, but thorough a cloud and had but feeble and weak imaginations of Christ, as children have of men's deeds, a few prophets excep ●● which yet described him unto other in sacrifices and ceremonies, likenesses, riddles, proverbs, and dark and strange speaking untyil the full age were come that God would show him openly unto the whole world and deliver them from their shadows and cloudelight and the heathen out of their dead sleep of stark blind ignorancy. And as the shadow vanisheth away at the coming of the light, even so do the ceremonies and sacrifices at the coming of Christ, and are henceforth no more necessary than a token left in remembrance of a bargain is necessary when the bargain is fulfilled. And though they s●me plain childish, yet they be not altogether fruitless: as the popettes and twenty manner of try fles which mothers permit unto their young children be not all in vain. For all be it that such fantasies be permitted to satisfy the childer's lusts, yet in that they are the mother's gift and be done in place and time at her commandment, they keep the children in awe and make them know the mother and also make them more apt against a more stronger age to obey in things of greater ●rneste.  
And moraover though sacrifices and ceremonies can be no ground or foundation to bild upon: that is, though we can prove nought with them: yet when we have once sound out Christ and his mysteries, than we may borrow figures, that is to say allegories, similitudes or examples to open Christ and the secrettes off God hid in Christ even unto the quick, and to declare them more lively and sensebly with them than with all the words of the world. For similitudes have more virtue and power with them than bore words, and lead a man's wits further in to the pith and mary and spiritual understanding of the thing, than all the words that can be imagined. And though also that all the ceremonies and sacrifices have as it were a slerrelyght of Christ, yet some there be that have as it were the light of the broad day a little before the son rising, and express him, and the circumstances and virtue of his death so plainly as if we should play his passion on a scaffold or in a stage play openly before the eyes of the people. As the scape got, the brazen serpent, the ox burnt without the host▪ the passeoverlambe etc. In so much that I am fully persuaded and can not but believe that God had showed Moses the secrettes of Christ and the very manner of his death before hand, and commanded him to ordene them for the confirmation of our faiths which are now in the clear day light. And I believe also that the prophets which followed Moses to confirm his prophesies and to maintain his doctrine unto Christ's coming, were moved by such things to search further of Christ's secrettes. And though God would not have the secrettes of Christ generally known, save unto a few familiar friends which in that infancy he made of man's wit to help the other babes: yet as they had a general promise that one of the seed of Abraham should come and bless them, even so they had a general faith that God would by the same man save them, though they witted not by what means as the very apostles when it was oft told them yet they could never comprehend it, till it was fufilled in dead.  
And beyond all this their sacrifices and ceremonies as farforth as the promises annexed unto them extend/ so farforth they saved them and justified them and stood them in the same stead as our sacraments do us: not by the power of the sacrifice or dead itself, but by the virtue of the faith in the promise which the sacrifice or ceremony preached and whereof it was a token or sign. For the ceremonies and sacrifices were left with them and commanded them to keep the promise in remembrance and to wake up their faith. As it is not enough to send many on errands and to tell them what they shall do: but they must have a remembrance with them, and it be but a ring of a rush about one of their fingers. And as it is not enough to make a bargain with words only, but we must put thereto an oath and give earnest to confirm the faith off the person with whom it is made. And in like manner if a man promise, what soever trifull it be, it is not believed except he hold up his finger also, such is the weakness of the world. And therefore christ him silf used oft-times diverse ceremonies in curing the s●ke, to stir up their faith with all. As for an ensample it was not the blood of the lamb that saved them in Egipte, when the angel smote the Egyptians: but the mercy of God and his truth whereof that blood was a token and remembrance to stir up their faiths with all. For though God make a promise, yet it saveth none finally but them that long for it and pray God with a strong faith to fulfil it for his mercy and truth only and knowledge their unworthiness. And even so our sacraments (if they be truly ministered) preach Christ unto us and lead our faiths unto Christ, by which faith our sins are done away and not by the dead or work of the sacrament. For as it was impossible that the blood off calves should put away sin: even so is it impossible that the water of the river should wash our hearts. Nevertheless the sacraments cleanse us and absolve us of our sins as the priests do, in preaching of repentance and faith, for which cause either other of them were ordained, but if they preach not, whether it be the priest or the sacrament, so profit they not.  
And if a man allege Christ johan in the. iij▪ chapter saying: Except a man be borne again of water and the holy ghost he can not see the kingdom of God, and will therefore that the holy ghost is present in the water and therefore the very dead or work doth put away sin: then I will send him unto Paul which asketh his Galathians whether they received the holy ghost by the dead of the law or by preaching of faith and there concludeth that the holy ghost accompanieth the preaching of faith, and with the word of faith, entereth the heart and purgeth it, which thou mayst also understand by saint Paul saying: ye are borne a new out of the water thorough the word. So now if baptim preach me the washing in Christ's blood, so doth the holy ghost accompany it and that dead of preaching thorough faith doth put away my sins. For the holy ghost is no doom god nor no god that goeth a mummige. If a man say of the sacrament of Christ's body and blood that it is a sacrifice as well for the dead as for the quick and therefore the very deed itself justifieth and putteth away sin. I answer that a sacrifice is the slaying off the body of a be'st or a man: wherefore if it be a sacrifice, then is Christ's body there slain and his blood there shed: but that is not so. And therefore it is properly no sacrifice but a sacrament and a memorial of that everlasting sacrifice once for all which he offered upon the cross now upon a xu hundred years a go and preacheth only unto them that are alive. And as for them that be dead, it is as profitable unto them as is a candle in a lantrene without light unto them that walk by the way in a dark night, and as the gospel song in latin is unto them that understand none at all, and as a sermon preached to him that is dead and heareth it not. It preacheth unto them that are a live only, for they that be dead, if they died in the faith which that sacrament preacheth, they be faffe and are past all i●opardye. For when they were alive their hearts loved the law off God and therefore sinned not, and were sorry that their membres sinned and ever moved to sin, and therefore thorough faith it was forgiven them. And now their sinful membres be dead, so that they can now sin no more, wherefore it is unto them that be dead neither sacrament nor sacrifice: But under the pretence of their soul health it is a servaunt unto our spiritualtyes holy coue●nousnesse and an extorcyonar and a builder of Abayes, Colleges, chantries and cathedral churches with false gotten good, a pick purse, a polar, and a bottomless bag  
Some man would happily say, that the prayers of the mass help much: not the living only, but also the dead. Of the hot fire of their farvent prayer which consumeth faster than all the world is able to bring sacrifice, I have said sufficiently in other places. How be it it is not possible to bring me in belief that the prayer which helpeth h●● own master unto no virtue, should purchase me the forgevesse of my sins. If I saw that their prayers had obtained them grace to live such a life as god's word did not rebuke, than could I soon be borne in hand that what soever they axed off God their prayers should not be in vain. But now what good can he wish me in his prayers that envieth me Christ the food and the life of my soul? What good can he wish me whose heart cleaveth asunder for pain when I am taught to repent of my evil?  
furthermore because that few know the use of the old testament, and the most part think it nothing necessary but to make all goryes, which they feign every man after his own brain at all wile adventure without any certain rule: therefore (though I have spoken off them in another place) yet lest the book come not to all men's hands that shall read this, I will speak off them here also a word or twain.  
We had need to take heed every where that we be not beguiled with false allegories, whether they be drawn out of the new testament, or the old, either out of any other story or off the creatures of the world, but namely in this book. Here a man had need to put on all his spectacles and to arm himself against invisible sprites.  
First allegories prove nothing (and by allegories understand examples or similitudes borrowed of strange matters and of another thing than that thou entreatest oft) As though circumcision be a figure of baptim, yet thou canst not prove baptim by circumcision For this argument were very feeble, the Israelites were circumcised therefore we must be baptized. And in like manner though the offering of Isaac were a figure or ensample oft the resurrection, yet is this argument nought, Abraham would have offered Isaac, but God delivered him from death, therefore we shall rise again, and so forth in all other.  
But the very use of allegories is to declare and open a text that it may be the better perceived and understand. As when I have a clear text of Christ and of the apostles, that I must be baptized, than I may borrow an ensample of circumcision to express the nature power and fruit or effect of baptim. For as circumcision was unto them a common bag sygnifienge that they were all sodiars off God to war his war and separating them from all other nations disobedient unto God: even so baptim is our comen bag and sure earnest and perpetual memorial that we pertain unto Christ and are separated from all that are not Christ's. And as circumcision was a token certifyenge them that they were received unto the favour off God and their sinner forgiven them: even so baptim certefyeth us that we are washed in the blood of christ and received to favour for his sake. and as circumcysion signified unto them the cutting away of their own lusts and slaying of their free will, as they call it, to follow the will of god even so baptim signyfgeth unto us repentance and the mortefyinge of our unruly members and body of sin, to walk in a new life and so forth.  
And likewise though that the saving of No and of them that were with him in the ship, thorough water, is a figure, that is to say an ensample and likeness of baptism, as Peter maketh it. 1. Petri 3. yet I can not prove baptim therewith, save describe it only. for as the sheyppe saved them in the water thorough faith, in that they believed god and as the other that would not believe No perished: even so baptim saveth us thorough the word of faith which it preacheth when all the world of the unbelieving perish. And Paul. 1. Corin. 10. maketh the see and the cloud a figure of baptim, by which and a thousand more I might declare it but not prove it. Paul also in the said place maketh the rock out of which Moses brought water unto the children of Israel a figure or ensample of christ/ not to prove christ (for that were impossible) but to describe christ only: even as christ hisilf Johannes. 3. borroweth a similitude or figure of the brazen serpent to lead Nichodemus from his earthy imagination in to the spiritual understanding of christ saying: As Moses lyftedupp a serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up, that none that believe in him perish but have everlasting life. by which similitude the virtue of Christ's death is better described than thou couldst declare it with a thousand words. for as those murmurars against god as soon as they repented were healed of their deadly wounds thorough looking on the brazen serpent only without medicine or any other help, ye and without any other reason but that god hath said it should be so/ and not to murmur again, but to leave their murmuring: even so all that repent and believe in christ are saved from everlasting death/ of pure grace without and before their good works/ and not to sin again, but to fight against sin and henceforth to sin no more.  
Even so with the ceremonies of this book thou canst prove nothing save describe and declare only the putting away. of our sins thorough the death of christ. for christ is Aaron and Aaron's sons and all that offer the sacrifice to purge sin, And christ is all mane● offering that is offered: he is the ox, the sheep the goat, the kid and lamb: he is the ox that is burnt without the host and the scape got that carried all the sin of the people away in to the wilderness. for as they purged the people from their worldly unclennesses thorough blood of the sacrifices/ even so doth christ purge us from the unclennesses of everlasting death with his own blood. and as their worldly sins could no otherwise be purged then by blood of sacrifice/ even so can our sins be no otherwise forgiven then thorough the blood of christ. All the deeds in the world, save the blood of christ, can purchase no forgiveness of sins: for our deeds do but help our neighbour and mortify the flesh and help that we sin no more/ but and if we have sinned/ it must be freely forgiven thorough the blood of christ or remain ever.  
And in like manner of the lepers thou canst prove nothing: thou canst never conjure ou● confession thence, how be it thou hast an handsome example there to open the binding and lowsinge of our priests with the kaye of god's word▪ for as they made no man a leper even so ours have no power to command any man to be in sin or to go to purgatory or hell. And therefore (in as much as binding and lowsinge is one power) As those priests healed no man/ even so ours can not of their inviseble and dumb power dryve any man's sins away or delyver him from hell or feigned purgatory. how be it if they preached gods word purely which is the authority that christ gave them/ then they should bind and louse/ kill and make alive again, make uncle ●ne and clean again/ and send to hell and fett thence again/ so mighty is god's word. for if they preached the law of god, they should bind the consciences of sinners with the bonds of the pains of hell and bring them unto repentance. And then if they preached them the mercy that is in christ/ they should louse them and quiet their raging consciences and certify them of the favour of god and that their sins be forgiven.  
finally beware of allegories/ for there is not a more handsome or apt a thing to be guile withal then an allegory/ nor a more soot and pestilent thing in the world to persuade a false matter then an allegory. And contrary wise there is not a better/ vehementer or mightier thing to make a man understand with all then an allegory. For allegories make a man qwick witted and print wisdom in him and maketh it to abide, to here bare words go but in at the one ear and out at the other. As this with such like sayings: put salt to all your sacrifices, in stead of this sentence, do all your deeds with discretion, greeteth and biteth (if it be understand) more them plain words. And when I say in stead off these words boast not yourself of your good deeds, eat not the blood nor the fat of your sacrifice, there is as great difference between them as there is distance between heaven and earth. For the life and beauty of all good deeds is of God and we are but the caren lean, we are only the instrument whereby god worketh only, but the power is his. As god created Paul a new, poured his wisdom in to him, gave him might and promised him that his grace should never fail him etc. and all without deservinges, except that nurteringe the saints and making them curse and rail on Christ be meritorious. Now as it is death to eat the blood or fat of any sacrifice, is it not (think ye) damnable to rob god of his honour and to glorify myself with his honour?   

¶ The third Book of Moses. Called Leviticus.  
¶ The third book of Moses, called Leviticus.  

¶ The first Chapter.  
ANd the Lord called Moses, And spoke unto him out off the tabernacle of witness saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them. Who soever of you shall bring a gift unto the Lord, shall bring it of the cattles: even of the oxen and of the sheep.  
If he bring a burntoffering of the oxen he shall offer a male without blimesh, and shall bring▪ him to the door of the tabernacle of witness, that he may be accepted before the Lord. And let him put his hand upon the heed of the burnt-sacrifice, and favour shallbe given him to make an atonement for him, and let him kill the ox before the Lord. And let the priests Aaron's sons bring the blood and let them sprinckell it round about upon the alter that is before the door of the tabernacle of witness, And let the burnt-offerings be stripped and hewed in pieces. And then let the sons of Aaron the priest put fire upon the altar and put wood upon the fire, and let them lay the pieces with the heed and the fat, upon the wood that is on the fire in the altar. But the inwards and the legs they shall wash in water, and the priest shall burn altogether upon the altar, that it be a burnt-sacrifice, and an offering of a sweet odour unto the Lord.  
If he will offer a burnt-sacrifice of the sheep whether it be of the lambs or of the gootes: he shall offer a male without blimesh. And let him kill it on the north side of the altar, before the Lord. And let the priests Aaron's sons sprinkle the blood of it, round about upon the alter. And let it be cut in pieces: even with his heed and his fat, and let the priest put them upon the wood that lieth upon the fire in the altar. But let him wash the inwards and the legs with water, and than bring altogether and burn it upon the alter: that is a burntoffering and a sacrifice of sweet savour unto the Lord.  
If he will offer a burntoffering of the fowls he shall offer either of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons. And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring the neck asunder of it, and burn it on the altar, and let the blood run out upon the sides of the altar, and pluck away his crop and his feathers, and cast them beside the altar on the east part upon the heap of ashes, and break his wings but pluck them not asunder. And then let the priest burn it upon the altar, even upon the wood that lieth upon the fire, a burnt-sacrifice and an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord.   

¶ The second Chapter.  
IF any soul will offer a meat-offering unto the Lord, his offering shallbe fine flower, and he shall pour thereto oil and put frankencens thereon and shall bring it unto Aaron's sons the priests. And one of them shall take thereout his handful of the flower, and of the oil with all the frankencens, and burn it for a memorial upon the alter: an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord. And the remnant of the meat-offering shallbe Aaron's and his sons, as a thing most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord.  
If any man bring a meat-offering that is baken in the oven, let him bring sweet cakes of fine flower mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. If thy meat-offering be baken in the frying pan, than it shallbe of sweet flower mingled with oil. And thou shalt mince it small, and pour oil thereon: and so is it a meat-offering.  
If thy meat-offering be a thing broiled upon the greadyerne, of flower mingled with oil it shallbe. And thou shalt bring the meat-offering that is made of these things unto the Lord, and shalt deliver it unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the altar and shall have up part of the meat-offering for a memorial, and shall burn it upon the alter: an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord. And that which is left of the meat-offering shallbe Aaron's and his sons, as a thing that is most holy of the offerings off the Lord.  
All the meatoffrynges which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shallbe made without leaven. For ye shall neither burn leaven nor honey in any offering of the Lord▪ notwithstanding ye shall bring the firstlynges of them unto the Lord: But they shall not come upon the altar to make a sweet savour.  
All thy meat-offerings thou shalt salt with salt: neither shalt thou soffre the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat-offering: but upon all thine offerings thou shalt bring salt.  
If thou offer a meat-offering of the first-ripe fruits unto the Lord, then take of that which is yet green and dry it by the fire and beat it small, and so offer the meat-offering of thy firstrype fruits. And than pour oil there to, and put frankencens thereon: and so it is a meat-offering. And the priest shall burn part of the beaten corn and part of that oil, with all the frankencens: for a remembrance. That is an offering unto the Lord.   

¶ The third Chapter  
IF any man bring a peace-offering of the oxen: whether it be male or female, he shall bring such as is without blemish, before the Lord, and let him put his hand upon the heed of his offering, and kill it before the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron's sons the priests, shall sprinkle the blood upon the alter round about. And they shall offer of the peace-offering to be a sacrifice unto the Lord: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards: and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon the loins: and the kall that is on the liver, they shall take away with the kidneys. And Aaron's sons shall burn them upon the alter with the burnt-sacrifice which is upon the wood on the fire. That is a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the Lord.  
If a man bring a peaceoffring unto the Lord from of the flock: whether it be male, or female, it shallbe without blemish. If he offer a lamb, he shall bring it before the Lord and put his hand upon his offerings heed/ and kill it in the door off the tabernacle off witness/ and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about the altar.  
And of the peaseoffringe they shall bring a sacrifice unto the Lord: the fat there of and the rump altogether, which they shall take off hard by the back bone: and the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards and the▪ ij. kidneys with the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the kall that is upon the liver he shall take away with the kidneys. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar to feed the Lords offering with all.  
If the offering be a goote, he shall bring it before the Lord and put his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tabernacle of witness/ and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the alter round about. And he shall bring thereof his offering unto the lords sacrifice: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards and the▪ ij. kidneys and the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the kall that is upon the liver he shall take away with the kidneys. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar to feed the lords sacrifice with all and to make a sweet savour. And thus shall all the fat be the Lords/ and it shallbe a law forever among your generations after you in your dwelling places: that ye eat neither fat nor blood.   

¶ The. FOUR Chapter.  
ANd the Lord talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say: when a soul sinneth thorough ignorance and hath done any of those things which the Lord hath forbidden in his commandments to be done: If the priest that is anointed sin and make the people to do amiss/ he shall bring for his sin which he hath done: an ox without blemish unto the Lord for a sin-offering. And he shall bring the ox unto the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord, and shall put his hand upon the ox's head and kill him before the Lord. And the priest that is anointed shall take of the ox's blood and bring it in to the tabernacle of witness and shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle thereof vij times before the Lord: even before the hanging of the holy place. And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet cens before the Lord which is in the tabernacle of witness, and shall pour all the blood of the ox upon the bottom of the altar of burnt-offerings which is by the door of the tabernacle of witness. And he shall take away all the fat of the ox that is the sin-offering: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is about them, and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the kall upon the liver let them take away also with the kidneys: as it was taken from the ox of the peaceoffring and let the priest burn them upon the altar of burnt-offerings. But the skin of the ox and all his flesh with his heed, his legs, his inwards with his dung, shall he carry altogether out of the host unto a clean place: even where the ashes are poured out, and burn h● on wood with fire: even upon the heap of ashes.  
If the hole comynalte of the children of Israel sin thorough ignorance and the thing be hid from their eyes: so that they have committed any of these things which the Lord hath forbidden to be done in his commandments and have offended, and the sin which they have sinned be afterward known, than shall they offer an ox for a sin-offering and shall bring him before the tabernacle of witness, and the elders of the multitude shall put their hands upon his heed before the Lord And the priest that is anointed shall bring of his blood in to the tabernacle of witness, and shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord: even before the veil. And shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness, and shall pour all the blood upon the bottom of the altar of burnt-offerings which is by the door of the tabernacle of witness, and shall take all his fat from him and burn it upon the altar, and shall do with his ox as he did with the sin-offering ox. And the priest shall make an atonement for them, and so it shallbe forgiven them. And he shall bring the ox without the host, and burn him as he burned the first, so is this the synneoffering of the commonalty.  
When a Lord synnneth and committeth thorough ignorance any of these things which the Lord his God hath forbidden to be done in his commandments and hath so offended: when his sin is showed unto him which he hath sinned, he shall bring for his offering an he goote without blemish and lay his hand upon the heed of it, and kill it in the place where the burnt-offerings are killed before the Lord: this is a sin-offering. Than let the priest take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burntofferyngalter, and pour his blood upon the bottom of the burntofferyngealter and burn all his fat upon the altar as he doth the fat of the peace-offerings. And the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and so it shallbe forgiven him.  
If one of the comen people of the land sin thorough ignorance and commit any off the things which the Lord hath forbidden, in his commandments to be done and so hath trespassed, when his sin which he hath sinned is come to his knowledge, he shall bring for his offering, a she goote without blemish for his sin which he hath sinned, and lay his hand upon the heed of the sin-offering and slay it in the place of burnt-offerings. And the priest shall take of the blood with his finger and put it upon the horns of the burntoffryngealter and pour all the blood upon the bottom of the altar, and shall take away all his fat as the fat of the peaceoffrynges is taken away. And the priest shall burn it upon the alter for a sweet savour unto the Lord, and ●he priest shall make an atonement for him and ● shallbe forgiven him.  
if he bring a sheep and offer it for a sin-offering, he shall bring a yew without blemish and lay his hand upon the heed of the sin-offering and slay it in the place where the burnt-offerings are slain. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burntoffryngealter, and shall pour all the blood thereof unto the bottom of the altar. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the sheep of the peaceoffringes was taken away. And the priest shall burn it upon the alter for the lords sacrifice, and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin, and it shallbe forgiven him.   

¶ The, v. Chapter.  
●Hē a soul hath sinned and heard the voice of cursing and is a witness: whether he hath seen or known of it if he have not uttered it, he shall beat his sin. Ether when a man toucheth any unclean thing: whether it be the carrion of an unclean be'st or of unclean ca●ell or unclean worm and is not war of it, he is also unclean and hath offended. Ether when he toucheth any uncleanness of man (what soever uncleanness it be that a man is defiled with all) and is not war of it and afterward cometh to the knowledge of it, he is a t●●spaser. Ether when a soul sweareth: so thathe pronounceth with his lips to do evil or to do good (what soever it be that a man provounceth with an oath) and the thing be out of his mind and afterward cometh to the knowledge of it, than he hath offended in one of these.  
Than when he hath sinned in one of these things, he shall confess that wherein that he hath sinned, and shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned. A female from the flock, whether it be an yew or a she goote, for a sin-offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin. But if he be not able to bring a sheep, then let him bring for his trespass which he hath sinned, two turtle doves or two young pigeons unto the Lord one for a sin-offering and another for a burntoffering. And he shall bring them unto the priest, which shall offer the sin-offering first and wring the neck asunder of it, but pluck it not clean of. And let him sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering upon the side of the altar, and let the rest of the blood bleed upon the bottom of the altar, and than it is a sin-offering. And let him offer the second for a burntoffering as the manner is: and so shall the priest make an atonement for him for the sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.  
And yet if he be not able to bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons, then let him bring his offering for his sin: the tenth part of an Epha of fine flower for a sin-offering, but put none oil thereto neither put any frankencens thereon, for it is a synneofferinge. And let him bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it and burn it upon the alter for a remembrance to be a sacryflce for the Lord: that is a sin-offering. And let the priest make an atonement for him for his sin (what soever of these he hath sinned) and it shallbe forgiven. And the remnaunte shallbe the priests, as it is in the meat offering.  
And the Lord comyned with Moses saying: when a soul trespasseth and sinneth thorough ignorance in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord, a ram without blymesh out of the flock valowed at two sycles after the holy sycle, for a trespaceoffering. And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and put the fift part more to and give it unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespaceoffering, and it shallbe forgiven him.  
When a soul sinneth and committeth any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord: though he witted it not, he hath yet offended and is 
*  in sin, and shall bring a ram without blymesh out of the flock that is esteemed to be worth a sin-offering, unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for the ignorance which he did and was not ware, and it shallbe forgiven him. This is a trespaceoffering, for he trespassed against the Lord.  
And the Lord talked with Moses saying: when a soul sinneth and trespasseth against the Lord and denied unto his neighbour that which was taken him to ●epe, or that was put under his hand, or that which he hath violently taken away, or that which he hath deceived his neighbour off with sotylte, or hath found that which was lost and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, in what soever thing it be that a man doth and sinneth therein, Then when he hath sinned or trespassed, he shall restore again that he took violently away, or the wrong which he did, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, or what soever it be about 
Unto my neighbour pertaineth salt ●●●ō, but unto god repentance: and then the sacrifice or Christ's blood is a ●●● satisfaction, and atonement ●d a pealinge of alwrath.  which he hath sworn falsely, * he shall restore it again in the whole sum and shall add the fift part more thereto and give it unto him to whom it pertaineth, the same day that he offereth for his trespass, and shall bring for his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blymesh out of the flock, that is esteemed worth a trespaceoffering unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiven him in what soever thing it be that a man doth and trespasseth therein.   

¶ The uj Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying. Command Aaron and his sons saying: this is the law of the burntoffering. The burntoffering shallbe upon the hearth of the alter all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall burn therein. And the priest shall put on his linen albe and his linen breeches upon his flesh, and take away the ashes which the fire of the burnt-sacrifice in the altar hath made, and put them beside the altar, and then put off his raiment and put on other and carry the ashes out without the host unto a clean place.  
The fire that is upon the altar shall burn therein and not go out. And the priest shall put wood on the fire every morning and put the burnt-sacrifice upon it, and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. The fire shall ever burn upon the altar and never go out.  
This is the law of the meat-offering: Aaron's sons shall bring it before the Lord, unto the altar: and one of them shall take his handful of the flower of the meat-offering and of the oil with all the frankencens which is thereon and shall burn it unto a remembrance upon the altar to be a sweet savour of the memorial of it unto the Lord. And the rest the reof, Aaron and his sons shall eat: unleavened it shallbe eaten in the holy place: even in the court of the tabernacle of witness they shall eat it. Their part which I have given them of my sacrifice, shall not be baken with leaven, for it is most holy, as is the sin-offering, and trespaceoffring. All the males among the children of Aaron, shall eat of it: and it shallbe a duty for ever unto your generations of the sacrifices of the Lord, neither shall any man twytche it, but he that is hallowed.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: this is the offering of Aaron and of his sons which he shall offer unto the Lord in the day when they are anointed: the tenth part of an Epha of flower, which is a daily meatofferinge perpetually: half in the morning and half at night: and in the frying pan it shallbe made withoyle. And when it is fried, thou snalt bring it in as a baken meat-offering mynsed small, and shalt offer it for a sweet savour unto the Lord. And that priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead, shall offer it: and it shall be the lords duty for ever, and it shall be burnt altogether. For all the meatoffrynges of the priests shallbe burnt altogether, and shall not be eaten.  
And the Lord talked with Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and say. This is the law of the sin-offering, In the place where the burntoffering is killed, shall the sin-offering be killed also before the Lord, for it is most holy. The priest that offereth it shall eat it in the holy place: even in the court of the tabernacle of witness Noman shall touch the flesh thereof, save he that is hallowed. And if any raiment be sprinkled therewith, it shallbe washed in an holy place, and the earthen pot that it is sodden in shallbe broken. If it be sodden in brass, than the pot shallbe scoured and plunged in the water. All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat thereof, for it is most holy. notwithstanding no synneoffering that hath his blood brought in to the tabernacle of witness to reconcile with all in the holy place, shallbe eaten: but shallbe burnt in the fire.   

¶ The vij Chapter.  
THis is the law of the trespass offering which is most holy. In the place where the burntoffering is killed, the trespass offering shallbe killed also: and his blood shallbe sprikled round about upon the alter. And all the fat thereof shallbe offered: the rump and the fat that covered the inwards, and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth on them and upon the loins: and the kall on the liver shallbe taken away with the kidneys, And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, to be an offering unto the Lord: this is a trespass offering.  
All the males among the priests shall eat thereof in the holy place, for it is most holy. As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering, one law serveth for both: and it shall be the priests that reconcileth therewith.  
And the priest that offered a man's burntoffering, shall have the skin of the burntoffering which he hath offered. And all the meat-offerings that are baken in the oven, and all that is dressed upon the gredyerne and in the frying pan, shallbe the priests that offereth them. And all the meat-offerings that are mingled with oil or dry, shall pertain unto all the sons of Aaron, and one shall have as much as another.  
This is the law of the peaceoffringes which shallbe offered unto the Lord. If he offer to give thanks, he shall bring unto his thanckoffering: sweet cakes mingled with oil and sweet wafer's anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil of fine flower fried, and he shall bring his offering upon cakes made of leavended bred unto the thanckoffring of his peace-offerings, and of them all he shall offer one to be an heave-offering unto the Lord, and it shallbe the priests that sprynkleth the blood of the peace-offerings. And the flesh of the thankoffering of his peace-offerings shallbe eaten the same day that it is offered, and there shall none of it be laid up until the morning.  
If it be a vow or a fire willoffering that he bringeth, the same day that he offereth it, It shallbe eaten, and that which remaineth may be eaten on the morrow: but as much of the offered flesh as remaineth unto the third day shallbe burned with fire. For if any of the flesh of the peaceoffrynges be eaten the third day than shall he that offered it obtain no favour, neither shall it be reckoned unto him: but shallbe an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear the sin thereof.  
The flesh that twycheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten. but burned with fire: and all that be clean in their flesh, may eat flesh. If any soul eat of the flesh of the peace-offerings, that pertain unto the Lord and his uncleanness yet upon him, the same soul shall perish from among his peoole. Moreover if a soul twych any unclean thing, whether it be the uncleanness of man or of any unclean be'st or any abomination that is unclean: and then eat of the flesh of the peaceoffrynges which pertain unto the Lord, that soul shall perish from his people.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say. Ye shall eat no manner fat of oxen, sheep or gootes: never the later the fat of the be'st that dieth alone and the fat of that which is torn with wild beasts, may be occupied in all manner uses: but ye shall in no wise eat of it. For whosoever eateth the fat of the be'st of which men bring an offering unto the Lord, that soul that eateth it shall perish from his people. Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, wheresoever ye dwell, whether it be of foul or of be'st. What soever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood the same soul shall perish from his people.  
And the Lord talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say He that offereth his peaceoffering unto the Lord, shall bring his gift unto the Lord of his peaceoffrynges: his own hands shall bring the offering of the Lord: even the fat upon the breast he shall bring with the breast to wave it a wave-offering before the Lord. And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, and the breast shallbe Aaron's and his sons. And the right shoulder they shall give unto the priest, to be an heave-offering, of their peaceoffringes. And the same that offereth the blood of the peaceoffringes and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right shoulder unto his part, for the wavebreast and the heave-shoulder I have taken of the children of Israel, even of their peace offerings, and have given it unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons: to be a duty for ever of the children of Israel.  
This is the anointing of Aaron and of the sacrifices of the Lord, in the day when they were offered to be priests unto the Lord, which the Lord commanded to be given them in the day when he anointed them, of the children of Israel, and to be a duty for ever among their generations. This is the law of burnt-offerings, of meatoffrynges, of sin offerings, of trespaceoffrynges, of full offerings, of peaceoffrynges, which the Lord commanded Moses in the mount of Sinai, in the day when he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings unto the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.   

The eight Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: 
Hence the pope fett holowenge of churches, altars, font, bells and so forth, and the anointing of bissnopes priests, and such like.  take Aaron and his sons with him, and the vestures and the anointing oil, and an ox for a sin-offering and two rams and a baskett of sweet bred: and gather all the comentye together unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the people gathered themselves together unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Moses said unto the people: this is the thing which the Lord commanded to do.  
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water, and put upon him the albe and gird him with a girdle and put upon him the tunicle and put the Ephod thereon, and girded him with the broderd girdle of the Ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastlap thereon, and put in the breastlap light and perfectness. And he put the mitre upon his heed and put upon the mitre even upon the forefront of it, the golden plate of the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the habitation and all that was therein and sanctified them, and sprinkled thereof upon the alter vij times and anointed the altar and all his vessels, and the laver with his foot, to sanctify them. And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's heed and anointed him to sanctify him. And he brought Aaron's sons and put albes upon them, and gird them with girdles, and put bonnets upon their heeds: as the Lord commanded Moses  
And the sin-offering was brought. And Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the heed of the ox of the synneoffring. And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified it, and poured the blood unto the bottom of the altar and sanctified it and reconciled it. And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards and the kal that was on the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and burned it upon the alter. But the ox, the hide, his flesh and his dung, he burned with fire without the host, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And he brought the ram of the burntoffering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the heed of the ram, and it was killed. And Moses sprinkled the blood upon the alter round about, and cut the ram in pieces and burnt the heed, the pieces and the fat, and washed the inwards and the legs in water, and burned the ram every whit upon the alter. That was a burnt-sacrifice of a sweet savour and an offering unto the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And he brought the other ram that was the fulloffering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the heed of the ram: And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great too of his right foot. Then were Aaron's sons brought, and Moses put of the blood on the tip of the right care of them, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great tooes of the it right feet, and sprinkled the blood upon the alter round about.  
And he took the fat and the rump and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the kall of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat and their right shoulder. And out of the basket of sweet bred that was before the Lord, he took one sweet cake of oiled bred and one wa●er, and put them on the fat and upon the right shoulder, and put altogether upon Aaron's hands and upon his sons hands, and waved it a waveoffering before the Lord. And than Moses took them from of their hands again and burnt them upon the altar, even upon the burntoffering: These are the fulloffrynges of a sweet savour and a sacrifice unto the Lord.  
And Moses took the breast and waved it a wave-offering before the Lord, of the ram of the fuloffrynges: and it was Moses part, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And Moses took of the anointing oil and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his vestiments and upon his sons and on their vestiments with him and sanctified Aaron and his vesturs and his sons and his sons vestures also. Then Moses said unto Aaron and his sons: boil the flesh in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and there eat it with the bred that is in the basket of fullofferynges, as the Lord commanded saying. Aaron and his sons shall eat it: and that which remaineth of the flesh and of the breed, burn with fire.  
And see that ye depart not from the door of the tabernacle of witness seven days long: until the days of your fullofferynges be at an end. For vij days must your hands be filled, as they were this day: even so the Lord hath commanded to do, to reconcile you with all. See therefore that ye abide in the door of the tabernacle of witness day and night seven days long: and keep the watch of the Lord that ye die not: for so I am commanded. And Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.   

¶ The ix Chapter.  
ANd the eight day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, and said unto Aaron: take a calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burntoffering: both without blemish, and bring them before the Lord. And unto the children of Israel he spoke saying: take ye an he goote for a sin-offering, and a calf and a lamb both two of a year old, and without blemish for a burnt-sacrifice, and an ox and a ram for peaceoffrynges, to offer before the Lord, and a meateoffering mingled with oil, for to day the Lord will appear unto you.  
And they brought that which Moses commanded unto the tabernacle of witness, and all the people came and stood before the Lord. And Moses said, this is the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should do: and then the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you. And Moses said unto Aaron: go unto the altar and offer thy sin-offering, and make an atonement for the and for the people: and then offer the offering of the people and reconcile them also, as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And Aaron went unto the altar, and slew the calf that was his sin-offering. And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him, and he dypte his finger in the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured the blood unto the bottom of the altar. And the fat and the two kidneys with the kall of the liver of the sin-offering, he burned upon the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses: but the flesh and the hide/ he burnt with fire without the host.  
After ward he slew the burntoffering, and Aaron's sons brought the blood unto him, and he sprinkled it round about upon the alter. And they brought the burntoffering unto him in pieces and the heed also/ and he burned it upon the alter/ and did wash the inwards and the legs/ and burnt them also upon the burntoffering in the altar.  
And than he brought the people's offering and took the goote that was the people's sin-offering/ and slew it and offered it for a sin-offering: as he did the first. And then brought the burntoffering and offered it as the manner was/ and brought the meat-offering and filled his hand thereof, and burned it upon the alter/ besides the burnt-sacrifice in the morning.  
Then he slew the ox and the ram that were the people's peaseofferynges/ and Aaron's sons brought the blood unto him/ and he sprinkled it upon the alter round about, and took the fat of the ox and of the ram: the rompe and the fat that covereth the inwards and the kidneys and the kall of the liver: and put them upon the breasts and burned it upon the alter: but the breasts and the right shoulders Aaron waved before the Lord/ as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And Aaron lift up his hand over the people 
Of such places the bishops took their dumb blessing with ij fingers: But numery. v●. thou mayst read the goodly prayer of his blessing  and blessed than, and came down from offering of synofferynges/ burntofferynges and peaseofferynges. Then Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness and came out again and blessed the people/ and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people. And there came a fire out from before the Lord/ and consumed upon the alter: the burntoffering and the fat. And all the people saw it and shouted, and fell on their faces.   

¶ The X. Chapter 
Hereof ye see the fruit of a man's good intent with out Godsword. As we may do noless, so doth this ensample teach that we may do no more than is commanded.   
ANd Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took either of them his censor and put fire therein and put cens upon, and brought strange fire before the Lord: which he commanded them not and there went a fire out from the Lord and consumed them/ and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said unto Aaron this is it that the Lord spoke saying: I will be 
God is sanctified when we obey him and mortify our will to do his.  sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I willbe glorified. And Aaron held his pease.  
And Moses called Misael and Elesaphan the sons of Vsiel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them: go to and carry your brethren from the holy place out of the host. And they went to them and carried them in their albes out of the host, as Moses bade.  
And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his eldest sons: uncover not your heed neither rent your clothes/ lest ye die and wrath come upon all the people lettyoure brethren the hole house of Israel/ bewep the burning which the Lord hath burnt. But go ye not out from the door of the tabernacle of witness/ lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did as Moses bad.  
And the Lord spoke unto Aaron saying: 
Our prelate's be dr●●ke with desire of honour and have brought the world out of their wits to satisfy their lusts, and live not sobirly to teach us what christ commanded by the 〈…〉 of the appostels.  drink no wine nor strong drink/ neither thou nor thy sons with thee: when ye go in to the tabernacle of witness/ lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your children after you: that ye may put difference between holy and unholy/ and between unclean and clean/ and that ye may teach the children of Israel: all the ordinances which the Lord hath commanded them by the hands of Moses.  
And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that were left: take the meat-offering that remaineth of the sacrifices of the Lord/ and eat it without leaven beside the altar/ for it is most holy: eat it therefore in the holy place, because it is thy duty and thy sons duty of the sacrifice of the Lord: for so I am commanded. And the wavebreast and heave-shoulder eat in a clean place: both thou and thy sons and thy daughters with the. For it is thy duty and thy sons duty with thee, of the peaceofferynges off the children of Israel. For the heave-shoulder and the wavebreast which they bring with the sacrifices of the fat, to wave it before the Lord, shallbe thine and thy sons with thee, and be a law for ever, as the Lord hath commanded.  
And Moses sought for the goote that was the sin-offering, and see, it was burnt. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron, which were left alive saying: wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the holy place, saying it is most holy: and for as much as it is given you to bear the sin of the people, and make agreement for them before the Lord? Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place therefore should ye have eaten it in the holy place as I commanded. And Aaron said unto Moses: behold, this day have they offered their 
The offerings must have been eaten in gladness: but Aaron could not but morn for his sons  sin-offering and their burntoffering before the Lord, and it is chanced me after this manner. If I should eat of the sin-offering to day, would the Lord be content with all? And when Moses heard that, he was content.   

¶ The xj Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say, these are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth: what soever hath hough and divideth it in to two claws and cheweth cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat of them that chew cud and have hoffes. The camel, for he cheweth cud but he divideth not the hoof in to two claws therefore he shall be unclean unto you. And the Conye, for he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof in to two claws, therefore he is unclean to you. And the hare, for he likewise cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof in to two claws, he is therefore unclean to you. And the swine, for though he divide the hoof in to two claws, yet he cheweth not the cud and therefore is unclean to you, Of their flesh see that ye eat not and their carcases see that ye twych no● for they are unclean to you.  
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: what soever hath fins and scales in the waters, sees and rivers, that shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the sees and rivers of all that move and live in the waters/ shall ye abhor. See that ye eat not of their flesh, and also that ye abhor their carcases: for all that have no fins nor scales in the waters, shallbe abomination unto you.  
These are the fowls which ye shall abhor and which shall not be eaten, for they are an abomination. The eagle, the gooshauke, the cormoraunte, the kite, the vulture and all his kind and all kind of ravens, the ostrich, the nightcrowe, the cocow, the sparowhauke and all the kind: the little owl, the storcke, the great owl the back, the pelican, the pie, the heron, the lay with the kind, the lappwing and the swallow. And all fowls that creep and go upon all iiij. shallbe an abomination unto you.  
Yet these may ye eat of all the fowls that move and go upon four feet: even those that have no knees above upon their feet to leap with all upon the earth, even these of them ye may eat: the arbe and all his kind: the Soleam with all his kind: the Hargol and all the kind, and the Hagab and all his kind. All other fowls that move and have four feet, shallbe abomination unto you. In such ye shallbe unclean whosoever touch the carcase of them shallbe unclean unto the even, and whosoever beareth the carcase of them, shall wash his clothes and shallbe unclean until even.  
Among all manner beasts, they that have hoffes and divide them not in to two claws or that chew not the cud, shallbe unclean unto you: and all that twitcheth them shallbe uncle ne. And all that goeth upon his hands among all manner beasts that go on all four, are unclean unto you: and as many as twych their carcasses, shallbe unclean until the even. And he that beareth the carcase of them, shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even/ for such are unclean unto you.  
And these are also unclean to you among the things that creep upon the earth: the weasel the mouse, the toad and all his kind, the hedgehog, stellio, the licerte, the snail and the mole. These are unclean to you among all that move, and all that twych them when they be dead, shallbe unclean until the even. And what soever any of the dead carcasses of them fall upon, shallbe unclean: what soever vessel of wood it be, or raiment, or skin, or bag or what soever thing it be that any work is wrought with all. And they shallbe plunged in the water and be unclean until the even, and then they shallbe clean again.  
All manner of earthen vessel where in to any of them falleth, is unclean with all that therein is: and ye shall break it. All manner meat that is eaten, if any such water come upon it, it shall be unclean. And all manner drink that is drunk in all manner such vessels, shallbe unclean. And whether it be oven or kettle, it shallbe broken. For they are unclean and shallbe unclean unto you: neverthelater, yet the fountains and wells and ponds of water, shallbe clean still. But whosoever twycheth their carcasses, shall be unclean.  
If the dead carcase of any such fall upon any seed used to sow, it shall yet be clean still: but and if any water be poured upon the seed and afterward the dead carcase of them fall thereon, than it shallbe unclean unto you.  
If any be'st of which ye eat die, he that twitcheth the dead carcase shallbe unclean until the even. And he that eateth of any such dead carcase, shall wash his clothes and remain unclean until the even. And he also that beareth the carcase of it, shall wash his clothes and be unclean until even.  
All that scrauleth upon the earth, is an abomination and shall not be eaten. And what soever goeth upon the breast and what soever goeth upon four or more feet among all that scrauleth upon the earth, of that see ye eat not: for they are abominable. Make not your souls abominable. Make not your souls abominable with nothing that creepeth, neither make your soul's unclean with them: that ye should be defiled thereby.  
For I am the Lord your God, be sanctified therefore that ye may be holy, for I am holy: and defile not your souls with any manner thing that creepeth upon the earth. For I am the Lord that brought you out of the land off Egipte to be your God: be holy therefore, for I am holy.  
This is the law of be'st and foul and off all manner thing that liveth and moveth in the water and of all things that creep upon the earth that ye may put difference between unclean and clean, and between the beasts that are eaten and the beasts that are not eaten.   

