it be eaten for it is holy And thus shalt thou do with Aaron and his sonnes all that I haue commaunded ye. Seuen dayes shalt thou fyll their handes and offer a bullocke daylie for a synne offeringe because of them y t shal be reconciled And thou shalt halowe the altare whan thou reconcylest it shalt anoynte it that it maye be consecrated Seuen dayes shalt thou reconcyle the altare consecrate it that it maye be an altare of the Most holy Who so wyll touch the altare must be consecrated And this shalt thou do with the altare Two lambes of one yeare olde shalt thou offer euery daye vpon it the one lambe in the mornynge and the other at euen And to one lambe a tenth deale of wheate floure meÌ„gled with y e fourth parte of an Hin of beaten oyle and y e fourth parte of an Hin of wine for a drynk offerynge With the other lambe at euen shalt thou do like as with y e meate offerynge and drynk offerynge in the mornynge for a swete sauoure of sacrifice vnto y e LORDE This is the daylie burnt offerynge amonge youre posterities at the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse before the LORDE where I will proteste vnto you and talke with the. There wil I proteste vnto the children of Israel and be sanctified in my glory and wyl halowe the Tabernacle of wytnes and the altare and consecrate AaroÌ„ and his sonnes to be my prestes And I wyl dwell amonge the children of Israel wyll be their God so y t they shal knowe how that I am the LORDE their God which brought them out of the londe of Egipte that I might dwell amonge them euen I the LORDE their God The XXX Chapter THou shalt make also an incense altare to burne incense of Fyrre tre a cubyte longe brode eauen foure squared and two cubytes hye with his hornes shalt ouerlaye it with pure golde the rofe the walles of it rounde aboute and the hornes therof a crowne of golde shalt thou make rounde aboute it and two golde rynges on ether syde vnder the crowne that there maie be staues put therin to beare it with all The staues shalt thou make of Fyrre tre also and ouerlaye theÌ„ with golde and shalt set it before the vayle that hangeth before the Arke of wytnesse and before the Mercy seate y t is vpon the wytnesse from whence I wyl proteste vnto the. And Aaron shal burne swete incense theron euery morninge whaÌ„ he dresseth the lampes In like maner whan he lighteth the lampes at euen he shall burne soch incense also This shal be the daylie incense before the LORDE amonge youre posterities Ye shall put no straunge incense therin offer no burnt offerynge ner meat offerynge nether drynk offerynge theron And vpon y e hornes of it shall Aaron reconcyle once in a yeare with y e bloude of the synne offerynge which they shall offer that are reconcyled This shal be done amonge youre posterities for this is the most holy vnto the LORDE And the LORDE Espake vnto Moses and sayde Whan thou nombrest the heades of the children of Israel then shal euery one geue vnto the LORDE the reconcylinge of his soule y t there happeÌ„ not a plage vnto them whan they are nombred Euery one that is tolde in the nombre shall geue half a Sycle after the Sycle of the Sanctuary one Sycle is worth twentye Geras This half Sycle shal be y e LORDES Heue offerynge Who so is in the nombre from twenty yeare and aboue shal geue this Heue offerynge vnto y e LORDE The riche shal not geue more and the poore shal not geue lesse in the half Sycle which is geuen vnto the LORDE to be an Heue offerynge for the reconcylinge of their soules And this money of recoÌ„cilinge shalt thou take of the children of Israel put it to the Gods seruyce of the Tabernacle of wytnes that it maye be a remembraunce vnto the children of Israel before the LORDE that he maye let himself be reconcyled ouer their soules And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Thou shalt make a brasen lauer also with a fote of brasse to wash and shalt set it betwixte the Tabernacle of witnesse and y e altare and put water therin that AaroÌ„ and his sonnes maye wash their handes and fete therout whan they go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse or to the altare to mynistre vnto the LORDE with offerynge incense y t they dye not This shal be a perpetuall custome for him and his sede amonge their posterities And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Take vnto the spyces of the best fyue hundreth Sycles of Myrre and of CynamoÌ„ half so moch euen two hundreth and fyftie and of Kalmus two hundreth and fiftye and of Cassia fyue hundreth after the Sycle of the Sanctuary an Hin of oyle olyue and make an holy anoyntinge oyle after the craft of the Apotecary And there w t shalt thou anoynte the Tabernacle of wytnesse the Arke of wytnes the table with all his apparell y e candilsticke with his apparell the altare of incense the altare of burnt offerynges with all his apparell the lauer with his fote and thus shalt thou consecrate them that they maye be most holy for who so wil touch theÌ„ must be consecrated Thou shalt anoynte Aaron also and his sonnes and consecrate them to be my prestes And thou shalt speake vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel and saye This oyle shal be an holy oyntment vnto me amonge yo r posterities It shal not be poured vpon mans body nether shalt thou make eny soch like it for it is holy therfore shal it be holy vnto you Who so maketh eny soch like or geueth a strauÌ„ger therof the same shal be roted out from amonge his people And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Take vnto the spyces Balme Stacte Galban and pure franckencense of one as moch as of another and make incense therof after the craft of the Apotecary myngled together that it maye be pure holy And thou shalt beate it to poulder and shalt put of the same before the wytnesse in the Tabernacle of wytnesse from whenâ—e I wyll proteste vnto the but it shal be holy vnto the for the LORDE Who so maketh soch to cense therwith shal be roted out from amoÌ„ge his people The XXXI Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses saide I haue called by name Bezaleel the sonne of Vri y e sonne of Hur of y e trybe of Iuda and haue fylled him with y e sprete of God with wyszdome and vnderstoÌ„dynge and knowlege and to worke with all maner of connynge worke in golde syluer brasse to graue stones connyngly and to set them to carue well in tymbre and to make all maner worke And beholde I haue geuen him Ahaliab the sonne of Ahisamach of the trybe of Dan to be his companyon and haue geuen
y t is not eloqueÌ„t from yesterdaye yeryesterdaye sence the tyme y t thou hast spoâ—â— â–ª vnto thy seruaunt for I haue a slowe speach a slowe tunge The LORDE sayde vnto him Who hath made the mouth of man Or who hath made the domme or the deaf or the seynge or y e blynde Haue not I the LORDE done it Go now thy waye therfore I wil be w t thy mouth teach the what thou shalt saye But Moses sayde â–ª My LORDE sende whom thou wilt sende Then was the LORDE very angrie at Moses and saide Do not I knowe then y t thy brother Aaron the Leuite is well spoken And beholde he shal go forth to mete y e whan he seyth the he shal reioyse from his hert Thou shalt speake vnto him put the wordes in his mouth I wil be with thy mouth his and teach you what ye shall doo he shall speake vnto the people for the â–ª He shal be thy mouth thou shalt be his God And take in thine hande this staff wherwith thou shalt do tokens Moses weÌ„te and came agayne vnto Iethro his father in lawe and sayde vnto him Let me go I praye the that I maye turne agayne vnto my brethreÌ„ which are in Egipte and se whether they be yet alyue Iethro sayde vnto him Go thy waye in peace The LORDE sayde also vnto him in Madian Go y i waye turne againe in to Egipte for y e meÌ„ are deed that sought after thy life So Moses toke his wife and his sonnes and caried them vpon an Asse wente againe in to the lande of Egipte toke the staff of God in his hande And the LORDE saide vnto Moses When thou coÌ„mest agayne in to Egipte se y t thou do all the wonders before Pharao which I haue put in y e haÌ„de But I wil hardeÌ„ his hert y t he shall not let the people go And thou shalt saie vnto Pharao Thus sayeth y e LORDE Israel is my firstborne sonne I saye vnto the Let my sonne go y t he maye serue me Yf thou wilt not let him go then wil I slaye thy firstborne sonne And as he was by the waye in the Inne the LORDE met him and wolde haue slayne him Then toke Zipora a stone and circumcyded the foreskynne of hir sonne and touched his fete and sayde A bloudy brydegrome art thou vnto me TheÌ„ let he him go But she sayde A bloudy brydegrome because of the circumcision And the LORDE sayde vnto Aaron Go mete Moses in the wildernes And he weÌ„te met him on the mount of God and kyssed him And Moses tolde Aaron all the wordes of the LORDE which had sent him all the tokens y t he had charged him withall And they weÌ„te gathered all the elders of the childreÌ„ of Israel And Aaron tolde all y e wordes y t the LORDE had spokeÌ„ vnto Moses dyd the tokens before the people the people beleued And whan they herde y t the LORDE vysited the children of Israel and loked vpon their trouble they bowed them selues and worshipped The V. Chapter AFterwarde wente Moses Aaron spake vnto Pharao Thus sayeth the LORDE the God of Israel let my people go y t they maye kepe holy daye vnto me in the wildernes Pharao answered What felowe is the LORDE that I must heare his voyce and let Israel go I knowe not the LORDE nether wil I let Israel go They sayde The God of the Hebrues hath called vs. Let vs go now therfore thre dayes iourney in the wildernes do sacrifice vnto the LORDE o r God y t there happen not vnto vs pestileÌ„ce or swerde TheÌ„ sayde y e kynge of Egipte vnto theÌ„ Why make ye y e people thou Moses Aaron to leaue their worke Get you heÌ„ce to yo r laboure Pharao saide morouer Beholde y e people are to many in y e lande and yet wil ye byd them ceasse from their laboure The same daye therfore dyd Pharao coÌ„maunde the workmasters of the people and their officers and sayde Ye shal not gather and geue the people eny more strawe to burne bryck as yesterdaye and yeryesterdaye Let them go and gather them strawe them selues And the nombre of the brycke which they made yesterdaye yeryesterdaye shall ye laye vpon them neuertheles and mynish nothinge therof for they are ydle Therfore crye they and saye We wil go and do sacrifice vnto oure God Let the men be kepte downe w t laboure y t they maye haue to do not to turne them selues to false wordes Then wente the workmasters of the people their officers out spake vnto the people Thus sayeth Pharao There shall no strawe be geuen you go youre waye youre selues and get you strawe where ye can fynde it But of youre labo r there shall nothinge be mynished Then were the people scatred in all y e lande of Egipte to gather stubble that they might haue strawe And the workmasters haistied them forwarde sayde Fulfill yo r daye worke like as whan ye had strawe And the officers of y e children of Israel whom Pharaos worckmasters had set ouer them were beaten it was saide vnto them Wherfore haue ye not fulfilled yo r appoynted daye worke to daye and yesterdaye like as in tymes past Than wente the officers of the children of Israel coÌ„playned vnto Pharao Wherfore wilt thou deale thus w t thy seruauntes Thy seruauntes haue no strawe geuen theÌ„ yet must we make the brycke that are appoynted vs. And beholde thy seruauntes are beaten thy people are euell intreated Pharao sayde Ye are ydle ydle are ye therfore saye ye we will go and do sacrifice vnto the LORDE Go now yo r waye therfore worke there shall no strawe be geuen you but the nombre of brycke shal ye delyuer Then sawe the officers of the children of Israel y t it was not amended for it was sayde ye shal mynish nothinge of the daye worke of the brycke And whan Moses Aaron wente from Pharao they came forth to mete them sayde vnto them The LORDE loke vpon you iudge it for ye haue made the sauoure of vs to stynke before Pharao and his seruauntes and haue geuen them a swerde in their handes to slaye vs. But Moses came agayne vnto the LORDE and sayde LORDE wherfore dealest thou so euell w t this people Wherfore hast thou sent me For sence the tyme that I wente in vnto Pharao to speake vnto him in thy name he hath dealt euell with this people and thou hast not delyuered y e people The LORDE sayde vnto Moses Now shalt thou se what I will do vnto Pharao for thorow a mightie hande must he let them go thorow a mightie hande must he dryue them from him out of his londe The VI. Chapter ANd God spake vnto Moses sayde vnto him I am y e LORDE I appeared vnto Abraham Isaac
Iacob an Allmightie God but my name LORDE haue I not shewed vnto them My couenaunt also haue I made with them that I wil geue them the londe of Canaan the londe of their pilgremage wherin they haue bene straungers Morouer I haue herde the complaynte of the children of Israel whom y e Egipcians oppresse with laboure and haue remembred my couenaunt Therfore saye vnto the childrē of Israel I am the LORDE wil brynge you out from yo r burthens in Egipte wil rydd you from youre laboure and wil delyuer you thorow a stretched out arme greate iudgmētes and will receaue you for my people will be yo r God so that ye shal knowe that I the LORDE am yo r God which brynge you out from the burthen of Egipte and will brynge you in to the lande ouer the which I haue lift vp my hande to geue it vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob y e same wil I geue vnto you for a possession I the LORDE Moses tolde this vnto the childrē of Israel But they herkened not vnto him for very anguysh of sprete for sore laboure Thē spake the LORDE vnto Moses sayde Go thy waye speake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egypte y t he let the childrē of Israel go out of his lande But Moses spake before y e LORDE saide Beholde y e childrē of Israel herkē not vnto me how shulde Pharao thē heare me And I am also of vncircumcised lyppes So the LORDE spake vnto Moses Aaron gaue thē a commaundemēt vnto the childrē of Israel vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte y t they shulde brynge the childrē of Israel out of Egipte These are y e heades of the house of their fathers The children of Ruben the first sonne of Israel are these Hanoch Pallu Hezron Charmi These are the generacions of Ruben The children of Simeon are these Iemuel Iamin Ohad Iachin Zophar and Saul the sonne of the Cananitish woman These are the generacions of Symeon These are the names of the childrē of Leui in their generaciōs Gerson Kahath and Merari Leui was an hundreth and seuen thirtie yeare olde The children of Gerson are these Libni and Semei in their generacions The childrē of Kahath are these Amram Iezear Hebron Vsiel Kahath was an hundreth thre thirtie yeare olde The children of Merari are these Maheli and Musi These are y e generacions of Leui in their kynreds And Amram toke his vncles doughter Iochebed to wife which bare him Aaron Moses Amram was an C. vij thirtie yeare olde The childrē of Iezear are these Korah Nepheg Sichri The children of Vsiel are these Misael Elzaphan Sithri Aaron toke Elizaba y e doughter of Aminadab Nahassons sisters to wife which bare him Nadab Abihu Eleasar Ithamar The childrē of Korah are these Assir Elkana Abiassaph These are y e generaciōs of y e Korahites Eleasar Aarons sonne toke one of the doughters of Putiel to wife which bare him Phineas These are the heades amonge the fathers of the generacions of the Leuites This is y t Aaron Moses vnto whom y e LORDE sayde Bringe y e childrē of Israel out of the lande of Egipte w t their armies It is they namely Moses Aaron y t spake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte y t they might brynge the children of Israel out of Egipte The same daie spake y e LORDE vnto Moses in y e lande of Egipte sayde I am y e LORDE speake thou vnto Pharao y e kynge of Egipte all y t I saye vnto ye. And he answered before y e LORDE Beholde I am of vncircumcised lippes how shall Pharao thē heare me The VII Chapter THe LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde I haue made the a God ouer Pharao Aarō y e brother shal be y e prophet Thou shalt speake all y t I cōmaūde y e but Aaron y e brother shal speake vnto Pharao y t he maye let the childrē of Israel go out of his lande Neuertheles I wil harden Pharaos hert y t I maye multiplye my tokens wonders in the londe of Egipte And Pharao shal not heare you y t I maye shewe my hande in Egipte brynge myne armyes euen my people the childrē of Israel out of y e lande of Egipte by greate iudgmētes And y e Egipcians shal knowe y t I am the LORDE whan I shal stretch out my hande vpon Egipte and brynge the children of of Israel out from amonge them Moses and Aaron dyd as the LORDE cōmaūded them And Moses was fourescore yeare olde Aaron thre foure score yeare olde whan they spake vnto Pharao And y e LORDE sayde vnto Moses Aaron Whan Pharao sayeth vnto you Shew youre wonders then shalt thou saye vnto Aaron Take thy staff and cast it before Pharao it shal turne to a serpent Then wēte Moses Aaron in vnto Pharao dyd as the LORDE cōmaunded them And Aaron cast his staff before Pharao before his seruauntes it turned to a serpēt Then Pharao called for y e wyse men Sorcerers And the Sorcerers of Egipte also dyd like wyse with their Sorceries and euery one cast his staff before him they turned vnto serpentes But Aarons staff deuoured their staues So Pharaos hert was hardened and he herkened not vnto them euen as the LORDE had sayde And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses The hert of Pharao is hardened he refuseth to let y e people go Get y e vnto Pharao in the mornynge he holde he shal come vnto y e water mete thou him vpō the waters brynke take y e staff which turned to a serpēt in thine hande saye vnto him The LORDE God of the Hebrues hath sent me vnto the sendeth y e worde Let my people go that they maye serue me in the wyldernesse but hither to thou woldest not heare Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE Hereby shalt thou knowe y t I am y e LORDE Beholde w t the staff y t I haue in my hande wil I smyte the water which is in y e ryuer it shal be turned in to bloude so that the fishes in the ryuer shall dye the ryuer shall stynke it shall greue the Egipcians to drynke of y e water of the ryuer And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses Saye vnto Aaron Take y e staff stretchout thine hāde ouer y e waters of Egipte ouer their ryuers brokes pondes ouer all water poles y t they maye be turned to bloude that there maye be bloude in all y e lande of Egipte both in vessels of wodd and stone Moses Aaron dyd as y e LORDE cōmaunded them lift vp the staff smote the water y t was in the ryuer before Pharao his seruauntes all the water in the ryuer was turned in to bloude the fysh in the ryuer dyed the ryuer stanke so y t the Egipcians
aboue in the myddest there shal be an hole and a bonde folden together rounde aboute the hole that it rente not And beneth vpon the hemme thou shalt make pomgranates of yalow sylke scarlet purple rounde aboute and belles of golde betwixte the same rounde aboute that there be euer a golden bell and a pomgranate a golden bell and a pomgranate rounde aboute the hemme of the same tunycle And Aaron shall haue it vpon him whaÌ„ he mynistreth that the souÌ„de ther of maye be herde whan he goeth out and in at the Sanctuary before the LORDE that he dye not Thou shalt make a foreheade plate also of pure golde and graue therin after the workmanshipe of the stone grauer the holynes of the LORDE with a yalow lace shalt thou fasten it vnto the fore front of the myter vpon Aarons foreheade y t Aaron maie so beare y e synne of the holy thinges which the childreÌ„ of Israel halowe in all their giftes and Sanctuary And it shall be allwaye vpon his fore heade that he maye reconcyle them before the LORDE Thou shalt make an albe also of whyte sylke and a myter of whyte sylke and a gyrdle of nedle worke And for Aarons sonnes thou shalt make cotes gyrdles and bonetes honorable and glorious and shalt put them vpon thy brother Aaron and his sonnes and shalt anoynte them and fyll their handes and consecrate them that they maye be my prestes And thou shalt make them lynnen breches to couer the flesh of their preuities from the loynes vnto the thyes And Aaron and his sonnes shall haue them on whan they go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse or go vnto the altare to mynister in the Holy that they beare not their synne and dye This shal be a perpetual custome for him and his sede after him The XXIX Chapter THis is it also that thou shalt do vnto them that they maye be consecrated prestes vnto me Take a yonge bullocke and two rammes without blemish vnleuended bred vnleuended cakes myxte w t oyle and wafers of swete bred tempered w t oyle Of wheate floure shalt thou make them all and put them in a maunde brynge them in the maunde with the bullocke two rammes And thou shalt brynge Aaron his sonnes vnto the dore of the Tabernacle of witnesse wash thâ—m w t water take the garmentes and put vpon Aaron the albe and the tunycle the ouer body cote the brestlappe to y e ouer body cote shalt gyrde him on the out syde vpon the ouer body cote and set the myter vpon his heade and the holy crowne vpon the myter and shalt take the anoyntinge oyle and poure it vpon his heade and anoynte him Thou shalt brynge forth his sonnes also put the albes vpon them and gyrde both Aaron them with gyrdles set the bonettes vpon their heades that they maye haue the presthode for a perpetuall custome And thou shalt fyll the haÌ„des of Aaron and his sonnes and brynge forth the bullocke before the Tabernacle of wytnesse And Aaron and his sonnes shall laye their haÌ„des vpon the heade of the bullocke and thou shalt sley the bullocke before the LORDE at the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and shalt take of his bloude and put it vpon the hornes of the altare with thy fynger and poure all the other bloude vpon the botome of the altare And thou shalt take all the fat that couereth the bowels and the nett vpon the leuer and the two kydneys with the fat that is aboute them and burne them vpon the altare But the bullockes flesh skynne and donge shalt thou burne with fyre without the hoost for it is a synne offerynge The one ramme shalt thou take also and Aaron with his sonnes shall laye their handes vpon his heade Then shalt thou sleye him and take of his bloude and sprenkle it vpon the altare rounde aboute But the ramme shalt thou deuyde in peces and wash his bowels and his legges and laye them vpon the peces and the heade and burne the whole ramme vpon the altare for it is a burnt offerynge and a swete sauoure of the sacrifice vnto the LORDE As for the other ramme thou shalt take him and Aaron with his sonnes shall laye their handes vpon his heade and thou shalt slaye him and take of his bloude and put it vpon the typpe of the right eare of Aaron and his sonnes and vpon y e thombe of their right handes and vpon the greate too of their right fete and thou shalt sprenkle the bloude vpon the altare rounde aboute and shalt take of the bloude vpon the altare and the anoyntinge oyle and sprenckle it vpon Aaron and his vestymentes vpon his sonnes and their vestymentes So shall he and his clothes his sonnes and their clothes be consecrated Then shalt thou take the fat of the ramme the rompe and the fatt that couereth y e bowels the net vpon the leuer and the two kydneys with the fatt that is aboute them and the right shulder for it is a ramme of coÌ„secracion and a symnel of bred and an oyled cake and a wafer out of the maunde of the vnleuended bred that stondeth before y e LORDE and put all in to the handes of Aaron and of his sonnes and waue it vnto the LORDE TheÌ„ take it out of their handes and burne it vpon the altare for a burnt offeringe to be a swete sauoure vnto y e LORDE For it is the LORDES sacrifice And thou shalt take the brest of the ramme of AaroÌ„s consecracioÌ„ shalt waue it before y e LORDE y t shal be his parte And thus shalt thou halowe y e Wauebrest y e Heueshulder y t are waued heaued of y e ramme of the consecracion of Aaron his sonnes And it shal be a perpetuall custome for AaroÌ„ and his sonnes of y e children of Israel for it is an Heue offrynge and the Heue offrynge shal be the LORDES dewtye of the children of Israel in their deade offrynges and Heue offrynges which they do vnto the LORDE And the holy garmentes of Aaron shall his sonnes haue after him that they maie be anoynted therin y t their handes maye be fylled Loke which of his sonnes shal be prest in his steade the same shal put them on seueÌ„ dayes that he maye go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse to mynister in the Sanctuary But the ramme of consecracion shalt thou take and seeth his flesh in an holy place And Aaron with his sonnes shal eate the flesh of the sâ—me ramme with the bred in the maunde at the doâ—â— of the Tabernacle of wytnesse for there is an attonement made therwith to fyll their handes that they maye be consecrated A strauÌ„ger shal not eate therof for it is holy But yf eny of the flesh of the consecracion and of the bred remaine vntyll the mornynge thou shalt burne it with fyre and not let
wyszdome in to the hertes of all that are wyse that they shall make all that I haue commaunded the the Tabernacle of wytnesse the Arke of wytnesse the Mercyseate theron and all the ornamentes of y e Tabernacle the table and his apparell the candilsticke and all his apparell the altare of incense the altare of burnt offerynges w t all his apparell the lauer with his fote the mynistrynge vestimentes of Aaron y e prest and the garmentes of his sonnes to serue like prestes the anoyntinge oyle and the inceÌ„se of spyces for y e SaÌ„ctuary All that I haue commaunded the shal they make And the LORDE talked vnto Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel and saye Kepe my Sabbath for it is a token betwene me and you and youre posterities that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE which haloweth you therfore kepe my Sabbath for it shal be holy vnto you Who so vnhaloweth it shall dye the death For who so doth eny worke therin shal be roted out from amonge his people Sixe dayes shall men worke but vpon the seuenth daye is the Sabbath the holy rest of the LORDE Who so doth eny worke vpon the Sabbath daye shall dye the death Therfore shal the children of Israel kepe the Sabbath that they maye kepe it also amonge their posterities for an euerlastynge couenaunt An euerlastynge token is it betwixte me and the children of Israel For in sixe dayes made the LORDE heaueÌ„ earth but vpon y e seuenth daye he rested and was refreshed And whan the LORDE had made an ende of talkinge with Moses vpon the mount Sinai he gaue him two tables of witnesse which were of stone and wrytten with the fynger of God The XXXII Chapter BVt whan the people sawe that Moses made loÌ„ge taryenge to come downe froÌ„ the mount they gathered theÌ„ together agaynst Aaron sayde vnto him Vp and make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this man Moses that brought vs out of Egipte Aaron sayde vnto them Plucke of the golden earynges from the eares of youre wynes of yo r sonnes of yo r doughters brynge them vnto me Then all the people pluckte of their golden earynges from their eares brought them vnto Aaron And he toke them of their handes fashioned it w t a grauer And they made a molten calfe and sayde These are thy goddes O Israel that brought the out of the londe of Egipte Whan Aaron sawe that he buylded an altare before him and caused it be proclamed and sayde Tomorow is the LORDES feast And they arose vp early in the mornynge and offred burnt offerynges and brought dead offerynges also Then the people sat them downe to eate and drynke rose vp to playe But the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Go get the downe for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the londe of Egipte haue marred all they are soone gone out of the waie which I commaunded them They haue made them a molten calfe and haue worshipped it offred vnto it sayde These are thy goddes O Israel that brought the out of the lande of Egipte And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses I se that it is a styffnecked people and now suffre me that my wrath maye waxe whote ouer them that I maye consume them so wil I make a greate people of the. But Moses be sought the LORDE his God sayde Oh LORDE wherfore wil thy wrath waxe whote ouer thy people whom thou hast brought out of the loÌ„de of Egipte w t greate power a mightie haÌ„de Wherfore shulde the Egipcians speake saye He hath brought theÌ„ for their myschefe to slaye them in the mountaynes and to destroye theÌ„ vtterly from the earth O turne the from the fearcenesse of y e wrath be gracious ouer the wickednesse of thy people Remembre thy seruauÌ„tes Abraham Isaac and Israel vnto whoÌ„ thou swarest by thyne owne self and saydest I wil multiplye youre sede as the starres of heauen and all the londe that I haue promysed you wil I geue vnto youre sede they shall inheret it for euer Thus the LORDE repented of the euell which he sayde he wolde do vnto his people Moses turned him wente downe from the mount and in his hande he had the two tables of wytnesse which were wrytteÌ„ vpon both the sydes and were Gods worke the wrytinge was the wrytinge of God therin Now whan Iosua herde the noyse of y e people as they shouted he sayde vnto Moses This is a noyse of warre in the hoost He answered It is not a noyse of them that haue the victory and of them that haue the worse but I heare a noyse of synginge at a daunse Whan he came nye vnto the hoost and sawe the calfe and the daunsynge he was moued with wrath and cast the â—ables out of his hande and brake them beneth the mount And he toke the calfe that they had made and brent it with fyre and stamped it vnto poulder and strowed it in the water gaue it vnto the children of Israel to drynke sayde vnto Aaron What dyd this people vnto the that thou hast brought so greate a synne vpon them Aaron sayde Let not the wrath of my lorde waxe fearce thou knowest that this is a wicked people They sayde vnto me Make vs goddes to go before vs for we can not tell what is become of this man Moses y t brought vs out of the londe of Egipte I sayde vnto them Who so hath golde let him plucke it of and geue it me and I cast it in the fyre therof came this calfe Now whan Moses sawe that the people were naked for Aaron whan he set them vp made them naked to their shame he weÌ„te in to the gate of the hoost and sayde who so belongeth vnto the LORDE let him come hither vnto me Then all the children of Leui gathered them selues vnto him and he sayde vnto them Thus sayeth the LORDE the God of Israel Euery man put his swerde by his syde and go thorow in and out from one gate to another in the hoost and slaye euery man his brother frende neghboure The children of Leui dyd as Moses sayde vnto them And there fell of the people the same daye thre thousande men TheÌ„ sayde Moses CoÌ„secrate youre handes this daie vnto the LORDE euery man vpon his sonne and brother that the prayse maye be geuen ouer you this daye On the morow Moses sayde vnto the people Ye haue done a greate synnne Now I wil go vp vnto the LORDE yf peraduenture I maye make an attonement for youre synnes Now whaÌ„ Moses came agayne vnto y e LORDE he saide Oh this people haue done a greate synne haue made them goddes of golde Now for geue them their synne yf not theÌ„ wype me out of y e boke that thou hast wrytten The LORDE sayde
where the ouerbody cote ioyneth together that the brestlappe might be festened by his rynges vnto y e rynges of the ouerbody cote with a yalowe lace that it might lye close vpon y e ouerbody cote and not be lowsed from y e ouerbody cote as the LORDE commaunded Moses And he made the tunycle vnto the ouerbody cote wrought all of yalow sylke the hole therof aboue in the myddest a bonde foldē together rounde aboute the hole that it shulde not rente And beneth vpon y e hemme of it they made pomgranates of yalow sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke they made belles of pure golde which they put betwixte y e pomgranates rounde aboute vpon the hemme of the tunycle a bell a pomgranate a bell a pomgranate rounde aboute to do seruyce in as the LORDE commaunded Moses And they made albes also wrought of whyte sylke for Aaron his sonnes y e myter of whyte sylke and the goodly bonettes of whyte sylke and breches of twyned whyte lynnen and the girdle of nedle worke euen of whyte twyned sylke yalow sylke scarlet and purple as the LORDE commaunded Moses They made the fore heade plate also to y e holy crowne of pure golde and wrote therin with grauen worke the holynes of the LORDE and festened a yalowe lace theron to tye 〈◊〉 vnto the myter aboue as the LORDE cōmaunded Moses Thus the whole worke of y e Habitacion of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse was fynished And the childrē of Israel dyd all that the LORDE cōmaunded Moses brought the Habitacion vnto Moses the Tabernacle all the apparell therof the buttons bordes barres pilers sokettes y e couerynge of reed slrynnes of rammes the couerynge of doo slrynnes the vayle y e Arke of wytnesse w t the staues therof the Mercyseate the table all his apparell the shewbred the candilsticke w t the lampes prepared and all his apparell oyle for the lightes the golden altare the anoyntinge oyle incense the hanginge in the Tabernacle dore the brasen altare his brasen gredyron w t his staues ▪ all his apparell y e lauer w t his foote the hangynges of y e courte w t the pilers sokettes therof y e hanginge in the courte gate w t his pilers nales all the ordynaunce fo◠the seruyce of the Habitacion of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse y e mynistringe vestimētes of Aarō y e prest to do seruyce in y e Sanctuary the garmētes of his sonnes y t they might execute y e prestes office Acordinge to all that y e LORDE cōmaunded Moses euē so dyd the childrē of Israel in all this seruyce And Moses sawe all y e worke y t they dyd it euē as y e LORDE had commaunded and he blessed them The XL. Chapter ANd y e LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde In the fyrst daye of the first moneth shalt thou set vp y e Habitaciō of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and shal put the Arke of wytnes therin and hange the vayle before y e Arke And thou shalt bringe in the table and garnish it and brynge in the cādilsticke and put the lampes theron And y e goldē altare of incense shalt thou set before y e Arke of wytnesse hange vp the hanginge in the dore of the Habitaciō But the altare of burnt offeringes shalt thou set before the dore of the Habitacion of the Tabernacle of wytnesse the lauer betwixte the Tabernacle of wytnesse and the altare and put water therin set the courte rounde aboute and hange vp the hanginge in the courte gate And thou shalt take the anoyntynge oyle and anoynte the Habitacion and all that is there in and shalt consecrate it and all y e apparell therof that it maye be holy And thou shalt anoynte the altare of burnt offerynges and all his vessels and consecrate it that it maye be most holy The lauer also his fote shalt thou anoynte consecrate And thou shalt brynge Aaron his sonnes vnto the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and wash them with water put the holy vestimentes vpon Aaron and anoynte him and consecrate him that he maye be my prest And thou shalt brynge his sonnes also and put the albes vpon them and anoynte them as thou hast anoynted their father y t they maye be my prestes And this anoyntinge shall they haue for an euerlastinge presthode amonge their posterities And Moses dyd all as the LORDE cōmaunded him Thus was the Tabernacle set vp in the seconde yeare vpon the first daye of the first moneth And whan Moses reared it vp he fastened y e sokettes and the bordes and barres and set vp the pilers and spred out the tent ouer the Habitacion and put the couerynge of the tent aboue an hye as the LORDE commaunded him And he toke the wytnesse and layed it in the Arke and put y e staues in the Arke and set the Mercyseate aboue vpon the Arke and brought the Arke in to the Habitacion and hanged the vayle before the Arke of wytnesse as the LORDE commaunded him And he set the table in the Tabernacle of wytnesse in the corner of the Habitacion vpon the north syde without the vayle and prepared bred theron before y e LORDE as the LORDE commaunded him And he set in the candilsticke also euen ouer agaynst the table in the corner of the Habitacion vpon the south syde and put the lampes theron before y e LORDE as the LORDE commaunded him And the golden altare set he in also before the vayle and brent swete incense theron as the LORDE commaunded him And hanged vp the hangynge in the Tabernacle dore As for the altare of burnt offerynges he set it before the dore of the Habitacion of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and offred burnt offerynges and meate offerynges theron as the LORDE commaunded him And the Lauer set he betwixte the Tabernacle of wytnesse and y e altare and put water therin to wash withall And Moses Aaron and his sonnes washed their hādes and fete ther at for they ought to wash thē whan they wente in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse or whan they wente vnto the altare as the LORDE commaunded him And he set vp the courte rounde aboute the Habitacion and the altare and hanged vp y e hanginge in y e courte gate Thus Moses fynished the whole worke Then a cloude couered y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and the glory of the LORDE fylled the Habitacion And Moses coulde not go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse whyle the cloude abode theron and the glory of y e LORDE fylled the Habitacion And whan the cloude remoued from the Habitacion then wente the children of Israel forth as oft as they toke their iourney But yf the cloude remoued not then toke not they their iourney tyll the daie that it remoued for in the daye tyme was the cloude of the LORDE vpon the Habitacion
thou make it of fyne floure with oyle And the meat offerynge that thou wilt make of soch thinges for the LORDE shalt thou brynge vnto y e prest which shal brynge it vnto the altare shal Heue vp the same meat offerynge for a remēbraunce and burne it vpon the altare This is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE As for the remnaunt it shal be Aarons and his sonnes This shall be the most holy of the offerynges of the LORDE All the meat offerynges that ye wil offre vnto the LORDE shal ye make without leuē For there shal no leuē nor hony be burnt for an offerynge vnto the LORDE But for the offerynge of the firstlinges shal ye offer thē vnto the LORDE Neuertheles they shal come vpon no altare for a swete sauoure All thy meat offerynges shalt thou salt And thy meat offerynge shal neuer be with out y e salt of the couenaunt of thy God for in all thy offerynges shalt thou offre salt But yf thou wilt offre a meat offerynge of the first frutes vnto y e LORDE then shalt thou drye that which is grene by the fyre beate it small and so offre the meat offerynge of thy first frutes And thou shalt put oyle vpon it and laye frankēcense theron so is it a meat offerynge And then shall the prest beate it and burne of the oyle with all the frankēcense for a remembraunce This is an offerynge vnto the LORDE The III. Chapter BVt yf his offerynge be a deed offeringe of greate catell whether it be oxe or cowe then shal he offre soch as is without blemysh before the LORDE shal laie his hande vpon the heade of it and kyll it before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse And the prestes Aarons sonnes shall sprenkle the bloude rounde aboute vpon the altare and shal offre of y e dead offerynge vnto the LORDE namely all the fat that is within and the two kydneyes with the fat that is theron vpon the loynes and the nett on the leuer vpō the kydneyes also And Aarons sonnes shal burne it vpon the altare for a burnt offerynge euen vpon the wod that lyeth on the fyre This is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE Yf his dead offerynge be of small catell whether it be male or female it shal be with out blemish Yf it be a lambe then shall he brynge it before the LORDE shal laye his hande vpon the heade of it and sleye it before the Tabernacle of wytnesse And Aarons sonnes shal sprenkle his bloude rounde aboute vpon the altare and so offre of the dead-offerynge vnto the LORDE namely the fa◠of it all the rompe with the backe and the fat that couereth the bowels with all y e fat that is within and the two kydneys with the fat that is theron vpon the loynes the nett on the leuer vpon the kydneys also And the prest shal burne it vpon the altare for y e meate of the offerynge vnto y e LORDE But yf his offeringe be a goate and bringeth it before the LORDE he shal laye his hande vpon the heade of it and kyll it before the Tabernacle of wytnesse And Aarons sonnes shal sprēkle the bloude rounde aboute vpō the altare shal offer therof a sacrifice vnto the LORDE namely the fat y t couereth the bowels and all the fat y t is within the two kydneys with the fat that is theron vpon the loynes the net on the leuer vpon the kydneys And the prest shal burne it vpō the altare for the meate of the sacrifice to a swete sauoure All the fatt is the LORDES Let this be a perpetuall lawe amonge yo r posterities in all youre dwellynges that ye eate no fatt ner bloude The IIII. Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Speake vnto the childrē of Israel and saye Whan a soule synneth thorow ignoraunce in any commaundemēt of the LORDE which he ought not to do As namely yf a prest which is anoynted synne that he make the people do amysse he shall brynge for y e synne that he hath done a yonge bullocke without blemysh vnto the LORDE for a syn offerynge And the bullocke shal he brynge to the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse before the LORDE laie his hāde vpō his heade kyll him before y e LORDE And y e prest y t is anoynted shal take of his bloude brynge it in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse And he shall dyppe his fynger in to the bloude sprenkle therwith seuē tymes before the LORDE towarde the vayle of y e Holy And he shal put of the same bloude vpon the hornes of the altare of incense y t stondeth before y e LORDE in the Tabernacle of wytnesse all the bloude of the bullocke shal he poure vpon the botome of the altare of burnt offeringes y t stondeth at the entringe in of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse And all the fat of the syn offerynge shal he Heue vp namely the fat y t couereth the bowels all the fat y t is within y e two kydneys with the fatt that is theron vpon the loynes and the net on the leuer vpon the kydneys also like as he Heueth it from the oxe in the dead offerynge and shall burne it vpon the altare of burnt offerynges But the skynne of the bullocke and all the flesh with the heade legges the bowels and the donge shal he cary alltogether out of the hoost in to a cleane place where y e aszshes are poured out shal burne it vpon wodd with fyre Whan the whole cōgregacion of Israel synneth thorow ignoraūce the dede be hyd from their eyes so y t they do ought agaynst eny of the cōmaundementes of the LORDE which they shulde not do come afterwarde to the knowlege of the synne that they haue done they shal bringe ◠yonge bullocke for a syn offerynge and set him before y e dore of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse And the Elders of the congregacion shall laye their handes vpon his heade before the LORDE kyll y e bullocke before the LORDE And y e prest y t is anoynted shal brynge of y e bullockes bloude in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse dyppe ther in with his fynger and sprenkle ther with seuen tymes before the LORDE euē before the vayle of the Holy And shall put of the bloude vpon the hornes of the altare y t stondeth before the LORDE in the Tabernacle of wytnesse all y e other bloude shal he poure vpō the botome of y e altare of burnt-offerynges y t stondeth before the dore of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse But all his fatt shal he Heue vp burne it vpō the altare shal do with this bullocke as he dyd with y e bullocke of the syn offeringe Thus the prest shal make an attonement for them it shall be forgeuen them And the bullocke shall he
his vnclennes be vpon him and he shal be roted out from amonge his people And whan a soule toucheth eny vncleane thinge whether it be an vncleane man catell or eny other abhominacion that is and eateth of the flesh of the burnt offerynge that belongeth vnto the LORDE the same shal be roted out from amonge his people And the LORDE talketh with Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel saye Ye shall eate no fat of oxen lambes and goates neuerthelesse the fat of it that dyeth alone and of soch as is torne of wylde beastes that maye ye occupye to all maner of vses but ye shall not eate it For who so euer eateth the fat of y e beest that is geuen vnto the LORDE for an offerynge the same soule shal be roted out from his people Morouer ye shall eate no bloude nether of catell ner of foules where so euer ye dwell What soule eateth eny bloude the same shall be roted out from his people And the LORDE talked with Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel and saye Who so wyll offre his health-offerynge vnto the LORDE the same shall also brynge with all that belongeth vnto y e health offerynge for the LORDE But he shall brynge it with his hande for the offerynge of the LORDE namely the fat vpon the brest shall he brynge with the brest to be a Waue offerynge before the LORDE And the prest shall burne the fat vpon the altare and the brest shal be Aarons and his sonnes And the right shulder shal they geue vnto the prest for a gift of their health offerynges And loke which of Aarons sonnes offreth the bloude of the health offerynges and the fat the same shall haue the right shulder for his parte For the Wauebrest and the Heueshulder haue I taken of the children of Israel and of their health offerynges and haue geuen them vnto Aaron the prest and vnto his sonnes for a perpetuall dewtye This is the anoyntinge of Aaron and of his sonnes of the offerynges of the LORDE in the daye whā Moses presented them to be prestes vnto the LORDE what tyme as the LORDE commaunded in the daye whan he anoynted them to be geuen them of the children of Israel for a perpetuall dewtye and vnto all their posterities And this is the lawe of the burnt offerynge of the meat offerynge of the syn offerynge of the trespace offerynge of the offerynge of consecracion and of the health offerynges which the LORDE commaunded Moses vpon mount Sinai in the daye whan he gaue him in commaudement vnto the children of Israel to offre their offerynges vnto y e LORDE in the wyldernesse of Sinai The VIII Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Take Aaron and his sonnes w t him their vestimentes the anoyntinge oyle and a bullocke for a syn offerynge two rammes and a maunde with vnleuended bred and call the whole congregacion together before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse Moses dyd as the LORDE commaunded him and gathered the congregacion together vnto the dore of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and sayde vnto them This is it that the LORDE hath commaunded to do And he toke Aaron and his sonnes and waszshed them with water and put the albe vpō him and girde him with the girdell and put vpon him the yalowe tunycle and put the ouerbody cote vpon him and girde him vpon the ouerbody cote put the brest lappetheron and in y e brestlappe light and perfectnesse And set the myter vpon his heade And vpon the myter euen aboue his fore heade put he a plate of golde on the holy crowne as y e LORDE cōmaunded Moses And Moses toke the anoyntinge oyle anoynted the Habitacion and all that was therin and consecrated it and sprenkled ther with seuē tymes vpon the altare and anoynted the altare with all his vessels the lauer with his fote that it might be consecrated and poured the anoyntinge oyle vpon Aarons heade and anoynted him y t he might be consecrated And he brought Aarons sonnes and put albes vpon them and girde them with the girdle and put bonettes vpon their heades as the LORDE commaunded him And he caused bringe a bullocke for a syn offrynge And Aaron with his sonnes layed their handes vpon his heade and then was he slayne And Moses toke of the bloude put it vpon the hornes of the altare rounde aboute with his fynger and purified the altare and poured the bloude vpon the botome of the altare and consecrated it that he might reconcyle it And toke all the fat vpō the bowels the nett vpon the leuer and the two kydneys with the fat theron and burned it vpon the altare But the bullocke w t his skynne flesh donge burned he with fyre without the hoost as the LORDE commaunded him And he brought a ramme for a burnt offerynge And Aaron w t his sonnes layed their handes vpon his heade then was he slayne And Moses sprenkled of y e bloude vpon the altare rounde aboute hewed the ramme in peces and burnt the heade the peces and the fatt And waszshed the bowels and the legges with water and so burnt y e whole ramme vpō the altare This was a brunt offerynge for a swete sauoure euen a sacrifice vnto the LORDE as the LORDE commaunded him He brought also the other ramme of the offerynge of the consecracion And Aaron with his sonnes layed their hādes vpon his heade and then was it slayne And Moses toke of his bloude and put it vpon the typpe of Aarons right eare and vpon the thombe of his right hande and vpon the greate too of his right fote And he brought Aarons sonnes and put of the bloude vpon the typpe of the right eare of them and vpon y e thombes of their righte handes and vpon the greate toes of their righte fete and poured the resydue of the bloude vpon the altare rounde aboute And he toke the fat and the rompe and all the fat vpon the bowels and the nett vpon the leuer the two kydneys with the fat theron and the righte shulder And out of the maunde of vnleuended bred before the LORDE he toke an vnleuēded cake and a cake of oyled bred and a wafer and layed them vpō the fat and vpon the right shulder and put alltogether vpon the handes of Aaron and of his sonnes and waued it for a Waue offerynge before the LORDE And afterwarde toke he all agayne from their hondes and burned them on the altare euen vpon the burnt offeringe for it is an offerynge of consecracion for a swete sauoure euen a sacrifice vnto y e LORDE And Moses toke the brest and waued it a Waue offerynge before the LORDE of the ramme of the offerynge of consecracion the same was Moses parte as the LORDE commaunded Moses And Moses toke of y e anoyntinge oyle of the bloude vpon the altare sprenkled it vpon Aaron
his vestimentes vpon his sonnes vpon their vestimentes and so cōsecrated Aaron his vestimentes his sonnes and their vestimentes with him And he sayde vnto Aaron his sonnes Seeth y e flesh before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse there eate it the bred in y e maunde of the cōsecracion offeringes as it is cōmaunded me sayde Aaron his sonnes shall eate it As for y t which remayneth of the flesh bred ye shal burne it with fyre And in seuē dayes shall ye not departe from y e dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse vntyll the daye y t the dayes of yo r consecracion offerynges be at an ende for seuē dayes must yo r handes be consecrated as it is come to passe this daye The LORDE hath cōmaunded to do it that ye might be reconcyled And ye shal tary before the Tabernacle of wytnesse daye and night seuen dayes longe shal kepe y e watch of y e LORDE that ye dye not for thus am I cōmaunded And Aaron with his sonnes dyd all that y e LORDE commaunded by Moses The IX Chapter ANd vpon the eight daye Moses called Aaron and his sonnes and the Elders in Israel and sayde vnto Aaron Take vnto the a yonge calfe for a syn offeringe and a ramme for a burnt offerynge both without blemysh and brynge them before the LORDE and speake vnto the children of Israel and saye Take an he goate for a syn-offerynge and a calf and a shepe both of a yeare olde and without blemysh for a burnt offerynge and an oxe and a ramme for an health offerynge that we maye offre before the LORDE and a meat offerynge myngled with oyle For to daye shal the LORDE appeare vnto you And they toke what Moses commaunded before y e dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and the whole cōgregacion came nye and stode before the LORDE Then sayde Moses This is it which the LORDE commaunded that ye shulde do and then shall the glory of y e LORDE appeare vnto you And Moses sayde vnto Aaron Go vnto y e altare and offre thy syn offerynge and thy burnt offerynge and make an attonemēt for the and for the people Then offre the peoples offerynge and reconcyle them also as the LORDE hath commaunded And Aaron wente vnto the altare and slewe y e calfe for his syn offerynge his sonnes brought the bloude vnto him And he dypte his fynger in the bloude and put it vpon the hornes of the altare and poured y e bloude vpon y e botome of the altare As for the fat and the kydneys the net vpon the leuer of the syn offerynge he burnt thē vpon the altare as the LORDE cōmaunded Moses The flesh also and the hyde burnt he w t fyre without the hoost Afterwarde he slewe the burnt offeringe and Aarons sonnes brought the bloude vnto him he sprenkled it rounde aboute vpon the altare And they brought him the burnt offerynge in peces the heade he burnt it vpon the altare And he washed the bowels and the legges and burnt them aboue vpon the burnt offerynge on the altare Then brought he the offerynge of the people and toke the goate that syn offerynge of the people and slewe it and made a syn offerynge therof as of the fyrst And brought the burnt offerynge and dyd as the lawe is and brought the meat offerynge and toke his handfull and burnt it vpon the altare besyde the burnt offeringe of the mornynge Afterwarde slewe he the oxe and the ramme for the health offerynge of the people And his sonnes brought him the bloude which he sprenkled vpon the altare rounde aboute But the fat of the oxe of the ramme the rompe and the fat that couereth the bowels the kydneyes the net vpon the leuer all soch fat laied they vpon the brest and burnt the fat vpon the altare But the brest and the right shulder waued Aaron for a Waue offerynge before the LORDE as the LORDE commaunded Moses And Aaron lift vp his hāde ouer the people and blessed them and came downe from the worke of the syn offerynge burnt offerynge and health offerynge And Moses and Aaron wente in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse And whan they came out agayne they blessed the people Then appeared the glory of the LORDE vnto all the people For there came a fyre from the LORDE and vpon the altare it consumed the burnt-offerynge and the fat Whan all the people sawe that they reioysed and fell vpon their faces The X. Chapter Moses called Misael and Elzaphan the sonnes of Vsiel Aarons vncle and sayde vnto them Go to and cary youre brethren out of the Sanctuary without the hoost And they wente and caried them forth in their albes without the hoost as Moses sayde Then sayde Moses vnto Aaron to his sonnes Eleasar and Ithamar Ye shall not vncouer youre heades ner rente yo r clothes that ye dye not and the wrath come vpon the whole congregacion Let youre brethrē of the whole house of Israel bewepe this burnynge which the LORDE hath done As for you ye shall not go out from the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse lest ye dye for the anoyntinge oyle of the LORDE is vpon you And they dyd as Moses sayde The LORDE spake vnto Aaron sayde Thou thy sonnes w t the shal drynke no wyne ner stronge drynke whan ye go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse that ye dye not Let this be a perpetuall lawe vnto all yo r posterities y t ye maye haue knowlege to discerne what is holy and vnholy what is cleane vncleane that ye maye teach the children of Israel all the lawes which the LORDE hath spoken vnto you by Moses And Moses sayde vnto Aaron and vnto Eleasar and Ithamar his sonnes that were left Take the remnaunt of the meat offerynge in the sacrifices of y e LORDE and eate it without leuen besyde the altare for it is most holy euen in the holy place shal ye eate it For it is thy dutye and thy sonnes dutye in the sacrifices of the LORDE for thus am I commaunded But the Wauebrest and the Heueshulder shalt thou eate and thy sonnes and thy doughters with the in a cleane place For this dutye is geuen vnto the and thy children in the dead offerynges of the children of Israel For the Heueshulder and the Wauebrest to the offerynges of the fat shal be brought in that they maye be waued for a Waue offeringe before the LORDE Therfore is it thine and thy childrens for a perpetuall dutye as the LORDE commaunded And Moses sought for the goate of the syn offerynge and founde it burnt And he was angrie at Eleasar and Ithamar y e sonnes of Aaron which were left alyue and sayde Wherfore haue ye not eaten the syn offerynge in the holy place for it is most holy he hath geuen it you that ye might beare y e synne of the cōgregacion
men can not sowe where are nether fygges ner vynes ner pomgranates where there is no water to drynke And Moses Aaron weÌ„te froÌ„ the congregacion vnto y e dore of y e Tabernacle of witnesse fell vpon their faces And the glory of the LORDE appeared vnto them And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Take the staffe gather the coÌ„gregacion together thou thy brother Aaron speake vnto the rocke before their eyes it shall geue his water And thus shalt thou prouyde theÌ„ water out of the rocke geue the congregacion drynke and their catell also TheÌ„ toke Moses the staffe before y e LORDE as he commaunded him Moses Aaron gathered the congregacion together before the rocke sayde vnto theÌ„ Heare ye rebellions Shal we prouyde you water out of this rocke And Moses lift vp his hande smote y e rocke w t the staffe two tymes Then came y e water out abuÌ„dantly so y t the coÌ„gregacion dranke and their catell also But the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Aaron Because ye beleued me not to sanctifye meÌ„ before y e childreÌ„ of Israel ye shal not bringe this congregacion in to the londe that I shal geue theÌ„ This is y e water of strife where the children of Israel stroue w t the LORDE and he was sanctified vpon them And Moses sent messaungers froÌ„ Cades vnto y e kynge of y e Edomites This worde sendeth the y e brother Israel Thou knowest all y e trauayle that happened vnto vs how that oure fathers wente downe in to Egipte how we haue dwelt in Egipte a longe tyme how the Egipcians dealte euell with vs o r fathers And we cryed vnto y e LORDE which herde oure voyce and sent his angell hath brought vs out of Egipte And beholde we are at Cades in y e cite without the borders of y e londe O let vs go thorow thy londe we wyl not go thorow y e feldes ner vynyardes ner drynke the water out of the fouÌ„taynes We wyl go the hye strete and turne nether to y e right hande ner to y e lefte tyll we be come past y e borders of thy countre But the Edomite answered him Thou shal not go by me or I wyl come agaynst y e with y e swerde The children of Israel saide vnto him We wil go y e comoÌ„ hye waye yf we or oure catell drynke of thy water we wil paye for it we wil do nothinge but passe thorow on fote onely But he sayde Thou shalt not go thorow And the Edomites came out against them with a mightie people a stroÌ„ge hande Thus y e Edomites denied to grauÌ„te Israel passage thorow the borders of the lande And Israel turned awaye from them And the children of Israel brake vp froÌ„ Cades and came with the whole congregacion vnto mount Hor. And the LORDE spake vnto Moses Aaron at mount Hor harde vpon the coastes of y e lande of y e Edomites sayde Let AaroÌ„ be gathered vnto his people for he shal not come in to y e lande y t I haue geuen vnto y e children of Israel because ye were dishobedient vnto my mouth at the water of strife Take Aaron and Eleasar and his sonne and brynge them vp vnto mount Hor and strype Aaron out of his vestimentes and put theÌ„ vpon Eleasar his sonne and there shall Aaron be gathered vnto his people and dye Then dyd Moses as the LORDE coÌ„maunded him and they wente vp vnto Mount Hor in y e sight of the whole congregacion And Moses toke Aarons clothes put theÌ„ vpon Eleasar his sonne And Aaron dyed there euen aboue vpon the mount And Moses Eleasar came downe from the mount And whan the whole congregacion sawe that Aaron was awaye they mourned for him thirtie daies thorow out the whole house of Israel The XXI Chapter ANd whan Arad the kynge of the Cananites which dwelt towarde the south herde that Israel came in by y e waie y t the spyes had founde out he fought agaynst Israel and toke some of them presoners Then vowed Israel a vowe vnto y e LORDE and sayde Yf thou wylt geue this people vnder my hande I wyll vtterly destroye their cities And the LORDE herde y e voyce of Israel and delyuered them the Cananites and they vtterly destroyed them w t their cities also And he called the place Horma Then departed they fro mount Hor on y e waye towarde the reed see that they might go aboute the lande of the Edomites And the soules of the people faynted by the waie and they spake agaynst God and agaynst Moses Wherfore hast thou brought vs out of the lande of Egipte to slaye vs in the wildernesse For here is nether bred ner water and oure soule lotheth this lighte meate Than sent the LORDE fyrie serpentes amonge the people which bote the peple so that there dyed moch people in Israel TheÌ„ came they vnto Moses and sayde We haue synned because we haue spoken agaynst the LORDE and agaynst the. Praye thou vnto the LORDE that he take awaye the serpentes from vs. And Moses prayed for the people Then sayde the LORDE vnto Moses Make the a brasen serpente and set it vp for a token Who so euer is bytten and loketh vpon it shal lyue Then made Moses a serpent of brasse and set it vp for a token and whan a serpent had bytten eny man he behelde the brasen serpente and recouered And the children of Israel departed and pitched in Oboth And from Oboth they wente on and pitched in Igim by Abarim in the wyldernesse ouer agaynst Moab on the Eastsyde From thence departed they pitched by the ryuer of Sared From thâ—â—ce depaâ—ted they and pitched on this syde Arnon which is in the wyldernesse and commeth out of the coastes of the Amorites For Arnon is the border betwixte Moab and y e Amorites Wherfore it is spoken in the boke of the warres of the LORDE And go with violence both on the ryuer of Arnon on the founteyne of the riuer which boweth downewarde to dwell at Ar leaneth theron to be the border of Moab And from thence they came to the well This is the well wherof the LORDE spake vnto Moses gather the people together I wil geue them water Then sange Israel this songe and they sange one after another ouer the well This is the well that the prynces dygged the nobles amonge the people haue digged it thorow y e teacher and their staues And from this wildernes they wente vn to Mathana from Mathana vnto Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bamoth and froÌ„ Bamoth vnto the valley that lieth in y e felde of Moab at the toppe of Pisga and turneth towarde the wyldernesse And Israel sent messaungers vnto SihoÌ„ the kynge of the Amorrites caused to saye vnto him Let me go thorow y
LORDE stode besyde y e barne of Arnan y e Iebusite And Dauid lifte vp his eyes and sawe the angell of y e LORDE stondinge betwene heauē and earth and a naked swerde in his hande stretched out ouer Ierusalem Then Dauid and y e Elders beynge clothed with sack cloth fell vpō their faces And Dauid sayde vnto God Am not I he that caused the people to be nombred I am he that hath synned and done euell as for these shepe what haue they done ▪ LORDE my God let thine hande be agaynst me and agaynst my fathers house and not agaynst thy people to plage them And the angell sayde vnto Gad that he shulde speake vnto Dauid that Dauid shulde shulde go vp set vp an altare in the barne of Arnan the Iebusite So Dauid wente vp acordinge to y e worde of Gad which he spake in the name of the LORDE But whā Arnan turned him and sawe the angell and his foure sonnes with him they hyd thēselues for Arnan throszshed wheate Now whan Dauid came to Arnan Arnan loked and was aware of Dauid and wēte forth out of the barne and worshipped Dauid with his face to the grounde And Dauid sayde vnto Arnan Geue me rowme in the barne to buylde an altare vnto the LORDE therin for y e full money shalt thou geue it me that the plage maye ceasse from the people But Arnan sayde vnto Dauid Take it vnto the and let my lorde the kynge do as pleaseth him Beholde that oxe geue I for a burnt offerynge and those vessels to the oxe and wheate for the meat offerynge I geue it all Neuertheles the kynge sayde vnto Arnan Not so but for y e full money wyl I bye it for that which is thine wyl not I take for the LORDE and offre a burnt offerynge for naughte So Dauid gaue Arnan for y e rowme sixe hundreth Sycles of golde in weight And there buylded Dauid an altare vnto y e LORDE offred burnt offerynges slayn offerynges And whan he called vpō the LORDE he herde him thorow the fyre from heauē vpon y e altare of the burnt offerynge And y e LORDE sayde vnto the angell that he shulde put his swerde in to his sheeth At the same tyme whā Dauid sawe that the LORDE had herde him vpon the corne floore of Arnan y e Iebusite he dyd sacrifice there For y e habitacion of y e LORDE which Moses had made in the wyldernes and the altare of burnt offerynges was at that tyme in the hye place at Gibeon But Dauid coulde not go thitherto seke God before it for he feared the swerde of the LORDES angell And Dauid sayde Here shal be y e house of God y e LORDE and this the altare of burnt offerynges fo◠Israel The XXIII Chapter ANd Dauid cōmaunded to gather together the straungers that were in y e londe of Israel and appoynted masons to hewe stone for the buyldinge of the house of God And Dauid prepared moch yron for nales in the dores of the portes and for soch thinges as were to be naled together and so moch brasse that is was not to be weyed and Cedre trees innumerable for they of Zidon Tyre brought Dauid moch Cedre tymbre for Dauid thoughte Salomō my sonne is but a childe and tender But the house that shal be buylded vnto the LORDE shal be greate that his name prayse maye be exalted in all londes therfore wyl I prouyde for him So Dauid made greate prouysion before his death And he called Salomon his sonne commaunded him to buylde the house of LORDE God of Israel and sayde vnto him My sonne I was minded to buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE my God but the worde of y e LORDE came vnto me and sayde Thou hast shed moch bloude and strycken many battayls therfore shalt thou not buylde an house vnto my name for as moch as thou hast shed so moch bloude vpon the earth before me Beholde the sonne which shal be borne vnto the shal be a quyete man and I wyl cause him to be in rest from al his enemies on euery syde for his name shal be Salomon for I wyll geue peace and rest vpon Israel as longe as he lyueth He shal buylde an house vnto my name He shal be my sonne and I wyll be his father And I wyl stablyshe y e seate of his kyngdome vpō Israel for euer Now my sonne the LORDE shal be wyth the and thou shalt prospere that thou mayest buylde an house vnto the LORDE thy God acordynge as he hath spoken of the. The LORDE also shal geue the wyszdome vnderstondynge and shal commytte Israel vnto the that thou mayest kepe the lawe of the LORDE thy God But then shal thou prospere yf thou take hede to do after the ordynaunces and lawes which the LORDE commaunded Moses vnto Israel Be stronge and take a good corage vnto the feare not and be not faynt harted Beholde I haue in my pouerte prouyded for the house of the LORDE an hundreth thousande talentes of golde and a thousande tymes a thousande talentes of syluer and brasse and yron without nombre for there is so moch of it And tymbre and stone haue I prepared thou mayest get more therof Thou hast many workmen also mesons and carpenters in stone and tymber and all maner of men that haue vnderstondinge in all worke off golde syluer brasse and yron without nombre Yet get the vp and be doynge and the LORDE shal be with the. And Dauid commaunded all the rulers of Israel to helpe Salomon his sonne and sayde Is not the LORDE youre God with you and hath geuen you rest on euery syde for he hath delyuered the inhabiters of the londe in to youre handes and the londe is subdued before the LORDE and before his people Geue ouer youre hert now therfore and youre soule to seke the LORDE youre God and get you vp and buylde a Sanctuary vnto the LORDE God that the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE and the holy vessels of God maye be brought in to the house which shal be buylded vnto the name of the LORDE So Dauid made Salomon his sonne kynge ouer Israel whan he himselfe was olde and had lyued ynough The XXIIII Chapter ANd Dauid gathered all the rulers in Israel together and the prestes Leuites to nombre y e Leuites from thirtie yeare olde aboue And y e nombre of thē which were strōge men frō heade to heade was eight and thirtie thousande of whom there were foure twentie thousande which dyd their diligence in the worke ouer y e house of the LORDE and sixe thousande officers and Iudges and foure thousande porters foure thousande that songe prayses vnto y e LORDE with instrumentes which he had made to synge prayse with all And Dauid made the ordinaunce amonge the children of Leui namely amōge Gerson Kahath Merari The Gersonites were Laedan and Simei The children of Laedan the
kyndled Like as an whole ornament of pure golde set with all maner of precious stones and as an olyue tre that is frutefull as a Cypres tre which groweth vp an hye Whan he put on the garment of honoure was clothed withall bewtye whan he wente to the holy altare to garnysh the couerynge of the Sanctuary whan he toke y e porcions out of the prestes hande he himself stode by the herth of the altare and his brethren rounde aboute in ordre As the braunches of Cedre tre vpon the mount Libanus so stode they rounde aboute him And as the braunches of the olyue tre so stode all y e sonnes of Aaron in their glory And y t he might sufficiently perfourme his seruyce vpon the altare garnysh the offrynge of the hyest God he stretched out his hande and toke of the drynk offerynge poured in of the wyne so he poured vpon the botome of the aulter a good smell vnto the hyest prynce Then beganne y e sonnes of Aaron to synge and to blowe with trompettes to make a greate noyse for a remembraūce prayse vnto the LORDE Then were the people afrayed fell downe to the earth vpō their faces to worshipe the LORDE their God to geue thankes to Allmightie God They sunge goodly also with their voyces so that there was a pleasaunt noyse in y e greate house of the LORDE And the people in their prayer besought the LORDE the Hyest that he wolde be mercyfull tyll the honoure of y e LORDE were perfourmed Thus ended they their mynistracion and seruyce Then wente he downe and stretched out his handes ouer the whole multitude of the people of Israel that they shulde geue praise thankes out of their lippes vnto y e LORDE and to reioyse in his name He beganne yet once also to praye that he might openly shew the thankesgeuynge before the Hyest namely thus O geue prayse thankes ye all vnto the LORDE oure God which hath euer done noble and greate thinges which hath increased oure dayes from o r mothers wombe and dealt with vs acordinge to his mercy that he wyl geue vs the ioyfulnes of hert peace for oure tymes in Israel Which faithfully kepeth his mercy for vs euermore allwaye delyuereth vs in due season There be two maner of people that I abhorre fro my hert as for the thirde whom I hate it is no people They that syt vpon the mountayne of Samaria the Philistynes the foolish people that dwell in Sichimis I Iesus the sonne of Sirac Eleazarus of Ierusalem haue tokened vp these informacions and documētes of wyszdome and vnderstādinge in this boke and poured out the wyszdome out of my hert Blessed is he that exerciseth him self therin and who so taketh soch to hert shal be wyse Yf he do these thinges he shal be stronge in all For the light of the LORDE ledeth him The LI. Chapter A prayer of Iesus the sonne of Sirac I Thanke the O LORDE and kynge and praise the O God my Sauioure I wil yelde prayse vnto y e name for thou art my defender and helper hast preserued my body from destruccion from y e snare of traytorous tōges and from the lippes that are occupied with leyes Thou hast bene my helper from soch as stode vp agaynst me and hast delyuered me after the multitude of thy mercy and for thy holy names sake Thou hast delyuered me from the roaringe of them that prepared them selues to deuoure me out of y e handes of soch as sought after my life from the multitude of them y t troubled me wente aboute to set fyre vpon me on euery syde so y t I am not brent in the myddest of the fyre From the depe of hell from an vncleane tōge from lyenge wordes from the wicked kynge and from an vnrighteous tonge My soule shal prayse y e LORDE vnto death for my life drew nye vnto hell They cōpased me rounde aboute on euery syde there was no mā to helpe me I loked aboute me yf there were eny man that wolde socoure me but there was none Then thought I vpon thy mercy O LORDE and vpon thy actes that thou hast done euer of olde namely y t thou delyuerest soch as putt their trust in the and ryddest them out of y e handes of the Heithen Thus lift I vp my prayer from the earth and prayed for delyueraunce from death I called vpon the LORDE my father that he wolde not leaue me w t out helpe in the daye of my trouble in the tyme of the proude I praysed thy name contynually yeldinge honoure and thākes vnto it and so my prayer was herde Thou sauedest me from destruccion and delyueredest me frō y e vnrighteous tyme. Therfore wil I aknowlege and praise the and magnifie y e name of the LORDE Whā I was yet but yonge or euer I wēte astraye I desyred wyszdome openly in my prayer I came therfore before the temple sought her vnto the last Then florished she vnto me as a grape that is soone rype My hert reioysed in her then wente my fote the right waye yee from youth vp sought I after her I bowed downe myne eare and receaued her I founde me moch wyszdome and prospered greatly in her Therfore wyll Iascrybe the glory vnto him that geueth me wyszdome for I am aduysed to do therafter I will be gelous to cleue vnto the thinge y t is good so shal I not be cōfounded My soule hath wrestled with her and I haue bene diligent to be occupied in her I lift vp myne handes an hye then was my soule lightened thorow wiszdome that I knowleged my foolishnes I ordred my soule after her she I were one hert from the begynninge and I founde her in clennesse And therfore shal I not be forsaken My hert longed after her and I gat a good treasure Thorow her y e LORDE hath geuen me a new tonge wherwith I wil praise him O come vnto me ye vnlerned dwell in y e house of wyszdome withdrawe not youre selues from her but talke comon of these thinges for youre soules are very thirstie I opened my mouth and spake O come bye wyszdome without money bowe downe youre neck vnder hir yock and youre soule shall receaue wyszdome She is harde at hande is content to be founde Beholde with youre eyes how that I haue had but litle laboure and yet haue founde moch rest O receaue wyszdome and ye shall haue plenteousnes of syluer and golde in possession Let youre mynde reioyse in his mercy be not ashamed of his prayse Wyrke his worke by tymes he shal geue you youre rewarde in due tyme. The ende of Ecclesiasticus other wyse called Iesus the sonne of Syrac The prayer of Azarias and the songe of y e thre children after Theodotios translacion which wordes are wryten in y e thirde chapter of Daniel after the olde text in Latyn
in hir sight the LORDE be iudge betwene me and the. And Abram sayde vnto Sarai Beholde thy mayde is vnder thine auctorite do with her as it pleaseth the. Now whan Sarai dealt hardly w t her she fled from her But the angell of the LORDE founde her besyde a well of water in the wildernesse euen by the well in the waye to Sur and sayde vnto her Agar Sarais maide whence commest thou whyther wylt thou go She sayde I fle fro my mastresse Sarai And the angel of the LORDE sayde vnto her Returne to thy mastresse agayne and submitte thyself vnder hir hande And the angel of the LORDE sayde vnto her Beholde I wil so encreace y e sede that it shall not be nombred for multitude And the angel of the LORDE sayde further vnto her Beholde thou art with childe shalt bringe forth a sonne and shalt call his name Ismael because the LORDE hath herde y e trouble He shal be a wylde man His hande agaynst euery man and euery mans hande agaynst him and he shal dwel ouer agaynst all his brethren And she called the name of the LORDE y t spake vnto her Thou art the God that seist me For she sayde Of a suertye I haue sene the back partes of him that sawe me Therfore called she the well The well of the liuinge that sawe me Which well is betwene Cades and Bared And Agar bare Abram a sonne and Abram called his sonnes name which Agar bare him Ismael And Abram was foure score yeare olde and sixe whan Agar bare him Ismael The XVII Chapter NOw whan Abram was nyentye yeare olde and nyene the LORDE appeared vnto him sayde vnto him I am the allmightie God walke before me be vncorrupte And I wyll make my couenaunt betwene me the and wyl multiplye the exceadyngly Then fell Abram vpon his face And God talked furthur with him and sayde Beholde It is I and haue my couenaūt with the and thou shalt be a father of many people Therfore shalt thou nomore be called Abram but thy name shal be Abraham For I haue made the a father of many nacions I wil multiplye the exceadingly and wil make people of y e yee and kynges also shal come out of the. Morouer I wil make my couenaūt betwene me and the and thy sede after the thorow out their posterities that it maye be an euerlastinge couenaunt so that I wyll be the God of the and of thy sede after the. And vnto the and to thy sede after the will I geue the lande wherin thou art a straunger euen all the lande of Canaan for an euerlastinge possession and will be their God And God sayde morouer vnto Abraham Kepe my couenaunt then thou and they sede after the. This is my couenaunt which ye shal kepe betwene me and you and thy sede after y e thorow out their posterites Euery manchilde that is amonge you shal be circumcyded and ye shall circumcyde the foreskynne of yo r flesh This same shal be a token of the couenaunt betwene me and you Euery manchilde whan it is eight dayes olde shal be circūcyded thorow out youre posterities In like maner all houszholde folkes borne at home or bought or eny other also that is a straūger and not of thy sede Thus shall my couenaunt be in youre flesh for an euerlastinge couenaunt And yf there shal be any manchilde vncircumcided in the fore skinne of his flesh his soule shal be roted out from his people because he hath broken my couenaunt And God sayde vnto Abraham Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai but Sara shal be hir name for I will blesse her and geue the a sonne of her I wil blesse her and people shall come of her yee and kynges of many people Then fell Abrahā vpō his face and laughed and sayde in his hert Shal a childe be borne vnto me that am an hundreth yeare olde And shall Sara y t is nyentie yeare olde beare And Abrahā sayde vnto God O that Israel might lyue in thy sight Then sayde God Yee euen Sara thy wyfe shall beare the a sonne and thou shalt call his name Isaac for with him wil I make my euerlastinge couenaunt and with his sede after him And as concernynge Ismael also I haue herde thy request Beholde I haue blessed him and will increase him and multiplye him exceadingly Twolue prynces shal he beget and I wyll make a greate nacion of him But my couenaunt wyll I make w t Isaac whom Sara shal beare vnto the euē this tyme twolue moneth And he left of talkynge with him and God wente vp from Abraham Than toke Abraham his sonne Ismael and all the seruauntes borne in his house and all that were bought as many as were men children in his house and circumcyded the foreskynne of their flesh euen the same daye as God had sayde vnto him And Abraham was nyentie yeare olde and nyne whan he cut of the foreskynne of his flesh As for Ismael he was thirtene yeare olde whan the foreskynne of his flesh was circumcyded Euen vpon one daye were they all circumcyded Abraham and Ismael his sonne and all the men in his house whether they were borne at home bought or eny other straunger they were all circumcyded with him The XVIII Chapter ANnd the LORDE apeared vnto him in the Okegroue of Mamre as he sat in his tent dore in the heate of y e daie And as he lift vp his eyes and loked beholde there stode thre men ouer agaynst him And whan he sawe them he ranne to mete them from his tent dore and bowed himself downe vpon the grounde and sayde LORDE yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight go not by y e seruaūt There shal be brought you a litle water ye shall wash yo r fete rest youre selues vnder the tre And I wyll fet you a morsell of bred to comforte youre hertes withall and then shall ye go youre wayes for therfore are ye come to youre seruaunt They sayde do euen so as thou hast spoken Abraham wente a pace in to the tent to Sara and sayde Make haist mengle thre peckes of fyne meele knede it and bake cakes And he ranne to the beastes fet a calf that was tender and good and gaue it vnto a yonge man which made it ready at once And he toke butter and mylke and of the calfe that he had prepared and set it before thē stode him self by them vnder the tre they ate Then saide they vnto him where is Sara thy wyfe He answered within in y e tent Then sayde he aboute this tyme twolue moneth yf I lyue I will come to the agayne and Sara thy wyfe shal haue a sonne And Sara herde that out of the tent dore which was behynde his backe And Abraham and Sara were both olde well stryken in age so that it wente
him geue it me for a possession to burye in amoÌ„ge you For Ephron dwelt amonge the Hethites Then answered Ephron the Hethire vnto Abraham that the Hethites might heare before all that wente out and in at the gates of his cite and sayde No my lorde but heare me As for the felde and the caue also that is therin I geue it the and in the sight of my people I geue it the to burye thy deâ—â—â—n â—â—en Abraham thanked the people of the londe and talked with Ephron that the people of the londe might heare and sayde Heare me then Receaue of me the money that I geue the for the felde and so wyll I burye my deed there Ephron answered Abraham and sayde vnto him Heare me my lorde The felde is worth foure hundreth Sycles of syluer but what is that betwixte me and the Burye thy deed Abraham herkened vnto Ephron and weyed him the money which he had sayde that the Hethites might heare namely foure hundreth syluer sycles of currant money amonge marchauntes Thus Ephrons felde where in the dubble caue is which lyeth ouer before Mamre euen the felde and the caue was made sure for Abrahams owne good with all the trees of the felde also rounde aboute in the sight of the Hethites and of all that go out and in at the gates of his cite Then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the dubble caue of the felde that lyeth ouer before Mamre that is Hebron in the londe of Canaan So the felde and the caue therin was made sure of the Hethites vnto Abraham for a possession to bury in The XXIIII Chapter ABraham was olde and well stricken in age and the LORDE had blessed him in all thinges And he sayde vnto his eldest seruaunt of his house which had the rule of all his goodes Laye thine haÌ„de vnder my thye that I maye make the sweare by y e LORDE the God of heauen and earth that thou take no wife vnto my sonne amonge y e doughters of y e Cananites amonge whom I dwell but that thou go in to my countre and to myne owne kynred and brynge my sonne Isaac a wife The seruaunt sayde What and the woman wyl not folowe me in to this countre shal I then cary thy sonne agayne in to yonder londe where thou camest out of Abraham sayde vnto him Beware of that that thou brynge not my sonne thither agayne The LORDE the God of heauen which toke me fro my fathers house and from the londe of my kynred and that talked with me and sware also vnto me and sayde Vnto y e sede wyll I geue this londe Euen he shall sende his angell before the that thou maiest brynge my sonne a wife from thence But yf the woman wyll not folowe the thou art discharged of this ooth onely brynge not my sonne thither agayne Then y e seruaunt layed his haÌ„de vnder his master Abrahams thye and sware the same vnto him So the seruaunt toke ten Camels of the Camels of his master and departed and had w t him of all maner of goodes of his master and gat him vp and departed vnto Mesopotamia to the cite of Nahor Then let he the Camels lye downe without before the cite besyde a well of water in the euenynge aboute the tyme that the wemen vsed to go forth and to drawe water And he sayde O LORDE thou God of my master Abraham mete me to daye and shew mercy vnto my master Abraham Lo I stonde here besyde the well of water the mens doughters of this cite wyll come forth to drawe water Now yf there come a damsell to whom I saye bowe downe thy pytcher let me drynke and yf she saye drynke and I wyll geue y e Camels drynke also That y e same be she whom thou hast prouyded for thy seruaunt Isaac that I maye knowe by y e same that thou hast shewed mercy vpon my master And or euer he had left of speakynge beholde Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel which was the sonne of Milca that was the wyfe of Nahor Abrahams brother came forth and bare a pytcher vpon hir shulder and she was a very fayre damsell of face and yet a virgin and vnknowne of eny man She wente downe to the well and fylled hir pitcher and came vp agayne Then ranne the seruaunt to mete her and sayde Let me drynke a litle water out of y e pitcher And she sayde drynke syr And haistely let she downe the pitcher in hir hande and gaue him drynke And whan she had geuen him drynke she sayde I wyll drawe for thy Camels also tyll they haue dronke ynough And she made haist and poured out hir pitcher in to the trough and ranne agayne to the well to drawe and drew for all his Camels The maÌ„ marueyled at her and helde his tonge tyll he knewe whether the LORDE had prospered his iourney or not Now whan the Camels had all dronken he toke a goldeÌ„ earynge of half a Sycle weight and two bracelettes for hir handes weynge ten Sycles of golde and sayde Doughter whose art thou tell me Is there rowme for vs in thy fathers house to lodge in She sayde vnto him I am the doughter of Bethuel the sonne of Mylca whom she bare vnto Nahor And sayde morouer vnto him We haue plentye of litter and prouender and rowme ynough to lodge in Then the man bowed himself and thanked the LORDE and sayde Praysed be the LORDE the God of my master Abraham which hath not withdrawen his mercy and his trueth fro my master for the LORDE hath brought me the waye to my masters brothers house And the damsell ranne and tolde all this in hir mothers house And Rebecca had a brother called Laban And Laban ranne to the man without by the well syde and that came by the reason that he sawe the earynges and the bracelettes vpon his sisters handes and herde the wordes of Rebecca his syster that she sayde thus spake the man vnto me And whan he came to the man beholde he stode by the Camels at the well syde And he sayde Come in thou blessed of the LORDE wherfore stondest thou without I haue dressed the house and made rowme for y e Camels So he brought the man in to y e house and vnbridled the Camels and gaue them litter and prouender and water to wash his fete and the mens that were with him and set meate before him Neuertheles he sayde I wil not eate tyll I haue fyrst tolde myne earaÌ„de They answered Tell on He sayde I am Abrahams seruaunt and the LORDE hath prospered my master richely so y t he is become greate and he hath geuen him shepe and oxeÌ„ syluer and golde seruauntes and maidens Camels and Asses yee and Sara my masters wife hath borne my master a sonne in hir olde age vnto him hath he geuen all that he hath And my master hath taken an ooth of me and saide Thou shalt not take a
This shal come out first But whan he pluckte in his hande agayne his brother came forth And she sayde Wherfore is there a rent mayde for thy sake And he was called Phares Afterwarde came his brother forth which had y e reed threde aboute his hande and he was called Zarah The XXXIX Chapter IOseph was brought downe in to Egipte Potiphar an Egipciā Pharaos chefe marshall bought him of y e Ismaelites y t brought him downe And y e LORDE was w t Ioseph in so moch y t he became a luckye mā was in his master y e Egipcians house And his master sawe y t the LORDE was w t him for what so euer he dyd the LORDE made it to prospere in his hāde so y t he founde fauo r in his masters sight was his seruaunt He made him ruler of his house and put all that he had vnder his hande And from the tyme forth that he had made him ruler of his house and all his goodes y e LORDE blessed the Egipcians house for Iosephs sake and there was nothynge but the very blessynge of the LORDE in all y t he had in y e house in the felde therfore left he all y t he had in Iosephs hande And medled with nothinge himself saue onely the bred that he ate And Ioseph was fayre of bewtye and well fauoured offace And it fortuned after these actes that his masters wife cast hir eyes vpon Ioseph and sayde Slepe with me But he denyed and saide vnto her Beholde my master knoweth not what is in y e house and all that he hath that hath he put vnder my hande And there is no man so greate in the house as I and he hath kepte nothinge fro me excepte the for thou art his wife How shulde I then do so greate euell and synne agaynst God But she spake soch wordes vnto Ioseph daylie Neuertheles he herkened not vnto her to slepe by her or to be in her company It fortuned vpon a tyme that Ioseph wente in to the house to do his busynesse and there was none of y e folkes of the house thereby And she caught him by his garment sayde Slepe with me But he left the garment in hir hande and fled and gat him out of the house Now whā she sawe that he had left his garmēt in hir hande and fled out she called the folkes in the house and sayde vnto thē Lo he hath brought vs in the Hebrue to do vs shame He came in here vnto me to slepe by me but I cried with loude voyce And whan he herde that I made a noyse cried he left his garmēt here by me and fled and ranne out And she layed vp his garmēt by her tyll his master came home and tolde him euen the same wordes and sayde The Hebrue seruaunt whom thou broughtest here vnto vs came in here to me for to do me shame But whan I made a noyse and cried he left his garment here by me and fled out Whan his master herde the wordes of his wyfe which she tolde him and sayde Thus hath the Hebrue seruaunt done vnto me he was very wroth Then his master toke him and put him in the preson wherin the kinges presoners laie And there he laye in preson But the LORDE was with him and had mercy vpon him caused him to fynde fauo r in the sight of the officer of y e preson so that he committed all the presoners of the preson vnto his hādes that what so euer were done might be done by him For the officer of the preson sawe y t the LORDE was with him in all y t was vnder his handes and that what so euer he dyd the LORDE made it to come prosperously to passe The XL. Chapter ANd it fortuned after this that y e kynge of Egiptes chefe butlar and y e chefe baker offended their lorde the kynge of Egipte And Pharao was angrie w t them caused them be put in preson in y e chefe marshals house where Ioseph laye presoner And the chefe marshall put Ioseph vnto them y t he might serue them And so they were in preson for a season And they dreamed both the butlar the baker in one night euery mā his owne dreame and euery dreame had his interpretaciō Now in the mornynge whan Ioseph came in vnto them and sawe that they loked sadly he axed them and sayde Why loke ye so sadly to daye They answered We haue dreamed and haue no man to declare it vnto vs. Ioseph sayde Interpretinge belongeth vnto God but tell it me yet Then the chefe butlar tolde Ioseph his dreame and saide vnto him I dreamed that there was a vyne before me which had thre braunches and it budded grewe and bare blossoms and the grapes therof were rype And I had Pharaos cuppe in my hande toke the grapes and wronge thē in to y e cuppe and gaue Pharao the cuppe in his hāde Ioseph sayde This is the interpretaciō The thre braunches are thre dayes and ouer thre dayes shall Pharao take the and putt the in thine office agayne that thou mayest geue him the cuppe in his hande after the olde maner whā thou wast his butlar But whan thou art in thy prosperite thynke vpon me and shewe me kyndnesse that thou mayest certifie Pharao of me y t he maie bringe me out of this house for I was preuely caried out of the lande of the Hebrues and here also haue I done nothinge that they shulde haue put me in this dongeon Whan the chefe baker sawe that the interpretacion was good he sayde vnto Ioseph I dreamed that I bare thre wyker baskettes vpon my heade and in y e vppermost baszket all maner of bakē meates vnto Pharao and the foules ate out of the baszket vpon my heade Ioseph answered and sayde This is the interpretacion The thre baszkettes are thre dayes and after thre dayes shall Pharao take the and hange the vpon the galowe and the foules shal eate thy flesh from of ye. And vpon the thirde daye it came to passe that Pharao helde his byrth daye and made a feast vnto all his seruauntes and toke the chefe butlar and the chefe baker before all his seruauntes and restored the chefe butlar to his butlarshipe agayne so that he reached the cuppe in to Pharaos hande As for the chefe baker he caused him be hanged like as Ioseph had interpretated vnto him Neuerthelesse the chefe butlar thought not on Ioseph but forgat him The XLI Chapter ANd after two yeares Pharao had a dreame how that he stode by a water syde and beholde out of the water there came seuen goodly kyne and fatfleshed and wente fedinge in the medowe After these he sawe other seuen kyne come out of the water which were euell fauoured and leane fleshed and wente by the kyne vpon y e water syde and the euell fauoured leene kyne ate vp the seuen goodly and fatt kyne Then
coulde not drynke of the water of y e ryuer there was bloude in all the lande of Egipte And the Sorcerers also of Egipte dyd likewyse with their Sorceries But Pharaos hert was hardened he herkened not vnto theÌ„ * like as the LORDE had sayde And Pharao turned himself wente home set not his hert there on All the EgipciaÌ„s dygged rouÌ„de aboute y e ryuer for water to drinke for they coude not drynke of y e water out of the ryuer And this endured seuen dayes longe that the LORDE smote the ryuer The VIII Chapter THe LORDE sayde vnto Moses Go y e waye to Pharao speake vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE Let my people go y t they maye serue me Yf thou wilt not let theÌ„ go beholde I wil smyte all y e borders of y e loÌ„de w t frogges so y t the ryuer shal scraule w t frogges these shal clymme vp come in to thine house in to y i chamber where thou slepest vpon thy bed and in to the houses of thy seruauntes amonge thy people in to thine ouens and vpon thy dowe and the frogges shall come vp vpon the and vpon thy people and vpon all thy seruauntes And the LORDE spake vnto Moses Saie vnto Aaron Stretch forth thine hande w t thy staff ouer the streames ryuers pondes and let frogges come vpon the londe of Egipte And Aaron stretched his haÌ„de ouer the waters in Egipte there came vp frogges so y t the â—onde of Egipte was couered The Sorcerers also dyd likewyse w t their Sorcerirs caused frogges to come vpoÌ„ y e loÌ„de of Egipte TheÌ„ called Pharao for Moses Aaron sayde Praye the LORDE for me y t he maye take awaye the frogges fro me fro my people I will let y e people go y t they maye do sacrifice vnto the LORDE Moses sayde Haue thou the hono r before me appoynte me whaÌ„ I shal praye for y e for y e seruauntes and for thy people y t the frogges maye be dryuen awaye froÌ„ the froÌ„ thy house remayne onely in the ryuer He sayde Tomorow He sayde Euen as thou hast sayde y t thou mayest knowe y t there is none like vnto the LORDE o r God And the frogges shal be takeÌ„ from the from y i house from thy seruauntes from thy people remayne onely in the ryuer So Moses Aaron weÌ„te from Pharao Moses cried vnto the LORDE for the appoyntment ouer the frogges which he had promysed vnto Pharao And y e LORDE dyd as Moses sayde And the frogges dyed in y e houses in y e courtes vpon y e felde they gathered theÌ„ together here an heape there an heape the lande stanke of them But whan Pharao sawe y t he had gotten breth his hert was hardened and he herkened not vnto theÌ„ euen as the LORDE had sayde And the LORDE spake vnto Moses Saie vnto Aaron Stretch out thy staff smyte the dust vpon the earth y t there maye be lyfe in the whole loÌ„de of Egipte They dyd so And Aaron stretched out his hande w t his staff smote the dust vpon the earth there were lyse vpon men and vpon catell All the dust of the lande was turned vnto lyse in all the lande of Egipte The Sorcerers also assayde likewyse w t their Sorcerirs y t they might brynge forth lyse but they coude not And y e lyse were vpon men catell Then sayde y e Sorcerers vnto Pharao It is the fynger of God But Pharaos hert was hardened he herkened not vnto theÌ„ euen as the LORDE had sayde And y e LORDE saide vnto Moses Get y e vp tomorow by tymes stonde before Pharao beholde he wil go vnto the water speake thou vnto him Thus saieth y e LORDE let my people go y t they maye serue me yf not beholde I wil cause cruell wormes or flyes to come vpon the thy seruauntes y e people thy house so y t all the Egipcians houses the felde and what theron is shall be full of cruell wormes the same daye wil I separate the londe of Gosen wherin my people are so y t no cruell worme shal be there that thou mayest knowe that I am y e LORDE in the myddest of the earth And I wil set a delyueraunce betwene my people and thyne Tomorow shal this token come to passe And the LORDE dyd so And there came perlous cruell wormes in to Pharaos house in to his seruauntes houses vpon all the londe of Egipte and the londe was marred with noysome wormes TheÌ„ called Pharao for Moses Aaron sayde Go yo r waye do sacrifice vnto yo r God in y e londe Moses sayde It is not mete y t we shulde so do so shulde we offer y e abhominacion of y e Egipcians vnto the LORDE o r God Beholde yf we shulde offer the abhominacion of y e Egipcians before their eyes shulde they not stone vs Thre dayes iourney will we go in the wyldernes and do sacrifice vnto the LORDE oure God like as he hath sayde vnto vs. Pharao sayde I wil let you go y t ye maie do sacrifice vnto the LORDE yo r God in the wyldernes onely y t ye go no farther praye for me Moses sayde Beholde whan I am come forth from y e I wil praye vnto y e LORDE y t the cruell wormes maye be taken from Pharao from his seruauÌ„tes froÌ„ his people euen tomorow onely disceaue me nomore that thou woldest not let the people go to do sacrifice vnto the LORDE And Moses weÌ„te out from Pharao and prayed vnto the LORDE And the LORDE dyd as Moses sayde toke awaye the cruell wormes from Pharao from his seruauntes and from his people so y t there remayned not one But Pharao hardened his hert eueÌ„ then also and let not y e people go The IX Chapter THe LORDE sayde vnto Moses Go in to Pharao and speake vnto him Thus sayeth the LORDE God of y e Hebrues let my people go y t they maye serue me Yf thou wilt not but holde them longer beholde the hande of the LORDE shal be vpon thy catell in the felde vpon horses vpon Asses vpon Camels vpon oxen vpon shepe with a very sore pestilence And y e LORDE shall make a diuysion betwene the catell of the Israelites the Egipcians so y t there shal nothinge dye of all that the children of Israel haue And y e LORDE appoynted a tyme and sayde Tomorow shal the LORDE do this vpon earth And the LORDE dyd the same on the morow And there dyed of all maner of catell of the Egipcians but of y e catell of y e childreÌ„ of Israel there dyed not one And Pharao sent thither beholde there was not one of the catell of Israel deed But Pharaos hert was hardened so y t he let not y e people
go Then sayde y e LORDE vnto Moses Aaron Take youre handes full of aszshes out of the fornace let Moses sprenkle it towarde heauen before Pharao that it maye be dust in all the lande of Egipte that there maye be sores blaynes vpon men vpon catell in all the lande of Egipte And they toke aszshes out of y e fornace stode before Pharao Moses sprenkled it towarde heaueÌ„ Then were there sores and blaynes vpon men vpon catell so that the Sorcerers might not stoÌ„de before Moses by reason of the sores For there were sores vpoÌ„ the Sorcerers as well as vpon all the Egipcians But the LORDE hardened Pharaos hert so that he herkened not vnto them eueÌ„ as the LORDE had sayde vnto Moses Then sayde the LORDE vnto Moses Get the vp tomorow by tymes stonde before Pharao speake vnto him Thus sayeth y e LORDE God of the Hebrues let my people go y t they maye serue me els wyll I at this tyme sende all my plages in to thine hert vpon thy seruauÌ„tes vpon thy people that thou mayest knowe y t there is none like me in all londes For I will now stretch out my hande smyte the thy people w t pestilence so y t thou shalt be roted out from the earth Yet haue I stered y e vp for this cause euen to shew my power vpon y e and that my name might be declared in all londes Thou holdest my people yet wilt not let them go beholde tomorow aboute this tyme wyll I cause a mightie greate hayle to rayne soch as hath not bene in the londe of Egipte sence the tyme that it was grouÌ„ded hither to And now sende thou saue thy catell all y t thou hast in the felde for all men catell that shal be founde in the felde not brought in to the houses yf the hayle fall vpon them they shall dye Now who so feared the worde of the LORDE amonge Pharaos seruauntes caused his seruauntes catell to flye in to the houses but loke whose hertes regarded not the worde of y e LORDE left their seruauntes and catell in the felde Then sayde the LORDE vnto Moses Strech out thy hande towarde heaueÌ„ that it maye hayle vpon all the lande of Egipte vpon men vpon catell vpon all herbes of the felde in the lande of Egipte So Moses stretched out his staff towarde heauen and the LORDE caused it to thonder hayle so y t the fyre ranne alonge vpon the earth Thus the LORDE hayled rayned vpon the londe of Egipte so that the hayle fyre wente so horrybly together as neuer was in all the laÌ„de of Egipte sens the tyme that there were people therin And the hayle smote the whole lande of Egipte all that was vpon y e felde both men catell smote all the herbes vpon the felde brake all the trees vpon y e felde saue onely in the lande of Gosen where the childreÌ„ of Israel were there it hayled not Then sent Pharao called for Moses Aaron sayde vnto them Now haue I synned y e LORDE is righteous but I my people are vngodly Yet praye ye vnto the LORDE that the thonder hayle of God maye ceasse then wyl I let you go that ye shal tary here no longer Moses sayde vnto him Whan I am come out of the cite I wyll stretch out myne handes vnto the LORDE so shal the thonder ceasse there shal be nomore hayle that thou mayest knowe that the earth is the LORDES But I knowe y t both thou thy seruauntes feare not yet the LORDE God Thus the flax and the barlye were smytten for the barlye was shot vp y e flax was boulled but the wheate and y e râ—e were not smytten for they were late sowen So Moses wente from Pharao out of y e cite stretched out his haÌ„des vnto y e LORDE And y e thoÌ„der the hayle ceassed the rayne dropped not vpoÌ„ the earth But whaÌ„ Pharao sawe y t the rayne thonder hayle ceassed he synned agayne and herdened his hert he his seruauntes So Pharaos hert was hardened y t he let not the childreÌ„ of Israel go eueÌ„ as the LORDE had sayde by Moses The X. Chapter ANd the LORDE saide vnto Moses Go in vnto Pharao for I haue hardened his hert the hertes of his seruauÌ„tes y t I might do these my tokeÌ„s amonge theÌ„ that thou mightest shewe it in the eares of thy children of thy childers children what I haue done in Egipte and how I haue shewed my tokens amoÌ„ge theÌ„ that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE So Moses Aaron wente in vnto Pharao spake vnto him Thus sayeth y e LORDE God of the Hebrues How longe refusest thou to submyt thy self vnto me to let my people go y t they maye serue me Yf thou wilt not let my people go beholde tomorow wil I cause greshoppers to come vpon all places y t they maye couer the lande so y t the lande can not be sene they shal eate vp y t is left you was delyuered froÌ„ the hayle shal eate vp all yo r grene trees vpon the felde shal fyll thy house all y e seruauÌ„tes houses all the Egipcians houses soch as y e fathers y e fathers fathers haue not sene sens the tyme y t they were vpon earth vnto this daye And he turned him wente out from Pharao Then saide Pharaos seruauntes vnto him How longe shall we be snared after this maner Let the men go that they may serue y e LORDE their God Knowest thou not yet y t Egipte is destroyed Moses Aaron were brought agayne to Pharao which saide vnto them Go yo r waye serue y e LORDE yo r God But who are they y t shall go Moses sayde We wil go w t yonge olde w t sonnes and doughters with shepe and oxeÌ„ â–ª for we haue a feast of the LORDE He sayde vnto theÌ„ Let it be so the LORDE be with you Shulde I let you go yo r childreÌ„ also loke that ye haue not some myschefe in haÌ„de Not so but go ye that are men and serue the LORDE for that was youre desyre And they thrust them out from Pharao TheÌ„ saide y e LORDE vnto Moses Stretch out thine hande ouer y e londe of Egipte for the greshoppers y t they maye come vpoÌ„ y e londe of Egipte eate vp all the herbes in the londe w t all y t escaped the hayle Moses stretched out his staff ouer y e lande of Egipte the LORDE brought an east wynde in to the londe all y t daye all y t night in the mornynge the east wynde brought the greshoppers And they came ouer the whole lande of Egipte and lighted in all places of Egipte so exceadinge many that before tyme there were neuer soch nether
e people feared y e LORDE and beleued him and his seruaunt Moses The XV. Chapter THen sange Moses and the childrē of Israel this songe vnto the LORDE and sayde I will synge vnto y e LORDE for he hath done gloriously horse charet hath he ouer throwne in the see The LORDE is my strength and my songe and is become my saluacion This is my God I wil magnifie him He is my fathers God I wil exalte him The LORDE is the right man of warre LORDE is his name The charettes of Pharao his power hath he cast in to the see His chosen captaynes are drowned in the reed see y e depe hath couered them they fell to the grounde as a stone Thy right hande O LORDE is glorious in power thy right hāde O LORDE hath smytten the enemies And with thy greate glory thou hast destroyed thine aduersaries thou sentestout y e wrath it cōsumed them euen as stobble In the breth of thy wrath the waters fell together the floudes wente vpon a heape The depes plomped together in y e myddest of the see The enemie thought I will folowe vpon them and ouertake them and deuyde y e spoyle and coole my mynde vpon them I wil drawe out my swerde and my hande shal destroye them Thou blewest with thy wynde the see couered them and they sancke downe as leed in the mightie waters LORDE who is like vnto the amonge y e goddes Who is so glorious in holynes fear full laudable and doinge wonders Whan thou stretchedest out y e right hande the earth swalowed them vp Thou of y e very mercy hast led this people whom thou hast delyuered and with y e strength thou hast brought them vnto the dwellynge of thy Sanctuary Whan y e nacions herde this they raged sorowe came vpon the Philistynes Then were y e prynces of Edom afrayed tremblynge came vpō y e mightie of Moab all the indwellers of Canaan waxed faynte harted Let feare and drede fall vpon them thorow thy greate arme that they maye be as styll as a stone tyll thy people O LORDE be gone thorow tyll y i people whom thou hast gotten be gone thorow Brynge them in and plante them vpon the mountayne of thy enheritaunce vnto y e place that thou hast made for thyne owne dwellynge euen to y e tēple O LORDE which thy handes haue prepared The LORDE shal be kynge for euer euer For Pharao wente in to the see with horses and charettes and horsmen and the LORDE made the see fall agayne vpon them But the children of Israel wēte drye thorow the myddest of the see And Miriam the prophetisse Aarons sister toke a tymbrell in hir hande and all the women folowed out after her with timbrels in a daunse And Miriam sange before thē O let vs synge vnto the LORDE for he hath done gloriously man and horse hath he ouer throwne in the see Moses caused the children of Israel to departe out from the reed see vnto the wyldernes of Sur they wente thre dayes in y e wildernes y t they founde no water Then came they to Marath but they coude not drinke y e water for bytternes for it was very bytter Therfore was it called Marah y t is bytternes Then y e people murmured against Moses sayde What shal we drynke And Moses cried vnto y e LORDE which shewed him a tre this he put in y e water thē was it swete There he made thē a statute and a lawe and tempted them and sayde Yf thou wyl◠herken vnto the voyce of y e LORDE y e God do that which is right in his sighte and geue eare vnto his commaundementes kepe all his statutes then wyl I laye vpon y e none of the sicknesses that I layed vpon Egipte for I am the LORDE thy surgione The XVI Chapter ANd they came vnto Elim where there were twolue welles of water and seuentie palme trees and there they pitched by y e water syde From Elim they toke their iourney and the whole congregacion of the children of Israel came in to the wyldernesse of Sin which lyeth betwene Elim and Sinai vpon the fyftene daye of the seconde moneth after that they were departed out of the londe of Egipte And y e whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured agaynst Moses and Aaron in y e wildernes and saide vnto them Wolde God we had dyed in the londe of Egipte by the hande of the LORDE whan we sat by y e flesh pottes and had bred ynough to eate for ye haue brought vs out in to this wyldernes to cause this whole multitude dye of honger Thē sayde y e LORDE vnto Moses beholde I wyl rayne you bred from heauen and let the people go out and gather daylie what they nede that I maye proue whether they walke in my lawe or not But vpon the sixte daye they shal prepare thē selues that they maye brynge in twyse as moch as they gather daylie Moses and Aaron saide vnto all the children of Israel At euen ye shall knowe that the LORDE hath brought you out of the lōde of Egipte and in the mornynge shall ye se the glory of the LORDE for he hath herde youre grudginges agaynst the LORDE For what are we that ye grudge agaynst vs Moses sayde morouer At euen shall the LORDE geue you flesh to eate and in the mornynge bred ynough because y e LORDE hath herde youre grudginges that ye haue grudged agaynst him For what are we You re murmuringe is not agaynst vs but against the LORDE And Moses sayde vnto Aaron Speake vnto the whole multitude of y e children of Israel Come forth before the LORDE for he hath herde youre murmuringes And whyle Aaron spake thus vnto the whole congegacion of the childrē of Israel they turned them towarde the wyldernes and beholde the glory of the LORDE appeared in a cloude and the LORDE sayde vnto Moses I haue herde the murmuringe of y e children of Israel Tell them At euen shall ye haue flesh to eate and in the mornynge shal ye be fylled with bred ye shall knowe that I am the LORDE youre God And at euen the quayles came vp and couered the tentes and in the mornynge the dewe laye rounde aboute the tentes And whan the dew was fallē beholde there laye a thinge in the wildernes thynne and small as the horefrost vpon the grounde And whan the children of Israel sawe it they saide one to another This is Mā For they wyst not what it was But Moses sayde vnto them It is the bred that y e LORDE hath geuē you to eate This is it that y e LORDE hath commaūded Euery one gather for himself as moch as he eateth and take a Gomor for euery heade acordinge to the nombre of the soules in his tente And the children of Israel dyd so and gathered some more some lesse But whan it was measured out with
y e Gomor he that gathered moch had not the more and he y t gathered litle wanted nothinge but euery one gathered for himself as moch as he ate And Moses sayde vnto them Let no mā leaue ought therof vntyll the mornynge But they harkened not vnto Moses And some left of it vntill the morninge Then waxed it full of wormes and stanke And Moses was angrie at them And euery mornynge they gathered for them selues as moch as euery one ate but as soone as it was whote of the Sonne it melted awaye And vpon the sixte daye they gathered twyse as moch of bred two Gomors for one And all the rulers of the congregaciō came in and tolde Moses And he sayde vnto them This is it that the LORDE hath sayde Tomorow is the Sabbath of the holy rest of the LORDE loke what ye wil bake that bake and what ye wyll seeth that seeth and that remayneth ouer let it remayne y t it maye be kepte vntyll the mornynge And they let it remayne tyll the morow as Moses commaunded Then stanke it not nether was there eny worme therin Thē sayde Moses Eate that to daye for to daye is y e Sabbath of the LORDE to daye shal ye fynde none in the felde Sixe dayes shall ye gather it but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath wherin there shal be none But vpon the seuenth daye there wente out some of the people to gather and founde nothinge Then sayde y e LORDE vnto Moses How longe refuse ye to kepe my commaundementes and lawes Beholde y e LORDE hath geuen you the Sabbath therfore vpon the sixte daye he geueth you bred for two dayes therfore let euery man now byde at home and no man go forth of his place vpon the seuenth daye So the people rested vpō y e seuenth daye And the house of Israel called it Man and it was like Coriander sede and whyte had a taist like symnels with hony And Moses sayde This is it that y e LORDE hath commaunded Fill a Gomor therof to be kepte for youre posterities y t they maye se the bred wherwith I fed you whan I brought you out of y e lande of Egipte And Moses sayde vnto Aaron Take a cruse and put a Gomor full of Man therin and laye it vp before the LORDE to be kepte for youre posterities as the LORDE commaunded Moses So Aaron layed it vp there for a testimony to be kepte And the children of Israel ate man fourtye yeares tyll they came vnto a lande where people dwelt euen vntyll they came to y e borders of the lande of Canaan ate they Man A Gomor is the tenth parte of an Epha The XVII Chapter ANd the whole multitude of the children of Israel wēte on their iourneys out of the wyldernes of Sin as the LORDE cōmaunded thē pitched in Raphidim Then had the people no water to drynke And they chode w t Moses sayde Geue vs water y t we maye drynke Moses sayde vnto thē Why chyde ye w t me Wherfore tēpte ye y e LORDE But whan the people thyrsted there for water they murmured agaynst Moses sayde Wherfore hast thou caused vs to come out of Egipte to let vs oure children and oure catell dye of honger Moses cried vnto the LORDE and sayde What shal I do w t this people They are all most ready to stone me The LORDE saide vn to him Go before the people take some of the elders of Israel with y e and take in thine hande thy staff wherwith thou smotest the water and go thy waye Beholde I wyl stonde there before the vpon a rock in Horeb there shalt thou smyte the rocke so shall there water runne out that the people maye drynke Moses dyd so before the elders of Israel Then was that place called Massa Meriba because of the chydinge of the children of Israel and because they tempted y e LORDE and sayde Is the LORDE amonge vs or not Then came Ameleck fought agaynst Israel in Raphidim And Moses sayde vnto Iosua Chose vs out men go out fight against Amaleck tomorow wil I stōde vpō the toppe of the hyll haue y e staff of God in my hande And Iosua dyd as Moses bade him fought agaynst Amalek Moses Aaron Hur wente vp to y e toppe of the hyll And whā Moses helde vp his hāde Israel had the victory but whan he let downe his hande Amalek had the victory But Moses hādes were heuy therfore toke they a stone layed it vnder him that he might syt vpon it And Aaron Hur stayed vp his hādes the one vpon the one syde and the other vpon y e other syde So his handes were stedfast vnto y e Sonne wente downe And Iosua discomfited Amalek his people thorow the edge of the swerde And y e LORDE sayde vnto Moses Wryte this for a remēbraunce in a boke cōmytte it vnto y e eares of Iosua for I wyll rote out Amalek from vnder heauen so that he shall nomore be remembred And Moses buylded an altare vnto the LORDE and called it The LORDE Nissi for he sayde The battayll of the LORDE shal be agaynst Amalek thorow an hande vnder the defence of God from childe to childes childe The XVIII Chapter ANd whan Iethro y e prest in Madian Moses father in lawe herde of all y t God had done w t Moses his people of Israel how y t the LORDE had brought Israel out of Egipte he toke Zipora Moses wife whom he had sent backe with her two sonnes The one was called Gerson for he saide I am become a straunger in a straunge londe And the other was called Eliaser for he sayde The God of my fathers hath bene my helpe and hath delyuered me from Pharaos swerde Now whā Iethro Moses father in lawe and his sonnes and his wife came vnto him in the wyldernes by the mount of God where he had pitched his tent he sent worde vnto Moses I Iethro thy father in lawe am come vnto the and y i wife and both hir children with her Then wente Moses forth to mete him and dyd obeysaūce vnto him and kyssed him And whan they had saluted ech other they wente in to the tente Then Moses tolde his father in lawe all that the LORDE had done vnto Pharao and the Egipcians for Israels sake and all the trauayle that had happened them by y e waye and how the LORDE had delyuered them Iethro reioysed ouer all y e good that the LORDE had done for Israel y t he had delyuered them from the hāde of the Egipcians And Iethro sayde Praysed be the LORDE which hath delyuered you from the hande of the Egipcians and of Pharao and that knoweth how to delyuer his people from the Egipcians hande Now I knowe that the LORDE is greater thē all goddes because they dealt proudly w t them And Iethro toke brent offerynges and