¶ The twelve Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and said: speak unto the children of Israel and say: when a woman hath conceived and hath borne a man child, she shallbe unclean vij days: even in like manner as when she is put apart in time of her natural disease. And in the viii. day the flesh of the child's foreskin shallbe cut away. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying xxxiij days, she shall twytch no hallowed thing nor come in to the sanctuary, until the time of her purifying be out. If she bear a maydehilde, than she shallbe unclean two weeks as when she hath her natural disease. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying lxuj days.  
And when the days of her purifying are out: whether it be a son or a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of one year old for a burntoffering and a young pigeon or a turtle dove for a sin-offering unto the door of the tabernacle of witness unto the priest: which shall offer them before the Lord and make an atonement for her, and so she shallbe purged of her issue of blood. This is the law of her that hath borne a child, whether it be male or female.  
But and if she be not able to bring a sheep, then let her bring two turtyls or two young pigeons: the one for the burntoffering, and the other for the sin-offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shallbe clean.   

¶ The xiij Chapter. 
This chapter maketh not for confession in the ear, but is an example of excommunication off opcusumers   
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron saying: when there appeareth arising in any man's flesh either a scab or a glistering white: as though the plague of leprosy were in 
As these priests make unclean and send out of company, even so ours bind and excomunicat out of the congregation: and at these make clean, so do ours lowsse, and absolve. Now then that sin secretly they bind with preaching gods word and if they repent, with preaching they louse them again.  the skin of his flesh, then let him be brought unto Aaron the priest or unto one of his sons the priests, and let the priest look on the sore that is in the skin of his flesh. If the here in the sore be turned unto white, and the sore also seem to be lower than the skin of his flesh/ then it is surely a leprosy, and let the priest look on him and make him unclean.  
If there be but a white plecke in the skin of his flesh and seem not to be lower than the other skin nor the here thereof is turned unto white: then let the priest shitt him up seven days. And let the priest look upon him the vij day: if the sore seem to him to abide still and to go no further in the skin, then let the priest shut him up yet vij days more. And let the priest look on him again the vij day. Then if the sore be waxed blackesh and is not grown abroad in the skin, let the priest make him clean, for it is but a skyrfe. And let him wash his clothes, and then he is clean But and if the scab grow in the skin after that he is seen of the priest again. If the priest see that the scab be grown abroad in the skin, let him make him unclean: for it is surely a leprosy.  
If the plague of leprosy be in a man, let him be brought unto the priest, and let the priest see him. If the rising appear white in the skin and have also made the here white, and there be raw flesh in the sore also: than it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh. And the priest shall make him unclean, and shall not shut him up for he is unclean.  
If a leprosy break out in the skin and cover all the skin from the heed to the foot over all wheresoever the priest looketh, then let the priest look upon him. If the leprosy have covered all his flesh, let him make the disease clean: for in as much as he is altogether white he is therefore clean. But and if there be raw flesh on him when he is seen, than he shallbe unclean. Therefore when the priest seeth the raw flesh, let him make him unclean. For in as much as his flesh is raw, he is unclean and it is surely a true leprosy. But and if the raw flesh depart again and change unto white, then let him come to the priest and let the priest see him: If the sore be changed unto white, let the priest make the disease clean, and then he is clean.  
When there is a byele in the skin of any man's flesh and is helede and after in the place of the bycle there appear a white rising either a shining white somewhat redysh, let him be seen of the priest. If when the priest seeth him it appear lower than the other skin and the here thereof be changed unto white, let the priest make him unclean: for it is a very leprosy, that is broken out in the place of the byele But and if when the priest looketh on it there be no white hairs therein neither the scab lower than the other skin and be somewhat blackesh, than the priest shall shut him apart seven. days. If it spread abroad in the mean season, then let the priest make him unclean: for it is a leprosy. But and if the glistering white abide still in one place and go no further, than it is but the print of the byele, and the priest shall make him clean.  
When the skin of any man's flesh is burnt with fire that it be raw and there apere in the burning a glistering white that is somewhat redysh or altogether white, let the priest look upon it. If the here in that brightness be changed to white and it also appear lower than the other skin, than it is a leprosy that is broken out in the place of the burning. And the priest shall make him unclean, for it is a leprosy. But and if (when the priest looketh on it) he see that there is no white here in the brygh tenesse and that it is no lower than the other skin and that it is also blackesh, then let the priest shut him up seven days. And if (when the priest looketh on him the seventh day) it be grown abroad in the skin, let him make him unclean: for it is a leprosy. But and if that brightness abide still in one place and go no further in the skin and be blackesh, than it is but a rising in the place of the burning, and the priest shall make him clean: for it is but the print of the burning only.  
When either man or woman hath a breaking out upon the heed or the beerde, let the priest see it. And if it appear lower than the other skin and there be therein golden hairs and thine, let the priest make him unclean, for it is a breaking out of leprosy upon the heed or beard. if (when the priest looketh on the breaking out) he see that it is no lower than the other skin and that there are black hairs therein let him shut him up vij days. And let the priest look on the disease the seventh day: and if the breaking out be gone no further neither be any golden hairs therein neither the scab be lower than the other skin, then let him be shaven, but let him not shave the scab, and let the priest shut him up seven days more. And let the priest look on the breaking out the vij day again: If the breaking out be gone no further in the skin nor more lower than the other skin, then let the preaste make him clean, and let him wash his clothes and then he is clean. If the breaking out grow in the skin after that he is once made clean, let the priest see him. If it be grown abroad in deed in the skin, let the priest seek no further for any golden hairs, for he is unclean. But and if he see that the scab stand still and that there is black here grown up there in, then the scab is healed and he is clean: and the priest shall make him clean.  
If there be found in the skin of the flesh of man or woman a glistering white, let the priest see it. If there appear in their flesh a glistering white somewhat blackesh, them it is but frekels grown up in the skin: and he is clean  
If a man's here fall of his heed, them he is heedbaulde and clean. if his here fall before in his forehead, than he is foreheadbalde and clean. if there be in the baulde head or baulde forehead a redysh white scab, than there is leprosy sprung up in his baulde head or baulde forehead. And let the priest see it: and if the rising of the sore be reddyshwhite in his baulde head or forehead after the manner of a leprosy in the skin of the flesh, than he is a leper and unclean: and the priest shall make him unclean, for the plague of his heed.  
And the leper in whom the plague is/ shall have his clothes rend and his head bare and his mouth moffeld, and shallbe called unclean. And as long as the disease lesteth upon him, he shallbe unclean: for he is unclean, and shall therefore dwell alone, and even without the host shall his habitation be.  
When the plague of leprosy is in a cloth: whether it be linen or woollen, ye and whether it be in the warp or wolf of the linen or of the woollen: either in a skin or any thing made of skin/ if the disease be pale or somewhat redysh in the cloth or skin: whether it be in the warp or wolf or any thing that is made of skin, them it is a very leprosy and must be showed unto the priest. And when the priest seeth the plague, let him shut it up vij days, and let him look on the plague the seventh day. if it be increased in the cloth: whether it be in the warp or wolf or in a skin or in any thing that is made of skin, than the plague is a freting leprosy and it is unclean: And that cloth shallbe burnt, either warp or wolf, whether it be woollen or linen or any thing that is made of skin where in the plague is, for it is a freting leprosy/ and shallbe burnt in the fire.  
If the priest see that the plague hath freten no further in the cloth: either in the warp or wolf or in what soever thing of skin it be, then let the priest command them to wash the thing wherein the plague is, and let him shut it up seven. days more. And let the priest look on it again after that the plague is washed: If the plague have not changed his fashion though it be spread no further abroad, it is yet unclean. And see that ye burn it in the fire, for it is freten in ward: whether in part or in all together. But and if the priest see that it is somewhat blackyshafter that it is washed, let him rend it out of the cloth, or out of the skin or out of the warp or wolf. But and if it appear any more in the cloth either in the warp or in the wolf or in any thing made of skin/ than it is a waxing plague. And see that ye burn that with fire, where in the plague is. Moreover the cloth either warp or wolf or what soever thing of skin it be which thou hast washed and the plague be departed from it, shallbe washed once again: and then it is clean.  
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a cloth whether it be woollen or linen: either whether it be in the warp or wolf or in any thing made of skins, to make it clean or unclean.   

ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: this is the law of a leper when he shallbe cleansed. he shallbe brought unto the priest, and the priest shall go out without the host and look upon him. If the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, them shall the priest command that there be brought for him that shallbe cleansed two living birds that are clean, and cypress wodd, and a piece of purple cloth and ysope. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed over an earthen vessel of running water. And the priest shall take the living bird and the cypress wood and the purple and the ysope, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water and sprinkle it upon him that must be cleansed of his leprosy vij times and cleanse him/ and shall let the living bird go free in to the fields.  
And he that is cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his here and wash himself in water, and then he is clean. And after that he shall come in to the host/ but shall tarry without his tent vij days. When the seventh day is come, he shall shave off all his here both upon his head and his beard and on his brows: and even all the here that is on him, shallbe shaven off. And he shall wash his clothes and his flesh in water/ and than he shallbe clean.  
And when the eight day is come, let him take ij. lambs without blemish and a yewelambe of a year old without blemish, and three tenthdeales of fine flower for a meat-offering mingled with oil, and a log of oil. Than let the priest that maketh him clean, bring the man that is made clean with those things before the Lord unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And let the priest take one of the lambs and offer him for a trespaceoffering, and the log of oil: and wave them before the Lord. And than let him slay the lamb in the place where the sin-offering and the burntoffering are slain: even in the holy place. for as the sin-offering is, even so is the trespass offering the priests: for it is most holy.  
Than let the priest take of the blood of the trespaceoffering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great too of his right foot. Then let the priest take of the log of oil and pour it in to the palm of his left hand, and dip his right finger in the oil that is in the palm of his left hand, and let him sprinkle it with his finger seven. times before the Lord. And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand, shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great too of his right foot: even upon the blood of the trespaceoffering. And the remnant of the oil that is in the priests hand, he shall pour upon the heed off him that is cleansed: and so shall the preaste make an atonement for him before the Lord,  
Then let the priest offer the sin-offering, and make an atonement for him that is cleansed for his uncleanness. And than let the burntoffring be slain, and let the priest put both the burntoffering and the meat-offering upon the alter: and make an atonement for him, and than he shallbe clean.  
If he be poor and can not get so much, than let him bring one lamb for a trespassing to wave it and to make an atonement for him, and a tenth deal of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering and a log of oil, and two turtle doves or two young pigeons which he is able to get and let the one be a sin-offering and the other a burnt-offering. And let him bring them the. viii, day for his cleansing unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord.  
And let the priest take the lamb that is the trespassing and the log of oil, and wave them before the Lord. And when the lamb of the trespassing is killed, the priest shall take of the blood of the trespassing, and put it upon the tip of his right ear that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great too of his right foot. And the priest shall pour of the oil in to his right hand, and shall sprinkle with his finger of the oil that is in his left hand vij times before the Lord.  
And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand (upon the tip of the right ear of h● that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great too of his right foot: even in the place where the blood of the trespaceoffering was put, And the rest of the oil that is in his hand, he shall pour upon the heed of him that is cleansed: to make an atonement for him before the Lord. And he shall offer one of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons, such as he can get: the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burntoffering upon the alter. And so shall the priest make an atonement for him that is cleansed before the Lord. This is the law of him that hath the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: when ye be come unto the land of Canaan which I give you to possess: if I put the plague of leprosy in any house of the land of your possession, let him that oweth the house go and tell the priest saying, me think that there is as it were a leprosy in the house. And the priest shall command them to rid all thing out of the house, before the preaste go in to see the plague: that he make not all that is in the house unclean, and then the priest shall go in and se the house.  
If the priest see that the plague is in the walls of the house and that there be hollow streaks pale or red which seem to be lower than the other parts of the wall, then let the priest go out at the house doors and shut up the house for vij days. And let the priest come again the seventh day and see it: if the plague be increased in the walls of the house, let the priest command them to take away the stones in which the plague is, and let them cast them in a foul place without the city, and scrape the house within round about, and pour out the dust without the city in a foul place. And let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar: and plaster the house with all. If now the plague come again and break out in the house, after that they have taken away the stones and scraped the house, and after that the house is plastered anew: let the priest come and see it. And if then he perceive that the plague hath eaten further in the house, than it is a freting leprosy that is in the house and it is unclean. Then they shall break down the house: both stones, timber and all the mortar of the house, and carry it out of the city unto a foul place. Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up, shallbe unclean until night. And he that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes, and he also that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.  
But and if the priest come and see that the plague hath spread no further in the house after that it is new plastered, them let him make it clean for the plague is healed. And let him take to cleanse the house with all: two birds, cypress wood, and purple cloth and ysope. And let him kill one of the birds over an earthen vessel of running water, and take the cypress wood, the ysope, the purple and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle upon the house seven times, and cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cypress wood, and the ysope and the purple cloth And he shall let the living bird flee out off the town in to the wild fields, and so make an atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.  
This is the law of all manner plague of leprosy and breaking out, and of the leprosy off cloth and house: and of rysynges, scabs and glistering white, to teach when a thing is unclean or clean. This is the law off leprosy.   

¶ The xu Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: every man that hath a running issue in his flesh, is unclean by the reason of his issue. And hereby shall it be known when he is unclean. If his flesh run, or if his flesh congeal by the reason off his issue, than he is unclean. Every couch whereon he lieth and every thing whereon he sitteth shallbe unclean  
He that twitcheth his couch, shall wash his clothes and bath himself with water, and be unclean until the even.  
He that sitteth on that whereon he sat, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water and be unclean until the evening And he that twitcheth his flesh shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto the even. If any such spytt upon him that is clean, he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until even.  
And what soever saddle that he rideth upon, shallbe unclean. And whosoever twitcheth any thing that was under him, shallbe unclean unto the even. And he that beareth any such things shall wash his clothes and bathe him self in water and be unclean unto the even, and whosoever he twitcheth (if he have not first washed his hands in water) must wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean unto the evening. And if he twych a vessel off earth, it shallbe broken: and all vessels of wood shallbe rensed in the water.  
When he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, let him numbered vij days after he is clean, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and then he is clean. And the eight day let him take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord unto the door of the tabernacle of witness and give them unto the priest. And the priest shall offer them: the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering: and make an atonement for him before the Lord, as concerning his issue.  
If any man's seed depart from him in his sleep, he shall wash his flesh in water and be unclean until even. And all the clothes or furs whereon such seed chanceth shallbe washed with water and be unclean unto the even. And if a woman lie with such a whone, they shall wash themselves with water and be unclean until even.  
When a woman's natural course of blood runneth, she shallbe put apart vij days: and whosoever twycheth her shallbe unclean unto the even. And all that she lieth upon as long as she is put apart shallbe unclean. And whosoever twitcheth her couch shall wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be unclean unto the even. And whosoever twitcheth any thing that she sat upon, shall wash his clothes and wash himself also in water, and be unclean unto the even: so that whether he twitch her couch or any thing whereon she hath seten, he shallbe unclean unto the even. and if a man lie with her in the mean time, he shallbe put apart as well as she and shallbe unclean vij days, and all his couch wherein he sleepeth shallbe unclean.  
When a woman's blood runneth long time: whether out of the time of her natural course: as long as her uncleanness runneth, she shallbe unclean after the manner as when she is put apart. All her couches whereon she lieth (as long as her issue lasteth) shallbe unto her as her couch when she is put a part. And what soever she sitteth upon, shallbe unclean, as is her uncleanness when she is put a part. And whosoever twitcheth them, shallbe unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto even.  
And when she it cleansed of her issue, let her count her seven days after that she is clean. And the. viii day let her take two turtils or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burntoffering: and so make an atonement for her before the Lord. as concerning her unclean issue.  
Make the children of Israel to keep themselves from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness: when they have defiled my habitation that is among them.  
This is the law of him that hath a running sore, and of him whose seed runneth from him in his sleep and is defiled therewith, and of her that hath an issue of blood as long as she is put a part, and of whosoever hath a running sore whether it be man or woman, and of him that sleepeth with her that is unclean.   

The xuj Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they had offered before the Lord and died: And he said unto Moses: speak unto Aaron thy brother that he go not at all times in to the holy place, that is within the veil that hangeth before the mercyseat which is upon the ark that he die not. For I will appear 
By the cloud understand the smoke off the cence.  in a cloud upon the mercyseat.  
But of this manner shall Aaron go in in to the holy place: with a young ox for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burntoffering. And he shall put the holy linen albe upon him, and shall have a linen breach upon his flesh, and shall gird him with a linen girdle, and put the linen mitre upon his heed: for they are holy ray mentes. And he shall wash his flesh with water, and put them on. And he shall take of the multitude of the children of Israel two gootes for a sin-offering and a ram for a burntoffering.  
And Aaron shall offer the ox for his sin offering and make an atonement for him and for his house. And he shall take the two gootes and present them before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron cast lots over the two gootes: one lot for the Lord, and another for a scapegoote. And Aaron shall bring the goote upon which the lords lot fell, and offer him for a sin-offering. But the goote on which the lot fell to scape, he shall set alive before the Lord to reconcile with and to let him go fire in to the wilderness. And Aaron shall bring the ox of his sin-offering, and reconcile for himself and for his household, and kill him.  
And than he shall take a censer full of burning coals out of the altar that is before the Lord, and his handful of sweet cens beaten small and bring them within the veil and put the cens upon the fire before the Lord: that the cloud of the cens may cover the mercyseat that is upon the witness, that he die not. And he shall take of the blood of the ox and sprinkle it with his finger before the mercy seat eastward: even vij times.  
Then shall he kill the goote that is the people's synneoffering, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the ox, and let him sprinkle it toward the mercyseat and before the mercyseat: and reconcile the holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their trespasses and all there sins. And so let him do also unto the tabernacle of witness that dwelleth with them, even among their unclennesses.  
And there shallbe no body in the tabernacle of witness, when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out again. And he shall make an atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the multitude of Israel. Then he shall go out unto the altar that standeth before the Lord, and reconcile it, and shall take of the blood of the ox and of the blood of the goote, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about, and sprynckle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the unclennesses of the children of Israel.  
And when he hath made an end of reconcylinge the holy place and the tabernacle of witness and the alter, let him bring the live goote and let Aaron put both his hands upon the heed of the live goote, and confess over him all the mysdeades of the children of Israel, and all their trespasses, and all their sins: and let him put them upon the heed of the goote and send him away by the hands of one that is acoynted in the wilderness. And the goote shall bear upon him all their mysdeades unto the wilderness, and he shall let the goote go fire in the wilderness.  
And let Aaron go in to the tabernacle of witness and put off the linen clothes which he put on when he went in in to the holy place, and leave them there. And let him wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his own raiment/ and than come out and offer his burntoffering and the burntoffering of the people, and make an atonement for himself and for the people, and the fat of the sin-offering let him burn upon the alter. And let him that carried forth the scapegoote, wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water/ and than come in to the host again.  
And the ox of the sin-offering and the goote of the sin-offering (whose blood was brought in to make an atonement in the holy place) let one carry out without the host and burn with fire: both their skins, their flesh and their dung. And let him that burneth them, wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and then come in to the host again.  
And it shallbe an ordinance for ever unto you. And even in the tenth day of the seventh month. ye shall humble your souls and shall do no work at all: whether it be one of your selves or a stranger that sogeorneth among you. for that day shall an atonement be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord/ and ye shallbe clean. It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you/ and ye shall humble your soul's/ and it shallbe an ordinance for ever.  
And the priest that is anointed and whose hand was filled to minister in his father's stead/ shall make the atonement and shall put on the holy linen vestiments/ and reconcile the holy sanctuary and the tabernacle of witness and the alter, and shall make an atonement also for the priests and for all the people of the congregation. And this shallbe an everlasting or dynaunce unto you to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year: and it was done even as the Lord commanded Moses.   

¶ The. XVII. Chapter.  
ANd the Lord talked with Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and unto all the children of Israel and say unto them, this is the thing which the Lord charged saying: whatsoever he be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox, lamb or goote in the host or out of the host and bringeth them not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the dwelling place of the Lord, blood shallbe imputed unto that man/ as though he had shed blood/ and that man shall perish from among his people.  
Wherefore let the children of Israel bring their offerings they offer in the wide field/ unto the Lord: even unto the door of the tabernacle of witness and unto the priest/ and offer them for peaseofferynges unto the Lord. And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the alter of the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of witness/ and burn the fat to be a sweet savour unto the Lord. And let them nomoare offer their offerings unto devils/ after whom thy go an whoring. And this shallbe an ordinance for ever unto you thorough out your generations.  
And thou shalt say unto them: what soever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sogeorne among you that offereth a burntoffering or any other offering and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness to offer unto the Lord, that fellow shall perish from among his people. And what soever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood/ I will set my fa●e against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among his people. for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it unto you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls, for blood shall make an atonement for the soul. And therefore I said unto the children of Israel: see that no soul of you eat blood/ nor yet any stranger that sojourneth among you.  
What soever man it be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that soiurne among you that honteth and catcheth any be'st or foul that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood and cover it with earth. for the life of all flesh is in the blood, therefore I said unto the children of Israel, ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh. for the life of all flesh is in his blood, and whosoever therefore eateth it shall perish. And what soever soul it be that eateth that which died alone or that which was torn with wild beasts: whether it be one of yourselves or a stranger, he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shallbe unclean unto the even, and than is he clean. But and if he wash them not nor wash his flesh he shall bear his sin.   

¶ The xviij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God Wherefore after the doings of the land of Egipte wherein ye dwelled, see that ye do not: neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whether I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances, but do after my judgements, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: for I am the Lord your God. Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgements which if a man do he shall live thereby: for I am the Lord.  
See that ye go to none of your nighest kin red for to uncover their secrettes, for I am the Lord. The secrettes of thy father and thy mother, see thou unheal not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt thou not discover her secrettes. The secrettes of thy father's wife shalt thou not discover, for they are thy father's secrettes. Thou shalt not discover the privity of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be borne at home or without. Thou shalt not discover the secrettes of thy sons daughter or thy daughters daughter, for that is thine own privity: Thou shalt not discover the secrettes of thy father's wives daughter, which she bore to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not discover her secrettes. Thou shalt not uncover the secrettes off thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin. Thou shalt not discover the secrettes off thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kin.  
Thou shalt not open the secrettes of thy father's brother: that is thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine awnte. Thou shalt not discover the secrettes of thy daughter in law she is thy sons wife: therefore uncover not her secrettes. Thou shalt not unheal the secrettes of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brothers privity. Thou shalt not discover the privities of the wife and her daughter also, neither shalt thou take her sons daughter or her daughters daughter to uncover their secrettes: they are her next kin, it were therefore wikydnesse. Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister there to. to vex her that thou wouldest open her secrettes as long as she liveth. Thou shalt not go unto a woman to open her secrettes, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.  
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbours wife, to defile thy self with her. Thou shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thy God, for I am the Lord.  
Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination. Thou shalt lie with no manner of beast to defile thyself therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a be'st to lie down thereto, for that is abomination.  
Defile not yourselves in any of these things, for with all these things are these nations defiled which I cast out before you: and the land is defiled, and I will visett the wickedness thereof upon it. and the land shall spew out her inhabiters. Keep ye therefore mine ordinances and judgements, and see that ye commit none of these abominations: neither any of you nor any stranger that sojourneth among you (for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled) lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that where there before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, the same souls that commit them shall perish from among their people. Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit none of these abominable customs which were committed before you: that ye defile not yourselves therewith for I am the Lord your God.   

¶ The xix Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto all the multitude of the children of Israel, and say unto them. Be holy for I the Lord your God am holy. See that ye fear: every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbathes, for I am the Lord your God. Ye shall not turn unto ydolls nor make you gods of metal: I am the Lord your God.  
When ye offer your peace-offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer them that ye may be accepted. And it shallbe eaten the same day ye offer it and on the morrow, but what soever is left on the third day shallbe burnt in the fire. If it be eaten the third day, it shallbe unclean and not accepted. And he that eateth it shall bear his sin: because he hath defiled the hallowed things of the Lord, and that soul shall perish from among his people.  
When ye reap down the ripe corn of you relande, ye shall not reap down the utmost borders of your fields, neither shalt thou gather that which is left behind in thy harvest. Thou shalt not pluck in all thy vineyard clean, neither gather in the grapes that are overscaped. But thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. I am the Lord your God.  
Ye shall not steal neither lie, neither deal fall silly one with another. Ye shall not swear by my name falsely: that thou defilest not the name of thy God, I am the Lord.  
Thou shalt not beguile thy neighbour with cavellations, neither rob him violently, neither shall the workman's labour abide with the until the morning.  
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, neither put a stumbling block before the blind: but shalt fear thy God. I am the Lord.  
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement. Thou shalt not favour the poor nor honour the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously.  
Thou shalt not go up and down a * privy accuser 
Yes for God and with his a●●ne confession shalt thou accuse him, to stablish the holy father's kingdom.  among thy people, neither shalt thou help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.  
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart but shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour: that thou bear not sin for his sake.  
Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor bear hate in thy mind against the children of thy people, but shalt love thy neighbour even as thyself I am the Lord.  
Keep mine ordinances. Let none of thy cattles gender with a contrary kind, neither sow thy field with mingled seed, neither shalt thou put on any garment of linen and woollen  
If a man have to do with a woman that is bond and hath been meddled with all of another man which neither is bought nor freedom given her, there shallbe a pain upon it: but they shall not die, because she was not made free. And he shall bring for his trespaceoffering unto the Lord: even unto the door off the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespaceoffering before the Lord, for his sin which he hath done: and it shallbe forgiven him, as concerning the sin which he hath done.  
And when ye come to the land and have planted all manner of trees where of men eat, ye shall hold them uncircumcised as concerning the it fruit: even three year shall they be uncircumcised unto you and shall not be eaten of, Id the fourth year all the fruit of them shallbe holy and acceptable to the Lord. And the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit of them, and gather in the increase of them: I am the Lord your God.  
Ye shall eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days, ye shall not round the locks of your heeds, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beerde.  
Ye shall not rend your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.  
Thou shalt not pollute thy daughter, that thou wouldest maintain her to be an whore: lest the land fall to whoredom, and wax full of wickedness. ¶ See that ye keep my Sabbathes and fear my sauctuary: I am the Lord.  
Turn not to them that work with spirits, neither regard them that observe disemall days: that ye be not defiled by them, for I am the Lord your God.  
Thou shalt rise up before the hoorehed, and reverence the face of the old man and dread thy god, for I am the Lord. If a stranger so four by the in your land, see that ye vex him not: But let the stranger that dwelleth with you, be as one of yourselves, and love him as thiselfe, for ye were strangers in the land of Egipte. I am the Lord your God.  
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement neither in meteyerde, weight or measure. But ye shall have true balances, true weights, A true Epha and a true hin. I am the Lord your god which brought you out of the land of Egipte, that ye should observe all mine ordinances and judgements and that ye should keep them: I am the Lord.   

¶ The. xx, Chapter,  
ANd the Lord talked with Moses saying: tell the children of Israel, whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Moloch he shall die for it: the people off the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face upon that fellow, and will destroy him from among his people: because he hath given of his seed unto Moloch, for to defile my sanctuary and to pollute mine holy name. And though that the people of the land 
If we transgr esse gods commandments we may happily escape ● ordlye judges, but we cannot avoid the firse wrath of god, but it will surely find us out.  hide their eyes from that fellow, when he giveth of his seed unto Moloch, so that they kill him not: yet I will put my face upon that man and upon his household, and will destroy him and all that go a whooringe with him and con mytt hoordome with Moloch from among their people.  
If any soul turn unto them that work with spirits or makers of dysemall days and go a whoring after them, I wilt put my face upon that soul and will destroy him from among his people. Sanctify yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. And see that ye keep mine ordinances and do them. For I am the Lord which sanctify you.  
Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his heed, because he hath cursed his father or mother.  
He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it: because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbours wife, and so shall she likewise.  
If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's secrettes, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heeds.  
If a man lie with his daughter in law they shall die both of them: they have wrought abomination, their blood upon their heeds.  
If a man lie with the mankind after the manner as with woman kind, they have both committed an abomination and shall die for it. Their blood be upon their heed.  
If a man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among you.  
If a man lie with a be'st he shall die, and ye shall slay the be'st.  
If a woman go unto a be'st and lie down the reto: thou shalt kill the woman and the be'st also they shall die, and their blood be upon their heads If a man take his sister his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and see her secrettes, and she see his secrettes also: it is a wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their people, he hath seen his sisters secretness, he shall therefore bear his sin.  
If a man lie with a woman in time of her natural disease and unheale her secrettes and uncover her fountain, and she also open the fountain of her blood, they shall both perish from among their people.  
Thou shalt not uncover the secrettes of thy mother's sister nor of thy father's sisters, for he that doth so, uncovereth his next kin: and they shall bear their misdoing.  
If a man lie with his uncles wife, he hath uncovered 
They small die immediately and not ●a●y the birth, as juda wol● have burnt Thamar being great ●● ita child.  his uncles secrettes: they shall bear their sin, and shall die childless.  
If a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing, he hath uncovered his brother's secrettes, they shallbe childless therefore.  
See that ye keep therefore all mine ordinances and all my judgements, and that ye do them: that the land whether I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out. And see that ye walk not in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: For they committed all these things, and I abhorred them.  
But I have said unto you that ye shall enjoy their land, and that I will give it unto you to possess it: even a land that floweth with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other nations: that ye should put difference between clean beasts add unclean, and between unclean fowls and them that are clean. Make not your souls therefore abominable with beasts and fowls, and with all manner thing that creepeth upon the ground, which I have separated unto you to hold them unclean. Be holy unto me, for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other nations: that ye should be mine.  
If there be man or woman that worketh with a spirit or a maker of dysemall days, they shall die for it. Men shall stone them with stones, and their blood shallbe upon them.   

¶ The xxj Chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Moses: speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron and say unto them. A priest shall defile himself at the death of none of his people, but upon his kin that is nigh unto him: as his mother, father, son, daughter and brother: and on his sister as long as she is a maid and dwelleth nigh him and was never given to man: on her he may defile himself. But he shall not make himself unclean upon a ruler of his people to pollute himself with all.  
They shall make them no baldness upon their 
Of the heathen priests therefore took our prelate's the ensample off their bald pate●.  heeds or shave off the locks of their beerdes, nor make any marks in their flesh. They shallbe holy unto their God, and not pollute the name of their god, for the sacrifices of the Lord and the bred of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy.  
They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God. Sanctify him therefore, for he offereth up the bred of God: he shall 
By bred understand all sod, flesh, fruit, or whatsoever it be.  therefore be holy unto thee, for I the Lord which sanctify you, am holy.  
If a priests daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore she shall be burnt with fire.  
He that is the high priest among his brethren upon whose heed the anointing oil was poured and whose hand was filled to put on the vestiments/ shall not uncover his heed nor rend his clothes, neither shall go to any deed body nor make himself unclean: no not on his father or mother/ neither shall go out of the sanctuary, that he pollute not the holy place of his God. for the crown of the anointing 
The anointing was the coronation both of kings and of priests also  oil of God, is upon him. I am the Lord.  
He shall take a maiden unto his wife: but no widow nor divorced nor polluted whore. But he shall take a maiden of his own people to wife, that he defile not his seed upon his people. for I am the Lord which sanctify him.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying/ speak unto Aaron and say: No man of thy seed in their generacionns that hath any deformity upon him, shall press for to offer the bred 
The pope for bideth all such like wise till they have paid for dispensations.  of his God. flor none that hath any blemish shall come near: whether he be blind/ lame/ snot nosed/ or that hath any monstrous member, or broken footed/ or broken handed/ or croak backed, or perl●yed, or gogeleyed, or mange or skaulde/ or hath his stones broken.  
No man that is deformed of the seed of Aaron the priest/ shall come nigh to offer the sacrifices of the Lord. If he have a deformity/ he shall not press to offer the bred of his God. notwithstanding he shall eat of the bred of his God: even as well of the most holy/ as of the holy: but shall not go in unto the veil nor come nigh the altar, because he is deformed that he pollute not my sanctuary/ for I am the Lord that sanctify them. And Moses told it unto Aaron and to his sons/ and unto all the children of Israel.   

¶ The. XXII. Chapter.  
ANd the Lord comened with Moses saying: bid Aaron and his sons that they abstain from the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have hallowed unto me, that they pollute not mine holy name: for I am the Lord. say unto them: whosoever he be of all your seed among your generation after you/ that goeth unto the hallowed things which the children of Israel shall have hallowed unto the Lord/ his uncleanness shallbe upon him: and that soul shall perish from out of my sight. I am the Lord.  
None of the seed of Aaron that is a leper or that hath a running sore/ shall eat of the hallowed things until he be clean. And whosoever twytcheth any unclean soul or man whose seed runneth from him by night, or whosoever twitcheth any worm that is unclean to him/ or man that is unclean to him/ what soever uncleanness he hath: the same soul that hath twyched any such thing/ shallbe unclean until even/ and shall not eat of the hallowed things until he have washed his flesh with water. And than when the son is down he shallbe clean and shall afterward eat of the hallowed things: for they are his food. Off a be'st that dieth alone or is rend with wild beasts/ he shall not eat/ to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord. But let them keep therefore mine ordinance/ lest they lad sin upon them and die therein when they have defiled themselves: for I am the Lord which sanctify them.  
There shall no stranger eat of the hallowed things/ neither a gest of the priests/ or an hired servant. But if the priest buy any soul with money he may eat of it/ and he also that is borne in his house may eat of his bread. If the priests daughter be married unto a stranger/ she may not eat of the hallowed heave-offerings. notwithstanding if the priests daughter be a widow or divorced and haveno child but is returned unto her father's house again/ she shall eat of her fathers bred as well as she did in her youth. But thereshall no stranger eat there of.  
If a man eat of the hallowed things unwyttingly/ he shall put the fift part there unto/ and make good unto the priest the hallowed thing. And let the priests see/ that they defile not the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have offered unto the Lord/ lest they lad themselves with misdoing and trespass in eating their hallowed things: for I am the Lord which hallow them.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and his sons and unto all the children of Israel and say unto them/ what soever he be of the house of Israel or stranger in Israel that will offer his offering: what soever vow or frewilloffering it be which they will offer unto the Lord for a burntoffering to reconcile themselves/ it must be a male without blemish of the oxen/ sheep or gootes. let them offer nothing that is deformed for they shall get no favour there with.  
If a man will offer a peaseoffring unto the Lord and separate a vow or a free-will offering of the oxen or the flock/ it must be without deformyte/ that it may be accepted. There may be no blemish therein: whether it be blide, broken, wounded or have a wen, or be mange or scabbed. see that ye offer no such unto the Lord, nor put an offering of any such upon the alter unto the Lord.  
An ox or a sheep that hath any member out of proportion, mayst thou offer for a frewilloffering: but in a vow it shall not accepted. Thou shalt not offer unto the Lord that which hath his stones bruised broken, plucked out or cut away, neither shalt make any such in your land, neither of a strangers hand shall ye offer an offering to your God of any such. For they mar all in that they have deformities in them, and therefore can not be accepted for you.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: when an ox, a sheep or a goote is brought forth, it shallbe seven days under the dam. And from the eight day forth, it shallbe accepted unto a gift in the sacrifice of the Lord. And whether it be ox or sheep, ye shall not kill it, and her young: both in one day.  
When ye will offer a thankoffering unto the Lord, ye shall so offer it that ye may be accepted. And the same day it must be eaten up, so that ye leave none of it until the morrow. For I am the Lord, keep now my commandments and do them, for I am the Lord. And pollute not my holy name, that I may be hallowed among the children of Israel. For I am the Lord which hallow you, and brought you out of the land of Egipte, to be your God: for I am the Lord.   

¶ The xxiij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them. These are the feasts off the Lord which ye shall call holy feasts. Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest an holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the Lord, wheresoever ye dwell.  
These are the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim holy in their ceasons. The xiv. day of the first month at even is the Lords Passeover, And the xu day of the same month is the feast of sweet bred unto the Lord: seven. days ye must eat unleavened bred. The first day shallbe an holy feast unto you, so that ye may do no laborious work therein But ye shall offer sacrifices unto the Lord. seven days, and the seventh day also shallbe an holy feast, so that ye may do no laborious work therein.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye be come in to the land which I give unto you and reap down your harvest, ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you: and even the morrow after the Sabbath the preaste shall wave it. And ye shall offer the day when he waveth the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a burntoffering unto the Lord: and the meatoffring thereof, two tenth deals of fine flower mingled with oil to be a sacrifice unto the Lord of a sweet savour: and the drinkofferinge thereto, the fourth deal of an hin of wine. And ye shall eat neither bred, nor parched corn, nor furmentye of new corn: until the self same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God. And this shallbe a law for ever unto your children after you, where soever ye dwell.  
And ye shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath: even from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven. weeks complete: even unto the morrow after the vij week ye shall numbered l days. And then ye shall bring a new meat-offering unto the Lord. And ye shall bring out of your habitations two waveloaves made of two tenthdeales off fine flower levended and baken, for first fruits unto the Lord. And ye shall bring with the bred seven lambs without deformity of one year of age, and one young ox and two rambes, which shall serve for burnt-offerings unto the Lord, with meatoffringes and drinkoffringes longing to the same, to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the Lord.  
And ye shall offer an he goote for a synneofferinge: and two lambs of one year old for peaceoffringes, And the priest shall wave them with the bred of the first fruits before the Lord and with the two lambs. And they shallbe holy unto the Lord, and be the priests. And ye shall make a proclamation the same day that it be an holy feast unto you, and ye shall do no laborious work therein: And it shallbe a law for ever thorough out all your habitations unto your children after you,  
When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean ryddaunce off thy field, neither shalt thou make any aftergatheringe of thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying▪ speak unto the children of Israel and say. The first day of the suenth month shallbe a rest of remembrance unto you, to blow horns in an holy feast it shallbe, and ye shall do no laborious work therein, and ye shall offer sacrifice unto the Lord.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: also the tenth day of the self seventh month, is a day of an atonement, and shallbe on holy feast unto you, and ye shall humble your souls and offer sacrifice unto the Lord. Moreover ye shall do no work the same day, for it is a day of atonement to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. For whatsoever soul it be that humbleth not himself that day, he shallbe destroyed from among his people. And whatsoever soul do any manner work that day, the same I will destroy from among his people. See that ye do no manner work therefore. And it shallbe a law for ever unto your generations after you in all your dwellings. A sabbath of rest it shallbe unto you, and ye shall humble your souls. The ix day of the month at even and so forth from even to even again, ye shall keep your Sabbath.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say: the xv. day of the same seventh month shallbe the feast of tabernacles vij days unto the Lord. The first day shallbe an holy feast, so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. Seven days ye shall offer sacrifice unto the Lord, and the. viii day shallbe an holy feast unto you and ye shall offer sacrifice unto the Lord. It is the end of the feast, and ye shall do no laborious work therein.  
These are the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim holy feasts, for to offer sacrifice unto the Lord, burnt offerings, meat offerings, and drink offerings every day: beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and all your vows, and all your free will offerings which ye shall give unto the Lord.  
Moreover in the xu day of the seventh month after that ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep holy day unto the Lord. seven: days long. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the eight day shallbe a day of rest. And ye shall take you the first day, the fruits of goodly trees and the branches off palm trees and the bows of thick trees, and wylowes of the broke, and shall rejoice before the Lord vij days. And ye shall keep it holy day unto the Lord vij days in the year. And it shallbe a law for ever unto your children after you, that ye keep that feast in the seventh month. And ye shall dwell in bothes seven days: even all that are Israelites borne, shall dwell in bothes, that your children after you may know how that I made the children of Israel dwell in bothes, when I brought them out of the land of Egipte: for I am the Lord your God. And Moses told all the feasts of the Lord unto the children of Israel.   

¶ The. xxiv Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee, pure oil olive beaten for lights to pour in to the lamps allway, without the veil of testimony within the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron shall dress them both even and morning before the Lord always. And it shallbe a law for ever among your children after you. And he shall dress the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord perpetually.  
And thou shalt take ●●●● flower and bake. xii wastels thereof, two tenthdeales shall every wastel be. And make two rows of them, six on a row upon the pure table before the Lord, and put pure frankencens upon the rows. And it shallbe bred of remembrance, and an offering to the Lord. Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows before the Lord ever more, given off the children of Israel, that it be an everlasting covenant. And they shallbe Aaron's and his sons, and they shall eat them in the holy place. For they are most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord, and shallbe a duty for ever.  
And the son of an Israelitish wife whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel. And this son off the Israelitish wife and a man of Israel, stroove together in the host. And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name and cursed, and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother's name was Selamyth, the daughter off Dybri off the tribe of Dan: and they put him in ward, that Moses should declare unto them what the Lord said thereto.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, bring him that cursed without the host, and let all that heard him, put their hands upon his heed, and let all the multitude stone him. And speak unto the children of Israel saying: Whosoever curseth his God, shall bear his sin: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall die for it: all the multitude shall stone him to death. And the stranger as well as the Israelite if he curse the name, shall die for it.  
He that killeth any man, shall die for it: but he that killeth a be'st shall pay for it, be'st for be'st. If a man maim his neighbour as he hath done, so shall it be done to him again: broke for broke, eye for eye and tooth for tooth: even as he hath maimed a man, so shall he be maimed again. So now he that killeth a be'st, shall pay for it: but he that killeth a man, shall die for it. Ye shall have one manner of law among you: even for the stranger as well as for one of yourselves, for I am the Lord your God.  
And Moses told the children of Israel, that they should bring him that had cursed, out of the host, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.   

¶ The. xxv Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them. When ye be come in to the land which I give you, let the land rest a Sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six year thou shalt cut thy wines and gather in thy fruits. But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. The lords Sabbath it shallbe, and thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy wines.  
The corn that groweth by itself thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that grow without thy dressing: but it shallbe a Sabbath of rest unto the land. Nevertheless the Sabbath of the land shallbe meat for you: even for the and thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger that dwelleth with thee: and for thy cattles and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.  
Then numbered seven weeks of years, that 
This horn in Hebrew is called iobel, and of this took the pope an occasion to make eu●rt l year a iubelye▪ so that he contrafaiteth god in every point and will not be ove ●ce behind him.  is, seven times seven year: and the space of the seven weeks of years will be unto the xlix year. And then thou shalt make an horn blow: even in the tenth day of the seventh month, which is the day of atonement. And then shall ye make the horn blow, even thorough out all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty thorough out the land unto all the inhabiters thereof, It shallbe a year of horns blowing unto you and ye shall return: every man unto his possession and every man unto his kindred again. A year of horns blowing shall that fiftieth year be unto you. Ye shall not sow neither reap the corn that groweth by itself, nor gather the grapes that grow without thy labour For it is a year of horns blowing and shallbe holy unto you: how be it, yet ye shall eat of the increase of the field. And in this year of horns blowing ye shall return, every man unto his possession again.  
When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbour or buyest off thy neighbours hand, ye shall not oppress one another: but according to the numbered of years after the trumpet year, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the numbered off fruteyeres, he shall sell unto the. according unto the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt minish the price: for the numbered of fruit he shall sell unto the. And see that no man oppress his neighbour, but fear thy God. For I am the Lord your God. Wherefore do after mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them, that ye may dwell in the land in faftie. And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety.  
If ye shall say, what shall we eat the seventh year in as much as we shall not sow nor gether in our increase. I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years: and ye shall sow the eight year and eat of old fruit until the ix year, and even until her fruits come, ye shall eat of old store. Wherefore the land shall not be sold for ever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me: and ye shall thorough out all the land of your possession, let the land go home free again.  
When thy brother is waxed poor and hath sold away of his possession: if any off his kin come to redeem it, he shall by out that which his brother sold. And though he have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again, then let him count how long it hath been sold, and deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return unto his possession again. But and if his hand can not get sufficient to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the horneyere: and in the horn year it shall come out, and he shall return unto his possession again.  
If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city/ he may buy it out again any time with● a hole year after it is sold: and that shallbe the space in which he m●ye redeem it again. But and if it be not bought out again within the space of a full year/ then the house in the walled city shallbe established for ever unto him that bought it and to his successors after high and shall not go out in the trumpet year. But the horses in villages which have no walls round about them/ shallbe counted like unto the fields of the country/ and may be bought out again at any season/ and shall go out fr● in the trumpet year.  
notwithstanding the cities of the levities and the horses in the cities of their possessions the levites may redeem at all ceasons. And if a man purchase aught of the levities: whether it be house or citle that they possess, the bargain shall go out in the trumpet year. for the horses of the cities of the levites/ be their possessions among the children of Israel. But the fields that lie round about their cities/ shall not be bought: for they are their possessions for ever.  
If thy brother be waxed poor and fallen in decay with thee/ receive him as a stranger or a sojourner/ and let him live by the. And thou shalt take none usury of him/ nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God/ that thy brother may live with the. Thou shalt not lend him thy money upon usury/ nor lend him of thy food to have avantage by it for I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egipte, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.  
If thy brother that dwelleth by the wax poor and sell himself unto thee/ thou shalt not let him labour as a bondseruaunte doth: but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shallbe with thee/ and shall serve the unto the trompetyere/ and than shall he depart from thee: both he and his children with him/ and shall return unto his own kindred again and unto the possessions of his fathers. for they are my servants which I brought out of the land of Egipte/ and shall not be sold as bondmen. So therefore that thou reign not over him cruelly/ but fear thy God.  
If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens/ thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you/ and of the children of the siraungers that are soiorners among you/ and of their generations that are with you, which they begat in your land. And ye shall possess them and give them unto your children after you, to possess them for ever: and they shallbe your bond men: But over your brethren the children of Israel/ ye shall not reign one over another cruelly.  
When a stranger and a sojourner waxeth rich by the and thy brother that dwelleth by him waxeth poor and sell himself unto the stranger that dwelleth by the or to any of the strangers kin: after that he is sold he may be redeemed again. one of his brethren may buy him out; whether it be his uncle or his uncles son/ or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his kindred: either if his hand can get so much he may be loosed. And he shall reckon with him that bought him/ from the year that he was sold in unto the trumpet year/ and the price of his buying shallbe according unto the numbered of years/ and he shallbe with him as a hired servant. If there be yet many years behind/ according unto them he shall give again for his deliverance/ of the money that he was sold for. If there remain but few years unto the trumpet year/ he shall so count with him/ and according unto his years give him again for his redemption/ and shallbe with him year by year as an hired servant/ and the other shall not reign cruelly over him in thy sight. If he be not bought free in the mean time/ then he shall go out in the trumpet year and his children with him. for the children of Israel are my servants which I brought out of the land of Egipte. I am the Lord your God.  
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image/ neither rear you up any piler/ neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves there to: for I am the Lord your God. keep my sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. for I am the Lord.   

¶ The. XXVI. Chapter.  
IF ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my commandments and do them/ then I will send you rain in the right season and your land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. And the threshing shall reach unto wine harvest/ and the wyneharuest shall reach unto sowing time/ and ye shall eat your bread in plenteousues and shall dwell in your land peaceably. And I will send peace in your land/ that ye shall sleep, and no man shall make you afraid. And I will rid evil beasts out of your land, and there shall no sword go thorough out your land.  
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the sword. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword. And I will turn unto you and increase you and multipye you, and set up my testament with you. And ye shall eat old store, and cast out the old for plenteousness of the new. I will make my dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loothe you.  
And I will walk among you and willbe your God, and ye shallbe my people. For I am the Lord your God, which brought you out off the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I broke the bows of your yockes, and made you go up right.  
But and if ye will not hearken unto me, nor will do all these my commandments, or if 
●ote well.  ye shall despise mine ordinances either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commaundnentes, but shall break mine appointment: then I will do this again unto to you: I will viset you with vexations, swelling and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle and with sorrows of heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee whenno man followeth you.  
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, than will I punish you seven times more 
God beginneth and augmenteth his plagues more and more as the people harden the i● hearts against him.  for your sins, and will break the pride off your strength. For I will make the heaven over you as hard as yearn, and your land as hard as brass. And so your labour shallbe spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase, neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits.  
And if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your synnnes. I will send in wild beasts upon you, which shall rob you of your children and destroy your cattles, and make you so few in numbered that your high ways shall grow unto a wilderness.  
And if ye will not be learned yet for all this but shall walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. I will send a sword upon you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled unto your cities, I will send the pestilence among you▪ ye shall be delivered in to the hande● of your enemies. And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, than shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.  
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, but shall walk contrary unto me, than I will walk contrary unto you also wrathfully and will also chastise you seven times for your sins: so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. And I will destroy your altar's bylt upon high hills, and overthrow your images, and cast your carcases upon the bodies of your idols▪ and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet odours.  
And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell there in shall wonder at it. And I will straw you among the heethen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shallbe waste, and your cities desolate. Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbathes, as long as it lieth void and ye in your enemy's land: even than shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in her Sabbathes. And as long as it lieth void it shall rest, for that it could not rest in your Sabbathes, when ye dwelled therein.  
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a feyntnesse in to their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leef that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword even no man following them, and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies: And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.  
And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their unrighteousness, even in their enemy's land, and also in the mysdeades of their fathers shall they consume. And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeades of their fathers in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me. Therefore I also will walk contrary unto them, and will bring them in to the land of their enemies. And then at the least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds.  
And I will remember my bond with jacob 
Mercy is never denied unto him that repeu●eth.  and my testament with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham, and will think on the land. For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbathes, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeades, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances. And yet for all that when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not so cast them away nor my soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly destroy them and break mine appointment with them: for I am the Lord their God. I will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I brought them out of the land of Egipte in the sight of the heathen to be their God: for I am the Lord.  
These are the ordinances, judgements, and laws which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.   

¶ The xxvij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: If any man will give a singular vow unto the Lord according to the value of his soul/ then shall the male from twenty year unto lx be set at fifty sycles of silver/ after the sycle of the sanctuary/ and the female at xxx sycles. And from .v. years to xx. the male shallbe set at twenty sycles/ and the female at ten sycles. And from a month unto .v. year/ the male shallbe set at .v. sycles of silver/ and the female at three. And the man that is lx and above/ shallbe valowed at xu sickles, and the woman at ten If he be to poor so to be set, them let him come before the priest: and let the priest value him/ according as the hand of him that vowed is able to get.  
If it be of the beasts of which men bring an offering unto the Lord: all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord/ shallbe holy. He may not alter it nor change it: a good for a bad or a bad for a good. If he change be'st for be'st/ then both the same be'st and it also where with it was changed shall be holy. If it be any manner of unclean be'st of which men may not offer unto the Lord/ let him bring the be'st before the priest and let the priest value it. And whether it be good or bad as the priest setteth it/ so shall it be. And if he will buy it again/ let him give the fift part more to that it was set at.  
If any man dedicate his housse/ it shallbe holy unto the Lord. And the priest shall set it. whether it be good or bad/ and as the priest hath set it/ so it shallbe. If he that sanctified it will redeem his house/ let him give the fift part of the money that it was judged at thereto/ and it shallbe his.  
If a man hallow a piece of his enhereted land unto the Lord/ it shallbe set according to that it beareth. If it bear an homer of barley/ it shall be set at fifty sickles of silver. if he hallow his field immediately from the trumpet year/ it shallbe worth according as it is esteemed. But and if he hallow his field after the trompetyere/ the priest shall reckon the price with him according to the years that remain unto the trumpet year, and there after it shallbe lower set.  
If he that sanctified the field will redeem it again/ let him put the fift part of the price that it was set at, there unto and it shallbe his if he will not it shallbe redeemed nomoare. But when the field goeth out in the trumpet year/ it shallbe holy unto the Lord: even as a thing dedicated, and it shall be the priests possession.  
If a man sanctify unto the Lord a feldewhich he hath bought and is not of his inheritance/ then the priest shall reckon with him what it is worth unto the trumpet year/ and he shall give the price that it is set at the same day, and it shallbe holy unto the Lord. But in the trumpet year, the field shall return unto him of whom he bought it, whose inheritance of land it was.  
And all setting shallbe according to the holy sycle. One sycle maketh twenty Geras.  
But the firstborn of the beasts that pertain unto the Lord, may no man sanctify: whether it be ox or sheep, for they are the Lords already. If it be an unclean be'st, then let him redeem it as it is set at, and give the fift part more thereto. If it be not redeemed, them let it be sold as it is rated.  
notwithstanding no dedicated thing that a man dedicateth unto the Lord, of all his good, whether it be man or be'st or land off his inheritance, shallbe sold or redeemed: for all dedicate things are most holy unto the Lord. No dedicate thing therefore that is dedicated of man, may be redeemed, but must needs die  
All these tithes of the land, whether it be of the corn of the field or fruit of the trees, shall be holy unto the Lord. If any man will redeem ought of his tithes, let him add the fift part more thereto. And the tithes of oxen and sheep and of all that goeth under the herdemans' keeping, shallbe holy tithes unto the Lord. Men shall not look if it be good or bad nor shall change it. If any man change it then both it and that it was changed with all, shallbe holy and may not be redeemed.  
These are the commandments which the Lord gave Moses in charge to give unto the children of Israel in mount Sinai.    
¶ The end of the third book of Moses.   


¶ A prologue into the fourth book of Moses/ called Numeri.  
¶ A Prologue in to the fourth book of Moses/ called Numeri.  
IN the second and third book they received the law. And in this four they begin to work and to practise. Of which practi●ynge yese many good ensamples of unbelief & what free-will doth/ when she taketh in hand to keep the law of her own power without help of faith in the promises of god: how she leaveth her master's carcasses by the way in the wilderness and bringeth them not in to the land of rest. Why could they not enter in? Because of their unbelief Hebre three For had they believed/ so had they been under grace/ and their old sins had been forgiven them/ and power should have been given them to have fulfilled the law thenceforth & they should have been kept from all temptations that had been to strong for them. For it is written johan. 1. He gave them power to be the sons of god/ thorough beleving in his name. Now to be the son of god is to love god and his commandments and to walk in his way after the ensample of his son Christ. But these people took upon them to work without faith as thou seysie in the xiv. of this book/ where they would fight and also did/ without the word of promise: even when they were warned that they should not. And in the xvi a gain they would please god with their holy faithless works (for where gods word is not there can be no faith) but the fire of god consumed their holy works/ as it did Nadab and Abihu Levi ten And from these unbelievers turn thine eyes unto the pharisees which before the coming of Christ in his flesh/ had laid the foundation of free-will after the same ensample. Whereon they bilt holy works after their own imagination with our faith of the word/ so fervently that for the great zeal of them they slew the king of all holy works and the lord of free-will which only thorough his grace maketh the will fire and looseth her from bondage of sin/ and giveth her love and lust unto the laws of god/ and power to fulfil them. And so thorough their holy works done by the power of free-will/ they excluded themselves out of the holy rest of forgiveness of sins by faith in the blond of Christ.  
And then look on our hypocrites which in like manner following the doctrine of Aristotle and other heathen pagans/ have against all the scripture set up free-will again/ unto whose power they ascribe the keeping of the commandments of god. For they have set up wilful poverty of another manner than any is commanded of god. And the chastity of matrimony utterly defied/ they have set up another wilful chastity not required of god/ which they swear/ vow & profess to give god/ whether he will give it them or no/ and compel all their disciples there unto/ saying that it is in the power of every man's free-will to observe it/ contrary to Christ and his apostle Paul.  
And the obedience of god and man excluded they have vowed another wilful obedience condemned of all the scripture which they will yet give God whether he will or will not.  
And what is become of their wilful poverty? hath it not rob the whole world & brought all under them? ●n there be either king or emperor or of what soever degree it be/ except he will hold of them and be sworn unto them to be their servaunte/ to go and come at their lust and to defend their quarrels be they false or true? Their wilful poverty hath all ready eaten up the whole world & is yet still gredyar then ever it was in so much that ten worlds more were not enough to satisfy the hunger thereof.  
Moreover besides daily corrupting of other men's wives and open who: edome/ unto what abominations to filthy to be spoke off hath their voluntary chastity brought them?  
And as for their wilful obedience what is it but the disobedience & the diff●aūce h●th of all the laws of god & man: in so much that if any price begin to execute any law of man upon them/ they curse him unto the bottom of hell & proclaim him no right king & that his lords ought no longerto obey him/ and interdite his comen people as they were heathen turks or saracenes. And if any man preach them gods law/ him they make an heretic and burn him to ashes. And in stead of god's law and man's/ they have set up one off their own imagination which they observe with dispensations.  
And yet in these works they have so great confidence that they not only trust to be saved thereby/ and to be higher in heaven than they that be saved thorough christ: but also promessero all other forgiveness of their sins thorough the merits of the same. Wherein they rest and teach other to rest also/ excludyn get he whole world from the rest of forgiveness of sins thorough faith in Christ's blood.  
And now saying that faith only letteth a man in unto rest & unbelief excludeth him/ what is the cause of this unbelief? verily no sin that the world saith/ but a pope holiness & a righteousness of their own imagination as Paul sayeth Roma ten They be ignorant of the righteousness wherewith god justifieth & have set up a righteousness of their own makige thorough which they be disobedient unto the righteousness of god. And Christ rebuketh not the pharisees for gross sins which the world saw/ but for those holyedeades which so bleared the eyes of the world that they were taken as gods: even for long prayers/ for fasting/ for tything so diligently that they left not so much as their herbs unlithed/ for their cleanness in washing before meat and for washing of cups/ dishes/ and all manner vessels/ for building the prophets sepulchres/ and for keeping the holy day/ and for turning the he then unto the faith/ and forgeving of alms. For unto such holy deeds they ascribed righteousness and therefore when the righteousness of god was preached unto them they could not but persecute it/ the devil was so strong in them Which thing Christ well describeth Luce xi saying that after the devil is cast out he cometh again and findeth his house swept and made gay and then taketh seven we▪ sethens himself and dwelleth therein/ and so is the end of that man worse than the beginning. That is/ when they be a little cleansed from gross sins which the world saith and then made gay in their own sight with the righteousness of traditions/ then cometh seven/ that is to say the hole power of the devil/ for seven with the hebrews signifieth a multitude without vumbre & the extremity of a thing & is a speech borrowed (I suppose) out of leviticus where is so oft mention made of senem. Where I would say: I will punish the that all the world shall take an ensample of thee/ there the jew would say/ I will circumcise the or baptize the vii times. And so here by seven is meant all the devils of hell & all the might & power of the devil. For unto what further blindness could all the devils in hell bring them/ then to make them believe that they were justified thorough their own good works. For when they once believed that they were purged from their sins & made rightuousse thorough their own holy works/ what room was there left for the righteousness that is in Christ's bloudeshedinge? And therefore when they be fallen in to this blindness they can not but hate & persecute the light. And the more clear & evidently their deeds be rebuked the furiousser & maliciousser blind are they until they break out in to open blasphemy & sinning against the holy ghost/ which is the malicious persecut●ge of the clearetrouth so manifestly proved that they can not once hijsh against it. As the pharisees persecuted Christ because he rebuked their holy deeds. And when he proved his doctrine with y● scriptu & miracles/ yet though they could not improve him nor reason against him they taught that the scripture must have some other meaning because his interpretation undermined their foundation & plucked up by the roots the sects which they had planted/ & they ascribed also his miracles to the devil. And in like manner though our hypocrites can not d●●nye but this is the scripture/ yet because there can be no nother sense gathered thereof/ but that overthroweth their buildings/ therefore they ever think that it hath some other meaning than as the words sound and that no man understandeth it or understood it seen the time of the Apostles. Or if they think that some that wrote upon it since the apostles understood it: they yet think that we in like manner as we understand not the text itself/ so we understand not the meaning of the words of that docroure. For when thou layest the justifying of holy works and deniest the justifying of faith/ how canst thou understand saint Paul/ Peter/ johan and the Acts of the apostles or any scripture at all/ saying the justifying of faith is almost all that they intend to prove.  
Finally/ concerning vows whereof thou readest chapter xxx there may be many questions/ whereunto I answer shortly that we ought to put salt to all our offerings: that is/ we aught to minister knowledge in all our works and to do nothing whereof we could not give a reason out off gods words. We be now in the day light/ and all the secrets of God and all his counsel and will is opened unto us/ and he that was promised should come and bless us/ is come already and hath shed his blood for us and hath blessed us with all manner blessings and hath obrayned all grace for us/ and in him we have all. Wherefore god hence forth will receive nomoare sacrifices off beasts of us/ as thou readest Hebre ten If thou burn unto God the blood or fat of beasts/ to obtain forgiveness of sins thereby or that god should the better hear thy request/ than thou dost wrong unto the blood of Christ/ and Christ unto the is dead in vain. For in him god hath promised not forgiveness of sins only/ but also what soever we axe to keep us from sin and temptation with all. And what if thou burn frankencens unto him/ what if thou burn a candle/ what if thou burn thy chastity or virginity unto him for the same purpose/ dost thou not like rebuke unto Christ's blood? Moreover if thou offer gold/ silver or any other good for the same intent/ is there any difference? And even so if thou go in pilgrimage or fastist or goest wolwarde/ or sprinclest thyself with holy water or else what soever dead it is/ or observest what soever ceremony it be for like meaning/ then it is like abomination. We must therefore bring the salt of the knowledge of god's word with all our sacrifices/ or else we shall make no sweet savour unto god thereof.  
Thou wilt axe me/ shall I vow nothing at all? yes/ God's commandment which thou hast vowed in thy baptism. For what intent? Verily for the love of Christ which hath bought the with his blood and made the son and heir of god with him/ that thou shouldest wait on his will and commandments and purify thy membres according to the same doctrine that hath purified thine heart. For if the knowledge of god's wo●de have not purified thine heart/ so that thou consentest unto the law of God that it is righteous and good and sorrowest that thy membres move the unto the contrary/ so hast thou no part with christ. For if thou repent not of thy sin/ so it is impossible that thou shouldest believe that Christ had delivered the from the danger thereof. If thou believe not that Christ hath delivered thee/ so is it impossible that thou shouldest love gods commandments. If thou love not the commandments/ so is Christ's spirit not in the which is the earnest of forgiveness of sin and of salvation.  
For scripture teacheth/ first repentance: then faith in christ/ that for his sake sin is forgiven to them that repent: then good works/ which are nothing save the commandment of god only. And the commandments are nothing else save the helping of our neighbours at their need & the tamyinge of our members that they might be pure also as the heart is pure thorough hate of vice and love of virtue as god's word teacheth us which works must proceed out of faith: that is/ I must do them for the love which I have to god for that great mercy which he hath showed me in christ/ or else I do them not in the sight of god And that I faint not in the pain of the sleyinge of the sin that is in my flesh/ mine help is the promise of the assistance of the power of god and the comfort of the reward to come which reward I ascribe unto the goodness/ mercy and truth of the promiser that hath chose me/ called me taught me and given me the earnest thereof/ & not unto the merits of my doenges or soferinges. For all that I do & soffre is but the way to the reward and not the deserving thereof. As if the kings grace should promise me to defend me at whom in mine own royalme yet the way thither is thorough the see wherein I might happily soffre no little trouble. And yet for all that/ if I might live in rest when I come thither/ I would thick & so would other say/ that my pains were well rewarded: which reward & benefit I would not proudly ascribe unto the merits of my pains taking by the way: but unto the goodness/ mercifulness and constant truth of the kings grace whose gift it is and to whom the praise & thank thereof belongeth of duty and right. So now a reward is a gift given ●relye of the goodness of the giver and not of the deservings of the reacever. Thus it appeareth/ that if I vow what soever it be/ for any other purpose then to tame my membres and to be an ensample of virtue and edifying unto my neighbour/ my sacrifice is unsavoury and clean without salt and mylampe without oil and I one of the folyshvirginiss and shallbe shut out from the feast of the bruydegrome when I think myself most sure to enter in.  
If I vow voluntary poverty/ this must be my purpose/ that I will be content with a competent living which cometh unto me either by succession of mine elders or which I gettetruly with my labour in ministering & doing service unto the comen wealth in one office or in another or in one occupation or other/ because that riches and honour shall not corrupt my mind and draw mine heart from god/ and to geue an ensample of virtue and edefiing unto other & that my neighbour may have a living by me as well as I/ if I make a cloak of dissimulation of my vow/ laying a net of feigned beggery to catch superfluous abundance of riches & high degree and authority and thorough the estimation of false holiness to feed and maintain my slothful idleness with the sweat/ labour/ lands/ & rents of other men (after the ensample of our spiritualty) robbing them of their faiths and god of his honour turning unto mine hypocrisy that confidence/ which should be given unto the promises of god only/ am I not a wily fox & a ravening wolf in a lambs skin & a painted sepulchre fair without and filthy with in? In like manner though I seek no worldly promotion thereby/ yet if I do it to be justified therewith and to get an higher place in heaven/ thinking that I do it of myneawne natural strength & of the natural power of my free-will & that every man hath might even soto do and that they do it not is their fault & negligence and so with the proud pharesye in comparison of myself despise the sinful publicans: what other thing do I then eat the blood & fat of my sacrifice devowringe that myself which should be offered unto god alone and his christ. And shortly what soever a man doth of his natural gifts/ of his natural wit/ wisdom/ understanding/ reason/ will/ & good intent before he be otherwise & clean contrary taught of god's spirit & have received other wit understanding/ reason and will/ is flesh/ worldly and wrought ● abominable blidnesse/ with which a man can but soak himself/ his own profit/ glory & honour/ even in very spiritual matters. As if I were alone in a wilderness where no man were to seek profit or praise of yet if I would seek heaven of god there/ I could of mine own natural gifts seek it no no their ways then for the merits and deservings of my good works and to enter therein by another way then by that door christ/ which were very theste/ for christ is lord over all and what so ever any man will have of god/ he must have it given him freely for Christ's sake. Now to have heaven for mine own deserving/ is mine own praise and not Christ's. For I can not have it by favour & grace in christ and by mine own merits also▪ For fregevinge and deserving can not stand together.  
If thou wilt vow of thy goods unto god thou must put salt unto this sacrifice: that is thou must minister knowledge in this dead as Peter teacheth two pet i Thou must put oil of god's word in thy lamp & do it according to knowledge/ if thou wait for the coming of the bridegroom to enter in with him in to his rest. Thou wilt hang it about the image to move men to devotion. denotion is a fervent love unto gods cōma●dmentes and a desire to be with god and with his ever lasting promises. Now shall the sight of such riches as are showed at saint thomas shrine or at walsingham move a man to love the commandments of god better and to desire to be loosed from his flesh and to be with god/ or shall it not rather make his poor heart sigh because he hath no such at home and to wish part of it in another place? The priest shall have it in gods stead. Shall the priest have it? If the priest be bought with Christ's blood/ then he is Christ's servant & not his own & aught therefore to feed Christ's flock with Christ's doctrine & to minister Christ's sacraments unto them purely for very love & not for felthy lucre's sake or to be lord over them as Peter teacheth i pet .v. & paul Acts twenty Beside this christ is ours and is a gift given us/ & we be heirs of christ & of all that is Christ's Wherefore the priests doaryne is ours & we heirs of it/ it is the food of our souls. Therefore if he minister it not truly and freely unto us with out selling/ he is a thief & a soul murtherar: and even so is he if he take upon him to feed us & have not wherewith. And for a like conclusion because we also with all that we have be Christ's/ therefore is the priest heir with us also of all that we have received of god/ wherefore in as much as the priest waiteth on the word of god and is oureseruaunte therein/ therefore of right we are his debtors & own him a sufficient living of our goods/ and even thereto a wife of our daughters own we unto him if he require her. And now when we have appointed him a sufficient living/ whether in tithes rents or in yearly wages/ he aught to be content & to require no more nor yet to receive any more/ but to be an ensample of soberness & of dispysinge worldly things unto the ensample of his parysheonars.  
Wilt thou vow to offer unto the poor people? that is pleasant in the sight of god/ for they be left here to do our alms upon in Christ's stead & they be the right heirs of all our abundance & overplus. Moreover we must have a school to teach god's word in (though it needed not to be so costly) & therefore it is law full to vow unto the building or maintenance thereof & unto helping of all good works. And we ought to vow to pay custom/ tolle/ rend & all manner duties and what soever we own: for that is god's commandment  
If thou wilt vow pilgrimage/ thou must put salt thereto in like manner if it shallbe accepted/ if thou vow to go and viset the poor or to here gods word or what soever edifieth thy soul unto love & good work after knowledge or what soever god commandeth/ it is well done and a sacrifice that savoureth well ye will happily say/ that ye will go to this or the place because god hath chosen one place more than another and will hear your peticyens more in one place then another. As for your prayer it must be according to god's word. Ye may not desire god to take vengeance on him whom god's word reaches you to pity & to pray for. And as for that other gloze/ that god will hear you more in one place than in another/ I suppose it sal infatu●t●m/ salted unsavoury/ for if it were wisdom how could we excuse the death of steven Acts vij which died for that article that god dwelleth not in temples made with hands we that believe in god are the temple of god saith paul/ if a man love god & keep his word he is the temple of god & hath god presently dwelling in him/ as witnesseth christ Johan xiiij saying: If a man love me he will keep my word/ & then my father will love him & we will come unto him and dwell with him. And in the xu he saith: if ye abide in me and my words also abide in you/ then axe what ye will & ye shall have it. If thou believe in christ & hast the promises which god hath made the in thine heart/ them go on pilgrimage unto thine own haite and there pray & god will hear that for his mercy and truths sake and for his son Christ's sake and not for a few stones sakes. What careth god for the temple? The very beasts in that they have life in them be much better than an heap of stonnes couched together.  
To speak of chastity/ it is a give e not given unto all persons testifieth both christ and also his apostle Paul/ wherefore all persons may not vow it. Moreover there be causes wherefore many persons may better live chaste at one time then at another. Many may live chaste at twenty and thirty for certain cold diseases following them/ which at xl when their health is come cannot do so. Many be occupied with wild fantasies in their youth that they care not for marriage which same when they be waren sad shallbe greatly desirous/ it is a dangerous thing to make sin where none is and to for swear the benefit of god & to bind thyself under pain of damnation of thy soul that thou wouldest not use the remedy that god hath created if nead required. ¶ Another thing is this/ beware that thou ge●t the not a false feigned chastity made with the ungodly persuasions of saint H●erō or of ovid in his filthy book of the remedy against love/ lest when thorough such imaginations thou hast utterly despised/ defied and abhorred all woman kind/ thou come in to such case thorough the fierce wrath of god/ that thou canst neither live chaste nor find in thy heart to mary and so be compelled to fall into the abomination of the pope against nature and kind.  
Moreover god is a wise father & knoweth all the infirmities of his children & also mercy full/ and therefore hath created a remedy without sin and given thereto his favour and blessing. Let us not be wiser than god with our imaginations nor tempt him/ for as godly chastity is not every man's gyfre: even so he that hath it to day hath not power to continue it at his own pleasure/ neither hath god ●romy said to give it him still & to cure his infirmytyes with out his natural remedy no more than he hath promised to slake his hunger with out meat or thirst with out drink.  
Wherefore other let all things bide free as wise god hath created them & neither vow that which god requireth not nor for swear that which god permitteth the with his favour and blessing also: or else if thou wilt needs vow/ then vow godly & under a condityon/ that thou wilt continue chaste/ so long as god giveth the that gift and as long as neither thine own necessity neither charity toward thy neighbour nor the authority of them under whose power thou art drive the unto the contrary.  
The purpose of thy vow must be salted also with the wisdom of god. Thou mayest no● vow to be justified thereby or to make satisfaction for thy sins or towynne heaven nor an higher place: for then diddest thou wrong unto the blood of christ & thy vow were plain idolatry & abominable in the sight of god. Thy vow must be only unto the furtherance of the commaundmentes of god/ which are as I have said nothing but the taming of thy members & the service of thy neighbour: that is if thou think thy back to weak for the burden of wedlock & that thou canst not rule thy wiff/ children servants and make provision for them godly & with out overmoch busyenge and unquyetyngethy self and drouning thyself in worldly business unchristenlye or that thou canst serve thy neighbour in some office better being chaste then married. And then thy vow is good & lawful. And eu● so must thou vow abstinence of meats & ● ynkes so far forth as it is profitable unto thy neighbours & unto the taming of thy flesh: But thou mayst vow neither of them unto the slaying of thy body. As Paul commandeth tymothe to drink wine & no more water because of his diseases. Thou wilt say that timothy had not happily forsworn wine. I think the same and that the apostles forswore not wedlock though many of them lived chaste neither yet any meat or drink/ though they abstained from them/ & that it were good for us to follow their ensample. How be it though I vow & swear and think on none exception/ yet is the breaking of gods commandments except & all chances that hang of god. As if I swear to to be in a certain place at a certain hour to make a lovedaye with out exception/ yet if the king in the mean time command me another way/ I must go by god's commandment and yet break not mine oath. And in like case if my father and mother be seek and require my presence/ or if my wiff/ children or household be visited that my assistance be required/ or if my neighbours house be a fire at the same hour and a thousand such chances: in which all I break mine oath and am not forsworn and so forth. Read gods word diligently and with a good heart and it shall teach the all things.   

The fourth book of Moses called Numeri.  
¶ The four book of Moses/ called Numeri.  

ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai/ in the tabernacle of witness/ the first day of the second month/ and in the second year after they were come out of the lot de of Egipte saying: take ye the sum of all the multitude of the children of Israel/ in the it kindreds and households of their fathers and numbered them by name all that are males/ polle by polle/ from twenty year & above: even all that are able to go forth in to war in Israel/ thou & Aaron shall numbrethen in their armie●/ & with you shallbe of every try be a heed man in the house of his father.  
And these are the names of the men that shall s●ō the with you●in Reuben/ Elizur the son of Sedeur: In Simeon/ Selumiel the son of Su●● Sadar: In the try be of juda/ Nahesson the son of Aminadab: In Isachar/ Nathaneel the son of Zuar: In Sebulon/ uliab the son of Helon. Among the children of joseph: In Ephraim/ Elisam a y● son of Amihud: In Manasse/ Gamaliel the son of Peda zur: In B● jamin/ Abidan the son of Gedeom: In Dan/ Ahieser the son of Amnn Sadai: In Asser/ Pagiel the son of Ochran: In Gad/ Eliasaph the son of Deguel: In Naphtaly/ Ahira the son of Enan.  
These were counsellors of the congregation and lords in the tribes of their fathers & captains over thousands in Israel. And Moses and Aaron roke these men above named and gathered all the congregation together/ the first day of the second month/ and reckoned them after their birth & kindreds and houses of their fathers by name from twenty year & above head by head: as the Lord commanded Moses/ even so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.  
And the children of Reuben Israel's eldest son in their generations/ kindreds and houses of their father's/ when they were numbered everyman by name/ all that were males from xx. year and above/ as many as were able to go forth in war: were numbered in the tribe off Reuben/ xlvi. thousand and fine hundred.  
Among the children of Simeon: their generation in their kindreds and horses of their fathers (when every man's name was told) of all the males from twenty years and above/ whatsoever was meet for the war: were numbered in the tribe of Simeon lix thousand and three hundred.  
Among the children of Sad: their generation in their kindreds and households of their father's/ when they were told by name/ from xx. year and above/ all that were meet for the war: were numbered in the tribe of Sad. xl● thousand/ six hundred and fifty.  
Among the children of juda: their generation in their kindreds and horses of their fathers (by the numbered of names) from twenty year and above/ all that were able to war/ were told in the tribe of juda lxxiiij thousand and six hundred.  
Among the children of Isachar: their generation/ in their kindreds and houses of their father (when their names were counted) from twenty year and above/ whatsoever was apt for war: were numbered in the tribe of Isachar liiij thousand and four hundred.  
Among the children of Sebulon: their generation/ in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (after the numbered of names) from xx. year and above/ whosoever was meet for the war: were counted in the tribe of Sebulon ivij. thousand and four hundred.  
Among the children of Joseph: first among the children of Ephraim: their generation/ in their kindreds and horses of their fathers (when the names of all that were apt to the war were told) from twenty years and above: were in numbered in the tribe off Ephraim/ xl. thousand and two hundred.  
Among the children of Manasse: their generation/ in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when the names of all that were apt to war were told) from twenty and above were numbered in the tribe of Manasse. xxxij thousand and two hundred.  
Among the children of Ben Jamin: their generation/ in their kindreds and horses of their fathers (by the rail of names) from twenty year and above of all that were meet for war/ were numbered in the tribe off Ben Jamin xxxv thousand/ and four hundred.  
Among the children of Dan: their generation in their kindreds and horses off their father's (in the sum of names) off all that was apt to war from twenty year and above/ were numbered in the tribe of Dan lxij thousand and vij hundred.  
Among the children of Aser: their generation/ in their kindreds & houses of their fathers (when they were summed by name) from twenty years & above/ all that were apt to war were numbered in the tribe of Aser xli thousand and .v. hundred.  
Among the children of Nepthali: their generation/ in their kindreds & horses of their fathers (when their names were told) from xx. years and above/ what soever was mete●o war: were numbered in the tribe of Nephtali liij thousand and four hundred.  
These are the numbres which Moses and Aaron numbered with the twelve princes of Israel: of every house of their fathers a man. And all the numbres of the children of Israel/ in the horses of their father's/ from twenty year and above/ whatsoever was meet for the war in Israel/ drew unto the sum of six hundred thousand/ five hundred and l But the levires in the tribe off their fathers were not numbered among them.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: only see that thou numbered not the tribe of Levi/ neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint the levites unto the habitation of witness/ and to all the apparel thereof and unto all that longeth thereto. For they shall bear the tabernacle and all the ordinance thereof/ and they shall minister it and shall pitch their tents round about it. And when the tabernacle goeth forth the levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is pitched/ they shall set it up: for if any stranger come near/ he shall die. And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents/ every man in his own company and every man by his own standert thorough out all their hosts. But the levites shall pitch round about the habitation of witness/ that there fall no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel/ and the levites shall wait upon the habitation of witness. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.   

¶ The two Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: The children of Israel shall pirch: every man by his own standert with the arms of their father's houses/ a way from the presence of the tabernacle of witness.  
On the east side toward the rising of the son/ shall they of the standert of the host of juda pitch with their arms: And Nahe sson the son of Aminabab shal●e captain over the sons of juda. And his host and the numbered of them lxxiiij thousand and. vi hundred. And next unto him shall the tribe of Isachar pitch and Nathaneel the son of Zuar captain over the children of Isachar: his host and the numbered of them liiij thousand and four hundred. And than the tribe of Zabulon: with Eliab the son of Helen/ captain over the children of Zabulon/ and his host in the numbered of them: lvij. thousand and four hundred. So that all they that pertain unto the host of juda/ are an hundred thousand lxxxvi thousand and four hundred in their companies: and these shall god in the forefront/ when they journey.  
And on the southside/ the standert of the host of Reuben shall lie with their companes and the captain over the sons of Reuben/ Elizur the son of Sedeur/ and his host and the numbered of them xlvi thousand/ and .v. hundred. And fast by him shall the tribe of Simeon pitch/ and the captain over the sons of Simeon. Selumiel the son of zu ri Sadai/ & his host and the numbered of them lix thousand and three hundred And the tribe of Gad also: And the captain over the sons of Gad/ Eliasaph the son of Deguel and his host and the numbered of them xlv thousand vi hundred and l So that all the numbered that pertain unto the host of Reuben/ are an hundred thousand li thousand iiij. hundred & fifty/ with their companies/ and they shall be the second in the journey  
And the tabernacle of witness with the host of the levites/ shall go in the mids of the hosts: as they lie in their tents/ even so shall they proceed in the journey/ every man in his quarter about their standertes  
On the west side/ the standarte and the host of Ephraim shall lie with their companies. And the captain over the sons of Ephraim/ Elisama the son of Amthud: & his host and the numbered of them xl thousand & v. hundred. And fast by him/ the tribe of Manasse/ and the captain over the sons of Manasse/ Gamaleel the son of Peda zur and his host and the numbered of them xxxij thousand and two hundred. And the tribe of Ben jamin also: and the captain over the sons of Ben jamin/ Abidan the son of Gedeoni/ and his host and the numbered of them xxxv. thousand and four hundred. All the numbered that pertained unto the host of Ephraim/ were an hundred thousand eight thousand and an hundred in their hosts: and they shallbe the third in the iurneye  
And the standert and the host of Dan shall lie on the north side with their companies: & the captain over the children of Dan/ Ahiezer the son of Ammi Sadai: and his host and the numbered of them lxij thousand & seven. hundred. And fast by him shall the tribe of Asser pitch: and the captain over the sons of Asser/ Pagiel the son of Ochran: & his host & the numbered of them xli. thousand & v. hundred. And the tribe of Naphtali also/ and the captain over the children of Naphta li: Ahira the son of Enan: & his host and the numbered of them liij thousand & iiij. hundred So that the hold numbered of all that pertained unto the host of Dan/ was an hundred thousand lvij. thousand & vi hundred. And they shallbe the last in the journey with their standertes.  
These are the sums of the children of Ysrael in the horses of their fathers: even all the numbres of the hosts with their companies vi hundred thousand three thousand .v. hundred and fifty. And yet the lenites werenot numbered among the children of Ysrael/ as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Ysrael did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses/ & so they pitched with their standertes/ and so they journeyed: every man in his kindred/ and in the household of his father.   

¶ The three Chapter.  
THese are the generations of Aaron and Moses/ when the Lord spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai/ and these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the eldest son/ and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar. These are the names of the sons of Aaron which were priests anointed and their hands filled to minister but Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord/ as they brought strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai/ and had no children. And Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the sight of Aaron their father.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying bring the tribe of Levi/ and set them before Aaron the priest/ and let them serve him and wait upon him & upon all the multitude/ before the tabernacle of witness/ to do the service of the habitation. And they shall wayre upon all the apparel of the tabernacle of witness & upon the children of Ysrael/ to do the service of the habitation. And thou shalt give the levites unto Aaron & his sons/ for they are given unto him of the children of Ysrael. And thou shalt appoint Aaron & his sons to wait on their priests office: & the stranger that cometh nigh/ shall die for it.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: behold/ I have taken the levites from among the children of Ysrael/ for all the firstborn that openeth the matrice among the children of Ysrael/ so that the levites shall be mine: because all the first borne are mine: for the same day that Ismote all the first-born in the land of Egipte/ Ihalowed unto me all the firstborn in Ysrael/ both man and be'st/ and mine they shall be: for I am the Lord.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai saying: Numbered the children of Levi in the horses of their fathers and Rynredes/ all that are males from a month old and above. And Moses numbered them at the word of the Lord/ as he was commanded. And these are the names of the children of Levi: Gerson/ Cahath & Merari. And the se arethe names of the children of Gerson in their kindreds: Libni and Semei. And the sons of Cahath in their kindreds were Amram. jezehar. Hebron and Vsiel. And the sons of Merari in their kindreds were Maheli and Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi in the horses of their fathers.  
And of Gerson came the kindred of the Libnites and the Semeites/ which are the kindreds of the Gersonites. And the sum of them (when all the males were told) from a month old and above/ were vij thousand and five hundred. And the kindreds of the Gersonites pitched behind the habitation west ward. And the captain of the must aw●ciēt house among the Gersonires/ was Eliasaph the son of La●l. And the office of the children of Gerson in the tabernacle of witness was the habitation and the tent with the covering thereof and the hanging of the door of the tabernacle of witness/ and the hangings of the court/ and the curtain of the door of the court: which court went round about the dwelling/ and the alter/ and the cords that pertained unto all the service thereof  
And of Cahath came the kindred of the Amramites and the kindred of the jezeharites & of the Hebronites and of the Vsielites: And these are the kindreds of the Cahathites. And the numbered of all the males from a month old and above/ was eight thousand and six hundred: which waited on the holy place. And the kindred of the children of Cahath/ pitched on the southside of the dwelling And the captain in the most ancient house of the kindreds of the Cahathites/ was Elizaphan thesonne of Vsiel/ and their office was: the ark/ the table/ the candlestick/ and the alter and the holy vessels to minister with and the veil with all that served there to. And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest/ was captain over all the captains of the Levites/ and had the over sight of them that waited upon the holythynges.  
And of Merari came the kindreds of the Mahelites and of the Musites: and these are the kindreds of the Merarites. And the numbered of them (when all the males from a month old and above was told) drew unto. vi thousand & two hundred. And the captain of the most ancient house among the kindreds of the Merarites/ was Zuriel the son of Abihail which pitched on the north side of the dwelling. And the office of the sons of Merari was: the boards of the dwelling & the bars/ pilers with the sockets thereof/ and all the instruments there of & all that served thereto: & the pilers of the court round about and their sockets/ with their pins & cords. But on the fore front of the habitation and before the tabernacle of witness castwarde/ shall Moses and Aaron & his sonnnes pitch and wait on the sanctuary in the stead of the children of Ysrael. And the stranger that cometh nigh/ shall die for it. And the hole sum of the levites which Moses & Aar●n numbered/ at the commandment of the Lord thorough out their kindreds even/ of all the males of a month old & above/ was xxij thousand.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: Numbered all the first born that are males among the children of Ysrael/ from amoneth old & above and take the numbered of their names. And thou shalt appoint the levites to me the Lord/ for all the firstborn among the children of Ysrael and the cattles of the levites for the firstborn of the children of Ysrael. And Moses numbered as the Lord commanded him/ all the firstborn of the children of Ysrael. And all the firstborn males/ in the sum of names/ from amoneth old and above/ were numbered xxij thousand ii hundred and lxxiij  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses sayen●e: take the levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel/ and the cattles of the levites for their cattles: & the levites shallbe mine which am the Lord. And for the redeeming of the two hundred and lxxiij which are more than the levites in the firstborn of the children of Israel/ take .v. sycles of every piece/ after the sycle of the holy place twenty geras the sycle. And geue the money wherewith the odd numbered of them is redeemed/ unto Aaron and his sons. And Moses took the redemption money of the overplus that were more then the levites/ among the firstborn of the children of Israel: & it came to a thousand three hundred & .lxv. sycles/ of the holy sycle. And he gave that redemption money unto Aaron & his sons at the word of the Lord/ even as the Lord commanded Moses.   