bloude of my sacrifice with sowre dowe and the fat of my feast shal not remayne till the mornynge The first of the first frutes of thy felde shalt thou brynge in to the house of the LORDE thy God And shalt not seeth a kydd whyle it is in his mothers mylke Beholde I sende an angell before the to kepe the in the waye and to brynge the vnto the place that I haue prepared Therfore be warre of his face and herken vnto his voyce and anger him not for he shall not spare youre myszdedes my name is in him But yf thou shalt herken vnto his voyce and do all that I shal tell the then wyl I be enemie vnto thy enemyes and aduersary vnto thy aduersaries Now whā myne angell goeth before the bryngeth the vnto y e Amorites Hethites Pheresites Cananites Heuites Iebusites I shall haue destroyed them then shalt thou not worshipe their goddes ner serue them nether shalt thou do as they do but shalt ouerthrowe their goddes breake thē downe But y e LORDE yo r God shal ye serue so shal he blesse thy bred thy water and I wyl remoue all sicknesse from the. There shal be nothinge baren ner vnfrutefull in thy londe and I wil fulfill the nombre of thy dayes I wil sende my feare before the and sley all the people where thou cōmest will make all thine enemies to turne their backes vpō the. I wyll sende hornettes before y e and dryue out the Heuytes Cananites and Hethytes before the ▪ In one yeare wyl I not cast thē out before the y t the londe become not waist wylde beastes multiply agaynst y t By litle litle wyll I dryue them out before the tyll thou growe haue the londe in possession And I wil set the borders of thy londe euen from the reed see vnto y e see of the Philistynes from the wyldernes vnto the water For I wil delyuer the indwellers of the londe in to thine hande y t thou shalt dryue them out before the. Thou shalt make no couenaunt w t them ner with their goddes but let thē not dwell in thy lande that they make the not synne ageynst me For yf thou serue their goddes it wil surely be thy decaye The XXIIII Chapter ANd he sayde vnto Moses Come vp vnto the LORDE thou Aaron Nadab and Abihu and the seuētie elders of Israel worshipe afarre of But let Moses onely come nye vnto the LORDE and let not them come nye and let not the people also come vp with him Moses came and tolde the people all the wordes of the LORDE all the lawes Then answered all the people with one voyce and sayde All y e wordes that the LORDE hath sayde wyl we do Then wrote Moses all the wordes of y e LORDE gat him vp bytymes in the mornynge * buylded an altare vnder y e mount with twolue pilers acordinge to the twolue trybes of Israel sent twolue yonge mē of the children of Israel to offre burnt offerynges and peace offerynges theron of bullockes vnto the LORDE And Moses toke the half parte of the bloude and put it in a basen the other half sprenkled he vpon the altare toke the boke of y e couenaunt cried in the eares of the people And whan they had sayde All y t the LORDE hath sayde wil we do herken vnto him Moses toke the bloude sprenkled it vpon the people sayde Beholde this is y e bloude of the couenaunt that the LORDE maketh w t you vpon all these wordes Then wente Moses Aaron Nadab Abihu the seuentye elders of Israel vp sawe y e God of Israel Vnder his fete it was like a stone worke of Saphyre as the fashion of heauē whā it is cleare he put not his hāde vpō the pryncipall of Israel And whan they had sene God they ate dronke And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Come vp vnto me vpon the mount remayne there y t I maye geue the tables of stone y e lawe commaundemētes y t I haue wrytten which thou shalt teach thē Then Moses gat him vp his mynister Iosua wente vp in to the mount of God sayde vnto the elders Tary ye here tyll we come to you agayne beholde Aaron and Hur are with you yf eny mā haue a matter to do let him brynge it vnto them Now whā Moses came vp in to y e moūt a cloude couered y e mount the glory of y e LORDE abode vpon mount Sinai couered it w t the cloude sixe dayes vpon the seuēth daye he called Moses out of y e cloude And y e fashion of y e glory of y e LORDE was like a cōsumynge fyre vpon the toppe of y e mount in the sight of the children of Israel And Moses wente in to the myddest of the cloude and ascēded vp in to the mount and abode vpon the mount fourtye dayes fourtye nightes The XXV Chapter ANd y e LORDE talked w t Moses ayde Speake vnto y e childrē of Israel y t they geue me an Heue offerynge take the some of euery man that hath a frewyllynge hert therto And this is the Heue-offerynge that ye shal take of them Golde syluer brasse yalowe sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke goates hayre reed skynnes of rammes doo skynnes Fyrre tre oyle for lampes spyces for the anoyntynge oyle and for swete incense Onix stones and set stones for the ouerbody cote and for the brestlappe And they shall make me a Sanctuary that I maie dwell amonge them Like as I shal shewe y e a patrone of the Habitacion and of all the ornamentes therof so shall ye make it Make an Arke of Fyrre tre two cubytes a half longe a cubyte a half brode and a cubyte an half hye this shalt thou ouerleye with pure golde within and without make an hye vpō it a crowne of golde rounde aboute and cast foure rynges of golde put them in the foure corners of it so that two rynges be vpon the one syde and two vpon the other syde And make staues of Fyrre tre and ouerlaye them with golde and put them in the rynges alonge by the sydes of the Arke to beare it withall and they shal abyde styll in the rynges not be takē out And in y e Arke thou shalt laye the wytnesse that I wyl geue the. Thou shalt make a Mercyseate also of pure golde two cubytes and a half longe and a cubyte a half brode And thou shalt make two Cherubyns of beaten golde vpō both y e endes of the Mercyseate y t the one Cherub maye be vpon the one ende the other vpon the other ende so to be two Cherubyns vpon the endes of the Mercyseate And the Cherubyns shall sprede out
before the LORDE And he shall make the syn offerynge and reconcyle him that is clēsed because of his vnclennesse And afterwarde shall he sleye the burnt offerynge and shal offre it vpon the altare with the meatofferynge and make an attonement for him than is he cleane But yf he be poore and getteth not so moch with his hande then let him take one lambe for a trespace offerynge to waue it to make an attonement for him and a tenth deale of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meat offerynge and a Logg of oyle two turtyll doues or two yonge pigeons which he is able to get with his hande let the one be a syn offerynge the other a burnt offerynge and let him brynge them vpon the eight daye of his clensynge vnto the prest before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse before the LORDE Then shall the prest take the lambe for the syn offerynge and the Logg of oyle and shall waue them all before the LORDE and sley the lambe of the trespace offerynge and take of y e bloude of the same trespace offerynge and put it vpon the typpe of the righte eare of him that is clensed and vpon the thombe of his right hande and vpon the greate too of his righte fote and poure of the oyle in to his awne lefte hande and with his right fynger sprenkle the oyle that is in his left hande seuen tymes before the LORDE As for the remnaunt of the oyle in his hande he shal put it vpon the typpe of the right eare of him that is clensed and vpon the thombe of his right hande vpon the greate too of his right fote euen aboue vpō y e bloude of y e trespace offerynge The other oyle in his hāde shal he poure vpō y e heade of him y t is clensed to make an attonement for him before the LORDE And afterwarde of the one of the turtill doues or yonge pigeons acordinge as his handes are able to get he shal make a syn offerynge of y e other a burnt offerynge with the meat offerynge and so shal the prest make an attonemēt for him that is clensed before the LORDE Let this be the lawe for the leper which is not able with his hande to get that belongeth vnto his clensynge And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and Aaron and sayde Whan ye are come in to the lande of Canaan which I geue you to possesse and yf there happen a plage of leprosy in any house of youre possession then shal he that oweth the house come and tell the prest and saye Me thynke there is as it were a plage of leprosy in my house Then shal the prest commaunde to rydde all thynge out of the house or euer the prest go in to se y e plage lest all that is in the house be made vncleane Afterwarde shall y e prest go in to se the plage Now whan he loketh and fyndeth y t there be holowe strakes yalowe or reedish in the walles of the house they seme to be lower then the wall besyde then shall he go out at the dore of the house and shut vp the house for seuen dayes And vpon the seuenth daye whan he commeth and seyth that the plage hath fretten farther in the walles of the house thē shall he commaunde to breake out the stones wherin the plage is to cast thē in a foule place without the cite the house to be scraped within rounde aboute and the dust y t is scraped of to be poured without y e cite in an vncleane place to take other stones and put them in the place of the other and to take other playster and playster the house Whan the plage then commeth agayne and breaketh forth in the house after y t the stones are brokē out the playster scraped of and the house playsterd of the new thē shal the prest go in and whan he seyth that the plage hath fretten farther in the house then is there surely a fretinge leprosy in the house and it is vncleane therfore shal the house be broken downe both the stones and y e tymber and all the dust of the house and shal be caried out of the cite in to an vncleane place And who so goeth in to the house whyle it is shut vp is vncleane vntyll y e euen And he y t lyeth therin or eateth therin shal wash his clothes But yf the prest se whā he goeth in that this plage hath frett no farther in the house after that the house is new playsterd thē shal he iudge it to be cleane for the plage is healed And to a syn offeringe for the house he shal take two byrdes Ceder wodd purple woll and ysope and slaye the one byrde in an erthen vessell vpon sprynginge water and shall take the Ceder wodd the purple woll the ysope and the lyuinge byrde dyppe them in the bloude of the slayne byrde vpon the sprynginge water and sprenkle the house with all seuē tymes and so shal he purifie the house with the bloude of the byrde with the springinge water with the lyuinge byrde with the Ceder wodd with the ysope and with the purple woll And the lyuynge byrde shall he let flye at libertye out of the towne in to the felde make an attonement for the house and then is it cleane This is the lawe ouer all maner plage of leprosye skyrfe ouer y e leprosye of clothes and of houses ouer sores scabbes and gliste rynge whyte that it maye be knowne whan eny thinge is vncleane or cleane This is y e lawe of leprosy The XV. Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses and Aaron and sayde Speake to the children of Israel and saie vnto him Whan a man hath a runnynge yssue from out of his flesh y e same is vncleane but thē is he vncleane by the reason of this yssue whan his flesh is fretten of y e yssue or wounde Euery bed where on he lyeth what so euer he sytteth vpon shal be vncleane And he that toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euen And he y t sytteth where he sat shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euē Who so toucheth his flesh shall wash his clothes bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euen Whan he spytteth vpon him that is cleane y e same shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water be vncleane vntyll the euen And the saddell and what so euer he rydeth vpō shal be vncleane And who so euer toucheth eny thinge that hath bene vnder him shal be vncleane vntyll the euen And who so beareth eny soch shall wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euen And whom so euer he toucheth and washeth not his handes first the same shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and
he shal bringe the lyuynge goate TheÌ„ shal Aaron laie both his haÌ„des vpoÌ„ y e heade of him confesse ouer him all the myszdedes of y e childreÌ„ of Israel all their trespaces in their synnes shal laye theÌ„ vpoÌ„ y e heade of the goate by some man y t is at hande shal he let him runne in to the wildernes y t the goate maye so beare all their mysdedes vpon him in to y e wyldernesse and he shal leaue him in the wyldernesse And Aaron shal go in to the Tabernacle of witnesse and put of the lynnen clothes which he put on whaÌ„ he wente in to y e SaÌ„ctuary and shal leaue them there and bathe his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his awne rayment And he shal go forth and make his burnt offeringe and the burnt offeringe of the people and make an attonement both for himself and for the people and burne the fat of the syn offerynge vpon the altare But he y e caried out the fre goate shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water then come in to the hoost The bullocke of the syn offerynge and y e goate of the syn offerynge whose bloude was brought in to the Sanctuary to make an attonemeÌ„t shal be caried out of y e hoost brent with fyre both their skynnes flesh and donge And he that burneth them shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and then come in to the hoost And this shal be a perpetuall lawe vnto you Vpon the tenth daye of the seuenth moneth shal ye humble youre soules and do no worke whether it be one of youre selues or a straunger amonge you For in this daye is youre attonemeÌ„t made that ye maye be clensed from all youre synnes before the LORDE therfore shall it be a fre Sabbath vnto you and ye shal humble youre soules Let this bâ— a perpetuall lawe But the prest that is anoynted and whose hande was fylled to be prest in his fathers steade shal make this attonement and shal put on the lynnen clothes namely the holy vestimeÌ„tes so shal he recoÌ„cyle the holy SaÌ„ctuary and the Tabernacle of wytnesse and the altare and y e prestes and all the people of the congregacion This shal be a perpetuall lawe vnto you that ye reconcyle y e children of Israel from all their synnes once a yeare And Moses dyd as the LORDE commaunded him The XVII Chapter ANd y e LORDE talked with Moses sayde Speake vnto Aaron his sonnes to all y e childreÌ„ of Israel saye vnto them This is it that y e LORDE hath commaunded What so euer he be of y e house of Israel y t kylleth an oxe or laÌ„be or goate in the hoost or out of the hoost and bryngeth it not before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse that it maye be brought vnto the LORDE for an offerynge before the Habitacion of y e LORDE the same shal be giltie of bloude as though he had shed bloude and soch a man shal be roted out from amonge his people Therfore shall the children of Israel brynge their offerynges that they wyll offâ—e vpon the wyde felde before the LORDE euen before the dore of the Tabernacle of witnesse vnto the prest there offre their health offerynges vnto the LORDE And the prest shal sprenkle the bloude vpon the altare of the LORDE before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and burne the fat for a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE and they shall offre their offerynges nomore vnto deuels with whom they go a whorynge This shal be a perpetuall lawe vnto them amonge their posterities Therfore shalt thou saie vnto theÌ„ What man so euer he be of the house of Israel or a straunger also that is amonge you which offereth a burnt offerynge or eny other offerynge and bringeth it not before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse to offre it vnto the LORDE he shal be roted out from amoÌ„ge his people And what man so euer it be either of the house of Israel or a straunger amonge you that eateth eny maner of bloude agaynst him wyll I set my face and wil rote him out from amonge his people for the soule of y e body is in the bloude and I haue geuen it you for the altare that youre soules maye be reconcyled ther with For the bloude that is in the soule maketh attonement Therfore haue I sayde vnto the children of Israel No soule amonge you shall eate bloude no ner eny straunger that dwelleth amonge you And what man so euer it be amonge you whether he be of the house of Israel or a straunger amoÌ„ge you that at the huntynge taketh a beest or foule which maye be eaten he shall poure out the bloude of the same couer it with earth for all flesh lyueth in the bloude And I haue sayde vnto the children of Israel Ye shall eate the bloude of no body for the life of all flesh is in his bloude Who so euer eateth it shal be roted out And what so euer soule eateth that which dyed alone or y t was torne of wylde beestes whether he be one of youre selues or a straunger the same shal wash his clothes and bathe himself with water and he vncleane vntyll the euen and then is he cleane But yf he wash not his clothes nor bathe him self then shal he beare his synne The XVIII Chapter ANd the LORDE talked w t Moses saide Speake vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel saye vnto them I am the LORDE youre God Ye shall not do after y e workes of the lande of Egipte wherin ye dwelt nether after the doynges of the lande of Canaan in to the which I will brynge you Ye shal not walke after their customes but after my lawes shall ye do my statutes shall ye kepe that ye maye walke therin for I am the LORDE youre God Therfore shal ye kepe my statutes and my lawes For the man that doth the same shal liue therin for I am the LORDE No maÌ„ shal come at his nexte kinszwomaÌ„ to vncouer hir preuytie for I am y e LORDE Thou shalt not vncouer y e preuytie of y e father of y e mother It is thy mother therfore shalt thou not vncouer hir preuytie Thou shalt not vncouer y e preuytie of y e fathers wife for it is y e fathers preuytie Thou shalt not vncouer the preuytie of thy sister which is the doughter of y e father or of y e mother whether she be borne at home or without Thou shalt not vncouer the preuytie of thy sonnes doughter or of thy doughters doughter for it is thine awne preuytie Thou shalt not vncouer y e preuytie of y e fathers wiues doughter which is borne vnto him and is thy sister Thou shalt not vncouer the preuytie of thy fathers sister for it is thy fathers nexte kynszwoman Thou shalt not vncouer the preuytie of
take to wife but no wedowe ner deuorsed ner defyled ner whore but a virgin of his awne people shal he take to wife y t he vnhalowe not his sede amonge his people For I am y e LORDE which sanctifie him And y e LORDE talked w t Moses sayde Speake vnto Aaron saie Yf there be a blemysh vpoÌ„ eny of y e sede in yo r generacions the same shal not preasse to offre the bred of his God For who so euer hath a blemysh vpon him shal not come nere whether he be blynde lame with an euell fauoured nose w t eny myszshappen membre or y t hath a broken fote or hande or is croke backed or hath eny blemysh in the eye or is gleyd or is skyrvye or scaulde or hath his stones broken Who so euer now of the sede of Aaron y e prest hath eny blemysh vpoÌ„ him shal not come nye to offre y e sacrifice of the LORDE For he hath a deformyte Therfore shall he not preasse vnto the bred of his God to offre it Notwithstondinge he shal eate of the bred of his God both of the holy of y e most holy but he shal not go in to y e vayle ner come nye the altare for so moch as he hath a blemysh vpoÌ„ him y t he vnhalowe not my SaÌ„ctuary For I am y e LORDE y t sanctifieth theÌ„ And Moses spake this vnto Aaron to his sonnes and to all the children of Israel The XXII Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses sayde Speake vnto Aaron his sonnes y t they absteyne from y e halowed thinges of the childreÌ„ of Israel which they haue halowed vnto me y t they vnhalowe not my holy name for I am y e LORDE Saie now vnto them their posterities Who so euer he be of yo r sede y t commeth nye vnto the holy thinges which the childreÌ„ of Israel halowe vnto the LORDE so defyleth him self vpon the same his soule shal perishe before my face for I am the LORDE Who so euer of the sede of Aaron is a leper or hath a runnynge yssue shall not eate of the holy thinges tyll he be clensed Who so toucheth eny vncleane thinge or whose sede departeth from him by night or who so toucheth eny worme that is vncleane vnto him or a maÌ„ y t is vncleane vnto him what so euer defyleth hiÌ„ loke what soule toucheth eny soch is vncleane vntyll the euen shall not eate of the holy thinges but shall first bath his flesh with water And whaÌ„ y e Sonne is gone downe and he cleane then maye he eate therof for it is his foode Loke what dyeth alone or is rent of wylde beestes shall he not eate y t he be not vncleane theron for I am y e LORDE Therfore shal they kepe my lawe y t they lade not synne vpon them dye therin whan they vnhalowe them selues in it For I am y e LORDE y t halowe them A straunger shal not eate of the holy thinges ner an housholde gest of the prestes ner an hyred seruauÌ„t But yf y e prest bye a soule for his money y e same maye eate therof And loke who is borne in his house maye eate of his bred also Neuertheles yf the prestes doughter be a straungers wife she shal not eate of the Heue offeringes of holynes But yf she be a wedowe or deuorced or haue no sede commeth agayne to hir fathers house as afore whan she was yet a mayden in hir fathers house then shall she eate of hir fathers bred But no strauÌ„ger shal eate therof Who so els eateth of the halowed thynges vnwyttingly shal put y e fifth parte there vnto and geue it vnto the prest with the halowed thinge that they vnhalowe not y e halowed thinges of the children of Israel which they Heue vp vnto the LORDE lest they lade them selues with myszdoinge and trespace whaÌ„ they eate their halowed thynges for I am y e LORDE which halowe theÌ„ And y e LORDE talked w t Moses saide Speake vnto Aaron his sonnes to all y e childreÌ„ of Israel What so euer Israelite or straunger in Israel wyll do his offerynge whether it be their vowe or of fre wyl that they wyll offre a burnt offerynge vnto the LORDE to reconcyle them selues it shal be a male and without blemysh of the oxen or lambes or goates What so euer hath eny blemish shal they not offre for they shal fynde no fauoure therwith And who so wyl offre an health offeringe vnto the LORDE to separate out a vowe or of fre wyl oxen or shepe it shal be without blemysh y t it maye be accepted It shal haue no deformite Yf it be blynde or brokeÌ„ or wounded or haue a wen or skyrvye or scabbed they shal offre none soch vnto the LORDE ner put an offerynge of eny soch vpoÌ„ the altare of the LORDE An oxe or shepe y t hath myszshappeÌ„ membres or no rompe mayest thou offâ—â— of a fre wyll but to a vowe it maye not be accepted Thou shalt offre also vnto the LORDE nothinge y t is brused or broken or rent or cutt out ye shal do no soch in youre londe Morouer ye shall offre no bred vnto youre God of a straungers hande for it is marred of him and he hath a deformite therfore shal it not be accepted for you And the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde WhaÌ„ an oxe or laÌ„be or goate is brought forth it shal be seuen dayes with the dame and vpon the eight daye therafter it maie be offered vnto the LORDE theÌ„ is it accepted Whether it be oxe or lambe it shall not be slayne with his yonge in one daye But whaÌ„ ye wil offre a thaÌ„k offringe vnto the LORDE y t it maye be accepted ye shal eate it the same daye kepe nothinge ouer vntyll the mornynge for I am the LORDE Therfore kepe now my commaundementes and do them for I am the LORDE y t ye vnhalowe not my holy name that I maye be halowed amonge the children of Israel For I am he that halowe you eueÌ„ y e LORDE which brought you out of y e loÌ„de of Egipte y t I might be yo r God Euen I y e LORDE The XXIII Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses sayde Speake vnto y e children of Israel and saye vnto them These are y e feastes of the LORDE which ye shal call holy dayes Sixe dayes shalt thou worke but the seuenth daie is the rest of the Sabbath and shal be called holy Ye shal do no worke therin for it is the Sabbath of the LORDE where so euer ye dwell These are the feastes of the LORDE y t are called holy which ye shal call youre feastes Apon y e fourtene daye of y e first moneth at euen is the LORDES Easter And vpon y e fiftene daye of the same moneth is the feast of vnleueÌ„ded bred of
full displeasure and wyll punysh you seuen folde because of youre synnes so that ye shal eate the flesh of youre sonnes and doughters And I wyl destroye youre hye altares and rote out youre ymages and wyll cast youre bodies vpon the bodies of youre Idols and my soule shall abhorre you And youre cities wyll I make waist and brynge youre churches to naught and wyll not smell youre swete odoures Thus wyll I make the londe desolate so that youre enemies shall dwell therin and make it waist but you will I scater amonge the Heythen and drawe out the swerde after you so that youre londe shal be waist youre cities desolate Then shall the londe reioyse in hir Sabbathes as longe as it lyeth wayst and ye be in the enemies londe Yee then shal the londe kepe holy daye and reioyse in hir rest as longe as it lieth wayst because it coude not rest in youre Sabbathes whan ye dwelt therin And as for them that remayne of you I wyll make them faynte harted in the londe of their enemies so that a shakynge leaf shall chace them And they shall flye from it as though a swerde persecuted them and shal fall noman folowynge vpon them And they shall fall one vpon another as it were before the swerde and noman yet chacynge them And ye shall not be so bolde as to withstonde youre enemies and shal perishe amonge the Heithen and the londe of youre enemies shal eate you vp And they that are lâ—ft of you shall pyne awaye in their myszdede euen in the enemies londe and in the myszdedes of their fathers shall they consume awaye Then shall they knowlege their myszdedes and the myszdedes of their fathers in the trespace wherwith they haue trespaced agaynst me and walked contrary vnto me Therfore wyll I also walke contrary vnto theÌ„ and wyll brynge them in to the enemies londe Then shal their vncircumcysed herte be tamed And then shall they ende their myszdedes And I shal thinke vpoÌ„ my couenauÌ„t with Iacob and vpon my couenaunt with Isaac and vpon my couenaunt with Abraham and wyl thynke vpon the loÌ„de As for the londe â–ª whan it shal be left of them it shal reioyse in hir Sabbathes euen then whan it lyeth waist and they tylle it not And they shall make attonement for their myszdedes because they despysed my lawes their soules refused my statutes Morouer I haue not so refused them that they shulde be in the enemies londe nether haue I so vtterly abhorred them that I wolde brynge them to naught and breake my couenaunt w t them for I am y e LORDE their God And for their sake I wyl remeÌ„bre my first couenauÌ„t whaÌ„ I brought them out of y e londe of Egipte in the sight of the Heythen y t I might be their God Euen I the LORDE These are the ordinaunces statutes and lawes which y e LORDE made betwixte him and the children of Israel vpon mount Sinai by the hande of Moses The XXVII Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses sayde Speake to y e children of Israel saye vnto them Yf eny man make a speciall vowe vnto y e LORDE so y t he pryse a soule then shal this be the valuacion A maÌ„ of twentye yeare olde vnto the thre score yeare shalt thou set at fiftie syluer Sycles after the Sycle of the Sanctuary but a woman at thirtie Sycles Yf it be fyue yeare olde vnto twentye yeare thou shalt set it at twentye Sycles whan it is a man childe but a woman at ten Sycles Yf it be a moneth olde vnto fiue yeare thou shalt set it at fyue Sycles of syluer whan it is a maÌ„childe but a woman at thre Syluer Sycles Yf he be thre score yeare olde and aboue theÌ„ shalt thou set him at fiftene Sicles whaÌ„ it is a maÌ„ a womaÌ„ at teÌ„ Sicles Yf he be to poore so to be set theÌ„ let him present himself to y e prest y e prest shal value him Neuertheles he shal value him acordinge as y e haÌ„de of him that vowed is able to get But yf it be a beest y t maye be offred vnto y e LORDE all y t is offred vnto y e LORDE of soch is holy it shal not be altered ner chaunged a good for a bad or a bad for a good Yf eny man chaunge it one beest for another then shal they both be holy vnto y e LORDE But yf y e beest be vn cleane which maye not be offred vnto y e LORDE theÌ„ shal it be set before y e prest and y e prest shal value it whether it be good or bad it shal stonde at the prestes valuynge But yf eny man wil bye it out he shal geue the fifth parte more to that it was set at Whan eny maÌ„ sanctifieth his house vnto the LORDE for y e Sanctuary the prest shall value it whether it be good or bad And as the prest valueth it so shal it stonde But yf he y t sanctified it wyl redeme it he shal geue y e fifth parte of syluer therto aboue that it was set at So shal it be his Yf eny man halowe a pece of loÌ„de of his heretage vnto the LORDE it shal be set acordinge to y t it beareth Yf it beare an Homer of barlye it shal be valued at fiftye Sycles of syluer But yf he halowe his londe immediatly from the yeare of Iubilye forth then shal it be set acordinge to y e value therof Yf he haue halowed it after the yeare of Iubilye then shal the prest rekeÌ„ it acordinge to y e yeares y t remayne vnto y e yeare of Iubilye therafter shal he set it the lower But yf he y t sanctified the londe wil redeme it agayne then shal he geue the fifth parte of syluer therto aboue that it was set at So shal it be his Yf he wil not lowse it out but selleth it vnto another then shal he redeme it nomore but the same londe whan it goeth out fre in y e yeare of Iubilye shal be holy vnto the LORDE as a dedicated felde and shal be the prestes inheritaunce Yf eny man halowe vnto the LORDE a felde which he hath bought and is not his inheritaunce then shal y e prest reken it what it is worth vnto the yeare of Iubilye the same daye shall he geue the pryce that it is set at vnto the LORDE for the Sanctuary But in y e yeare of Iubilye it shal returne vnto him that bought it y t it maye be his inheritaunce in the londe All maner of prysinge shal be made acordinge to the Sycle of the SaÌ„ctuary One Sycle maketh xx Geras The first borne amonge y e catell which belongeth vnto the LORDE shall no man Sanctifie vnto the LORDE whether it be oxe or shepe for it is the LORDES all ready But yf there be eny vn cleane thinge vpon the beest theÌ„ shal it be lowsed out therafter as it
w t their hoost their captayne shal be Elisama sonne of Amihud and his armye in the summe fourtye thousande and fyue hundreth Nexte vnto him shal y e trybe of Manasse pitch their captayne Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur his armye in the summe two and thirtie thousande two huÌ„dreth The trybe of Ben Iamin also their captayne Abidan the sonne of Gedeoni his armye in the summe fyue and thirtie thousande foure hundreth So y t all they which belonge to the hoost of Ephraim be in the summe an hundreth thousande eight thousande an huÌ„dreth belonginge to his armie And they shal be the thirde in the iourney On the North syde shal lye y e pauylions baner of Dan with their hoost their captayne Ahieser y e sonne of Ammi Sadai his armye in the summe two and sixtye thousande and seueÌ„ hundreth Nexte vnto him shal the trybe of Asser pitche their captayne Pagiel y e sonne of Ochran his army in the summe one and fourtie thousande and fyue hundreth The trybe of Nephthali also their captayne Ahira the sonne of Enan his armye in the summe thre fiftye thousande foure huÌ„dreth So y t all they which belonge to the hoost of Dan be in the summe an huÌ„dreth thousande seuen fiftie thousande sixe hundreth And they shal be the last in the iourney with their baners This is the summe of the children of Israel after their fathers houses and armyes with their hoostes euen sixe hundreth thousande thre thousande fyue huÌ„dreth fiftie But y e Leuites were not nombred in y e summe amonge the childreÌ„ of Israel as y e LORDE coÌ„maunded Moses And y e childreÌ„ of Israel dyd all as the LORDE coÌ„maunded Moses And so they pitched vnder their baners toke their iourney euery one in his kynred acordinge to the house of their fathers The III. Chapter THese are the generacions of Aaron Moses whan y e LORDE spake vnto Moses at y e same tyme vpon mount Sinai And these are y e names of the sonnes of Aron The firstborne Nadab then Abihu Eleasar Ithamar These are y e names of the sonnes of Aaron which were anoynted to be prestes their handes fylled for y e presthode But Nadab Abihu dyed before y e LORDE whaÌ„ they offred strauÌ„ge fyre before y e LORDE in y e wildernesse of Sinai had no sonnes But Eleasar and Ithamar executed y e prestes office w t their father Aaron And the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Bringe hither the trybe of Leui and set them before Aaron the prest y t they maye serue w t him wayte vpon him vpoÌ„ the whole congregacion before y e Tabernacle of witnesse and execute the seruyce of the habitacion and kepe all the apparell of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and wayte vpon the children of Israel to mynistre in the seruyce of the habitacion And thou shalt geue y e Leuites vnto Aaron and his sonnes for a gift vnto euery one his awne from amonge the children of Israel As for Aaron his sonnes thou shalt appoynte them to wayte on their prestes office Yf another preasse therto he shal dye And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and saide Beholde I haue takeÌ„ the Leuites froÌ„ amonge the childreÌ„ of Israel for all the first borne that open the Matrix amonge the children of Israel â–ª so that the Leuites shal be myne For the firstborne are myne sence y e tyme that I smoâ—e all the first borne in y e lande of Egipte whaÌ„ I sanctified vnto me all the firstborne in Israel from meÌ„ vnto catell that they shulde be myne I the LORDE And the LORDE spake vnto Moses in the wyldernesse of Sinai and sayde Nombre the children of Leui after their fathers houses and kynreds all that are males of a moneth olde and aboue So Moses nombred them acordinge to the worde of the LORDE as he had commaunded And these were the children of Leui with their names Gerson Kahath Merari The names of the children of Gerson in their kynreds were Libni and Semei The childreÌ„ of Kahath in their kynreds were Amram Iezehar Hebron and Vsiel The children of Merari in their kynreds were Maheli and Musi. These are the kynreds of Leui after their fathers houses These are y e kynreds of Gerson The Libnites and Semeâ—tes the summe was founde in nombre seuen thousande and fyue hundreth of all that were males of a moneth olde and aboue And the same kynreds of the Gersonites shal pitche behinde the Habitacion on the west syde Let Eliasaph the sonne of Lael be their ruler And they shal waite vpon the Tabernacle of wytnesse of the habitacion and of the tent and couerynges therof and the hangynge in the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse the hangynge aboute the courte the hangynge in y e courtedore which courte goeth aboute the habitacion and the altare and the cordes of it all that belongeth to the seruyce therof These are the kynreds of Kahath The Amramites the Iezeharites the Hebronites and Vsielites all that were males of a moneth olde aboue in nombre eight thousande and sixe hundreth waytinge vpon the Tabernacle of the Sanctuary shal pitch on the south syde of y e Habitacion Let Elisaphan the sonne of Vsiel be their ruler And they shal kepe the Arke the table the candil sticke the altare and all the vessels of the Sanctuary to do seruyce in and the vayle and all that belongeth to the seruice therof But the chefe of all the rulers of the Leuites shal be Eleasar the sonne of Aron the prest ouer them that are apoynted to kepe the watch of the Sanctuary These are y e kynreds of Merari The Mahelites and Musites which were in nombre sixe thousande and two huÌ„dreth all that were males of a moneth olde and aboue Let Zuriel y e sonne of Abihail be their ruler and they shall pitche vpon the north syde of the Habitacion And their office shal be to kepe the bordes and barres and pilers and sokettes of the Habitacion and all the apparell therof and that serueth therto y e pilers also aboute y e courte with the sokettes and nales and cordes But before the Habitacion and before y e Tabernacle on the East syde shal Moses Aaron his sonnes pytche that they maye wayte vpon the Sanctuary the children of Israel Yf eny other preasse therto he shal dye All the Leuites in the summe whom Moses and Aaron nombred after their kynreds acordinge to the worde of the LORDE all that were males of a moneth olde and aboue were two and twentye thousande And y e LORDE saide vnto Moses Nombre all the first borne that are males amonge the children of Israel of a moneth olde and aboue and take the nombre of their names And y e Leuites shalt thou take out vnto me the LORDE for all y e first borne of y e childreÌ„ of Israel
tyme ouer y t he absteyneth vnto the LORDE shal he go to no deed Nether shal he defyle himself at y e death of his father of his mother of his brother or of his sister For the abstinence of his God is vpon his heade and y e whole tyme of his abstinence shall he be holy vnto the LORDE And yf it chaunce eny man to dye sodenly before him then shal y e heade of his abstynence be defyled Therfore shal he * shaue his heade in the daye of his clensynge that is vpon the seuenth daye and vpon y e eight daye shall he brynge troo turtill doues or two yonge pigeons vnto the prest before y e dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse And the prest shall make the one a syn offerynge and the other a burnt offerynge and make an attonement for him because he defyled himself vpon y e deed and so shal he halowe his heade the same daye that he maye holde out the tyme of his abstinence vnto the LORDE and he shall brynge a lambe of a a yeare olde for a trespace offerynge But y e daies afore shal be but lost because his abstinence was defyled This is the lawe of the absteyner Whan the tyme of his abstinence is out he shal be brought before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse And he shal brynge his offeringe vnto the LORDE euen an he lambe of a yeare olde without blemysh for a burnt offeringe a she lambe of a yeare olde without blemysh for a syn offerynge and a ramme w t out blemish for an health offerynge a mauÌ„de w t vnleuended cakes of fyne floure myngled with oyle and swete wafers anoynted with oyle their meat offeringes drynkofferynges And the prest shall brynge it before the LORDE and shal make his syn offerynge and his burnt offerynge and y e ramme shal he make an health offerynge vnto the LORDE with y e maunde of the vnleuended bred His meat offerynge and drink offeringe shal he make also And he shall shaue the heade of the absteyners abstinence before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and shall take the heade heer of his abstinence and cast it vpon the fyre that is vnder y e health-offerynge And the sodden shulder of the ramme shall he take and an vnleuended cake out of the maunde and a swete wafer and laye them vpon the handes of the absteyner after that he hath shauen of his abstinence And he shal Waue them before the LORDE This is holy for the prest with the Waue brest and Heueshulder After that maye the absteyner drynke wyne This is the lawe of the absteyner which voweth his offeringe vnto the LORDE for his abstynence besydes that which his hande can get As he hath vowed so shall he do acordinge to the lawe of his abstinence And the LORDE talked with Moses and sayde Speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes and saye Thus shal ye saye vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel whan ye blesse them The LORDE blesse the and kepe the. The LORDE make his face to shyne vpoÌ„ the and be mercifull vnto the. The LORDE lift vp his countenaunce vpon the and geue the peace For they shal put my name vpoÌ„ the childrâ—â— of Israel that I maye blesse them The VII Chapter ANd whan Moses had set vp the Habitacion and anoynted it and sanctifyed it with all the apparell therof and had anoynted and halowed the altare also with all his vessels Then offred the captaynes of Israel which were the rulers in their fathers houses For they were the captaynes amonge y e kynreds and stode ouer theÌ„ that were nombred And they brought their offerynges before the LORDE sixe couered charettes and twolue oxen for euery two captaynes a charett and an oxe for euery one and brought them before the habitacion And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Take it of them that it maye serue for the mynistracion of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and geue it vnto the Leuites vnto euery one acordinge to his office Then toke Moses the charettes and oxen and gaue them vnto the Leuites Two charettes and foure oxen gaue he vnto y e children of Gerson acordinge to their office and foure charettes and eight oxen gaue he vnto the children of Merari acordinge to their office vnder the hande of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the prest But vnto the children of Kahath he gaue nothynge because they had an holy office vpon them and must beare vpoÌ„ their shulders And the captaines offred to the dedicacion of the altare in the daye whan it was anoynted and offred their giftes before the altare And y e LORDE sayde vnto Moses Let euery captayne brynge his offerynge vpon his daye to the dedicacion of the altare On the first daye Nahasson the sonne of Aminadab of the trybe of Iuda offred his gâ—fte And his gifte was a syluer charger worth an hundreth and thyrtie Sycles A syluer boule worth seuentye Sycles after the Sycle of the Sanctuary both full of fyne â—loure myngled with oyle for a meat offeringe And a golden spone worth ten Sycles of golde full of incense A bullocke from amonge the greate catell a ramme a lambe of a yeare olde for a burnt offerynge an he goate for a syn offerynge And for an health offerynge two oxen fyue rammes fyue he goates and fyue lambes of a yeare olde This is the gifte of Nahasson the sonne of Aminadab On the seconde daye offred Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar the captayne of Isachar His gifte was a syluer charger worth an hundreth and thirtie Sycles A syluer boule worth seuentye Sycles after the Sycle of the Sanctuary both full of fyne floure myngled with oile for a meat offeringe And a golden spone worth ten Sycles of golde full of incense A bullocke from amonge the greate catell a raÌ„me a lambe of a yeare olde for a burnt offerynge an he goate for a syn-offerynge And for an health offerynge two oxen fyue rammes fyue he goates and fyue lambes of a yeare olde This is the gifte of Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar On the thirde daye the captayne of the children of Zabulon Eliab the sonne of Helon His gifte was a syluer charger worth an hundreth and thirtie Sycles A syluer boule worth seuentye Sycles after the Sycle of the Sanctuary both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meat offerynge And a golden spone worth ten Sycles of golde full of incense A bullocke from amonge the greate catell a ramme a lambe of a yeare olde for a burnt offerynge an he goate for a syn offerynge And for an health offeringe two oxen fyue rammes fiue he goates and fiue lambes of a yeare olde This is the gifte of Eliab the sonne of Helon On the fourth daye the captayne of the children of Ruben Elizur the sonne of Sedeur His gifte was a syluer charger worth an hundreth and thirtie Sycles A syluer boule worth seuentye Sycles after the Sycle of the Sanctuary both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for
VIII Chapter ANd the LORDE talked with Moses sayde Speake to Aaron saye vnto him Whan thou settest vp y e lāpes thou shalt set thē so that they maye all seuē geue light aboue vpō y e candilsticke And Aaron dyd so set y e lampes vpō y e candilsticke as y e LORDE cōmaunded Moses The worke of y e cādilsticke was of beatē golde both y e shaft floures therof Acordynge to y e visiō that the LORDE had shewed Moses euen so made he the candelsticke And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Take the Leuites frō amonge the children of Israel clense them But thus shalt thou do with them that thou mayest clense them Thou shalt sprenkle purifienge water vpon them and lett a rasure go ouer their whole body and washe their clothes and then are they cleane Then shall they take a yonge bullocke and his meat offerynge of fyne floure myngled with oyle And another yonge bullocke shalt thou take for a synofferinge And thou shalt brynge the Leuites before the Tabernacle of wytnesse and gather together the whole congregacion of y e children of Israel and brynge the Leuytes before the LORDE And the children of Israel shall laye their handes vpon the Leuites And Aaron shal waue y e Leuites before the LORDE for the children of Israel that they maye mynistre in the seruyce of the LORDE And the Leuites shall laye their handes vpon the heedes of the bullockes and the one shal be made a synn offerynge the other a burnt offeringe vnto the LORDE to make an attonement for the Leuites And thou shalt set the Leuites before Aaron and his sonnes and waue them before the LORDE and so shalt thou separate them from y e children of Israel that they maye be myne Thē shall they go in that they maye do seruyce in the Tabernacle of witnesse Thus shalt thou clense thē waue them for they are my gifte of the children of Israel and I haue taken them vnto me for all that openeth the Matrix namely for the first borne of all the children of Israel For euery first borne amonge the children of Israel is myne both of men and of catell sens the tyme that I smote all the first borne in the lande of Egipte and sanctified them vnto myself and toke the Leuites for all the first borne amonge the childrē of Israel and gaue them for a gifte vnto Aarō and his sonnes from amonge the children of Israel y t they shulde do the seruyce of the children of Israel in the Tabernacle of witnesse to make attonemēt for the children of Israel that there be not a plage amonge the children of Israel yf they wyll come nye y e Sanctuary And Moses with Aaron and the whole congregaciō of the childrē of Israel dyd w t the Leuites all as the LORDE had commaūded Moses And they purified the Leuites and waszshed their clothes And Aaron waued them before the LORDE and made attoment for them that they might be cleane After that wente they in to do their office in the Tabernacle of witnesse before Aaron and his sonnes as the LORDE commaūded Moses concernynge the Leuites euen so dyd they with them And the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde This is it that belongeth vnto the Leuites From fyue and twentye yeare and aboue shal they go in to the office of the Tabernacle of witnesse But frō fyftie yeare forth they shal ceasse from the waitinge of the seruyce therof and shall mynister nomore but shal appoynte their brethren to waite and to serue in the Tabernacle of wytnesse but the office shal not they execute Thus shalt thou do with the Leuites in their seruyces that euery one maye wayte vpon his awne charge The IX Chapter ANnd the LORDE spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai in y e first moneth of the seconde yeare that they were departed out of the lande of Egipte ▪ sayde Let the children of Israel kepe Easter in his season euen vpon the fourtene daye of this moneth at euen in his season shall they kepe it acordynge to all the statutes lawes therof And Moses spake to y e childrē of Israel y t they shulde kepe Easter And they kep Easter vpō the fourtene daye of the first moneth at euen in the wildernes of Sinai Acordinge to all that the LORDE cōmaunded Moses euen so dyd the children of Israel Then were there certayne men defyled of a deed man so that they coulde not kepe Easter vpon that daye these came before Moses and Aaron the same daye and sayde vnto him We are defiled of a deed mā wherfore shulde we be despysed that we must not bringe oure giftes in his season amonge the children of Israel Moses sayde vnto them Stonde styll I wil heare what the LORDE commaundeth you And the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Speake vnto the children of Israel saie Whā eny man is defyled of a deed coarse or is gone farre from you ouer the felde or is amonge youre kynszfolkes yet shall he kepe Easter but in the seconde moneth vpō y e fourtene daye at euen and they shal eate it with vnleuended bred and sowre sawse and shall leaue none of it vntyll the mornynge ner breake eny bone therof and shal kepe it acordinge to all y e maner of y e Easter But he that is cleane and not gone in a iourney and is negligent to kepe the Easter the same soule shal be roted out from amōge his people because he brought not his gifte to the LORDE in his season he shal beare his synne And whan there dwelleth a straunger amonge you he shal kepe Easter also vnto the LORDE shal holde it acordinge to y e ordinaunce and lawe of y e Easter This statute shal be vnto you alike to the straunger as to him that is borne in the londe And y e same daye y t the Habitacion was set vp a cloude couered it vpō the Tabernacle of witnesse at euen there was a symilitude of fyre vpon the Habitacion vntill the mornynge So came it to passe allwaye y t the cloude couered it by daye the symilitude of fyre by night And whan the cloude was takē vp from the Habitacion then the children of Israel wente on their iourney And loke in what place the cloude abode there the childrē of Israel pitched their tentes Acordinge to the worde of the LORDE toke the children of Israel their iourney and acordinge to his worde pitched they their tentes So longe as the cloude abode vpon the Habitacion they laye styll And whan the cloude taried many dayes vpon the Habitacion the childrē of Israel wayted vpon the LORDE wente not on their iourney And whan it chaunced that the cloude abode vpō y e Habitacion eny space of dayes then pitched they acordinge to the worde of the LORDE after the worde of the LORDE wente they on their iourney Whan the
The water shal flowe out of his boket and his sede shal be a greate water His kynge shal be hyer then Agag his kyngdome shal be exalted God hath broughte hiÌ„ out of Egipte his strength is as of an vnicorne He shal eate vp the Heithen his enemies and grynde their bones to poulder and shute thorow them with his arowes He hath layed him downe as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse Who wyll rayse him vp Blessed be he y t blesseth the and cursed that curseth the. TheÌ„ was Balac furious iÌ„ wrath against Balaam smote his haÌ„des together sayde vnto him I haue called the y t thou shuldest curse myne enemies and beholde thou hast blessed theÌ„ now thre tymes now get the heÌ„ce to y e place I thoughte y t I wolde promote the vnto honoure but the LORDE hath kepte the backe from that worshipe Balaam answered him Tolde not I thy messaungers whom thou sendedst vnto me sayde Yf Balac wolde geue me his house full of syluer and golde yet coulde I not go beyonde the worde of the LORDE to do either euell or good after myne awne hert but what y e LORDE speaketh that must I speake also And now beholde for so moch as I go to my people come therfore I wyll shewe the what this people shal do vnto y e people after this tyme. And he toke vp his parable and sayde Thus sayeth Balaam the sonne of Beor Thus sayeth y e man whose eyes are opened Thus sayeth he which heareth the wordes of God y t hath the knowlege of y e hyest eueÌ„ he y t sawe y e visioÌ„ of y e Allmightie fell downe his eyes were opened I shal se him but not now I shal beholde him but not nie at haÌ„de There shal a starre come out of Iacob a cepter shall come vp out of Israel and shal smyte y e rulers of the Moabites and ouercome all the children of Seth. Edom shal be his possession and Seir shal be his enemies possessioÌ„ but Israel shal do manfully Out of Iacob shal come he y t hath dominion and shall destroye the remnaunt of the cities And whaÌ„ he sawe y e Amalechites he toke vp his parable sayde Amalec the first amoÌ„ge the HeitheÌ„ but at y e last thou shalt perishe vtterly And whan he sawe the Kenites he toke vp his parable sayde StroÌ„ge is y e dwellinge and on a rocke hast thou put thy nest neuertheles thou shalt be a burninge vnto Rain tyll Assur take y e presoner And he toke vp his parable agayne sayde Alas who shal lyue whaÌ„ God doth this And shippes out of Citim shall subdue Assur and Eber. He him self also shal perishe vtterly And Balaam gat him vp and departed and came againe vnto his place and Balac wente his waye also The XXV Chapter ANd Israel dwelt in Sittim and the people beganne to commytte whordome with the doughters of the Moabites which called the people vnto the sacrifice of their goddes And the people ate and worshipped their goddes and Israel submytted him self vnto Baal Peor Then the wrath of the LORDE waxed whote vpon Israel and he sayde vnto Moses Take all the rulers of the people and hange them vp vnto the LORDE agaynst y e Sonne that the terryble wrath of the LORDE maye be turned awaye from Israel And Moses sayde vnto the iudges of Israel Euery man slaye his captayne that haue submytted them selues vnto Baal Peor And beholde one of the childreÌ„ of Israel weÌ„te in against his brethreÌ„ ioyned him self to a Madianitish womaÌ„ in y e sighte of Moses of the whole coÌ„gregacion of y e childreÌ„ of Israel which weped before the dore of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse Whan Phineas y e sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron y e prest sawe y t he rose vp out of the congregacion toke a swerde in his hande wente after the man of Israel in to the whore house thrust theÌ„ thorow both the man of Israel and the woman eueÌ„ thorow the bely of her Then ceassed the plage from the children of Israel and there were slayne in the plage foure and twentye thousande And y e LORDE spake vnto Moses saide Phineas the sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron y e prest hath turned my wrath awaie from the childreÌ„ of Israel thorow his gelousy for my sake amonge them y t I shulde not coÌ„sume the childreÌ„ of Israel in my gelousy Wherfore sayeâ— beholde I geue him my couenaunt of peace and he shal haue it his sede after him eueÌ„ the couenaunt of an euer lastinge presthode because he was gelous for his Gods sake and made an attonement for the children of Israel The man of Israel that was slayne with the Madianitâ—sh woman was called Simri the sonne of Salu a captayne of the house of the father of the Simeonites The Madianitish woman also that was slayne was called Coszbi y e doughter of Zur which was a ruler of the people of a kynred amonge the Madianites And the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde Vexe the Madianites smyte them for they haue vexed you with their wyles wherby they haue bigyled you thorow Peor and thorow their sister Coszbi the doughter of a captayne of y e Madianites which was slayne in the daye of the plage for Peors sake and the plage came after The XXVI Chapter ANd whan the giltye bloude was shed the LORDE sayde vnto Moses vnto Eleasar y e sonne of Aaron y e prest Take the summe of the whole coÌ„gregacion of the childreÌ„ of Israel from twentye yeare aboue after their fathers houses all y t are able to go forth to the warre in Israel And Moses Eleasar the prest spake vnto them in the felde of the Moabites besyde Iordane ouer against Iericho namely vnto all theÌ„ that were twentye yeare olde aboue as the LORDE coÌ„maunded Moses And these are y e childreÌ„ of Israel that came out of Egipte Ruben y e first borne sonne of Israel The childreeÌ„ of Ruben were Hanoch of whom coÌ„meth y e kynred of the Hanochites Palluâ— of whom coÌ„meth the kynred of the Palluites Hesron of whom coÌ„meth the kynred of the Hesronites Carmi of whom coÌ„meth y e kynred of the Carmites These are the kynreds of the Rubenites And the nombre of theÌ„ was thre fourtye thousande seuen hundreth thirtye But the childreÌ„ of Pallu were Eliab And the children of Eliab were Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram This is y t Dathan AbiraÌ„ those famous men in the congregacion which stode vp agaynst Moses and Aaron in the coÌ„pany of Corah whan they rose vp agaynst the LORDE the earth opened hir mouth and swalowed theÌ„ w t Corah whaÌ„ the coÌ„pany dyed what tyme as the fyre consumed two hundreth fiftye men they became a tokeÌ„ But the children