¶ The iijj. Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses & Aaron & bade them take the sum of the children of Cahath from among the sons of Levi/ in their kindreds and horses of their father's/ from thirty. year and abo●● until fifty/ all that were able to war/ for to do the work in the tabernacle of witness: even in the most holy place. And when the host removeth/ Aaron and his sons shall come and take done the veil and cover the ark of witness there with/ and shall put there on a covering of taxus skins/ and shall spread a cloth that is altogether of hyacinth above all/ and put the stanes thereof in. And upon the show table/ they shall spread a cloth of hyacinth/ and put thereon/ the dishes/ spoons/ flat pieces and pots to pour with/ and the daily bred shall be thereon: and they shall spread upon them a covering of purple/ and cover the same with a covering of taxus skins/ and put the staves thereof in.  
And they shall take a cloth of hyacinth & cover the candlestick of light and her lamps and his snoffers and fire pans and all her oil vessels which they occupy about it/ & shall put upon her and on all her instruments/ a covering of taxus skins/ and put it upon staves. And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of hyacinth/ and put on her staves. And they shall take all the ●higes which they occupy to minister with in the holy place/ & put a cloth of hyacinth upon them and cover them with a covering of taxus skins and put them on staves. And they shall take a way the ashes out of the altar/ and spread a scarlet cloth thereon: I put about it/ the fire pans/ the flesh hooks/ the shoness/ the basins and all that belongeth unto the alter/ and they shall spread upon it a covering of taxus skins and put on the staves of it.  
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the things of the sancruarye/ against that the host remove/ then the sons of Cahath shall come in for to bear/ and so let them not twitch the sanctuary lest they die. And this is the charge of the sons of Cahath in therabernacle of witness. And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest/ shall have the charge to prepare oil for the lights and sweet cens/ & the daily meat-offering and the anointing oil/ and the oversight of all the dwelling and of all that therein is: both over the sanctuary & over all that pertaineth thereto.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses & Aaron saying: destroy not the tribe of the kindreds of the Cahathites/ from among the levites. But thus do unto them that they may live and not die/ when they go unto the most holy place. Aaron and his sons shall go in and put them/ every man unto his sernyce and unto his burden. But let them not go in to see when they cover the sanctuary/ lest they die.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying Take the sum of the children of Gerson/ in the houses of their fathers and in their kin reeds: from xxx year and above/ until l all that are able to go forth in war/ for to do service in the tabernacle of witness. And this is the service of the kindred of the Gersonites/ to serve and to bear. They shall bear the curtains of the dwelling and the roof of the tabernacle of witness and his covering and the covering of tarus skins that is an high above upon it/ and the hanging of the door of the tabernacle of witness: and the hanging of the court and the hanging of the gate of the court that is round about the dwelling and the altar/ and the cords of them/ and all the instruments that serve unto them and all that is made for them. And at the mouth of Aaron and his sons/ shall all the service of the children of the Gersonites be done/ in all their charges and in all their service/ and ye shall appoint them unto all their charges that they shall wait upon. And this is the service of the kindred of the children of the Gersonires in the tabernacle of witness/ and their wait shallbe in the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  
And thou shalt numbered the sons of Merari in their kindreds and in the houses of the it father's/ from xxx years and above unto l All that is able to go forth in war/ to do the service of the tabernacle of witness. And this is the charge that they must wait upon in all that they must serve in the tabernacle of witness. The boards of the dwelling/ and the bars/ pylers'/ and sockets thereof/ and the pilers of the court round about/ and their sockets/ pins and cords with all that pertaineth and serveth unto them. And by name ye shall reckon the things that they must wait upon to bear. This is the service of the kindreds of the sons of Merari in all their service in the tabernacle of witness by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  
And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the multitude numbered the sons of the Cahathites in their kindreds and horses of their father's/ from xxx year and above unto fifty/ all that were able to go forth in the host and to do service in the tabernacle of witness. And the numbered of them in their kindreds were two thousand/ seven hundred and l These are the numbres of the kindreds of the Cahathites/ of all that did service in the tabernacle of witness/ which Moses and Aaron did numbered at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.  
And the sons of Gerson were numbered in their kindreds and in the horses of their father's/ from xxx year up unto fifty/ all that were able to go forth in the host for to do servycr in the tabernacle of witness. And the numbered of them in their kindreds/ and in the horses of their father's/ was two thousand/ six hundred and nineteen. This is the numbered of the kindreds of the sons of Gerson/ of all that did service in the tabernacle of witness/ which Moses and Aaron did numbered at the commandment of the Lord.  
And the kindreds of the sons of Merari were numbered in their kindreds and in the houses of their father's/ from xxx year up unto fifty. all that were able to go forth with the host/ ro do service in the tabernacle of witness. And the numbered of them was in their kindreds/ three thousand and two hundred. This is the numbered of the kindreds of the sons of Merari/ which Moses and Aaron numbered at the bidding of the Lord/ by the hand of Moses.  
The whole sum which Moses/ Aaron and the lords of Israel numbered among the levites in their kindreds and households of their father's/ from xxx year up unto. ●. every man to do his office and service and to bear his burden in the tabernacle of witness: was eight thousonde/ five hundred and lxxx. which they numbered at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses every man unto his service and burden: as the Lord commanded Moses.   

¶ The. fift Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel that they put out of the host/ all the lepers and all that have issues and all that are defiled upon the deed/ whether they be males or females ye shall put them out of the host/ that they defile not the tents among which I dwell. And the children of Israel did so/ and put them out of the host: even as the Lord commanded Moses/ so did the children of Israel.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel: whether it be man or woman/ when they have sinned any manner of sin which a man doth wherewith a man trespasseth against the Lord/ so that the soul hath done amiss: then they shall knowledge their sins which they have done/ and restore a gain the hurt that they have done in the hole/ and put the fift 
If ye hau● false gott●● goods & n● man to restore it unto/ the● b●inge i● unto the pope and he will dispense with ●  part of it more thereto/ and give it unto him whom he hath trespassed against. But and if he that maketh the amends have no man to do it to/ then the amends that is made shallbe the Lords and the priests/ beside the ram of the atonement offering where with he maketh an atonement for himself And all have offerings of all the hallowed things which the children of Israel bring unto the preaste/ shallbe the priests/ and every mans hallowed things shallbe his own/ but what soever any man giveth the priest/ it shallbe the priests.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them. If any man's wife go a side and trespass against him/ so that another man lie with her fleshly and the thing be hid from the eyes of her husband and is not come to light that she is defiled (for there is no witness against her) in as much as she was not taken with the manner/ and the sprere of jealousy cometh upon him and he is jealous over his wife and she defiled/ Or happily the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him/ and he is jealous over his wife and she yet undefiled. Then let her husband bring her unto the preaste and bring an offering for her: the tenth part of an Epha of barley meele/ but shall pour none oil thereunto/ nor put frankencens thereon: for it is an offering of jealousy/ and an offering that maketh remembrance of sin.  
And let the priest bring her and set her before the Lord/ and let him take holy water in an earthen vessel & of the dust that is in the floor of the habitation/ and put it in to the water. And the priest shall set the wife before the Lord and uncover her heed/ and put the memorial of the offering in her hands which is the jealousy offering/ and the priest shall have bitter and cursing water in his hand/ and he shall conjure her and shall say unto her. If no man have lain with the neither haste gone aside/ and defiled thyself behind thy husband/ then have thou no harm of this bitter cursing water.  
But and if thou hast gone aside behind thine husband and art defiled and some other man hath lain with the beside thine husband (and let the preaste conjure her with the conjuration of the curse and say unto her) the Lord make the a curse and a conjuration among thy people: so that the Lord make thy thy rot/ and thy belly swell and this bitter cursing water go in to the bowels of thee/ that thy belly swell and thy ●rot●e/ and the wife shall say Amen Amen.  
And the priest shall writ this curse in a bill and wash it out in the bitter water. And when the cursing water is in her that it is bitter/ then let the priest take the jealousy offering out of the wife's hand/ and wave it before the Lord/ and bring i● unto the altar: and he shall take an handful off the memorial offering and burn it upon the alter/ and than make her drink the water and when he hath made her drink the water. If she be defiled and have trespassed against her husband/ then shall the cursing water go in to her and be so bitter/ that her belly shall swell and her thy shall ro●te/ & she shallbe a curse among her people. And if she be not defiled but is clean/ then she shall have no harm/ but that she may conceive.  
This is the law of gelonsye/ when a wife goeth a side behind her husband and is defiled/ or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man/ so that he is jealous over his wife: then he shall being her before the Lord/ and the priest shall minister all thy law unto her/ & the man shallbe guiltless/ & the wife shall bear her sin.   

¶ The vi Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel & say unto them: when either man or woman appoints to vow a vow of abstinence for to abstain unto the Lord/ he shall abstain from wine and strong drink/ and shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink/ nor shall drink what soever is pressed out of grapes: & shall eat no fresh grapes neither yet dried / as long as his absimence endureth. Moreover he shall eat nothing that is made of the vynetre/ no n●● so much as the cornel● or the husk of the grape.  
And as long as the vow of his abslin●ce endureth/ there shall no rasure nor shears come upon his heed/ until his days be out which he fas●eth unto the Lord/ and he shallbe holy and shall let the locks of his here grow. As long as he ab●●en●th unto the Lord he shall come at no deed body: he shall not make himself unclean at the death of his father/ mother/ brother or sister. for the abstinence of his God is upon his heed. And therefore as long as his abstinence lasteth/ he shal● be hely unto the Lord.  
And if i● fortune that any man by chance die sedenly before him/ and defile the heed of his abstinence/ ●hen must he shave his heed the day of his glasynge▪ even the seventh day he shall shave it. And the eight day he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest/ unto the door of the tabernacle of witness And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burntoffering & make an aronement for him/ as concerning that he sinned upon the deed/ and shall also hallow his heed the same day and he shall abstain upto the Lord theryme of his abstinency/ and shall bring a lamb of a● year old for a trespass offering: but the days that were before are lost/ because his abstinence was defiled. ¶ This is the law of the abstainer/ when the time of his abstinence is out. he shallbe brought unto the door of the tabernacle of witness & he shall bring his offering unto the Lord: an he lamb of a year old with out blemish f●r a burntoffering & a she lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin-offering/ a ram without blemish also for a peaseoffering/ & a basket of sweet breed of fine flower mingled with oil & wafers of sweet bred anointed with oil with meat-offerings and drink-offerings that long thereto.  
And the priest shall bring him before the Lord & offer his sin-offering & his burntoffering/ & shall offer the ram for a peaseoffering unto the Lord with the basker of sweet breed/ and the priest shall offer also his meat offering & his drynckoffering. And the abs●yner shall shave his heed in the door of the tabernacle of witness and shall take the here of his sober heed & put it in the fire which is under the peaseoffering. Then the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram and one sweet cake out of the basket & one sweet wafer also and put them in the hand of the abste●ner after he hath shanen his abstinence of/ & the priest shall wave them unto the Lord/ which offering shallbe holy unto the priest with the wavebrest and have shoulder: & then the abs●eyner may● drink wine. This is the law of the absieyner which hath vowed his offering unto ● Lord for his abstinence/ besides that his hand can get And according to the vow which he vowed/ even so he must do in the law of his abstinence.  
And the Lord talked with Moses sayeng● speak unto Aaron and his sons saying: of this wise ye shall bless the children of 
●ere of ye see that Aaron/ where he lift up his hand and blessed the people/ was not dumb as our bishops be.  Ysrael saying unto them.  
The lord bless thee and keep thee.  
The lord make his face shine upon thee & be merciful unto thee.  
The lord lift up his countenance upon thee/ and give thee peace For ye shall put my name upon the children of Ysrael/ that I may bless them.   

¶ The vij Chapter.  
ANd when Moses had full set up the habitation and anointed it and sanctified it and all the apparel thereof/ and had anointed and sanctified the alter also and all the vessels there of: then the princes of Ysrael heeds over the horses of their fathers which were the lords of the tribes that stood and numbered/ offered and brought their gifts before the Lord six covered charettes and twelve ●xen: two and two a chariot and an ox every man/ and they brought them before the habitation.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying take it of them and let them be to do the service of the tabernacle of witness/ and give them unto the levites/ every man according unto his office And Moses took the charettes and the oxen/ & gave them unto the levites: ij. charettes and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gerson according unto their office. And iiij. charettes and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari according unto their offices/ under the hands of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But unto the sons of Cahath he gave none/ for the office that pertained to them was holy/ & therefore they must bear upon shoulders.  
And the princes offered unto the dedycating of the altar in the day that it was anointed/ and brought their gifts before the altar And the Lord said unto Moses: let the priches bring their offerings/ every day one prince/ unto the dedicating of the altar.  
He that offered his offering the first day/ was Nahesson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of juda. And his offering was: a silver charger/ of an hundred and xxx sickles weight: and a silver bowl of lxx sickles of the holy sickle/ both of them full of fine whe●● flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: & a spoon of ten sickles of gold full of cens: & an ox/ a ram and a lamb of a year old for burn● offerings/ and an he goote for a sin-offering: and for pease offerings two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats and .v. lambs of a year old. and this was the gift of Nahesson the son of Aminadab.  
The second day/ did Nathancel offer/ the son of Zuar/ captain over Yfachar. And his offering which he brought was: a silver charger of an hundred & xxx sickles weight/ and a silvern bowl of lxx. sickles/ of the holy sickle: and a golden spoon of ten sickles full of cens: and an ox/ a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings: and for peace-offerings two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats and .v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Nathaneel the son of Zuar.  
The third day/ Eliab the son of Helon the chiefest among the children of Zabulon/ brought his offering. And his offering was/ a silver charger of an hundred and. thirty sickles weight/ and a siluern bowl of lxx sickles of the holy sickle/ & both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat offering: and a golden spoon of ten sickles full of cens: and an ox and a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ and an hegoore for a sin-offering: and for peascofferynges two oxen. v rams .v. he goats and .v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.  
The fourtdaye/ Elizur the son of Sedeur/ chief lord among the children of Reuben/ brought his offering. And his gift was: a silver charger of an hundred and. thirty sickles weight/ and a silvern bowl of lxx ●icles of the holy sickle/ & both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of ten sickles full of cens: and an ox/ a ram & a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ and an he goote for a sin-offering: and for peaseofferynges ij. oxen .v. rams .v. he goats and .v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Elizur the son of Sedeur.  
The fifth day/ Selumiel the son of Zuri Sadai/ chief lord among the children of Simeon/ offered. whose gift was: a silver charger of an hundred & xxx sickles weight: and a silver bowl of lxx sickles of the holy sickle: and both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: & a golden spoon of x. sickles full of cens. And an ox/ a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ and an he goote for a sin-offering: & for peaseofferiges two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats and .v. lambe● of a year old. And this was the offering of Selumielthe son of Zuri Sadai.  
The sixth day/ Eliasaph the son of ●eguel the chief lord among the children of Gad/ offered. whose gift was: a silver charger of an hundred and xxx sickles weight: and a silvern bowl of lxx sickles of the holy sickle: & both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of ten sickles full of cens. And an ox/ a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ & an he goote for a sin-offering: And for peaseofferynges two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats and .v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of ●eguel.  
The seventh day/ Elisama the son of Amiud/ the chefelorde of the children of Ephraim/ offered. And his gift was: a siluern charger of an hundred and xxx sickles weight: and a silvern bowl of lxx. sickles of the holy sickle: and both full of fine flower mingled with oyl● for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of. x sickles/ full of cens. And an ox/ a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ and an he goote for a sin-offering: and for peaseofferynges two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats & v. lambs of a year old. And this was the offering of Elisama the son of Amiud.  
The eight day/ offered Gamaliel the son of Pedazur/ the chief lord of the children of Manasse. And his gift was: a silvern charger of an hundred and xxx sickles weight: and a silvern bowl of lxx sickles of the hely sickle: and both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: & a golden spoon of ten sycles/ full of cens. And an ox/ a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ and an he goote for a sin-offering: and for peaseofferynges two oxen .v. rams/ five he goats and five lambs of a year old. And this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Peda zur.  
The ix day/ Abidan the son of Gedeoni the chefelord among the children of Ben jamm offered. And his gift was: a silvern charger of an hundred and xxx sickles weigh g●t: & a silvern bowl of lxx sickles of the holy sickle/ and both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of x. sickles/ full of cens. and an ox/ a ram and a lamb of one year old for burnt-offerings: & an he goote for a sin-offering: and for peaseofferynges two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats & v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gedeoni.  
The ten day/ Ahieser the son of Ammi Sadai/ chefelorde among the children of ●an offered. And his gift was: a silvern charger of an hundred and xxx sycles weight: a silvern bowl of seventy sickles of the holy sycle: and both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of ten sickles full of cens: and an ox/ a ran and a lamb of a year old for burnt-offerings/ and an he goote for a sin-offering: and for peaseofferynges two oxen .v. rams/ five he goats and five lambs of a year old. And this was the offering of Ahieser the son of Ammi Sadai.  
The xi day/ Pagiel the son of Ochran the chief Lord among the children of Asser offered: And his gift was: a silvern charger of an hundred and xxx sycles weight: a silvern bowl of lxx sycles of the holy sycle and both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of ten sycles/ full of cens. And an ox/ a ram and a lamb of one year old for burntofferinges: and an he goote for a sin-offering: and for peace-offerings: two oxen/ five rams v. he goats and .v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.  
The twelve day/ Ahira the son of Enan/ chief lord among the children of Nephtali offered. And his gift was: a silvern charger of an hundred and xxx sycles weight: a silvern bowl of lxx sycles of the holy sycle/ both full of fine flower mingled with oil for a meat-offering: and a golden spoon of twenty sycles/ full of cens. And an ox/ a ram and a lamb of one year old for burnt-offerings: and an he goote for a synneofferinge: and for peace-offerings/ two oxen .v. rams .v. he goats and .v. lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Ahira/ the son of Enan.  
Of this manner was the dedication of the altar/ when it was anointed: unto the which was brought of the princes of Israel twelve chargers of silver twelve silvern bowls and. xii spoons of gold: every charger containing an hundred and xxx sycles of silver/ and every bowl lxx so that all the silver of all the vessels/ was two thousand and four hundred sycles of the holy sycle. And the twelve golden spoons which were full of cens/ contained ten sycles a piece of the holy sycle: so that all the gold of the spoons/ was an hundred and twenty sycles.  
All the oxen that were brought for the burnt-offerings were twelve and the rams. xii & the lambs twelve of a year old a piece/ with the meateofferynges: with he goats for synneyr offerings. And all the oxen of the peace-offerings were xxiiij the rams lx the goats lx and lambs of a year old a piece lx & this was the dedication of the altar/ after the it was anointed.  
And when Moses was gone in to the tabernacle of witness to speak with him/ he hardethe voice of one speaking unto him from of the mercy seat that was upon the ark of witness: even from between the two cher●byns he spoke unto him.   

¶ The eight Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and say unto him: when thou puttest on the lamps see that they light all seven upon the forefront of the candlestick. And Aaron did even so/ and put the lamps upon the forefront of the candlestick/ as the Lord commanded Moses/ and the work of the candlestick was of stiff gold: both the shaft and the flowers thereof. And according unto the vision which the Lord had showed Moses/ even so he made the candlestick.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: take the levites from among the children of Israel/ and cleanse them. And this deo unto them when thou clensest them/ sprinkle water of purifying upon them and make a rasure to run along upon all the flesh of them/ and let them wash their clothes/ and than they shall be clean. And let them take a bollock and his meat-offering/ fine flower mingled with oil: & another bollock shalt thou take to be a sin-offering.  
Than bring the lennes before the tabernacle of witness and gather the hole multitude of the children of Israel together. And bring the lemtes before the Lord/ and let the children of Israel put their hands upon the levites. And let Aaron have the lemtes before the LORD/ for an heave-offering given of the children of Israel/ and then let them be appointed to wait upon the service of the Lord.  
And let the levites put their hands upon the heeds of the bollocks/ and than offer them: the one for a sin offering and the other for a burntoffering unto the Lord/ to make an atonement for the levites. And make the levites stand before Aaron & his sons/ and have them to be a heave-offering unto the Lord. And thou shalt separate the levites/ from among the children of Israel/ that they be mine: and after that let them go and do the service of the tabernacle of witness. Cleanse them and wave them/ for they are given unto me from among the children of Israel: for I have taken them unto me for all the firstborn that open any matrice among the children of Israel.  
For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine both man and be'st: because the same time that I smote the first-born in the land of Egipte/ I sanctyfyde them for myself: and I have taken the Levites for all the first-born among the children of Israel/ and have given them unto Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel/ to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness and to make an atonement for the children of Israel/ that there be no plague among the children of Ysraell/ if they come nigh unto the sanctuary.  
And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did unto the levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses. And the levites purified themselves/ and washed their clothes. And Aaron waved them before the Lord/ and made an atonement for them to cleanse them. And after that they went into do their service in the tabernacle of witness/ before Aaron and his sons. And according as the Lord had commanded Moses as concerning the levites/ even so they did unto them.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: this shallbe the manner of the levites: from xxv. year upwardly they shall go in to wait upon the service in the tabernacle of witness/ and at fifty they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof/ and shall labour no more: but shall minister unto their brethren in the tabernacle of witness/ and there wait/ but shall do no more service. And see that thou do after this manner unto the levites in their waiting times.   

¶ The ix Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai/ in the first month of the second year/ after they were come out of the land of Egipte saying: let the children of Israel offer Pass over in his season even the xiiij day of this month at even they shall keep it in his season/ according to all the ordinances & manners thereof. And Moses bade the children of Ysrael that they should offer Passeover/ & they offered Passeover the xiiij day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: and did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.  
And it chanced that certain men which were defiled with a deed corpse that they might not offer Passeover the same day/ came before Moses and Aaron the same day/ and said: we are defiled upon a deed corpse/ wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering unto the Lord in the due season/ among the children of Israel? And Moses said unto them: tarry/ that I may hear what the Lord will command you And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say. If any man among you or your children after you be unclean by the reason of a conrse or is in the way far of/ then ●●●t him offer Passeover unto the Lord: the. xiv day of the second month at even/ and eat it with sweet bred and sour herbs/ and let them leave none of it unto the morning nor break any boon of it. And according to all the ordinance of the Passeover let them offer it.  
But if a man be clean and not let in a journey/ and yet was negligent to offer Passeover/ the same soul shall perish from his people/ because he brought not an offering unto the Lord in his due season: and he shall bear his sin. And when a stranger dwelleth among you and will offer Passeover unto the Lord/ according to the ordinance of Passeover and manner thereof shall he offer it. And ye shall have one law both for the stranger and for him that was borne at home in the land.  
And the same day that the habitation was reered up/ a cloud covered it an high upon the tabernacle of witness: and at even there was upon the habitation/ as it were the similitude of fire until the morning. And so it was allway/ that the cloud covered it by day/ and the similitude of fire by night. And when the cloud was taken up from of the tabernacle/ then the children of Israel journeyed: and where the cloud abode there the children of Israel pitched their tents. At the mouth of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed/ and at the mouth of the Lord they pitched. And as long as the cloud abode upon the habitation/ they lay still/ and when the cloud tarried still upon the habitation long time/ the children of Israel waited upon the Lord and journeyed not.  
If it changed that the cloud abode any space of time upon the habitation/ then they kept their tents at the mouth of the Lord: and they journeyed also at the commandment of the Lord. And if it happened that the cloud was upon the habitation from even unto morning and was taken up in the morning/ then they journeyed. Whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up/ they journeyed. But when the cloud tarried two days or a month or a long season upon the habitation/ as long as it tarried thereon/ the children of Israel kept ther● tents and journeyed not. And as soon as the cloud was taken up/ they journeyed. It the mouth of the Lord they rested/ and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. And thus they kept the wait of the Lord/ at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.   

¶ The ten Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: Make the two trumpets of hard silver/ that thou mayst use them to call the congregation together/ and when the host shall journey. when they blow with them/ all the multitude shall resort to thee/ unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. If but one trumpet blow only/ then the princes which are heeds over the thousands of Ysrael shall come unto the. And when ye trump the first time/ the hosts that lie on the east parts shall go forward. And when ye trump the second time/ then the hosts that lie on the south side shall take their journey: for they shall trump when they take their iurneyes. And in gathering the congregation together/ ye shall blow and not trump. And the sons of Aaron thè priests shall blow the trumpets and shall have them and it shallbe alawe unto you for ever & among your children after you.  
And when ye shall go to war in your land against your enemies that vex you/ ye shall trump with the trumpets and ye shallbe remembered before the Lord your God 
Hence our bells were fert.  and saved from your enemies. Also when ye be merry in your fest days and in the first days of your months/ ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt sacrifices and pease offerings/ that it may be a remembrance of you before your God. I am the lord your God.  
And it came to pass the twenty day of the second month in the second year/ that the cloud was take up from of the habitation of witness. And the children of Israel took their journey out of the desert of Sinai/ and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. And the first took their journey at the mouth of the Lord/ by the hand of Moses: even the standerte of the host of juda removed first with their armies/ whose captain was Nahesson the son of Aminadab. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Isachar/ was Nathaneel the son of zuar. And over the host of the try be of the children of Zabulon/ was Eliab the son of Helon. And the habitation was taken down: and the sons of Gerson and Merari went forth bearing the habitation  
Then the standert of the host of Reuben went forth with their armies/ whose captain was Elizur the son of Sedeur. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon/ was Selumiel the son of Deguel. Then the Cahathites went forward and bare the holy things/ and the other did set up the habitation against they came.  
Then the standert of the host of the children of Ephraim went forth with their armies/ whose captain was Elisama the son of Amiud. And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasse/ was Samaleel the son of Pedazur. And over the host of the tr● be of the sons of Ben jamin/ was Abidan the son of Gedeoni.  
And hynmost of all the host came the standert of the host of the children of Dan with their armies: whose captain was/ Ahiezar the son of Ammi Sadai. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asser/ was Pagiel the son of Ochran. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali/ was Ahira the son of Enan/ of this manner were the iurneyes of the children of Israel/ with▪ their armies when they removed.  
And Moses said unto ●obab the son of Ragnel the Madianyte/ Moses father law: we go unto the place of which the Lord said I will give it you. Go with us and we will do the good/ for the Lord hath promised good unto Israel. And he said unto him: I will not: but will go to mine own land and tomy kindred. And Moses said oh nay/ leave us not/ for thou knowest where is best for us to pitch in the wilderness: and thou shalt be our eyes And if thou go with us/ look what goodness the Lord showeth upon us/ the same we will show upon the  
And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days journey/ and the ark of the testament of the Lord went before them in the three days journey to search out a resting place for them. And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day/ when they went out of the tents.  
And when the ark went forth/ Moses said Rise up Lord and let thine enemies be scattered/ and let them that hate the flee before the. And when the ark rested/ he said return Lord/ unto the many thousands of Ysrael.   

¶ The xi Chapter.  
ANd the people waxed unpatient/ und it displeased the cares of the Lord. And when the Lord heard it he was wroth/ and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed the utter most of the host. And the people cried unto Moses/ & he made intercession unto the Lord and the fire qwenched. And they called the name of the place Tabera because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.  
And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting/ And the children of Ysrael also went to and wept and said: who shall give us flesh to eat? we remember the fish which we should eat in Egipte for nought/ and of the Cucumbers and melouns/ lekes'/ onyouns and garlic. But now our souls are dried away/ for our eyes look on nothing else/ sane upon Manna.  
The Manna was as it had been colander seed/ and to see to like Bdellium. And the people went about and gathered it/ & ground it in mills or bet it in mortars and book it in pans and made cakee of it. And the taste of it was like unto the taste of an oylecake And when the dew fell about the host in the night/ the Manna fell therewith.  
And when Moses heard the people weep in their households every man in the door of his tent/ then the wrath of the Lord waxed hot exceedingly: and it grieved Moses also. And Moses said unto the Lord: wherefore dealest thou so cruelly with thy servant: wherefore do I not find favour in thy sight/ saying that thou puttest the weight of this people upon me? have I conceived all this people/ or have I begot them/ that thou shouldest say unto me/ carry them in thy bosom (as a nurse beareth the sucking child) unto the land which thou sworest unto their fathers? where should I have flesh to give unto all this people? For they weep unto me saying: give us flesh that we may eat. I ●● not able to bear all this people alone/ for it is to heavy for me. Wherefore if thou deal thus with me/ fill me/ I pray thee/ if I have found favour in thy sight and let me not see my wrechidnesse.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: gather unto me lxx of the elders of Ysrael/ which thou knowest that they are the elders of the people and officers over them/ and bring them unto the tabernacle of witness/ and let them stand there with the. And I will come down and talk with the there/ and take of the spirit which is upon the and put upon them/ and they shall bear with them the burden of the people/ and so shalt thou not bear alone.  
And say unto the people: hallow your selves against to morrow/ that ye may eat flesh for ye have whyned in the ears of the Lord saying: who shall give us flesh to eat/ for we were happy when we were in Egipte? therefore the Lord will give you flesh/ and ye shall ●ate: Ye shall not eat one day only other two or .v. days/ other ten or twenty days: but even a month long/ and until it come out at the nostrils of you/ that ye be ready to parbreak: because that ye have cast the Lord a side which is among you/ and have wept before him saying: why came we out of Egipte.  
And Moses said: six hundred thousand footmen are there of the people/ among which I am. And thou hast said: I will ●●●e them flesh and they shall care ● month ●onge Shall the she●e and the oxen be slain for them to filled them/ either shall all the fish of the see be gathered together to serve them? And the Lord said unto Moses: is the lords hand waxed short? Thou shalt see when there my word shall come to pass unto the or not.  
And moses went out and told the people the saying of the Lord/ and gathered the lxx. elders of the people/ and set them round about the tabernacle. And the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke unto him/ and took of the spirit that was upon him/ and put it upon the lxx elders. And as the spirit rested upon them/ they prophesied and did nought else. But there remained two of the men in the host: the one called Eldad/ and the other Medad. And the spirit rested upon them for they were of them that were written/ but they wē● not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the host.  
And there ran a young & told Moses and said: Eldad and Medad do prophecy in the host. And josua the son of Nil the servant of Moses which he had chosen out/ answered and said: master Moses/ forbid them. And Moses said unto him: envy est thou for my sake? would God that all the 
The p●p● would that ●ne of the lords people could prophecy & that none had his spirit.  lords people could prophecy/ and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. And then both Moses and the elders of Israel/ got them in to the host.  
And there went forth a wind from the lord and brought quails from the see and let them fall about the host/ even a days intney round about on every side of the host/ and two cubetes high upon the earth. And the people stood up all that night and on the morrow/ and gathered quails. And he that gathered the lest/ gathered ten homers full. And they killed them round about the host  
And while the flesh was yet between theirteeths/ yet it was chewed up/ the wrath of the Lord waxed whore upon the people/ and the Lord slew of the people an exceeding mighty slaughter. And they called the name of the place/ the graves of lust: because they buried the people that lusted there.  
And the people took their journey from the graves of lust unto hazeroth/ and bode at ha●roth.   

¶ The twelve Chapter.  
ANd MirJam and Aaron spoke against Moses/ because of his wife of inde which he had taken: for he had taken to wife one of India. And they said: doth the Lord speak only thorough Moses? doth he not speak also by us? And the Lord heard it. But Moses was a very meek man above all the men of the earth. And the Lord spoke attonce unto Moses unto Aaron & Mirabel Jam: come out ye three unto the tabernacle of witness: and they came out all three.  
And the Lord came down in the piler of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Mirabel Jam. And they went out both of them. And he said: hear my words. If there be a prophet of the Lords among you/ I will show myself unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream: But my servant Moses is not so/ which is faithful in all mine house. Unto him I speak mouth to mouth and he seeth the sight and the fashion of the Lord/ and notthorow rydels. Wherefore the were ye notafrayed to speak against my servant Moses?  
And the Lord was angry with them and went his way/ and the cloud departed from of the tabernacle. And behold/ Myr-Jam was become leprous/ as it were snow And when Aaron looked upon Mirabel Jam and saw that she was leprous/ he said unto Moses: Oh I beseech the my lord/ put not the sin upon us which we have foolishly committed and sinned. Oh/ let her not be as one that came deed out of his mother's womb: for half her flesh is eaten away.  
And Moses cried unto the Lord saying: Oh god/ heal her. And the Lord said unto Moses: If her father had spit in her face/ should she not be ashamed vij days? let her be shut out of the host vij days/ & after that let her be received in again. And MirJam was shut out of the host vij days: and the people removed not/ till she was brought in again. And afterward they removed from▪ Hazeroth/ and pitched in the weldernesse of Pharan.   

¶ The xiij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: Send men out to search the land of Canaan/ which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers a man and let them all be such as are rulers among them. And Moses at the commandment of the Lord sent forth out of the wilderness of Pharan: such men as were all heeds among the children of Israel/ whose names are these.  
In the tribe of Reuben/ Sammua the son of Zacur: In the tribe of simeon/ Saphat the son of Hori. In the tribe of juda Caleph the son of Jephune. In the tribe of Isachar/ Igeal the son of Joseph. In the tribe of Ephraim/ Hosea the son of Nun. In the tribe of Ben Jamin/ Paltithe son of Raph●. In the tribe of Zabulon/ Gadiel the son of Sodi. In the tribe of Joseph: In the tribe of Manasse/ Gaddi the son of Susi. In the tribe of Dan/ Amiel the son of Gemali. In the tribe of Asser/ Sethur the son of Micheel. In the tribe of Nephrali/ Nahebi the son of Vaphsi. In the tribe of Gad/ Guel the son of Machi. These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called the name of Hosea the son of Nun/ Josua.  
And Moses sent them forth to spy out the land of Canaan/ and said unto them: get you southward and go up in to the high country/ and see the land what manner thing it is and the people that dwelleth therein: whether they be strong or we'll/ either few or many/ and what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad/ and what manner of cities they dwell in: whether they dwell intentes or walled towns/ and what manner of land it is: whether it be fat or lean/ & whether there betrees therein or not. And be of a good courage/ and bring of the fruits of the land. And it was about the time that grapes are first ripe.  
And they went up and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob as men go to Hemath/ and they ascended unto the south and came unto Hebron/ where Ahiman was and Sefai and Thalman● the sons of Enacke. Hebron was built vij year before Zoan in Egipte. And they came unto the river of Escol and they cut down there a branch with one cloister of grapes & bore it upon a staff between twain/ & also of the pomegranates & of the figs of the place. The river was called Escol/ because of the cloister of grapes which the children of Israel cut down there.  
And they turned back again from searching the land/ at xl days end. And they went and came to Moses and Aaron & unto all the multitude of the children of Israel/ unto the wilderness of Pharan: even unto Cades/ and brought them word and also unto all the congregation/ and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told him saying: we came unto the land weather thousendedst us/ & surely it is a land that floweth with milk & honey & here is of the fruit of it Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land/ and the cities are walled and erceadinge great/ and moreover/ we saw the children of Enack there. The amaleckes dwell in the south country/ and the Hethites/ jebu sites and the Amorites dwell in the mounraynes/ and the Canaanites dwell by the see and along by the cost of jordan.  
And Caleb stilled the murmur of the people against Moses saying: let us go up and conquer it/ for we be able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him/ said: We be not able to go up against the people/ for they are stronger than we: And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched/ unto the children of Israel saying. The land which we have gone thorough to search it out/ is a land that cateth up the inhabiters thereof/ and the people that we saw in it are men of stature. And there we saw also giants/ the children of Enack which are of the giants. And we seemed in our sight as it were greshoppers` and so we did in their sight.   

¶ The xiiij Chapter.  
ANd all the multitude cried out/ & the people wept thorough out that night/ & all the children of Ysrael murmured against Moses & Aaron. And the hole congregation said unto them: would god that we had died in the loud of Egipte/ either we would that we had died in this wilderness. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword/ that both our wy●es/ & also our children should be a pray? is it not better that we return unto Egipte again? And they said one to another: let us make a captain and return unto Egipte again.  
And Moses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the multitude of the children of Israel. And josua the son of Nun/ and Caleb the son of jephune which were of them that searched the land rend their clothes and spoke unto all the company of the children of Ysrael saying: The land which we walked thorough to search it/ is a very good land. If the Lord have lust to us/ he will bring us in to this land & give it us/ which is a land that floweth with milk & honey. But in any wise rebel not against the Lord/ Moreover fear ye not the people of the land/ for they are but bred for us. Their shield is departed from them/ & the Lord is with us: fear them not therefore.  
And all the whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of witness/ unto all the children of Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses: How longest all this people rail upon me/ and how long will it be/ yet they believe me/ for all my signs which I have showed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence & destroy them/ and will make of the a greater nation and a mightier than they.  
And Moses said unto the Lord: then 
The Pope would not so have prayed if they had been about to stone him.  the Egyptians shall hear it/ for thou broughtest this people with thy might from among them. And it willbe told to the inhabiters of this land also/ for they have herd likewise/ that thou the Lord art among this people/ and that thou art seen face to face/ & that t●y cloud standeth over them & that thou goest before them by day time in a piler of a cloud/ & in a piler of fire by night. If thou shall kill all this people as they were but one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee/ will speak saying: because that Lord was not able to bring in this people in to ● land which he swore unto them/ therefore he slew them in the wilderness.  
So now let the power of my Lord be great/ according as thou hast spoken saying: the Lord is long yer he be angry/ and full of mercy/ and suffereth sin and trespass/ and leaveth no man innocent/ and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children/ even upon that third & fourth generation. be merciful I beseech y● therefore/ unto the sin of this people according unto thy great mercy/ & according as thou hast forgiven this people from Egipte even unto this place.  
And the Lord said: I have forgiven it/ according to thy request. But as truly as Ilyve/ all the earth shallbe filled with my glory. For of all those men which have seen my glory & my miracles which I did in Egipte & in the wilderness/ & yet have tempted me now this ten times & have not hearkened unto my voice/ there shall not one see the land which I swore unto their father's/ neither shall any of them that railed upon me/ see it. But my servannte Caleb. because there is another manner spirit with high/ & because he hath followed me unto the utmost: him I will bring in to the land which he hath walked in/ & his seed shall conquer it/ & also the Amalechites and Canaanites which dwell in the low contrees tomorrow turn you and get you in to the wilderness: even the way toward the re● see.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: how long shall this evil multitude murmur against me? I have herd the murmurynges of the children of Ysrael which they murmur against me. Tell them/ that the Lord sayeth. As truly as I live/ I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. your carcases shall lie in this wilderness/ neither shall any of these numbres which were numbered from twenty year & above of you which have murmured against me come in to the land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein/ save Caleb the son of jephune/ and josua the son of Nun.  
And your children which ye said should be a pray/ then I will bring in/ & they shall know the land which ye have refused/ and your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness And your children shall wander in this wilderness xl years & suffer for your whoredom until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness/ after the numbered of the days in which ye searched out the land xl days/ & every day a year: so that they shall bear your unrighteousness xl year/ & ye shall feel my vengeance I the Lord have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shallbe consumed/ and here ye shall die.  
And the men which Moses sent to search the land/ and which (when they came again) made all the people to murmur against it in that they brought up a slander upon the land: died for their bryngenge up that evil slander upon it/ and were plagued before the Lord. But josua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of jephune which were of the men that went to search the land/ lived still. And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Ysrael/ and the people took great sorrow.  
And they rose up yerlee in the morning & 
Blind reason which erewhile would not let them believe in God's word/ teacheth them now to trust in their own works.  gau them up in to the top of the mountain saying: lo we be here/ and will go up unto the place of which the Lord said/ for we have sinned. And Moses said: wherefore will ye go on this manner beyond the word of the Lord? it will not come well to pass go not up for the Lord is not among you that ye be not slain before your enemies. For the Amalechytes and the Canaanites are there before you/ & ye will fall upon the sword: because ye are turned a way from the Lord/ and therefore the Lord will not be with you.  
But they were blinded to go up in to the hill top: Never the lather/ the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the host. Then the Amalekytes and the Canaanites which dwelled in that hill/ came down and sinote them and hewed them: even unto Horma.   

¶ The xu Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel & say unto them: when ye be come in to the land of your habitation which I give unto you/ and will offer an offering upon the fire unto the Lord/ whether it be a burnt offering or a special vow or free-will offering or if it be in your principal feasts to make a sweet savour unto the Lord/ of the oxen o● of the flock.  
Then/ let him that offereth his offering unto the Lord/ bring also a meat offering of a tenth deal of flower mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil/ and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering and offer with the burnt offering or any other offering when it is a lamb. And unto a run thou shalt offer a meat offering of two tenth deals of flower/ mingled with the third part of an hin of oil/ and to a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine/ to be a sweet savour unto the Lord.  
When thou offerist an ox to a burnt offering or in any special vow or pease offering unto the Lord/ then thou shalt bring unto an ox/ a meat offering of three tenth deals of flower mingled with half an hin of oil. And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine/ that is an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord. This is the manner that shallbe done unto one ox/ one ram a lamb or a kid. And according to the numbered of such offerings/ thou shalt increase the meat offerings and the drink offerings  
All that are of yourselves shall do these things after this manner/ when he offereth an offering of sweet savour unto the L●●de And if there be a stranger with you or be among you in your generations/ and will offer an offering of a sweet savour unto the Lord: even as ye do/ so he shall do. One ordinance shall serve both for you of the congregation/ and also for the stranger. And it shallbe an ordinance for ever among your children after you/ that the stranger and ye shallbe like before the Lord. One law and one manner shall serve/ both for you and for the stranger that dwelleth with you.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: When ye be come into the land whether I will bring you/ then when ye will eat of the bred of the land/ ye shall give an have offering unto the Lord. Ye shall give a cake of the first of your dough unto an have offering: as ye do the have offering of the barn/ even so ye shall have it. Of the first of your dough ye must give unto the Lord an have offering/ thorough out your generations.  
If ye oversee yourselves and observe not all these commandments which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses/ & all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses/ from the first day forward that the Lord commanded among your generation: when ought is committed ignorantly before the eyes of the congregation/ then all the multitude shall offer a calf for a burnt offering to be a sweet savour unto the Lord/ & the meat offering and the drink offering there to/ according to the manner: and an he goote for a sin-offering. And the priest shall make an aronement for all the multitude of the children of Israel/ and it shallbe forgiven the for it was ignorance. And they shall bring their gifts unto the offering of the Lord/ and their synoffering before the Lord for their ignorance. And it shallbe forgiven unto all the multitude of the children of Israel/ & unto the stranger that dwelleth among you: for the ignorancy pertaineth unto all the people.  
If any one soul sin thorough ignorance he shall bring a she goote of a year old for a sin-offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinned ignorantly with the sin-offering before the Lord and reconcile him/ and it shallbe forgiven him. And both thou that art borne one of the children of Israel and the stranger that dwelleth among you shall have both one law/ if ye sin thorough ignorancy.  
And the soul that doth aught presumpmously/ whether he be an Israelite or a stranger/ the same hath despised the Lord. And that soul shallbe destroyed from among his people/ because he hath despised the word of the Lord a hath broken his commandments/ the soul therefore shall perish and his sin shallbe upon him.  
And while the children of Ysrael were in the wilderness/ they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabath day. And they that found him gathering sticks/ brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation: and they put him in ward/ for it was not declared what should be done unto him. And the Lord said unto Moses: y● man shall die. let all the multitude stone him with stones without the host. And all the multitude brought him without the host and stoned him with stones/ and he died as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Ysrael and bid them/ that they make them guards upon the quarters of their garments thorough out their generations/ and let them make the guards of ribbons of hyacinth And the guard shall 
God's signs were to put men in remembrance of his word/ that they should not seek a way to please God after their own imagination.  be unto you to look upon it/ that ye remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them: that ye seek not a way after your own hearts and after your own eyes/ for to go a whooringe after them: but that ye remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God/ for I am the Lord your God/ which brought you out of the land of Egipte/ to be your God. I am the Lord God.   

¶ The xvi Chapter.  
ANd Corah the son of jezehar the son of Cahath the son of Levi: & Dathan & Abiram the son of Eliab/ and On the son of Peleth/ the son of Reuben: stood up before Moses/ with other of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty/ heeds of the congregation/ and councelers'/ and men of fame/ and they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron & said unto them: ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy every one of them/ and the Lord is among them. Why therefore have ye yourselves up above the congregation of the Lord.  
When Moses heard it/ he fell upon his face and spoke unto Corah and unto all his company saying: tomorrow the Lord will show who is his and who is holy/ and will take them unto him/ and whom so ever he hath chosen/ he will cause to come to him. This do: take fire pans/ thou Corah and all thy company/ and do fire therein and put cens thereto before the Lord tomorrow: And then whom soever the Lord doth chose/ the same is holy. Ye make enough to do ye children of Levi.  
And Moses said unto Corah: hear ye children of Levi/ Seemeth it but a small thing unto you/ that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to bring you to him/ to do the service of the dwelling place of the Lord/ and to stand before the people to minister unto them? he hath taken the to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee/ and ye seek the office of the priest also. For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: for what is Aaron/ that ye should murmur against him.  
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab/ and they answered: we will not come. Seemeth it a small thing unto the that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk and honey/ to kill us in the wilderness. But that thou shouldest reign over us also? More over thou hast brought us unto no land that floweth with milk and honey/ neither hast given us possessions of fields or of wines. Echer wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men: we will not come.  
And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the Lord: Turn not unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass 
Can ourepre lates so say?  from them/ neither have vexed any of them. Then Moses said unto Corah: Be thou and all thy company before the Lord: both thou/ they and Aaron to morrow. And take every man his censer and put cens in them/ & come before the Lord every man with his censer: two hundred and fifty censers/ and Aaron with his censer. And they took every man his censer and put fire in them & laid cens thereon/ and stood in the door of the tabernacle of witness/ and Moses & Aaron also. And Corah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of witness.  
And the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: separate yourselves from this congregation/ that I may consume them a tonce. And they fell upon their faces and said: O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh/ one man hath sinned/ and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude? And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the congregation and say: Get you away from about the dwelling of Corah/ Dathan & Abiram.  
And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan & Abiram/ & the elders of Israel followed him. And he spoke unto the congregation saying: depart from the tents of these wicked men and twyche nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all there sins. And they gate them from the dwelling of Corah/ Dathan and Abiram/ on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out & stood in the door of there tents with their wives/ their sons and their children.  
And Moses said: Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works/ and that I have not done them of mine own mind: If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men/ then the Lord hath not sent me. But and if the Lord make a new thing/ and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them/ so that they go down quick in to hell: than ye shall understand/ that these men have railed upon the Lord.  
And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words/ the ground cla●e a sunder that was under them/ and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their horses and all the men that were with Corah and all their goods. And they and all that pertained unto them/ went down alive unto hell/ and the earth closed upon them/ and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that were about them/ fled at the cry of them. For they said: The earth might happily swallow us also. And there came out a fire from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cens.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the preaste and let him take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire here and there/ for the censers of these sinners are hallowed in their deethes: and let them be beaten in to thine places and fastened upon the altar. For they offered them before the Lord/ and therefore they are holy and they shallbe a sign unto the children of Israel.  
And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered/ and bet them and fastened them upon the altar/ to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel/ that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron/ come near to offer cens before the Lord/ that he be not made like unto Corah and his company: as the Lord said unto him by the hand of Moses.  
And on the morrow all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron saying: ye have killed the people of the Lord. And when the multitude was gathered against Moses and Aaron/ they looked toward the tabernacle of witness. And behold/ the cloud had covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness. And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: Get you from this congregation/ that I may consume them quickly. And they fell upon their faces.  
And Moses said unto Aaron: take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar/ and pour on cens/ and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the Lord/ and there is a plague begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded him/ and ran unto the congregation: and behold/ the plague was begun among the people/ and he put on cens/ and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the deed/ and them that were alive/ and the plague ceased. And the numbered of them that died in the plague/ were xiiij thousand and seven hundred: beside them that died about the business of Corah. And Aaron went again unto Moses unto the door off the tabernacle of witness/ and the plague ceased.   

¶ The xvij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and take of them/ for every principal house a rod/ of their princes over the horses of their fathers: even twelve rods/ and write every man's name upon his rod. And write Aaron's name upon the staff of Levi: for every heedman over the horses of their fathers shall have a rod. And put them in the tabernacle of witness where I will meet you. And his rod whom I chose/ shall blossom: So I will make cease from me the grudgings of the children of Israel which they grudge against you.  
And Moses spoke unto the children off Israel/ and all the princes gave him for every prince over their father's horses/ a rod: even. xii rods/ and the rod of Aaron was among the roads. And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness. And on the morrow/ Moses went in to the tabernacle: and behold/ the rod of Aaron of the house of Levi was budded & bare blosomes and almonds. And Moses brought out all the staves from before the Lord/ unto all the children of Israel/ & they looked upon them/ and took every man his staff.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: bring Aaron's rod again before the witness to be kept for a token unto the children of rebellion / that their murmurings may cease from/ that they die not. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses saying: behold/ we are destroyed and all come to nought: for whosoever cometh nyethe dwelling of the Lord/ dieth. Shall we utterly consume away?   

¶ The xviij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord said unto Aaron▪ Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee/ shall bear the fault of that which is done amiss in the holy place. And thou and thy sons with thee/ shall bear the fame of that which is done amiss in your preasthode. And thy brethren also the tribe of l●ui/y● tribe of thy father take with thee/ and let them be yoyned unto the and minister unto the. And thou and thy sons with the shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. And let them wait upon the and upon all the tabernacle: only let them not come nigh the holy vessels & the altar/ that both they and ye also die not. And let them be by the and wait on the tabernacle of witness/ and on all the service of the tabernacle/ and let no stranger come nigh unto you.  
Wait therefore upon the holy place and upon the alter/ that there fall no more wrath upon the children of Israel: behold/ I have taken your brethren the levites from among children of Israel/ to be yours/ as gifts given unto the Lord to do the service of the tabernacle of witness. And see that both thou and thy sons with the take heed unto your priests office/ in all things that pertain unto the altar and within the veil. And see that ye serve/ for I have given your priests office unto you for a gift to do service: & the stranger that cometh nigh/ shall die.  
And the Lord spoke unto Aaron: behold/ I have given the the keeping of mine heave-offerings in all the hallowed things of the children of Israel. And unto the I have given them unto anointing and to thy sons: to be a duty for ever. This shall be thine of most holy sacrifices: All their gifts/ thorough out all their meat-offerings synneoffrynges and trespaceoffrynges which they bring unto me: They shallbe most holy unto the and unto thy sons. And ye shall eat it in the most holy place: all that are males shall eat of it: for it shallbe holy unto the.  
And this shallbe thine: the heave-offering of their gifts/ thorough out all the waveofferynges of the children of Israel/ for I have given them unto the and thy sons/ and thy daughters with thee/ to be a duty for ever: and all that are clean in thy house/ shall eat of it/ all the fat of the oil/ of the wine and of the corn: their first fruits which they give unto the Lord that have I given unto the. The first fruits of all that is in their lands which they bring unto the Lord/ shallbe thine: and all that are clean in thine housse/ shall eat off it.  
All dedicate things in Israel/ shallbe thine. All that breaketh the matrice of all flesh that men bring unto the Lord/ both of man and be'st/ shallbe thine. neverthelater, the firstborn of man shallbe redeemed/ and the firstborn of unclean beasts shallbe redeemed. And their redemptions shallbe at a month old/ valowed at .v. sycles of silver/ of the holy sycle. A sycle maketh twenty Geras. But the firstborn of oxen/ sheep & goats shall not be redeemed. For they are holy/ and thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the alter/ and shalt burn their fat to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unte the Lord.  
And the flesh of them shallbe thine/ as the wave breast and all the right shoulder is thine. All the holy heave-offerings which the children of Israel have unto the Lord/ I give the & thy sons & thy daughters with the to be a duty for ever. And it shallbe a salted covenant for ever/ before the Lord: vnt● the and to thy seed with the.  
And the Lord spoke unto Aaron: thou shalt have none inheritance in their land/ nor part among them. For I am thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel. And behold I have given the children of Levi/ the tenth in Israel to inherit/ for the service which they serve in the rabernacle of witness/ that the children of Israel henceforth come ne●nye the tabernacle of witness/ and bear sin and die. And the levites shall do the service in the tabernacle of witness and bear their sin/ and it shallbe a law for ever unto your children after you: But amongethe children of Israel they shall enheret none inheritance. For 
Ours/ will have tithes & lands & rents & kingdoms & emperies and all.  therithes of the children of Israel which they have unto the Lord/ I have given the Levites to enherett. Wherefore I have said unto them: Among the children off Israel ye shall enherett none inheritance.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the levites and say unto them: when ye take of the children of Israel therithes which I have given you of them to your inheritance/ ye shall take an heave-offering of that same forth Lord: even the tenth of that tithe. And it shallbe reckoned unto you for your heave-offering/ even as though ye gave corn out of the barn or a full offering from the wine press, And of this manner ye shall have an heave-offering unto the Lord/ of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel/ & ye shall give there of the Lords heveofferinge unto Aaron the priest Of all your gifts/ ye shall take out the lords have offering: even the fat of all their hallowed things.  
And thou shalt say unto them: when ye have take a wayethe fat of it from it/ it shallbe counted unto the levites/ as the increase of corn and wine And ye shall care it in all places both ye and your households/ for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of witness. And ye shall bear no sin by the reason of it/ when ye have taken from it the fat of it: neither shall ye unhalowe the hallowed things of the children of Israel/ and so shall ye not die.   

¶ The xix Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron saying: this is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commandeth saying: speak unto the children of Israel and let them take the a red cow with out spot wherein is no blemish/ & which never bore yoke upon her. And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest/ and he shall bring her with out the host and cause her to be slain before him.  
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood upon his finger/ and sprinkle it streghe toward the tabernacle of witness. vi●. times And he shall cause the cow to be burnt in his sight: both skin/ flesh and blood/ with the dung also. And let the priest take cypress wood/ and Isope and purple cloth/ and cast it upon the cow as she burneth. And let the priest wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water/ and than come in to the host/ and the priest shallbe unclean unto the even.  
And he that burneth her/ shall wash his clothes in water a bathe his flesh also in water/ and be unclean until even. And one that is clean/ shall go and take up the ashes of the cow/ and put them without the host in a clean place/ where they shall be kept to make sprynkling water for the multitude of 
Hence came holy water  the children of Israel: for it is a sin-offering And let him that gathereth the ashes of the cow/ wash his clothes/ and remain unclean until even. And this shallbe unto the children of Israel and unto the stranger that dwelleth among them/ a manner for ever.  
He that twycheth any deed person/ shallbe unclean vii days. And he shall purify himself with the ashes the third day and then he shallbe clean the seventh day. And if he purify not himself the third day/ them the seventh day/ he shall not be clean. Who soever twitcheth any person that dieth a sprynkleth not himself/ defileth the dwelling of the Lord: and therefore that soul shallbe rooted out of Israel/ because he hath not sprinkled the sprinkling water upon him. he shallbe unclean/ and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.  
This is the law of the man that dieth in in a tent: all that come in to the tent and all that is in the tent/ shallbe unclean. seven days. And all the vessels that be open which have no lid nor covering upon them/ be unclean. And who soever twitcheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields/ or a deed person/ or a bone of a deed man/ or a grave: shall be unclean vij days.  
And they shall take for an unclean person/ of the burnt ashes of the sin-offering/ & put running water thereto in to a vessel. And a clean person shall take Isope and dip it in the water/ and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the son that were there/ and upon him that twyched a bone or a slain person or a deed body or a grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean the third day and the seventh day. And the seventh day he shall purify himself and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water/ and shallbe clean at even.  
If any be unclean and sprinkle not himself/ the same soul shallbe destroyed from among the congregation: for he hath defiled the holy place of the Lord. And he that sprynkleth the sprynkling water/ shall wassh his clothes.  
And he that twitcheth the sprinkling water/ shallbe unclean until even. And what soever that unclean person twitcheth/ shallbe unclean. And the soul that twitcheth it/ shallbe un clean until the even.   

¶ The twenty Chapter.  
ANd the whole multitude of the children of Israel/ came in to the desert of Sin in the first month/ & the people dwelled at cades. And there died MirIam/ & was buried there. More over there was no water for the multitude/ wherefore they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. And the people chode with Moses and spoke saying: would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the Lord. Why have ye brought the congregation of the Lord unto this wilderness/ that both we & our cattles should die here? Wherefore brought ye us out of Egipte/ to bring us into this ungracious place/ which is no place of seed nor offygges nor wines nor of pomegranates/ neither is there any water to drink?  
And Moses and Aaron went from the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of witness/ and fell upon their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared unto them. And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: take the staff/ and gather thou and thy brother Aaron the congregation together/ and say unto the rock before their eyes/ that he give forth his water. And thou shalt bring them water out of the rock and shalt give the company drink/ and their beesses also.  
And Moses took the staff from before the Lord/ as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock/ and he said unto them hear ye rebellions/ must we f●●t you water out of this rock? And Moses lift up his hand with his staff and smote the rock two times/ and the water came out abundantly/ & the multitude drank and their beesses also.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses & Aaron: Because ye believed me not/ to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel/ therefore ye shall not bring this congregation in to the land which I have given them. This is the water ofstryffe/ because the children of Israel strove with the Lord/ & he was sanctified upon them.  
And Moses sent messengers from cades unto the king of Edome. Thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travel that hath happened us/ how our fathers went down in to Egipte/ and how we have dwelled in Egipte a longetyme/ and how the Egip●ans vexed both us and our fathers. Then we cried unto the Lord and he heard our voices/ and sent an angel and hath fett us out of Egipte. And behold/ we are in Cades & citi● hard by the borders of thy country let us go a good fellowship thorough thy country we will not go thorough the fields nor thorough the vineyards/ neither will we drink of the water of the fountains: but we will go by the high way and neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left/ until we be passed thy country.  
And Edom answered him: See thou come not by me/ lest I come out against the with the sword And the children of Israel said unto him: we will go by the beeten way: & if either we or our cattles drink of thy water/ we will pay for it/ we will do nomoare but pass thorough by sote only. And he said: ye shall not go thorough. And Edom came out against him with much people and with a mighty power. And thus Edom denied to give Israel passage thorough his country. And Israel turned a way from him.  
And the children of Israel removed from Cades and went unto mount Hor with all the congregation. And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor/ hard upon the costs of the land of Edom saying: let Aaron be put unto his people/ for he shall not come in to the land which I have given unto the children of Israel: because ye dishobeyed my mouth at the water of strife Take Aaron and Eleazar his son/ & bring them up in to mount Hor/ and stryppe Aaron out of his vestiments and put them upon Eleazar his son/ and let Aaron be put unto his people and die there.  
And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up in to mount Hor in the sight of all the multitude. And Moses took off Aaron's clothes and put them upon Eleazar his son/ and Aaron died there in the top of the mount. And Moses & Eleazar came down out of the mount. And all the 
Hence co●etousnes fett months minds and hath increased them with years minds and seven years minds ye as long as the wife liveth she must once in the year offer some what for her old husband.  house of Israel mourned for Aaron xxx days   

The xxi Chapter.  
ANd when king Arad the cananite which dwelled in the south parties/ hard tell that Israel came by the way that the spies had found out: he came and fought with Israel and took some of them presoners. Then Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord and said: If thou wilt give this people in to our hands/ we will destroy their cities. And the Lord heard the voice of Israel/ and delivered them the Canaanites. And they destroyed both them and their cities/ and called the place Horma.  
Then they departed from mount hortowarde the red se: to compass the land of Edom. And the souls of the people fainted by the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses: wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egipte/ for to die in the wilderness for here is neither bred nor water/ and our souls loatheth this light bred.  
Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people/ which stonge them: so that much people died in Israel. And the people came to Moses and said: we have sinned/ for we have spoken against the Lord and against the make intercession to the Lord/ that he take a wayethe serpents from us And Moses made intercession for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses: make the a serpent and hang it up for a sign/ and let as many as are bitten look upon it and they shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass and sert it up for a sign And when the serpents had bitten any man/ he went and beheld the serpent of brass and recovered.  
And the children of Israel removed and pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth and lay at Egebarim in the wilderness which is before Moab on the cast side. And they removed thence/ and pitched ap●● the river of zarad. And they departed thence and pitched on the other side of Arnon/ which river is in the wilderness/ and cometh out of the costs of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab/ between Moab and the Amorites. Wherefore it is spoken in the book of the war of the Lord: go with a violence/ both on the river of Arnon and on the rivers heed/ which showeth down to dwell at Ar/ and leaneth upon the costs of Moab.  
And from thence they came to Bear/ which is the well whereof the Lord spoke unto Moses: gather the people together/ that I may give them water. Then Israel sang this song: Arise up well/ sing thereto: The well which the rulers digged and the captains of the people with the help of the lawgiver and with their staves.  
And from this wilderness they went to Ma●ana/ and from Ma●ana to Nahali●l/ and from Nahali●l to Bamoth/ and from Bamoth to the valay that is in the field of Moab in the top of Pisga which boweth toward the wilderness.  
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon/ king of the Amorites saying: let us go thorough thy land. we will not turn in to thy fields nor in to thy vineyards/ neither drink of the water of the wells: but we will go along by the common way/ until we be passed thy country. And Sihon would give Israel no licence to pass thorough his country/ but gathered all his people together & went out against Israel in to the wilderness. And he came to jaheza and fought with Israel.  
And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword and conquered his land/ from Arnon unto jabock: even unto the children of Ammon. for the borders of the children of Ammon/ be strong. And Israel took all these cities & dwelled in all the cities of the Amorites: in Esbon and in all the towns that long there to. For Esbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites which Sihon had fought before with the king of the Moabites/ and had taken all his land out of his hand/ even unto Arnon.  
Wherefore it is a proverb: go to Hesbon and let the city of Sihon be bylt and made ready for there is a fire gone out of Hesbon & a flame from the city of Sihon and hath consumed Are of the Moabites and the men of the hills of Arnon. Woe be to the Moab: o people of Chemos ye are forlorens. His sons are put to flight & his daughters brought captyne unto Sihon king of the Amorites. There light is out from Hesbon unto ●●bon and we made a wilderness even unto Nopha which reacheth unto Mediba. And thus Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorites.  
And Moses sent to search out jaezer/ & they took the towns belonging thereto and conquered the Amorites that were there. And then they turned and went up toward Basin. And Og the king of Basin came out against them/ both he and all his people/ to war at Edrei. And the Lord said unto Moses: fear him not/ for I have delivered him in to thy hands with all his people and his land. And thou shalt do with him as thou didst with Sihon the king of the Amorites which dwelled at Hesbon. And they smote him and his sons and all his people/ until there was nothing left him. And they conquered his land. And the children of Israel removed and pitched in the fields of Moab/ on the other side of jordane/ by jericho.   

¶ The xxij Chapter.  
ANd Balac the son of Ziphor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites/ and the Moabites were sore afraid of the people/ because they were many/ and abhorred the children of Israel: And Moab said unto the elders of Madian/ now this company hath lickte up all that are round about us/ as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balac the son of Ziphor was king of the Moabites at that tyme.  
And he sent messengers unto Balam the son of Beor/ the interpreter which dwelled upon the river of the land of the children of his folk/ to call him saying: behold/ there is a people come out of Egipte which covereth the face of the earth and lie even hard by me. Come now a fellowship and curse me this people. For they are to mighty for me/ so peradventure I might be able to smite them and to drive them out of the land. For I wot that whom thou blessest shallbe blessed/ and whom thou cursest shallbe cursed.  
And the elders of Moab went with the elders of Madian/ and the reward of the sooth saying in their hands. And they came unto Balam and told him the words of Balac. And he said unto them: tarry here all night and I will bring you word/ even as the Lord shall say unto me. And the lords of Moab abode with Balam.  
And god came unto Balam and said: what men are these which are with thee▪ And Balam said unto god: Balac the son of Ziphor king of Moab hath sent unto me saying: behold/ there is a people come out of Egipte and covereth the face of the earth: come now therefore and curse me them/ that so peradventure I may be able to overcome them in battle/ and to drive them out. And god said unto Balam: thou shalt not go with them/ neither curse the people/ for they are blessed.  
And Balam rose up in the morning & said unto the lords of Balac: get you unto your land/ for the Lord will not suffer me to go with you. And the lords of Moab rose up and went unto Balac and said Balam would not come with us. And Balac sent again a greater company of lords and more honourable than they. And they came to Balam and told him: Thus sayeth Balac the son of Ziphor: oh/ let nothing let the to come unto me/ for I will greatly promote the unto great honour/ and will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me/ come therefore I pray thee/ curse me this people.  
And Balam answered and said unto the servants of Balac: If Balac would give me his housfull of silver and gold/ I can go no further than the word of the Lord my god/ to do less or more. Nevertheless tarry ye here all night: that I may were/ what the Lord will say unto me once more. And God came to Balam by night and said unto him: If the men come to fett thee/ rise up and go with them: but what I say unto thee/ that only thou shalt do.  
And Balam rose up carly and sadelde his ass and went with the lords of Moab/ But God was angry because he went. And the angel of the Lord stood in the way against him. And he rid upon his ass and two servants with him. And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord stand in the way and his sword drawn in his hand/ she turned a side out of the way and went out in to the field. And Balam smote the ass/ to turn her in to the way.  
And the angel of the Lord went and stood in a path between the vineyards/ where was a wall on the one side and another on the other. When the ass saw the angel of the Lord/ she wrenshed unto the wall and thrust▪ balam's foot unto the wall/ and he smote her again. And the angel of the Lord went further and stood in a narrow place/ where was no way to turn/ either to the right hand or to the lift. And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord/ she fell down under Balam: & Balam was wroth & smote the ass with a staff.  
And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass/ and she said unto Balam: what have I done unto thee/ that thou smitest me this. iij times? And Balam said unto the Ass: because thou hast mocked me? I would that I had a sword in mine hand/ that I might now kill the. And the ass said unto Balam: am not I thine ass which thou hast ridden upon sense thou wast borne unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said/ nay.  
And the lord opened the eyes of Balam that he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way/ with his sword drawn in his hand. And he bowed himself and fell flat on his face. And the angel of the Lord said unto him: Wherefore smitest thou thine ass this three times? behold/ I came out to resist thee/ for the way is contrary unto me: and the ass saw me and avoided me three times: or else (had she not turned fro me) I had surely slain the and saved her alive. And Balam said unto the angel of the Lord: I have sinned: for I witted not that thou stoodest in the way against me. Now therefore if it displease thine eyes/ I will turn again. And the angel said unto Balam/ go with the men: but in any wise/ what I say unto thee/ that say. And Balam went with the lords of Balac.  
And when Balac heard that Balam was come he went out against him unto a city off Moab that stood in the border of Arnon/ which was the utmost part of his c●ntre. And Balac said unto Balam: did I not send for thee/ to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? thinkest thou that I am not able to promote the unto honour? And Balam said unto Balac: Loo I am come unto the. But I can say nothing at all save what God putteth in my mouth that must I speak. And Balam went with Balac/ and they came unto the city of Buzoth. And Balac offered oxen and sheep/ & sent for Balam and for the lords that were with him.   

¶ The xxiij Chapter.  
ANd on the morning Balac took Balam and brought him up in to the high place of Baal/ and thence he saw unto the utmost part of the people. And Balam said unto Balac: build me here seven altars and provide here seven oxen and seven rams. And Balac did as Balam said. And Balac and Balam offered on every altar an ox and a ram. And Balam said unto Balac: stand by the sacrifice/ while I go to weet whether the Lord will come and meet me: & what soever he showeth me/ I will tell thee/ and he went forthwith.  
And god came unto Balam/ and Balam said unto him: I have prepared vij altar's/ and have offered upon every alter/ a ox & a ram. And the Lord put a saying in Balans mouth & said: go again to Balac & say on this wise. And he went again unto him and loo/ he stood by his sacrifice/ both he and all the lords of Moab. And he began his parable and said: Balac the king of Moab hath fett me fro Mesopotamia out of the mountains of the east saying: come & curse me jacob/ come and defy me Israel. How shall I curse whom God curseth not 
The pope cantle how.  and how shall I defy whom the Lord defyeth note from the top of the rocks Ice him and from the hills I behold him: loo/ the people shall dwell by himself and shall not be re●ened among other nations. Who can tell the dust of jacob & the numbered of the fourth part of Israel. I pray God that my soul/ may die the death of the righteous/ and that my last end may be like his.  
And Balac said unto Balam/ what hast thou done unto me? I fett y● to curse mine enemies: and behold/ thou blessest them. And he answered and said: must I not keep that and speak it/ which the Lord hath put in my mouth? And Balac said unto him: Come I pray the with me unto another place/ whence thou shalt see them/ and shalt see but the utmost part of them and shalt not see them all and curse me them there.  
And he brought him in to a plain field where men might see far/ even to the top of Pisga/ and built vij altars and offered an ox and a run on every altar. And he said unto Balac: stand here by thy sacrifice while I go yonder. And the Lord met Balam and put words in his mouth and said: go again unto Balac and thus say. And when he came to him: behold/ he stood by his sacrifice and the lords of Moab with him And Balac said unto him: what sayeth the Lord?  
And he took up his parable and said: rise up Balac and hear/ and hearken unto me thou son of Ziphor The Lord is not a man/ that he can lie/ neither the son of a man that he can repent: should he say and not do/ or should he speak and not make it good? behold/ I have begun to bless and have blessed/ and can not go back there fro. He beheld no wickedness in jacob nor saw idolatry in Israel: The Lord his God is with him/ and the trump of a king among them. God that brought them out of Egipte/ is as the strength of an uny corn unto them/ for there is no sorcerer/ in jacob/ nor soothe sayer in Israel. When the time cometh/ it wild said of jacob & of Israel/ what God hath wrought Behold/ the people shall rise up as a lioness and have up himself as a lion/ & shall not lie down again/ until he have eaten of the pray and drenke of the blood of them that are slain.  
And Balac said unto Balam: neither curse them nor bless them. And Balam answered and said unto Balac: told not I the saying/ all that the Lord biddeth me/ that I must do? And Balac said unto Balam: come I pray thee/ I will bring the yet unto another place: so peradventure it shall please God/ that thou mayst curse them there. And Balac brought Balam unto the top of Peor/ that boweth toward the wilderness. And Balam said unto Balac: make me here vij altar's/ & prepare me here vij bollocks and vij rams And Balac did as Balam had said/ and offered a bollock and a ram on every altar.   

¶ The xxiiij Chapter.  
WHen Balam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel/ he went not as he did twice before to fett sothsayenge/ but set his face toward the wilderness/ and lift up his eyes and looked upon Israel as he lay with his tribes/ and the spirit of God came upon him. And he took up his parable and said: Balam the son of Beor hath said/ and the man whose eye is open hath said: he hath said which heareth the words of God and seeth the visions of the almighty/ which falleth down & his eyes are opened.  
How goodly are the tents of jacob and thi●e habitations Israel/ even as the broad ●●leyes and as gardens by the rivers side/ as the tents which the Lord hath pitched & as ●perstrces upon the water. The water shall flow out of his boket and his seed shall be many waters/ and his king shallbe higher than Agag/ And his kingdom shallbe exalted. God that brought him out of Egipte is as the strength of an unicorn unto him/ and he shall eat the nations that are his enemies and break their bones and pierce them thorough with his arrows. He couched himself and lay d●●ne as a lion and as a lioness/ who shall steer him up? blessed is he that blesseth thee/ and cursed is he that curseth the.  
And Balac was wroth with balam and smote his hands together/ and said unto him: I sent for the to curse mine enemies: & behold/ thou hast blessed them this three times/ and now get the quickly unto thy place. I thought that I woldè promote the unto honour/ but the Lord hath kept the back from worshepe. And Balam said unto Balac: told I not thy messengers which thou sentest unto me saying: If balac would give me his house full of silver and gold/ I can not pass the mouth of the Lord/ to do either good or bad of mine own mind. What the Lord sayeth/ that must I speak. And now behold/ I go unto my people: come let me showeth/ what this people shall do tothi folk in the later days.  
And he began his parable and said: Balam the son of Beor hath said/ and the man that hath his eye open hath said/ & he hath said that heareth the words of God & hath the knowledge of the most high and beholdeth the vision of the almighty/ and when he falleth down hath his eyes opened. I see him but not now/ I behold him but not nigh. There shall come a star of Jacob and rysea sceptre of Israel/ which shall smite that coostes of More ab and undermine all the children of Seth. And Edom shallbe his possession/ and the possession of Seir shallbe their enemies/ and Israel shall do manfully. And out of Jacob shall come he that shall destroy the remnant of the cities.  
And he looked on Amaleck and began his parable and said: Amaleck is the first of the nations/ but his latter end shall perish utterly. And he looked on the Renites/ and took his parable and said: strong is thy dwelling place and put thinest upon a rock/ Never the later thou shalt be a burning to Rain/ until Assur take the prisoner. And he took his parable & said: Alas/ who shall live when God doth this? The ships shall come out of the cost of Cittim and subdue Assur and subdue Eber/ and he himself shall perish at the last. And Balam rose up and went and dwelled in his place: and Balac also went his way.   

¶ The xxv Chapter.  
ANd Israel dwelled in Sittim/ and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab/ which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people are and worshipped their god's/ and Israel coupled himself unto Baal Peor. Then the Lord was angry with Israel/ and said unto Moses: take all the heeds of the people/ and hang them up unto that Lord against the son/ that the wrath of the Lord mayeturne away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal Peor.  
And behold/ one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren/ a Madianitish wife even in the sight of Moses & in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel/ as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And when Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it/ he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand/ and went after the man of Israel in to the horchousse/ & thrust them thorough: both the man of Israel and also the woman even thorough the belie of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel. And there died in the plague xxiiij thousand.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: Phineas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest/ hath turned mine anger away from the children of Israel/ because he was jealous for my sake among them/ that I had not consumed the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say: behold/ I give unto him my covenant of pease/ and he shall have it and his seed after him/ even the covenant of the preastis office for ever/ because he was jealous for his God's sake and made an atonement for the children of Israel.  
The name of the Israelite which was smitten with the Madianitish wife/ was S●●ri the son of Sal●/ a lord of an ancient honsse among the Simeonites. And the name of the Madianitish wife/ was Cosbi the daughter of Zur and heed over the people of a● ancient house in Madian.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: vex the Madianites and smite them/ for they have troubled you with their wiles with the which they have beguiled you/ thorough Poor and thorough their sister Cosby the daughter of a lord in Madian/ which was slain in the day of the plague for Peors sake.   

¶ The xxvi Chapter.  
ANd after the plague/ the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Eleazar saying: take the number of all the multitude of the children of Israel from twenty year and above thorough out their father's horses/ all that are able to go to war in Israel. And Moses & Eleazar the priest told them in the fields of Moab/ by jordane fast by jericho/ from xx. year and above/ as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Israel that came out of Egipte/ were.  
Reuben the eldest son of Israel. The children of Reuben were/ Hanoch/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Hanochires: & of Palu/ cometh the kindred of the Palates: And of Hesron/ cometh the kindred of the Hesronites: and of Carmi/ cometh the kindred of the Carmites'. These are the kindreds of the Rubenites/ which were in numbered xliij thousand vij hundred an xxx And the sons of Palu were Eliab. And the sons of Eliab were: Nemuel/ Darhan and Abiram.  
This is that Dathan and Abiram counsellors in the congregation/ which strove against Moses and Aaron in the company of Corah/ when they strove against the Lord. And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Corah also/ when the multitude died/ what time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men/ and they became a sign: notwithstanding/ the children of Corah died not.  
And the children of Simeon in their kindreds were: Nemuel/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Nemuelites: jamin/ of whom cometh the kindred of the jaminytes: jachin/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Iachi●●es: Serah/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Serahites: Saul/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Saulites. These are the kindreds of the Simeonites: in numbered xxij thousand and two hundred.  
And the children of Gad in their kindreds were: Zephon/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Zephonites: and of Haggi/ cometh the kindred of the Haggites: and of Suni/ cometh the kindred of the Sunites: and of A seni/ cometh the kindred of the A senites: and of Eri cometh the kindred of the Erites: and of Arod cometh the kindred of the Arodites: and of Ar●el cometh the kindred of the Arielites. These are the kindreds of the children of Gad/ in numbered xl thousand and .v. hundred.  
The children of juda: Er and Onan/ which died in the land of Canaan. But the children of juda in their kindred were: Sela of whom cometh the kindred of the Selamires: and of Phares cometh the kindred of the Pharesites: and of Serah cometh the kindred of the Serahites. And the children of Phares were Hesron/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Hesronites: and of Hamul cometh the kindred of the Hamulites. These are the kindreds of juda/ in numbered lxxvi thousand and .v. hundred.  
And the children of Isachar in their kinds were: Tola/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Tolaites: & Phuva/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Ph●●aites: and of jasub cometh the kindred of the jasubites: and of Symron cometh the kindred of the Sunronites. These are the kindreds of Isachar in numbered. lxiiij thousand and three hundred.  
The children of Zabulon in their kindreds were: Sered/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Seredites: and Elon/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Elonites: and of jaheliel/ cometh the kindred of the jehalelites. These are the kindreds of Zabulon: in numbered lx thousand & .v. hundred.  
The children of joseph in their kindreds were: Manasse and Ephraim. The children of Manasse: Machir/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Machirites. And Machir begat Gilead/ of whom cometh the kindred off the Gileadites. And these are the children of Gilead: Hieser/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Hieserites: and of Helech cometh the kindred of the Helechites: and of Asriel the kindred of the Asric●●tes: and of Sichem cometh the kindred of the Sichimites: & of Simida cometh the kindred of the Simidites: & of Hepher cometh the kindred of the Hepherites. And Zelaphead the son of Hepher had no sons bu● daughters And the names of the daughters of Zelaphead were: Mabe la/ Noa/ Hagla/ Milcha and Thirza. These are the kindreds of Manasse/ in numbered/ lij. thousand and seven hundred.  
These are the children of Ephraim in their kindreds: Suthelah/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Suthelahi●es: and Becher/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Becher●tes: & of Thaha cometh the kindred of the Thahanites. And these are the children of Suthelah: Eran/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Eranites. These are the kindreds of the children of Ephraim in numbered xxxij thousand & .v. hundred. And these are the children of joseph in their kindreds.  
These are the children of Ben jamin in their kindreds: Bela/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Belaites: and of Asbel cometh the kindred of the Asbelites: and of Ahiram/ the kindred of the Ahiramites: and of Suphan the kindred of the Suphamites: and of Hupham the kindred of the Huphamites. And the children of Bela were A●d and Naaman fro whence come the kindreds of the Ardites and of the Naamites. These are the children of Ben jamin in their kinreddes'/ and in numbered xlv thousand and two hundred.  
These are the children of Dan in their kindreds: Suham/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Suhamites. These are the kindreds of Dan in their generations. And all the kindreds of the Suhamites were in numbered lxiiij thousand and iiij. hundred.  
The children of Asser in their kindreds were: Jemna/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Jemnites: and Jsui/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Jsuites: & of Bria cometh the kindred of the Br●●tes. And the children of bria were Heber/ of whom cometh the kindred of the Heberites: and of Malchiel came the kindred of the Malchielites. And the daughter of Asser was called Sarah. These are the kindreds of Asser in numbered liij thousand and four hundred.  
The children of Nephtali in their kindreds were: Jaheziel/ of whom came the kindred of the Jahezielites: and G●●i/ of whom came the kindred of the Gimites: & of Jezer/ came the kindred of the Jezerites: and of Silem the kindred of the Silemites. These are the kindreds of Naphtali in their generations in numbered xlv thousand and four hundred. These are the numbres of the children of Israel: six hundred thousand/ & a thousand seven. hundred and xxx  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: unto these the land shallbe divided to enherett/ according to the numbered of names: to many thou shalt geue the more inheritance & to few the less: to every tribe shall the inheritance be given according to the numbered thereof. notwithstanding/ the land shallbe divided by lot/ & according to the names of the tribes of their father's/ they shall enherett: & according 〈…〉 lot thou shalt divide their land/ h●th to the many and to the few.  
These are the sums of the levites in the in kindreds: of Gerson/ came the kindred of the Gersonites: and of Cahath came the kindred of the Cahathites: and of Merari came the kindred of the Merarites. These are the kindreds of Levi: the kindred of the Libnites/ the kindred of the Hebronites/ the kindred of the Mahelites/ the kindred of the Musites/ the kindred of the Rarahites.  
Rahath begat Amram/ and Amrams' wife was called Jochebed a daughter oflein/ which was borne him in Egipte. And she bore unto Amram/ Aaron/ Moses and Mirabel Jam their sister. And unto Aaron were borne/ Nadab/ Abihu/ Eleazar and Jthamar. But Nadab and Abihu died/ as they offered strange fire before the Lord. And the numbered of them was xxiij thousand/ of all the males from a month old and above For they were not numbered among the children of Israel/ because there was no inheritance given them among the children off Israel.  
These are the numbres of the children of Israel which Moses and Eleazar the priest numbered in the fields of Moab/ fast by Jordane nigh to Jericho. And among these there was not a man of the numbered of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron told in the wilderness of Sinai. For the Lord said unto them/ that they should die in the wilderness & that there should not be left a man of them: save Caleb the son of Jephune & Josua the son of Nun.   

¶ The xxvij chapter  
ANd the daughters of Zelaphead the son of Heber the son of Gilead/ the son of Machirthe son of Manasse/ of the kindreds of Manasse the son of Joseph (whose names were Mahcla/ Noa/ Hagla/ Melcha and Thirza) came & stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and before the lords & all the multitude in the door of the tabernacle of witness saying: our father died in the wilderness/ & was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the congregation of Corah: But died in his own sin/ and had no sons. Wherefore should the name of our fathers be taken away from among his kindred/ because he had no son? give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.  
And Moses brought their cause before the Lord. And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: The daughters of Zelaphead speak right: thou shalt give them a possession to inherit herett among their father's brethren/ & shall turn the inheritance of their father unto them. And speak unto the children of Israel saying: If a man die and have no son ye shall turn his inheritance unto his daughter. If he have no daughter/ ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. If he have no brethren/ ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren. If he have no fathers brethren/ ye shall give his inheritance unto him that is next to him of his kindred/ & let him possess it. And this shallbe unto the children of Israel an ordinance/ and a law/ as the Lord hath commanded Moses.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: get the up in to this mount Aabrun/ and behold/ the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. And when thou hast seen it/ thou shalt be gathered unto thy people also/ as Aaron thy brother was gathered unto his people. For ye were disobedient unto my mouth in the desert of Zin in the strife of the congregation/ that ye sanctified me not in the water before their eyes. That is the water of strife in cades in the wilderness of Zin. And Moses 
O faithful & merciful Moses full onlike our balam's.  spoke unto the Lord saying: let the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh/ set a man over the congregation/ which may go in & out before them/ and to lead them in and out that the congregation of the Lord be not as a flock of sheep without a shepherd.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: take Josua the son of Nun in whom there is spirit/ and put thine hands upon him/ and set 
There was ●f likelihood a ●ryght stone ●● the ephod/ ●●here● the high ●reast looked & ●awe the will ●f God in ty●●es of need/ ●s thou mayst ●e in the story of David: This was the ●aner of the hebrews to ma●e their officers & of this manner did the apostle make de●kons/ priests & bishops/ with out any other ceremony as thou ●eist in th'acts/ and mayst gather of paul to Timothe: Bred is here borrowed & taken for all manner of sod generally:  him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their fight. And put of thy praise upon him that all the company of the children of Israel may hear. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest which shall axe council for him after the manner of the * light before the Lord: And atthe mouth of Eleazar shall both he and all the children of Israel with him and all the congregation/ go in and out.  
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him/ and he took Josua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation/ & * put his hands upon him & gave him a charge/ as the Lord commanded thorough the hand of Moses.   