nombred in the wildernesse of Sinai For y e LORDE sayde vnto theÌ„ y t they shulde dye in the wildernesse And there was not one of them lefte saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune and Iosua the sonne of Nun. The XXVII Chapter ANd the doughters of Zelaphead y e sonne of Hepher y e sonne of Gilead the sonne of Machir the sonne of Manasse amonge the kynreds of Manasse the sonne Ioseph whose names were Mahela Noa Hagla Milca Thirza came stode before Moses Eleasar the prest before the rulers the whole congregacion euen before the dore of y e Tabernacle of witnesse sayde Oure father is deed in the wildernesse was not in the company of them y t rose vp agaynst y e LORDE in the coÌ„gregacion of Corah but dyed in his awne synne and had no sonnes Wherfore shulde o r fathers name perishe then amonge his kynred though he hâ—ue no sonne Geue vs a possession also amâ—â—ge oure fathers brethren Moses broughte their cause before y e LORDE And the LORDE sayde vnto him The doughters of Zelaphead haue spokeÌ„ righte Thou shalt geue theÌ„ a possession to inhereâ— amonge their fathers brethren shalt turne their fathers enheritaunce vnto them And saye vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel Whan a maÌ„ dyeth hath no sonne ye shall turne his enheritaunce vnto his doughter Yf he haue no doughter ye shal geue it vnto his brethreÌ„ Yf he haue no brethren ye shal geue it vnto his fathers brethren Yf he haue no fathers brethreÌ„ ye shal geue it vnto his nexte kynszfolke which beloÌ„ge vnto him in his kynred y t they maye possesse it This shal be an ordynaunce and a perpetuall lawe vnto the children of Israel as the LORDE coÌ„maunded Moses And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Get the vp in to this mount Abarim beholde the loÌ„de which I shal geue vnto the childreÌ„ of Israel And whan thou hast sene it thou shalt be gathered vnto y e people as Aaron y e brother was gathered for ye were dishobedient vnto my worde in the wyldernesse of Zin in y e strife of the coÌ„gregacion whan ye shulde haue sanctified me thorow the water before them This is the water of stryfe at Cades in the wyldernesse of Zin And Moses spake vnto the LORDE sayde O let the LORDE God of the spretes of all flesh set a maÌ„ ouer the congregacion which maye go in out before them to leade theÌ„ out in y t the congregacion of the LORDE be not as the shepe without a shepherde And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Take vnto the Iosua the sonne of Nun which is a man in whom is the sprete and put thine handes vpon him set him before Eleasar the prest and before the whole congregacion and geue him a charge in their sighte beutyfye him with thy bewty that the whole congregacion of the children of Israel maye be obedieÌ„t vnto him And he shal stonde before Eleasar the prest which shall aâ—e councell for him after the maner of the lighte before the LORDE At the mouth of him shall both he and all the children of Israel with him and the whole congregacion go in and out Moses dyd as the LORDE coÌ„maunded him toke Iosua and set him before Eleasar the prest and before all the congregacion and layed his handes vpon him and gaue him a charge as the LORDE sayde vnto Moses The XXVIII Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde CoÌ„maunde y e childreÌ„ of Israel saye vnto theÌ„ The offerynge of my bred which is my offerynge of the swete sauoure shal ye kepe in his due season that ye maie offre vnto me And saye vnto theÌ„ These are the offerynges that ye shal offre vnto the LORDE Lambes of a yeare olde which are without blemysh euery daye two for a daylie burnt offerynge the one lambe in the mornynge the other at euen And therto a tenth deale of an Epha of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with beateÌ„ oyle of the fourth parte of an Hin this is a daylie burnt offerynge which ye offred vpon mouÌ„t Sinai for a swete sauoure of a sacrifice vnto the LORDE And the drynk offeringe of the same y e fourth parte of an Hin to a lambe and this shal be poured in the Sanctuary for a gifte vnto the LORDE The other lambe shalt thou prepare at eueÌ„ like as the meat offerynge in the mornynge the drynk offeringe therof for a sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE On the Sabbath daye two lambes of a yeare olde without blemysh two teÌ„th deales of fyne floure myngled with oyle the drynk offerynge therof This is the burntofferynge of euery Sabbath besyde the daylie burnt offerynge w t his drynk offeringe And on the first daye of youre monethes ye shal offre a burnt offerynge vnto y e LORDE two yonge bullockes a ramme seueÌ„ lambes of a yeare olde without blemysh and allwaye thre tenth deales of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with oyle vnto euery bullocke two tenth deales of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with oyle vnto the ramme and a tenth deale of fyne floure for a meat offerynge myngled with oyle vnto euery lambe This is the burnt offerynge of a swete sauoure a sacrifice vnto y e LORDE And their drynk offerynges shal be half an Hin of wyne vnto euery bullocke the thirde parte of an Hin to the ramme y e fourth parte of an Hin to euery lambe This is the burnt offerynge of euery moneth in the yeare There shal be offered an he goate also for a syn offerynge vnto the LORDE to the daylie burnt offerynge with his drynk-offerynge And on the fourtene daye of the first moneth is the Easter vnto the LORDE and on the fyftene daye of the same moneth is the feast SeueÌ„ dayes shal vnleuended bred be eaten The first daye shal be an holy conuocacion No seruile worke shal ye do therin and ye shal offre a burnt offerynge vnto the LORDE two yonge bullockes one ramme seuen laÌ„bes of a yeare olde without blemysh with their meat offerynge thre tenth deales of fyne floure myngled with oile to either bullocke and two tenth deales to the ramme and one tenth deale to euery lambe amonge the seuen lambes And an he goate for a syn offeringe to make an attonement for you And these shal ye offre in the mornynge besydes the burnt offerynge which is a daylie burnt offerynge After this maner shal ye offre y e bred euery daye seuen dayes longe for an offeringe of a swete sauoure vnto the LORDE to the daylie burnt offerynge and drynk offerynge also And the seuenth daye shal be called an holy conuocacion with you no seruyle worke shal ye do therin And the daye of the fyrst frutes whaÌ„ ye offre the meat offerynge of the moneth vnto y e LORDE in youre wekes shal be an holy coÌ„uocacion also No worke of bondage shal
Kenaâ—h with the townes belonginge therto and called it Nobah after his awne name The XXXIII Chapter THese are y e iourneys of the childreÌ„ of Israel which weÌ„te out of y e lande of Egipte acordinge to their armies 〈◊〉 Moses AaroÌ„ And Moses wrote their 〈◊〉 out as they iourneyed after y e coÌ„maundâ—ment of y e LORDE And these namely are the yourneyes of their outgoinge They departed froÌ„ Raemses vpon y e fiftene daye of the first moneth euen the morow after the Easter thorow an hye hande so that all the Egipcians sawe and buried then their first borne whom the LORDE had slayne amonge them for the LORDE executed iudgment also vpon their goddes When they were departed from Raemses they pitched in Sucoth And froÌ„ Sucoth they departed pitched their tentes in EthaÌ„ which lyeth in y e edge of y e wildernes FroÌ„ Etham they departed and abode in the valley of Hiroth which lyeth towarde Baal Zephon pitched ouer agaynst Migdol From Hyroth they departed wente in thorow y e middes of the see in to y e wyldernes and wente thre dayes yourney in the wildernes of Etham pitâ—hed in Marah From Marah they departed and came vnto Elim whâ—re there were twolue welles of water and seuentye palme trees and there they pitched â–ª From Elim they departed and pitched by the reed see From y e reed see they departed and pitched in the wildernesse of Sin From the wildernes of Sin they departed and pitched in Daphka FroÌ„ Daphka they departed and pitched in Alus From Alus they departed and pitched in Raphidim where the people had no water to drynke From Raphidim they departed and pitched in the wildernes of Sinai From Sinai they departed and pitched at the Lustgraues FroÌ„ the Lustgraues they departed and pitched in Hazeroth From Hazeroth they departed pitched in Rithma From Rithma they departed and pitched in Rimon Parez From Rimon Parez they departed and pitched in Libna From Libna they departed and pitched in Rissa FroÌ„ Rissa they departed pitched in Kehelatha FroÌ„ Kehelatha they departed pitched in mouÌ„t Sapher From mouÌ„t Sapher they departed pitched in Harada FroÌ„ Harada they departed pitched in Makeheloth From Makeheloth they departed pitched in Tahath From Tahath they departed and pitched in Tharah From Tharah they departed and pitched in Mitka From Mitka they departed and pitched in Hasmona From Hasmona they departed and pitched in Mosseroth From Mosseroth they departed and pitched in Bne Iaekon From Bne Iaekon they departed and pitched in Horgadgad From Horgadgad they departed pitched in Iathbatha From Iathbatha they departed and pitched in Abrona From Abrona they departed and pitched in Ezeon gaber From Ezeon gaber they departed and pitched in y e wildernes of Zin which is Cades From Cades they departed and pitched at mount Hor on the border of the londe of Edom. Then Aaron the prest wente vp vnto mount Hor acordynge to the commaundement of the LORDE and died there in the fourtyeth yeare after y t the children of Israel departed out of the londe of Egipte in the first daie of the fifte moneth whaÌ„ he was an hundreth and thre and twentye yeare olde And Arad the kynge of the Cananites which dwelt in the south countre of CanaaÌ„ herde y t the children of Israel came And from mount Hor they departed and pitched in Zalmona From Zalmona they departed and pitched in Phimon From Phimon they departed and pitched in Oboth From Oboth they departed and pitched in Igim by Abarim vpon the border of the loÌ„de of y e Moabites From Igim they departed and pitched in Dibâ—â— Gad. From DiboÌ„ Gad they departed and pitched in Almon Diblathama FroÌ„ Almon Diblathama they departed and pitched in the mountaynes of Abarim ouer agaynst Nebo From the mouÌ„taynes of Abarim they departed and pitched in y e felde of the Moabites besyde Ioâ—dane ouer agaynst Iericho FroÌ„ Beth haiesmoth vnto the playne of Sitim laye they in the felde of the Moabites And the LORDE spake vnto Moses in the felde of the Moabites by Iordane ouer agaynst Iericho and sayde Speake to the children of Israel and saie vnto them WhaÌ„ ye are come ouer Iordane in the lande of Canaan ye shal dryue out all the inhabiters before youre face and plucke downe all their pilers and all their ymages of metall and destroye all their hye places that ye maye so take the londe in possession and dwell therin For I haue geueÌ„ you the londe to enioye it And the londe shall ye deuyde out by lott amonge youre kynreds Vnto those that are many shall ye deuyde the more And vnto them that are fewe shall ye deuyde the lesse Euen as the lott falleth there vnto euery one so shal he haue it acordinge to the trybes of their fathers But yf ye wyll not dryue out the inhabiters of y e lande before yo r face then they whoÌ„ ye suffre to remayne shall become thornes in youre eyes and dartes in youre sydes shall vexe you in the londe where ye dwell Then wil it come to passe that I shal do vnto you euen as I thought to do vnto them The XXXIIII Chapter ANnd the LORDE spake vnto Moses and sayde Commaunde the childreÌ„ of Israel and saye vnto them Whan ye come into the londe of Canaan the londe y t falleth to youre inheritaunce shall haue hir borders in the londe of Canaan The South quarter shall begynne at the wyldernesse of Zin by Edom so that youre South quarter be from the edge of the Salt see which lyeth towarde the South and that y e same quarter fet a compasse from the South vp to Acrabim go thorow Zimma that his out goinge be from the South vnto Cades Barnea reache vnto Hazor Adar and go thorow Azmona and stretch out from Azmona vnto the ryuer of Egipte and that the ende therof be at the greate see But the West quarter shal be this namely the greate see let y t be youre border towarde the West The North quarter shal be this Ye shall compasse from the greate see vnto mount Hor. And fro mount Hor ye shall compasse tyll a man come vnto Hemath that the out goynge therof be the coast of Zedada and that the border of the same go out vnto Siphron and that the goynge out of it be at Hazor Enan Let this be youre North quarter And youre East quarter shall ye coÌ„passe from Hazor Enan vnto Sephan let the coaste go downe from Sephan and Ribla on the East syde of Ain TheÌ„ let it go downe reache vnto the syde of the see of Chinereth East warde and come downe by Iordane so y t the goynge out of it be the Salt see Let this be youre londe with the borders therof rounde aboute And Moses commaunded the children of Israel and sayde This is youre londe that ye shal deuyde out amonge
smytten before youre enemies Whan I tolde you this ye wolde not heare were dishobedient vnto the worde of the LORDE and were presumptuous and wente vp to y e mountaines Then the Amorites that dwelt vpon the moūtaynes came out against you and chaced you as Bees do and smote you at Seir euen vnto Horma Now whan ye came againe and wepte before the LORDE he wolde not heare youre voyce and enclyned not his eares vnto you So ye abode in Cades a longe season The II. Chapter THen turned we vs and toke oure iourney to the wildernesse euen the waye to the reed see as the LORDE sayde vnto me and compassed mount Seir a longe season And y e LORDE saide vnto me Ye haue cōpassed this mountayne now lōge ynough turne you Northwarde and commaūde the people and saye Ye shal go thorow y e coastes of youre brethren the children of Esau which dwell at Seir they shal be afrayed of you But take diligente hede to youre selues that ye prouoke them not for I wyl not geue you one fote bredth of their londe For mount Seir haue I geuen to the children of Esau to possesse Ye shal bye meate of them for moneye that ye maye eate And water shal ye bye of them for money that ye maye drynke For the LORDE thy God hath blessed the in all the workes of thy hondes He hath considered thy iourneyes thorow this greate wyldernesse and this fortye yeares hath the LORDE thy God bene with the so that thou hast wanted nothinge Now whan we were departed from o r brethren the children of Esau that dwelt vpon mount Seir by the waye of the felde from Elath Ezeon gaber we turned vs wente by the waye of the wyldernesse of y e Moabites Then sayde the LORDE vnto me Thou shalt not vexe the Moabites ner prouoke thē vnto battayll for I wil not geue the of their londe to possesse For Ar haue I geuen vnto the children of Lot in possession The Emims dwelt there before tyme which were a greate stronge people hye of stature as the Enakims and were taken for giauntes like as y e Enakims And y e Moabites called them Emims The Horites also dwelt in Seir afore tyme y e children of Esau droue them out and destroyed them before them dwelt in their steade like as Israel dyd in y e lōde of his possession that the LORDE gaue them Get you vp now go ouer the ryuer Sared And we wente ouer The tyme that we were goinge frō Cades Barnea tyll we came ouer the ryuer Sared was eight thirtye yeares tyll all the men of warre were waysted out of the hoost as the LORDE sware vnto them The hande of the LORDE also was agaynst them to destroye thē out of the hoost tyll they were consumed And whan all the men of warre were cōsumed so y t they were deed amonge the people the LORDE spake vnto me and sayde This daie shalt thou go thorow the coast of y e Moabites by Ar shalt come nye vnto y e children of Ammon whom thou shalt not vexe ner prouoke For I wyll not geue the of the lōde of the childrē of Ammon to possesse for I haue geuē it vnto the childrē of Lot in possession It was takē for a lōde of giauntes also giauntes dwelt therin afore tyme. And y e Ammonites calle thē Samsumims which was a people that was greate many and of hye stature as the Enakims And these y e LORDE destroyed before thē and let them possesse the same so that they dwelt in their steade Like as he dyd with the childrē of Esau which dwell vpō mount Seir whan he destroyed the Horites before them and let them possesse the same so that they haue dwelt in their steade vnto this daye And the Caphthorims came out of Caphther and destroyed y e Auims y t dwelt at Hazarim euen vnto Gaza there dwelt they in their steade Get you vp now and departe and go ouer the ryuer Arnon Beholde I haue geuē Sihon y e kynge of the Amorites at Heszbon in to thy hande go to and conquere and prouoke him vnto battayll This daye wyll I begynne so that all naciōs vnder all the heauen shal feare drede y e In so moch y t whā they heare of the they shal tremble and quake for thy commynge Then sent I messaungers from y e wyldernesse of the East vnto Sihon the kynge at Heszbon w t peaceble wordes and caused to saye vnto him I wil go but thorow y e lōde I wil go a longe by the hye waye I wil nether turne to the righte hāde ner to y e lefte Thou shalt sell me meate for money that I maye eate water shalt thou sell me for money that I maye drinke Onely let me go thorow by fote as the children of Esau which dwell at Seir dyd vnto me and the Moabites that dwell at Ar vntyll I be come ouer Iordane in to the londe which the LORDE oure God shal geue vnto vs. But Sihon the kynge at Heszbon wolde not let vs go by him for the LORDE y i God herdened his mynde made his hert tough that he mighte delyuer him in to thy hādes as it is come to passe this daye And y e LORDE sayde vnto me Beholde I haue begonne to delyuer Sihon with his londe before the go to and cōquere and possesse his lōde And Sihō came out w t all his people to fight agaynst vs at Iahza But the LORDE oure God delyuered him in to oure handes so that we smote him with his children and all his people Then toke we all his cities at the same tyme and destroyed vtterly all the cities men wemen and children and let none remayne saue the catell which we caught to oure selues the spoyle of the cities that we wanne from Aroer which lyeth vpon the ryuer syde of Arnon and from the cite on the ryuer vnto Gilead There was no cite that coulde defende it selfe from vs the LORDE oure God delyuered vs all before vs. But vnto the londe of the children of Ammon thou camest not ner to all that was on the ryuer Iabok ner to y e cities vpō y e mountaines ner vnto what so euer the LORDE oure God forbad vs. The III. Chapter ANd we turned vs wente vp y e waie vnto Basan And Og y e kynge of Basan came out w t all his people to fight agaynst vs at Edrei But the LORDE sayde vnto me Be not afrayed of him for I haue delyuered him all his people w t his londe in to thy hande thou shalt do w t him as thou dyddest w t Sihon kynge of y e Amorites which dwelt at Heszbon Thus y e LORDE oure God delyuered Og y e kynge of Basan in to oure handes also with all his people so that we smote him tyll there
of stone like vnto the first and come vp vnto me in to the mount and make y t an Arke of wod and in the tables I wyll wryte the wordes that were in the first which thou brakest and thou shalt laye them in the Arke So I made an Arke of Fyrre tre and hewed two tables of stone like as the first were wente vp into the mount and y e two tables were in my hande Then wrote he in y e tables acordinge as the first wrytinge was the ten verses which the LORDE spake vnto you out of the fyre vpon the mountayne at the tyme of the gatheringe together And the LORDE gaue theÌ„ vnto me And I turned me wente downe from the mount and layed the tables in the Arke which I had made that they mighte be there as the LORDE commaunded me And the childreÌ„ of Israel departed from Beroth Bne Iaâ—kan vnto Mosera there dyed Aaron there was he buried Eleasar his sonne became prest in his steade FroÌ„ thence they departed from Gadgad From Gadgad to Iathbath a londe of ryuers of water At the same season the LORDE separated out the trybe of Leui to beare the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt and to stonde before the LORDE to mynister vnto him and to prayse his name vnto this daye Therfore shal the Leuites haue no porcion ner enheritaunce with their brethren for the LORDE is their enheritaunce as the LORDE thy God hath promysed them But I taried vpoÌ„ the mount like as afore euen fortye dayes and fortye nightes and the LORDE herde me at that tyme also and wolde not destroye the. But he sayde vnto me Vp get the forth y t thou mayest go before the people y t they maye come in and coÌ„quere the loÌ„de which I sware vnto their fathers to geue them Now Israel what requyreth the LORDE thy God of the but y t thou feare the LORDE thy God and that thou walke in all his wayes loue him serue the LORDE y e God with all thy hert with all thy soule and y t thou kepe the coÌ„maundementes of y e LORDE his ordinaunces which I coÌ„maunde the this daye y t thou mayest prospere Beholde the heauen the heauen of all heaueÌ„s and the earth and all y t is therin is y e LORDES y e God Yeth hath he had a pleasure vnto y e fathers to loue theÌ„ and hath chosen their sede after theÌ„ namely you aboue all nacions as it is come to passe this daye Circumcyse therfore y e foreszkynne of yo r hert be nomore styffnecked For the LORDE yo r God is God of all goddes LORDE ouer all lordes a greate God mightie terryble which regardeth no personne taketh no giftes and doeth righte vnto the fatherlesse and wedowe and loueth the straunger to geue him fode rayment Therfore shal ye loue a strauÌ„ger for ye youre selues also were straungers in the londe of Egipte Thou shalt feare the LORDE thy God him onely shalt thou serue vnto him shalt thou cleue sweare by his name He is thy prayse y e God which hath done for y e these greate terryble thinges y t thine eyes haue sene Thy fathers weÌ„te downe in to Egipte w t seuentye soules but now hath y e LORDE thy God made the as y e starres of heauen in multitude The XI Chapter THerfore shalt thou loue the LORDE y e God kepe his coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes his ordinaunces his lawes his preceptes all y e life loÌ„ge And vnderstoÌ„de this daye that which youre childreÌ„ knowe not Which haue not sene the nurtoure of the LORDE yo r God his greatnesse his mightie hande his stretched out arme his tokens and actes which he dyd amonge the EgipciaÌ„s vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte to all his londe what he dyd to the power of y e Egipcians vnto their horses charettes whan he broughte the waters of the reed see vpoÌ„ them as they folowed after you how y e LORDE hath broughte them to naught vnto this daye what he dyd vnto you in the wildernesse vntyll ye came vnto this place what he dyd vnto Dathan and Abiram the children of Eliab the sonne of Ruben how the earth opened hir mouth and swalowed them with their housholdes teÌ„tes all their good that they had in the myddes amonge all Israel For youre eyes haue sene the greate workes of y e LORDE which he hath done Therfore shal ye kepe all the commaundementes which I commaunde you this daye that ye maye be stronge to come in and to conquere the londe whither ye go to possesse it that ye maye lyue longe in the londe which the LORDE sware vnto youre fathers to geue vnto them and to their sede eueÌ„ a londe that floweth with mylke and hony For the londe whither thou commest in to possesse it is not as the londe of Egipte whence ye came out where thou sowedest thy sede and waterdest it at thy fote as a garden of herbes but it hath hilles and valleys which drynke water of the rayne of heauen a londe that the LORDE thy God careth for And the eyes of the LORDE thy God are allwaye therin from the begynnynge of the yeare vnto the ende Yf ye shal herken therfore vnto my commaundementes which I commaunde you this daye y t ye loue the LORDE youre God and serue him with all youre hert and with all youre soule then wyl I geue rayne vnto youre loÌ„de in due season early and late that thou mayest gather in thy corne thy wyne and thine oyle and I wyll geue grasse vpon thy felde for thy catell that ye maye eate be fylled But bewarre y t youre hert be not disceaued that ye go asyde serue other goddes worshipe them and then the wrath of the LORDE waxe whote vpoÌ„ you and he shut vp the heaueÌ„ that there come no rayne and the earth geue not hir increase ye perishe shortly from the good loÌ„de which the LORDE hath geuen you Put vp therfore these my wordes in youre hertes and in youre soules and bynde theÌ„ for a signe vpon youre handes y t they maye be a token of remembraunce before yo r eyes and teach them youre children so that thou talke therof whan thou syttest in thine house or walkest by the waye whan thou lyest downe and whan thou rysest vp and wryte them vpon the postes of thine house and vpon thy gates that thou and thy children maye lyue longe in the londe which the LORDE sware vnto thy fathers to geue them as longe as the dayes of heauen endure vpon earth For yf ye shal kepe all these commaundementes which I commaunde you so that ye do therafter that ye loue the LORDE youre God and walke in all his wayes and cleue vnto him then shall the LORDE dryue out
God himselfe shall go before the ouer Iordane and HE himselfe shal destroye these nacions before the that thou mayest conquere them and Iosua he shall go ouer before the. as the LORDE hath sayde And the LORDE shal do vnto them as he dyd vnto Sihon and Og the kynges of the Amorites and vnto their lōde which he destroyed Now whan the LORDE shal deliuer thē before you ye shal do vnto them acordynge vnto all the commaundementes which I haue commaunded you Be manly and strōge feare not and be not afrayed of them For the LORDE thy God himselfe shal go with the and shal not fayle the ner forsake the. And Moses called Iosua and sayde vnto him before all Israel Be stronge and bolde for thou shalt brynge this people in to the londe which the LORDE hath sworne vnto their fathers to geue them and thou shalt parte it amonge them by lott But the LORDE himselfe that goeth before you euen HE shal be with the and shal not fayle the ner forsake the Feare not and be not afrayed And Moses wrote this lawe and delyuered it vnto the prestes the children of Leui which bare the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE and vnto all the Elders of Israel And he commaunded them and sayde At the ende of seuen yeares in the tyme of the Fre yeare in the feast of Tabernacles whan all Israel come to appeare before the LORDE thy God in the place that he shall chose thou shalt cause this lawe to be proclamed before all Israel in their eares namely before the congregacion of the people both of men wemen children and thy straungers which are within thy gates that they maye heare and lerne to feare the LORDE their God and be diligent to do all the wordes of this lawe and that their children also which knowe nothinge maye heare and lerne to feare the LORDE yo r God all youre lyue dayes which ye lyue in the londe whither ye go ouer Iordane to possesse it And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde thy tyme is come that thou must die call Iosua and stonde in the Tabernacle of witnesse that I maye geue him a charge Moses wente with Iosua and stode in the Tabernacle of witnesse And the LORDE appeared in the Tabernacle in a cloudy pyler and the same cloudy pyler stode in the dore of the Tabernacle And the LORDE sayde vnto Moses Beholde thou shalt slepe with y e fathers and this people wyll ryse vp and go a whoringe after straunge goddes of the londe in to the which they come and wyll forsake me and breake the couenaunt which I haue made w t them And then shall my wrath waxe whote agaynst them at the same tyme I shal forsake thē and hyde my face frō them that they maye be consumed And so whan moch aduersite trouble commeth vpō thē they shal saye Is not all this euell come vpō me because God is not with me But I shal hyde my face at the same tyme because of all the euell that they haue done in that they haue turned vnto other goddes Wryte now therfore this songe teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouth that this songe maye be a witnesse vnto me amonge the children of Israel For I wil brynge them in to the londe which I sware vnto their fathers that floweth with mylke and hony And whan they eate and are full and fatt they shal turne vnto other goddes and serue them and blaspheme me and breake my couenaunt And so whan moch myschefe and tribulacion is come vpon them this songe shall answere before them for a witnesse It shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their sede for I knowe their ymaginacion that they go aboute euen now before I brynge them in to the londe which I sware vnto them So Moses wrote this songe at the same tyme and taughte it the children of Israel And the LORDE gaue Iosua the sonne of Nun a charge and sayde Be stronge and bolde for thou shalt brynge the children of Israel in to the londe which I sware vnto them and I wil be with the. Now whan Moses had wrytten out all the wordes of this lawe in a boke he commaunded the Leuites which bare the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt and sayde Take the boke of this lawe and laye it by the syde of the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE youre God that it maye be there a wytnesse agaynst the for I knowe thy stubburnesse and thy harde neck Beholde whyle I am yet alyue w t you this daye ye haue bene disobedient vnto the LORDE how moch more after my death Gather now vnto me all the Elders of youre trybes and youre officers y t I maye speake these wordes in their eares and take heauen and earth to recorde agaynst them For I am sure that after my death ye shall marre youre selues and turne asyde out of the waye which I haue commaunded you and so shall mysfortune happen vnto you her after because ye haue done euell in the sighte of the LORDE in prouokynge him thorow the workes of youre handes So Moses spake out the wordes of this songe euen to the ende in the eares of all the congregacion of Israel The XXXII Chapter HErken O ye heauens I wyll speake and let the earth heare the wordes of my mouth My doctryne droppe as doth the raine and my speach flowe as doth the dew Euen as the rayne vpon the grasse and as the droppes vpon the herbe For I wyl call vpon the name of the LORDE geue ye the glory vnto oure God Perfecte are the workes of the Stone for all his wayes are righteous God is true and no wickednes is there in him righteous and iust is he The frowarde and ouerthwarte generacion hath marred them selues to himwarde and are not his children because of their deformyte Thankest thou the LORDE y i God so thou foolish and vnwyse people Is not he thy father and thy LORDE Hath he not made the and prepared the Remembre the dayes that are past considre the yeares of the generacions afore tyme Axe thy father he shall shewethe thine elders they shal tell the. Whan the most Hyghest deuyded y e nacions and scatred the children of men Then set he the borders of the nacions acordinge to the nombre of the children of Israel For the LORDES parte is his folke Iacob is the meetlyne of his enheritaunce He founde him in the wyldernesse euen in the drye deserte where he roared He led him aboute and gaue him vnderstondinge He kepte him as the aple of his eye As an Aegle stereth vp hir nest and flotereth ouer hir yonge Euen so stretched he out his fethers and toke him and bare him on his wynges The LORDE onely was his gyde there was no straunge God with him He caried him ouer y e heigth of the
hande and with the ende of it he touched the flesh and the vnleuended floure and the fyre came out of the rocke and consumed the flesh and the vnleuended floure And the angell of the LORDE vanyshed out of his sighte Now whā Gedeon sawe that it was an angell of y e LORDE he sayde O LORDE LORDE haue I thus sene an angell of y e LORDE face to face The LORDE sayde vnto him Peace be with the feare not thou shalt not dye Thē Gedeon buylded an altare there vnto y e LORDE called it The LORDE of peace The same stondeth yet vnto this daye at Apra y t belōgeth vnto the father of y e Esrites And in y e same night sayde y e LORDE vnto him Take a fedd bullocke frō amōge thy fathers oxen another bullocke of seuen yeare olde and breake downe the altare of Baall which is thy fathers and cut downe the groue that stondeth by it and buylde thou an altare vnto the LORDE y e God aboue vpon the toppe of this rocke and make it ready and take the other bullocke and offre a burnt offerynge with the wodd of the groue that thou hast hewen downe Then toke Gedeon ten men of his seruauntes and dyd as y e LORDE sayde vnto him but he was afrayed to do this by daye tyme for his fathers house and the people in y e cite and so he dyd it by nighte Now whan the people in the cite rose vp early in the mornynge beholde Baals altare was broken and the groue hewen downe by it and the other bullocke a burnt offerynge vpon the altare that was buylded one sayde vnto another Who hath done this And whan they soughte made searche it was sayde Gedeon the sonne of Ioas hath done it Thē sayde the people of y e cite vnto Ioas Brynge forth y e sonne He must dye because he hath broken Baals altare and hewen downe the groue therby But Ioas sayde vnto all them that stode by him Wyl ye stryue for Baal Wil ye delyuer him He y t stryueth for him shal dye this mornynge Yf he be God let him auēge him selfe because his altare is broken downe From y t daye forth was he called Ierubaal because it was sayde Let Baal auenge him selfe that his altare is broken downe Whan y e Madianites now y e Amalechites the childrē towarde the south had gathered thēselues together were passed thorow Iordane had pitched their tentes in the valley of Iesrael the sprete of the LORDE endued Gedeon he caused the trompet to be blowne called the house of Abieser that they shulde folowe him he sent messaungers vnto all Manasse called them y t they shulde folowe him also and he sent messaungers likewyse vnto Asser Zabulon Nephtali which came vp to mete him And Gedeon sayde vnto God Yf thou wilt delyuer Israel thorow my hande as thou hast saide thē wil I laye a flese of woll in the courte yf y e dew be onely vpon y e flese drye vpon all the grounde then wyll I perceaue that thou shalt delyuer Israel thorow my hande as thou hast sayde And it came so to passe And whan he rose vp early on the morow he wrāge y e dew out of the flese and fylled a dyszshe full of water And Gedeon sayde vnto God Be not wroth at me that I speake yet this one tyme. I wyl proue yet but once with the flese let it be drye onely vpon the flese and dew vpon all the grounde And God dyd so the same nighte so that it was drye onely vpon the flese and dew vpon all the grounde The VII Chapter THen Ierubaal that is Gedeon gat him vp early and all the people that was with him and pitched their tentes besyde the well of Harod so that he had the hoost of the Madianites on the north side behynde the hyll of More in the valley But the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon The people that be with y t are to many for me to delyuer Madian in to their hande lest Israel boost them selues agaynst me and saye My hande hath delyuered me Cause a proclamacion now to be made in the eares of the people and saye He that feareth and is afrayed let him turne backe and get him soone fro mount Gilead Then returned there of the people aboute a two and twenty thousande so that there was left but ten thousande And the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon The people are yet to many brynge them downe to the water there wyl I proue them for y e and of whom I saye that he shal go w t the the same shal go with the but of whō I saie that he shal not go with the the same shall not go And he broughte the people vnto y e water And the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon Whosoeuer licketh of the water with his tūge as a dogg licketh make him stonde asyde and lykewyse who soeuer falleth downe vpō his knees to drynke Then was the nombre of them that had licked out of the hande to the mouth thre hundreth men And the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon Thorow the thre hūdreth which haue licked wyl I delyuer you and geue ouer the Madianites in to thy hāde As for the other people let them go euery one vnto his place And they toke vytayles with them for y e people and their trompettes but the other Israelites let he go euery one vnto his tente And he strengthed himselfe with the thre hundreth men and the Madianites hoost laye before him beneth in the valley And the same night sayde the LORDE vnto him Vp and go downe in to the hoost for I haue geuen them ouer in to thy hande But yf thou be afrayed to go downe then let y e seruaunt Pura go downe with the vnto the hoost y t thou maiest heare what they saie after that shalt thou be bolde and thy honde stronge that thou mayest go downe in to the hoost Than wente Gedeon downe with his seruaunt vnto y e vttemost parte of y e watchmē of armes y t were in y e hoost And y e Madianites and Amalechites and all the children of the south had layed them selues beneth in the valley as a multitude of greshoppers and their Camels were not to be nombred for multitude euē as the sonde on y e see shore Now whan Gedeon came beholde one tolde another his dreame sayde Beholde I haue dreamed a dreame Me thoughte a bakē barlye lofe came rollinge downe to y e hoost of y e Madianites and whan it came to the tente it smote it and ouerthrew it and turned it vpsyde downe so that the tente fell Then answered the other That is nothinge els then y e swerde of Gedeon the sonne of Ioas y e Israelite God hath geuē ouer the Madianites with all the hoost in to his hande Whan Gedeon herde this dreame tolde the interpretacion of
it he worshipped and came agayne in to the hoost of Israel and sayde Vp for the LORDE hath delyuered y e hoost of the Madianites in to youre haÌ„de And he deuyded the thre hundreth men in to thre partes and gaue euery one a trompet in his hande and emptye pytchers and lampes therin and sayde vnto them Loke vnto me and do ye eueÌ„ so and beholde whaÌ„ I come to the vttemost parte of the hoost euen as I do so do ye also Whan I blowe y e trompet and all that are w t me then shal ye blowe y e troÌ„pettes also rounde aboute all the hoost and saye Here the LORDE Gedeon Thus came Gedeon and the thre hundreth men with him vnto the vttemost parte of y e hoost aboute the tyme whan the mydwatch begynneth and waked vp the watchmeÌ„ and blewe with the trompettes and smote asunder the pitchers in their handes So all the thre companies blewe with y e trompettes and brake the pitchers But the lampes helde they in their lefte hande and the trompettes in their righte haÌ„de so that they blewe and cried Here the swerde of the LORDE and Gedeon And euery one stode in his place aboute the hoost Then ranne all the hoost and cried and fled And whyle the thre hundreth men blewe the trompettes y e LORDE broughte it so to passe that euery mans swerde in all y e hoost was agaynst another and the hoost fled vnto Bethsitha Zereratha and vnto the border of the playne of Mehohab besyde Tabath And y e men of Israel of Nephtali of Asser of Manasse cried and folowed vpon the Madianites And Gedeon sent messaungers vp vnto all mount Ephraim sayenge Come downe against the Madianites and stoppe the water from them vnto Beth Bara and Iordane And then cryed all they that were of Ephraim and stopped the water from them vnto Bethbara and Iordane and toke two prynces of the Madianites Oreb and Zeb and slewe Oreb vpon the rocke of Oreb and Zeb in the wyne presse of Zeb and folowed vpon the Madianites and broughte the heades of Oreb and Zeb vnto Gideon ouer Iordane The VIII Chapter ANd the men of Ephraim sayde vnto him Wherfore hast thou done this vnto vs that thou hast not called vs whaÌ„ thou wentest forth to fight agaynst y e Madianites and they chode sore with him But he sayde vnto them What haue I done now that is like youre acte Is not the after gadderynge of Ephraim better then the whole haruest of Abieser God hath delyuered y e prynces of the Madianites Oreb and Zeb in to youre hande how coulde I do that ye haue done WhaÌ„ he had sayde this their blast was swaged from him Now whan Gedeon came vnto Iordane he wente ouer with the thre hundreth meÌ„ that were with him and they were weery and folowed vpon their chace And he sayde vnto the men of Sucoth I praye you geue the people that are with me some loaues of bred for they are weery that I maye folowe vpon Zebea and Salmana the kinges of the Madianites But the rulers of Sucoth sayde Are the handes of Zebea and Salmana in thy handes allready that we must geue bred vnto thy men of warre Gedeon sayde Well whan the LORDE delyuereth Zebea and Salmana in to my haÌ„de I wyll thresâ—she youre flesh with thornes of the wyldernesse and with breares And from thence he wente vp vnto Penuel and spake euen so vnto them And the meÌ„ of Penuel gaue him like answere as they of Sucoth And he sayde also vnto the men of Penuel Yf I come peaceably agayne I wil breake downe this tower As for Zebea and Salmana they were at Karkar and their hoost with them vpon a fyftene thousande which were all that were lefte of the whole hoost of the children of the Easte for there were fallen an hundreth and twentye thousande that coulde drawe the swerde And Gedeon wente vp by the waye where they dwell in the tentes on the east side of Nobah and Iakbeha smote the hoost for the hoost was carelesse and mystrusted nothinge And Zebea and Salmana fled but he folowed after them and toke y e two kynges of the Madianites Zebea and Salmana and put all the hoost in feare â–ª Now whan Gedeon y e sonne of Ioas came agayne froÌ„ the battayll out of y e east he toke a lad of the men of Sucoth examyned him which wrote him vp the names of the rulers of Sucoth and their Elders eueÌ„ thre score and seuentene men And he came to the men of Sucoth sayde Beholde here is Zebea Salmana coÌ„cernynge whoÌ„ ye laughed me to scorne sayde Are the handes of Zebea and Salmana in thy haÌ„des all ready that we must geue bred vnto thy men which are weery And he toke the Elders of the cite and thornes out of the wildernes and breres and caused y e men of Sucoth to be torne therwith And the tower of Penuel brake he downe and slewe the men of the cite And he saide vnto Zebea and Salmana What maner of meÌ„ were they whoÌ„ ye slewe at Thabor They sayde They were euen like the goodly men as yf they had bene a kynges childreÌ„ He sayde They were my brethren euen my mother sonnes As truly as the LORDE lyueth yf ye had letteÌ„ them lyue I wolde not slaye you And he saide vnto his first borne sonne Iether Stonde vp slaye them Howbeit the lad drue not out his swerde for he was afrayed for so moch as he was yet but a lad Zebea Salmana sayde Stonde thou vp slaye vs for as the man is soch is also his streÌ„gth So Gedeon arose and slewe Zebea and Salmana and toke the ornamentes that were aboute their Camels neckes Then sayde certayne in Israel vnto Gedeon Be thou lorde ouer vs thou and thy sonne and thy sonnes sonne for so moch as thou hast delyuered vs from y e hande of y e Madianites Neuertheles Gedeon saide vnto them I wil not be lorde ouer you nether shal my sonne be lorde ouer you but the LORDE shal be lorde ouer you Gedeon sayde vnto them One thinge I desyre of you Euery man geue me the earinge that he hath spoyled For in so moch as y e men were Ismaelites they had earinges They sayde Them wyll we geue the. And they spred out a cloth and euery man cast the earinge theron that he had spoyled And the golden earynges which he requyred had in weight a thousande and seuen hundreth Sycles of golde besyde the spanges and cheynes and scarlet rayment which the kynges of the Madianites dyd weere and besyde the neckbandes of their Camels And Gideon made a cote armoure therof and set it in his cite at Aphra And all Israel wente there a whoringe after it and it turned to an occasion of fallinge vnto Gedeon and his house Thus were y e Madianites brought downe before the children of Israel and lifte
vp their heade nomore and the londe was in rest fortye yeares as loÌ„ge as Gedeon lyued And Ierubaal the sonne of Ioas weÌ„te dwelt in his house And Gedeon Had thre score ten sonnes which were come out of his thye for he had many wyues And his concubyne which he had at SicheÌ„ bare him a sonne also whom he called Abimelech And Gideon the sonne of Ioas dyed in a good age was buried at Aphra in y e sepulcre of his father Ioas the father of the Esrites But whan Gedeon was deed the childreÌ„ of Israel turned backe and wente awhoringe after Baalim and made a couenaunt w t Baal Berith y t he shulde be their God And y e childreÌ„ of Israel thoughte not on y e LORDE their God which had delyuered them froÌ„ the hande of their enemies rounde aboute and they shewed not mercy vnto the house of Ierubaal Gedeon acordinge to all the good that he had done vnto Israel The IX Chapter ABimelech the sonne of Ierubaal wente vnto SicheÌ„ to his mothers brethren spake vnto them to all the kynred of his mothers fathers house and sayde I praye you speake in the eares of all the men at Sichem What is better for you that threscore and ten men all children of Ierubaal shulde be lordes ouer you or that one man shulde be lorde ouer you Remembre also that I am youre bone and youre flesh Then spake his mothers brethreÌ„ all these wordes for him in y e eares of all y e men at Sichem And their hert enclyned to Abimelech for they thoughte He is oure brother and gaue him thre score and ten syluerlinges out of y e house of Baal Berith And w t them Abimelech hyred men that were vagabundes and of light condicions which folowed him And he came to his fathers house vnto Aphra and slew his brethren the children of Ierubaal euen thre score men and teÌ„ vpon one stone But Iotham the yongest sonne of Ierubaal remayned ouer for he was hydd And all the men of Sichem and all the house of Millo gathered them selues together and wente and made Abimelech kynge by the Oke that stondeth at Sichem Whan this was tolde Iotham he wente and stode vpon the toppe of mount Grisim and lifte vp his voyce cried and sayde Heare me ye men of Sichem that God maye heare you also The trees wente to anointe a kinde ouer them and sayde vnto the Olyue tre Be thou oure kynge But the Olyue tre answered them Shall I go and leaue my fatnesse which both God and men commende in me and go to be puft vp aboue the trees Then sayde the trees vnto the fygge tre Come thou and be kynge ouer vs. But the fygge tre sayde vnto theÌ„ Shal I leaue my swetnes and my good frute and go to be puft vp aboue the trees Then sayde the trees vnto the vyne Come thou and be oure kinge But the vyne sayde vnto them Shal I leaue my swete wyne which reioyseth God and men and go to be puft vp aboue the trees TheÌ„ sayde all the trees vnto the thorne buszshe Come thou and be kynge ouer vs. And the thorne buszshe sayde vnto the trees Yf it be true y t ye anoynte me to be kynge ouer you theÌ„ come and put youre trust vnder my shadowe Yf no then go fyre out of the thorne buszshe coÌ„sume y e Ceder trees of LibanoÌ„ Yf ye haue done right now and iustly y t ye haue made Abimelech to be kynge and yf ye haue done well vnto Ierubaal and to his house and haue done vnto him as he deserued vnto you Which euen my father foughte for youre sakes and ioperde his lyfe to delyuer out of the Madianites haÌ„de eueÌ„ you which are rysen vp this daye agaynst my fathers house haue slaine his childreÌ„ thre score personnes ten vpon one stone and haue made you a kynge euen Abimelech the sonne of his handmaide ouer the men at Sichem for so moch as he is youre brother Yf ye haue done right now and iustly vnto Ierubaal and his house this daye then reioyse ouer Abimelech and let him reioyse ouer you Yf no then go fyre out from Abimelech and coÌ„sume the men of Sichem and the house of Millo And fyre go out also froÌ„ the men of Sichem and from the house of Millo and consume Abimelech And IothaÌ„ whan he had spoken this out fled and gat him out of the waye and wente vnto Ber and dwelt there because of his brother Abimelech Now whan Abimelech had reigned thre yeare ouer Israel God sent an euell mynde betwene Abimelech and the men of Sichen for the men of Sichem despysed Abimelech and rehearsed the wrâ—nge done to the sonnes of Ierubaal and their bloude and layed it vpon Abimelech their brother which slewe them and vpon the men of Sichem that strengthed his hande therto that he mighte slaye his brethren And the men of Sichem set an hyndâ—â— watch vpon the toppes of the mountaynes and spoyled all them that walked nye them by the waye and it was tolde Abimelech But there came Gaal the sonne of Ebed and his brethren and entred in to Sichem and the men of Sichem put their trust in him and weÌ„te out in to the felde and gathered their vynyardes and pressed them and made a daunse and wente in to their gods house and ate and dranke and cursed Abimelech And Gaal y e sonne of Ebed sayde Who is Abimelech and what is Sichem that we shulde serue him Is he not the sonne of Ierubaal and hath set Sebul his seruauÌ„t ouer the men of Hemor the father of Sichem â–ª Wherfore shulde we serue him Wolde God the people were vnder my haÌ„de y t I mighte put downe Abimelech And it was tolde Abimelech Increace thine hooste and departe For Sebul the chefe ruler of the cite whan he herde the wordes of Gaal y e sonne of Ebed he was wroth fully displeased and sente message secretly to Abimelech and caused to saye vnto him Beholde Gaal the sonne of Ebed and his brethren are come to Sichem and make the cite to be agaynst the. Arise therfore by nyght thou and thy people that is with the and laye wayte for theÌ„ in the felde and tomorow whan the Sonne aryseth get the vp soone and fall vpon the cite and yf he and the people that is with him come out vnto the theÌ„ deale with him as thyne hande fyndeth Abimelech stode vp by night and all the people that was with him and layed wayte for Sichem with foure companies of men of warre And Gaal the sonne of Ebed weÌ„ out and stode at the dore of the gate of the cite But Abimelech gat him vp out of the hinder watch and the people that was with him Now whan Gaal sawe the people he sayde vnto Sebul Beholde there commeth a people downe from the toppe of y e mount Sebul saide vnto him Thou seist y e shadowe of the mountaines
was in and laye there tyll it was light Now whan hir lorde rose vp in the mornynge and opened the dore of the house and wente forth to go on his iourney beholde his concubyne laye at the dore of the house and hir handes vpon the thresholde He saide vnto her stonde vp let vs go Neuertheles she gaue him no answere Thē toke he her vp vpon his asse gat him vp and wente vnto his place Now whan he came home he toke a swerde and helde his concubyne and cut her w t the bones and all in to twolue peces and sent them in to all the coastes of Israel Who so euer sawe it sayde Soch a thinge hath not bene done ner sene sence the tyme that y e children of Israel departed out of the londe of Egipte vnto this daye Now as concernynge this take youre advysement and geue yo r councell and shew it forth The XX. Chapter THen wente the children of Israel out and gathered a congregacion together as one man frō Dan vntill Bersaba and from the londe of Gilead vnto the LORDE to Mispa and there came together of all the quarters of the people and of all the trybes of Israel in to the congregacion of the people of God foure hundreth thousande fote men that drue out y e swerde But the children of Ben Iamin herde how that y e children of Israel were gone vp vnto Mispa And the children of Israel sayde Tell vs how happened this euell Then answered the Leuite the huszbande of the woman that was slayne and sayde I came to Gibea in Ben Iamin with my concubyne to tary there allnight then the cyt◠▪ sins of Gibea gat them vp agaynst me and compased me aboute in the house by night and thoughte to slaye me and defyled my cōcubyne so that she dyed then toke I my cōcubyne and cut her in peces and sent the peces in to euery countre of the inheritaunce of Israel for they haue done an abhominacion and folye in Israel Beholde here are ye children of Israel aduyse you well and take this matter in hande So all the people gat them vp as one mā and sayde Nomā shal go in to his tente ner departe to his house but this wil we do now agaynst Gibea Let vs cast lot and take ten men of an hundreth and an hundreth of a thousande and a thousande of ten thousande out of all y e trybes of Israel y t they maie take fode for y e people to come do with Gibea Ben Iamin acordynge to their folye which they haue done in Israel Thus all the men of Israel beynge confederate gathered them selues together as one man vnto the cite and the trybes of Israel sent men vnto all the kinreds of Ben Iamin and caused to saye vnto them What maner of wickydnes is this that is done amonge you Delyuer here therfore the men the children of Belial at Gibea that we maye put them to death and do awaye the euell out of Israel Neuertheles the children of Ben Iamin wolde not folowe the voyce of their brethren the children of Israel but gathered them selues out of y e cities vnto Gibea to go forth in battayll agaynst the children of Israel And the same daye were there nombred of the children of Ben Iamin out of the cities sixe and twentye thousande men that drue the swerde beside the citesyns of Gibea of whom there were tolde seuē hundreth chosen men And amōge all this people there were chosen out seuen hundreth men which vsed not the right hande but the lefte and yet w t the slynge coulde they touch an heer and not mysse But the men of Israel beside them of Bē Iamin were nōbred foure hūdreth thousande which drue the swerde were all men of armes And the children of Israel arose and wente vp to the house of God in Silo and axed at God and sayde Who shall go vp for vs to beginne the battayll with y e children of Ben Iamin The LORDE saide Iuda shall begynne So the children of Israel gat thē vp in y e mornīge pitched ouer agaīst Gibea euery man of Israel wēte out to fighte with Ben Iamin and set them selues in araye to fighte agaynst Gibea Then fell the children of Ben Iamin out of Gibea and slewe the same daye amonge Israel two twentye thousande to the grounde But the people of the men of Israel comforted them selues and made them ready to fighte yet more in the same place after they had prepared them selues the daye afore And the children of Israel wente vp and wepte before the LORDE vntyll the euenynge and axed at the LORDE sayde Shall we go enymore to fighte with oure brethren the children of Ben Iamin The LORDE sayde Go vp vnto them And whan the children of Israel gat them vp to the childrē of Ben Iamin on y e next daye the Ben Iamites fell out of Gibea agaynst them the same daye and slewe yet eightene thousande of y e children of Israel to the grounde which all drue the swerde Then wente all the children of Israel vp and all the people and came to the house of God and wepte and taried there before the LORDE fasted that daye vntyll the euen and offred burnt offerynges and deed offeringes before the LORDE And the children of Israel axed at the LORDE the Arke of the couenaunt of God was there at that tyme and Phineas the sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron stode before him at the same tyme they sayde Shal we go forth eny more to fighte with oure brethren the childrē of Ben Iamin or shal we leaue of The LORDE sayde Go vp tomorow wyll I delyuer them in to youre handes And the children of Israel set a preuy watch agaynst Gibea rounde aboute and so the children of Israel wente vp to the children of Ben Iamin on the thirde daye and set them selues in araye agaynst Gibea like as the other two tymes afore Thē came the children of Ben Iamin out agaynst the people brake out of the cite beganne to slaye certayne wounded of the people like as the other two times afore in the felde vpon two stretes wherof one goeth towarde Bethel the other vnto Gilead vpon a thirtye men in Israel Then thought the childrē of Ben Iamin They are smytten before vs like as afore But the childrē of Israel sayde Let vs flye that we maie prouoke them out of the cite in to the hye stretes Then all the men of Israel gat them vp from their place and prepared them selues vnto Baal Thamar And the hinder watch of Israel brake out of their place from y e caue of Gaba and came vnto Gibea twentye thousande chosen men out of all Israel so that it was a sore battayll but they knewe not that the euell shulde happen vnto them Thus the LORDE smote Ben Iamin before the children of Israel so that the same daye the children of Israel destroyed fyue twentye thousande and an hundreth
that daye forth Saul loked sowerly vpoÌ„ Dauid The nexte daye after came the euell sprete of God vpon Saul and prophecyed in y e myddes of the house But Dauid played on the instrumente with his hande as he was wonte daylie And Saul had a iauelynge in his hande and cast it and thoughte I wyll stycke Dauid fast to the wall Neuerthelesse Dauid turned himselfe twyse awaye from him And Saul was afrayed of Dauid for the LORDE was with him and was departed from Saul Then Saul put him from him and set him to be prynce ouer a thousande men and he went out and in before the people And Dauid behaued himselfe wysely in all his doynges and the LORDE was with him Now whan Saul sawe that he was so exceadynge wyse he stode in feare of him But all Israel and Iuda loued Dauid for he wente out and in before them And Saul sayde vnto Dauid Beholde my greatest doughter Merob wyl I geue the to wyfe be stronge now gouerne the warres of the LORDE For Saul thought my haÌ„de shal not be vpon him but the hande of y e Pilistynes Neuertheles Dauid answered Saul Who am I what is my life the kynred of my father in Israel that I shulde mary the kinges doughter But whan the tyme came that Merob y e doughter of Saul shulde haue bene geueÌ„ vnto Dauid she was geuen vnto Adriel y e Meholathite to wyfe Neuerthelesse Mâ—chol Sauls doughter loued Dauid Whan this was tolde Saul y e matter pleased him well he sayde I wyl geue him her y t she maye be a snare vnto him that the handes of y e Philistynes maye come vpon him And he sayde vnto Dauid This daye shalt thou be my doughters huszbaÌ„de y e secoÌ„de time And Saul spake vnto his seruauÌ„tes Talke w t Dauid secretly saye Beholde the kinge hath pleasure in the and all his seruauntes loue the mary thou therfore the kynges doughter And Sauls seruauntes spake these wordes in the eares of Dauid But Dauid saide Thynke ye it but a small matter to mary the kynges doughter As for me I am but a poore symple man And Sauls seruauntes tolde him agayne and sayde Soch wordes hath Dauid spoken Saul sayde Then saye ye vnto Dauid The kynge desyreth no dowry but onely an hundreth foreszkynnes of the Philistynes that vengeaunce maye be taken of the kinges enemies Howbeit Saul thought to cause Dauid be slayne by the haÌ„des of the Philistynes Then his seruauntes tolde Dauid these wordes and Dauid was contente with the matter to mary the kynges doughter And after a fewe dayes Dauid gatt him vp and wente with his men and smote two hundreth men amonge the Philistynes And Dauid broughte their foreszkynnes and made their nombre sufficient vnto the kynge y t he mighte mary the kynges doughter TheÌ„ Saul gaue him his doughter Michol to wyfe And Saul sawe and perceaued that the LORDE was w t Dauid And Michol Sauls doughter loued him Then was Saul the more afrayed and became his enemye as loÌ„ge as he lyued And whan the prynces of the Philistynes weÌ„te forth Dauid behaued him selfe more wysely then all the seruauntes of Saul in their outgoynge so that his name was in greate reputacion The XIX Chapter SAul spake to Ionathas his sonne and to all his seruauntes that they shulde kyll Dauid Neuerthelesse Ionathas the sonne of Saul loued Dauid exceadingly and tolde him and sayde Saul my father goeth aboute to slaye the. Kepe the therfore I praye the in the mornynge and abyde in secrete and hyde the. But I wyll go forth and stonde besyde my father in the felde where thou art and wyll speake of the vnto my father and what soeuer I se I shal brynge the worde And Ionathas reported y e best of Dauid vnto Saul his father and sayde vnto him Oh let not the kynge synne agaynst his seruaunt for he hath not synned agaynst the and his doynge is very necessary for the he put his lyfe in his hande also and smote the Philistyne the LORDE dyd a greate health vnto all Israel this hast thou sene and reioysed therof Wherfore wylt thou then offende agaynst innocent bloude that thou woldest kyll Dauid without a cause Then herkened Saul vnto the voice of Ionathas and sware As truly as the LORDE lyueth he shal not dye Then Ionathas called Dauid and tolde him all these wordes and brought him to Saul so that he was in presence like as afore tyme. But there arose a battayll agayne and Dauid wente forth and fought agaynst the Philistynes and smote a greate slaughter so that they fled before him Neuertheles y e euell sprete of the LORDE came vpon Saul and he sat in his house and had a iauelynge in his hande But Dauid plaied vpon the instrument with his haÌ„de And Saul thoughâ— with the iauelinge to sticke Dauid fast to the wall Howbeit he wente asyde froÌ„ Saul and the iauelynge smote in the wall And Dauid fled and escaped that night Notwithstondinge Saul sent his messaungers to Dauids house that they shulde laye wayte for him and kyll him in the mornynge Michol Dauids wyfe tolde him this and sayde Yf thou saue not thy soule this night thou shalt dye tomorow Then Michol let him downe thorow the wyndow so that he wente his waye fled and escaped And Mickol toke an ymage and layed it in the bed and laied a goates szkinne at the heade of it and couered it with clothes Then Saul sent messauÌ„gers to fetch Dauid But she sayde He is sicke Neuerthelesse Saul sent messaungers to se Dauid sayde Bringe him vp to me with the bed that he maye be slayne Now whan the messaungers came beholde the ymage laye in the bed and a goates szkynne at the heade of it Theâ— sayde Saul vnto Michol Why hast thou begyled me and let myne enemye go that he mighte escape Michol sayde vnto Saul He sayde vnto me Let me go or I wyl kyll the. Aâ— for Dauid he fled and escaped and came to Samuel vnto Ramath and tolde him all y t Saul had done vnto him And he wente w t Samuel and they abode at Naioth And it was tolde Saul Beholde Dauid is at Naioth in Ramath Then Saul sente messaungers to fetch Dauid And they sawe a company of prophetes prophecienge and Samuel had the ouersight of them Then came the sprete of God vpon the messaungers of Saul so that they prophecyed also Whan this was tolde Saul he sent other messaungers which prophecied likewyse Then sente he messaungers the thyrde tyme and they in like maner prophecyed Then wente he himselfe also vnto Ramath and whan he came to the greate well which is at Secho he axed and sayde Where is Samuel and Dauid Then was it tolde him beholde at Naioth in Ramath And he wente thither euen vnto Naioth in Ramath And y e sprete of God came vpon him also and he weÌ„te prophecied till he came vnto Naioth in
LORDE shal be iudge betwene me and the and auenge me on the but my hāde shal not be vpon the acordinge as it is sayde after the olde prouerbe Vngodlynes commeth of the vngodly but my hande shal not be vpon the. Whom persecutest thou O kynge of Israel whom persecutest thou a deed dogg a flee The LORDE be iudge and geue sentence betwene me and the and cōsidre it and defende my cause and delyuer me from thy hande Now whan Dauid had spoken out these wordes vnto Saul Saul saide Is not this thy voyce my sonne Dauid And Saul lifte vp his voyce and wepte and saide vnto Dauid Thou art more righteous then I for thou hast recompēsed me good but I haue rewarded the euell And this daye hast thou shewed me how thou hast done me good for so moch as y e LORDE hath delyuered me in to thy hande and thou neuertheles hast not slaine me What is he which yf he fynde his enemye wyllet him go in a good waye The LORDE rewarde the good for y t thou hast done vnto me this daye Beholde now I knowe that thou shalt be kynge the kyngdome of Israel stondeth in thy hande sweare now therfore vnto me by the LORDE y t thou shalt not rote out my sede after me nether destroie my name out of my fathers house And Dauid sware vnto Saul Then wente Saul home but Dauid gat him vp with his men vnto the castell The XXV Chapter ANd Samuel dyed and all Israel gathered them selues together mourned for him buried him in his house at Ramath As for Dauid he rose and wente downe in to the wyldernesse of Paran And there was a man at Maon and his possession at Carmel and the man was of greate power and had thre thousande shepe and a thousande goates And it fortuned that he clypped his shepe at Carmel and his name was Nabal but his wyues name was Abigail and she was a woman of good vnderstondinge bewtyfull of face But the man was harde and wicked in his doynges and was one of Caleb Now whan Dauid herde in the wyldernes y t Nabal clypped his shepe he sent out ten yonge men saide vnto them Go vp vnto Carmel whan ye come to Nabal salute him frendly on my behalfe saye Good lucke peace be w t the thine house with all y t thou hast I haue herde saye that thou hast shepe clyppers Now y e shepherdes whom thou hast haue bene with vs we haue done them no dishonoure and they wāted nothinge of their nombre as longe as they were at Carmel Axe thy yonge men they shal tell the and let thy yonge men fynde fauoure in y e sighte for we are come in a good daye geue thy seruauntes thy sonne Dauid what thy hande fyndeth And whā Dauids yonge men came and spake all these wordes on Dauids behalfe vnto Nabal they lefte of But Nabal answered Dauids seruauntes sayde What is he y t Dauid who is the sonne of Isai There are many seruauntes now y t runne awaye from their masters Shulde I take my bred water and flesh that I haue slayne for my clyppers geue it vnto mē whom I knowe not whence they are Thē Dauids yonge mē turned their waye agayne And whan they came agayne vnto him they tolde him all these wordes Thē sayde Dauid vnto his men Euery man gyrde his swerde aboute him And euery one gyrde his swerde aboute him And Dauid gyrde his swerde aboute him also and there wēte vp after him vpon a foure hundreth men but two hundreth remayned w t the stuffe Neuertheles Abigail Nabals wife tolde one of hir yonge men and sayde Beholde Dauid sent messaungers out of the wyldernes to blesse oure lorde Notwithstondinge he was fearce vpō them and yet haue they bene very profitable men vnto vs and haue done vs no dishonoure and we wanted none of the nombre as lōge as we walked with them whan we were in the felde but they haue bene oure wall daye and nighte as longe as we kepte the shepe by them Take hede now therfore and loke well what thou doest for there is surely a mysfortune at hande agaynst oure lorde agaynst all his house And he is a man of Belial to whom no man darre saye eny thinge Then Abigail made haist and toke two hundred loaues of bred and two botels of wyne and fyue shepe ready dighte and fyue measures of firmentye and an hundreth frayles of rasens and two hundreth frayles of fygges layed them vpō asses and sayde to hir yonge men Go ye youre waye before me beholde I wyl come after And she tolde Nabal hir housbāde nothinge therof And as she rode vpō the asse and wente downe in the shadowe of y e hill beholde Dauid his mē met hir downe so that she came vpon them But Dauid sayde Wel all that this man had in y e wyldernes haue I kepte for naughte so that there wanted nothinge of all that he had and he rewardeth me euell for good God do this and yet more vnto the enemies of Dauid yf vntyll tomorow in the mornynge I leaue this man of all that he hath so moch as one that maketh water agaynst y e wall Now whan Abigail sawe Dauid she lighte downe from the asse in all the haist and fell vpō hir face before Dauid and worshiped him to the grounde and fell at his fete and sayde Oh my lorde let this trespace be myne and let thy handmayde speake before thine eares and heare the wordes of thy handmayden Let not my lorde set his hert agaynst this Nabal the man of Belial for he is a foole acordinge as his name is called his name is foole and foolishnes is with him As for me thy handmayde I sawe not my lordes yonge men whom thou dyddest sende But now my lorde as truly as the LORDE lyueth and as truly as thy soule lyueth the LORDE hath kepte the backe y t thou shuldest not come agaynst bloude and he hath delyuered thine hande Thine enemyes be now as Nabal and so be they that wolde my lorde euell Here is y e blessynge y t thy handmayde hath brought my lorde take it and geue it vnto the yonge men that walke vnder my lorde For a sure house shal y e LORDE make my lorde which fighteth the fighte of the LORDE and no euell shall be founde in the all thy life longe And yf eny man ryse vp to persecute y t and to laye wayte for thy soule then shal the soule of my lorde be bounde in the bundell of y e lyuynge euen with the LORDE thy God But y e soule of thine enemies shal be turned backe w t the slynge Whan the LORDE therfore doth all this good for my lorde which he hath promysed the and commaundeth y t to be his Duke ouer Israel then shal it be no stomblinge blocke ner occasiion of fallynge vnto my lordes hert that thou hast not shed
reputed in my sighte this daye so let y e LORDE repute my soule in his sighte delyuer me from all trouble Saul saide vnto Dauid Blessed be thou Dauid my sonne thou shalt do it be able But Dauid wente his waye and Saul turned agayne vnto his place The XXVII Chapter DAuid thoughte in his hert One of these dayes shal I fall in to the handes of Saul It is better that I get me my waye in to y e londe of y e Philistynes that Saul maye leaue of from sekynge me in all the coastes of Israel so shall I escape his handes And he gat him vp and wente ouer with the sixe hundreth men that were with him vnto Achis the sonne of Maoch kynge of Gath. So Dauid remayned by Achis at Gath with his mē euery one with his housholde and Dauid with his two wyues Ahinoam the Iesraelitisse and Abigail Nabals wife of Carmel And whan worde came to Saul that Dauid was fled vnto Gath he soughte him nomore And Dauid sayde vnto Achis Yf I haue founde grace in thy sighte then let there be geuen me a place in one of the cities of the londe that I maye dwell therin Wherfore shulde thy seruaunt dwell in the kynges cite with the Then Achis gaue him Siclag the same daye Therfore belongeth Siclag to the kynges of Iuda vnto this daye The tyme that Dauid dwelt in the londe of the Philistynes is foure monethes Dauid wente vp with his men and fell in to the londe of the Gessurites and Girsites and Amalechites for these were the inhabiters of this londe of olde as thou commest to Sur vnto the lōde of Egipte But whā Dauid smote y e londe he let nether man ner woman lyue and toke the shepe oxen asses Camels and rayment and returned and came to Achis So whan Achis spake Whither fell ye in to daye Dauid sayde Towarde the south parte of Iuda towarde y e south parte of the Ierahmielites towarde the south parte of the Kenites But Dauid let nether man ner woman come lyuynge vnto Geth and thoughte They mighte peraduēture speake reporte agaynst vs thus dyd Dauid and this was his maner as longe as he dwelt in y e londe of the Philistynes Therfore Achis gaue credence vnto Dauid and thoughte he hath made him selfe stynke before his people of Israel therfore shal he be my seruaunt for euer The XXVIII Chapter IT fortuned at y e same tyme that the Philistynes gathered their hoost together to the battayll to go agaynst Israel And Achis sayde vnto Dauid Thou shalt knowe that thou and thy men shal go forth with me in the hoost Dauid sayde vnto Achis Well thou shalt se what thy seruaūt shal do Achis saide vnto Dauid Therfore wyll I ordene the to be the keper of my heade as longe as I lyue As for Samuel he was deed and all y e people had mourned for him buried him in his cite Ramath So Saul had dryuen the soythsayers and expounders of tokens out of y e londe Now whan the Philistynes gathered them selues together and came and pitched their tentes at Sunem Saul gathered all the people together they pitched at Gilboa But whan Saul sawe the hoost of the Philistynes he was afrayed and his hert was discoraged and he axed councell at the LORDE But y e LORDE gaue him no answere nether by dreames ner by the lighte ner by prophetes Thē sayde Saul vnto his seruauntes Seke me a womā which hath a sprete of soythsayēge that I maye go vnto her and axe at her His seruauntes sayde vnto him Beholde at Endor is there a woman which hath a sprete of soythsayenge And Saul chaunged his clothes and put on other and wente his waye and two men with him and came by nighte vnto the woman and sayde Prophecye vnto me I pray the thorow the sprete of soythsayenge and brynge me him vp whom I shal name vnto the. The womā saide vnto him Beholde thou knowest what Saul hath done how he hath roted out the soythsayers witches from the londe wherfore wilt thou brynge my soule then in to y e nett that I maye be slayne But Saul sware vnto her by y e LORDE and sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth there shall no harme happen vnto the for this Then sayde y e woman Whom shal I brynge vp vnto the He sayde Brynge me vp Samuel Now whan y e woman sawe Samuel she cryed loude and sayde vnto Saul Wherfore hast thou begyled me Thou art Saul And the kynge sayde vnto her Feare not what seist thou The woman sayde vnto Saul I se goddes cōmynge vp out of y e earth He sayde How is he shapened She sayde There commeth vp an olde man and is clothed with a longe garment Then perceaued Saul that it was Samuel bowed him selfe downe w t his face to the grounde and worshiped him Samuel saide vnto Saul Why hast thou disquyeted me to cause me be broughte vp ▪ Saul sayde I am sore troubled the Philistynes fighte against me God is departed fro me geueth me no answere nether by prophetes ner by dreames therfore haue I called the y t thou mightest shewe me what I shal do Samuel sayde What wilt thou axe at me seynge the LORDE is departed from the and is become thine enemye The LORDE shal do vnto the euen as he spake by me and shall plucke the kyngdome out of thy hande and geue it vnto Dauid thy neghboure because thou hast not herkened vnto the voyce of the LORDE ner perfourmed the displeasure of his wrath agaynst Amalek Therfore hath the LORDE done this now vnto the. Morouer the LORDE shal delyuer Israel with the also in to the handes of the Philistynes tomorow shalt thou and thy sonnes be with me And the hoost of Israel shal the LORDE delyuer in to the handes of the Philistynes Then fell Saul immediatly vnto the earth for he coulde not stonde and was sore afrayed at these wordes of Samuel so that there was nomore strength in him for he had eaten no bred all that daye and all that night And the woman wente in to Saul sawe that he was sore vexed and sayde vnto him Beholde thy handmayde hath herkened vnto thy voyce and I haue put my soule in my hande so that I haue herkened vnto y e wordes which thou spakest vnto me Therfore folowe thou also the voyce of thy handmayde I wil set a morsell of bred before the to eate that thou mayest come to thy strength go y e waye But he refused and sayde I wil not eate Then his seruauntes the woman cōpelled him so that he herkened vnto their voyce And he rose vp from y e grounde and sat vpon the bed The woman had a fat calfe at home so she made haist and kylled it and toke meell and dyd kneet it and baked swete cakes broughte them forth before Saul before his seruauntes And whan they had eaten
his sonne and ouer the people of the LORDE and ouer the house of Israel because they were fallen thorow the swerde And Dauid sayde to the yonge man that broughte him worde What art thou He sayde I am y e sonne of a straunger an Amalechite Dauid sayde How happeneth it that thou wast not afrayed to laye thine hāde vpon the LORDES anointed to destroye him And Dauid sayde vnto one of his yonge men Come hither and slaye him And he smote him that he dyed Then sayde Dauid vnto him Thy bloude be vpon thyne owne heade For thy mouth hath spoken against thyselfe and sayde I haue slayne the anoynted of the LORDE And Dauid mourned this lamentacion ouer Saul and Ionathas his sonne and commaunded to teach the childrē of Iuda the bowe Beholde it is wrytten in the boke of the righteous The Eldest in Israel are slayne vpon the heigth of the. How are the Worthies fallē Tell it not at Gath speake not of it in y e stretes at Ascalon lest the doughters of y e Philistynes reioyse lest the doughters of y e vncircumcysed tryumphe Ye mountaynes of Gelboa nether dew ner rayne come vpō you nether lōde be wherof commeth Heue offerynges for there is y e shylde of the Worthies smytten downe the shylde of Saul as though he had not bene anoynted with oyle The bowe of Ionathas fayled not and the swerde of Saul came not agayne voyde from the bloude of the slayne and frō the fat of the giauntes Saul and Ionathas louely and pleasaūt in their lyfe and in their deeth were not parted asunder lighter then Aegles and stronger then lyons Ye doughters of Israel wepe ouer Saul which clothed yow with purple in pleasures and decked you with Iewels of golde on youre garmentes How are the Worthies fallen so in the battayll Ionathas is slayne vpon y e heigth of the. I am sory for the my brother Ionathas thou hast bene very louely vnto me Thy loue hath bene more speciall vnto me then the loue of wemen How are the Worthies falle◠and y e weapens destroyed The II. Chapter AFter these actes Dauid axed at the LORDE and sayde Shall I go vp in to one of the cities of Iuda And the LORDE sayde vnto him Go vp Dauid sayde Whither He sayde Vnto Hebron So Dauid wente thither with his two wyues Ahinoam the Iesraelitisse and Abigail Nabals wyfe of Carmel And Dauid broughte vp the men that were him also euery one with his housholde and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron And y e men of Iuda came and there they anointed him kynge ouer the house of Iuda And whā it was tolde Dauid that they of Iabes in Gilead had buried Saul he sent messaungers vnto them sayenge Blessed be ye of the LORDE that ye haue done soch mercy vpon youre lorde Saul and haue buried him The LORDE therfore shewe mercy now and faithfulnes vpon you And because ye haue done this I also wyll do you good Let youre hāde now therfore be comforted and be ye stronge for though Saul youre lorde be deed yet hath the house of Iuda chosen me to be kynge ouer them But Abner the sonne of Ner which was Sauls chefe captayne toke Iszboseth the sonne of Saul and broughte him thorow the hoost and made him kynge ouer Gilead Assuri Iesrael Ephraim Ben Iamin and ouer all Israel And Iszboseth the sonne of Saul was fourtye yeare olde whan he was made kynge of Israel he raigned two yeares But the house of Iuda helde with Dauid The tyme y t Dauid was kynge at Hebron ouer the house of Iuda was seuen yeare and sixe monethes longe And Abner the sonne of Ner wēte forth with the seruauntes of Iszboseth the sonne of Saul out of y e hoost vnto Gibeon And Ioab the sonne of Zeru Ia wēte forth with Dauids seruauntes and they met together by the pole at Gibeon and these laye on the one syde of the pole the other on the other syde And Abner sayde vnto Ioab Let the yonge mē get them vp and playe before vs. Ioab sayde Let them aryse Then gat they them vp wente in nombre twolue of Ben Iamin on Iszboseth Sauls sonnes syde and twolue of Dauids seruauntes And euery one gat another by the heade and thrust his swerde in his syde and fell together therfore is the place called Helkath hazurim that is the felde of the Worthies which is at Gibeon And there arose a sore harde battayll the same daye But Abner and the men of Israel were put to flighte of Dauids seruauntes Thre sonnes of Zeru Ia were there Ioab Abisai Asahel As for Asahel he was lighte of fete as a Roo in y e felde folowed after Abner and turned not asyde nether to the righte hande ner to y e lefte from Abner Then Abner turned him aboute and sayde Art thou Asahel He sayde Yee Abner sayde vnto him Go thy waye ether to the righte hande or to the lefte and get the one of y e yonge men and take his harnesse from him Neuertheles he wolde not leaue of frō him Then sayde Abner agayne to Asahel Get the awaye fro me why wilt thou that I smyte the to the grounde and how darre I lifte vp my face before y e brother Ioab Howbeit he wolde not go his waye Then Abner thrust him in with a speare in to his bely so that the speare wēte out behynde him And there he fell and dyed before him and who so came to the place where Asahel laye deed stode styll there But Ioab and Abisai folowed vpon Abner till the sonne wente downe And whan they came to y e hyll of Amma which lieth before Giah by y e waye to the wildernes of Gibeon the children of Ben Iamin gathered them selues together behynde Abner and grewe to a multitude and stode vpon the toppe of an hyll And Abner called vnto Ioab and sayde Shal the swerde thē deuoure without ende Knowest thou not that it wyll be bytter at the last How longe wil it be or thou saie vnto the people that they leaue of from their brethrē Ioab sayde As truly as God lyueth yf thou haddest sayde thus daye in the morninge the people had ceassed euery one from his brother And Ioab blewe the trompet all the people stode still and folowed nomore vpon Israel nether foughte they eny more Abner and his men wente all that same night ouer the playne felde and passed ouer Iordane walked thorow all Bithron and came to the tentes Ioab turned him from Abner and gathered all y e people together And of Dauids seruauntes there myssed nynetene men and Asahel But Dauids seruaūtes had smytten so amonge Ben Iamin and the men of Abner that thre hundreth and threscore men were deed And they toke vp Asahel and buried him in his fathers graue at Bethleem And Ioab with his men wēte all that nighte and at the breake of the daie they came vnto Hebron
The III. Chapter ANd there was a longe battayll betwene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid But Dauid wente and increased and the house of Saul wente and mynished And vnto Dauid were children borne at Hebron His firstborne sonne Ammon of Ahinoam the Iesraelitisse the seconde Chileab of Abigail the wyfe of Nabal of Carmel the thirde Absalon the sonne of Maacha the doughter of Thalmai kynge of Gessur the fourth Adonia the sonne of Hagith the fyfth Saphatia the sonne of Abital y e sixte Iethream of Egla Dauids wife These were borne vnto Dauid at Hebron Now whan it was warre betwene the house of Saul the house of Dauid Abner strengthed Sauls house And Saul had had a concubyne whose name was Rispa the doughter of Aia. And Iszboseth sayde vnto Abner Wherfore liest thou with my fathers concubyne Then was Abner very wroth at these wordes of Iszboseth and sayde Am I a dogges heade then that I agaynst Iuda do mercy vnto the house of Saul thy father and vnto his brethren and kynsfolkes and haue not delyuered the into y e hande of Dauid and thou layest a trespace to my charge this daye for a womans sake God do Abner this and that yf I do not as the LORDE hath sworne vnto Dauid that the kyngdome maye be taken froÌ„ the house of Saul and y e seate of Dauid set vp ouer Israel and Iuda from Dan vnto Berseba Then coulde he not answere him one worde agayne he feared him so And Abner sent messaungers vnto Dauid sayenge Whose is the londe And sayde Make thy couenaunt with me Beholde my hande shall be with the to turne all Israel vnto the. He sayde Wel I wyll make a couenaunt with the but one thynge I desyre of the that thou se not my face excepte thou brynge me first Michol Sauls doughter whan thou commest to se my face Dauid sent messaungers also vnto Iszboseth the sonne of Saul sayenge Geue me my wyfe Michol whom I maried with an hundreth foreszkinnes of the Philistynes Iszboseth sent and caused for to take her from the man Palthiel the sonne of Lais. And hir huszbande wente with her and wepte behynde her vnto Bahurim Then sayde Abner vnto him Turne backe agayne and go thy waye And he turned backe agayne And Abner talked with the Elders in Israel and sayde Youre myndes haue bene set afore tyme and longe a goo vpon Dauid that he mighte be kynge ouer you do it now therfore for y e LORDE hath sayde of Dauid I wil delyuer my people of Israel by the haÌ„de of Dauid my seruaunt from the hande of the Philistynes and from the hande of all their enemies Abner spake also before the eares of Ben Iamin and wente to speake before the eares of Dauid at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Ben Iamin was contente withall Now whan Abner came to Hebron vnto Dauid and tweÌ„ty men with him Dauid made them a feast And Abner sayde vnto Dauid I wyll get me vp and go gather all Israel together to my lorde the kynge and that they maye make a couenaunt with the that thou mayest be kynge at thy soules desyre So Dauid let Abner go from him in peace And beholde Dauid seruauÌ„tes and 〈◊〉 came from the men of warre and broughtâ— a greate spoyle with them And Abner waâ— not now with Dauid at Hebron for he had sent him from him so that he was gone his waye in peace But whan Ioab and all the hoost with him was come it was tolde him that Abner the sonne of Ner came to the kynge and how he had sent him froÌ„ him so that he was gone his waye in peace Then wente Ioab in to the kynge and sayde What hast thou done Beholde Abner came to the why hast thou sent him from the that he is gone his waye Knowest thou not Abner the sonne of Ner For he came to the to disceaue thâ— that he mighte knowe thy outgoynge and ingoynge and to spie out all that thou doest And whan Ioab wente out from Dauid he sent messauÌ„gers after Abner to fetch him agayne from Boharsira and Dauid knewâ— not therof Now whan Abner came agayne vnto Hebron Ioab brought him in to y e middes vnder y e gate to talke w t him secretly and thrust him there in to y e bely that he dyed because of his brother Asahels bloude Whan Dauid knewe of it therafter he sayde I am vngiltye and so is my kyngdodome for euer before the LORDE concernynge the bloude of Abner y e sonne of Ner but vpon the heade of Ioab fall it and vpon all his fathers house and in the house of Ioab there ceasse not one to haue a renninge yssue and a leprosy and to go vpon a staffe and fall thorow the swerde and to haue scarnesse of bred Thus Ioab and his brother Abiâ—aâ— slewe Abner because he had slayne their brother Asahel in the battaill at Gibeon Dauid sayde vnto Ioab and to all y e people y t was with him Rente youre clothes and gyrde sack cloth aboute you and make lamentacion for Abner And the kynge wente after the Bere And whan they buryed Abner at Hebron the kynge lifte vp his voyce and wepte besyde Abners graue and all the people wepte also And the kynge mourned for Abner and sayde Abner is not deed as a foole dyeth Thy handes were not bounde thy fete were not vexed with fetters thou art fallen as a man falleth before wicked vnthriftes Theâ— all the people bewayled him yet more Now whan all the people came in to eate with Dauid whyle it was yet hye daye Dauid sware and sayde God do this and that vnto me yf I taist ether bred or oughte els afore the SoÌ„ne go downe And all y e people knewe it and it pleased them well all that y e kynge dyd in the sighte of all the people And all the people and all Israel perceaued the same daye that it came not of the kynge that Abner the sonne of Ner was slayne And the kynge sayde vnto his seruauntes Knowe ye not that this daye a prynce and a greate man is fallen in Israel As for me I am yet but tender and anoynted kynge But the men the children of Zeru Ia are to harde for me The LORDE recompence him that doth euell acordinge to his wickednes The IIII. Chapter WHan Sauls sonne herde y t Abner was deed at Hebron his haÌ„des were feble all Israell was sory But there were two men captaynes ouer the soudyers vnder the sonne of Saul the one was called Baena the other Rehob sonnes of Rimon y e Berothite of the childreÌ„ of Ben Iamin for Beroth was couÌ„ted also in Ben Iamin And the Berothites were fled vnto Gethaim were strauÌ„gers there vnto this daye Ionathas also the sonne of Saul had a sonne which was lame on his fete was fyue yeare olde whan the rumoure of Saul and Ionathas came from Iesrael And his norse toke him
a wyse womā out of y e cite Heare heare saye vnto Ioab that he come hither I wyl speake with him And whā he came to her the woman sayde Art thou Ioab He sayde Yee She sayde vnto him Heare the wordes of thy handmayden He sayde I heare She sayde The comonsayenge was somtyme Who so wyll axe let him axe at Abel and so came it to a good ende This is y e noble and faithfull cite in Israel and wilt thou destroye the cite and the mother in Israel Why wilt thou swalowe vp the enheritaunce of the LORDE Ioab answered and sayde That be farre that be farre fro me that I shulde swalowe vp and destroye The matter is not so but a certayne man of mount Ephraim named Seba the sonne of Bichri hath lifte vp him selfe agaynst kynge Dauid delyuer him onely and I wyl departe from the cite The woman sayde vnto Ioab Beholde his heade shal be cast vnto the ouer the wall And the woman came in to all the people with hir wyszdome And they smote of the heade of Seba the sonne of Bichri and cast it vnto Ioab Then blewe he the trompe and they departed from the cite euery one vnto his tent But Ioab came agayne to Ierusalem vnto the kynge Ioab was captayne ouer all the hoost of Israel Benaia y e sonne of Ioiada was ouer the Chrethians and Plethians Adoram was rent gatherer Iosaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Chaunceler Seia was the scrybe Sadoc and Abiathar were the prestes Ira also y e Iairite was Dauids prest The XXI Chapter THere was a derth also in Dauids tyme thre yeares together And Dauid soughte the face of y e LORDE And the LORDE sayde Because of Saul and be cause of that bloudy housholde y t he slewe the Gibeonites Then the kynge caused for to call the Gibeonites and spake vnto them As for the Gibeonites they were not of y e children of Israel but a remnaunt of the Amorites howbeit the children of Israel had sworne vnto thē and Saul soughte for to smyte them in his gelousy for the childrē of Israel and Iuda Then sayde Dauid to the Gibeonites What shal I do vnto you And where withall shal I make the attonement that ye maye blesse y e enheritaunce of y e LORDE The Gibeonites sayde vnto him It is not for golde and syluer that we haue to do w t Saul and his house nether haue we oughte to do for to slaye eny mā in Israel He sayde What saye ye then that I shal do vnto you They sayde vnto y e kynge The man that hath destroyed vs and broughte vs to naughte shulde we destroye that nothinge be lefte him in all the coastes of Israel Let there be geuen vs seuen men of his sonnes that we maye hange them vp vnto the LORDE at Gibea of Saul the chosen of the LORDE The kynge sayde I wyll geue them Howbeit the kynge spared Mephiboseth y e sonne of Ionathas y e sonne of Saul because of the ooth of the LORDE y t was betwene them namely betwene Dauid Ionathas the sonne of Saul But the two sonnes of Rispa y e doughter of Aia whom she had borne vnto Saul Armoni Mephiboseth And the fyue sonnes of Michol the doughter of Saul whom she bare vnto Adriel the sonne of Barsillai the Mahalothite dyd the kynge take and gaue them in to the handes of y e Gibeonites which hanged thē vp vpō the mount before the LORDE So these seuen fell at one tyme and dyed in the tyme of the first haruest whan y e barly haruest begynneth Then toke Rispa the doughter of Aia a sackcloth spred it vpon the rock in the begynnynge of the haruest tyll the water from the heauen dropped vpō them and suffred not the foules of the heauen to rest on them on the daye tyme nether the wylde beestes of the felde on the nighte season And it was tolde Dauid what Rispa the doughter of Aia Sauls concubyne had done And Dauid wente and toke the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathas his sonne from y e citesens at Iabes in Gilead which they had stollen from y e strete at Bethsan where y e Philistynes had hanged thē what tyme as the Philistynes had smytten Saul vpon mount Gilboa and broughte them vp from thence and gathered them together w t the bones of them that were hanged And the bones of Saul and of his sonne Ionathas buried they in y e londe of Ben Iamin besyde y e graue of his father Cis. So after this was God at one with the londe But there arose warre agayne of y e Philistynes agaynst Israel And Dauid wente downe his seruauntes with him foughte agaynst the Philistynes And Dauid was weery Ieszbi of Nob which was one of the children of Rapha and the weight of his speare was thre C. weight of brasse and had a new harnesse vpon him thoughte to smyte Dauid Neuertheles Abisai the sonne of Zeru Ia helped him smote the Philistyne to death Then sware Dauids men vnto him sayde Thou shalt nomore go forth with vs vnto the warre that the lanterne in Israel be not put out Afterwarde there arose yet warre at Nob with the Philistynes Then Sibechai the Husathite smote Saph which also was one of the childrē of Rapha And there arose yet warre at Gob with the Philistynes Then Elhanan the sonne of Iaere Orgim a Bethleemite smote Goliath the Gethite which had a speare whose shaft was like a weeuers lome And there arose yet warre at Gath where there was a cōtencious man which had sixe fyngers on his handes and sixe toes on his fete that is foure and twēty in the nombre and he was borne also of Rapha And whan he spake despitefully vnto Israel Ionathas y e sonne of Simea Dauids brother smote him These foure were borne vnto Rapha at Gath and fell thorow the hande of Dauid and of his seruauntes The XXII Chapter ANd Dauid spake the wordes of this songe before the LORDE what tyme as the LORDE had delyuered him frō the hande of all his enemies and from the hande of Saul and he sayde The LORDE is my stony rock my castell and my delyuerer God is my strength in him wyl I put my trust my shylde the horne of my saluacion my defence my refuge my Sauioure thou shalt helpe me from violent wronge I wil call vpon the LORDE with prayse so shal ▪ I be delyuered fro myne enemies For the sorowes of death cōpased me and the brokes of Belial made me afrayed The paynes of hell came aboute me and the snares of death had ouertaken me Whā I was in trouble I called vpō the LORDE yee euen my God called I vpon so he herde my voyce frō his holy temple my cōplaynte came in to his eares The earth trembled and quaked the foundacions of the heauen shoke and moued be cause he was wroth
yf they make their prayer in this place and knowlege thy name and turne from their synnes whaÌ„ thou troublest them heare thou them then in heauen and be mercifull vnto the synnes of thy seruauntes and of thy people of Israel that thou mayest shewe them the good waye wherin they shulde walke and let it rayne vpon the londe that thou hast geuen thy people to inheritaunce Whan a derth or pestilence or drouth or burnynge or greshopper or catirpiller is in their londe or whan his enemye layeth lege to his portes in the londe or whan eny other plage or disease happeneth who so euer then maketh his prayer and peticion whether it be eny other men or thy people of Israel which theÌ„ are aware of their plage euery one in his hert and spredeth out his handes vnto this house Heare thou then in heauen in the seate where thou dwellest and be mercifull se that thou geue euery one acordinge as he hath walked like as thou knowest his hert for thou onely knowest the hert of all the children of men that they maye allwaye feare the as longe as they lyue in the lande which thou hast geuen vnto oure fathers And whan eny straunger that is not of thy people of Israel commeth out of a farre countre for thy names sake for they shall heare of thy greate name and of thy mightie haÌ„de and of thy outstretched arme and commeth to make his prayer in this house heare thou him then in heauen euen in the seate of thy dwellynge and do all for the which that straunger calleth vpon the that all the nacions vpon earth maye knowe thy name and that they maye feare the as thy people of Israel do and that they maye knowe how that this house which I haue buylded is named after thy name Whan thy people go forth to the battayll agaynst their enemyes the waye that thou shalt sende them and shall praye vnto the LORDE towarde the waye of the cite which thou hast chosen and towarde the house that I haue buylded vnto thy name heare thou then their prayer and peticion in heauen and execute iudgment for them Whan they synne agaynst the for there is no maÌ„ that synneth not thou be wroth and delyuer theÌ„ vnto their enemyes so that they cary them awaye captyue in to the enemyes londe farre or nye and yf they remembre them selues in the londe where they are captyue and turne and make their intercession vnto the in the londe of their captyuite and saye We haue synned done amysse and haue bene vngodly and so turne vnto y e with all their hert and with all their soule in the loÌ„de of their enemies which led them awaye captyue and make their prayer vnto the towarde the waye of their londe that thou hast geuen vnto their fathers euen towarde the cite which thou hast chosen and towarde the house that I haue buylded vnto thy name then heare thou their prayer and supplicacion in heauen from the seate of thy dwellynge and execute iudgment for them and be mercifull vnto thy people that haue synned agaynst the and vnto all their trespaces wherwith they haue transgressed agaynst the and graunte theÌ„ mercy in the sighte of them which led them awaye presonners that their enemyes maye be mercyfull vnto them for they are thy people and thyne enheritaunce whom thou broughtest out of Egipte from the yron fornace that thine eyes maye be open vnto the peticion of thy seruaunt and of thy people of Israel that thou maiest heare them in all thinges for the which they shall call vpon the for thou O LORDE LORDE hast sundered them out to be an inheritaunce vnto thy selfe from amoÌ„ge all the nacions vpon earth acordinge as thou saydest by Moses thy seruaunt whan thou broughtest oure fathers out of Egipte And whaÌ„ Salomon had ended all this prayer and peticion before the LORDE he rose vp from the altare of the LORDE and lefte of from knelynge and holdynge out of handes towarde heauen and stode and blessed all the congregacion of Israel with loude voyce and sayde Praysed be the LORDE which hath geuen rest vnto his people acordinge as he sayde There hath not one fayled of all his good wordes which he spake by his seruaunt Moses The LORDE oure God be with vs as he hath bene with oure fathers and forsake vs not nether withdrawe his hande from vs but bowe oure hertes vnto him that we maye walke in all his wayes and kepe his commaundementes ordinaunces and lawes which he commaunded oure fathers And these wordes wherwith I haue made my peticion before the LORDE come nye vnto the LORDE oure God daye and nighte that he maye execute iudgment for his seruaunt and for his people of Israel euery one at his tyme that all nacions vpon earth maye knowe that the LORDE is God that there is none other And let youre hert be perfecte with the LORDE oure God to walke in his statutes and to kepe his commaundementes as it is this daye And the kynge with all Israel his people offred sacrifice before the LORDE And Salomon offred deed offerynges which he offred vnto the LORDE two and twenty thousande oxen and an hundreth twenty thousande shepe So the kynge and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORDE The same daye dyd the kynge dedicate the myddelmost courte which was before the house of the LORDE that he mighte there perfourme the burnt offerynges meat-offerynges and the fat of the deed offerynges for the brasen altare that stode before y e LORDE was to litle for the burnt offerynges meat offerynges and for the fat of the deed offerynges And at the same tyme made Salomon a solempne feast and all Israel a greate congregacion with him from the border of Hemath vnto the ryuer of Egipte before the LORDE oure God seuendayes and yet seuen dayes that were fourtene daies And on the eight daye he let the people go And they blessed the kynge and wente vnto their tentes reioysinge and with a mery hert because of all the good that the LORDE had done vnto Dauid his seruaunt to his people of Israel The IX Chapter ANd whan Salomon had fynished y e buyldinge of the house of the LORDE and the kynges house and all that his desyre and pleasure was to make y e LORDE appeared vnto him the seconde tyme euen as he appeared vnto him at Gibeon And the LORDE sayde vnto him I haue herde thy prayer and peticion that thou hast made before me and haue sanctified this house which thou hast buylded that I maye set my name there for euer and myne eyes and my hert shal be there allwaye And yf thou walke before me as thy father Dauid walked with a perfecte and a true hert so that thou do all that I haue commaunded the and kepe myne ordinaunces and lawes then wyll I stablish the â—eate of thy kyngdome ouer Israel for euer
SalomoÌ„s drynkynge vessels were of golde and all the vessels in the house of y e wod of Libanus were of pure golde also for syluer was not regarded in Salomons tyme. For the kynges Seeshippe y t sayled vpon the See with y e shippe of Hiram came once in thre yeare and broughte golde syluer Yuery Apes and Pecockes Thus was kynge Salomon greater in riches and wyszdome then all the kynges vpoÌ„ earth And all the worlde desyred to se Salomon that they mighte heare the wyszdome which God gaue him in his hert And they broughte him yearly euery man his present vessels of syluer and golde rayment and harnesse spyces horses and Mules And Salomon broughte charettes and horsmen together so that he had a thousande and foure hundreth charettes and twolue thousande horsmen and those he put in y e charet cities and with the kynge at Ierusalem And the kynge broughte it to passe that there was as moch syluer at IerusaleÌ„ as stones and as many Ceders as there were wylde figge trees in the valleys And SalomoÌ„s horses were broughte out of Egipte and froÌ„ Kena for the kynges marchauntes fetched them from Kena for money And a charet came vp out of Egipte for sixe huÌ„dreth Sycles of Syluer and an horse for an huÌ„dreth and fyftye Thus were they brought also vnto all the kynges of the Hethites and to the kynges of Siria by their handes The XI Chapter BVt kynge Salomon loued many out landish wemen Pharaos doughter and wemen of Moab of AmmoÌ„ of Edom of Sidon and of Heth euen of those nacions that the LORDE spake of vnto the children of Israel Go not ye vnto them and let not them come vnto you they shal surely bowe youre hertes after their goddes Vnto these dyd Salomon enclyne with affeccion And he had seuen hundreth wemen to wyues and thre hundreth concubynes and his wyues turned his hert asyde And whan he was now olde his wyues bowed his hert after straunge goddes so that his hert was not whole with the LORDE his God as was the hert of Dauid his father So Salomon walked after Astaâ—oth the god of the Sidonians and after Malcom the abhominacion of the Ammonites And Salomon dyd y t which displeased the LORDE and folowed not y e LORDE to y e vttemost as dyd his father Dauid TheÌ„ buylded SalomoÌ„ an hie place vnto Chamos the abhominacioÌ„ of y e Moabites vpon the mount that lyeth before IerusaleÌ„ and vnto Moloch the abhominacion of the Ammunites Thus dyd Salomon for all his outlaÌ„dish wyues which brent incense and offred vnto their goddes But the LORDE was wroth at Salomon because his hert was turned asyde from y e LORDE God of Israel which had two tymes appeared vnto him and coÌ„maunded him that he shulde not walke after other goddes and yet kepte he not that the LORDE commaunded him Therfore sayde the LORDE vnto Salomon For so moch as this is done with the and hast not kepte my couenaunt and myne ordinaunces which I commaunded the therfore wyll I also plucke thy kyngdome from the and geue it vnto thy seruaunt Neruertheles in y e tyme will I not do it for thy father Dauids sake but from the hande of thy sonne wyl I plucke it Howbeit I wyl not plucke y e kyngdome cleane awaye One trybe wyll I geue vnto thy sonne for Dauid my seruauntes sake and for Ierusalems sake which I haue chosen And the LORDE raysed vp an aduersary vnto Salomon euen Hadad the Edomite of the kynges sede which was in Edom. For whan Dauid was in Edom and Ioab the chefe captayne wente vp to bury the slayne he smote all the males in Edom. For Ioab remayned there sixe monethes and all Israel tyl he had roted out all y e males that were in Edom. Then fled Hadad and certayne men of y e Moabites with him of his fathers seruauntes As for Hadad he was a yonge man And they gat them vp fro Madian and came vnto Paran and toke men with them out of Paran and came in to Egipte vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte which gaue him an house and certayne vytales appoynted gaue him a countre And Adad founde greate fauoure in the sighte of Pharao so that he gaue him to wife euen the sister of his owne wife Thaphenes the Quene And Thaphenes sister bare him Genubath his sonne and Thaphenes norished him vp in Pharaos house in so moch that Genubath was in Pharaos house amonge Pharaos children Now whaÌ„ Hadad herde in Egipte that Dauid was falleÌ„ on slepte with his fathers and y t Ioab the chefe captayne was deed he sayde vnto Pharao Let me go in to my countre Pharao sayde vnto him What lackest thou with me that thou wilt go in to thy countre He sayde Nothynge but yet let me go God raysed him vp another aduersary also one Reson the sonne of El Iada which fled from his lorde Hadad Eser kynge of Zeba and gathered men agaynst him and was a captayne of the men of warre whan Dauid slewe them and they wente vnto Damascus and dwelt there and reigned at Damascus and he was Israels aduersary as loÌ„ge as Salomon lyued This is the harme y t Hadad suffred therfore had he euell will at Israel and was kynge ouer Israel Morouer Ieroboam the sonne of Nebatan Ephraite Salomons seruaunt and his mothers name was Zeruga a wedowe lifte vp his hande also agaynst the kynge And this is the cause wherfore he lifte vp his hande agaynst the kynge Whan Salomon buylded Millo he shut vp a gappe in the cite of Dauid his father And Ieroboam was a maÌ„ of armes And whan Salomon sawe that it was a mete yonge man he set him ouer all the burthens of the house of Ioseph But at the same tyme it fortuned that Ieroboam wente out from Ierusalem and the prophet Ahias of Silo founde hâ—m by the waye and he had a new cloke vpon him and they two were alone in the felde And Ahia toke holde of the new cloke y t he had on and rente the same in to twolue peces and sayde vnto Ieroboam Take thou ten peces vnto the. For thus sayeth the LORDE God of Israel Beholde euen thus wyll I rente the kyngdome from the hande of SalomoÌ„ and wyll geue the ten trybes One trybe shall he haue for my seruaunt Dauids sake and because of the cyte of Ierusalem which I haue chosen out of all the trybes of Israel for they haue forsaken me and worshipped Astaroth the god of the Sidonians Chamos the god of the Moabites and MalcoÌ„ the god of the children of Ammon and haue not walked in my wayes to fulfill my pleasure myne ordinaunces and lawes as dyd Dauid his father Notwithstondynge I wyll not take the whole kyngdome from out of his hande but wil make him a prynce as longe as helyueth for my seruaunt Dauids sake whom I dyd chose which kepte my commaundementes ordinaunces From out of the hande of his sonne
the Iesraelite which he denyed to geue the for money for Naboth lyueth no more but is deed And whan Achab herde y e Naboth was deed he rose to go downe vn-the vyniarde of Naboth the Iesraelite and to take possession of it But the worde of the LORDE came to Elias the Theszbite and sayde Get the vp and go downe to mete Achab the kynge of Israel which is at Samaria beholde he is in Naboths vynyarde in to the which he is gone downe to take possession of it and talke thou with him and speake Thus sayeth the LORDE Thou hast slayne and taken in possession And thou shalt talke morouer vnto him and saye Thus sayeth the LORDE Euen in the place where the dogges licked vp Naboths bloude shall the dogges licke thy bloude also And Achab sayde vnto Elias Hast thou euer founde me thine enemye He saide Yee I haue founde the because thou art euen solde to do euell in the sighte of the LORDE Beholde I wyll brynge mysfortune vpon the and take awaye thy posterite and wil rote out from Achab euen him that maketh water agaynst the wall and him that is shut vp and lefte behynde in Israel and thy house wyll I make as the house of Ieroboam y e sonne of Nebat and as the house of Baesa the sonne of Ahia because of y e prouocacion wherwhith thou hast prouoked me vnto wrath and made Israel to synne And ouer Iesabel spake the LORDE also and sayde The dogges shal deuoure Iesabel in y e felde of Iesrael Who so of Achab dyeth in y e cite him shal the dogges eate vp and who so dyeth in the felde the foules vnder the heauen shall eate him vp So cleane solde to do myschefe in y e sighte of the LORDE hath no man bene as Achab for his Iesabel hath so disceaued him and he maketh him selfe a greate abhominacion that he goeth after Idols acordīge vnto all as dyd the Amorites whom the LORDE expelled before the children of Israel But whan Achab herde these wordes he rēte his clothes put a sack cloth on his body fasted and slepte in sack cloth and wente aboute hanginge downe his heade And the worde of the LORDE came to Elias the Theszbite sayde Hast thou not sene how Achab humbleth him selfe before me For so moch now as he hūbleth him selfe in my sighte I wil not brynge that plage whyle he lyueth but by his sonnes life wil I brynge mysfortune vpon his house The XXII Chapter ANd there passed ouer thre yeares that there was no warre betwene the Sirians Israel But in the thirde yeare wente Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda downe to the kynge of Israel And the kynge of Israel sayde vnto his seruauntes Knowe ye not y t Ramoth in Gilead is oures and we syt styll and take it not out of the hande of the kynge of Syria And he sayde vnto Iosaphat Wilt thou go with me to the battaill vnto Ramoth in Gilead Iosaphat sayde vnto the kynge of Israel I wyll be as thou my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses And Iosaphat sayde vnto y e kynge of Israel Axe this daye at the worde of the LORDE Then the kynge of Israel gathered the prophetes aboute a foure hundreth men and sayde vnto them Shal I go vnto Ramoth in Gilead to fighte or shal I let it alone They sayde Go vp y e LORDE shal delyuer it in to y e kinges hande But Iosaphat sayde Is there not one prophet here more of y e LORDE that we maye axe at him The kinge of Israel saide vnto Iosaphat Here is yet a man one Micheas the sonne of Iemla at whom we maye axe of the LORDE but I hate him for he prophecieth me no good but euell Iosaphat sayde Let not the kynge saye so Then called the kynge of Israel a chamberlayne and sayde Brynge hither soone Micheas the sonne of Iemla As for the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat y e kinge of Iuda they sat ether of them vpon his seate arayed in their garmentes in the place at y e dore of the porte of Samaria and all y e prophetes prophecied before thē And Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena had made him hornes of yron and sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE With these shalt thou puszshe at y e Syrians tyll thou brynge them to naughte And all the prophetes prophecied likewyse and sayde Go vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead thou shalt prospere right well the LORDE shal delyuer it in to the kynges hande And the messaunger that wente to call Micheas sayde vnto him Beholde The wordes of y e prophetes are with one acorde good before the kynge let thy worde therfore be as their worde and speake thou good also Micheas sayde As truly as the LORDE liueth loke what the LORDE sayeth vnto me y t wyl I speake And whan he came to the kynge the kynge sayde vnto him Micheas shal we go vnto Ramoth in Gilead to fight or shall we let it alone He sayde vnto him Yee go vp thou shalt prospere righte well the LORDE shall geue it in to the kynges hande But the kynge sayde vnto him agayne I charge y t that thou saye no other thinge vnto me but the trueth in the name of y e LORDE He sayde I sawe all Israel scatred abrode vpon the mountaynes as the shepe that haue no shepherde And the LORDE saide Haue these no lorde Let euery one turne home agayne in peace Then sayde y e kinge of Israel vnto Iosaphat Tolde not I y e that he wolde prophecye me no good but euell He sayde Heare now therfore the worde of the LORDE I sawe the LORDE syt vpon his seate and all the hoost of heauen stōdinge by him at his righte hande at his lefte And the LORDE saide Who wil disceaue Achab to go vp fall at Ramoth in Gilead And one sayde this another that Then wēte there forth a sprete stode before the LORDE and sayde I wyl disceaue him The LORDE sayde vnto him Wherwith He sayde vnto him I wyll go forth and be a false sprete in the mouth of all his prophetes He saide Thou shalt disceaue him and shalt be able go forth and do so Beholde now the LORDE hath geuē a false sprete in y e mouth of all these y e prophetes and the LORDE hath spoken euell ouer the. Then stepte forth Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena and smote Micheas vpon the cheke and sayde What is the sprete of the LORDE departed fro me to speake with the Micheas sayde Beholde thou shalt se it in y t daye whan thou shalt go frō one chamber to another to hyde the. The kynge of Israel sayde Take Micheas and let him remayne with Amon the ruler of the cite and with Ioas the kynges sonne and saye Thus sayeth the kynge Put this man in preson and fede him with bred and water of trouble tyll I come agayne in peace Micheas sayde Yf
Israel and thou shalt smyte thy lorde Achabs house that I maye auenge the bloude of my seruauntes the prophetes and the bloude of all the LORDES seruauntes from the hande of Iesabel that all the house of Achab maye periszshe And I wyl rote out from Achab euen him that maketh water agaynst the wall and the closed vp and the desolate in Israel and the house of Achab wyll I make euen as the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat and as the house of Baesa the sonne of Ahia and y e dogges shall eate vp Iesabel vpon the felde at Iesrael and noman shall burye her And he opened the dore and fled And whaÌ„ Iehu came forth to his lordes seruauntes they saide vnto him Are all thinges well Wherfore came this madd felowe vnto the He saide vnto them Ye knowe the man well what he hath spoken They sayde â–ª That is not true but tell thou vs. He sayde Thus and thus hath he spoken vnto me and sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE I haue anoynted the to be kynge ouer Israel Then made they haist and euery one toke his garment and laied them vnder him in maner of a iudges seate and blewe the trompet and sayde Iehu is made kinge So Iehu the sonne of Iosaphat the sonne of Nimsi made a confederacion agaynst Ioram As for IoraÌ„ he laye before Ramoth in Gilead with all Israel agaynst Hasael the kynge of Syria But Ioram the kynge was turned backe y t he might be healed of the woundes wherwith the Syrians had wounded him whaÌ„ he foughte with Hasael the kynge of the Syrians And Iehu sayde Yf it be youre mynde there shall noman escape out of the cite to go and tell it at Iesreel And he rode and departed vnto Iesrael for Ioram laye there and Ochosias the kinge of Iuda was come downe to vyset Ioram But the watchman that stode vpon the tower at Iesrael sawe the company of Iehu commynge and sayde I se a company Then sayde Ioram Take a charet and sende to mete theÌ„ and saye Is it peace And the charetman rode to mete them and sayde Thus sayeth the kynge Is it peace Iehu sayde What hast thou to do with peace Turne the behynde me The watchman tolde it and sayde The messaunger is come vnto them and coÌ„meth not agayne Then sent he another charetman which whan he came to them saide Thus sayeth the kynge Is it peace Iehu sayde What hast thou to do with peace Turne y e behynde me And the watchman tolde it and sayde He is come to them and commeth not agayne and the goynge is as it were the goynge of Iehu the sonne of Nimsi for he dryueth on as he were mad Then sayde Ioram Binde the charet fast And they bounde the charet and so they wente forth Ioram the kynge of Israel and Ochosias the kynge of Iuda euery one vpon his charet to mete Iehu And they founde him vpon the felde of Naboth the Iesraelite And whan Ioram sawe Iehu he sayde Iehu is it peace But he sayde What peace The whordome and witchcraft of thy mother Iesabel is not yet come to an ende Then turned Ioram his hande and fled and sayde vnto Ochosias There is treason Ochosias But Iehu toke his bowe shoâ— Ioram betwene the armes that the arowe wente thorow his hert and he fell downe in his charet And Iehu sayde vnto Bidekar the knyghte Take and cast him in the pece of londe of Naboth the Iesraelite for I remembre sence thou rodest with me in a charet after Achab his father that the LORDE wolde laye this heuy burthen vpon him I holde sayde the LORDE I wyl recompence the y t bloude of Naboth and of his childreÌ„ euen in this pece of londe Take him now and cast him in to that pece of londe acordynge to the worde of the LORDE Whan Ochosias the kinge of Iuda sawe this he fled by the waie vnto y e garden house But Iehu folowed after him and commaunded to smyte him also vpon his charet in the goynge vp towarde Gur which lieth by Ieblaam and he fled vnto Megiddo and dyed there And his seruauntes caused him to be caried vnto Ierusalem and there they buryed him in his awne graue with his fathers in the cite of Dauid Ochosias reigned ouer Iuda in y e eleuenth yeare of IoraÌ„ y e sonne of Achab. And whan Iehu came to Iesrael and Iesabel herde therof she coloured hir face and decked hir heade and loked out at the wyndowe And whan Iehu came vnder the gate she sayde Prospered Symri well that slewe his lorde And he lifte vp his face to the wyndow and sayde Who is with me Then resorted there two or thre chamberlaynes vnto him He sayde Cast her downe headlinges And they cast her downe headlynges so that y e wall and the horses were sprenkled with hir bloude and she was troddeÌ„ vnder fete And whan he came in and had eaten and dronken he sayde Loke vpon yonder cursed woman burye her for she is a kynges â—oughter Neuertheles whan they wente in to burye her they founde nothinge of her but the szkull and the fete and the palmes of her handes And they came agayne and broughte him worde He saide This is euen it that the LORDE spake by his seruaunt Elias the Theszbite and sayde In the felde of Iesrael shal the dogges eate Iesabels flesh So the deed carcase of Iesabel became euen as donge in the felde of Iesrael so y t a man coulde not saye This is Iesabel The X. Chapter AChab had thre score and ten sonnes at Samaria And Iehu wrote a letter and sent it to Samaria vnto the rulers of the cite Iesrael euen vnto the Elders to Achabs tuters sayenge these wordes Whan this letter commeth vnto you w t whom are youre lordes sonnes charetes horses stronge cities ordynaunce loke which is the best and most righteous amonge youre lordes sonnes set him vpon his fathers seate and fighte for youre lordes house Neuertheles they were sore afrayed and sayde Beholde two kynges were not able to stonde before him how wyl we then endure And they that were ouer the house and ouer the cite and the Elders and tuters sent vnto Iehu sayeÌ„ge We are thy seruauntes we wyll do all that thou sayest vnto vs We wil make no man kynge do thou what pleaseth the. Then wrote he the seconde letter vnto them with these wordes Yf ye be myne and herken vnto my voyce then take the heades of the men youre lordes sonnes and brynge me them tomorow by this tyme vnto Iesrael The kynges sonnes were thre score men and ten and y e chefe men of the cite broughte theÌ„ vp Now whan this letter came they toke the kynges sonnes and slewe them euen thre score men and ten and layed their heades in baszkettes and sent them to him vnto Iesrael And whan the messaunger came tolde him and sayde They haue broughte the heades