¶ The xxviij chapter  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: give the children of Israel a charge and say unto them/ that they take heed to offer unto me the offering of my * bred in the sacrifice of sweet savour/ in his due season. And say unto them. This is the offering which ye shall offer unto the Lord two lambs of a year old with out spot day by day to be a burntoffering perpetually. One lamb thou shalt offer in the morning/ and the other ●t even/ And thereto the tenth part of an Epha offloure for a me●●offerynge mingled with beaten oil/ the fourth part of an hin: which is a daily offering ordained in the mount Sinai unto a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the Lord. And the drink-offering of the same: the fourth part of an hin unto one lamb/ & pour the drink-offering in the holy place/ to be good drink unto the Lord. And y● other lamb thou shalt offer at even/ with the meat offering and the drink-offering after the manner of the morning: a sacrifice of a swe●e sanoure unto the Lord.  
And on the Sabbath day two lambs of a year old a piece and with out spot/ and two tenthdeales of flower for a meat-offering mingled with oil/ and the drink-offering thereto. This is the burrtoffering of every Sabbath/ besides the daily burntoffering and his drink-offering.  
And in the first day of your months/ ye shall offer a burntoffering unto the Lord: two young bollockes'/ and a ram/ and vij lambs of a year old without spot/ and three tenthdeales of flower for a meat-offering mingled with oil unto one bollock/ and two tenthdeales of flower for a meat-offering mingled with oil unto one run. And evermoare/ ● tenth deal of flower mingled with oil/ for a meatofferinge unto one lamb. That is a burntoffering of a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the Lord. And their drink-offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto one bollock/ and the third part of an hin of wine unto a ram and the fourth part of an hin unto a lamb. This is the burntoffering of every month thorough out all the months of the year: & one he goote for a sin-offering unto the Lord/ which shallbe offered with the daily burntoffering and his drink-offering.  
And the xiiij day of the first month shallbe Passeover unto the Lord. And the xu day of the same month shallbe a feast/ in which seven. days men must eat unleavened bred The first day shallbe an holy feast/ so that ye shall do no manner of laborious work therein. And ye shall offer a burntoffering unto the Lord two bollocks/ one ram/ and vij lambs of a year old without spot/ and their meat-offering of flower mingled with oil three tenthdeales unto a bollock/ and two tenthdeales unto a ram/ and evermoare one tenthdeale unto a lamb/ thorough out the vij lambs: & an hegoote for a sin-offering to make an atonement for you. And ye shall offer these/ beside the burntoffering in the morning that is alway offered. And after this manerye shall offer thorough out the vij days/ the food of the sacrifice of sweet savour unto the Lord. And it shallbe done besydethe daily burntoffering and his drink-offering. And the seventh day shall be an holy feast unto you/ so that ye shall do no laborious wo●ke therein.  
And the day of your first fruits when ye bring a new meat-offering unto the Lord in your weeks/ shallbe an holy feast unto you: so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the Lord two young bollocks/ and a ram/ and vij lambs of a year old a piece/ with their meat-offerings of flower mingled with oil three tenthdeales unto a bollecke two tenthdeales to a ram/ and evermoare one tenthdeale unto a lamb thorough out the vij lambs/ and an he goote to make an atonement for you. And this ye shall do besides the daily burntoffering/ and his meat-offering: & they shallbe without spot/ with their drink-offerings.   

¶ The xxix Chapter.  
ANd the first day of the vij month shallbe an holy feast unto you/ and ye shall do no laborious work therein. It shallbe a day of tromperblowing unto you. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the Lord: one young bollock & one run & vij lambs of a year old a piece that are pure. And their meatofferinges of flower mingled with oil: iij tenth deals unto the bollock/ and two unto the ram/ and one tenth deal unto one lamb thorough the vij lambs And an he goote for a sin-offering to make an atonement for you/ beside the burntoffering of the month and his meat-offering and beside the daily burntoffering and his meat-offering/ and the drink-offerings of the same: according unto the manner of them for a savour of sweetness in the sacrifice of the Lord.  
And the tenth day of that same seventh month shallbe an holy feast unto you/ and ye shall humble your souls and shall do no manner work therein. And ye shall offer a burntoffering unto the Lord of a sweet savour: one bollock/ and a ram/ and vij lambs of a year old a piece/ without fault & their meat-offerings of flower mingled with oil: iij. tenth deals to a bollock/ and two to a run and all way a tenth deal unto a lamb/ thorough out the vij lambs And one he goote for a sin-offering/ beside the sin-offering of atonement and the daily burntoffering/ and the meat and drink-offerings that long to the same.  
And the xu day of the seventh month shallbe holy day & ye shall do no laborious work therein/ and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord of vij days long. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the Lord: xiii. bollocks two rams and xiiij lambs which are yerelynges and pure/ with oil iij tenth deals unto every one of the xiij bollocks two tē●h deals to either of the rams/ and one tenth deal unto each of the xiiij lambs. And one he goote unto a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering with his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the second day twelve young bollocks two rams & xiiij yerling lambs without spot: & their meat-offerings and drynkofferynges unto the bollockes'/ rams and lambs/ according to the numbered of them & after the manner And an he goote for a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the third day xi bollocks two rams & xiiij yearling lambs without spot: & their meat and drink-offerings unto the bollockes'/ rams & lambs/ after the numbered of them & according to the manner. And an hegoote for a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering & his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the fourth day ten bollocks two rams & xiiij lambs/ yerelynges & pure: and their meat & drink-offerings unto the bollockes' rams & lambs/ according to their numbered and after the manner. And an hegoote for a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the fift day ix bollocks two rams and xiiij lambs of one year old a piece without spot. And their meat and drink-offerings unto the bollockes'/ rams and lambs/ according to the numbered of them and after the manner. And an hegoote for a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the sixth day eight bollocks two rams and. xii●j. yereling lambs without spot And their meat and drink-offerings unto the bollockes'/ rams and lambs/ according to the manner. And an hegoote for a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the seventh day vij bollocks two rams and xiiij lambs that are yerelynges & pure. And their meat and drink-offerings unto the bollockes'/ rams and lambs/ according to their numbered & to the manner. And an hegoote for a sin-offering/ beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drink-offerings.  
And the eight day shallbe the conclusion 
Out of such come our octaves and feasts of eight days long.  of the feast unto you/ & ye shall do no manner laborious work therein. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the Lord: one bollock/ one run & vij yearling lambs without spot. And the meat & drink-offerings unto the bollock/ run and lambs/ according to their numbers & according to the manner. And an he goote for a sin-offering beside the daily burntoffering and his meat & drink-offerings.  
These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your feasts: beside your vows and ●rewyll offerings/ in your burntofferinges meatofferynges/ drynkofferynges and pease offerings. And Moses told the children of Israel/ according to all that the Lord commanded him.   

¶ The xxx Chapter.  
ANd Moses spoke unto the heeds of 
Hence was fetrthe example of our vows of chastity/ obediens and wilful poverty: our offerings and our pilgrimage.  the tribes of the children of Israel saying: this is the thing which the Lord commandeth. If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or swear an oath and bind his soul/ he shall not go ba●ke with his word: but shall fulfil all that proceedeth out of his mouth  
If a damsel vow a vow unto the Lord & bind herself being in her father's house and unmarried: If her father hear her vow & bond which she hath made upon her soul/ & hold his pease thereto: then all her vows & bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall stand in effect. But & if her father for bid her the same day that he heareth it/ none of her vows nor bonds which she hath made upon her soul shallbe of value/ and the Lord shall forgive her/ because her father forbade her.  
If she had an husband when she vowed or pronounced ought out of her lips wherewith she bond her soul/ and her husband heard it and held his peace there at the same day he heard it: Then her vows and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul/ shall stand in effect. But and if her husband forbade her the same day that he heard it/ than hath he made her vow which she had upon her of none effect/ and that also which she pronounced with her lips wherewith she bound her soul/ and the Lord shall forgive her.  
The vow of a widow and of her that is divorced/ & all that they have bound their souls with all/ shall stand in effect with them.  
If she vowed in her husbands house or bound her soul with an oath/ and her husband heard it and held his peace and forbade her not: then all her vows and bonds wherewith she bond her soul/ shall stand. But if her husband disannulled them the same day that he heard them/ then nothing that proceeded out of her lips in vows and bounds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand in effect: for her husband hath loosed them/ and the Lord shall forgive her.  
All vows and oaths that bind to humble the soul/ may her husband establish or break. But if her husband hold his peace from one day unto another/ than he stablisheth all her vows and bounds which she had upon her/ because he held his peace the sa●●e day that he heard them. And if he afterward break them/ he shall bear her sin him. self.  
These are the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses/ between a man and his wife/ and between the father and his daughter/ beyenge a damsel in her father's house.   

¶ The xxxi Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: avenge the children of Israel of the Madianites/ and afterward be gathered unto thy people. And Moses spoke unto the folk saying: Harness some of you unto war/ and let them go upon the Madianites and avenge the Lord of the Madianitis. Ye shall send unto the war a thousand of every try be thorough out all the tribes of Israel. And there were taken out of the thousands of Israel twelve thousand prepared unto war/ of every tribe a thousand. And Moses sent them a thousand of every tribe/ with Phineas the son of Eleazar the preaste to war/ and the holy vessels & the trumpets to blow with in his hand.  
And they warred against the Madianites/ as the Lord commanded Moses/ and clue all the males. And they slew the kings of Madian among other that were slain: Eui/ Rekem/ Zur/ Her and Reba: fine kings of Madian. And they slew Balam the son of Beor with the sword. And the children of Israel took all the women of Madian presoners and their children/ and spoiled all their cattles/ their substance and their goods. And they burned all their cities wherein they dwelled/ and all their castles with fire. And they roke all the spoil and all they could catch/ both of men and beasts. And they brought the captives and that which they had taken and all the spoil unto Moses and Eleazar the priest and unto the company of the children of Israel: even unto the host/ in the fields of Moab by Jordanenye to Jericho.  
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the lords of the congregation went out of the host against them. And Moses was angry with the officers of the host/ with the captains over thousands and over hundreds/ which came from war and battle/ and said unto them: Have ye saved the women alive? behold/ these caused the children of Israel thorough Balam/ to commit trespass against the Lord/ by the reason of Peor/ & their followed a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore slay all the men children and the women that have ly●● with men fleshly: But all the women children that have not lain with men/ keep alive for yourselves. And lodge without the host vij days all that have killed any person & all that have twiched any dead body/ & purify both yourselves & your presoners the three day & the vij And sprinkle all your raiments & all that is made of skins/ & all work of gootes here/ and all things made of wood.  
And Eleazar the priest said unto all the men of war which went out to battle: this is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses: Gold/ silver/ brass/ yeron/ tin & lead/ & all that may abide the fire/ ye shall make it go thorough the fire/ and than it is clean. neverthelater/ it shallbe sprinkled with sprinkling water. And all that soffereth not the fire/ ye shall make go thorough the water. And wash your clothes the seventh day/ & than ye are clean. And afterward come in to the host.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: take the sum of the pray that was taken/ both of the women & of cattles/ thou & Eleazar the priest and the ancient heeds of the congregation. And divide it into two parties/ between them that took the war upon them and went out to battle and all the congregation. And take a portion unto the Lord of the men of war which went o●te to battle one of five hundred/ of the women and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep: and ye shall take it of their half and give it unto Eleazar the priest/ an heave-offering unto the Lord. And of the half of the children of Israel/ take one of fystye/ of the women/ of the oxen/ of the asses and of the sheep/ and of all manner of beasts/ & give them unto the levites which wait upon the habitation of the Lord.  
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. And the booty and the pray which the men of war had caught/ was vi hundred thousand & lxxv. thousand sheep: and lxxij thousand oxen: & lxi thousand asses: & xxxij thousand women that had lain by no man.  
And the half which was the part of them that went out to war/ was three hundred thousand and xxxvij thousand and five hundred sheep: And the lords part of the sheep was vi hundred and .lxxv. And the oxen were xxxvi thousand/ of which the lords part was .lxxij.. And the asses were xxx thousand and five hundred/ of which the lords part was .lxi.. And the women were xvi thousand/ of which the lords part was xxxij souls. And Moses gave that sum which was the Lords heave-offering unto Eleazar the priest: as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And the other half of the children of Israel which Moses separated from the men of war (that is to were/ the half that pertained unto the congregation) was three hundred thousand and xxxvij thousand and five hundred sheep: and xxxvi thousand oxen: and xxx thousand asses and five hundred: and xvi thousand women. And Moses took of this half that pertained unto the children of Israel: one of every fifty/ both of the women & of the cattles/ and gave them unto the levites which waited upon the habitation of the Lord/ as the Lord commanded Moses.  
And the officers of thousands of the host/ the captains over the thousands and the captains over the hundreds came forth & said unto Moses: Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war/ which were under our hand/ & there lacked not one man of them. We have therefore brought a present unto the Lord what every man found of Jewels of gold/ cheyns/ bracelets/ rings/ earynges & spangels'/ to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.  
And Moses & Eleazar took the gold off them: Jewels of all manner fashions. And all the gold of the heave-offering of the Lord/ of the captains over thousands & hundreds was xvi thousand vij hundred & l sycles/ which the men of war had spoiled/ every man for himself. And Moses & Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains over the thousands & over the hundreds/ & brought it in to the tabernacle of witness: to be a memorial unto the children of Israel/ before the Lord.   

¶ The▪ xxxij. Chapter.  
THe children of Reuben & the children of Gad/ had an exceeding great multitude of cattles. And when they saw the land of jaeser & the land of Gilead that it was an apt place for cattles/ they came & spoke unto Moses & Eleazar the priest & unto the lords of the congregation saying. The land of Ataroth Dibo & Beon/ which country the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel: is a land for cattles and we thy servants have cattles wherefore (said they) if we have found grace in thy sight/ let this land be given unto thy servants to possess/ and bring us not over jordane.  
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and of Reuben: shall your brethren go to war and yetarye here? Wherefore discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel for to go over in to the land which the Lord hath given them? This did your father's/ when I sent them from Cades bernea to seethe land. And they went up even unto the river of Escol & saw the land/ & discouraged the hettes of the children of Israel/ that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.  
And the Lord was wroth the same time and swore saying: None of the men that came out of Egipte from twenty year old and above/ shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham/ Isaac and jacob/ because they have not continually followed me: save Caleb the son of jephune the Benesite/ & josua the son of Nun/ for they have followed me continually. And the Lord was angry with Israel/ and made them wander in the wilderness xl year/ until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord were consumed.  
And behold/ ye are risen up in your father's stead/ the increase of sinful men/ to augment the fierce wrath of the Lord to Israel ward. For if ye turn away from after him/ he will yet again leave the people in the wilderness/ so shall ye destroy all this folk.  
And they went near him and said: we will build sheepfolds here for our sheep and for our cattles/ and cities for our children: But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel/ until we have brought them unto their place. And our children shall dwell in the strong cities/ because of the inhabiters of the land. And we will not return unto our horses/ until the children off Israel have enhereted: every man his inheritance. For we will not enheret with them on yonder side jordane forward/ because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side jordane eastward.  
And Moses said unto them: If ye will do this thing/ that ye will go all harnessed before the Lord to war/ and will go all of you in harness over jordane before the Lord/ until he have cast out his enemies before him/ & until the land be subdyed before the Lord: than ye shall return & be without sin against the Lord & against Israel/ & thy land shallbe your possession before the Lord. But & if ye will not do so/ behold/ ye sin against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. Belde your cities for your children & folds for your sheep/ & see ye do that ye have spoken.  
And the children of Gad & of Reuben spoke unto Moses saying: thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. Our children our wine's substance & all our cattles shall remain here in the cities of Gilead. But we thy servants will go all harnessed for the war unto battle before the Lord/ as my lord hath said.  
And Moses commanded Eleazar the priest & josua the son of Nun & the ancient heads of the tribes of the children of Israel/ & said unto them: If the children of Gad and Reuben will go with you over jordane/ all prepared to sight before the Lord: then when the land is subdued unto you/ give them the land of Gilead to possess/ but & if they will not go over with you in harness/ then they shall have their possessions among you in the land of Canaan. And the children of Gad & Reuben answered saying: that which the Lord hath said unto thy servants we will do We will go harnessed before the Lord in to the land of Canaan/ & the possession of our inheritance shallbe on this side the jordane.  
And Moses gave unto the children of Gad and of Reuben & unto half the tribe of Manasse the son of joseph/ the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites/ and the kingdom of Ogking of Basan/ the land that longed unto the cities thereof in the costs of the country round about. And the children of Gad bylt Dibon/ ataroth/ Aroer/ Atroth/ So phan/ jaeser/ jegabcha/ Bethnimra & Betharan strong cities/ and they bylt folds for their sheep. And the children of Reuben bylt Besebon/ Elalea/ Ririathaim/ Nebo/ Baal Meon and turned their names/ and Sibama also: & gave names unto the cities which they bylt.  
And the children of Machir the son of Manasse went to Gilead and token/ and put out the Amorites that were therein. And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasse/ & he dwelled therein. And jair the son of Manasse went & took the small towns thereof/ & called them the towns of jair. And Nobah went & took kenath with the towns longing thereto/ & called it Nobah after his own name.   

¶ The xxxiij Chapter  
THese are the iurneyes of the children of Israel which went out of the land of Egipte with their armies under Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their goenge out by their iurneyes at the commandment of the Lord: even these are the iurneyes of their goenge out. The children of Israel departed from Rahenses the xu day of the first month/ on the morrow after Passeover & went out with an high hand in the sight of all Egipte/ while the Egyptians buried all their firstborn which the Lord had smoten among them. And upon their gods also the Lord did execution. And the children of Israel removed from Rahemses and pitched in Sucoth.  
And they departed from Sucoth & pitched their tents in Ethan/ which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Ethan and turned unto the entering of Hiroth which is before ba all Zephon/ & pitched before Migdol. And they departed from before Hiroth & went thorough the mids of the see in to the wilderness/ & were three days journey in the wilderness of Ethan/ & pirched in Marah. And they removed from Marah & went unto Elim where were twelve fountains and lxx datetrees and they pitched there.  
And they removed from Elim & lay fast by the red see. And they removed from the red see & lay in the wilderness of Sin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin/ & set up their tents in Daphka. And they departed from Daphka/ and lay in Alus. And they removed from Alus/ & lay at Raphedim/ where was no water for the people to drink. And they departed from Raphedim/ and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai  
And they removed from the desert of Sinai/ & lodged at the graves of lust. And they departed from the sepulchres of lust/ and lay at Haseroth. And they departed from Hazeroth/ & pitched in Rithma. And departed from Rithma and pitched at Rimon Parez. And they departed from Rimon Parez/ & pitched in Libna. And they removed from Libna/ & pitched at Rissa And they journeyed from Rissa and pitched in Rehelatha. And they went from Rehclatha/ & pitched in mount Sapher And they removed from mount Sapher/ and lay in Harada. And they removed from Harada/ and pitched in Makeheleth.  
And they removed from Makeheloth/ & lay at Tahath/ and they departed from Tahath & pitched at Tharath And they removed from Tharath/ and pitched in Mithca. And they went from Mithca/ and lodged in Hasmona. And they departed from Hasmona/ and lay at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth/ and pitched among the children of jaecon. And they removed from the children of jaecon/ and lay at Hor gidgad. And they went from Hor gidgad/ and pitched in jathbatha. And they removed from jathbatha/ and lay at Abrona. And they departed from Abrona/ and lay at Ezeon gaber. And they removed from Ezeon gaber/ and pitched in the wilderness of Zin/ which is Cades.  
And they removed from Cades/ & pitched in mount Hor/ in the edge of the land of Moab. And Aaron the priest went up in to mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord & died there/ even in the fortieth year/ after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egipte/ & in the first day of the fift month. And Aaron was an hundred and xxxiij. year old when he died in mount Hor  
And king Erad the canaamte which dwelled in the south of the land of canaan/ herd that the children of Israel were come.  
And they departed from mount Hor/ & pitched in Zalmona. And they departed from Zalmona/ & pitched in Phimon/ & they departed from Phimon/ & pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth/ & pitched in Igim Abarim in the borders of Moab. And they departed from Igim/ and pitched in Dibon Gad. And they removed from Dibon Gad/ and lay in Almon Diblathama. And they removed from Almon Diblathama/ and pitched in the mountains of Abarim before Nibo. And they departed from the mountains of Abarim/ & pitched in the fields of Moab fast by jordane nigh to jericho. And they pitched upon jordan/ from Beth Haiesmoth unto the plain of Sitim in the fields of Moab  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the fields of Moab by jordan nigh unto jericho/ saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye are come over jordane in to the land of Canaan/ sethat ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you/ & destroy their imaginations & all their images of Metal/ and pluck down all their altars built on hills: And possess the land & dwell therein/ for I have given you the land to enjoy it. And ye shall divide the inheritance of the land by lot among your kynreddes'/ and give to the more the more inheritance/ & to the fewer the less inheritance. And your inheritance shallbe in the tryhes of your father's/ in the place where every man's lot falleth.  
But and if ye will not drive out the inhabiters of the land before you/ then these which ye let remain of them/ shallbe thorns in your eyes and darts in your sides/ & shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. More over it will come to pass/ that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them.   

¶ The xxxiiij Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye come in to the land of Canaan/ this is the land that shall fall unto your inheritance/ the land of Canaan with all her costs. And your south quarter shallbe from the wilderness of Zin along by the cost of Edom/ so that your south quarter shallbe from the side of the salt see eastward/ & shall fet a compass from the south up to Acrabim/ & reach to Zinna. And it shall go out on the south side of Cades Bernea/ & go out also at Hazar Adar/ and go along to Azmon. And shall fet a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egipte/ and shall go out at the see.  
And your west quarter shall be the great see/ which cost shallbe your west cost.  
And this shallbe your north quarter: ye shall compass from the great see unto mount Hor. And from mount Hor/ ye shall compass & go unto Hemath/ and the end of the cost shallbe at Zedada/ & the cost shall reach out to Ziphron and go out at Hazor Enan. And this shallbe your north quarter.  
And ye shall compass your east quarter from Hazar Enan to Sephain And the cost shall go down from Sephain to Ribla on the east side of Ain. And then descend and go out at the side of the see of Chinereth eastward. And then go down along by jordan/ and leave at the salt see. And this shall be your land with all the costs thereof round about.  
And Moses commanded the children of Israel saying: this is the land which ye shall enherett by lot/ and which the Lord commanded to give unto ix tribes and an half: for the tribe of the children of Reuben have received/ in the houssholdes of their father's/ and the tribe of the children of Gad in their father's houssholdes/ & half the tribe of Manasse/ have received their inheritance/ that is to were two tribes and an half have received their inheritance on that other side of jordan by jericho castwarde/ toward the son rising.  
And the Lord spoke to Moses saying: These are the names of that men/ which shall divide you the land to enherett. Eleazar the priest/ and josua the son of Nun. And ye shall take also a lord of every tribe to divide the land/ whose names are these: In the tribe of juda/ Caleb the son of jephune. And in the tribe of the children of Simeon/ ●emuel the son of Amiud/ and in the tribe of Ben jamin/ Elidad the son of Cis●on. And the in tribe of the children of Dan/ the lord Bucki the son of jagli. And among the children of joseph: in the tribe of the children of Manasse/ the lord Hamel the son of Ephod. And in the tribe of the children of Ephraim/ the lord Cemuel the son of Siphtan. And in the tribe of the sons of Zabulon/ the lord Elizaphan the son of Parnac. And in the tribe of the children of Isachar/ the lord Palthiel the son of Asan. And in the tribe of the sons of Asser/ the lord Ahihud the son of Selomi. And in the tribe of the children of Naphtali/ the lord Peda El the son of Ammihud. These are they which the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel/ in the land of Canaan.   

¶ The xxxv Chapter.  
ANd the Lord spoke unto Moses in the fields of Moab by jordan jericho saying: command the children of Israel/ that they give unto the levites of the inheritance of their possession: cities to dwell in. And ye shall give also unto the cities of the levites/ suburbs round about them. The cities shallbe for them to dwell in/ and the suburbs for their cattles/ possession and all manner beasts of theirs.  
And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the lemtes/ shall reach from the wall of the city outward/ a thousand cubits round about. And ye shall measure without the city/ and make the utmost border of the eastside: two thousand cubits/ And the utmost border of the south side: two thousand cubetes/ And the utmost border of the west side: two thousand cubetes: and the utmost border of the north side: two thousand cubetes also: and the city shallbe in the mids. And these shall be the suburbs of their cities.  
And among the cities which ye shall give unto the levites/ there shall be six cities of fraundyes which ye shall give to that intent that he which killeth/ may fly thither. And to them ye shall add xlij cities more: so that all the cities which ye shall give the levites shallbe xlviij with their suburbs.  
And of the cities which ye shall give out of the possessions of the children of Israel/ ye shall give many out of their possessions that have moche and few out of their possessions that have little: so that every tribe shall give of his cities unto the levites/ according to the inheritance which he enhereteth.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: when ye be come over Jordayne into the land of Canaan/ ye shall build cities which shallbe privileged towns for you: that he which sleeth a man unwares/ may flyethither. And the cities shallbe to flee from the executer of blood/ that he which killed die not/ until he stand before the congregation in judgement. And of these vi. free cities which ye shall give three ye shall 
The right use of senetuaryes.  give on this side Jordayne and. i●j. in the land of Canaan. And these six free cities shallbe for the children of Israel & for the stranger & for him that dwelleth among you/ that all they which kill any person unwares/ may fl●●rhuher.  
If any man smite another with a weapon of iron that he die/ than he is a murderer/ & shall die for it.  
If he smite him with a throwing stone that he die therewith/ then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shallbe slain therefore.  
If he smite him with a handwepon of wood that he die therewith/ then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shallbe slain therefore.  
The judge of blood shall ●●ee the murderer/ as soon as he findeth him: If he thrust him of hate or hourle at him with laying of wait that he die or smite him with his hand of envy that he die/ he that smote him shall die/ for he is a murderer. The justice of blood shall slay him as soon as he findeth him.  
But and if he pushed him by chance & not of hate or cast at him with any manner of thing and nor of laying of wait: or cast any manner of stone at him that he die therewith/ and saw him not: And he cast it upon him and he died/ but was not his enemies neither sought him any harm: Then the congregation shall judge between the sleer and the executer of blood in such cases. And the congregation shall deliver the sleer out of the hand of the judge of blood/ and shall restore him again unto the fraun●●esed city/ whother he was fleed. And he shall bide there unto the death off the high prcaste which was anointed with holy ●yle.  
But and if he came without the borders of his prevyleged city whether he was fled/ if the bloudvenger find him without the borders of his free town/ he shall slay the murderer and be guiltless/ because he should have bidden in his free town until the death of the high preaste/ and after the death of the high priest/ he shall return again unto the land of his possession. And this shallbe an ordinance and a law unto you/ among your children after you in all your habitations.  
Whosoever sleeth/ shallbe ●laine at the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not answer against one person to put him to death. Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death. Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free city/ that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.  
And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in/ for blood defileth the land. And the land can none other wise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein/ but by the blood of it that shed it. befyle notherfore the land which ye in habit/ & in the mids of which I also dwell/ for I am the Lord which dwell among the children of Israel.   

¶ The xxxvi Chapter.  
ANd the ancient heeds of the children of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasse of the kindred of the children of Joseph/ came forth and spoke before Moses and the princes which were ancient heeds among the children of Israel & said: The Lord commanded my lord to give the land to enherette by lot to the children of Israel. And then my lord commanded in the name of the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelaphead our brother unto his daughters. Now when any of the sons of the tribes of Israel take them to wy●es/ then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our father's/ and shall be put unto the inheritance of the tribe in which they are and shallbe taken from the lot of our inheritance. And when the free year cometh unto the children of Israel/ then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe where they are in/ and so shall their inheritance betaken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.  
And Moses commanded the children of Israel at the mouth of the Lord saying: the tribe of the children of Joseph have said well. This therefore doth the Lord command the daughters of Zelaphead saying: let them be wy●es to whom they them self think best/ but in the kindred of the tribe of their father shall they mary/ that the inheritance of the children of Israel roole not from tribe to tribe. But that the children of Israel may abide/ every man in the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers And every daughter that possesseth any inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel/ shallbe wife unto one of the kindred of the tribe of her father/ that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father/ & that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel/ may abide every man in his own inheritance.  
And as the Lord commanded Moses even so did the daughters of Zelaphead: Mahela. Thirza/ Hagla/ Milca and Noa/ ●d were married unto their father's brothers sons/ of the kynted of the children of Manasse the son of Joseph: and so they had their inheritance in the tribe of the kindred of their father.  
These are the commandments & laws which the Lord commanded thorough Moses/ unto the children of Israel in the fields of Moab upon Jordayne nigh unto Jerich●.    
¶ The end of the four book of Moses.   


A PROLOGUE IN TO THE fift book of Moses, called deuteronomy.  
THis is a book worthy to be read in day and night and never to be out of hands. For it is the most excellent of all the books of Moses It is easy also and light and a very pure gospel that is to weet, a preaching of faith and love: deducinge the love to God out of faith, and the love of a man's neighbour out of the love of God. Herein also thou mayst learn right meditation or contemplation, which is nothing else save the calling to mind and a repeating in the heart of the glorious and wonderful deeds of God, and of his terrible handling off his enemies and merciful entreating of them that come when he calleth them which thing this book doth and almost nothing else.  
In the four first chapters he rehearseth the benefits of God done unto them, to provoke them to love, and his mighty deeds done above all natural power and beyond all natural capacity of faith, that they might believe God and trust in him and in his strength. And thirdly he rehearseth the fierce plagues of God upon his enemies and on them which thorough impacientie and vnbele●●e fell from him: partly to tame and abate the appetites of the flesh which alway fight against the spirit, and partly to bridle the wild raging lusts of them in whom was no spirit: that though they had no power to do good of love, yet at the least way they should abstain from outward evil for fear of wrath and cruel vengeance which should fall upon them and shortly find them out, if they cast up gods nurter and run at riot beyond his laws and ordinances. Moreover he chargeth them to put nought to nor take ought away from god's words, but to be diligent only to keep them in remembrance and in the heart and to teach their children, for fear of forgetting. And to beware either of making imagery or of bowing themselves unto images saying: Ye sar●e no image when God spoke unto you, but heard avoyce only and that voice keep and thereunto cleave, for it is your life and it shall save you. And finally if (as the frailty of all flesh is) they shall have fallen from God and he have brought them in to trouble, adversity, and cumbrance and all necessity: yet if they repent and turn, he promiseth them that God shall remember his mercy and receive them to grace again  
In the fift he repeateth the ten commaundmentes and that they might see a cause to do them of love, he biddeth them remember that they were bound in Egipte and how God delivered them with a mighty hand and a stretchedout arm, to serve him and to keep his commandments: as Paul sayeth that we are bought with Christ's blood and therefore are his servants and not our own, and aught to seek his will and honour only and to love and serve one another for his sake.  
In the sixth he setteth out the fountain off all commandments: that is, that they believe how that there is but one God that doth all, and therefore ought only to be loved with all the hereto, all the soul and all the might. For love only is the fulfilling of the commandments, as Paul also sayeth unto, the Romans and Galathians likewise. He warneth them also that they forget not the commandments, but teach them their children and to show the it children also how God delivered them out of the bondage of the Egyptians to serve him and his commandments, that the children might see a cause to work of love, likewise.  
The seventh is all together of faith: he removeth all occasions that might withdraw them from the faith, and pulleth them also from all confidence in themselves, and stirreth them up to trust in god boldly and only.  
Of the eight chapter thou sayst how that the cause of all temptation is, that a man might so his own heart. For when I am brought in to that extremity that I must either suffer or forsake god, than I shall feal how much I believe and trust in him, and how much I love him. In like manner, if my brother do me evil for my good, then if I love him when there is no cause in him, I see that my love was of god, and even so if I then hate him, I feal and peaceave that my love was but worldly, And finally he stirreth them to the faith and love of god, and dryveth them from all confidence of their own selves.  
In the ninth also he moveth them unto faith and to put their trust in god, and draweth them from confidence of themselves by rehearsing all the wickedness which they had wrought from the first day he knew them unto that same day. And in the end he repeateth how he conjured god in horeb and over came him with prayer, where thou mayest learn the right manner to pray.  
In the tenth he reckoneth up the pith of all laws and the keeping of the law in the heart: which is to fear god love him and serve him with all their heart soul and might and keep his commandments of love. And he showeth a reason why they, should that do: even because god is lord of heaven and earth and hath also done all for them of his own goodness without their deserving. And then out of the love unto god he bringeth the love unto a man's neighbour saying: god is lord above all lords and loveth all his servants indiffe rently, as well the poor and feeble and the stranger, as the rich and mighty, and therefore will that we love the poor and the stranger. And he addeth a cause, for ye were strangers and god delivered you and hath brought you unto a land where ye be at home. Love the stranger therefore for his sake.  
In the xi he exhorteth them to love and fear god, and rehearseth the terrible deeds off god upon his enemies, and on them that rebelled against him. And he testifieth unto them both what will follow if they love and fear god, and whate also if they despise him and break his commandment.  
In the twelve he commandeth to put out of the way all that might be an occasion to hurt the faith and forbiddeth to do aught after their own minds, or to alter the word of god.  
In the xiij he forbiddeth to hearken unto aught save unto god's word: no though he which counseleth cotrarye should come with miracles, as Paul doth unto the Galathians.  
In the. xiv the beasts are forbidden, partly for the uncleanness of them, and partly to cause hate between the heathen and them, that they have no conversation together, in that one abhorreth what the other eateth. Unto this xu chapter all pertain unto faith and love chiefly. And in this xu he beginneth to entreat more specially of things pertaining unto the comenwelth and equity and exhorteth unto the love of a man's neighbour. And in the xvi among other he forgetteth not the same. And in the xvij. he ent●eateth of right and equity chiefly, in so much that when he looketh unto faith and unto thee, punishment of idolaters, he yet endeth in a law of love and equity: forbidding to comdemne any man under less them two witnesses at the jest and commandeth to bring the trespassers unto the open gate of the city where all men go in and out, that all men might hear the cause and see that he had but right. But the pope hath found a better way, even to apposse him with out any accusare and that secretly, that no man know whether he have right or no, other hate his articles or answer: for fear lest the people should search whether it ●●●re so or no.  
In the. xviij he forbiddeth all false and de●elish crafts that hurt true faith. Moreover because the people could not hear the voice of the law spoken to them in fire, he promiseth them another prophet to bring than better tidings which was spoken of christ our saviour.  
The xix and so forth unto the end of the xxvij. is almost all together of love unto our neygboures and of laws of equity and honesty with now and then a respect unto faith.  
The xxviij is a terrible chapter and to be trembled at: A christian man's heart might well bleed for sorrow at the reading of it, for fear of the wrath that is like to come upon us according unto all the curses which thou there readest. For according unto these curses hath god dealt with all nations, after they were fallen in to the abominations of blindness.  
The xxix is like terrible with a godly lesson in the end that we should leave serchinge of god's secrettes and give diligence to walk according to that he hath opened unto us. For the keeping of the commandments of god teacheth wisdom as thou mayest see in the same chapter, where Moses sayeth, keep the commandments, that ye may understood whate ye ought to do. But to search god's secrets blindeth a man as it is well proved by the swarms of our sophisters, whose wise books are now when we look in the scripture, found but full of foolishness.   


The first Chapter of deuteronomy  
THese be the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel, on the other side jordan in the wilderness and in the fields by the red see, between Pharan and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Disahab twelve days journey from Horeb unto Cades bernea, by the way that leadeth unto mount Seir. And it fortuned the first day of the xi month in the fortieth year, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them, after that he had smote Sihon the king of the Amorites which dwelled in Hesbon, and Og king of Basan which dwelled at Astaroth in Edrei.  
On the other side jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law saying: the Lord our God spoke unto us in Horeb saying: Ye have dwelled long enough in this mount: depart therefore and take your journey and go unto the hills of the Amorites and unto all places nigh there unto: both fields, hills and dales: and unto the south and unto the sees side in the land of Canaan, and unto libanon: even unto the great river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in therefore and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your father's Abraham, Isaac and jacob, to give unto them and their seed after them.  
And I said unto you the same season: I am not able to bear you myself alone. For the Lord your God hath multiplied you: so that ye are this day as the stars of heaven in numbered (the Lord god of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath promised you) how (said I) can I myself alone, bear the cumbrance, charge and stryste that is among you: bring therefore men of wisdom and of understanding and expert known among your tribes, that I may make them rulers over you.  
And ye answered me and said: that which thou hast spoken is good to be done. And then I took the heeds of your tribes, men of wisdom and that were expert, and made them rulers over you: captains over thousands and over hundreds over fifty and over ten, and officers among your tribes.  
And I charged your judges the same time 
judges.  saying: hear your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the straunges that is with him. See that ye know no man in judgement: but hear the small as well as the great and be afraid of no man, for the law is Gods. And the cause that is to hard for you, bring unto me and I will hear it. And I commanded you the same season, all the things which ye should do.  
And then we departed from Horeb and walked thorough all that great and terrible wilderness as ye have seen along by the way that leadeth unto the hills of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us, and came to Cades bernea. And there I said unto you: Ye are come unto the hills of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. Behold the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee, go up and conquer it, as the Lord God of thy fathers sayeth unto thee: fear not, neither be discouraged.  
And then ye came unto me every one and said: Let us send men before us, to search us out the land and to bring us word again, both what way we shall go up by, and unto what cities we shall come. And the saying pleassed me well and I took twelve men of you, of every tribe one. And they departed and went up in to the high country and came unto the river Escoll, and searched it out, and took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down unto us and brought us word again and said: it is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.  
notwithstanding ye would not consent to go up, but were dishobedient unto the mouth of the Lord your God, and murmured in your tents and said: because the Lord hateth us, therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egipte, to deliver us in to the hands of the Amorites and to destroy us. How shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts saying: the people is greater and taller than we, and the cities are great and walked even up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Enakimes there.  
And I said unto you: dread not nor be afraid of them: The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did unto you in Egipte before your eyes and in the wilderness: as thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bore the as a man should bear his son, thorough out all the way which ye have gone, until ye came unto this place. And yet for all this saying ye did not believe the Lord your God which goeth the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, that ye might see what way to go and in a cloud by day.  
And the Lord heard the voice of your words and was wroth and swore saying, there shall not one of these men of this froward generation see that good land which I swore to give unto your fathers, save Caleb the son of jephune, he shall see it, and to him I will give the land which he hath walked in and to his children, because he hath continually followed the Lord. Likewise the Lord was angry with me for your sakes saying: thou also shalt not go in thiter. But josua the son of Nun which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither. Bold him therefore for he shall divide it unto Israel. Moreover your children which ye said should be a pray, and your sons which know neither good nor bad this day, they shall go in thither and unto them I will give it, and they shall enjoy it. But as for you, turn back and take your iurneye in to the wilderness: even the way to the reed see.  
Than ye answered and said unto me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had gird on every man his weapons of war and were ready to go up in to the hills, the Lord said unto me: say unto them, see that ye go not up and that ye fight not, for I am not among you lest ye be plagued before your enemies. *. And when I told you ye would not hear: but 
Here thou se●st the very image of the papists. For they like wise where God's word is, there they believe not and where it is not there they be bold.  disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and went presumptously up in to the hills.  
Then the Amorites which dwelled in those hills, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and hewed you in Seir, even unto Horma. And ye came again and wept before the Lord: but the Lord would not hear your voice nor give you audience. And so ye abode in Cades along season, according unto the time that ye there dwelled.   

The two Chapter.  
THen we turned and took our journey in to the wilderness, even the way to the red see as the Lord commanded me. And we compassed the mountains of Seir a long time Then the Lord spoke unto me saying: Ye have compassed this mountains long enough, turn you northward. And warn the people saying: Ye shall go thorough the costs of your brethren the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and they shallbe afraid of you: But take good heed unto yourselves that ye provoke them not, for I will not give you of their land, no not so much as a fo●e breadeth: because I have given mount Seir unto Esau to possess. Ye shall buy meat of them for money to 〈◊〉 and ye shall buy water of them for money to dr●k●. For the Lord thy God hath blessed the in all the works of thine hand, and knew the as thou wentest thorough this great wilderness. Moreover the Lord thy God hath been with the this. xl years, so that thou hast lacked nothing.  
And when we were departed from our brethren the children of Esau which dwelled in Seir by the field way from Elath and Ezion Gaber, we turned and went the way to the wilderness of Moab. Then the Lord said unto me see that thou vex not the Moabites, neither provoke them to battle for I will not give the of their land to possess: because I have given Ar unto the children of loath to possess. The Emimes dwelled there in in times past, a people great, many and tall, as the Enakimes: which also were taken for giants as the Enakimes: And the Moabites called them Emymes. In like manner the Horimes dwelled in Seir before time which the children of Esau cast out, and destroyed them before them and dwelled there in their stead: as Israel did in the land of his possession which the Lord gave them  
Now rise up (said I) and get you over the river Zared: and we went over the river Zared. The space in which we came from Cades bernea until we were come over the river Zared was xxxviij years: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out of the host as the Lord swore unto them. For in deed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them out of the host, till they were consumed.  
And as soon as all the men of war were consumed and deed from among the people, than the Lord spoke unto me saying. Thou shalt go thorough Are the cost of Moab this day, and shalt come nigh unto the children of Ammon: see that thou vex them not, nor yet provoke them. For I will not give the of the land of the children of Ammon to possess, because I have given it unto the children of loath to possess. That also was taken for a land of giants and giants dwelled therim in old time, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumyms. A people that was great, many and taule, as the Enakyms. But the Lord destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they cast them out and they dwelled there in their stead: as he did for the children of Esau which dwell in Seir: even as he destroyed the horyms before them, and they cast them out and dwell in their stead unto this day. And the Avims which dwelled in Hazarim even unto Aza, the Caphthoryms which came out of Caphthor destroyed them and dwelled in the it rooms.  
Rise up, take your journey and go over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given in to thy hand Sihon the Amorite king of Hesbon, and his land. Go to and conquer and provoke hinto battle. This day I will begin to send the fear and dread of the upon all nations that are under all ports of heaven: so that when they hear speak of thee, they shall tremble and quake for fear of the.  
Then I sent messengers out of the wilderness of kedemoth unto Syhon king of Hesbon, with words of peace saying: Let me go thorough thy land. I will go allweyes along by the high way and will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. Sell me meat for money for to eat, and give me drink for money for to drink: I will go thorough by foot only (as the children of Esau did unto me which dwell in Seir and the Moabites which dwell in Are) until I be come over jordan, in to the land which the Lord our God giveth us.  
But Sihon the king of Hesbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit and made his heart tough because he would deliver him in to thy hands as it is come to pass this day.  
And the Lord said unto me: behold, I have begun to set Sihon and his land before thee: go to and conquer, that thou mayst possess his land. Then both Sihon and all his people came out against us unto battle at jahab. And the Lord set him before us, and we smote him and his sons and all his people.  
And we took all his cities the same season, and destroyed all the cities with men, women, and children and let nothing remain, save the cattles only we caught unto ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we took, from Aroer upon the brink off the river off Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead: there was not one city to strong for us. The Lord our God delivered all unto us: only unto the land of the children of Ammon ye came not, nor unto all the cost of the river labockner unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto what soever the Lord our God forbade us.   