y e LORDE but I hate him for he prophecieth me no good but allwaye euell namely Micheas the sonne of Iemla Iosaphat sayde Let not the kynge saye so And the kynge of Israel called one of his chamberlaynes sayde Brynge hither soone Micheas the sonne of Iemla And the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda sat either of them vpon his seate arayed in their garmentes Euen in the place at the dore of the porte of Samaria sat they and all y e prophetes prophecied before them And Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena had made him hornes of yron and sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE With these shalt thou puszshe at the Syrians tyll thou brynge them to naughte And all the prophetes prophecied likewyse sayde Go vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead and thou shalt prospere and y e LORDE shal delyuer it in to the kynges hande And the messaunger that wente to call Micheas spake vnto him and sayde Beholde y e wordes of the prophetes are with one acorde good before the kynge let thy worde I praye the be as one of theirs and speake thou good also But Micheas sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth loke what my God sayeth vnto me y t wyl I speake And whan he came to the kynge the kynge sayde vnto him Micheas shulde we go vnto Ramoth in Gilead to the battayll or shulde we let it alone He saide Go vp and ye shal prospere It shal be geuē you in youre handes But y e kynge sayde vnto him I charge y e yet agayne that thou tell me nothinge but y e trueth in the name of the LORDE Then saide he I sawe all Israel scatered abrode vpō the mountaynes as the shepe y t haue no shepherde And the LORDE sayde Haue these no lorde Let euery one turne home agayne in peace Thē sayde the kynge of Israel vnto Iosaphat Dyd not I tell the y t he wolde prophecie me no good but euell And he sayde Therfore heare ye the worde of the LORDE I sawe the LORDE syt vpon his seate and all the hoost of heauen stondinge at his righte hande at his lefte And the LORDE sayde Wo wyll disceaue Achab the kynge of Israel that he maye go vp fall at Ramoth in Gilead And whan one sayde thus another so there came forth a sprete and stode before y e LORDE and sayde I wyl disceaue him The LORDE sayde vnto him Wherwith He sayde I wyll go forth and be a false sprete in the mouth of all his prophetes And he sayde Thou shalt disceaue him and shalt be able go thy waye and do so Beholde now the LORDE hath geuen a false sprete in the mouth of all these thy prophetes and the LORDE hath spokē euell agaynst the. Then stepte forth Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena and smote Micheas vpon the cheke and sayde Which waye is the sprete of y e LORDE departed fro me to speake thorow the Micheas sayde Beholde thou shalt se it whan thou commest in to y e ynmost chamber to hyde the. But the kynge of Israel sayde Take Micheas and let him remayne w t Amon the ruler of the cite and with Ioas the sonne of Melech and saye Thus sayeth the kynge Put this man in preson and fede him w t bred and water of trouble tyll I come agayne in peace Micheas saide Yf thou commest agayne in peace then hath not the LORDE spoken thorow me And he sayde Herken to all ye people So the kynge of Israel and Iosaphat y e kynge of Iuda wente vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead And y e kynge of Israel sayde vnto Iosaphat Chaunge thy clothes and come to the battayll in thine araye And y e kynge of Israel chaunged his rayment came in to the battayll But the kynge of Syria had commaunded the rulers of his charettes Ye shal fighte nether agaynst small ner greate but onely agaynst the kynge of Israel Now whan the rulers of the charrettes sawe Iosaphat they thoughte It is y e kynge of Israel and they wēte aboute to fighte agaynst him But Iosaphat cryed and the LORDE helped him And God turned them from him for whan the rulers of the charettes sawe that it was not y e kynge of Israel they turned back from him But a certayne man bended his bowe harde shot the kynge of Israel betwene the mawe and the longes Thē sayde he vnto his charet man Turne thine hāde and cary me out of the hoost for I am wounded And the battayll was sore the same daye And the kynge of Israel stode vpon his charet agaynst the Syrians vntyll the euenynge and dyed whā the Sonne wente downe The XIX Chapter BVt Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda came home agayne in peace vnto Ierusalem And Iehu y e sonne of Hanani the Seer wēte forth to mete him sayde vnto kynge Iosaphat Shuldest thou so helpe the vngodly and loue them that hate the LORDE And for this cause is y e wrath vpō the from the LORDE neuertheles there is some good founde in the that thou hast put the groues out of the londe and hast prepared thine hert to seke God So Iosaphat abode at Ierusalem And he wente agayne amonge the people from Berseba vnto moūt Ephraim and broughte them agayne to the LORDE God of their fathers And he set Iudges thorow out the londe in all the stronge cities of Iuda and a certayne in euery cite And sayde vnto the Iudges Take hede what ye do for ye execute not the iudgment of man but of the LORDE and he is with you in iudgmēt therfore let the feare of the LORDE be with you and bewarre and do it for with the LORDE oure God there is no vnrighteousnes ner respecte of personnes ner acceptinge of giftes And at Ierusalem dyd Iosaphat ordeyne certayne of the Leuites and prestes and of the awnciēt fathers of Israel for y e iudgment of the LORDE and ouer the matter of the lawe and caused them to dwell at Ierusalem and commaunded them and sayde Se that ye do thus in the feare of the LORDE in faithfulnes in a perfect hert In all causes that come vnto you from youre brethren which dwell in their cities betwene bloude and bloude betwene lawe and commaundement betwene statutes and ordinaunces ye shal enforme them y t they synne not against the LORDE and so the wrath to come vpon you and youre brethren Do thus and ye shal not offende Beholde Amaria the prest is chefe ouer you in all causes of y e LORDE so is Sabadia the sonne of Ismael prynce in the house of Iuda in all the kynges matters Ye haue officers likewyse the Leuites before you Take a good corage vnto you and be doynge and the LORDE shal be with the good The XX. Chapter AFter this came the childrē of Moab the children of Ammon and certayne of Amanim w t them to fighte against Iosaphat And they came and tolde Iosaphat and sayde There cōmeth a greate multitude agaynst the
the LORDE as his father Amasias had done and soughte God as longe as Zacharias lyued which taughte in the visyons of God and as longe as he sought the LORDE God made him to prospere For he wente forth and foughte agaynst the Philistynes and brake downe y e walles of Gath and the walles of Iabne and the walles of Aszdod and buylded cities aboute Aszdod amonge the Philistynes For God helped him agaynst the Philistines against the Arabians agaynst them of Gur Baal agaynst the Meunites And y e Ammonites gaue Osias presentes his name came in to Egipte for he was exceadinge stronge And Osias buylded towres at Ierusalem vpon the cornerporte and on the valley gate and on other corners and made them stronge He buylded castels also in the wyldernesse and dygged many welles for he had many catell both in the medewes and in the playnes huszbandmen also and wynegardeners on the mountaynes and on Carmel for he delyted in huszbandaye And Osias had an hoost of men of warre goynge forth to the battaill which were noÌ„bred vnder the hande of Ieiel the scrybe of Maesa the offycer vnder the haÌ„de of Hanania of the kynges rulers And the nombre of the chefe fathers amonge the stronge meÌ„ of warre was two thousande and syxe hundreth And vnder the hande of the hoost thre hundreth thousande and seuen thousande and fyue hundreth mete for the battayll in the strength of an armye to helpe the kinge agaynst the enemies And Osias prepared for all the hoost shyldes speares helmettes brestplates bowes and slyngstones And at IerusaleÌ„ he made ordinaunce coÌ„ningly to be vpon the towres and in the pynnacles to shute arowes and greate stones And the fame of him came farre abrode because he was specially helped tyll he became mightie And whan his power was greate his hert arose to his awne destruccion for he trespaced agaynst the LORDE his God and wente in to the temple of the LORDE to burne incense vpon the altare of incense But Asarias the prest wente after him and foure score prestes with him valeaunt men and withstode kynge Osias and saide vnto him It belongeth not vnto thy offyce Osias to burne incense vnto the LORDE but vnto the prestes belongeth it euen vnto the children of Aaron which are halowed to burne incense Go forth out of the Sanctuary for thou offendest and it shall be no worshippe vnto the before God the LORDE And Osias was wroth and had a censoure in his hande And whyle he murmured with the prestes the leprosy spronge out of his foreheade in the presence of the prestes in the house of the LORDE before the altare of incense And Asarias the chefe prest turned his heade towarde him and so dyd all the prestes and beholde he was leper in his foreheade And they put him out from thence Yee he made haist himselfe to go forth for his plage came of the LORDE Thus became Osias y e kynge a leper vnto his death and dwelt full of leprosye in a fre house for he was put out of the house of the LORDE But Ioram his sonne had the ouersight of the kynges house and iudged the people in the lâ—nde What more there is to saie of Osias both first and last Esay the sonne of Amos hath wrytten it And Osias fell on slepe w t his fathers and they buryed him with his fathers in the pece of grounde beside y e kynges sepulcres for they sayde He is leporous And Iotham his sonne was kynge in his steade The XXVII Chapter IOtham was fyue and twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalem His mothers name was Ierusa the daughter of Sadoc he dyd righte in the sighte of the LORDE as did Osias his father sauynge y t he wente not in to the temple of the LORDE and the people yet marred them selues He buylded the hye porte of the house of y e LORDE and on the wall of Ophel buylded he moch and buylded the cities vpon the mountaynes of Iuda and in the woddes buylded he castels and towres And he fought with the kinge of the children of Ammon and ouer came them so that the childreÌ„ of Ammon gaue him y e same yeare an hundreth talentes of siluer ten thousande quarters of wheate and ten thousande of barlye So moch dyd the children of Ammon geue him also in y e seconde thirde yeare Thus became Iotham mightye for he gyded his wayes before the LORDE his God What more there is to saye of Iotham all his warres vnd his waies beholde it is wrytten in y e boke of the kinges of Israel Iuda Fyue and twentye yeare olde was he whan he was made kynge reigned sixtene yeare at IerusaleÌ„ And IothaÌ„ fell on slepe w t his fathers they buryed him in the cite of Dauid and Achas his sonne was kynge in his steade The XXVIII Chapter AChas was twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge and reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalem and dyd not that which was righte in the sighte of the LORDE as did Dauid his father but walked in the wayes of the kinges of Israel and made molten ymages vnto Baalim and brent incense in the valley of the children of Hennon and breÌ„t his awne sonnes in y e fire after the abhominacions of the Heithen whoÌ„ the LORDE expelled before the childreÌ„ of Israel And he dyd sacrifice and brent incense vpon the hye places and vpon the hilles and amoÌ„ge all grene trees Therfore dyd the LORDE his God delyuer him in to the hande of the kynge of Syria so that they smote him and caryed awaye a greate multitude of his men presoners and broughte them to Damascon He was geuen also vnder the hande of the kynge of Israel so y t he dyd a greate slaughter vpon him For Pecah the sonne of Romelia smote in Iuda an hundreth twentye thousande in one daye which all were valeaunt men eueÌ„ because they had forsaken y e LORDE God of their fathers And Sichri a mightie maÌ„ of Ephraim slewe Maeseia y e kinges sonne Asriâ—am the prynce of the house Elâ—ana the nexte vnto the kynge And the children of Israel caried of their brethren presoners two hundreth thousande wemen sonnes and doughters and toke a greate spoyle from them and broughte the spoyle vnto Samaria But eueÌ„ there was there a prophet of y e LORDE whose name was Obed which weÌ„te out to mete y e hoost that came to Samaria and sayde vnto them Beholde because the LORDE God of youre fathers is wroth at Iuda therfore hath he geuen them ouer in to youre handes but ye haue slayne them so abhominably that it is come vnto heaueÌ„ Now thinke ye to subdue the children of Iuda and Ierusalem to be bondmen and bond maydens vnto you Is not this a trespace then w t you agaynst the LORDE yo r God Herken now vnto me and sende y e presoners hence agayne whom
ye haue caried awaye from youre brethren for the wrath of y e LORDE is fearce ouer you Then gat vp certayne of the chefe of the children of Ephraim Asarias the sonne of Iohanan Barachias the sonne of Mesillemoth Ezechias the sonne of Sallum Amasa y e sonne of Hadlai agaynst them y t came from y e battayll sayde vnto them Ye shal not brynge the presoners in hither for youre mynde is but to make vs trespace before the LORDE to make oure synnes and offences the greater for the trespace is to moch allready the wrath is fearce ouer Israel So the hoost lefte the presoners the spoyle before y e rulers and before the whole coÌ„gregacion Then stode vp the men which now were rehearced by name and toke the presoners and as many as were naked amonge them clothed they with y e spoyles deckte them and put shues vpon their fete and gaue theÌ„ to eate and drynke and anoynted them and caried them vpon asses as many as were feble and broughte them to Iericho to y e Palme cite vnto their brethren and came agayne to Samaria At the same tyme sent kynge Achas vnto the kynges of Assur y t they shulde helpe him And the Edomites came agayne and smote Iuda and caried some awaye captyue The Philistynes also fell in to the cities in the playne towarde y e south parte of Iuda wanne Beth Semes Aâ—alon Gederoth and Socho with the vyllages therof Timna w t the vyllages therof Gimso with the vyllages therof and dwelt therin For y e LORDE subdued Iuda for Achas sake y e kynge of Iuda because he made Iuda naked and rebelled agaynst the LORDE And Teglatpilnesser the kynge of Assur came agaynst him and beseged him he was not mightie ynough for him For Achas spoyled the house of the LORDE and the kynges house and of the rulers to geue vnto y e kynge of Assur but it helped him not Morouer kinge Achas trespaced yet more against the LORDE euen in his trouble and dyd sacrifyce vnto the goddes of them of Damascon which had smitten him sayde The goddes of the kynges of Syria helpe them therfore wil I offre vnto them that they maye helpe me also where as the same yet were a fall vnto him and to all Israel And Achas gathered the vessels of y e house of God together and brake the vessels in y e house of God shut the dores of the house of y e LORDE and made him altares in all corners at Ierusalem and euery where in the cyties of Iuda made he hye places to burne incense vnto other goddes and prouoked y e LORDE God of his fathers vnto wrath What more there is to saye of him and of all his wayes both first and last beholde it is wrytten in the boke of the kynges of Iuda and Israel And Achas fell on slepe with his fathers and they buried him in y e cite of Ierusalem for they brought him not amonge the sepulcres of the kynges of Israel And Ezechias his sonne was kynge in his steade The XXIX Chapter EZechias was fyue twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge reigned nyne twentye yeares at Ierusalem His mothers name was Abia y e doughter of Zachary And he dyd that which was right in the sight of the LORDE as did his father Dauid He opened the dores of y e house of the LORDE in the first moneth of y e first yeare of his raigne made them stronge brought in the prestes and Leuites and gathered them together vnto the East streate and sayde vnto them Herken vnto me ye Leuites sanctifye youre selues now y t ye maye halowe the house of the LORDE God of yo r fathers and put fylthines out of the Sanctuary for oure fathers haue trespaced and done y t which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE oure God and haue forsaken him For they turned their faces from the habitacioÌ„ of y e LORDE oure God turned their backes on it and shut the dores of the Porche and put out the lampes and brent no incense offred no burntsacrifyces in the Sanctuary vnto the God of Israel Therfore is the wrath of the LORDE come ouer Iuda and Ierusalem and he hath geuen them ouer to be scatred abrode desolate and to be hyssed at as ye se with yo r eies· For beholde euen for the same cause fell oure fathers thorow the swerde oure sonnes doughters and wyues were caryed awaye captyue Now am I mynded to make a couenaunt with the LORDE God of Israel y t he maye turne awaie from vs his wrath indignacion Now my sonnes be not ye negligent for the LORDE hath chosen you to stoÌ„de before him and to be his mynisters and to burne incense vnto him Then rose the Leuites Mahath the sonne of Amasai and Ioel the sonne of Asaria of the children of the Rahathites Of the children of Merari Cis the sonne of Abdi Asaria the sonne of Iehaleleel Of the children of the Gersonites Ioah the sonne of Simma and Eden the sonne of Ioah And of the childreÌ„ of Elizaphan Simri Ieiel And of the childreÌ„ of Assaph Sachary and Mathania And of the chidren of Heman Iehiel and Simei And of the children of Iedithun Semaia and Vsiel And they gathered their brethren together and were sanctified and wente in acordinge to the kynges commaundement at the worde of the LORDE to clense the house of y e LORDE And the prestes entred within in the house of the LORDE to purifye and put out all the vnclennes that was founde in the teÌ„ple of the LORDE in the courte of the LORDES house and the prestes toke it vp and caryed it out in to the broke Cedron The fyrst daye of the fyrst moneth beganne they to sanctifye them selues and on the eight daye of the moneth wente they in to the porche of the LORDE and halowed the house of y e LORDE eight dayes and fynished it on the sixtenth daye of the fyrst moneth And they weÌ„te in to the kynge Ezechias and sayde We haue clensed all the house of the LORDE the altare of burnt offerynges and all his vessels the table of the shewbred and all the apparell therof and all the ornamentes that kynge Achas cast awaye whaÌ„ he was kynge what tyme as he transgressed those haue we prepared and halowed Beholde they are before the altare of the LORDE TheÌ„ the kynge Ezechias gat him vp early and gathered together the Elders of the cite and weÌ„te vp vnto the house of the LORDE and they broughte seuen bullockes seuen rammes seuen lambes and seuen he goates to be the syn offerynge for the Sanctuary for Iuda And he spake vnto the prestes the children of Aaron that they shulde offre vpon the altare of the LORDE So they slewe the bullockes and the prestes toke the bloude and sprenkled it vpon y e altare and slewe the rammes and sprenkled the bloude vpon
the altare and slewe the lābes and sprenkled the bloude vpon the altare And y e goates to y e syn offerynge brought they before the kynge and the congregaciō and layed their handes vpon them and the prestes slewe them and sprenkled their bloude vpon the altare to make attonemēt for all Israel for the kynge commaunded to offre burntsacrifyces and sin offeringes for all Israel And he set the Leuites in the house of the LORDE with Cymbales Psalteries and harpes as Dauid had commaunded and Gad the kynges Seer and the prophet Nathan for it was the commaundement of the LORDE by his prophetes And the Leuites stode with the musicall instrumentes of Dauid the prestes with the trompettes And Ezechias commaunded them to offre burntsacrifyces vpon the altare And aboute the tyme that the burntsacrifyce begāne to be offred the songe of the LORDE beganne also and y e trompettes and dyuerse instrumentes of Dauid the kynge of Israel and all the congregacion gaue praise thankes and the songe of the Musicians and y e blowynge of the trompetters endured all tyll the burnt offerynge was fynished Now whan the burnt offerynge was perfourmed the kynge and all they that were with him bowed them selues and gaue praise and thankes And Ezechias the kynge w t the rulers commaunded the Leuites to prayse the LORDE with the songes of Dauid and Assaph the Seer And they gaue prayse tyll they were ioyfull and they bowed them selues and worshipped And Ezechias answered and saide Now haue ye fylled youre hādes vnto the LORDE steppe forth and brynge hither y e sacrifyces and thank offerynges vnto the house of the LORDE And the congregacion broughte sacrifyces and thank offerynges and euery mā of a fre wyllinge hert brought burnt offerynges And the nombre of the burnt offerynges that the congregacion broughte was thre score bullockes and ten an hundreth rāmes and two hundreth lambes and all these for the burnt offerynge vnto the LORDE and they sanctifyed sixe hundreth bullockes and thre thousande shepe But the prestes were to fewe and coulde not pluck of the skynnes of all the burnt offerynges therfore toke they their brethren the Leuites tyll the worke was fyniszhed and tyll the prestes were halowed for the Leuites are easier to be halowed then the prestes and many of the burnt offerynges were with the fat of the thank offerynges and drynk offerynges to the burntsacrifices Thus was the ministracion of the house of the LORDE prepared And Ezechias reioysed with all the people that they were prepared with God for it was done righte haistely The XXX Chapter ANd Ezechias sent in to all Israel and Iuda and wrote letters vnto Ephraim and Manasses that they shulde come to the house of the LORDE at Ierusalem to kepe easter vnto the LORDE God of Israel And the kynge helde a councell with his rulers and all the cōgregacion at Ierusalem to kepe Passeouer in the seconde moneth for at that tyme they coulde not kepe it because the prestes were not sanctified ynough and the people were not yet come together vnto Ierusalem And it pleased the kynge well and all the cōgregacion And they appointed it to be proclamed thorow out all Israel from Berseba vnto Dan that they shulde come to kepe Passeouer vnto the LORDE God of Israel for they were not many to kepe it as it is wrytten And the postes wente with the letters from the hande of the kynge and of his rulers thorow out all Israell and Iuda at y e kynges commaundement and sayde Ye children of Israel turne you vnto the LORDE God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob and he shal turne to y e escaped which are lefte ouer amonge you from the hande of the kynge of Assur and be not ye as youre fathers and brethren which rebelled agaynst the LORDE God of their fathers and he gaue thē ouer in to desolacion as ye se youre selues Be not ye hardnecked now as were youre fathers but offre youre hāde vnto the LORDE and come to his sanctuary which he hath sanctified for euer and serue the LORDE youre God so shal the indignacion of his wrath turne awaye from you For yf ye turne vnto the LORDE then shal youre brethren and children haue mercy in the sighte of them which holde them in captiuyte that they maye come agayne in to this londe for the LORDE youre God is gracious and mercifull and shal not turne awaye his face from you yf ye conuerte vnto him And the postes wente from one cite to another in the londe of Ephraim and Manasses and vnto Zabulon But they mocked them and laughed them to scorne Yet were there some of Asser and Manasses and of Zabulon that submytted them selues and came to Ierusalem And the hande of God came in to Iuda so that he gaue thē one hert to do after the commaundement of the kynge and the rulers at the worde of the LORDE And there came together vnto Ierusalē a greate people to kepe the feast of vnleuended bred in the seconde moneth a very greate congregacion And they gat them vp and put downe y e altares that were at Ierusalem and all the incense put they awaye and cast it in to the broke Cedron and slewe the Passeouer on the fourtenth daye of the secōde moneth And y e prestes and Leuites were ashamed and halowed them selues and broughte the burnt offerynges to the house of the LORDE and stode in their ordinaunce as it was acordinge after the lawe off Moses the man of God And the prestes sprenkled the bloude from the hande of the Leuites for there were many in the cōgregacion which were not sanctified therfore dyd the Leuites kyll Passeouer for them which were not clensed that they mighte be sanctified vnto the LORDE There were many people also of Ephraim Manasses Isachar and Zabulon which were not cleane but ate the Easter lambe not as it is wrytten for Ezechias prayed for them and sayde The LORDE which is gracious shal be mercifull vnto all them that prepare their hertes vnto God to seke the LORDE God of their fathers though they be not clensed after the holy purificacion And the LORDE herde Ezechias and healed the people Thus the children of Israel that were founde at Ierusalē helde y e feast of vnleuended bred seuen dayes with greate ioye And the Leuites and prestes praysed the LORDE euery daye with the loude instrumentes of the LORDE And Ezechias spake hertely vnto all y e Leuites which had good vnderstondinge in the LORDE and they ate the feast seuen dayes and offred thāk offerynges and gaue thankes vnto y e LORDE God of their fathers And all the congregacion deuysed to kepe the feast yet other seuē dayes and so they helde it those seuen dayes also with ioye for Ezechias the kinge of Iuda gaue an Heue-offerynge for the cōgregacion euen a thousande bullockes and seuen thousande shepe But the rulers gaue an Heue offeringe for y e congregacion euen a thousande
goddes of the Heythen in the londes bene able to delyuer their countrees fro my hande What is he amonge all the goddes of these Heythen whom my father damned that was able to delyuer his people fro my hande y t youre God shulde be able to delyuer fro my hande Therfore let not Ezechias now disceaue you and let him not persuade you eny soch thinge and beleue him not For yf no god of all the Heythē and kyngdomes might delyuer his people fro my hande and from the hande of my progenitours then shal not youre goddes be able to delyuer you fro my hande His seruaūtes also spake yet more against the LORDE God and agaynst his seruaunt Ezechias And he wrote a letter to blaspheme the LORDE God of Israel and spake of him and sayde Like as the goddes of the Heythen in their londes haue not bene able to delyuer their people from my hande euen so shal not the God of Ezechias delyuer his people fro my hande And the cryed with loude voyce in the Iewish langage vnto the people of Ierusalem that were vpon the wall to make them fearfull and to be fayntharted that they might wynne the cite And they spake agaynst the God off Ierusalem euen as agaynst the goddes off the nacions vpon earth which were but the workes of mens hondes But contrary wyse the kynge Ezechias and the prophet Esay the sonne of Amos prayed and cryed vnto heauē And the LORDE sent an angell which destroyed all the mightie men of the hoost and the prynces and rulers in y e tentes of the kynge of Assur so that he departed agayne with shame in to his owne londe And whan he wente in to his gods house they y t came of his owne body slewe him there with the swerde Thus the LORDE helped Ezechias and them at Ierusalem out of the hāde of Sennacherib y e kynge of Assur and of all other and mayntayned thē frō all on euery syde so y t many broughte presentes vnto the LORDE to Ierusalem and Iewels vnto Ezechias the kynge of Iuda And afterwarde was he exalted in the sighte of all Heythen At y e same tyme was Ezechias deedsicke and he prayed vnto the LORDE which made him promes and gaue him a wondertoken But Ezechias recōpensed not acordinde as was geuen vnto him for his hert was lifted vp therfore came the wrath vpon him and vpon Iuda and Ierusalem Neuertheles Ezechias humbled him selfe because his hert had bene exalted with them at Ierusalem therfore came not the wrath of the LORDE vpon them whyle Ezechias lyued And Ezechias had very greate riches and worshippe and made him treasures of syluer golde precious stones spyces shyldes and all maner costly vessell and corne houses for the increace of corne wyne and oyle and stalles for all maner catell and foldes for the shepe and buylded him cities and had many catell of shepe and oxen for God gaue him very moch good It is the same Ezechias that couered the hye water condyte in Gihon and conveyed it vnder on the west syde of y e cite of Dauid for Ezechias prospered in all his workes But whan the interpreters the chefe of Babilon were sent vnto him to axe question at him concernynge the wondertokē that had happened in the londe God lefte him to be tempted that it mighte be knowne what soeuer was in his hert What more there is to saye of Ezechias and of his mercifulnes beholde it is wryttē in the vision of the prophet Esay the sonne of Amos and in the boke of the kynges of Iuda and Israel And Ezechias fell on slepe with his fathers and they buried him ouer the sepulcres of the children of Dauid and all Iuda and they of Ierusalē dyd him worshippe in his death and Manasses his sonne was kynge in his steade The XXXIII Chapter MAnasses was twolue yeare olde whā he was made kynge and reigned fyue and fiftye yeare at Ierusalem and dyd that which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE euen after the abominacions of the Heythen whom the LORDE expelled before the children of Israel and turned backe and buylded the hye places which his father Ezechies had broken downe and set vp altares vnto Baalim and made groues and worshipped all the hoost of heauen and serued them He buylded altares also in y e LORDES house wherof the LORDE had sayde At Ierusalem shal my name be for euer And vnto all the hoost of heauen buylded he altares in both the courtes of y e house of the LORDE And in the valley of the sonne of Hennon caused he his awne sonnes to go thorow the fyre and chosed dayes regarded byrdescryenge and witches and founded soythsayers and expounders of tokens and dyd moch that was euell in the sighte of the LORDE to prouoke him vnto wrath Carued ymages also and Idols which he caused to make set he vp in Gods house wherof the LORDE saide vnto Dauid and to Salomon his sonne In this house at Ierusalem which I haue chosen out of all the trybes of Israel wyl I set my name for euer and wyl nomore let the fote of Israel remoue frō the londe that I appoynted for their fathers so farre as they obserue to do all y t I haue commaunded them in all the lawe statutes and ordinaunces by Moses But Manasses disceaued Iuda and them of Ierusalē so that they dyd worse then the Heythen whom the LORDE destroyed before the children of Israel And the LORDE spake vnto Manasses and his people and they regarded it not Therfore dyd the LORDE cause the rulers of the hoost of the kynge of Assur to come vpō thē which toke Manasses presoner with bōdes and bounde him with cheynes broughte him vnto Babilon And whan he was in trouble he made intercession before the LORDE his God and humbled him selfe greatly before the God of his fathers and prayed and besoughte him Then herde he his prayer and broughte him agayne to Ierusalem to his kyngdome And Manasses knewe that the LORDE is God Afterwarde buylded he y e vttemost wall of the cite of Dauid on the west syde of Gihon by the broke and at the intraunce of the Fyshgate and rounde aboute Ophel and made it very hye And layed captaynes in y e strōge cities of Iuda put awaye y e straunge goddes Idols out of y e house of y e LORDE and all the altares which he had buylded vpō the mount of the house of the LORDE and in Ierusalem and cast them out of the cite and buylded the altare of the LORDE and offred slayn offerynges and thank-offerynges theron and commaunded Iuda that they shulde serue the LORDE God of Israel Neuertheles though the people offred vnto the LORDE their God yet offred they vpon the hye places What more there is to saye of Manasses and of his prayer to his God and the wordes of the Seers that spake vnto him in the name of the
commaundementes do them though ye were cast out vnto the vttemost parte of heauen yet wyl I gather you from thence and wyll brynge you from thence eueÌ„ vnto the place that I haue chosen for my name to dwell there They are thy seruauntes and thy people whom thou hast delyuered thorow thy greate power mightie hande O LORDE let thine eares marke the prayer of thy seruaunt the prayer of thy seruauntes whose desyre is to feare thy name let thy seruaunt prospere this daye graunte him mercy in the sight of this man for I was the kynges bâ—tâ—ar The II. Chapter IN the moneth Nisan of the twentieth yeare of kynge Artaxerses whaÌ„ the wyne stode before him I toke vp the wyne and gaue it vnto y e kynge and I was heuy in his presence Then sayde y e kynge vnto me Why lokest thou so sadly Thou art not sicke that is not y e matter but thou art heuy harted Neuertheles I was sore afrayed sayde vnto the kynge God saue the kynges life for euer shulde I not loke sadly the cite of my fathers buryall lyeth wayest the portes therof are consumed w t the fyre Then sayde the kynge vnto me What is theÌ„ thy request Then made I my prayer to the God of heaueÌ„ and sayde vnto the kynge yf it please the kynge and yf thy seruaunt be fauoured in thy sighte I beseke the sende me in to Iuda vnto y e cite of my fathers buryall that I maye buylde it And y e kynge sayde vnto me so dyd the quene y t sat by him How loÌ„ge shal thy iourney coÌ„tynue and whaÌ„ wilt thou come agayne And it pleased y e kynge to sende me and I set him a tyme sayde vnto the kynge Yf it please the kynge let him geue me letters to the Debites beyonde y e water y t they maye conueye me ouer tyll I come in to Iuda letters vnto Assaph the lorde of the kynges wod y t he maye geue me wodd for balkes to the gates of the palace which are harde on the house harde on the walles of the cite for the house that I shal entre in to And y e kynge gaue me acordinge to the good hande of God vpoÌ„ me And whan I came to y e Debites beyonde the water I gaue them y e kynges letters And the kynge sent captaynes and horsmen with me But whan Saneballath the Horonite Tobias the seruaunt of the Ammonites herde y t it greued them sore y t there was come a man which soughte the welth of the children of Israel And whan I came to Ierusalem had bene there thre daies I gat mâ— vp in y e night season a fewe men with me for I tolde no man what God had geueÌ„ mâ— in my hert to do at Ierusalem there was not one beest w t me saue it y t I rode vpon And I rode by nighte vnto the valley poâ—â— before the Dragon well to the Dongporte considered y e walles of Ierusalem that were broken downe the portes therof consumed w t the fyre And I wente ouer vnto y e Well porte to the kynges condyte there was no rowme for my beest y t it coulde go vnder me Then weÌ„te I on in the nighte by the broke syde coÌ„sidered y e wall turned back came home agayne to y e valley porte And y e rulers knewe not whither I weÌ„te or what I dyd for hither to had I not tolde the Iewes the prestes the councelers the rulers the other y t laboured in the worke I saide vnto theÌ„ Ye se the myserye y t we are in how IerusaleÌ„ lyeth wayst how y e gates therof are brent w t fyre come let vs buylde vp y e walles of IerusaleÌ„ y t we be nomore a rebuke And I tolde theÌ„ of the good haÌ„de of my God which was vpoÌ„ me And y e kynges wordes y t he had spokeÌ„ vnto me And they saide Then let vs get vp And we buylded and their handes were strengthed to good But whan Saneballat y e Horonite and Tobias the seruaunt of y e Ammonites Gosem the Arabian herde it they laughed vs to scorne and despised vs sayde What is this that ye do Wyll ye fall awaye agayne from the kynge Then answered I them and sayde The God of heauen shal cause vs to prospere for we his seruauntes are gotten vp are buyldinge As for you ye haue no porcioÌ„ ner right ner remembraunce in IerusaleÌ„ The III. Chapter ANd Eliasib the hye prest gat him vp with his brethren the prestes and buylded the Shepegate They halowed it and set vp the dores of it euen vnto the tower Mea halowed they it namely vnto the tower of Hananeel Nexte vnto him buylded y e men of Iericho And besyde him buylded Sachur the sonne of Imri But the Fyshporte dyd the children of Senaa buylde they couered it and set on the dores lockes and barres of it Nexte vnto him buylded Meremoth the sonne of Vria the sonne of Hacoz Nexte vnto him buylded Mesullam y e sonne of Barachias y e sonne of Mesesabeel Nexte vnto him buylded Sadoc y e sonne of Baena Nexte vnto him buylded they of Thecoa But their greate meÌ„ put not their neckes to y e seruyce of their lorde The Oldgate buylded Ioiada y e sonne of Passeah Mesullam the sonne of Besodia they couered it and set on the dores lockes barres of it Nexte vnto them buylded Melacia of Gibeon and Iadon of Morono meÌ„ of Gibeon and of Mispa for the seate of the Debyte on this syde the water Nexte vnto him buylded Vsiel the sonne of Harhaia the goldsmyth Nexte vnto him buylded Hanania y e Apotecarys sonne they repayred IerusaleÌ„ vnto the brode wall Nexte vnto him buylded Rephâ—ia the sonne of Hur the ruler of the halfe quarter of Ierusalem Nexte vnto him buylded Iedaia the sonne of Harumaph ouer agaynst his house Nexte vnto him buylded Hattus the sonne of Hasabenia But Malchia the sonne of Harim and Hasub the sonne of Pahath Moab buylded y e other pece and the tower beside the fornace Nexte vnto him buylded Sallum the sonne of Halohes the ruler of the halfe quarter of Ierusalem and his daughters The valley gate buylded Hanum and the citesins of Sanoah They buylded it and set on the dores lockes and barres therof and a thousande cubytes on the wall vnto the DoÌ„geporte But the Dongeporte buylded Malechia the sonne of Rechab the ruler of the fourth parte of the vynyardes He buylded it set on the dores lockes barres therof But the Wellgate builded Sallum y e sonne of Chal Hose the ruler of the fourth parte of Mispa He builded it couered it set on y e dores lockes barres therof the wall vnto the pole of Sybah by the kynges garden vnto the steppes that go downe from the cite of Dauid After
The darcknes shal once come to an ende he can seke out the grounde of all thinges the stones the darcke the horrible shadowe w t the ryuer of water parteth he a sunder the straunge people y t knoweth no good neghbourheade soch as are rude vnmanerly boysteous He bryngeth foode out of the earth y t which is vnder consumeth he with fyre There is founde a place whose stones are clene Saphirs and where y e clottes of the earth are golde There is a waye also that the byrdes knowe not that no vulturs eye hath sene wherin y e proude hye mynded walke not where no lyon commeth There putteth he his honde vpon the stony rockes ouerthroweth the mountaynes Ryuers flowe out of the rockes loke what is pleasaunt his eye seyth it Out of droppes bryngeth he greate floudes together the thinge that is hyd bryngeth he â—o light How commeth a man then by wyszdome Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is nether is she fouÌ„de in the loÌ„de of the lyuynge The depe sayeth she is not in me The see sayeth she is not with me She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye No wedges of golde of Ophir no precious Onix stones no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her No nether golde ner Christall nether swete odours ner golden plate There is nothinge so worthy or so excelleÌ„t as once to be named vnto her for parfecte wyszdome goeth farre beyonde theÌ„ all The Topas that coÌ„meth out of Inde maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be From wheÌ„ce then commeth wyszdome where is the place of vnderstondinge She is hyd from the eyes of all men yee froÌ„ the foules of the ayre Destruccion death saie we haue herde tell of her w t oure eares But God seyth hir waie knoweth hir place For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde and loketh vpon all that is vnder the heaueÌ„ When he weyed the wyndes measured y e waters when he set the rayne in ordre and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe Then dyd he se her theÌ„ declared he her prepared her and knewe her And vnto man he sayde Beholde to feare the LORDE is wyszdome to forsake euell is vnderstondinge The XXIX Chap. SO Iob proceaded and weÌ„te forth in his communicacion sayenge O y t I were as I was in the monethes by past in the dayes wheÌ„ God preserued me when his light shyned vpon my heade wheÌ„ I wente after the same light shyne eueÌ„ thorow the darcknesse As it stode w t me wheÌ„ I was welthy had ynough wheÌ„ God prospered my house when the allmightie was with me when my housholde folkes stode aboute me wheÌ„ my wayes ranne ouer w t butter when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate wheÌ„ they set me a chayre in y e strete wheÌ„ the yonge meÌ„ as soone as they sawe me hyd theÌ„ selues when the aged arose stode vp vnto me wheÌ„ the princes left of their talkinge laied their haÌ„de to their mouth wheÌ„ the mightie kepte still their voyce and wheÌ„ their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes When all they y t herde me called me happie when all they y t sawe me wysshed me good For I delyuered y e poore wheÌ„ he cried the fatherlesse y t wanted helpe He y t shulde haue bene lost gaue me a good worde y e widdowes hert praised me And why I put vpon me rightuousnes which couered me as a garmeÌ„t equite was my crowne I was an eye vnto the blynde a fote to the lame I was a father vnto the poore wheÌ„ I knew not their cause I sought it out diligeÌ„tly I brake the chaftes of y e vnrightuous plucte the spoyle out of their teth Therfore I thought verely y t I shulde haue dyed in my nest y t my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see For my rote was spred out by the waters syde the dew laye vpoÌ„ my corne My hono r encreased more more and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande Vnto me men gaue eare me they regarded w t sylence they taried for my couÌ„cell Yf I had spoken they wolde haue it none other wayes my wordes were so well taken amonge theÌ„ They wayted for me as the earth doth for the rayne gaped vpon me as the grouÌ„de doth to receaue the latter shower When I laughed they knew well it was not earnest this testimony of my couÌ„tenaunce pleased theÌ„ nothinge at all When I agreed vnto their waye I was the chefe sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse The XXX Chapter BVt now they that are my inferiours yonger then I haue me in derision yee eueÌ„ they whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set w t the dogges of my catell The power streÌ„gth of their haÌ„des might do me no good as for their age it is speÌ„t past awaye without eny profit For very misery honger they wente aboute in the wildernesse like wretches beggers pluckynge vp herbes from amonge the buszshes the Iumpers rote was their meate And when they were dryuen forth men cried after them as it had bene after a thefe Their dwellinge was beside foule brokes yee in the caues dennes of the earth VpoÌ„ the drye heeth weÌ„te they aboute crienge in the brome hilles they gathered them together They were the children of fooles vylanes which are deed awaye froÌ„ the worlde Now am I their songe am become their iestinge stocke they abhorre me they fle farre fro me stayne my face w t spetle For y e LORDE hath opened his quyuer he hath hytt me put a brydle in my mouth Vpon my right haÌ„de they rose together agaynst me they haue hurte my fete made awaye to destroye me my path haue they clene marred It was so easy for them to do me harme that they neded no man to helpe theÌ„ They fell vpon me as it had bene y e breakynge in of waters came in by heapes to destroye me Fearfulnesse is turned agaynst me Myne honoure vanâ—sheth awaye more swiftly then wynde my prosperite departeth heÌ„ce like as it were a cloude Therfore is my mynde poured full of heuynesse y e dayes of trouble haue takeÌ„ holde vpon me My bones are pearsed thorow in y e night season my synewes take no rest With all their power haue they chaunged my garmeÌ„t gyrded me therwith as it were w t a coate I am eueÌ„ as it were claye am become like aszshes dust WheÌ„ I crie vnto the thou
prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble agaynst the tyme of batell warre By what waye is the light parted the heate dealt out vpon earth Who deuydeth the abundauÌ„ce of waters in to ryuers or who maketh a waye for the stormy wether y t it watereth moystureth y e drye baren grounde to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth in the wildernes where no maÌ„ remayneth Who is the father of rayne Or who hath begotten the droppes of dew Out of whose woÌ„be came the yse who hath gendred the coldnes of y e ayre y t the waters are as harde as stones lye congeeled aboue the depe Hast thou brought y e vij starres together Or art thou able to breake the Circle of heaueÌ„ CaÌ„st thou bringe forth the mornynge starre or the euenynge starre at coÌ„uenient tyme coÌ„ueye theÌ„ home agayne Knowest thou the course off heaueÌ„ y t thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpoÌ„ earth Morouer caÌ„st thou lift vp thy voyce to y e cloudes y t they maye poure downe a greate rayne vpoÌ„ the Canst thou thoÌ„dre also y t they maye go their waye be obedieÌ„t vnto the sayeÌ„ge lo here are we Who geueth sure wisdome or stedfast vnderstoÌ„dinge who nombreth the cloudes in wisdome who stilleth y e vehement waters of the heaueÌ„ who turneth the clottes to dust theÌ„ to be clottes agayne Huntest thou the praye froÌ„ the Lyon or fedest thou his whelpes lyeÌ„ge in their deÌ„nes lurkinge in their couches who prouydeth meate for the rauen wheÌ„ his yonge ones crie vnto God aÌ„d fle aboute for want of meate Chap. XXXIX KNowest thou the tyme when the wilde gotes briÌ„ge forth their yoÌ„ge amoÌ„ge the stony rockes Or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to fawne Rekenest thou the moneth as after they ingendre y t thou knowest the tyme of their bearinge Or when they lye downe when they cast their yonge ones when they are delyuered off their trauayle payne How their yoÌ„ge ones growe vp waxe greate thorow good fedinge who letteth the wilde asse go fre or who lowseth the boÌ„des of the Moole Vnto whoÌ„ I haue geuen the wyldernes to be their house the vntilled londe to be their dwellinge place That they maye geue no force for the multitude off people in the cities nether to regarde the crienge of the dryuer but to seke their pasture aboute the mouÌ„taynes to folowe vpon the grene grasse Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as to do y e seruyce or to abyde still by thy criâ—be CaÌ„st thou bynde y e yock aboute him in thy forowes to make him plowe after the in y e valleis Mayest thou trust hiÌ„ because he is stroÌ„ge or coÌ„mitte thy labo r vnto hiÌ„ Mayest thou beleue hiÌ„ y t he wil briÌ„ge home y e corne or to cary eny thinge vnto y e barne The Estrich whose fethers are fayrer theÌ„ y e wynges of the sparow hauke wheÌ„ he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde he bredeth them in the dust and forgetteth them so that they might be troden with fete or broken with somme wilde beast So harde is he vnto his yong ones as though they were not his and laboureth in vayne without eny feare And that because God hath taken wisdome from him hath not geuen him vnderstondinge When his tyme is he flyeth vp an hye and careth nether for horse ner man Hast thou geuen the horse is strength or lerned him to bowe downe his neck with feare that he letteth him self be dryuen forth like a greshopper where as the stoute neyenge that he maketh is fearfull he breaketh y e grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength and runneth to mete the harnest men He layeth asyde all feare his stomack is not abated nether starteth he a back for eny swerde Though the quyuers rattle vpon him though the speare and shilde glistre yet russheth he in fearsly and beateth vpon the grounde He feareth not the noyse of the trompettes but as soone as he heareth the shawmes blowe tush sayeth he for he smelleth the batell afarre of y e noyse the captaynes and the shoutinge Commeth it thorow thy wysdome that the goshauke flyeth towarde the south Doth the Aegle mounte vp make his nest on hye at thy commaundement He abydeth in the stony rockes aÌ„d vpon the hye toppes of harde mountaynes where no man can come From thence maye he beholde his praye and loke farre aboute with his eyes His yonge ones are fed with bloude and where eny deed body lyeth there is he immediatly Morouer God spake vnto Iob and sayde Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie be at rest Shulde not he which disputeth with God geue him an answere Iob answered the LORDE sayenge Beholde I am to vyle a personne to answere the therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth Once or twyse haue I spoken but I will saye nomore The XL. Chapter THen spake the LORDE vnto Iob out of the storme and sayde gyrde vp y e loynes like a man and tell me the thiÌ„ge that I will axe the. Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment Or wilt thou condemne me y t thou thy self mayest be made rightuous Is thine arme then like the arme of God Maketh thy voyce soch a souÌ„de as his doth Then arme thy self with thine owne power vp decke the in thy ioly araye poure out the indignacion of thy wrath se that thou cast downe all y e proude loke well that thou makest all soch as be stubburne to obeye treade all the vngodly vnder thy fete cast theÌ„ downe in to the myre and couer their faces with darcknesse Then will I confesse also that thyne owne right honde hath saued the. Beholde the cruell beaste whom I made w t the which eateth haye as an oxe lo how stronge he is in his loynes and what power he hath in the nauell of his body He spredeth out his tale like a Cedre tre all his vaynes are stiff His shynnes are like pipes off brasse his rygge bones are like staues of yroÌ„ First when God made him he ordened the wyldernesse for him y t the mountaynes shulde geue him grasse where all the beastes off the felde take their pastyme He lyeth amoÌ„ge the redes in the Mosses the fennes hyde him with their shadowe and the wylowes of the broke couer him rounde aboute Lo without eny laboure might he drynke out the whole floude and suppe off Iordane without eny trauayle Who darre laye honde vpon him openly and vndertake to catch him Or who darre put an hoke thorow his nose aÌ„d laye a snare for him Darrest thou drawe out Leuiathan with an angle or bynde his tonge with a snare Canst thou put a rynge in the nose of him or bore his chaftes thorow with a naule Wyll he make many fayre wordes with the thynkest thou or flatre the Wyll he make a couenaunt with the Or art thou able
for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce Wilt thou take thy pastyne w t him as with a byrde or geue him vnto thy maydens that thy companyons maye hew him in peces to be parted amonge the marchaunt men Canst thou fyll the nett w t his skynne or y e fysh paÌ„nyer with his heade Darrest thou laye honde vpon him It is better for the to considre what harme might happeÌ„ the there thorow and not to touch him For when thou thynkest to haue holde vpon him he shall begyle the Euery man also that seyth him shall go backe And why there darre none be so bolde as to rayse him vp The XLI Chapter WHo is able to stonde before me Or who hath geuen me eny thynge afore hande that I am bounde to rewarde him agayne All thinges vnder heauen are myne I feare him not whether he threaten or speake fayre Who lifteth him vp and stripeth him out of his clothes or who taketh him by the bytt of his brydle Who openeth the dore of his face for he hath horrible tethe rounde aboute His body is couered with scales as it were with shyldes lockte in kepte and well coÌ„pacte together One is so ioyned to another that no ayre can come in Yee one hangeth so vpon another and sticke so together that they can not be sundered His nesinge is like a glisteringe fyre and his eyes like the mornynge shyne Out of his mouth go torches and fyre brandes out off his nostrels there goeth a smoke like as out â—ff an hote seetinge pott His breth maketh the coales burne the flame goeth out of his mouth In his necke remayneth strength and before his face sorowe is turned to gladnesse The membres of his body are ioyned so strayte one to another and cleue so fast together that he can not be moued His hert is as harde as a stone aÌ„d as fast as the styth ye that the hammer man smyteth vpon When he goeth the mightiest off all are afrayed and the wawes heuy Yff he drawe out the swearde there maye nether speare ner brest plate abyde him He setteth as moch by a strawe as by yroÌ„ and as moch by a rotten stocke as by metall He starteth â—ot awaye for him that bendeth the bowe â—s for slynge stones he careth as moch for stubble as for them He counteth the hammer no better then a strawe he laugheth him to scorne that shaketh the speare He treadeth the golde in the myre like y e sharpe potsherdes He maketh the depe to seeth and boyle like a pott and stereth the see together like an oyntment The waye is light after him the depe is his walkynge place Vpon earth is there no power like vnto his for he is so made that he feareth not Yff a man will coÌ„sidre all hye thinges this same is a kynge ouer all the children off pryde The XLII Chapter THeÌ„ Iob answered the LORDE and sayde I knowe that thou hast power of all thinges and that there is no thought hyd vnto the. For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete but it shall be knowne Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely seynge these thinges are so hye and passe myne vnderstondinge O herken thou vnto me also and let me speake answere me vnto the thinge that I will axe the. I haue geuen diligent eare vnto the and now I se y e with myne eyes Wherfore I geue myne owne self y e blame and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes Now wheÌ„ the LORDE had spoken these wordes vnto Iob he sayde vnto Eliphas y e Themanite I am displeased with the thy two frendes for ye haue not spoken the thinge y t is right before me like as my seruaâ—â—â— Iob hath done Therfore take vij oxen 〈…〉 seuen rammes and go to my seruaunt 〈…〉 offre vp also for youre selues a brent offeâ—â—â—â—â—ge and lat my seruaunt Iob praye for 〈…〉 Him will I accepte and not deale with 〈…〉 after youre foolishnesse in that ye hau◠〈…〉 spokeÌ„ y e thinge which is right like as my 〈…〉 Iob hath done So Eliphas the Themanite Bald 〈…〉 Suhite and Sophar the Naamathite 〈…〉 their waye and did acordynge as the 〈…〉 commaunded them The LORDE also 〈…〉 the personne off Iob and the LORâ—◠〈…〉 turned him vnto Iob wheÌ„ he prayed for 〈…〉 frendes Yee the LORDE gaue Iob twyse 〈◊〉 moch as he had afore And theÌ„ came there vnto him all his 〈…〉 thren all his sisters with all them that 〈…〉 bene off his acquaÌ„tauÌ„ce afore and ate 〈…〉 with him in his house wondringe at him aÌ„d 〈◊〉 comfortinge him ouer all the trouble 〈…〉 the LORDE had brought vpon him 〈…〉 maÌ„ gaue him a shepe and a Iewell of 〈…〉 And the LORDE made Iob richer the◠〈…〉 was before for he had xiiij M. shepe vi 〈…〉 camels a M. yock oxeÌ„ and a M. asses 〈…〉 had children also vij sonnes and iij. doughâ—ters The first he called Daye the seconde 〈◊〉 pouerte the thirde All plenteousnes In the londe were none founde so fayre as 〈…〉 doughters of Iob their father gaue 〈…〉 enheritaunce amonge their brethren After this lyued Iob xl yeares so that he sawe his children his childers children vnto the fourth generacion And so he dyed beinge olde of a perfecte age The ende of the boke of Io◠〈◊〉 The Psalter The first psalme O Blessed is y e man y t goeth 〈…〉 in the councell of y e vngodâ—◠〈…〉 y t abydeth not in the waye 〈…〉 synners sytteth not in y e 〈…〉 of the scornefull But 〈…〉 lyteth in the lawe of y e LORDE exercyse 〈◊〉 himself in his lawe both â—aye and night 〈…〉 Soch a maÌ„ is like a tre plated 〈◊〉 y e water sydâ—de y t briÌ„geth forth his frute in due season His leeues shal not fall off aÌ„d loke what 〈◊〉 he doth it shal prospere As for the 〈◊〉 it is not so with them but they are 〈◊〉 dust which y e wynde scatereth 〈…〉 of the grounde Therfore the vngod 〈◊〉 all not be able to stonde in the iudgmeÌ„t 〈◊〉 the synners in the congregacion off â—ightuous For the LORDE aloweth y e 〈◊〉 of the rightuous but the waye of the 〈◊〉 shal perishe The II. A psalme of Dauid THy do the HeitheÌ„ grudge why do the people ymagyn vayne thinges The kynges of the earth stoÌ„de vp 〈◊〉 rulers are come together agaynst 〈◊〉 LORDE aÌ„d agaynst his anoynted Let 〈◊〉 breake their bondes a sunder and cast 〈…〉 their yocke from vs. Neuerthelesse 〈◊〉 that dwelleth in heauen shall laugh theÌ„ 〈◊〉 scorne yee euen the LORDE himselff shall haue them in derision Then shal he 〈…〉 vnto them in his wrath and vexe them in 〈…〉 dispeasure Yet haue I set my 〈◊〉 vpon my holy hill of Sion As for me 〈…〉 preach the lawe wherof the LORDE 〈…〉 sayde vnto me Thou art my sonne 〈◊〉 daye haue I begotten the. Desyre off 〈◊〉 and I shall geue the the Heithen for 〈◊〉 enheritaunce Yee the
prayse For thou hast delyuered my soule froÌ„ death my fete froÌ„ fallinge y t I maye walke before God in y e light of y e lyuynge The LVI A psalme of Dauid BE mercifull vnto me o God be mercifull vnto me for my soule trusteth in y e â–ª vnder the shadowe of thy wynges shal be my refuge vntill wickednesse be euer past I call vnto God y e most hyest eueÌ„ y e God y t shal helpe me vp agayne â—e shal sende froÌ„ heauen saue me froÌ„ the reprofe of him that wolde swalowe me vp Sela. This shal God sende for his mercy and faithfulnesse sake I lye with my soule amonge the cruell lyons euen amonge the children of men whose tethe are speares and arowes and their tonge a sharpe swerde Set vp thy self o God aboue the heaueÌ„s and thy glory aboue all the earth They haue layed a nett for my fete pressed downe my soule they haue dygged a pyt before me and are fallen in to it them selues Sela. My hert is ready o God my hert is ready to synge and geue prayse Awake o my glory awake lute and harpe I my self wil awake right early I wil geue thaÌ„kes vnto the o LORDE amonge the people I wil synge prayses vnto the amonge the HeitheÌ„ For y e greatnes of thy mercy reacheth â—â—to the heauens and thy faithfulnesse vnto 〈◊〉 cloudes Set vp thy self o God 〈…〉 heaueÌ„s thy glory aboue all y e earth The LVII A psalme of Dauid â—F youre myndes be vpon rightuousâ—esse in dede then iudge the thinge that is right o ye sonnes of men But ye ymagin myschefe in youre hertes and youre hondes deale with wickednesse The vngodly are frowarde eueÌ„ from their mothers wombe as soone as they be borne they go astraie speake lyes They are as furious as the serpent euen like the deaf Adder that stoppeth hir eares That she shulde not heare the voyce of the charmer charme he neuer so wysely Breake their teth o God in their mouthes smyte the chaft bones of the lyons whelpes in sonder o LORDE That they maye fall awaye like water y e runneth a pace and that when they shote their arowes they maye be brokeÌ„ Let theÌ„ coÌ„sume awaye like a snale like the vntymely frute of a woman and let them not se the Sonne Or euer youre thornes be sharpe the wrath shal take them awaye quycke like a stormy wynde The rightuous shal reioyse when he seyth the vengeaunce and shal wash his fete in the bloude of the vngodly So that meâ— shal saye verely there is a rewarde for y e rightuous doutles there is a God that iudgeth the earth The LVIII A psalme of Dauid DElyuer me fro myne enemies o my God defende me froÌ„ theÌ„ y t ryse vp agaynst me O delyuer me froÌ„ the wicked doers saue me froÌ„ the bloudthurstie meÌ„ For lo they lye waytinge for my soule y e mightie meÌ„ are gathered together against me w t out eny offence or faute of me o LORDE They ruÌ„ne prepare theÌ„ selues w t out my faute Arise come thou helpe me beholde StoÌ„de vp o LORDE God of hoostes thou God of Israel to vyset all Heithen be not mercifull vnto theÌ„ y t offende of malicious wickednesse Sela. Let theÌ„ go to fro runne aboute the cite youlinge like dogges Beholde they speake agaynst me w t their mouth swerdes are vnder their lippes for who reproueth theÌ„ But thou o LORDE shalt haue them in derision thou shalt laugh all HeitheÌ„ to scorne My streÌ„gth do I ascrybe vnto the for thou o God art my defender God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously God letteth me se my desyre vpoÌ„ myne enemies SlayetheÌ„ not lest my people forget it but scatre theÌ„ abrode with thy power put theÌ„ downe o LORDE oure defence For y e synne of their mouth for the wordes of their lippes because of their pryde let theÌ„ be taken why their preachinge is of cursynge lyes CoÌ„sume them in y i wrath coÌ„sume theÌ„ y t they maye perish knowe y t it is God which ruleth in Iacob and in all the worlde Sela. Let theÌ„ go to fro ruÌ„ne aboute the cite youlinge like dogges Let theÌ„ runne here there for meate and grudge when they haue not ynough As for me I wil synge of thy power aÌ„d prayse thy mercy betymes in the mornynge for thou art my defence and refuge in the tyme of my trouble Vnto the o my strength wil I synge for thou o God art my defence and my merciful God The LIX A psalme of Dauid O God thou y t hast cast vs out and scatred vs abrode thou y t hast bene so sore displeased at vs coÌ„forte vs agayne Thou y t hast remoued the loÌ„de deuyded it heale the sores therof for it shaketh Thou hast shewed thy people heuy thinges thou hast geuen vs a drynke off wyne y t we sloÌ„bre withall Yet hast thou geueÌ„ a tokeÌ„ for soch as feare the y t they maye cast it vp in y e treuth Sela. That thy beloued might be delyuered helpe them with thy right hande and heare me God hath spokeÌ„ in his SaÌ„ctuary which thinge reioyseth me I wil deuyde SicheÌ„ mete out the valley 〈◊〉 Suchoth Galaad is myne Manasses is myne Ephraim is the strength of my heade Iuda is my captayne Moab is my washpotte ouer Edom wil I stretch out my shue Philistea shal be glad of me Who will lede me in to the stronge cite Who will bringe me in to Edom Shalt not thou do it o God thou y t hast cast vs out thou God y t wentest not out w t o r hoostes O be thou oure helpe in trouble for vayne is the helpe of man Thorow God we shal do greate actes for it is he that shal treade downe oure enemies The LX. A psalme of Dauid HEare my crienge o God geue hede vnto my prayer From the endes of y e earth wil I call vnto the wheÌ„ my herte is in trouble Oh set me vp vpoÌ„ an hye rocke For thou art my hope a stronge tower for me agaynst the enemie I will dwell in thy tabernacle for euer that I maye be safe vnder the couerynge of thy wynges Sela. For thou o LORDE hast herde my desyres thou hast geuen an heretage vnto those that feare thy name Thou shalt graunte the kynge a loÌ„ge life that his yeares maye endure thorow out all generacions That he maye dwell before God for euer Oh let thy louynge mercy faithfulnes preserue him So wil I allwaye synge prayses vnto thy name y t I maye daylie perfourme my vowes The LXI A psalme of Dauid MY soule wayteth only vpon God for of him commeth my helpe He only is my streÌ„gth my saluacion my defence so y t I shal not greatly fall How longe wil ye ymagin myschefe agaynst euery man ye shal be slayne all y e sorte of you
litle hilles like yonge shepe What ayled the o thou see that thou fleddest and thou Iordan that thou turnedest backe Ye mountaynes that ye stripped like rammes and ye litle hilles like yonge shepe The earth trembled at the presence of the LORDE at the presence of the God of Iacob Which turned the harde rocke in to a stondinge water the flynt stone in to a sprynginge well Here the Hebrues begynne the CXV psalme Not vnto vs o LORDE not vnto vs but vnto thy name geue the prayse for thy louinge mercy and faithfulnes Wherfore shal the Heithen saye where is now their God As for oure God he is in heauen he doth what soeuer it pleaseth him Their ymages are but syluer and golde euen the worke of mens hoÌ„des They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they but they se not They haue eares and heare not noses haue they but they smell not They haue handes and handle not fete haue they but they can not go nether can they speake thorow their throte They that made them are like vnto them and so are all soch as put their trust in them But let Israel trust in y e LORDE for he is their sucoure defence Let the house of Aaron put their trust in y e LORDE for he is their sucoure defence They that feare the LORDE let theÌ„ put their trust in the LORDE for he is their sucoure and defence The LORDE is myndefull of vs blesseth vs he blesseth y e house of Israel he blesseth y e house of Aaron Yee he blesseth all them that feare the LORDE both small greate The LORDE encrease you more more you and youre childreÌ„ For ye are y e blessed of the LORDE which made heauen earth All the whole heauens are the LORDES but the earth hath he geueÌ„ vnto y e childreÌ„ of men The deed prayse not the o LORDE nether all they that go downe in to sylence But we will prayse the LORDE from this tyme forth for euermore Halleluya The CXIIII psalme I Am wel pleased y t the LORDE 〈…〉 herde y e voyce of my prayer 〈…〉 he hath enclyned his eare 〈…〉 therfore wil I call vpoÌ„ him as long 〈…〉 The snares of death coÌ„pas◠〈…〉 aboute the paynes of hell gat◠〈…〉 me I founde trouble and heuy 〈…〉 called I vpon y e name of the LORDE o LORDE delyuer my soule Gracious is y e LORDE rightuous yee oure God is mercifull The LORDE preserueth y e symple I was brought downe and he helped me Turne agayne then vnto thy rest o my soule for the LORDE hath geuen the thy desyre And why thou hast delyuered my soule from death myne eyes from teares and my fete from fallinge I wil walke before y e LORDE in the londe of the lyuynge The CXV psalme This psalme do the Hebrues ioyne vnto it that goeth before and it is with them the CXVI â–ª psalme I Beleued and therfore haue I spokeÌ„ but I was sore troubled I sayde in my haist All men are lyers What rewarde shal I geue vnto y e LORDE for all the benefites y t he hath done vnto me I wil receaue the cuppe of saluacioÌ„ and call vpon the name of the LORDE I wil paye my vowes in the presence of all his people right deare in the sight of y e LORDE is the death of his sayntes O LORDE I am thy seruaunt I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handmayden thou hast broken my bondes in sonder I wil offre the the sacrifice of thankes geuynge and wil call vpon the name of the LORDE I wil paye my vowes vnto the LORDE in the sight of all his people in the courtes of the LORDES house eueÌ„ in the myddest of the o Ierusalem Halleluya The CXVI psalme O Prayse the LORDE all ye Gentiles laude him all ye people For his mercifull kyndnes is euer more and more towarde vs the trueth of the LORDE endureth for euer Halleluya The CXVII psalme O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Let Israel now confesse y t his mercy endureth for euer Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer Yee let theÌ„ now that feare the LORDE confesse that his mercy endureth for euer I called vpon the LORDE in trouble and the LORDE herde me 〈◊〉 large The LORDE is my helper I wil 〈…〉 what man doeth vnto me The 〈…〉 is my helper I shal se my desyre 〈…〉 enemies It is better to trust 〈…〉 then to put eny confidence in 〈…〉 is better to trust in the LORDE 〈…〉 confideÌ„ce in prynces All Heithen compased me rounde aboute but in the name of the LORDE wil I destroye theÌ„ They kepte me in on euery syde but in the name of the LORDE I wil destroye them They came aboute me like bees were as hote as the fyre in the thornes but in the name of the LORDE I wil destroye them They thrust at me that I might fall but the LORDE was my helpe The LORDE is my streÌ„gth my songe is become my saluacion The voyce of ioye myrth is in the dwellynges of y e rightuous for y e right hande of the LORDE hath gotteÌ„ the victory The right hande of the LORDE hath the preemynence the right haÌ„de of the LORDE hath gotteÌ„ the victory I wil not dye but lyue and declare the workes of the LORDE The LORDE hath chastened correcte me but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death Open me the gates of rightuousnes â–ª y t I maye go in there thorow geue thaÌ„kes vnto the LORDE This is the dore of the LORDE the rightuous shall entre in thorow 〈◊〉 I thanke the y t thou hast herde me are become my saluacioÌ„ The same stone which the buylders refused is become the headestone in the corner This was the LORDES doinge it is maruelous in o r eyes This is the daye which the LORDE hath made â–ª let vs reioyse and be glad in it Helpe now o LORDE o LORDE sende vs now prosperite Blessed be he that coÌ„meth in the name of the LORDE we wish you good lucke ye that be of the house of the LORDE God is the LORDE hath shewed vs light O 〈◊〉 the solempne feast with grene braunches 〈◊〉 vnto the hornes of y e aulter Thou art 〈◊〉 God I wil thanke the thou art my 〈◊〉 and I wil prayse the. O geue thankes 〈◊〉 to the LORDE for he is gracious his mâ—â—â—cy endureth for euer The CXVIII psalme Aleph BLessed are those y t be vndefiled in thâ— waye which walke in the lawe of 〈◊〉 LORDE Blessed are they that kepe his tâ—â—â—timonies seke him with their whole hertâ— â–ª Which walke in his wayes do no wiâ—kednesse Thou hast geuen strayte chaâ—â—â— to kepe thy commaundementes O thâ—â— my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statâ—â—tes So shulde I not be confounded
praysed be the Lord whych hath not geuen vs ouer for a praye vnto their teeth Oure soule is escaped eueÌ„ as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler the snare is broken and we are delyuered Oure helpe standeth in the name of the Lorde which hath made heauen and earth ¶ The .cxxv. Psalme ¶ The churche or congregacyon is in safetye when the Lorde defendeth it and shal be prosperous when he fauoreth it and purgeth the wycked theroute The songe of the steares THey that put their trust in the Lorde are euen as the mount Syon which may not be remoued but standeth fast for euer The hylles stande about Ierusalem eueÌ„ so standeth the Lorde rounde about his people from this tyme forth for euermore That the rodd of the vngodly come not into the lot of the ryghtuous lest y e ryghtuous put their hande vnto wyckednesse Do well O Lorde vnto those y t be good and true of herte As for soche as turne backe vnto their awne wyckednesse the Lorde shall leade theÌ„ forth with the euyll doers but peace be vpoÌ„ Israel ¶ The .cxxvj. Psalme ¶ He descrybeth the gladnes of the people returning agayne from Babylon vnder the fygure herof the reioysynge of the Christen whom the sonne of God hath made fre from the captiuyte of synne and deeth The songe of the steares VVhen the Lorde turneth agayne the captyuyte of Sion then shall we be lyke vnto them that dreame Then shall oure mouth be fylled wyth laughter and oure tonge with ioye Then shall it be sayd amonge the HeatheÌ„ the Lorde hath done greate thinges for theÌ„ Yee the Lorde hath done greate thynges for vs all ready wherof we reioyse Turne oure captyuyte O Lorde as the ryuers in the south They y t sowe in teares shall reape in ioye He that now goeth in his waye wepynge beareth forth good sede shal come agayne with ioye bringe his sheaues with hym ¶ The .cxxvij. Psalme ¶ By the only liberalyte gyft of God is the house and housholde geuen the cytye defended â— meate mynystred chyldren those toward and thryftye obtayned The songe of the steares EXcept the Lorde buylde the house their labour is but lost that buylde it Except the Lorde kepe the cytye the watchman waketh but in vayne It is but lost labour that ye rise vp early and take no rest but eate the bredde of carefulnesse for loke to whom it pleaseth him he geueth it in slepe Lo chyldren and the frute of the wombe are an herytage gift y t coÌ„meth of y e Lorde Lyke as the arowes in the hande of the gyaunt euen so are the yonge children Happy is the man that hath his quyuer full of them they shal not be ashamed when they speake with their enemyes in the gate ¶ The .cxxviij. Psalme ¶ He that feareth God shall do well and fortunately at all ceasons The songe of the steares BLessed are all they that feare y e Lorde and walke in hys wayes For thou shalt eate the laboures of thyne awne handes O well is the happy art thou Thy wyfe shal be as y e frutefull vyne vpoÌ„ the walles of thy house Thy chyldren lyke the Olyue braunches rounde aboute thy table Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lorde The Lorde shall so blesse the out of SioÌ„ that thou shalt se Ierusalem in prosperyte all thy lyfe longe Yee that thou shalt se thy chylders chyldren and peace vpon Israel ¶ The .cxxix Psalme ¶ Althoughe the wycked do longe and greatly persecute the godly yet shall they not preuayle ouer them yee they shall at the length perish when the godly shal be in safetye The songe of the steares MAny a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp maye Israel now saye Yee many a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp but they haue not ouercome me The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made longe forowes But the rightuous Lorde hath hewen 〈◊〉 yocke of the vngodly in peces Let them be confounded turned bacâ—â—ward as many as haue euyl will at a * 〈◊〉 Let them be euen as the haye vpon 〈◊〉 house toppes whych wythereth afore it 〈◊〉 pluckte vp Wherof the mower fylleth not his hanâ—â— nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues 〈◊〉 bosome So y t they which go by saye not so 〈◊〉 as y e Lorde prospere you we wish you 〈◊〉 lucke in the name of the Lorde ¶ The .cxxx. Psalme ¶ An earnest prayer of him that is oppressed with â—â—â—uersitie for his sinnes that surely hopeth to 〈◊〉 of God bothe forgeuenes of his synnes delyuraâ—â—â— from hys aduersytyes The songe of the steares OVt of the a * depe call I vnto 〈◊〉 O Lorde Lorde heare my voyâ—â— â–ª Oh let thyne eares 〈…〉 well the voyce of my complayâ—â—â— If thou Lord wylt be extreme to 〈◊〉 what is done a mysse Oh Lorde who 〈◊〉 abyde it But there is mercy wyth the that 〈◊〉 mayest be feared I loke for the Lord my soule doth waâ— for hym and in his worde is my trust My soule doth paciently abyde y e Lorâ—â— from the one mornynge to the other Let Israel trust in the Lorde for with 〈◊〉 Lorde there is mercy pleÌ„teous redempâ—â—â—â— And he shal redeme Israel froÌ„ al his synn◠¶ The .cxxxj. Psalme ¶ He sheweth y t he was not proude but meake 〈◊〉 The songe of the steares LOrde I am not hye mynded I haue 〈◊〉 proude lokes I do not exercyse my selfe in greaâ—â— matters which are to hye for me But I refrayne my soule kepe it 〈◊〉 lyke as a childe that is weened from his 〈◊〉 yee my soule is eueÌ„ as a weenâ—ed 〈◊〉 Let Israel trust in the Lorde â–ª from 〈◊〉 tyme forth for euermore ¶ The .cxxxij. Psalme ¶ He sheweth that the prosperyty 〈◊〉 of Christes kynâ—â—dome dureth euer that God is 〈◊〉 allwaye present 〈◊〉 his churche and congregacyon Thys doth he 〈◊〉 the fygure of Dauid of the â—â—aâ—cke abydyng in 〈◊〉 The songe of the steares LOrde remeÌ„bre Dauid al his trouâ—â—â— How he swore vnto the Lorde 〈◊〉 vowed a vowe vnto the almyghtye 〈◊〉 of Iacob I wyll not come within y e taberâ—â—â—cle of my house nor clyme vp in my bedde â–ª I wyll not suffre myne eyes to slepe 〈◊〉 myne eye lyddes to â—â—omber Vntyll I fynde out a place for y e 〈◊〉 an habytacyoÌ„ for the mightye one of 〈◊〉 shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes o well is the happie art thou Thy wife shal be as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house Thy children like the olyue braunches rouÌ„de aboute y e table Lo thus shal y e maÌ„ be blessed y t feareth the LORDE The LORDE shal so blesse the out of Sion that thou shalt se IerusaleÌ„ in prosperite all thy life longe Yee that thou shalt se thy childers childreÌ„ peace vpoÌ„ Israel The CXXVIII psalme MAny a tyme haue they fought
agaynst me fro my youth vp maye Israel now saie Yee many a tyme haue they fought agaiÌ„st me fro my youth vp but they haue not ouercome me The plowers plowed vpoÌ„ my backe made loÌ„ge forowes But the rightous LORDE hath hewen y e yocke of y e vngodly in peces Let them be confounded turned backwarde as many as haue euell will at Sion Let theÌ„ be eueÌ„ as the haye vpon the house toppes which wythereth afore it be pluckte vp Wherof the mower fylleth not his hande nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues his bosome So that they which go by saye not so moch as the LORDE prospere you we wish you good lucke in the name of the LORDE The CXXIX psalme OVt of the depe call I vnto the o LORDE LORDE heare my voyce Oh let thine eares considre well the voyce of my complaynte Yf thou LORDE wilt be extreme to marcke what is done amysse Oh LORDE who maye abyde it But there is mercy with the that thou mayest be feared I loke for the LORDE my soule doth wayte for him and in his worde is my trust My soule doth paciently abyde the LORDE froÌ„ the one mornynge to the other Let Israel trust in the LORDE â–ª for with the LORDE there is mercy and plenteous redempcion And he shal redeme Israel from all his synnes The CXXX A psalme of Dauid LORDE I am not hye mynded I haue no proude lokes I do not exercise myself in greate matters which are to hye for me But I refrayne my soule and kepe it lowe like as a childe y t is weened from his mother yee my soule is euen as a weened childe Let Israel trust in the LORDE froÌ„ this tyme forth for euermore The CXXXI Psalme LORDE remembre Dauid and all his trouble How he swore vnto y e LORDE vowed a vowe vnto y e mightie one of Iacob I wil not come within the tabernacle of my house ner clymme vp iÌ„ to my bedde I wil not suffre myne eyes to slepe ner myne eye lyddes to sloÌ„ber Vntill I fynde out a place for the LORDE an habitacioÌ„ for the mightie one of Iacob Lo we herde of the same at Ephrata fouÌ„de it in y e wod We wil go in to his tabernacle â–ª fall downe before his fotestole Arise o LORDE in to thy restinge place thou y e arke of y e streÌ„gth Let thy prestes be clothed with rightuousnesse and let thy sayntes reioyse For thy seruaunte Dauids sake turne not awaye the presence of thine anoynted The LORDE hath made a faithfull ooth vnto Dauid he shal not shrenke from it Of the frute of thy body shal I set vpon thy seate Yf thy children wil kepe my couenaunt my testimony y t I shal lerne theÌ„ their childreÌ„ also shal syt vpoÌ„ thy seate for euermore For the LORDE hath chosen SioÌ„ to be an habitacioÌ„ for him self hath he chosen her This shal be my rest here wil I dwel for I haue a delite therin I will blesse hir vytales w t increase wil satisfie hir poore with bred I wil decke hir prestes with health hir sayntes shal reioyse be glad There shall I make the horne of Dauid to florish I haue ordened a lanterne for myne anoynted As for his enemies I shal clothe theÌ„ w t shame but vpon himself shal his crowne florish The CXXXII A psalme of Dauid BEholde how good ioyfull a thinge it is brethreÌ„ to dwell together in vnite It is like y t precious oyntment vpon the heade that ranne downe vnto the beerd eueÌ„ vnto Aarons beerd weÌ„te downe to the skyrtes of his clothinge Like the dewe of Hermon which fell vpon the hill of Sion For there the LORDE promised his blessynge and life for euermore The CXXXIII psalme BEholde O prayse the LORDE all 〈◊〉 seruauntes of the LORDE ye that 〈◊〉 night stoÌ„de in the house of the LORDE 〈◊〉 lift vp youre handes in the Sanctuaâ—◠〈◊〉 prayse the LORDE The LORâ—◠〈…〉 heauen earth blesse the out 〈…〉 The CXXXIIII psalâ—â— â–ª O Prayse y e name 〈…〉 o ye seruauÌ„te◠〈…〉 in y e 〈…〉 of the house of 〈…〉 LORDE for the 〈…〉 For I knowe y t y e LORDE is greate y t o r LORDE is aboue all goddes What so euer y e LORDE pleaseth y t doth he in heaueÌ„ in earth in the see in all depe places He bryngeth forth the cloudes from the endes of the worlde he turneth y e lighteniÌ„ges vnto rayne bringiÌ„ge the wyndes out of their treasuries Which smote the firstborne of Egipte both of man and beest He hath sent tokens and wonders in to the myddest of the o thou londe of Egipte vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes Which smote dyuerse nacions slewe mightie kynges Sihon kynge of y e Amorites Og the kynge of Basan and all the kyngdomes of CanaaÌ„ And gaue their loÌ„de for an heretage for an heretage vnto Israel his people Thy name o LORDE endureth foreuer so doth thy memoriall o LORDE from one generacion to another For the LORDE wil aueÌ„ge his people be gracious vnto his seruauÌ„tes As for the ymages of the HeitheÌ„ they are but syluer and golde the worke of mens haÌ„des They haue mouthes speake not eyes haue they but they se not They haue eares and yet they heare not nether is there eny breth iÌ„ their mouthes They that make them are like vnto them so are all they that put their trust in theÌ„ Prayse the LORDE ye house of Israel prayse the LORDE ye house of Aaron Prayse the LORDE ye house of Leui ye that feare y e LORDE prayse the LORDE Praysed be the LORDE out of Sion which dwelleth at IerusaleÌ„ Halleluya The CXXXV psalme O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer O geue thaÌ„kes vnto the God of all goddes for his mercy endureth for euer O thanke the LORDE of all lordes for his mercy endureth for euer â—hich only doth greate wonders for his 〈…〉 endureth for euer Which by his 〈…〉 soome made the heauens for his mercy 〈…〉 for euer Which layed out the earth 〈…〉 waters for his mercy endureth for 〈…〉 hath made greate lightes for 〈…〉 for euer The Sonne 〈…〉 his mercy endureth for 〈…〉 the starres to gouerne 〈…〉 endureth for euer 〈…〉 their firstborne 〈…〉 for euer And 〈…〉 them for 〈…〉 reed see in to partes for his mercy endureth for euer And made Israel to go thorow y e myddest of it for his mercy endureth for euer But as for Pharao and his hoost he ouer threwe them in the reed see for his mercy endureth for euer Which led his people thorow the wyldernesse for his mercy endureth for euer Which smote greate kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Yee and slewe mightie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Sihon kynge of the Amorites
Be not haistely angrie in y e mynde for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole Saye not thou What is the cause that y e dayes of y e olde tyme were better then they y t be now ▪ for that were no wyse question Wyszdome is better then riches yee moch more worth then the eye sight For wyszdome defendeth as well as moneye and the excellent knowlege and wyszdome geueth life vnto him that hath it in possession Considre the worke of God how that no man can make the thinge straight which he maketh croked Vse well the tyme of prosperite and remembre the tyme of mysfortune for God maketh the one by the other so that a man can fynde nothinge els These ij thīges also haue I cōsidred in y e tyme of vanite y t the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse Therfore be thou nether to rightuous ner ouer wyse y t thou perish not be nether to vnrightuous also ner to foolish lest thou die before thy tyme. It is good for the to take holde of this not to let y t go out of thy hande For he y t feareth God shal escape them all Wyszdome geueth more corage vnto the wyse then ten mightie men of the citie for there is not one iust vpō earth y t doth good sinneth not Take not hede vnto euery worde y t is spoken lest thou heare thy seruaunt curse the for thine owne hert knoweth that thou thy self also hast oft tymes spokē euell by other men All these thinges haue I proued because of wyszdome for I thought to be wyse but she wente farther fro me then she was before yee so depe that I might not reach vnto her I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege and to seke out sciēce wisdome and vnderstondinge to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly and the erroure of dotinge fooles And I founde that a woman is bytterer then death for she is a very angle hir hert is a nett and hir handes are cheynes Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her but the synne◠will be taken w t her Beholde sayeth y e preacher this haue I diligently searched out proued y t I might come by knowlege which as yet I seke and fynde it not Amonge a thousande men I haue founde one but not one woman amonge all Lo this onely haue I founde that God made man iust right but they seke dyuerse sotylties where as no man hath wyszdome vnderstōdinge to geue answere there vnto The VIII Chapter WYszdome maketh a mās face to shyne but malice putteth it out of fauoure Kepe the kynges commaundemēt I warne the the ooth y t thou hast made vnto God Be not haistie to go out of his sight se thou cōtynue in no euell thinge for what so euer it pleaseth him y t doeth he Like as when a kynge geueth a charge his commaundement is mightie Euen so who maye saye vnto him what doest thou Who so kepeth the commaundement shall fele no harme but a wyse mans herte discerneth tyme and maner For euery thinge wil haue opportunite and iudgment and this is the thinge that maketh men full of carefulnes sorowe And why a man knoweth not what is for to come for who wyll tell him Nether is there eny mā y t hath power ouer y e sprete to kepe stil y e sprete ner to haue eny power in the tyme of death It is not he also that can make an ende of the batayll nether maye vngodlynes delyuer him y t medleth withall All these thinges haue I considered and applied my mynde vnto euery worke that is vnder the Sonne how one man hath lordshipe vpon another to his owne harme For I haue oft sene y e vngodly brought to their graues and fallen downe from the hye and glorious place in so moch y t they were forgotten in the cite where they were had in so hye greate reputacion This is also a vayne thinge Because now that euell workes are not haistely punyshed the hert of man geueth him self ouer vnto wickednesse But though an euell personne offende an hundreth tymes and haue a longe life yet am I sure that it shal go well with thē that feare God because they haue him before their eyes Agayne as for the vngodly it shall not be well with him nether shal he prolōge his dayes but euen as a shadowe so shall he be that feareth not God Yet is there a vanite vpon earth There be iust men vnto whom it happeneth as though they had the workes of the vngodly Agayne there be vngodly with whom it goeth as though they had the workes of y e rightuous This me thinke also a vaine thinge Therfore I commende gladnesse because a man hath no better thinge vnder the Sonne then to eate and drynke and to be mery for that shal he haue of his laboure all the daies of his life which God geueth him vnder the Sonne When I applied my mynde to lerne wyszdome and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde and that of soch a fashion y t I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner night I vnderstode of all y e workes of God that it is not possible for a man to attayne vnto y e workes that are done vnder y e Sonne and though he bestowe his laboure to seke them out yet can he not reach vnto thē yee though a wyse man wolde vndertake to knowe them yet might he not fynde them The IX Chapter FOr all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him It happeneth vnto one as vnto another It goeth with the rightuous as with the vngodly with the good cleane as with the vncleane with him that offereth as with him that offereth not like as it goeth with the vertuous so goeth it also with the synner As it happeneth vnto the periured so happeneth it also vnto him that is afrayed to be man sworne Amonge all thinges y t come to passe vnder the Sonne this is a misery that it happeneth vnto all alyke This is the cause also that the hertes of men are full of wickednesse madd foolishnesse is in their hertes as longe as they lyue vntill they dye And why As longe as a man lyueth he is careles for a quyck dogg saye they is better thē a deed lion for they that be lyuynge knowe y t they shall dye but they y t be deed knowe nothinge nether deserue they eny more For their memoriall is forgottē so y t they be nether loued hated ner envyed nether haue they eny more parte in y e worlde in all y t is done vnder the Sonne Go thou y e waye then eate thy bred with
ioye drynke y t wyne w t gladnesse for thy workes please God Let thy garmētes be allwaye whyte let y e heade want no oyntmēt Vse thy self to lyue ioyfully w t thy wife whom thou louest all y e daies of thy life which is but vayne y t God hath geuē the vnder the Sonne all y e dayes of thy vanite for y t is thy porcion in this life of all thy labo r trauayle y t thou takest vnder the Sonne What so euer thou takest in hande to do that do with all thy power for amōge the deed where as thou goest vnto there is nether worke councell knowlege ner wyszdome So I turned me vnto other thinges vnder y e Sonne and I sawe that in runnynge it helpeth not to be swift in batayll it helpeth not to be stronge to fedynge it helpeth not to be wyse to riches it helpeth not to be sutyll to be had in fauoure it helpeth not to be connynge but that all lyeth in tyme fortune For a man knoweth not his tyme but like as the fyshe are takē with the angle and as the byrdes are catched w t the snare Euē so are men taken in the perilous tyme when it commeth sodenly vpon them This wiszdome haue I sene also vnder y e Sōne me thought it a greate thinge There was a litle cite a few mē within it so there came a greate kynge beseged it made greate bulworkes agaynst it And in the cite there was founde a poore man but he was wyse which w t his wyszdome delyuered the cite yet was there no body y t had eny respecte vnto soch a symple man Then sayde I wyszdome is better then strength Neuertheles a symple mans wyszdome is despysed his wordes are not herde A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amōge fooles For wyszdome is better then harnesse but one vnthrift alone destroyeth moch good The X. Chapter DEed flyes y t corruppe swete oyntment make it to styncke are somthinge more worth then the wyszdome hono r of a foole A wyse mans hert is vpon the right hande but a fooles hert is vpon the left A dotinge foole thinketh y t euery mā doth as foolishly as himself Yf a principall sprete be geuē the to beare rule be not negligēt thē in thine office for so shal greate wickednesse be put downe as it were w t a medecyne Another plage is there which I haue sene vnder the Sonne namely y e ignoraunce y t is comonly amonge prynces in y t a foole sytteth in greate dignite the rich are sett downe beneth I se seruauntes ryde vpon horses prynces goinge vpon their fete as it were seruauntes But he y t dyggeth vp a pytt shall fall therin himself who so breaketh downe the hedge a serpent shal byte him Who so remoueth stones shall haue trauayle withall and he that heweth wod shal be hurt therwith When an yron is blont and y e poynt not sharpened it must be whett againe and that with might Euen so doth wiszdome folowe diligence A babler of his tonge is no better then a serpent that styngeth without hyssynge The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse A foole is so full of wordes that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion The laboure of y e foolish is greuous vnto thē while they knowe not how to go in to the cite Wo be vnto the O thou realme and londe whose kynge is but a childe and whose prynces are early at their banckettes But well is the O thou realme and londe whose kinge is come of nobles and whose prynces eate in due season for strength and not for lust Thorow slouthfulnesse the balkes fall downe and thorow ydle hādes it rayneth in at the house Meate maketh men to laugh and wyne maketh them mery but vnto money are all thinges obedient Wysh the kynge no euell in y e thought and speake no hurte of y e ryche in thy preuy chambre for a byrde of the ayre shal betraye thy voyce and w t hir fethers shal she bewraye thy wordes The XI Chapter SEnde thy vytayles ouer the waters and so shalt thou fynde thē after many yeares Geue it awaye amonge seuen or eight for thou knowest not what misery shal come vpō earth Whē the cloudes are full they poure out rayne vpon the earth And whē y e tre falleth whether it be towarde the south or north in what place so euer it fall there it lyeth He that regardeth y e wynde shal not sowe and he that hath respecte vnto the cloudes shal not reape Now like as thou knowest not the waye of the wynde ner how y e bones are fylled in a mothers wombe Euen so thou knowest not the workes of God which is the workemaster of all Cease not thou therfore with thy handes to sowe thy sede whether it be in y e mornynge or in the euenynge for thou knowest not whether this or that shall prospere yf they both take it is the better The light is swete a pleasaunt thinge is it for the eyes to loke vpon the Sonne Yf a man lyue many yeares and be glad in them all let him remembre the dayes of darcknesse which shal be many when they come all thinges shal be but vanite Be glad then O thou yonge man in thy youth and lat thine hert be mery in thy yonge dayes folowe the wayes of thine owne hert and the lust of thine eyes but be thou sure that God shal bringe the in to iudgment for all these thinges The XII Chapter PVt awaye displeasure out of y e hert remoue euell from thy body for childehode and youth is but vanite Remembre thy maker in thy youth or euer the dayes of aduersite come and or the yeares drawe nye when thou shalt saye I haue no pleasure in them before the Sonne y e light y e Moone and the starres be darckened and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne when the kepers of the house shall tremble and when the stronge men shal bowe them selues when the Myllers stonde still because they be so fewe and when the sight of the wyndowes shal waxe dymme whan the dores in the stretes shal be shutt and whan y e voyce of the Myller shall be layed downe whan men shall ryse vp at the voyce of the byrde and whan all y e doughters of musyck shal be brought lowe whan men shal feare in hye places and be afrayed in the stretes whan the Almonde tre shal be despysed the greshopper borne out and whan greate pouerte shall breake in when man goeth to his longe home and the mourners go
lyeth hid within Thy hayrie lockes are like a flocke of shepe that be clypped which go first vp from the washinge place where euery one beareth two twyns and not one vnfrutefull amoÌ„ge them Thy lippes are like a rose coloured rybende thy wordes are louely thy chekes are like a pece of a pomgranate besydes that which lyed hyd within Thy neck is like the tower of Dauid buylded with bulworkes wher vpon there haÌ„ge a thousande sheldes yee all the weapeÌ„s of the giauÌ„tes Thy two brestes are like two twyns of yonge roes which fede amoÌ„ge the lilies O that I might go to the mountayne of Myrre and to the hyll of frankynsense till the â–ª daye breake and till the shadowes be past awaye Thou art all fayre o my loue no spott is there in the. Come to me from Libanus o my spouse come to me from Libanus come soone the next waye from the toppe of Amana from the toppe of Sanir and Hermon from the Lyons dennes and from the mountaynes of y e leopardes Thou hast wouÌ„ded my hert o my sister my spouse thou hast wounded my hert with one of thine eyes and with one cheyne of thy neck O how fayre and louely are thy brestes my sister my spouse â–ª Thy brestes are more pleasaunt then wyne and the smell of thy oyntmentes passeth all spices Thy lippes o my spouse droppe as the hony combe yee mylck and hony is vnder thy tonge and the smell of thy garmentes is like the smell of frankynsense Thou art a well kepte garden o my sister my spouse thou art a well kepte water sprynge a sealed well The frutes that sproute in the are like a very paradyse of poÌ„granates w t swete frutes as Cypresse Nardus Saffron Calmus and all the trees of Libanus Myrre Aloes and all the best spyces Thou art a well of gardens a well of lyuynge waters which renne downe from Libanus Vp thou northwynde come thou southwynde and blowe vpoÌ„ my gardeÌ„ that the smell therof maye be caried on euery syde Yee that my beloued maye come in to my garden eate of the frutes and apples that growe therin The V. Chapter COme in to my garden o my sister my spouse I haue gathered my Myrre w t my spyce I wil eate my hony and my hony coÌ„be I wil drynke my wyne my mylk Eate o ye frendes drynke and be mery o ye beloued As I was a slepe my hert wakynge I herde the voyce of my beloued whaÌ„ he knocked Open to me sayde he o my sister my loue my doue my derlinge for my heade is full of dew and y e lockes of my hayre are full of the night droppes I haue put off my cote how caÌ„ I do it on agayne I haue washed my fete how shal I fyle them agayne But whan my loue put in his hande at the hole my hert was moued towarde him so that I stode vp to open vnto my beloued My haÌ„des dropped w t Myrre the Myrre ranne downe my fyngers vpon y e lock Neuerthelesse whaÌ„ I had opened vnto my beloued he was departed and gone his waye Now like as afore tyme whan he spake my hert coude no longer refrayne Euen so now I sought hiÌ„ but I coude not fynde him I cried vpon him neuerthelesse he gaue me no answere So the watchmen that wente aboute the cite fouÌ„de me smote me and wounded me Yee they that kepte the walles toke awaye my garmeÌ„t fro me I charge you therfore o ye doughters of Ierusalem yf ye fynde my beloued that ye tell him how that I am sick for loue Who is thy loue aboue other louers O thou fayrest amonge wemen Or what can thy loue do more then other louers that thou chargest vs so straitly As for my loue he is whyte and reade coloured a synguler personne amonge many thousandes his heade is the most fyne golde the lockes of his hayre are buszshed browne as the euenynge His eyes are as the eyes of doues by the water brokes washen with mylek and remaynynge in a plenteous place His chekes are like a garden bedd where in the Apotecaryes plaÌ„te all maner of swete thinges His lippes droppe as the floures of the most pryncipall Myrre his haÌ„des are full of golde rynges and precious stones His body is as the pure yuery decre ouer with Saphyres His legges are as the pilers of Marbell sett vpon sokettes of golde His face is as Libanus and as the bewty of the Cedre trees His throte is swete yee he is alltogether louely Soch one is my loue o ye doughters of Ierusalem soch one is my loue Whither is thy loue gone theÌ„ o thou fayrest amonge wemeÌ„ whither is thy loue departed that we maye seke him with the The VI. Chapter MY loue is gone downe in to his garden vnto y e swete smellinge beddes that he maye refresh himself in the garden and gather floures My loue is myne and I am his which fedeth amonge the lilies Thou art pleasaunt o my loue euen as louelynesse itself thou art fayre as Ierusalem glorious as an armye of men with their baÌ„ners Turne awaye thine eyes fro me for they make me to proude Thy hayrie lockes are like a flocke of goates vpon y e mount of Galaad Thy teth are like a flock of shepe y t be clypped which go out of the washinge place where euery one beareth two twyns not one vnfrutefull amoÌ„ge them Thy chekes are like a pece of a pomgranate besydes y t which lyeth hid within There are thre score quenes foure score concubynes and yonge wemeÌ„ without nombre But one is my doue my derlynge She is the onely beloued of hir mother deare vnto her that bare her WhaÌ„ the daughters sawe her they sayde she was blessed Yee the quenes and concubines praysed her What is she this that pepeth out as the mornynge fayre as the Moone excellent as the Sonne glorious as an armye of men with their banners I wente downe in to the nutt garden to se what grew by the brokes to loke yf the vynyarde florished and yf the pomgranates were shot forth Then the charettes of the prynce of my people made me sodenly afrayed Turne againe turne againe O thou Sâ—â—lamite turne agayne turne agayne that we maye loke vpon the. The VII Chapter WHat pleasure haue ye more in y e Sâ—lamite than when she daunseth amonge the men of warre O how pleasaunt are thy treadinges with thy shâ—es thou prynces daughter Thy thees are like a fayre iewell which is wrought by a coâ—â—nynge workmaster Thy nauell is like a rouâ—de goblett which is neuer without drynke â–ª Thy wombe is like an heape of wheate seâ—â— aboute with lilies Thy two brestes are like two twyns of yonge roes Thy neck is as it were a tower of yuery Thyne eyes are like y e water poles in Hesebon besyde the porte of Bathrabbim Thy nose is like the tower of Libanus which loketh towarde Damascuâ— â–ª That heade that
nether be afrayed off their wordes for they shall rebell agaynst the and despise ye. Yee thou shalt dwell amonge scorpions but feare not their wordes be not abashed at their lokes for it is a frauwerde housholde Se that thou speake my wordes vnto them whether they be obediēt or not for they are obstinate Therfore thou sonne of man obeye thou all thinges that I saye vnto y e and be not thou stiffnecked like as they are a stiffnecked housholde Open thy mouth and eate that I geue the. So as I was lokynge vp beholde there was sent vnto me an hande wherin was a closed boke and the hande opened it before me and it was written within and without full off carefull mourninges alas and wo. The III. Chapter THen sayde he vnto me thou sonne of mā eate that what so euer it be Yee eate that closed boke and go thy waye and speake vnto the children off Israel So I opened my mouth and he gaue me the boke for to eate and sayde vnto me Thou sonne of man thy bely shal eate and thy bowels shal be fylled with y e boke that I geue the. Then dyd I eate the boke and it was in my mouth sweter then hony And he sayde vnto me thou sonne of mā get the soone vnto the house off Israel ād shewe thē y e wordes that I cōmaunde the for I sende the not to a people that hath a straūge vnknowne or harde speache but vnto the house off Israel Not to many nacions which haue diuerse speaches and harde languages whose wordes thou vnderstōdest not Neuertheles yf I sent the to those people they wolde folowe the But the house off Israel wil not folowe y e for they will not folowe me Yee all the house off Israel haue stiff foreheades and harde hertes Beholde therfore I will make thy face preuayle agaynst their faces and harden thy foreheade agaynst their foreheades so that thy foreheade shall be harder then an Adamāt or flynt stone that thou mayest feare them y t lesse and be lesse afrayed off them for they are a frauwerde housholde He sayde morouer vnto me thou sonne off man take diligent hede with thine eares to y e wordes that I speake vnto the fasten them in thine herte and go to the presoners off thy people speake vnto them ād saye on this maner Thus the LORDE God hath spokē Whether ye heare or heare not With that the sprete toke me vp And I herde the noyse of a greate russhinge and remouynge off the most blissed glory off the LORDE out off his place I herde also the noyse off the wynges off the beestes that russhed one agaynst another yee and the ratlynge off the wheles that were by them which russhinge noyse was very greate Now when the sprete toke me vp and caried me awaye I wente with an heuy and a soroufull mynde but the honde off y e LORDE comforted me right soone And so in the begynnynge off the Moneth Abib I came to the presoners that dwelt by the water off Cobar and remaȳned in that place where they were and so continued I amonge them seuen dayes beinge very sory And when the seuen dayes were expyred the LORDE sayde vnto me Thou sonne off man I haue made the a watch man vnto the house of Israel therfore take good hede to the wordes and geue them warnynge at my commaundement Yff I saye vnto the concernynge the vngodly mā that without doute he must dye and thou geuest him not warnynge ner speakest vnto him that he maye turne from his euell waye and so to lyue Then shall the same vngodly man dye in his owne vnrightuosnes but his bloude will I requyre off thyne honde Neuertheles yff thou geue warnynge vnto the wicked and he yet forsake not his vngodlynesse then shall he dye in his owne wickednesse but thou hast discharged thy soule Now yf a rightuous mā go frō his rightuousnesse and do the thinge that is euell I will laye a stomblinge blocke before him and he shall dye because thou hast not geuen him warninge Yee dye shall he in his owne synne so that the vertue which he did before shall not be thought vpon but his bloude will I requyre of thine honde Neuertheles yf thou exhortest the rightuous that he synne not and so y e rightuous do not synne Then shall he lyue because he hath receaued thy warnynge and thou hast discharged thy soule And there came the hōde off the LORDE vpon me and he sayde vnto me Stonde vp and go in to the felde y t I maye there talke with the. So when I had rysen vp and gone forth into the felde Beholde the glory off the LORDE stode there like as I sawe it afore by the water off Cobar Then fell I downe vpon my face and y e sprete came in to me which set me vp vpon my fete and sayde thus vnto me Go thy waye and sparre thy selff in thyne house Beholde O thou sonne off man there shall chaynes be brought for the to bynde the w t all so that thou shalt not escape out off thē And I will make thy tunge cleue so the rofe off thy mouth that thou shalt be domme and not be as a chider with them for it is an obstinate housholde But when I speake vnto the then open thy mouth and saye Thus saieth the LORDE God who so heareth let him heare who so will not let him leaue for it is a frauwarde housholde The IIII. Chapter THou sonne off man take a tyle stone and laye it before the and descrybe vpon it the cite off Ierusalem how it is beseged how bulworkes and strōge diches are grauen on euery syde off it descrybe also tentes and an hoost off men rounde aboute it Morouer take an yron panne and set it betwixte the y e cite in steade off an yron wall Then set thy face towarde it besege it and laye ordinaunce agaynst it to wynne it This shal be a token vnto the house off Israel But thou shalt slepe vpon thy left syde and laye the synne of the house off Israel vpon the. Certayne dayes apoynted thou shalt slepe vpon that syde and beare their synnes Neuertheles I will apoynte the a tyme to put off their synnes and the nombre off the daies Thre hundreth xc dayes must thou beare the wickednesse off the house of Israel When thou hast fulfilled these dayes lye downe agayne and slepe vpon thy right syde xl dayes and beare the synnes off the house of Iuda A daye for a yeare a daye I saye for a yeare will I euer laye vpon the. Therfore set now thy face agaynst that beseged Ierusalem and discouer thine arme that thou mayest prophecie agaynst it Beholde I will laye chaynes vpon the that thou shalt not turne the from one syde to another till thou hast ended the dayes of thy sege Wherfore take vnto the wheate barly
yonge mē y t they might declare their meanynges thēselues by mouth So when they were sent for and came in y e kynge sayde vnto them shew vs and make vs to vnderstōde what the thinges are that ye haue wrytten Then beganne the first which had spokē of the strength of wyne sayde O ye men wyne is maruelous strōge and ouercōmeth them y e drynke it it disceaueth the mynde bryngeth both the poore man y e kynge to dotage and vanite Thus doth it also w t the bondman and with the fre with the poore rych it taketh awaye their vnderstondinge and maketh them careles and mery so that none of them remembreth eny heuynes dett or dewtie It causeth a man to thinke also that y e thinge which he doth is honest and good and remembreth not that he is a kynge nor y t he is in auctorite y t he ought not to do soch thinges Morouer whan men are drynckinge they forgett all frendshipe all brotherly faithfulnes loue but as soone as they are dronckē they drawe out the swerde wil fight whā they are layed downe frō the wyne so rysen vp agayne they can not tell what they dyd Iudge ye now Is not wyne the strongest For who wolde els take in hande to do soch thinges And whan he had spoken this he helde his tonge The IIII. Chapter THen the seconde which had sayde y t the kynge was stronger beganne to speake sayēge O ye men are not they the strongest most excellent y t cōquere the lōde the see all y t is in y e see in the earth Now is the kynge lorde of all these thinges hath dominion of thē all loke what he cōmaūdeth it is done Yf he sende his mē forth a warfare they go and breake downe hilles walles towres They are slayne slaye oher men them selues ouer passe not y e kynges worde Yf they get the victory they brynge the kynge all the spoyle Likewyse the other y t medle not w t warres fightinge but tyll the grounde whan they reape they brynge trybute vnto y e kynge And yf y e kynge alone do but cōmaunde to kyll they kyll yf he cōmaunde to forgeue they forgeue yf he cōmaunde to smyte they smyte yf he byd dryue awaye they dryue awaye yf he commaunde to buylde they buylde yf he cōmaūde to breake downe they breake downe yf he cōmaunde to plante they plāte The comon people y e rulers are obedient vnto him And y e kynge in the meane season sytteth hī downe eateth and drynketh taketh his rest thē kepe they watch roūde aboute y e kinge not one of thē darre gett him out of y e waye to do his owne busynes but must be obediēt vnto y e kinge at a worde Iudge ye now o ye men how shulde not he go farre aboue vnto whom men are thus obediēt And whan he had spokē this he helde his tonge The thirde whose name was Zorobabel which had spokē of wemen of y e trueth begāne to saye after this maner O ye mē it is not y e greate kynge it is not the multitude of mē nether is it wine y t excelleth Who is it thē y t hath y e lordshipe ouer thē Haue not wemen borne the kynge all y e people y t rule these thinges Haue not wemē borne thē brought thē vp y t plante the vynes wher out y e wyne cōmeth They make garmētes for all mē they geue hono r vnto all men w t out wemen can not men lyue Yf they gather golde syluer all precious thinges se a fayre wel fauoured womā they leaue all together and turne their eyes onely vnto the woman gape vpon her haue more desyre vnto her then vnto the syluer golde or eny maner of precious thinge A mā leaueth his father y t brought him vp he leaueth his owne naturall coūtre and cleueth vnto the woman yee he ioperdeth his life with the woman and remembreth nether father ner mother ner countre By this then ye must nedes knowe y t wemen haue y e domynion ouer you Doth it greue you A mā taketh his swerde goeth his waye to steale to kyll to murther to sayle vpon the see seyth a lyon and goeth in the darcknes and when he hath stollen disceaued robbed he bringeth it vnto his loue Agayne a man loueth his wyfe better then father and mother yee many one there be that renne out of their wyttes become bondmen for their wyues sakes many one also haue perished haue bene slayne haue synned because of wemen And now beleue me I knowe a kynge which is greate in his power all lōdes stōde in awe of him no man darre laye hande vpon him yet dyd I se y t Apame y e daughter of the greate kynge Bartacus the kynges cōcubine satt besyde the kynge vpō the right hāde and toke of his crowne from his heade and set it vpon hir owne heade and smote the kynge with hir left hande Morouer the kynge loked vpō her w t open mouth yf she laughed vpon him he laughed also but yf she toke eny displeasure with him the kynge was fayne to flater her to geue her good wordes till he had gotten hir fauoure agayne O ye men are not wemen then stronger Greate is the earth and hie is the heauen that do these thinges Then the kynge the prynces loked one vpon another So he beganne to speake of the trueth O ye men are not wemē stronger Greate is the earth hye is the heauen swyft is the course of the Sonne he compaseth the heauen rounde aboute and fetcheth his course againe to his owne place in one daye Is he not excellent that doth this yee greate is the trueth and stronger then all thinges All the earth calleth vpon the trueth the heauen prayseth it all workes shake and tremble at it and with it is no vnrighteous thinge Wine is vnrighteous the kynge is vnrighteous wemen are vnrighteous all the children of men are vnrighteous yee all their workes are vnrighteous and there is no trueth in them in their vnrighteousnes also shall they be destroyed and perish As for y e trueth it endureth and is allwaye stronge it lyueth and cōquereth for euermore worlde without ende The trueth accepteth no personnes it putteth no difference betwixte rych or poore betwixte y e mightie or symple but doth right vnto euery mā whether they be euel or good all men are louyngly dealt withall in the workes of it In the iudgment of it there is no vnrighteous thinge but strength kingdome power and maiesty for euermore Blessed be the God of trueth And with that he helde his tōge and all y e people cried sayde Greate is the trueth and aboue all Then sayde the kynge vnto him Axe what thou wilt more then is