¶ The three Chapter.  
THen we turned and went up the way to Basan. And Og the king of Basan came out against us. both he and all his people to battle at Edrey. And the Lord said unto me: fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land in to thy hand and thou shalt deal with him as thou dealest with Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelled at Hesbon. And so the Lord our God delivered in to our hands, Og also the king off Basan and all his folk, And we smote him until nought was left him.  
And we took all his cities the same season (for there was not a city which we took not from them) even three score cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Basan. All these cities were made strong with high walls, gates and bars, beside unwalled towns a great meinie. And we utterly destroyed them, as we played with Sihon king off Hesbon: bringing to nought all the cities with men, women and children. But all the cattles and the spoil of the cities, we caught for ourselves.  
And thus we took the same season, the land out of the hand of two kings of the Amorites on the other side jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon (which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion, but the Amorites call it Senyr) all the cities in the plain and all Gilead and all Basan unto Salcha and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. For only Og king of Basan remained of the remnant of the giants: behold, his yernen bed is yet at Rabath among the children off Ammon ix cubits long and, iiij. cubetes broad, of the cubits of a man.  
And when we had conquered this land the same time, I gave from Aroer which is upon the river of Arnon, and half mount Gile ad and the cities thereof unto the Rubenites, and Gadites. And the rest of Gilead and all Basan the kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Manasse: all the region of Argob with all Basan was called the land of giants. jair the son of Manasse took all the region of Argob unto the costs of Gesuri and Ma●chati, and called the towns of Basan after his own name: the towns of jair unto this day. And I gave half Gilead unto Machir. And unto Reuben and Gad, I gave from Gilead unto the river of Arnon and half the valley and the cost, even unto the river jabock which is the border of the children of Ammon, and the fields and jordan with the cost, from Cenereth even unto the see in the field which is the salt see under the springs off Pisga eastward.  
And I commanded you the same time (ye Reuben and Gad) saying: the Lord your God hath given you this land to enjoy it: see that ye go harnessed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are men of war among you. your wives only your children and your cattles (for I wot that ye have much cattles) shall abide in your cities which I have given you, until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you, and until they also have conquered the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond lordayne: and then return again every man unto his possession which I have given you.  
And I warned josua the same time saying thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings, evenso the Lord will do unto all kingdoms whither thou goest. Fear them not, for the Lord your God he it is that fighteth for you.  
And I besought the Lord the same time saying: O lord jehova, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand for there is no God in heaven nor in earth that can do after thy works and after thy power: let me go over and see the good land that is beyond jordan, that goodly high country and Libanon. But the Lord was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me, but said unto me, be content, and speak henceforth no more unto me of this matter, Get the up in to the top of Pisga and lift up thine eyes west, north, south and east, and behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this jordan. Moreover, charge josua and courage him and bold him. For he shall go over before his people, and he shall divide the land which thou shalt see unto them. And so we abode in the valaye beside Beth Peor.   

¶ The four Chapter.  
ANd now hearken Israel unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you▪ for to do them, that ye may live and go and conquer 
No▪ n●● yet corrupt it with false gloss to consume Aristotle: but rebuke Aristotle's false learning therewith.  the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you neither do aught there from, that ye may keep the commandments off the Lord your God which I command you. your eyes have seen what the Lord did unto Baal Peor: for all the men that followed Baal Peor, the Lord your God hath destroyed f●om among you: But ye that clave unto the Lord your God, are alive every one of you this day. Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whether ye go to possess it  
Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations: which when they have heard all these ordinances, shall say: O what a wise and understanding people is this great nation. For what nation is so great that hath Gods so nigh unto him: as the Lord our God is nigh unto us, in all things, when we call unto him? Ye, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so ryghtuousse, as all this law which I set before you this day.  
Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the 
Teach your children.  days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons sons. The day that I stood before the Lord your god in Horeb, when he said unto me, gather me the people together, that I may make them hear my words that they may learn to f●re me as long as they live upon the earth and that they may teach their children: ye came and stood also under the hill and the hill burnt with fire: even unto the mids of heaven, and there was darkness, clouds and mist. And the Lord spoke unto you out of the fire and ye heard the voice of the 
The voice is all together: unto that image ought men ●o bow● there hearts.  words: But saw no image, save herd a voice only,  
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, even▪ x. verses and wrote them in two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me the same season to teach you ordinances and laws, for to do them in the land whether ye go to possess it  
Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no manner of image the day when the Lord spoke unto you in Horeb out of the fire: lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman or any mane be'st that is on the earth or of any manner f●th●● red foul that fleth in the air, or of any manner worm that creepeth on the earth or of any manner fish that is in the water beneath the earth: Ye and lest thou ly●●e up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou sayst the son and the moan and the stars and what soever is contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thy self unto them and s●rue the things which the Lord thy God hath distributed unto all nations that are under all quarters of heaven.  
For the Lord took you and brought you out of the yernen furnace of Egipte, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as it is come to pass this day. Forthermoare, the Lord was angry with me for your sakes and swore, that I should not go over jordane and that I should not go unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth the to inheritance. For I must die in this land, and shall not go over jordane: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land  
Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the appointment of the Lord your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of what soever it be that the Lord thy God hath forbidden the. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God.  
If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and haste dwelled long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of what so ever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him. I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly peressh from of the land whether ye go over jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among nations, and ye shallbe left few in numbered among the people whother the Lord shall bring you: and there ye shall serve gods which are the works of man's hand, would and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.  
Never the later ye shall seek the Lord your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul. In thy tribulation and when all these things are come upon thee, even in the later days, thou shalt turn unto the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken unto to his voice. For the Lord thy God is a pitiefull God: he will not forsake the neither destroy thee, nor forget the appointment made with thy fathers which he swore unto them.  
For axe I pray the of the days that are past which were before thee, sense the day that God created man upon the earth and from the one side of heaven unto the other whether any thing hath been like unto this great thing or whether any such thing hath been herd as it is, that a nation hath herd the voice of God speaking out of fire as thou hast herd, and yet lived? either whether God assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, thorough temptations and signs and wonders and thorough war and with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the Lord your God did unto you in Egipte before your eyes.  
Unto the it was showed, that thou mightest know, how that the Lord he is God and that there is none but he.  
Out of heaven he made the hear his voice to nurter thee▪ and upon earth he showed the his great fire, and thou hardest his words out of the fire. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought the out with his presence and with his mighty power of Egipte: to thrust out nations greater and mightier than thou before thee, to bring the in and to give the their land to inheritance: as it is come to pass this day.  
understand therefore this day and turn it to thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is no more: keep therefore his ordinances, and his commandments which I command the this day, that it may go well with the and with thy children after the and that thou mayst prolong thy days upon the earth which the Lord thy God giveth the for ever.  
Then Moses severed three cities on the other side jordane toward the son rising, that he should i'll thiter which had killed his neigh bower unwares and hated him not in time past and therefore should i'll unto one of the same cities and live: Bezer in the wilderness even in the plain country among the Rubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gaddites and Solan in Basan among the Manassites.  
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel, and these are the witness, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of Egipte, on the other side jordan in the valley beside Beth Peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelled at Hesbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they were come out of Egipte, and conquered his land and the land of Og king of Basan two kings of the Amorites on the other side jordan toward the son rising: from Aroar upon the bank of the river Arnon, unto mount Zion which is called Hermon and all the fields on the other sydel or deign eastward: even unto the see in the field under the springs of Pisga.   

The. ●. Chapter.  
ANd Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them: Hear Israel the ordinances and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that ye do them. The Loode our God made an appointment with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this bond with our fathers, but with us: we are they, which are all hear a live this day. The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the fire. And I stood between the Lord and you the same time, to show you the saying of the Lord. For ye were afraid of the fire and therefore went not up in to the mount and he said.  
I am the Lord thy God which brought the out of the land of Egipte the house of bondage. Thou shalt have therefore none other gods in my presence.  
Thou shalt make the no graven Image off any manner likeness that is in heaven above, 
Image  or in the earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth. Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God. am a jealous God, visettinge the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me: and show mercy upon thousands among them that love me and keep my commandments.  
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain.  
Keep the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded the. Syxe days thou shalt labour and do all that thou hast to do, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no manner work, neither thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant nor thy maid nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattles nor the stranger that is within thy city, that thy servant and thy maid may rest as well as thou * And remember that thou 
God showeth a cause why we ought to keep his commandments the pope doth not.  wast a servant in the land of Egypte and how that the Lord God, brought the out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm. For which cause the Lord thy God commandeth the to keep the Sabbath day.  
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayst prolong thy days, and that it may go well with the on the land, which the Lord thy God giveth the.  
Thou shalt not slay.  
Thou shalt not break wedlock.  
Thou shalt not steal.  
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour,  
Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbours wife: thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, field, servant, maid, ox, ass nor aught that is thy neighbours.  
These words the Lord spoke unto all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice and added nomoare there to, and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.  
But as soon as ye heard the voice out off the darkness and saw the hill burn with fire, ye came unto me all the heeds of your tribes and your elders: and ye said: behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have herd his voice out of the fire, and we have seen this day that God may talk with a man and he yet live. And now wherefore should we die that this great fire should consume us: If we should hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we should die. For what is any flesh that he should hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as we have done and should yet live: Go thou and hear all that the Lord our God sayeth, and tell thou unto us all that the Lord our God sayeth unto thee, and we will hear it and do it.  
And the Lord heard the voice of your words when ye spoke unto me, and he said unto me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto the they have well said all that they have said. Oh that they had such an heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments alway, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever. Go and say unto them: get you in to your tents again, but stand thou here before me and I will tell the all the commandments, ordinances and laws which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.  
Take heed therefore that ye do as the Lord 
walk straight.  your God hath commanded you, and turn not aside: either to the right hand or to the left: but walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live and that it may go well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.   

¶ The uj Chapter.  
THese are the commandments, ordinances and laws which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whother ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his ordinances and his commandments which I command thee, both thou and thy son and thy sons son all days off thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore Israel and take heed that thou do thereafter, that it may go well with the and that ye may increase mightily: even as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey  
Hear Israel, the Lord thy God is Lord only and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul and with 
It is heresy with us for a lay ●ā to lo●e of god's ●orde or to read it.  all thy might. And these words which I command the this day, shallbe in thine heart and thou shalt whet them on thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up: and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. And they shallbe papers off remembrance between thine eyes, and shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates.  
And when the Lord thy God hath borught the in to the land which he swore unto thy father's Abraham, Isaac and jacob, to give the with great and goodly cities which thou byldest not, and horses f●●l of all manner goods which thou filledest not, and wells digged which thou dyggedest not, and wines and olive trees which thou plantedest not, and when thou hast eaten, and art full: Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought the out off the land of Egipte the house of bondage. But fear the Lord thy God and serve him, and swear by his name, and see that ye walk not after strange gods of the Gods off the nations which are about you. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you lest the wrath of the Lord thy God wax hot upon the and destroy the from the earth.  
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God as ye did at Masa. But see that ye keep the commandments of the Lord your God, his 
Right in god d●s sight is that he commandeth  witnesses and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee, and see thou do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that thou mayst prosper and that thou mayst go and conquer that good land which the Lordesware unto thy fathers, and that the Lord may cast out all thine enemies before the as he hath said.  
When thy son asketh the in time to come 
Teach your children.  saying: What meaneth the witnesses, ordinances and laws which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son: We were bondmen unto Pharaoh in Egipte, but the Lord brought us out of Egipte with a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs and wonders both great and evil upon Egipte, Pharaoh and upon all his household, before our eyes and brought us from thence: to bring us in and to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers. And therefore commanded us to do all these ordinances and for to fear the Lord our God, for our wealth always and that he might save us, as it is come to pass this day. Moreover it 
The outward dead is righteousness unto the avoid●nge of punishment, threatenings and curses and ●o opt●●●e temporal blessiges: but unto the lif● to come thou must have the righteousness of faith and there by receau● forgeue●esse of ●●nnes and promise of 〈…〉 ā●●●●●● to work of ●o●●.  shallbe righteousness unto us before the Lord our God, if we take heed to keep all these commandments as he hath commanded us,   

¶ The vij Chapter.  
When the Lord thy God hath brought the in to the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee: the Hethites, the Girgosites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Pher●sites, the Hevites and the jebusites: seven. nations more in numbered and mightier than thou: and when the Lord thy God hath set them before the that thou shouldest smite them see that thou utterly destroy them and make no covenant with them nor have compassion on them. Also thou shalt make no marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son nor take his daughter unto thy son. For they will make your sons depart from and serve strange Gods, and then will the wrath off the Lord wax hot upon you and destroy you shortly.  
But thus ye shall deal with them: overthrow their altars, break down their pilers, cut down their groves and burn their images with fire. For thou art an holy nation unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen the to be a several people unto himsilf of all nations that are upon the earth. It was not 
God's aw●● goodness and ●is own truth causeth h● to work.  because of the multitude of you above all nations, that the Lord had lust unto you and choose you. For ye were fewest of all nations: But because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of Egipte with a mighty hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage: even from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egipte.  
understand therefore, that the Lord thy God he is God and that a true God, which keepeth pointment and mercy unto them that love him and keep his commandments, even thorough out a thousand generations and rewardeth 
Before his ●ace ●n his presence, whi●e he looketh on.  them that hate him before his face so that he bringeth them to nought, and will not def●erre the time unto him that hateth him but will reward him before his face. Keep therefore the commandments, ordinances and laws which I command you this day, that ye do them.  
If ye shall hearken unto these laws and shall observe and do them, then shall the Lord thy God keep pointment with the and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers and will love thee, bless the and multiply thee: he will bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy field, thy corn, thy wine and thy oil, the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to giveth. Thou shalt be blessed above all nations, there shallbe neither man nor woman unfruitful among you, nor any thing unfruitful among your cattles. Moreover the Lord will turn from the all manner infirmities, and will put none off the evil diseases off Egipte (which thou knowest) upon thee, but will send them upon them that hate the.  
Thou shalt bring to nought all nations which the Lord thy God delivereth the thine eye shall have no pity upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods, for that shallbe thy decay. If thou shalt say in thine heart these nations are more than I, how can I cast them 
God is as able ●o●● also to deliver us out of the captivity of the pop●  out? Fear them not, but remember what the Lord thy god did unto Pharaoh and unto all Egipte, and the great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs and wonders and mighty hand and stretched out arm wherewith the Lord thy god brought the out: even so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the nations of which thou art afraid.  
Thereto, the Lord thy God will send hornets among them until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. See thou fear them not for the lord thy god is among you a mighty god and a terrible. The Lord thy god will put out these nations before the a little and a little: thou mayst not consume them at once lest the beasts of the field increase upon the. And the lord thy god shall deliver them unto the and star up a mighty tempest among them, until they be brought to nought. And he shall deliver their kings in to thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their names from under heaven. There shall no man stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. The images of their gods thou shalt burn with fire, and see that thou covet not the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therewith. For it is an abomination unto the Lord thy God. Bring not therefore the abomination to thine house, lest thou be a damned thing as it is: but utterly defy it and abhor it, for it is a thing that must be destroyed.   

¶ The eight chapter.  
All the commandments which I command the this day ye shall keep for to do them, that ye may live and multiply and go and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers. And think on all the way which the Lord thy God led the this xl year in the wilderness, for to humble the and to prove thee, to weet what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no, He humbled the and made the hunger and fed the with man which neither thou nor thy father know of▪ to make the know that a man must not live by bred only: but by 
The word is life  all that proceedeth out of them outh of the Lord must a man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy feet swell this xl. year.  
understand therefore in thine heart, that as a man ●●●●ereth his son, even so the Lord thy God 〈…〉 r the. Keep therefore the commandments of the Lord thy God that thou walk in his ways and that thou fear him For the Lord thy God bringeth the in to a good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountens and of springs that springe out both in valayes and hills: a land of wheat and of barley, of wines, figtrees and pomegranates, a land of olyvetrees with oil and of honey: a land wherein thou shalt not eat bred in scarcenesss, and where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are yearn, and out of whose hills thou shalt dig brass. When thou hast eaten therefore and filled thyself, then bless the Lord for the good land which he hath given the.  
But beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not keep his commandments, laws and ordinances which I command the this day: ye and when thou hast ea●ē and filled thyself and hast built goodly horses and dwelled therein, and when thy beesses and thy sheep are waxed many and thy silver and gold is multiplied and all that thou hast increased, than beware lest thine heart rise and thou forget the Lord thy God which brought the out of the land of Egipte the house of bondage, and which led the in the wilderness both great and terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst where was no water which brought the water out of the rock of flint: which fed the in the wilderness with Man where of thy fathers knew not, for to humble the and to prove thee, that he might do the good at thy later end.  
And beware that thou say not in thine heart, my power and the might of mine own hand hath done me all these acts: But remember 
God's power worketh and not we.  the Lord thy God, how that it is he which gave the power to do manfully, for to make good the promise which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is come to pass this day,  
For if thou shalt forget the Lord thy god and shalt walk after strange gods and serve them and worsheppe them, I testify unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before thee, even so ye shall perish, because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God.   

¶ The ix Chapter.  
Hear Israel, thou goest over joadayne this day, to go and conquer nations greater and mightier than thyself, and cities great and walled up to heaven, and people great and tall, even the children of the Enak●ms, which thou knowest and of whom thou hast herd say who is able to stand before the children of Enack? But understand this day that the Lord thy God which goeth over before the a consuming fire, he shall destroy them and he shall subdue them before the. And thou shalt cast them out, and bring them to nought quickly as the Lord hath said unto the.  
Speak not in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out before the saying: 
where is ●●● righ●●●esnesse.  for my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to the possess this land. Nay, but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth cast them out before the. It is not for thy righteousness sake and right heart that thou goest to possess their land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord thy god doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that which the Lord thy God swore unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and jacob.  
understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness sake, that the Lord thy God doth give the this good l●nd to possess it, for thou art a stissenecked people. Remember and forget not how thou provokedest the Lord thy god in the wilderness: for since the day that thou camest out of the land of Egipte until ye came unto this place, ye have rebelled against the Lord. Also in Horeb ye angered the Lord so that the Lord was wroth with you, even to have destroyed you, after that I was gone up in to the mount, to fett the tables of stone, the tables of appointment which the Lord made with you. And I abode in the hill xl days and xl. nights and neither ate bred nor drank water. And the Lord delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and in them was according to all the words which the Lord said unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered together.  
And when the xl days and xl nights were ended, the Lord gave me: the two tables off stone, the tables of the testament, and said unto me: Up, and get the down quickly from hence, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egipte, have marred themselves.  
They are turned attonce out of the way, which I commanded them, and have made them a god of metal. Furthermore the Lord spoke unto me saying: I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people, let me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name off them from under heaven, and I will make off the a nation both greater and more than they.  
And I turned away and came down from the hill (and the hill burnt with fire) and had the two tables of the appointment in my hands. And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the Lord your God and had made you a calf of metal and had turned attonce out of the way which the Lord had commanded you. Then I took the two tables and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. And I fell before the Lord: even as at the first time xl days and. xl nights and neither ate bred nor drank water over all your sins which ye had sinned in doing wekedly in the sight of the Lord and in provoking him. For I was afraid of the wrath and fierceness wherewith the Lord was angry with you, even for to have destroyed you But the Lord heard my petition at that time also.  
The Lord was very angry with Aaron also, even for to have destroyed him: But I made intercession for Aaron also the same tyme. And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him with fire and stamp him and ground him a good, even unto small dust. And I cast the dust thereof in to the broke that descended out of the mount.  
Also at ●habeera and at Masa and at the sepulchres of lust ye angered the Lord, ye and when the Lord sent you from Cades Bernea saying: go up and conquer the land which I have given you, ye disobeyed the mouth of the Lord your God, and neither believed him nor hearkened unto his voice. Thus ye have been disobedient unto the Lord, sense the day that I knew you.  
And I fell before the Lord xl days and 
Learn to pra●●.  xl. nights which I lay there, for the Lord was minded to have destroyed you. But I made intercession unto the Lord and said: O Lord jehova, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast delivered thorough thy greatness and which thou hast brought out of Egipte with a mighty hand. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac and jacob and look not unto the stoburnesse of this people nor unto their wickedness and sin: lest the land whence thou broughtest them say: Because the Lord was not able to bring them in to the land which he promised them and because he hated them, therefore he carried them out to destroy them in the wilderness. Moreover they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy mighty power and with thy stretched out arm.   

¶ The ten Chapte.  
IN the same season the Lord said unto me hew the two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me in to the mount and make the an Ark of wood, and I will write in the table, the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of sethin wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up in to the mountain and the two tables in mine hand.  
And he wrote in the tables, according to the first writing (the ten verses which the Lord spoke unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered) and gave them unto me. And I departed and came down from the hill and put the tables in the ark which I had made: and there they remained, as the Lord commanded me  
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beroth Ben jaken to Mosera, where Aaron died and where he was buried, and Eleazar his son became priest in his stead. And from thence they departed unto Gudgod: and from Gudgod to jathbath, a land of rivers of water. And the same season the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the appointment of the Lord and to stand before the Lord, and to minister unto him and to bless in his name unto this day. Wherefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance with their brethren. The Lord he is their inheritance, as the Lord thy God hath promised them.  
And I tarried in the mount, even as at the first time xl days and xl nights and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, so that the Lord would not destroy the. And the Lord said unto me: up and go forth in the journey before the people and let them go in and conquer the land which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.  
And now Israel what is it that the Lord thy God requireth of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that thou keep the commandments of the Lord and his ordinances which I command the this day, for thy wealth. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lords thy god, and the earth with all that therein is: only the Lord had a lust unto thy fathers to love them, and therefore chose you their seed after them off all nations, as it is come to pass this day.  
circumcise therefore the foreskin of your hearts, and be no longer sciffnecked. For the Lord your God, he is God of gods and lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible which regardeth no man's person nor taketh gifts: but doth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment. Love therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers your selves in the land of Egipte.  
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him and cleave unto him and swear by his name, for he is thy praise and he is thy God that hath done these great and terrible things for thee, which thine eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down in to Egipte with lxx souls, and now the Lord thy God hath made the as the stars of heaven in multitude.   

The xi Chapter.  
Love the Lord thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his commandments alway. And call to mind this day that which your children have neither known nor seen: even the nurture of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his stretched out arm: his miracles and his acts which he did among the Egyptians, even unto Pharaoh the king off Egipte and unto all his land: and what he did unto the host of the Egyptians, unto their horses and charettes, how he brought the water of the red see upon them as they chased you, and how the Lord hath brought them to nought unto this day: and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place: and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with their households and their tents, and all their substance that was in their possession, in the mids of Israel.  
For your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the Lord which he did. Keep therefore all the commandments which I command the this day that ye may be strong and go and conquer the land whother ye go to possess it, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.  
For the land whother thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egipte whence thou camest out, where thou sowedest thy seed and wateredest it with thy labour as a garden of herbs: but the land whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, and a land which the Lord thy God careth for. The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year unto the later end of the year.  
If thou shalt hearken therefore unto my commandments which I command you this day, that ye love the Lord your God and serve him with all your hearts and with all your souls: then he will give rain unto your land in due season, both the first rain and the later, and thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine and thine oil. And he will send grass in thy fields for thy cattles: and thou shalt care and fill thyself.  
But beware that your hearts deceive you not that ye turn aside and serve strange gods and worshepe them, and then the wrath of the Lord wax hot upon you and shot up the heaven that there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and that ye peresh quickly from of the good land which the Lord giveth you.  
Put up therefore these my words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind them for a sign unto your hands, and let them be as papers of remembrance between your eyes, and teach them your children: so that thou * talk of them when thou sittest in 
Talk of ●o●●nhod say our prelate's  thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up: ye and write them upon the dorepostes of thine house and upon thy gates, that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children upon the earth which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give them, as long as the days of heaven last upon the earth.  
For if ye shall keep all these comaundmentes which I command you, so that ye do them and love the Lord your God and walk in all his ways and oleave unto him. Then will the Lord cast out all these nations both greater and mightier than yourselves. All the places where on the soles of your feet shall tread, shallbe yours: even from the wilderness and from Libanon and from the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost see shall your costs be. There shall no man be able to stand before you: the Lord your God shall cast the fear and dread of you upon all lands whether ye shall come, as he hath said unto you.  
Behold, I sect before you this day, a blessing and a curse: a blessing: if that ye hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day: And a curse: if ye will not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God: but turn out of the way which I command you this day to go after strange gods which ye have not known.  
When the Lord thy God hath brought the in to the land whother thou goest to possess it, than put the blessing upon mount Grisim and the curse upon mount Ebal, which are on the other side jordane on the back side of the way toward the going down of the son in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the fields over against Gilgal beside moregrove. For ye shall go over to go and possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you, and shall conquer it and dwell there in. Take heed therefore that ye do all the commandments and laws, which I set before you this day.   

The twelve Chapter.  
THese are the ordinances and laws which ye shall observe to do in the land which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth the to possess it, as long as ye live upon the earth. See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high hills and under every green tree. Overthrow their altars and break their pilers and burn their groves with fire and hewdowne the images off their gods, and bring the names of them to nought out of that place.  
See ye do not so unto the Lord your God but ye shall inquire the place which the Lord your God shall have chosen out of all your tribes to put his name there and there to dwell. And thither thou shalt come, and thither ye shall bring your burntsacryfices and your offerings, your tithes and heave-offerings off your hands, your vows and frewillofferynges and thy first borne off your oxen and off your sheep. And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye lay your hands on: both ye and your households, because the Lord thy God hath blessed the.  
Ye shall do after nothing that we do here this day, every man what seemeth him good 
*  in his own eyes. For ye are not yet come to rest nor unto the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. But ye shall go over jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to enheret, and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about: and ye shall dwell in safety.  
Therefore when the Lord your God hath chosen a place to make his name dwell there, thither ye shall bring all that I command you, your burntsacryfices and your offerings, your tithes and the heave-offerings of your hands and all your godly vows which ye vow unto the Lord. And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, both ye, your sons and your daughters, your servants and your maids and the levity that is within your gates for he hath neither part nor inheritance with you.  
Take heed that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in what soever place thou sayst: but in the place which the Lord shall have chosen among one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings and there thou shalt do all that I command the. notwithstanding thou mayst kill and eat flesh in all thy cities, what soever thy soul lusteth after according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given the both the * unclean and the clean mayst thou eat, 
Unclean as pertaining unto sacrifice as beasts that had deformities: but not of the unclean that was forbidden  even as the roo and the heart: only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water.  
Thou mayst not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thy oil, either the firstborn of of thine oxen or of thy sheep, neither any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy frewilofferinges or heave-offerings of thine hands: but thou must eat them before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen: both thou thy son and thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid and the levity that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hand to. And beware that thou forsake not the levity as long as thou livest upon the earth.  
If (when the Lord thy God hath enlarged thy costs as he hath promised thee) thou say: I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh: then thou shalt eat flesh, what so ever thy soul lusteth. If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be to far from thee, than thou mayst kill of thy oxen and of thy sheep which the Lord hath given the as I have commanded the and thou mayst eat in thine own city what soever thy soul lusteth. Never the later, as the roo and the heart is eaten, even so thou shalt eat it: the unclean and the clean indifferently thou shalt eat. But be strong that thou eat not the blood. For the blood, that is the life: and thou mayst not eat the life with the flesh: thou mayst not eat it: but must power it upon the earth as water. See thou eat it not therefore that it may go well with the and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the sight off the Lord.  
But thy holy things which thou hast and thy vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which the Lord hath chosen, and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, both flesh and blood upon the alter of the Lord thy God, and the blood of thine offerings thou shalt pour out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and shalt eat the flesh. Take heed and hear all these words which I command the that it may go well with the and with thy children after the for ever, when thou dost that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.  
When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations before thee, whother thou goest to conquer them, and when thou hast conquered them, and dwelled in their lands: beware that thou be not taken, in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou axenot after their gods saying: how did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise? Nay, thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for all abominations which the Lord hated did they unto their gods. For they burned both their sons and their daughters with fire unto their gods. But what soever I command you that take heed ye do: and put nought thereto, nor take aught 
Put nought to ne● take aught away.  there from.   

¶ The xiij Chapter.  
IF there a rise among you a prophett or a dreamer of dreams and give the a sign or a wonder, and that sign or wonder which he hath said come to pass, and then say: let us go after strange Gods which thou hast not known, and let us serve them: her ken not unto the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams. For the Lord thy God tempteth you, to weet whether ye love the Lord 
God giveth us his word ●● confirmeth ●● with miracles to prove who hath a ●rue herte● we must take heed to the scripture, lest false prophets, or false miracles deceive us.  your God with all your hearts and with all your souls. For ye must walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and hearken unto his voice and serve him and cleave unto him. And that prophet or dreamer of dreams shall die for it, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egipte and delivered you out of the house of bondage, to thrust the out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded the to walk in: and so thou shalt put evil away from the.  
If thy brother the son of thy mother or thine own son or thy daughter or the wife that lieth in thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul unto thee▪ entice thee secretly saying: let us go and serve strange gods which thou hast not known nor yet thy fathers, of the gods of the people which are round about thee, whether they benye unto the or far of from thee, from the one end of the land unto the other: See thou consent not unto him nor hearken unto him: no let not thyn● eye pity him nor have compassion on him, nor keep him secret, but cause him to be slain: Thine hand shallbe first upon him to kill him: and then the hands off all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die, because he hath gone about to thrust the away from the Lord thy God which brought the out of Egipte the house of bondage. And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is, among them.  
If thou shalt hear say of one of thy cities which the Lord thy God hath given the to dwell in, that certain being the children of belial are gone out from among you and have moved the enhabiters of their city saying: let us go and serve strange Gods which ye have not known. Then seek and make search and inquire diligently. If it be true and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you: then thou shalt smite the dwellers of that city with the edge of the sword, and destroy it merciless and all that is therein, and even the very cattles thereof with the edge of the sword. And gather all the spoil of it in to the mids of the streets thereof, and burn with fire: both the city and all the spoil thereof every whit unto the Lord thy God. And it shallbe an heap for ever and shall not be built again. And see that their cleave nought of the damned thing in thine hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce wrath and show the mercy and have compassion on the and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers: when thou hast hearkened unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command the this day so that thou do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.   

¶ The uj Chapter.  
YE are the children of the Lord your God, cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen the to be a several people unto himself, of all the nations that are upon the earth.  
Ye shall eat no manner of abomination. These are the beasts which ye shall eat of: oxen, sheep and gootes, heart, too and bugle, hert● goote, unicorn, origen and Chameleon. And all beasts that cleave the host and slit it in to two claws and chew the cud, them ye shall eat. Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them that chew cud and of them that divide and cleave the hoof: the camel, the hare and the conye. For they chew cud, but divide not the hoof: and therefore are unclean unto you: and also the swine. for though he divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not cud, and therefore is unclean unto you: Ye shall not eat of the flesh of them nor twitch the deed carcases of them.  
These ye shall eat off all that are in the waters: All that have fins and scales. And what soever hath not fins and scales, of that ye may not eat, for that is unclean unto you.  
Of all clean birds ye shall eat, but these are they of which ye may not eat: the eagle, the goshawk, the cormerant, the ixion, the vulture, the kite and her kind, and all kind off ravens, the Ostrich, the nyght●ro●● the kuckoo, the sparowhauke and all her kind, the little owl, the great owl, the back, the bittern, the pie the stork, the heron, the jay in his kind, the lapwynge, the swallow: And all creeping fowls are unclean unto you and may not be eaten of: but of all clean fowls ye may well eat.  
Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayst give it unto the stranger that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayst sell it unto an Alien. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.  
Thou shalt tieth all the increase of thy seed that cometh out of the field year by year. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he hath chosen to make his name dwell there the tithe off thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thine oxen and of thy flock that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God allway.  
If the way be to long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is to far from the which the Lord thy God hath chosen to set his name there (for the Lord thy God hath blessed thee) then make it in money and take the money in thine hand, and go unto the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, and bestow that money on what soever thy soul lusteth after: on oxen sheep, wine and good drink, and on what soever thy soul desireth, and eat there before the Lord thy God and be merry: both thou and thine household and the Levite that is in thy city. See thou forsake not the Levite, for he hath neither partenor inheritance with the.  
At the end of three year, thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thine increase the same year and lay it up whitin thine own city, and the Levite shall come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy city and shall eat and fill themselves: that the Lord thy God may bless the in all the works of thine hand which thou dost.   

¶ The xu Chapter.  
AT the end of seven year thou shalt make a free year. And this is the manner off the free year, whosoever dareth aught with his hand unto his neighbour, may not axe again that which he hath lent, of his neighbour or of his brother: because it is called the lords free year, yet of a stranger thou mayst call it home again. But that which thou hast with thy brother thine hand shall remit, and that in any wise, that there be no beggar among you. For the Lord shall bless the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, an heritance to possess it: so that thou hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God▪ to observe and do all these commandments which I command you this day: ye and then the Lord thy God shall bless the as he ●ath promised thee, and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and shalt borrow of no man, and shalt reign over many nations, but none shall reign over the.  
When one of thy brethren among you is waxed poor in any of thy cities within thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, see that thou harden not thine heart nor shetto thine hand from thy poor brother: But open thine hand unto him and lend him sufficient for his need which he hath. And beware that there be not a point of Belial in thine heart, that thou wouldest say. The seventh year, the year of freedom is at hand, and therefore it grieve the to look on thy poor brother and givest him nought and he then cry unto the Lord against the and it be sin unto thee: But give him. and let it not grieve thine heart to give. Because that for that thing, the Lord thy God shall bless the in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand to. For the land shall never be without poor. Wherefore I command the saying: open thine hand unto thy brother that is needy and poor in thy land.  
If thy brother an Hebrew sell himself to the or an Hebruas', he shall serve the six year and the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from the. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: but shalt give him of thy sheep and of thy corn and of thy wine, and give him off that where with the Lord thy God hath blessed the. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egipte, and the Lord thy God delivered the thence: wherefore I command the this thing to day.  
But and if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loveth the and thine house and is well at ease with the. Then take a awl and nail his ear too the door there with and let him be thy servant forever and unto thy maid servant thou shalt do likewise. And let it not grieve thine eyes to let him go out from thee, for he hath been worth a double hired servant to the in his service vi years. And the Lord thy God shall bless the in all that thou dost.  
All the firstborn that come of thine oxen and of thy sheep that are males, thou shalt hallow unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt do no service with the firstborn of thy sheep: but shalt eat them before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord hath chosen both thou and thine household.  
If there be any deformity there in, whether it be lame or blind or what soever evil faverednesse it hath, thou shalt not offer it unto the Lord thy God: But shalt eat it in thine own city, the unclean and the clean indifferently, as the roo and the heart. Only eat not the blood there of, but pour it upon the ground as water.   

The xvi Chapter.  
Observe the month of Abyb, and offer passover unto the Lord thy God. For in the month of Abib, the Lord thy God brought the out of Egipte by night. Thou shalt therefore offer passover unto the Lord thy God, and sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord shall choose to make his name dwell there. Thou shalt eat no leavended bred there with: but shalt eat there with the bred of tribulation vij days long. For thou camest out of the land of Egipte in haste, that thou mayst remember the day when thou camest out of the land of Egipte, all days of thy life. And see that there be no levended bred seen in all thy costs vij days long, and that there remain nothing of the flesh which thou hast offered the first day at even, until the morning.  
Thou mayst not offer passover in any of thy cities which the Lord thy god giveth thee: But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to make his name dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passeover at even about the goyngdoune of the son, even in the season that thou camest out of Egipte. And thou shalt seethe and eat in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get the unto thy tent. Six days thou shalt eat sweet bred, and the seventh day is for the people to come together to the Lord thy God, that thou mayst do no work.  
Then reckon the vij weeks, and begin to reckon the vij weeks when the syccle beginneth in the corn, and keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God, that thou give a free-will offering of thine hand unto the Lord thy God according as the Lord thy God hath blessed the. And rejoice before the Lord thy God both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the levity that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there. And remember that thou 
why.  wast a servant in Egipte, that thou observe and do these ordinances.  
Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven. days long, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. And thou shalt rejoice in that thy feast, both thou and thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the levity, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities. Seven days thou shalt keep holy day unto the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall choose: for the Lord thy God shall bless the in all thy fruits and in all the works of thine hands, and thou shalt be all together gladness. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bred, in the feast of weeks and in the booth feast. And they shall not appear before the Lord empty: but every man with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given the.   

The xvij Chapter.  
Judges and officers thou shalt make the in 
Iudge●  all thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth the thorough out thy tribes. and let them judge the people righteously. Wrist not the law nor know any person neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous. But in all thing follow righteousness, that thou mayst lyuc and enjoy the land which the Lord thy God giveth the.  
Thou shalt plant no grove of what soever trees it be, nigh unto the altar of the Lord thy God which thou shalt make the. Thou shalt set the up no piler, which the Lord thy God hateth. Thou shalt offer unto the Lord thy God no ox or sheep where in is any deformity, what soever evil faverednesse it be: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.  
If there be found among you in any of thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth the man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, that they have gone beyond his appointment, so that they have gone and served strange gods and worshipped them, whether it be the son or moan or anythinge contained in heaven which I forbade, and it was told the and thou hast herd of it: Then thou shalt inquire diligently. And if it be true and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought in Israel 
Opinly in the gates and not secretly in preson: with lawful witness and not tormenting them or mak●ge them swear agen●● them selves or ●or swear themselves  then thou shalt bring forth that man or that woman which have committed that wicked thing, * unto thy gates and shalt stone them with stones and they shall die. At the mouth of two or. iij witnesses shall he that is worthy of death, die: but at the mouth of one witness he shall not die. And the hands of the witnesses shallbe first upon him to kill him, and afterward the hands of all the people: so shalt thou put wickedness away from the.  
If a matter be to hard for the in judgement between blood and blood, plea and plea, plague and plague in matters of strife within thy cities: Then Arise and get the up unto the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, and go unto the priests the levites and unto the judge that shallbe in those days, and axe, and they shall show the how to judge. And see that thou do according to that which they of that place which the Lord hath chosen show the and see that thou observe to do according to all that they inform the. according to the law which they teach the and manner of judgement which they tell thee, see that thou do and that thou bow not from that which they she we thee, neither to the right hand nor to the lift.  
And that man that will do presumptuously, so that he will not hearken unto the priest that standeth there to minister unto the Lord thy God or unto the judge, shall die: and so thou shalt put away evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and shall fear, and shall do nomare presumptuosly,  
When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth the and enjoyest it and dwellest therein: If thou shalt say, I will set a king over me, like unto all the nations 
kyu●●s  that are about me: Then thou shalt make him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose. One of thy brethren must thou make king over thee, and mayst not set a stranger over the which is not of thy brethren. But in any wise let him not hold to many horses, that he bring not the people again to Egipte thorough the multitude of horses, for as much as the Lord hath said unto you: ye shall hence forth go no more again that way. Also he shall not have to many wives, lest his heart turn away, neither shall he gather him silver and godlde to much.  
And when he is seten upon the seat off his kingdom, he shall write him out this second law in a book taking a copy of the priests the levites. And it shallbe with him and he shall read there in all days of his life 
*  that he may learn to fear the Lord his God for to keep all the words of this law and these ordinances for to do them: that his heart arise not above his brethren and that he turn not from the commandment: either to the right hand or to the lift: that both he and his children may prolong their days in his kingdom in Israel.   

¶ The xviij Chapter.  
THe priests the Levites all the tribe off Levi shall have no part nor inheritance 
I marvel that our diffigured could ●●●ke no figure of this all this while.  with Israel. The offerings of the Lord and his inheritance they shall eat, but shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. And this is the duty of the priests, of the people and of them that offer, whether it be ox or sheep: They must give unto the priest, the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw, the firstfrutes of thy corn, wine and oil, and the first of thy shepeshering must thou give him. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand and to minister in the name of the Lord: both him and his sons for ever.  
If a Levite come out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a segeorner, and come with all the lust of his heart unto the place which the Lord hath chosen: he shall there minister in the name of the Lord his god as all his brethren the Levites do which stand there before the Lord. And they shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh to him of the patrimony of his elders.  
When thou art come in to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to do after the abominations of these nations. Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go thorough fire, either a bruterar or a maker of dismal days or that useth witchcraft or a sorcerar or a charmar or that speaketh with a spirit or a soothsayer or that talketh with them that are deed. For all that do such things are abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, be pure therefore with the Lord thy God. For these nations which thou shalt conquer, hearken unto makers off dysemall days and bruterars. But the Lord thy God permitteth not that to the.  
The Lord thy God will star up a prophet among you: even of thy brethren like unto me: and unto him ye shall hearken according to all that thou desyredest of the Lord thy 
Christ is here promised a preacher off better tidings than Mo●es.  god in Horeb in the day when the people were gathered saying: Let me hear the voice of my Lord God nomoare nor see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the Lord said unto me: they have well spoken, I will raise them up a prophett from among their brethren like unto the and will put my words in to his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And whosoever will not kerken unto the words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it off him.  
But the prophet which shall presume to speak aught in my name which I commanded him not to speak, and he that speaketh in the name of strange Gods, the same prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, how shall I know that which the Lord hath no● spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken. But the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: be not afeard therefore of him.   

¶ The xix Chapter.  
WHen the Lord thy Gad hath destroyed the nations whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou hast conquered them and dwellest in their cities and in their horses: thou shalt appoint three cities in the land which the Lord thy God giveth the to possess it: thou shalt prepare the way and divide the costs of thy land which the Lord thy God giveth the to enheret, in to three parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither.  
And this is the cause of the sleyer that shall 
The popis sentuaries are of an other purpose. For he had liefer have the frenshep of the eue● them to save them that are Good.  flee thither and be saved: If he smite his neighbour ignorantly and hated him not in time passed: As when a man goeth unto the wood with his neighbour to hue wood, and as his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe, the head slippeth from the helve and smiteth his neighbour that he die: the same shall flee unto one off the same cities and be saved. Lest the executer of blood follow after the sleyer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, and yet there is no cause worthy of death in him, in as much as he hated not his neighbour in time passed. Wherefore I 
As hate maketh the dead evil: so love maketh it good.  command the saying: see that thou appoint out three cities▪  
And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy costs as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and give the all the land which he said he would give ●nto thy fathers (so that thou keep all these commandments to do them, which I command the this day, that thou love the Lord thy god and walk in his ways ever) than thou shalt add three cities more unto those three that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth the to enheret, and so blood come upon thee,  
But and if there be any man that hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth against him and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities. Then let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him in to the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die, Let thine eye have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art thou.  
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbours mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou enherettest in the land which the Lord thy God giveth the to enjoy it.  
One witness shall not rise against a man in 
Yes in all matter of heresy against holy church.  any manner trespass or sin, whatsoever sin a man sinneth: But at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall all matters be tried.  
If an unrighteous witness rise up against a man to accuse him of trespass: then let both the men which strive together stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges which shallbe in those days, and let the judges inquire a good. And if the witness be found false and that he hath given false witness against his brother than shall ye do unto him as he had taught to do unto his brother, and so thou shalt put evil away from the. And other shall hear and fear and shall hence forth comytt no more any such wickedness among you. And let thine eye have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.   

¶ The twenty Chapter  
WHen thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses and charettes and people more then thou, be not afford of them, for the Lord thy God is with the which brought the out of the land off Egipte. And when ye are come nigh unto battle, let the priest come forth and speak unto the people and say unto them: Hear Israel, ye are come unto battle against your enemies, let not your hearts faint, neither fear nor be amazed nor a dread of them. For the Lord thy God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.  
And let the officers speak unto the people saying: If any man have built a new house 
Dedicat: the levites I suppose, hallowed them as we do our ships.  and have not * dedicate it, let him go and return to his house lest he die in the battle, and another dedicate it. And if any man have planted a vineyard and have not made it comen*, let him go and return again unto 
Comen: the. iij first years ●●● fruit might notbe eaten the fourth it might be offered and the ●ī●● caten and that is to make it comen to bring it to the vice of the lay people.  his house, lest he die in the battle and another make it comen. And if any man be betrothed unto a wife and have not taken her, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another take her.  
And let the officers speak further unto the people and say. If any man fear and be faint hearted, let him go and return unto his house, lest his brother's heart be made faint as well as his. And when the officers have made an end off speaking unto the people, let them make captains of war over them.  
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, offer them peace. And if they answer the again peaceably, and open unto thee, then let all the people that is found therein be tributaries unto the and serve the. But and if they will make no peace with thee, then make war against the city and besiege it. And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it in to thine hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sword, save the women and the children and the cattles and all that is in the city and all the spoil thereof take unto thyself and eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord thy God giveth the. Thus thou shalt do unto all the cities which are a great way of from the and not of the cities of these nations.  
But in the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God giveth the to enheret, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. But shalt destroy them with out redemption, both the Hethites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Pherezites, the Hevites and the jebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin against the Lord your God  
When thou hast besieged a city long time in making war against it to take it, destroy not the trees thereof, that thou wouldest thrust an axe unto them. For thou mayst eat of them, and therefore destroy them not. For the trees of the fields are no men, that they might come against the to besiege the. neverthelater those trees which thou knowest that men eat not of them, thou mayst destroy and cut them down and make bolwerkes against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be overthrown.   

¶ The xxj Chapter.  
IF one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth the to possess it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him: Then let thine elders and thy judges come forth and meet unto the cities that are round about the slain. And let the elders of that city which is next unto the slain man, take an heyffer that is not laboured with nor hath drawn in the lock, and let them bring her unto a valley where is neither earinge nor sowing, and strike of her heed there in the valley.  
Then let the priests the sons of Levi come forth (for the Lord thy God hath chosen them to minister and to bless in the name off the Lord and therefore at their mouth shall all strife and plague be tried). And all the elders of the city that is next to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heyffer that is beheaded in the plain, and shall answer and say: our hands have not shed this blood ne there have our eyes seen it. Be merciful Lord unto thy people Israel which thou hast delivered and put not innocent blood unto thy people Israel: and the blood shallbe forgiven them 
Right in the lords sight, and not in thine imagination.  And so shalt thou put innocent blood from thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the sight of the Lord.  
When thou goest to war against thine enemies and the Lord thy God hath delivered them in to thine hands and thou hast take them captive, and seist among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a fantasy unto her that thou wouldest have her to thy wife. Then bring her home to thine house and let her shave her heed and pair her nails and put her raiment that she was taken in from her, and let her remain in thine house and be weep her father and her mother a month long and after that go in unto her and marry her and let her be thy wife. And if thou have no favour unto her, then let her go whother she lusteth: for thou mayst not sell her for money nor make chevesaunce of her, because thou hast humbled her.  
If a man have two wives, one loved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the loved and also the hated▪ If the firstborn be the son of the hated: then when he dealeth his goods among his children, he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated which is in dead the firstborn: But he shall know the son off the hated for his first-born, that he give him double off all that he hath. For he is the first off his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the firstborneshippe.  
If any man have a son that is stuburne, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them: Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place, and say unto the elders of the city. This our son is stubborn and disobedient and will not hearken unto our voice, he is a rioter and a drunkard. Then let all the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear.  
If a man have committed a trespass worthy of death and is put to death for it and hanged on tree: let not his body remain all night upon the tree, but bury him the same day. For the curse off God is on him that is hanged. Defile not thy land therefore, which the Lord thy God giveth the to enherett.   

¶ The xxij Chapter.  
IF thou see thy brother's ox or sheep go astray, thou shalt not with draw thyself from them: But shalt bring them home again unto thy brother. If thy brother be not nigh unto the or if thou know him not, then bring them unto thine own house and let them be with thee, until thy brother axe after them, and then deliver him them again. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, with his raiment and with all lost things of thy brother which he hath lost and thou hast found, and thou mayst not withdraw thyself.  
If thou see that thy brother's ass or ox is fallen down by the way, thou shalt not withdraw thyself from them: but shalt help him to have them up again.  
The woman shall not were that which pertaineth unto the man, neither shall a man put on woman's raiment. For all that do so, are abomination unto the Lord thy God.  
If thou chance upon a birds nest by the way, in what soever tree it be or on the ground, whether they be young or eggs, and the dame sittenge upon the young or upon the eggs: Thou shalt not take the mother with the young. But shalt in any wise let the claim go and take the young, that thou mayst prosper and prolong thy days.  
When thou byldest a new house, thou shalt make a batelment unto the roof, that thou lad 
The horses be flat in those contres.  not blood upon thine house, if any man fall there of.  
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed: lest thou hallow the seed which thou hast sown with the fruit off thy vineyard.  
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an as see togetherr  
Thou shalt not were a garment made of will and flax together.  
Thou shalt put rybandes upon the four quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou coverest thyself.  
If a man take a wife and when he hath lain with her hate her and lay shameful things unto her charge and bring up an evil name upon her and say: I took this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then let the father of the damsel and the mother bring forth the tokens of the damsels virginity, unto the elders of the city, even unto the gate. And let the damsels father say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife and he hateth her: and loo, he layeth shameful things unto her charge saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginity. And let them spread the vesture before the elders off the city. Then let the elders of that city take that man and chastise him and merce him in an hundred sycles of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a maid in Israel. And she shallbe his wife, and he may not put her away all his days. But and if the thing be of a surety that the damsel be not found a virgin, let them bring her unto the door of her father's house, and let the men of that city stone her with stones to de●th, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house. And so thou shalt put evil away from the.  
If a man be sound dying with a woman, that hath a wedded husband, then let them die etherother of them: both the man that lay with the wife and also the wife: so thou shalt put away evil from Israel.  
If a maid be hanfasted unto an husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay with her, than ye shall bring them both out unto the gates of that same city and shall stone them with stones to death: The damsel because she cried not being in the city: And the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife, and thou shalt put away evil from the.  
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lay with her: Then the man that lay with her shall die alone, and unto the damsel thou shalt do no harm: because there is in the damsel no cause of death. For as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him, even so is this matter. For he found her in the fields and the be trothed damsel cried: but there was no man to succour her.  
If a man find a maid that is not betrothed and take her and lie with her and be found: Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsels father l sycles of silver. And she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days.  
No man shall take his father's wife, nor unheal his father's covering.   

¶ The xxiij Chapter  
NOne that is gelded or hath his privy membres cut of, shall come in to the congregation of the Lord. And he that is borne of a comen woman shall not come inthe congregation of the Lord, no in the tenth generation he shall not enter in to the congregation of the Lord. The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come in to the congregation of the Lord, no not in the tenth generation, no they shall never come in to the congregation of the Lord, because they met you not with bred and water in the way when ye came out of Egipte, and because they hired against the Balaam the son of Beor the interpreter of Mesopotamia, to curse the. Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved the. Thou shalt never therefore seek that which is prosperous or good for them all thy days for ever.  
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: neither shalt thou abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. The children that are begotten of them shall come in to the congregation of the Lord in the three generation.  
When thou goest out with the host against thine enemies, keep the from all wickedness for the Lord is among you.  
If there be any man that is unclean by the reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, let him go out of the host and not come in again until he have washed himself with water before the even: and then when the son is down, let him come in to the host again.  
Thou shalt have a place without the host whother thou shalt resort to and thou shalt have a sharp point at the end of thy weapon: and when thou wilt ease thyself, dig therewith and turn and cover that which is departed from the. For the Lord thy God walketh in thine host, to rydd the and to set thine enemies before the. Let thine host be pure that he see no unclean thing among you and turn from you.  
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto the. Let him dwell with thee, even among you in what place he himself liketh best, in one of thy cities where it is good for him, an● vex him not.  
There shallbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whorekeper of the sons of Israel  
Thou shalt neither bring the hire of an 
The pope will take tribute of them yet and bishops, and aboytes desire no better ●●nauntes.  whore nor the price of a dog in to the house of the Lord thy God, in no manner of vow: for even both of them are abomination unto the Lord thy God.  
Thou shalt be no usurer unto thy brother, neither in money nor in food, nor in any manner thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayst lend upon usury, but not unto thy brother, that the Lord thy God may bless the in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whother thou goest to conquer it.  
When thou hast vowed a vow unto the Lord thy God, see thou be not slack to pay it. For he will surely require it of thee, and it shallbe sin unto the. If thou shalt leave vowing, it shallbe no sin unto thee: but that which is once gone out off thy lips, thou must keep and do, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy god a frewilloffring which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.  
When thou comest in to thy neighbours vyneyarde, thou mayst eat grapes thy belyfull at thine own pleasure: but thou shalt put none in thy bag.  
When thou goest in to thy neighbours corn, thou mayst pluck the ears with thine hand but thou mayst not move a sycle unto thy neighbours corn.   

¶ The xxiiij Chapter.  
WHen a man hath taken a wife and married her, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath spied some uncleanness in her. Then let him write her a bill of devor cement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house. If when she is departed out of his house, she go and be another man's wife and the second husband hate her and write her a letter of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house, or if the second man die which took her to wife. Her first man which sent her away may not take her again to be his wife, in as much as she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the Lord: that thou defile not the land with sin, which the Lord thy God giveth the to enherett.  
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare neither shallbe charged with any business: but shallbe fire at home one year and rejoice with his wife which he hath taken.  
No man shall take the neither or the upper millstone to pledge, for than he taketh a man's life to pledge.  
If any man be found stealing any of his brethren the children of Israel, and maketh chevisance of him or selleth him, the thief shall die. And thou shalt put evil away from the.  
Take heed to thyself as concerning the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently to do according to all that the priests the levites shall theach thee, as I commanded them 
Do as the prcastes teach you: but as I have taught them and not as they fay●e.  so ye shall observe to do. Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Mirabel jam by the way, after that ye were come out off Egipte.  
If thou lend thy brother any manner soker, thou shalt not go in to his house to fetch a pledge: but shalt stand without and the man to whom thou lendest, shall bring the the pledge out at the door. furthermore if it be a poor body, go not to sleep with his pledge: but deliver him the pledge again by that the son go down, and let him sleep in his own raiment and bless the. And it shallbe righteousness unto thee, before the Lord thy God.  
Thou shalt not defraud an hired servant that is needy and poor, whether he be off thy brethren or a stranger that is in thy land with in thy cities. give him his hire the same day, and let not the son go down thereon. For he is needy and therewith sustaineth his life, lest he cry against the unto the Lord and it be sin unto the.  
The fathers shall not die for the children nor the children for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.  
hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widows raiment to pledge. But remember that thou wast a servant in Egipte, and how the Lord thy God delivered the thence. Wherefore I command the to do this thing.  
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field thou shalt not go again and fett it: But it shallbe for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless the in all the works of thine hand. When thou beatest down thine olive, trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And when thou gatherest thy vineyard▪ thou shalt not gather clean after thee: but it shallbe for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egipte: wherefore I command the to do this thing.   

¶ The xxv Chapter.  
WHen there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and let the judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespeaser. And if the trespeaser be worthy of stripes, then let the judge cause to take him down and to beat him before his face according to his trespass, unto a certain numbered xl stirpes he shall give him and not pass: lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear ungodly before thine eyes.  
Thou shalt not mosel the ox that treadeth out the corn.  
When brethren dwell together and one of 
It were hard to prove this a ceremony  them die and have no child, the wife of the deed shall not be given out unto a stranger: but her brotherlawe shall go in unto her and take her to wife and marry her. And the eldest son which she beareth, shall stand up in the name of his brother which is deed, that his name be not put out in Israel.  
But and if the man will not take his systerlawe, then let her go to the gate unto the elders and say: My brotherlawe refuseth to star up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not marry me. Then let the elders of his city call unto him and comen with him. If he stand and say: I will not take her, then let his systerlawe go unto him in the presence of the elders and lose his show of his foot and spytt in his face and answer and say. So shall it be done unto that man that will not build his brother's house. And his name shallbe called in Israel, the unshoed house.  
If when men strive together, one with another, the wife of the one run to, for to rid her husband out of the hands of him that smiteth him and put forth her hand and take him by the secrettes: cut of her hand, and let not thine eye pity her.  
Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small: neither shalt thou have in thine house diverse measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, For all that do such things and all that do unright, are abomination unto the Lord thy God.  
Remember what Amalech did unto the by the way after thou camest out of Egipte, he met the by the way and smote the hynmost of you, all that were over laboured and dragged by hind, when thou wast fainted and weary, and he feared not God. Therefore when the Lord thy God hath given the rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth the to enheret and possess: see that thou put out the name of Amalech from under heaven, and forget not.   

¶ The xxuj Chapter.  
WHen thou art come in to the land which the Lord thy God giveth the to enherett and hast enjoyed it and dwellest there in: take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou hast brought in out of the land that the Lord thy God giveth the and put it in a mand and go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to make his name dwell there. And thou shalt come unto the priest that shallbe in those days and say unto him I knowledge this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord swore unto our fathers for to give us.  
And the priest shall take the mand out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. And thou shalt answer and say before the Lord thy God: The Syrians would have destroyed my father, and he went down in to Egipte and sogeorned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people. And the Egyptians vexed us and troubled us, and jaded us with cruel bondage. And we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression. And the Lord brought us out of Egipte with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with great tereblenesse and with signs and wonders. And he hath brought us in to this place and hath given us this land that floweth with milk and honey. And now loo, I have brought the first fruits off the land which the Lord hath given me. And set it before the Lord thy God and worshepe before the Lord thy God and rejoice over all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given unto the and unto thine house, both thou the Levite and the stranger that is among you.  
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, the year of tithing: and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, and they have eaten in thy gates and filled themselves. Then say before the Lord thy God: I have brought the hallowed things out of mine house and have given them unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow according to all the commandments which thou commandest me: I have not overskipped thy commandments, nor forgotten them. I have not eaten thereof in my mourning nor taken away thereof unto any uncleanness, nor spent thereof about any deed corpse: but have hearkened unto the voice of the Lord my God, and have done after all that he commanded me, look down from thy holy habitation heaven and bless thy people Israel and the land which thou hast given us (as thou sworest unto our fathers) a land that floweth with milk and honey.  
This day the Lord thy God hath commanded the to do these ordinances and laws. Keep them therefore and do them with all thine heart and all thy soul. Thou hast set up the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his ordinances, his commandments and his laws, and to hearken unto his voice. And the Lord hath set the up this day, to be a several people unto him (as he hath promised thee) and that thou keep his commandments, and to make the high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, in name and honour: that thou mayst be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.   

The xxvij Chapter.  
ANd Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying: keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And when ye be come over jordan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster them with plaster, and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayst come in to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey▪ as the Lord God off thy fathers hath promised the.  
When ye be come over jordan, see that ye set up these stones which I command you this day in mount ebal, and plaster them with plaster. And there build unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones and see thou lift up no iron upon them: But thou shalt make the altar of the Lord thy God of rughstones and offer burntoffrynges thereon unto the Lord thy God. And thou shalt offer peaceof frynges and shalt eat there and rejoice before the Lord thy God. And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and well  
And Moses with the priests the Levites spoke unto all Israel saying: take heed and hear Israel, this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. hearken therefore unto the voice of the Lord thy God and do his commandments and his ordinances which I command you this day.  
And Moses charged the people the same day saying: these shall stand upon mount Grisim to bless the people, when ye are come over lordayne: simeon, Levi, juda, Isachar, joseph and Ben jamin. And these shall stand upon mount ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad Asser, Zabulon, Dan and Neptaly. And the Levites shall begin and say unto all the men of Israel wi●h a loud voice.  
Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal (an abomination unto 
Here of take the pope's an occasion to curse four times in the year  the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman) and putteth it in a secret place: And all the people shall answer and say Amen.  
Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbours mark and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that maketh the blind go out off his way, and all the people shall say Amen,  
Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger▪ fatherless and widow, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife because he hath opened his father's covering, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner be'st, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister whether she be the daughter of his father or off his mother, and all the people shall say Amen  
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that taketh a reward to flee innocent blood, and all the people shall say Amen.  
Cursed be he that mantayneth not all the words of this law to do them, and all the people shall say  
Amen.   

¶ The xxviij Chapter  
IF thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command the this day. The Lord will set the an high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come on the and over take thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the town and blessed in the fields, blessed shallbe the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattles, the fruit of thine oxen, and thy flocks of sheep, blessed shall thine almery be and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be, both when thou goest out, and blessed when thou comest in.  
The Lord shall smite thine enemies that rise against the before thy face. They shall come out against the one way, and flee before the seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing to be with the in thy store horses and in all that thou settest thine hand to, and will bless the in the land which the Lord thy god giveth the.  
The Lord shall make the an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee: if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God and walk in his ways.  
And all nations of the earth shall see that thou art called after the name of the Lord, and they shallbe afeard off the. And the Lord shall make the plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit off thy cattles and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers to give the.  
The Lord shall open unto the his good treasure, even the heaven, to give rain unto thy land in due season and to bless all the labours of thine hand. And thou shalt lend unto many nations, but shalt not need to borrow thyself. And the Lord shall set the before and not behind, and thou shalt be above only and not beneath: if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God which I command the this day to keep and to do them. And see that thou bow not from any of these words which I command the this day either to the right hand or to the left, that thou wouldest go after strange gods to serve them.  
But and if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to keep and to do all his commandments and ordinances which I command the this day: then all these curses shall come upon the and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed in the field, cursed shall thine almery be and thy store. Cursed shall the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep. And cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in, and when thou goest out.  
And the Lord shall send upon the cursing, going to nought and complaining in all that thou settest thine hand to what soever thou dost: until thou be destroyed and brought to nought quickly, because of the wickedness of thine inventions in that thou hast forsaken the Lord. And the Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed the from the land whether thou goest to enjoy it. And the Lord shall smite the with swelling, with fevers, heat, burning, wethering, with smiting and bia sting. And they shall follow thee, until thou perish.  
And the heaven that is over thy heed shallbe brass, and the earth that is under the iron. And the Lord shall turn the rain of the land unto powder and dust: even from heaven they shall come down upon thee, until thou be brought to nought. And the Lord shall plague the before thine enemies: Thou shalt come out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them, and shalt be scattered among all the kingdoms of the earth. And thy car casse shallbe meat unto all manner fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.  
And the Lord will smite the with the botches of Egipte and the ●morodes, scalle and maungynesse, that thou shalt not be healed thereof. And the Lord shall smite the with madness, blindness and dazing of heart. And thou shalt grope at none day as the blind gropeth in darkness, and shalt not come to the right way.  
And thou shalt suffer wrong only and be polled evermore, and no man shall soker thee, thou shalt be betrothed unto a wife, and another shall lie with her. Thou shalt build an house and another shall dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not make it comen. Thine ox shallbe slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thine ass shallbe violently taken away even before thy face, and shall not be restored the again. Thy sheep shallbe given unto thine enemies, and no man shall help the.  
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be give unto another nation, and thine eyes shall see and dase upon them all day long, but shalt have no might in thine hand. The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation which thou knowest not, eat, and thou shalt but soffre violence only and be oppressed alway: that thou shalt be clean beside thyself for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.  
The Lord shall smite the with a mischievous botch in the knees and legs, so that thou ●anst not be healed: even from the sole of the foot unto the top of the heed.  
The Lord shall bring both the and thy king which thou hast set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there thou shalt serve strange gods: even wood and stone. And thou shalt go to waste and be made an ensample and a jesting stock unto all nations whether the Lord shall carry the.  
Thou shalt carry much seed ou● in to the field, and shalt gather but little in: for the locusts shall destroy it, Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it, but shalt neither drink off the wine neither gather of the grapes, for the worms shall eat it. Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy costs, but shalt not be anointed with the oil, for thine olive trees shallbe rooted out. Thou shalt get sons and daughters, but shalt not have them: for they shallbe carried away captive. All thy trees and fruit of thy land shallbe marred with blasting.  
The strangers that are among you shall climb above the up an high, and thou shalt come down beneath allow. He shall lend the and thou shalt not lend him, he shallbe before and thou behind.  
Moreover all these curses shall come upon the and shall follow the and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed: because thou herkenedest not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and ordinances which he commanded thee, and they shallbe upon the as miracles and wonders and upon thy seed forever. And because thou seruedest not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with a good heart for the abundance of all things, therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the Lord shall send upon thee: in hunger and thrust, in nakedness and in need off all ●hynge: and he shall put a yoke off yearn ●ppon thine neck, until he have brought the to nought.  
And the Lord shall bring a nation upon the from a far, even from the end off the world, as swift as an eagle fleeth: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand: a herd favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young. And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattles until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave the neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought the to nought. And he shall keep the in in all thy cities, until thy high and strong walls be come down wherein thou trustedest, thorough all thy land. And he shall besiege the in all thy cities thorough out all thy land which the Lord thy God hath given the.  
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body: the flesh of thy sons and off thy daughters which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in that straightness and siege where▪ with thine enemy shall besiege thee: so that it shall grieve the man that is tender and exceeding delicate among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife that lieth in his bosom and on the remnant of his children, which he hath yet left, for fear of giving unto any of them of the flesh of his children, which he eateth, because he hath nought left him in that straightness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege the in all thy cities.  
Ye and the woman that is so tender and delicate among you that she dare not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for softness and tenderness, shallbe grieved to look on the husband that layeth in her bosom and on her son and on her daughter: even because of the afterbyrthe that is come out from between her legs, and because of her children which she hath borne, because she would eat them for need off all things secretly, in the straightness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege the in thy cities.  
If thou wilt not be diligent to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, for to fear this glorious and fearful name of the Lord thy God: the Lord will smite both the and thy seed with wonderful plagues and with great plagues and of long continuance, and with evil sicknesses and of long durance. Moreover he will bring upon the all the diseases off Egipte which thou wast afraid off, and they shall cleave unto the. Thereto all manner sekenesse● and all manner plagues which are not written in the book of this law, will the Lord bring upon the until thou be come to nought. And ye shallbe left few in numbered, where to fore ye were as the stars off heaven in multitude: because thou wouldest not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.  
And as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shallbe wasted from of the land whother thou goest to enjoy it, And the Lord shall scatter the among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even would and stone.  
And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord shall give the there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind. And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt fear both day and night and shalt have no trust in thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, would God it were night. And at night thou shalt say, would God it were morning. For fear off thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.  
And the Lord shall bring the in to Egipte again with ships, by the way which I bade the that thou shouldest see it nomoare. And there ye shallbe sold unto your enemies, for bondmen and bondwemen: and yet no man shall buy you.   

¶ The xxix Chapter.  
THese are the words of the appointment which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the appointment which he made with them in Horeb.  
And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them: Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egipte, unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants, and unto all his land, and the great temptations which thine eyes have seen and those great miracles and wonders: and yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear unto this day.  
And I have led you xl year in the wilderness: and your clothes are not waxed old upon you, nor are thy shows waxed old upon thy feet. Ye have eaten no bread nor drunk wine or strounge drink: that ye might know, how that he is the Lord your God.  
And at the last ye came unto this place, and Sihon the king of Hesbon and Og king of Basan came out against you unto battle, and we smote them and took their land and gave it an heritance unto the Rubenites and Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasse. Keep therefore the word of this appointment and do them, that ye may understand all that ye ought to do.  
Ye stand here this day every one of you before the Lord your God: both the heeds of your tribes, your elders, your officers and all the men of Israel: your children, your wives and the straungere that are in thine host, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: that thou shulddest come under the appointment of the Lord thy God, and under his oath which the Lord thy God maketh with the this day. For to make the a people unto himself, and that he may be unto the a God, as he hath said unto the and as he hath sworn unto thy father's Abraham, Isaac and jacob.  
Also I make not this bond and this oath with you only: but both with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day. For ye know how we have dwelled in the land of Egipte, and how we came thorough the mids of the nations which we passed by. And ye have seen their abominations and their idols: wood, stone, silver and gold which they had.  
Lest there be among you man or woman kindred or tribe that turneth away in his heart this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations: and lest there be among you some root that beareth gall and wormwod, so that when he heareth the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart saying: I fear it not, I will therefore walk after the lust of mine own heart, that the drunken destroy the thirsty.  
And so the Lord will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the Lord do out his name from under heaven, and separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according unto all the curses of the appointment that is written in the book of this law.  
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you and the stranger that shall come from a far land, say when they see the plagues of that land, and the diseases where with the Lord hath smitten it how all the land is burnt up with bremstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein, after the overtrowenge of Sodom, Gomor, Adama and Zeboim: which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger.  
And than all nations also say: wherefore hath the Lord done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath? And men shall say: because they left the testament of the Lord God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egipte. And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought. And therefore the wrath off the Lord waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. And the Lord cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furyou snesse, and cast them in to a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.  
The secrettes pertain unto the Lord our God and the things that are opened pertain unto us and our children for ever, that we do all the words of this law.   

The xxx Chapter.  
WHen all these words are come upon the whether it be the blessing or the curse which I have set before thee: yet if thou turn unto thine heart among all the nations whother the Lord thy God hath thrust thee, and come again unto the Lord thy God and hearken unto his voice according to all that I command the this day: both thou and thy children with all thine heart and all thy soul: Then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity and have comppassion upon the and go and fett the again from all the nations, among which the Lord thy God shall have scattered the.  
Though thou wast cast unto the extreme parts of heaven: even from thence will the Lord thy God gather the and from thence fett the and bring the in to the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt enjoy it. And he will show the kindness and multiply the above thy fathers. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed for to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul, that thou mayst live. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that hate the and persecute the.  
But thou shalt turn and hearken unto the voice of the Lord and do all his commandments which I command the this day And the Lord thy God will make the plenteous in all the works of thine hand and in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattles and fruit of thy land and in riches. For the Lord will turn again and rejoice over the to do the good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and ordinances which are written in the book of this law, if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul.  
For the commandment which I command the this day, is not separated from the neither far of. It is not in heaven, that thou neadest to say: who shall go up for us in to heaven, and fett it us, that we may hear it and do it: Nether is it beyond the see, that thou shouldest say: who shall go over see for us and fett ●t us that we may hear it and do it: But the word is very nigh unto thee: even in thy mouth and in thine heart, that thou do it.  
Behold I have set before you this day life and good, death and cuell: in that I command the this day to love the Lord thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his ordinances and his laws: that thou mayst live and multipye, and that the Lord thy God man bless the in the land whother thou goest to possess it.  
But and if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear: but shalt go astray and worshepe strange gods and serve them, I pronounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely peresh and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whother thou passest over jordan to go and possess it.  
I call to record this day unto you, heaven and earth, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: but chose life, that thou and thy seed may live, in that thou lovest the Lord thy God herkenest unto his voice and cleavest unto him. For he is thy life and the length of thy days, that thou mayst dwell upon the earth which the Lord swore unto thy fathers: Abraham, Isaac and jacob to give them.   

The xxxi Chapter.  
ANd Moses went and spoke these words unto all Israel and said unto them I am an hundred and twenty year old this day, and can nomoare go out and in. Also the Lord hath said unto me, thou shalt not go over this jordan. The Lord your God he will go over before the and he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt conquer them. And josua he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said. And the Lord shall do unto them, as he did to Sihon and Og kings of the Amorites and unto their lands which kings he destroyed.  
And when the Lord hath delivered them to thee, see that ye do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. Pluck up your hearts and be strong, dread not nor be afeard of them: for the Lord thy God himself will go with thee, and will neither let the go nor forsake thee:  
And Moses called unto josua and said unto him in the sight of all Israel: Be strong and bold, for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt give it them to enheret. And the Lord he shall go before the and he shall be with thee, and will not let the go nor forsake thee, fear not therefore nor be discomforted.  
And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi which bore the ark of the testament of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel, and commanded them saying: At the end of vij year, in the time of the free year, in the fest of the tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which he hath chosen: see that thou read this law before all Israel in their ears Gather the people together: both men, women and children and the strangers that are in thy cities, that they may hear, learn and fear the Lord your God, and be diligent to keep all the words of this law, and that their children which know nothing may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whother ye go over jordan to possess it.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: Behold thy days are come, that thou must die. Call josua and come and stand in the tabernacle of witness, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and josua went and stood in the tabernacle off witness. And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle: even in the pillar off the cloud. And the piler of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.  
And the Lord said unto Moses: behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods off the land whother they go and will forsake me and break the appointment which I have made with them. And then my wrath will wax hot against them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shallbe consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, than they will say: because our God is not among us, these tribulations are come upon us. But I will hide my face that same time for all the evils sake which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods.  
Now therefore write ye this song, and teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouths that this song may be my witness unto the children of Israel. For when I have brought them in to the land which I swore unto their fathers that runneth with milk and honey, than they will eat and fill themselves and wax fat and turn unto strange gods and serve them and rail on me and break my testament. And then when much mischief and tribulation is come upon them, this song shall answer before them, and be a witness. It shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about even now before I have brought them in to the land which I swore. And Moses wrote this song the same season, and taught it the children of Israel.  
And the Lord gave josua the son off Nun a charge and said: be bold and strong for thou shalt bring the children of Israel in to the land which I swore unto them, and I will be with the.  
When Moses had made an end of writing out the words of this law in a book unto the end of them he commanded the Levites which bore the ark of the testament of the Lord saying: take the book off this law and put it by the side of the ark of the testament of the Lord your God, and let it be there for a witness unto the. I For know thy stubernesse and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet a live with you this day, ye have been dishobedient unto the Lord: and how much more after my death.  
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I am sure that after my death, they will utterly mar themselves and turn from the way which I commanded you, and tribulation will come upon you in the later days, when ye have wrought welkednesse in the sight of the Lord to provoke him with the works of your hands. And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, unto the end of them.   

The xxxij Chapter.  
Hear o heaven, what I shall speak and hear o earth the words of my mouth. My doctrine drop as doth the rain, and my speech flow as doth the dew, as the meselling upon the herbs, and as the drops upon the grass. For I will call on the name of the Lord: Magnify the might of our God.  
He is a rock and perfect are his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without wickedness, both righteous and just is he.  
The froward and overthwart generation hath marred themselves to him ward, and ●re not his sons for their deformities sake,  
Dost thou so reward the Lord? O foolish nation and unwise. Is not he thy father and thine owner? hath he not made the and ordained thee?  
Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to tyme. Axe thy father and ●e will show thee, thine elders and they will ●ell the.  
When the most highest gave the nations an ●nheritaunce, and divided the sons of Adam ●e put the borders of the nations, fast by the multitude of the children of Israel.  
For the lords part is his folk, and Israel ●● the portion of his inheritance.  
He found him in a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness. he led him about and gave him understanding, and kep●● him as the apple of his eye.  
As an eagle that steereth up her nest and ●●otereth over her young, he stretched out ●is wings and took him up and bore him on his shoulders.  
The Lord alone was his guide, and there was no strange God with him.  
He set him up upon an high land, and he ate the increase of the fields. And he gave h● honey to suck out of the rock, and oil out of the hard stone.  
With butter of the kine and milk of the sheep, with fat of the lambs and fat ramme● and he goats with fat kidneys and with wheat. And of the blood of grapes thou dr●kest wine.  
And Israel waxed fat and kyked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth, And he let God go that made him and despised the rock that saved him.  
They angered him with strange gods and with abominations provoked him.  
They offered unto feldedevels and not to God, and to gods which they knew not and to new gods that came newly up which their fathers feared not.  
Of the rock that begat the thou art vn● mindful and hast forgot God that made the.  
And when the Lord saw it, he was anger because of the provoking of his sons and daughters.  
And he said: I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation and children in whom is no faith.  
They have angered me with that which is no god, and provoked me with their vanities And I again will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with ● foelish nation.  
For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn unto the bottom of hell. And shall consume the earth with her increase, and set a fire the botoms of the mountains.  
I will heap mischiefs upon the and will spend all mine arrows at them.  
Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the ●ethe of beasts upon them and poison serpents.  
Without forth, the sword shall rob them off their children: and within in the chamber, fear: both young men and young women and the sucklings with the men of grey ●eedes.  
I have determened to scatter them therowout ●e world, and to make away the remembrance of them from among men.  
Were it not that I feared the railing off their enemies, lest their adversaries wo●de be proud and say: our high hand hath done a● these works and not the Lord.  
For it is a nation that hath an unhappy forecast, and hath no understonge in them. ● would they were wise and understood this and would consider their later end.  
How it cometh that one shall chase ● thousand, and two put ten thousand of● them to flight? except their rock had sold them, and because the Lord had delivered them.  
For our rock is not as their rock, no though our enemies be judge.  
But their wines are of the wines of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorra. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters be bitter.  
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.  
Are not such things laid in store with me▪ and seeled up among my treasures?  
Vengeance is mine and I will reward: their feet shall slide, when the time cometh. For the time of their destruction is at hand, and the time that shall come upon them maketh haste.  
For the Lord will do justice unto his people, and have compassion on his servants. For it shallbe seen that their power shall fail, and at the last they shallbe prisoned and forsaken.  
And it shallbe said: where are their gods and their rock wherein they trusted?  
The fat of whose sacrifices they ate and drank the wine of their drynckofferynges, let them rise up and help you and be your protection.  
See now how that I, I am he, and that there is no God but I. I can kill and make alive, and what I have smitten that I can heal: neither y● there that can deliver any man out off my hand.  
For I will lift up mine hand to heaven, and will say: I live ever.  
If I whet the lightening of my sword, and mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will show vengeance on mine enemies and will reward them that hate me.  
I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of the bare heed of the enemy.  
Rejoice heathen with his people, for he will avenge the blood off his servants, and will avenge him off his adversaries, and willbe merciful unto the land off his people.  
And Moses went and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, both he and josua the son of Nun. And when Moses had spoken all these words unto the end to all Israel, than he said unto them. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify unto you this day: that ye command them unto your children, to observe and do all the words off this law. For it is not a vain word unto you: but it is your life, and thorough this word ye shall prolong your days in the land whother ye go over jordan to conquer it.  
And the Lord spoke unto Moses the self same day saying: get the up in to this mountain Abarim unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against jericho. And behold the land of Canaan which I give unto the children of Israel to possess. And die in the mount which thou goest upon, and be gathered unto thy people: As Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor and was gathered unto his people. For ye trespased against me among the children of Israel at the waters off strife, at Cades in the wilderness of Zin: because ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel. Thou shalt see the land before thee, but shall not go thither unto the land which I give the children off Israel.   

The xxxiij Chapter.  
THis is the blessing where with Moses gods man blessed the children of Israel before his death saying: The Lord came from Sinai and showed his beams from Seir unto them, and appeared gloriously from mount Paran, and he came with thousands of saints, and in his right hand a law of fire for them How loved he the people? All his saints are in his hand. They yoyned themselves unto thy foot and received thy words. Moses gave us a law which is the inheritance of the congregation of jacob. And he was in Israel king when he gathered the heeds of the people and the tribes of Israel together.  
Reuben shall live and shall not die: but his people shallbe few in numbered.  
This is the blessing of juda. And he said: hear Lord the voice of juda and bring him unto his people: let his hands fight for him: but he thou his help against his enemies.  
And unto Levi he said: thy perfectness and thy light be after thy merciful man whom thou temptest at Masa and with whom thou strivedst at the waters of strife. He that saith unto his father and mother. I saw him not, and unto his brethren I knew not, and to his son I wot not: for they have observed thy words and kept thy testament. They shall teach jacob thy judgements and Israel thy laws. They shall put cens before thy nose and whole sacrifices upon thine altar. Bless Lord their power and accept the works of their hands: smite the backs of them that rise against them and of them that hate them: that they rise not again.  
Unto Ben jamin he said: The lords darling shall dwell in saffetye by him and keep himself in the haven by him continually, and shall dwell between his shoulders.  
And unto joseph he said: blessed of the Lord is his land with the goodly fruits off heaven, with dew and with springs that lie beneath: and with fruits of the increase of the son and with ripe srute off the months, and with the tops of mountains that were from the beginning and with the dayntes of hills that last ever and with goodly fruit of the earth and off the fullness there of. And the good will of him that dwelleth in the bush shall come upon the heed of joseph and upon the top of the heed of him that was separated fro among his brethren his beauty is as a first-born ox and his horns as the horns of an unicorn. And with them he shall push the nations together, even unto the ends of the world. These are the many thousands of Ephraim and the thousands off Manasse.  
And unto Zabulon he said: Rejoice Zabulon in thy goenge out, and thou Isachar in thy tents. They shall call the people unto the hill, and there they shall offer offerings of righteousness. For they shall suck of the abundance of the see and of treasure hid in the sonde.  
And unto Gad he said: blessed is the rowmmaker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion and caught the arm and also the top of the heed He saw his beginning, that a part of the teachers were hid there and come with the heeds of the people, and executed the righteousness of the Lord and his judgements with Israel.  
And unto Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, he shall flow from Basan.  
And unto Nepthali he said: Nephali he shall have abundance of pleasure and shallbe filled with the blessing of the Lord and shall have his possessions in the south-west.  
And of Asser he said: Asser shallbe blessed with children: he shallbe acceptable unto his brethren and shall dip his foot in oil: Yern and brass shall hang on thy shows and thine age shallbe as thy youth.  
There is none like unto the God of the off Israel: he that sitteth upon heaven shallbe thine help, whose glory is in the clouds, that is the dwelling place of God from the beginning and from under the arms of the world: he hath cast out thine enemies before the and said: destroy. And Israel shall dwell in saffetye alone. And the eyes of jacob shall look appon a land of corn and wine, moreover his heaven shall drop with dew. Happy art thou Israel, who is like unto thee? A people that art saved by the Lord thy shield and helper and sword of thy glory. And thine enemies shall hide themselves from thee, and thou shalt walk upon their high hills.   

The xxxiiij Chapter  
ANd Moses went from the fields of Moab up in to mount Nebo which is the top of Pisga, that is over against jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land off Gilead even unto. Dan, and all nephtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasse, and all the land of juda: even unto the utmost see, and the south and the region of the plain of jericho the city of datetrees even unto Zoar: And the Lord said unto him. This is the which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and jacob saying: I will give it unto thy seed. I have showed it the before thine eyes: but thou shalt not go over thither.  
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab at the commandment of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab beside Beeth Peor: but no man wist of his sepulchre unto this day. And Moses was an hundred and twenty year old when he died. and yet his eyes were not dim nor his cheeks abated. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the fields off Moab xxx days. And the days off weeping and morning for Moses were ended.  
And josua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom: for Moses had put his hand upon him. And all the children of Israel hearkened unto him and did as the Lord commanded Moses. But there arose not a prophett sense in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the miracles and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egipte, unto Pharaoh and all his servants and unto all his land: and in all the mighty deeds and great tereble things which Moses did in the sight of all Israel   
¶ The end of the fifth book of Moses.   


Avims, A kind of giants, and the word signifieth crooked unright or wicked.  
Belial wicked or wickedness, he that hath cast the yoke of God of his neck and will not obey god.  
Bruterar, prophesiers or soothsayers.  
Emims, a kind of giants so called be cause they were terrible and cruel for emin signifieth terreblenesse.  
Enack, a kind of giants, so called happily because they were chains about their necks, for enack signifieth such a chain as men wear about their necks.  
Horims, A kind of giants, and signifieth noble, because that of pride they called themselves nobles or gentles.  
Rock, God is called a rock, because both he and his word lasteth ever.  
Whet them on thy children, that is exercise thy children in them and putthem in ure.  
Zamzumims, a kind of giants, and signifleth mischievous or that be all way imagining.