by the smoke had the vpper hande After this there wēte ouer before me a watery cloude and sent downe moch rayne w t a storme whan the stormy rayne was past the droppes remayned still Then sayde he vnto me like as the rayne is more then the droppes and as the fyre exceadeth the smoke euen so y e measure of the thinges that are past hath the vpper hande Then wente the droppes and the smoke aboue and I prayed and sayde Maye I lyue thynkest thou vntyll that tyme Or what shall happen in those dayes He answered me and sayde As for the tokēs wherof thou axest me I maye tell the of thē in a parte but as touchinge y e life I maye not shewe the for I am not sent therfore The V. Chapter NEuerthelesse as concernynge the tokens mark this Beholde the dayes shal come that they which dwell vpon earth shal be takē in a greate nombre the waye of the trueth shal be hyd and the lōde shal be baren from faith but iniquyte shal haue the vpper hande like as thou hast sene now and as thou hast herde lōge agoo And the londe that thou seist now to haue rule shalt thou shortly se waist But yf God graunte the to lyue thou shalt se after y e thirde trompet that the Sonne shal sodenly shyne agayne in the night and the Moone thre tymes in the daye bloude shal droppe out of wodd and the stone shal geue his voyce and the people shal be vnquyete and euen he shal rule whom they hope not that dwell vpon earth and the foules shal flyt and the Sodomitysh see shal cast out his fish and make a noyse in the night which many shal not knowe but they shal all heare the voyce therof There shal be a cōfucion also in many places and the fyre shal be oft sent agayne and the wylde beastes shal go their waye menstruous wemen shal beare monsters and salt waters shal be founde in the swete one frende shal fight agaynst another then shal all wyt and vnderstandinge be hyd and put asyde in to their secrete places shal be sought of many and yet not be founde then shal vnrighteousnes and volupteousnes haue the vpperhande vpon earth One lande also shal axe another and saye Is righteousnes gone thorow the And it shal saye No. At the same tyme shal men hope but nothinge optayne they shal laboure but their wayes shall not prospere To shewe the soch tokens I haue leue and yf thou wylt praye agayne wepe as now and fast seuen dayes thou shalt heare yet greater thinges Then I awaked and a fearfulnes wente thorow all my body my mynde was feble and carefull so that I allmost swowned withall So the angell that was come to talke with me helde me comforted me and sett me vp vpon my fete And in the seconde night it happened y t Salathiel the captayne of the people came vnto me sayenge Where hast thou bene and why is thy countenaunce so heuy Knowest thou not y t Israel is commytted vnto the in the londe of their captyuyte Vp then and eate and forsake vs not as the shepherde that leaueth his flock in the handes of wicked wolues Then sayde I vnto him Go thy waye fro me and come not nye me he herde it and as I sayde so wēte he his waye fro me And so I fasted seuen dayes mournynge and wepynge like as Vriell the angell commaunded me And after seuen dayes it happened that y e thoughtes of my hert were very greuous vnto me agayne my soule receaued y e sprete of vnderstandynge I begāne to talke w t the most hyest agayne and sayde O LORDE LORDE of euery wod of y e earth of all the trees therof thou hast chosen y e one onely vynyarde and of all londes of the whole worlde thou hast chosen the one pytt and of all floures of the groūde thou hast chosen the one lylie and of all the depthes of the see thou hast fylled the one ryuer and of all builded cities thou hast halowed Sion vnto thy self and of all y e foules that are created thou hast named the one doue and of all the catell y t are made thou hast prouyded y e one shepe amōge all y e multitudes of folkes thou hast gotten the one people and vnto this people whom thou louedest thou gauest a lawe y t is proued of all And now O LORDE why hast thou geuē this one people ouer vnto many vpon the one rote thou hast prepared other and why hast thou scatred y e one onely people amonge many which treade thē downe yee which haue euer withstonde y e promyses neuer beleued y e couenaūtes And though thou werest enemye vnto y e people yet shuldest thou punysh thē w t thine owne handes Now whā I had spokē these wordes the angell y t came to me y e night afore was sēt vnto me sayde vnto me Heare me herkē to y e thinge y t I saye I shal tell y e more And I sayed Speake on my LORDE Thē sayde he vnto me Thou art sore vexed troubled for Israels sake Louest thou y t people better then him y t made them And I sayde No LORDE but of very grefe cōpassion haue I spokē For my reynes payne me euery houre because I wolde haue experience of the waye of the most hyest and to seke out parte of his iudgment And he sayde vnto me that thou mayest not And I sayde wherfore LORDE Where vnto was I borne then Or why was not my mothers childesbed then my graue So had I not sene the mysery and trouble of Iacob and the trauayle of my people of Israel And he sayde vnto me Nōbre me y e thinges y t are not yet come gather me together y e droppes that are scatred abrode make me y e floures grene agayne ▪ y t are wythered opē me the thinge that is closed and bringe me forth the wyndes that are shutt vp Shewe me the ymage of a voyce and then shal I declare the the thinge that thou labourest to knowe And I sayde O LORDE LORDE who maye knowe these thinges but he that hath not his dwellynge w t mē As for me I am vnwyse how maye I thē speake of these thinges wherof thou axest me Thē sayde he vnto me like as thou canst do none of these thinges y t I haue spoken of Euen so canst thou not fynde out my iudgment or in the ende the loue that I haue promysed vnto my people And I sayde Beholde o LORDE yet art thou nye vnto them that haue no ende and what shal they do that haue bene before me or we that be now or they that shal come after vs And he sayde vnto me I wyl lycken my iudgment vnto a rynge Like as there is no slacknesse of the last euen so is there no swiftnesse of the first So I answered sayde
and I sayde O LORDE thou spakest vnto thy creature from the begynnynge euen the first daye and saydest Let heauen and earth be made and thy worde was a perfecte worke And then was there the sprete and the darcknesses were yet on euery syde and sylence there was no mans voyce as yet from the. Then commaundedst thou a fayre light to come forth out of thy treasures that thy worke might appeare and be sene Vpon the seconde daye thou maydest the sprete of the firmament and commaundedst it to parte asunder to make a deuysion betwixte the waters that the one parte might remayne aboue and the other beneth Vpon the thirde daye thou broughtest to passe y t the waters were gathered in the seuenth parte of the earth Sixe partes hast thou dryed vp and kepte them to the inteÌ„t y t men might sowe and occupie huszbandrie therin As soone as thy worde wente forth the worke was made For immediatly there was greate in numerable frute many dyuerse pleasures desyres of temptacion floures of chaungeable coloure and smell and this was done the thirde daye Vpon the fourth daye thou coÌ„maundedst that the Sonne shulde geue his shyne and y e Moone hir light the starres didest thou sett in ordre and gauest them a charge to do seruyce euen vnto man that was for to be made VpoÌ„ the fifth daye thou saydest vnto the seuenth parte where the waters were gathered that they shulde bringe forth diuerse beastes foules and fishes And so it came to passe that the domme water and without soule brought forth lyuynge beastes at the commaundement of God that all people might prayse thy wonderous workes Then didest thou preserue two soules y e one thou calldest Enoch and the other Leuiathan and didest separate the one from the other for the seuenth parte namely where the water was gathered together might not holde them both Vnto Enoch thou gauest one parte which was dryed vp the thirde daye that he shulde dwell in the same parte wherin are a thousande hilles But vnto LeuiathaÌ„ thou gauest the seuenth parte namely the moyst and hast kepte him to deuoure what thâ—â— wylt and whan Vpon the sixte daye thou gauest coÌ„maundement vnto the earth that before the it shulde brynge forth beastes catell and all y e crepe besydes this Adam also whom thou maydest lorde of all thy creatures Of him come we all and the people also whom thou hast chosen specially vnto thy self All this haue I sayde now and spoken before the that I might shewe how that the worlde is made for oure sakes As for the other people which also come of Adam thou hast sayde that they are nothinge but be like a spetle and hast lickened the abundauÌ„ce of them vnto a droppe that falleth from the rofe of the house And now O LORDE the HeitheÌ„ which haue euer bene reputed as nothinge haue begoÌ„ne to be lordes ouer vs and to deuoure vs but we thy people whom thou hast called y e first borne thy only begotten and thy feruent louer are geuen in to their handes and power Yf the worlde now be made for oure sakes why haue we not the inheritaunce in possession with the worlde How longe shal this endure The VII Chapter ANd it happened after that I had spoken out these wordes there was sent vnto me an angell which had bene by me also the nightes afore and he sayde vnto me Vp Eszdras and heare the wordes that I am come to tell the. And I sayde speake on LORDE my God TheÌ„ sayde he vnto me The see is sett in a wyde place y t it might be depe and greate but the intrauÌ„ce is narow and small like a ryuer For who wolde go in to the see to loke vpon it and to rule it Yf he wente not thorow the narow how might he come in to the brode Item another A cite is buylded and sett vpon a brode felde and is full of all goodes the intraunce is narow and sodane like as yf there were a fyre at the right hande and a depe water at the left and as it were onely one strate path betwixte theÌ„ both so small that there coude but one man go there Yf this cite now were geuen to an heyre he neuer wente thorow this parlous waye how wolde he receaue his inheritauÌ„ce And I sayde It is so LORDE Then sayde he Euen so is Israel also a porcion And why for their sakes haue I made the worlde whan Adam traÌ„sgressed my statutes then was y e thinge iudged that was done â–ª Then were y e intraunces of the worlde made narow full of sorow and trauayle They are but few euell full of parels and laboure For the intraunces of the fore worlde were wyde and sure and brought immortall frute Yf they now which are entred in to this worlde maye not comprehende these strayte and vayne thinges moch lesse maye they coÌ„prehende and vnderstonde the secrete thinges Why disquietest thou thy self then seynge thou art but a corruptible maÌ„ And what woldest thou knowe where as thou art but mortall And why hast thou not receaued in to thine hert the thinge that is for to come but that is present TheÌ„ sayde I O LORDE LORDE thou hast ordened in thy lawe that the righteous shulde inheret these thinges but that the vnfaithfull and vngodly shulde perishe Neuertheles the righteous shall suffre strayte thinges and hope for wyde for they that haue lyued vngodly suffred strayte thinges shal not se the wyde And he saide vnto me There is no iudge aboue God and none that hath vnderstondinge aboue the Hyest For there be many y t perish because they despyse y e lawe of God that is sett before them For God hath geuen strayte commaundement to soch as come that they knowe what they do and how they shulde lyue and yf they kepte this they shulde not be punyshed Neuertheles they were not obedient vnto him but spake agaynst him ymagined vayne thinges purposed to synne and sayde morouer that there was no God that God regarded it not His wayes haue they not knowne his lawe haue they despysed denyed his promyses in his statutes ordinaunces haue they not bene faithfull stedfast and haue not perfourmed his workes And therfore Eszdras vnto the full plenty and to the emptye emptynesse Beholde the tyme shal come y t these tokens which I haue tolde the shal come to passe the bryde shall appeare the earth y t now passeth awaye shal be shewed whoso euer is delyuered from y e foresayde euels shal se my woÌ„ders For my sonne Iesus shal be openly declared w t those y t be w t him they y t remayne shal be mery in foure hundreth yeares After these same yeares shall my sonne Christ dye and all men that haue life and y e worlde shal be turned in to the olde sylence seuen dayes like as in the fore iudgmentes so that no man shall
waters made swete for theÌ„ that they might drynke xl yeares had they meate from heaueÌ„ Where so euer they wente without bowe arowe without bukler or swerde their God fought for theÌ„ caused theÌ„ to haue the victory Yee no man was able to hurte this people excepte it were so y t they departed vnfaithfully from y e worshippinge of the LORDE their God But as oft as they worshipped eny other besyde their God he gaue them ouer to be spoyled to be slayne to be put to confucion Neuertheles as oft as they were sory for departynge from the worshipe of their God the same God of heauen gaue them power streÌ„gth to withstoÌ„de their enemies Morouer they slew the kynge of the Cananites Iebusites Pherezites Ethites Euâ—tes Amorites all y e mightie in Hesebon toke their loÌ„des cities in possession and so longe as they synned not in y e sight of their God it weÌ„te well with them for their God hateth vnrighteousnesse For in tymes past whan they wente out of y e waye which God had geuen them y t they shulde walke in it they were destroyed in dyuerse battayles of many nacions many of them were caried awaye presoners into a strauÌ„ge couÌ„tre But now lately they haue turned theÌ„selues agayne vnto the LORDE their God are come together agayne out of the countrees where they were scatred abrode and thus haue they coÌ„quered these mountaynes dwell therin as for Ierusalem where their Sanctuary is they haue it againe in possession And therfore my lorde make diligeÌ„t inquisicion yf this people haue done wickednesse in the sight of their God then let vs go vp agaynst them for doutles their God shal delyuer them in to thy handes subdue them vnto y t power But yf this people haue not displeased their God we shal not be able to withstande them for their God shal defende theÌ„ so shall we be a shame to all y e worlde Now whan Achior had spoken out these wordes all the prynces of Holofernes were wroth thought to slaye him sayde one to another what is he this which darre saie y t y e childreÌ„ of Israel are able to withstoÌ„de Nabuchodonosor the kynge his hoost where as they are an vnwapened people without streÌ„gth or vnderstoÌ„dinge of y e fettes of warre That Achior therfore maye knowe y t he hath disceaued vs we wil go vp in to y e mouÌ„taynes whan the mightie men of theÌ„ are taken he also shal be stickte with the swerde y t all people maye knowe that Nabuchodonosor is the God of the earth and that there is none other without him The VI. Chapter SO whan they had left of speakinge Holofernes toke sore indignacion sayde vnto Achior For so moch as thou hast prophecied vnto vs sayenge that the people of Israel shal be defended of their God I will shew the that there is no God but Nabuchodonosor Yee whan we slaye them all as one man thou also shalt perish with them thorow the swerde of the Assirians all Israel shal be destroyed with the theÌ„ shalt thou fele that Nabuchodonosor is the LORDE of the whole earth TheÌ„ shal the swerde of my knyghthode go thorow y e sydes thou shalt fall downe stickte amonge the wounded of Israel shalt not come to thy self agayne but be vtterly destroyed with theÌ„ But yf thou thynkest thy prophecy to be true why dost thou then chaunge thy coloure why art thou afrayed Thynkest thou that my wordes are not able to be perfourmed But that thou mayest knowe that thou shalt fele these thinges with theÌ„ beholde from this houre forth wyll I sende the vnto yonder people that whan the punyshment of my swerde which they haue worthely deserued falleth vpon them thou mayest be punyshed with them So Holofernes coÌ„maunded his seruauntes to take Achior to cary him vnto Bethulia and to delyuer him in to the handes of the children of Israel Then Holofernes seruauÌ„tes toke him weÌ„te thorow the playne felde But whan they drew nye vnto the mountaynes the slynge casters came out agaynst them Neuertheles they gat them awaye by the syde of the mountayne bounde Achior hand fote to a tre so left him bounde with wythies turned agayne vnto their lorde NotwithstoÌ„dinge the children of Israel wente downe froÌ„ Bethulia came vnto him lowsed him brought him to Bethulia set him in the myddest of the people and axed him what the matter was that the AssiriaÌ„s had left him bounde Osias the sonne of Micha of the trybe of Symeon Charmim which is also called Gothoniel were the pryncipall rulers at the same tyme. Now whan Achior stode in the myddest of the Senatours before theÌ„ all he tolde them what answere he gaue Holofernes to the thinge that he axed him and how Holofernes people wolde haue slayne him for so sayenge how Holofernes himself was wroth coÌ„maunded him for the same cause to be delyuered vnto y e Israelites that whan he ouer came the childreÌ„ of Israel he might commaunde Achior also to be put to death with dyuerse tormentes because he sayde the God of heauen is their defender And whaÌ„ Achior had playnely tolde out all these thinges all the people fell downe vpon their faces praysinge the LORDE and poured out their prayers together vnto the LORDE with a generall complaynte wepynge sayde O LORDE God of heauen earth beholde their pryde loke vpon oure lowlynes coÌ„sidre how it standeth with thy sayntes make it to be knowne y t thou forsakest not those which holde them fast by the how y t thou bringest theÌ„ lowe y t presume of theÌ„ selues make their boast in their owne strength So whan the wepinge and prayer of the people which they had made the whole daye longe was ended they coÌ„forted Achior sayeÌ„ge the God of oure fathers whose power strength thou hast praysed shall so rewarde the y t thou shalt rather se their destruccion Whan y e LORDE o r God then shall geue his seruauntes this liberte God be with the also amonge vs so y t yf it please y t thou w t thyne mayest dwell w t vs. Now whan Osias had ended the councell he toke him in to his house and made a greate supper called all the elders to it so they refreszshed them selues after the fastinge And afterwarde was all the people called together which made their prayers all the night longe in the congregacion and be sought the God of Israel for helpe The VII Chapter THe next daye Holofernes commaunded his hoost to go vp agaynst Bethulia There were an C. xx thousande fightinge men on fote two twentie thousande horsmeÌ„ besyde the preparynge of them y t were wonne came to them on euery syde out of the countrees cities which he had takeÌ„ All these prepared them selues
it Iudith made hir prayer vnto y e LORDE wente out at y e porte she hir mayde And as she was goinge downe the mountayne it happened that aboute the sprynge of the daye the spyes of y e Assirians met w t her and toke her sayenge whence commest thou Or whither goest thou She answered I am a daughter of y e Hebrues and am fled from them for I knowe that they shal be geuē vnto you to be spoyled because they thought scorne to yelde thē selues vnto you that they might fynde mercy in youre sight Therfore haue I deuysed by my self after this maner I wyll go before the prynce Holofernes and tell him all their secretes and wyll shew him how he maye come by them and wynne them so that not one man of his hoost shall perish And whan these men had herde hir wordes considered hir fayre face they were astonnyed for they wondred at hir excellent bewtye sayde vnto her Thou hast saued y e life by fyndinge out this deuyce y t thou woldest come downe to o r lorde be thou sure that whā thou cōmest vnto him he shal intreate the well thou shalt please him at y e hert So they brought her in to Holofernes pauylion and tolde him of her Now whan she came in before him immediatly he was ouercome taken with hir bewtye Then saide his seruauntes who wolde despyse y e people of y e Iewes y t haue so fayre wemē Shulde we not by reason fight against thē for these So whā Iudith sawe Holofernes syttinge in a canapye y t was wrought of purple sylke golde Smaragde and precious stones she loked fast vpō him fell downe vpō the earth And Holofernes seruaūtes toke hir vp agayne at their lordes commmaundement The XI Chapter THen sayde Holofernes vnto her Be of good chere and feare not in thine hert for I neuer hurte man that wolde serue Nabuchodonosor the kynge As for thy people yf they had not despysed me I shulde not haue lift vp a speare agaynst thē But tell me now what is the cause y t thou art departed from them and wherfore art thou come vnto vs And Iudith sayde vnto him Syr vnder stonde the wordes of thy handmayden for yf thou wilt do after y e wordes of thy hādmayden the LORDE shall brynge thy matter to a prosperous effecte As truly as Nabuchodonosor a lorde of the londe lyueth as truly as his power lyueth which is in the to the punyshment of all men that go wronge all men shall not onely be subdued vnto him thorow the but all the beestes also of y e felde For all people speake of thy prudēt actiuyte and it hath euer bene reported how thou onely art good and mightie in all his kyngdome and thy discrecion is commēded in all londes The thinge is manifest also that Achior spake and it is wel knowne what thou commaūdedst to do vnto him For this is plaine and of a suretye that oure God is so wroth with vs by the reason of oure synnes that he hath shewed by his prophetes vnto the people how that for their synnes he wyl delyuer them ouer vnto the enemie And for so moch as the children of Israel knowe that they haue so displeased their God they are sore afrayed of the. They suffre greate honger also for wante of water they are deed now in a maner Morouer they are appoynted to slaye all their catell that they maye drynke the bloude of them and are purposed to spende all the holy ornamentes of their God which he hath forbyddē thē to touch for corne wyne and oyle Seinge now that they do these thinges it is a playne case y t they must nedes be destroyed Which whan I thy handmayden perceaued I fled from them and the LORDE hath sent me vnto y e to shew the these thinges For I thy handmayden worshipe God euen here now besyde the and thy honde mayden shal go forth and I wil make my praier vnto God and he shal tell me whan he wyl rewarde thē their synne then shal I come and shew the brynge the thorow the myddest of Ierusalem so that thou shalt haue all y e people of Israel as the shepe without a shepherde there shal not so moch as one dogg barck agaynst the for these thinges are shewed me by the prouydence of God and for so moch as God is displeased with them he hath sent me to tell the the same These wordes pleased Holofernes and all his seruauntes which marueled at the wysdome of her and sayde one to another there is not soch a woman vpon earth in bewtye and discrecion of wordes And Holofernes sayde vnto her God hath done well that he hath sent the hither before thy people that thou mayest geue them into oure handes And for so moch as y e promyse is good yf thy God perfourme it vnto me he shall be my God also and thou shalt be excellent and greate in the courte of Nabuchodonosor and thy name shal be spoken of in all the londe The XII Chapter THen commaunded he her to go in where his treasure laye and charged that she shulde haue hyr dwellynge there and appoynted what shulde be geuen her frō his table Iudith answered him and sayde As for the meate that thou hast commaunded to geue me I maye not eate of it as now lest I displease my God but wyl eate of soch as I haue brought with me Then sayde Holofernes vnto her Yf these thinges that thou hast brought with the fayle what shal we do vnto the And Iudith sayde As truly as thou lyuest my lorde thy hande mayden shall not spende all this tyll God haue brought to passe in my hande the thinges that I haue deuysed So his seruauntes brought her in to the tent where as he had appointed And as she was goinge in she desyred that she might haue leue to go forth by night before daye to hir prayer and to make intercession vnto the LORDE Then commaunded Holofernes his chamberlaynes that she shulde go out and in at hir pleasure to praye vnto hir God those thre dayes And so in the night season she wēte forth in to the valley of Bethulia and wasszhed hirself in the wellwater Then wente she vp and besought the LORDE God of Israel that he wolde prospere hir waye for the delyueraunce of his people And so she wente in and remayned cleane in hir tent till she toke hir meate in the euenynge Vpon y e fourth daye it happened y t Holofernes made a costly supper vnto his seruaūtes and sayde vnto Vagao his chamberlayne Go y i waye and councell this Hebruesse that she maye be wyllynge to consent to kepe company with me For it were a shame vnto all the Assirians that a woman shulde so laugh a man to scorne that she were come from him vnmedled withall Then wente Vagao vnto Iudith and sayde Let not the good daughter be afrayed
to come in to my lorde that she maye be honoured before him that she maye eate and drynke wyne and be mery with him Vnto whom Iudith answered Who am I that I shulde saye my lorde naye what so euer is good before his eyes I shal do it and loke what is his pleasure that shal I thinke well done as longe as I lyue So she stode vp and deckte hirself with hir apparell and wente in and stode before him And Holofernes hert was whole moued so that he brent in desyre towarde her And Holofernes sayde vnto her drynke now and sytt downe and be mery for thou hast founde fauoure before me Then sayde Iudith Syr I wil drynke for my mynde is meryer to daye then euer it was in all my life And she toke and ate and dranke before him the thinges that hir mayden had prepared for her And Holofernes was mery w t her and dranke more wyne then euer he dyd afore in his life The XIII Chapter NOw whan it was late in the night his seruauntes made haist euery mā to his lodginge And Vagao shutt the chamber dores and wente his waye for they were all ouerladen with wyne So was Iudith alone in the chamber As for Holofernes he laye vpon the bed all droncken and of very dronkennes fell a slepe Then commaunded Iudith hir mayden to stōde without before the dore and to wayte And Iudith stode before the bed makynge hir prayer with teares and moued hir lippes secretly and sayde Strength me O LORDE God of Israel and haue respecte vnto the workes of my handes in this houre that thou mayest set vp thy cite of Ierusalem like as thou hast promysed O graunte that by the I maye perfourme the thinge which I haue deuysed thorow the beleue that I haue in the. And whan she had spoken this she wente to the bedsteade and lowsed the swerde that hanged vpon it and drew it out Then toke she holde of the hairie lockes of his heade and sayde Strength me o LORDE God in this houre and with that she gaue him two strokes vpon the neck and smote of his heade Then toke she the canapy awaye and rolled the deed body asyde Immediatly she gat her forth and delyuered the head of Holofernes vnto hir mayden and bad hir put it in hir walett And so these two wente forth together after their custome as though they wolde praye and so passed by the hoost and came thorow the valley vnto the porte of the cite And Iudith cried a farre of vnto y e watch men vpon the walles Open the gates sayde she for God is with vs which hath shewed his power in Israel And whan they herde hir voyce they called the elders of the cite together And they came all to mete her litle greate yonge olde for they thought not that she shulde haue come so soone So they lighted candels and gathered aboute hir euaerichone but she wente vp into an hye place and caused sylence to be proclamed Whan euery man now helde his tonge Iudith sayde O prayse the LORDE oure God for he hath not despysed ner forsaken them that put their trust in him and in me his honde mayden he hath perfourmed his mercy which he promysed vnto the house of Israel yee in my hāde this same night hath he slayne the enemy of his people And with that she toke forth the heade of Holofernes out of the walett and shewed it them sayenge Beholde the heade of Holofernes the captayne of the Assiriās and this is the canapy wherin he laye in his dronkennes where the LORDE oure God hath slayne him by the hande of a woman But as truly as the LORDE lyueth his angell hath kepte me goinge thither remayninge there and commynge hither agayne from thence And the LORDE hath not suffred me his handmayden to be defyled but without eny fylthynes of synne hath he brought me agayne vnto you y t with greate victory so that I am escaped and ye delyuered O geue thankes vnto him euerychone for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer So they praysed the LORDE alltogether and gaue thākes vnto him And to her they sayde The LORDE hath blessed the in his power for thorow the he hath brought oure enemies to naught And Ozias y e chefe ruler of the people of Israel sayde vnto her Blessed art thou of the LORDE the hye God aboue all wemen vpon earth Blessed be the LORDE the maker of heauen and earth which hath gyded y e a right to wounde and to smyte of the heade of the captayne of oure enemies For this daye he hath made thy name so honorable that thy prayse shall neuer come out of the mouth of mē which shal all waye remembre y e power of the LORDE seinge thou hast not spared thine owne self but put the in ieoperdy consideringe the anguysh and trouble of thy people and so hast helped their fall before God o r LORDE And all the people sayde Amē Amen Achior also was called he came Then sayde Iudith vnto him The God of Israel vnto whō thou gauest wytnes that he wolde be auenged of his enemies euen he hath this night thorow my hande smyttē of the head of all the vnfaithfull And that thou mayest se that it so is beholde this is y e heade of Holofernes which in his presumptuous pryde despysed the God of the people of Israel and threatened y e with destruccion sayenge whan the people of Israel is takē I shall cause the also to be stickte with the swerde Whan Achior sawe Holofernes heade ▪ he fell downe vpon his face to the grounde for very anguish feare so y t he swowned with all But after that he was come agayne to himself he fell downe before her praysed her sayēge Blessed art thou of thy God in all the tabernacles of Iacob for all the people that heare of thy name shall prayse the God of Israel because of the. The XIIII Chapter IVdith saide vnto all the people Brethren heare me Styck vp this heade vpon oure walles and whan the Sonne aryseth take euery man his weapen and fall out violently not as though ye wolde go besyde them but to renne vpon them with violence Whan the spyes in the tētes se this they shall of necessite be cōpelled to fle bacwarde and to rayse vp their captayne to the battayll So whā their captaynes come in to Holofernes pauylion and fynde the deed body wrapped in the bloude fearfulnes shall fall vpon them and whan ye perceaue that they fle folowe them without all care for God shal delyuer them vnto you to be destroyed Then Achior seynge the power of God which he had shewed vnto the people of Israel fell of from his Heithenish beleue and put his trust in God and let him self be circumcided and so was he nombred amonge the people of Israel he and all his posterite vnto this daye Now as soone as it was
wildernesse Moses intreateth for the people Chap. XIX Like as the wicked are euer synnynge more and more so doth the wrath of God neuer ceasse tyll they be destroyed Of them that were punyshed in the tyme of Loth. The first Chapter O Set youre affeccion vpoÌ„ wyszdome ye that be iudges of the earth Haue a good opinion of the LORDE seke him in the synglenesse of hert For he will be fouÌ„de of them that tempte him not and appeareth vnto soch as put their trust in him As for frowarde thoughtes they separate from God but vertue yf it be alowed refourmeth y e vnwyse And why wyszdome shall not entre in to a frowarde soule ner dwell in the body that is subdued vnto synne For the holy goost abhorreth fayned nurtoure withdraweth himself froÌ„ y e thoughtes that are without vnderstondinge where wickednes hath the vpper haÌ„de he flieth from thence For the sprete of wyszdome is louynge gentle and gracious and wil haue no pleasure in him that speaketh euell with his lippes For God is a witnesse of his reynes a true searcher out of his hert and an hearer of his tonge For the sprete of y e LORDE fylleth the rounde compasse of the worlde and y e same that vpholdeth all thinges hath knowlege also of the voyce Therfore he that speaketh vnrighteous thinges can not be hydd nether maye he escape the iudgmeÌ„t of reprofe And why inquysicion shal be made for the thoughtes of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednes shal be punished For the eare of gelousy heareth all thinges and the noyse of the grudginges shal not be hydd Therfore bewarre of murmuringe which is nothinge worth and refrayne youre tonge from slauÌ„der For there is no worde so darck and secrete that it shall go for naught and the mouth that speaketh lyes slayeth the soule O seke not youre owne death in y e erroure of youre life destroye not youre selues thorow the workes of youre awne handes For God hath not made death nether hath he pleasure in the destruccion of the lyuynge For he created all thinges that they might haue their beynge yee all the people of the earth hath he made that they shulde haue health that there shulde be no destruccion in them and that the kyngdome of hell shulde not be vpon earth for righteousnesse is euerlastinge and immortall but vnrighteousnes bringeth death Neuerthelesse the vngodly call her vnto them both w t wordes workes whyle they thinke to haue a frende of her they come to naught for the vngodly that are confederate with her and take hir parte are worthy of death The II. Chapter FOr y e vngodly talke ymagin thus amonge them selues but not right The tyme of oure life is but short tedious when a man is once gone he hath nomore ioye ner pleasure nether knowe we eny man y t turneth agayne from death for we are borne of naught we shal be herafter as though we had neuer bene For oure breth is as a smoke in oure nostrels y e wordes as a sparck to moue oure herte As for o r body it shal be very aszshes y t are queÌ„ched o r soule shal vanish as y e soft ayre Oure life shall passe awaye as y e trace of a cloude come to naught as y e myst y t is dryueÌ„ awaye w t the beames of y e Sonne put downe w t the heate therof Oure name also shal be forgotten by litle litle no man shal haue oure workes in remembraunce For o r tyme is a very shadow y t passeth awaye after o r ende there is no returnynge for it is fast sealed so y t no maÌ„ coÌ„meth agayne Come on therfore let vs enioye y e pleasures y t there are let vs soone vse y e creature like as in youth We wil fyll oure selues w t good wyne oyntment there shal no floure of the tyme go by vs. We wil crowne o r selues w t roses afore they be wythered There shal be no fayre medowe but o r lust shall go thorow it Let euery one of you be partaker of oure volupteousnes Let vs leaue some token of o r pleasure in euery place for y t is oure porcion els gett we nothinge Let vs oppresse the poore righteous let vs not spare the wyddowe ner olde man let vs not regarde y e heades y t are gray for age Let y e lawe of vnrighteousnesse be oure auctorite for y e thinge y t is feble is nothinge worth Therfore let vs defraude the righteous whyâ—he is not for o r profit yee he is cleane coÌ„trary to o r doinges He checketh vs for offendinge agaynst y e lawe slaundreth vs as transgressours of all nurtor. He maketh his boost to haue y e knowlege of God yee he calleth him self Gods sonne He is the bewrayer of oure thoughtes It greueth vs also to loke vpon him for his lyfe is not lyke other mens his wayes are of another fashion He counteth vs but vayne personnes he w t draweth him self from o r wayes as from fylthynes he coÌ„mendeth greatly y e latter ende of the iust maketh his boast y t God is his father Let vs se then yf his wordes be true let vs proue what shal come vpon him so shal we knowe what ende he shal haue For yf he be y e true sonne of God he will receaue him delyuer him from the handes of his enemies Let vs examen him with despitefull rebuke and tormentinge that we maye knowe his dignite proue his pacience Let vs condemne him with the most shamefull death for like as he hath spoken so shal he be rewarded Soch thinges do the vngodly ymagin go astraye for their owne wickednes hath blynded them As for the misteries of God they vnderstonde them not they nether hope for the rewarde of righteousnesse ner regarde the worshipe that holy soules shall haue For God created man to be vndestroied yee after the ymage of his awne licknesse made he him Neuerthelesse thorow envye of the deuell came death in to the worlde and they that holde of his syde do as he doth The III. Chapter BVt the soules of y e righteous are in y e hande of God y e payne of death shal not touch theÌ„ In y e sight of the vnwyse they appeare to dye their ende is takeÌ„ for very destruccion The waye of the righteous is iudged to be vtter destruccion but they are in rest And though they suffre payne before men yet is their hope full of immortalite They are punished but in few thinges neuerthelesse in many thinges shal they be well rewarded For God proueth them fyndeth theÌ„ mete for himself yee as the golde in the fornace doth he trye them receaueth them as a brent
can we discerne the thinges that are vpon earth and greate labo r haue we or we can fynde the thinges which are before oure eyes Who will then seke out the groūde of the thinges that are done in heauē Oh LORDE who cā haue knowlege of y e vnderstandinge and meaninge excepte thou geue wyszdome and sende thy holy goost frō aboue that the wayes of them which are vpon earth maye be refourmed y t men maye lerne y e thinges that are pleasaunt vnto the and be preserued thorow wyszdome The X. Chapter WYszdome preserued y e first mā whō God made a father of the worlde whā he was created alone brought him out of his offence toke him out of the moulde of y e earth gaue him power to rule all thinges Whan the vnrighteous wente awaye in his wrath from this wyszdome y e brotherheade perished thorow y e wrath of murthur Agayne whā y e water destroyed y e whole worlde wyszdome preserued the righteous thorow a poore tre wherof she was gouerner herself Morouer whā wickednes had gotten y e vpperhande so y t the nacions were puft vp with pryde she knewe y e righteous preserued him fautlesse vnto God and layed vp sure mercy for his children She preserued the righteous whan he fled from the vngodly y t perished what tyme as y e fyre fell downe vpon y e v. cities Like as yet this daye the vnfrutefull waist and smokinge lōde geueth testimony of their wickednesse yee the vnripe and vntymely frutes that growe vpon the trees And for a tokē of a remembraunce of the vnfaithfull soule there standeth a piler of salt For all soch as regarded not wyszdome gat not only this hurte that they knewe not the thinges which were good but also left behinde them vnto mē a memoriall of their foolishnes so y t in the thinges wherin they synned they coude not be hydd But as for soch as take hede vnto wyszdome she shal delyuer them from sorowe Whan the righteous fled because of his brothers wrath wyszdome led him the right waye shewed him y e kyngdome of God gaue him knowlege of holy thinges made him riche in his laboures and brought to passe the thinges that he wente aboute In y e disceatfulnes of soch as defrauded him she stode by him made him ryche She saued him from the enemies and defended him from y e disceauers She made him stronge in battayll and gaue him the victory y t he might knowe how that wyszdome is stronger then all thinges Whan the righteous was solde she forsoke him not but delyuered him frō synners She wente downe with him in to the dongeon and fayled him not in the bandes tyll she had brought him the cepter of y e realme and power agaynst those that oppressed him As for them that had accused him she declared them to be lyers brought him to perpetuall worshipe She delyuered the righteous people and fautlesse sede from the nacions that oppressed them She entred in to the soule of the seruaunt of God and stode by him in wonders and tokens agaynst the horrible kynge She gaue y e righteous the rewarde of their labours led them forth a maruelous waye on the daye tyme she was a shadowe vnto them and a light of starres in the night season She brought them thorow the reed see and caried them thorow the greate water She drowned their enemies in the see and brought them out of the depe So the righteous toke the spoyles of the vngodly and praysed thy holy name o LORDE and magnified thy victorious hād with one acorde For wyszdome openeth the mouth of y e domme maketh y e tonges of babes to speake The XI Chapter SHe ordred their workes in the hādes of the holy prophet so y t they wente thorow y e wyldernes y t was not inhabited pitched their tētes in y e waist deserte They stode agaynst their enemies were auenged of their aduersaries Whā they were thirstie they called vpō y e water was geuē them out of y e rok their thirst slockened out of y e harde stone For by y e thinges where thorow their enemies were punished were they helped in their nede For vnto the enemies thou gauest mās bloude in steade of lyuynge water And where as they had scarcenesse in y e rebuke whan the children were slayne thou gauest vnto thine awne a plenteous water vnloked for declaringe by the thyrst y t was at that tyme how thou woldest bringe thine awne vnto hono r slaye their aduersaries For whan they were tryed nourtured w t fatherly mercy they knowleged how the vngodly were iudged and punyshed thorow y e wrath of God These hast thou exorted as a father proued thē but vnto y e other thou hast bene a boysteous kynge layed hard to their charge condēned thē Whether they were absent or present their punyshmēt was alyke For their grefe was dubble namely mournynge and y e remēbraunce of thinges past But whā they perceaued y t their punishmētes dyd thē good they thought vpon the LORDE wondered at y e ende For at the last they helde moch of him of whō in y e out castinge they thought scorne as of an abiecte Neuerthelesse y e righteous dyd not so when they were thirstie but euenlike as y e thoughtes of y e foolish were so was also their wickednes Where as certayne mē now thorow erro r dyd worshipe dommeserpentes vayne beestes thou sendedst a multitude of domme beastes vpon them for a vengeaunce y t they might knowe that loke where withall a mā synneth by the same also shal he be punyshed For vnto thy allmighty hande that made the worlde of naught it was not vnpossible to sende amonge them an heape of Beeres or woode lyōs or cruell beastes of a straūge kynde soch as are vnknowne or spoute fyre or cast out a smokinge breth or shote horrible sparkes out of their eyes which might not only destroye them with hurtinge but also kyll them with their horrible sight Yee without these beestes might they haue bene slayne with one winde beynge persecuted of their awne workes and scatered abrode thorow the breth of thy power Neuertheles thou hast ordred all thinges in measure nōbre weight For thou hast euer had greate strēgth might who maye withstōde y e power of thine arme And why like as y e small thynge y t y e balaunce weyeth so is y e worlde before y e yee as a droppe of y e morninge dew that falleth downe vpon the earth Thou hast mercy vpon all for thou hast power of all thynges and makest the as though thou sawest not the sinnes of mē because they shulde amende For thou louest all the thinges that are and hatest none of thē whō thou hast made nether didest thou ordeyne or make eny thinge of
heauen and in earth Go ye youre waye therfore and teach all nacions and baptyse them in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy goost and teach them to kepe all thinges what soeuer I haue commaunded you And lo I am with you euery daye vnto the ende of the worlde The ende of the gospell of S. Mathew The gospell of S. Marke What S. Marke conteyneth Chap. I. The office of Ihon the baptist The baptyme of Christ his fastynge his preachinge and the callynge of Peter Andrew Iames and Ihon. Christ healeth the man with the vncleane sprete helpeth Peters mother in lawe and clenseth the leper Chap. II. He healeth the man of the palsye calleth Leui the customer eateth with open synners and excuseth his disciples Chap. III. He helpeth the man with the dryed hande choseth his apostles and casteth out the vncleane sprete which the Pharises ascrybe vnto the deuell The brother sister and mother of Christ. Chap. IIII. The parable of the sower Christ stilleth the tempest of the see which obeyeth him Chap. V. He delyuereth the possessed from the vncleane sprete the woman from the bloudye yssue and rayseth the captaynes doughter Chap. VI. Christ preacheth at home and is not regarded He sendeth out his disciples Ihon baptist is taken and headed Christ fedeth fyue thousande men with fyue loaues and two fiszhes He walketh vpon the see Chap. VII The Pharises are not cōtent that the disciples eate with vnwaszhen handes but Christ rebuketh thē selues for breakinge the commaundementes of God healeth the woman of Canaans daughter and maketh the domme to speake Chap. VIII He fedeth foure thousande mē with vij loaues reproueth the Pharises that are so desyrous of tokens warneth his disciples to bewarre of their leuen maketh a blynde man to see axeth his disciples what men holde of him reproueth Peter telleth his disciples of his passion and exorteth them to folowe him ▪ Chap. IX The transfiguracion of Christ which healeth the childe that was possessed of a domme sprete teacheth his disciples to be lowly and to auoyde occasions of euell Chap. X. Christ geueth his answere concernynge mariage and that it is harde for th◠rich to come in to heauē reproueth the disdayne of his disciples lerneth thē to be meke and restoreth blynde Barthimeus to his sight Chap. XI Christ rydeth in to Ierusalem dryueth the marchauntes out of the temple curseth the fyge tre and confoundeth the Pharises Chap. XII He rebuketh the synne and vnthankfulnesse of the Iewes with a goodly symilitude taketh thē in their owne disceatfull questions exorteth to bewarre of their doctryne and lyuynge and commendeth the good wyll of the poore wyddowe Chap. XIII He warneth his disciples to bewarre of false teachers and disceauers comforteh them agaynst the trouble for to come tellinge them of the horrible destruccion of Ierusalem of his commynge and ende of the worlde Chap. XIIII The Magdalene anoynteth Christ. They eate the easter lambe and the supper of the LORDE Christ is taken and brought in to Caiphas house Peter denyeth him Chap. XV. The crucifienge of Christ and how he was buried Chap. XVI The resurreccion of Christ which appeareth vnto Mary Magdalene and to his disciples whom he sendeth forth in to the worlde to preach the gospell and ascēdeth vp in to heauen himself The gospell of S. Marke The first Chapter THis is the begynnynge of the gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God as it is wryttē in the prophetes Beholde I sende my messaūger before thy face which shal prepare thy waye before the. The voyce of a cryer is in the wyldernes Prepare the waye of the LORDE make his pathes straight Ihon was in the wyldernes and baptysed and preached the baptyme of amendment for the remyssion of synnes And there wente out vnto him the whole londe of Iewry and they of Ierusalem and were all baptysed of him in Iordan and knowleged their synnes Ihon was clothed with Camels heer and with a lethron gerdell aboute his loynes and ate locustes and wylde hony and preached and sayde There commeth one after me which is stronger then I before whom I am not worthy to stoupe downe and to lowse vp y e lachet of his shue I baptyse you with water but he shal baptyse you with the holy goost And it happened at the same tyme that Iesus came out of Galile from Nazareth and was baptysed of Ihon in Iordan And as soone as he was come out of the water he sawe that the heauens opened and the goost as a doue cōmynge downe vpon him And there came a voyce from heauē Thou art my deare sonne in whom I delyte And immediatly the sprete droue him in to the wyldernes and he was in the wyldernes fourtye dayes and was tempted of Sathan and was with the wylde beestes And the angels mynistred vnto him But after that Ihon was taken Iesus came in to Galile and preached the gospell of the kyngdome of God and sayde the tyme is fulfylled and the kyngdome of God is at hande Amende youre selues and beleue the gospell So as he walked by the see of Galile he sawe Symon and Andrew his brother castinge their nettes in the see for they were fyszhers And Iesus sayde vnto thē Folowe me and I wil make you fyszhers of mē And immediatly they left their nettes and folowed him And when he was gone a lytle further from thence he sawe Iames the sonne of Zebede and Ihon his brother as they were in the shyppe mendynge their nettes And anone he called them And they left their father Zebede in the shyppe with the hyred seruauntes and folowed him And they wente in to Capernaum and immediatly vpon the Sabbathes he entred in to the synagoge and taught And they were astonnyed at his doctryne for he taught them as one hauynge power and not as the Scrybes And in their synagoge there was a man possessed with a foule sprete which cried and sayde Oh what haue we to do with the thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroye us I knowe that thou art euen y t holy one of God And Iesus reproued him and sayde holde thy tonge and departe out of him And the foule sprete tare him and cried with a loude voyce and departed out of him And they were all astonnyed in so moch that they axed one another amonge thē selues sayde What is this What new lernynge is this For he cōmaundeth the foule spretes with power and they are obedient vnto him And immediatly the fame of him was noysed rounde aboute in the coastes and borders of Galile And forth with they wente out of the synagoge and came in to the house of Symō and Andrew w t Iames and Ihon. And Symons mother in lawe laye had the feuers and anone they tolde him of her And he came to her and set her vp and toke her by y e hande and the feuer
to take him in his wordes And they came and sayde vnto hī Master we knowe that thou art true and carest for no man For thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of men but teachest y e waye of God truly Is it laufull to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure or not Ought we to geue it or ought we not to geue it But he perceaued their ypocrisye and sayde vnto them Why tempte ye me Brynge me a peny that I maye se it And they brought it him Then sayde he Whose ymage and superscripcion is this They sayde vnto him The Emperours Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto thē Geue therfore vnto the Emperoure that which is the Emperours and vnto God that which is Gods And they marueled at him Then came vnto him the Saduces which holde that there is no resurreccion these axed him and sayde Master Moses wrote vnto vs. Yf eny mans brother dye and leaue a wife and leaue no children his brother shal take his wife and rayse vp sede vnto his brother Now were there seuen brethren the first toke a wife and dyed and left no sede and the seconde toke her and dyed and left no sede also the thirde in like maner And they all seuen toke her and left no sede At the last after them all the wyfe dyed also Now in the resurreccion whan they shal ryse agayne whose wife shal she be of them For seuen had her to wife Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them Do not ye erre because ye knowe not the scryptures ner y e power of God Whan they shal ryse agayne from the deed they shal nether mary ner be maried but they are as the angels in heauen As touchinge the deed that they shal ryse agayne haue ye not red in the boke of Moses how God spake vnto him in the bush and sayde I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac the God of Iacob Yet is not God a God of the deed but of the lyuynge Therfore ye erre greatly And there came vnto him one of the scrybes that had herkened vnto thē how they disputed together and sawe that he had answered them well and axed him Which is the chefest cōmaundement of all Iesus answered him The chefest commaundemēt of all commaundementes is this Heare O Israel the LORDE oure God is one God and thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God with all thy hert with all thy soule with all thy mynde and with all thy strength This is the chefest commaundement and the seconde is like vnto it Thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thy self There is none other greater commaundement then these And the scrybe sayde vnto him Master Verely thou hast sayde right for there is but one God there is none other without him and to loue him with all the hert with all the mynde with all the soule and with all the strength and to loue a mans neghboure as himself is more then brent sacrifices and all offerynges But whā Iesus sawe that he answered discretly he sayde vnto him Thou art not farre from the kyngdome of God And after this durst no man axe him eny mo questions And Iesus answered and sayde whan he taught in the temple How saye the scrybes y t Christ is the sonne of Dauid But Dauid himself saieth thorow the holy goost The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE Syt thou on my right honde tyll I make thine enemies y e fotestole There Dauid calleth him his LORDE How is he thē his sonne And many people herde him gladly And he taught thē and sayde vnto thē Bewarre of the scrybes that loue to go in longe garmentes and loue to be saluted in the market and syt gladly aboue in the synagoges and at the table they deuoure wyddowes houses and vnder a coloure they make longe prayers These shal receaue the more damnacion And Iesus sat ouer agaynst the Gods chest and behelde how the people put money into the Gods chest And many that were riche put in moch And there came a poore wyddowe and put in two mytes which make a farthinge And he called vnto him his disciples and sayde vnto them Verely I saye vnto you this poore wyddowe hath put more in y e Godschest then all they that haue put in For they all haue put ī of their superfluyte but she of hir pouerte hath put in all that she had euen hir whole lyuynge The XIII Chapter ANd whan he wēte out of the temple one of his disciples sayde vnto him Master se what stones and what a buyldinge is this And Iesus answered and sayde vnto him Seist thou all this greate buyldinge There shal not one stone be left vpō another y t shal not be broken downe And whan he sat vpon mount Oliuete ouer ageynst the temple Peter and Iames and Ihon and Andrew axed him pryuatly Tell vs Whan shal all these come to passe And what shal be the tokē whā all these shal be fulfilled Iesus answered them and beganne to saye Take hede that no man disceaue you for there shal many come vnder my name and saye I am Christ shal disceaue many But whan ye shal heare of the noyse of warres be not ye afrayed for so must it be but y e ende is not yet One people shal ryse ageynst another and one realme ageynst another and there shal be earth quakes here and there and derth shal there be and troubles These are the begynnynge of sorowes But take ye hede to youre selues For they shal delyuer you vp to the councels and synagoges and ye shal be beaten and shal be brought before prynces and kynges for my namessake for a wytnesse vnto thē And y e gospel must first be preached amōge all people Nowwhan they shal lede you and delyuer you vp take ye no thought afore what ye shal saye and ymagyn ye nothinge afore hande but what so euer shal be geuē you at the same houre that speake for it is not ye that speake but the holy goost One brother shal delyuer another vnto death and the father the sonne the children shal ryse ageynst their fathers and mothers and shal helpe them to death and ye shal be hated of all men for my names sake But who so endureth to the ende shal be saued Whan ye shal se the abhominaciō of desolacion wherof it is spokē by Daniel the prophet stonde where it ought not who so readeth it let him marck it well then let thē which be in Iewry flye vnto the mountaynes and let him that is on the house toppe not descēde into the house ner come therin to fetch eny thinge out of the house And let him that is in the felde not turne backe to fetch his clothes But wo vnto them that are with childe and to them that geue suck in those dayes Neuertheles praye ye that youre flight be not in the wynter For in
vnto them and founde thē slepynge and sayde vnto Peter Symon slepest thou Couldest thou not watch with me one houre Watch and praye that ye fal not in to temptacion The sprete is wyllinge but y e flesh is weake And he wēte forth agayne and prayde and spake the same wordes and returned and founde them slepynge agayne for their eyes were heuy they knewe not what they shulde answere him And he came the thirde tyme and sayde vnto them Slepe on now and take youre rest It is ynough the houre is come beholde y e sonne of man shal be delyuered into the handes of synners aryse let vs be goynge Beholde he is at hande that betrayeth me And immediatly whyle he yet spake came Iudas one of the twolue and with him a greate multitude with swerdes and staues from the hye prestes and scrybes and elders And the traytoure had geuen them a tokē and sayde Whom so euer I kysse that same is he laye handes vpon him and lede him awaye warely And whā he was come he wente straight waye vnto him and sayde vnto him O master master and kyssed him Then layed they their handes vpon him toke him But one of thē that stode by drew out his swerde and smote the hye prestes seruaunt and cut of his eare And Iesus answered and sayde vnto thē Ye are come forth as it were to a murthurer with swerdes and with staues to take me I was daylie with you in the temple and taught and ye toke me not But this is done hat the scrypture maye be fulfilled And all the disciples forsoke him and fled And there folowed him a yonge mā which was clothed in lynnen vpon the bare skynne and the yonge mē toke holde of him But he let the lynnen go and fled naked from them And they led Iesus vnto the hye prest where all y e hye prestes and elders and scrybes were come together As for Peter he folowed him afarre of into the hye prestes palace And he was there and sat with the seruauntes and warmed him But the hye prestes and the whole councell sought wytnesse agaynst Iesus y t they might brynge him to death and they founde none Many gaue false wytnesse agaynst him but their wytnesses agreed not together And some stode vp and gaue false wytnes agaynst him and sayde We herde him saye I wil breake downe this temple that is made with hōdes and in thre dayes buylde another not made w t handes But their wytnesse agreed not together And the hye prest stode vp amonge them and axed Iesus and sayde Answerest thou nothinge vnto it that these testifie agaynst the But he helde his tunge and answered nothinge Thē the hye prest axed him agayne and sayde vnto him Art thou Christ the sonne of the blessed Iesus sayde I am And ye shal se the sonne of man syt at the right hande of power and come in the cloudes of heauē Then the hye prest rent his clothes sayde What nede we eny mo wytnesses Ye haue herde the blasphemy What thynke ye They all cōdemned him that he was giltie of death Then beganne there some to spyt vpō him and to couer his face and to smyte him with fistes and to saye vnto him Prophecie vnto vs. And the seruauntes smote him on the face And Peter was beneth in y e palace Thē came one of the wenches of the hye prest And whā she sawe Peter warmynge him she loked vpō hī and sayde And thou wast with Iesus of Nazareth also But he denyed sayde I knowe him not nether can I tell what thou sayest And he wente out in to the fore courte and the cock crew And a damsell sawe him and beganne agayne to saye vnto them that stode by This is one of them And he denyed it agayne And after a litle whyle they y t stode by sayde agayne vnto him Of a trueth thou art one of them for thou art a Galilean and thy speach soundeth euen alike But he begāne to curse and sweare I knowe not the man that ye speabe of And the cock crew agayne Then thought Peter vpon the worde that Iesus sayde vnto him Before y e cock crow two tymes thou shalt denye me thryse And he beganne to wepe The XV. Chapter ANd soone in the mornynge the hye prestes helde a councell w t the elders and scrybes and the whole councell bounde Iesus and led him awaye and delyuered him vnto Pylate And Pylate axed him Art thou the kynge of the Iewes He answered and sayde vnto him Thou sayest it And the hye prestes accused him sore But Pylate axed him agayne and sayde Answerest thou nothinge Beholde how sore they laye to y e charge Neuertheles Iesus answered nomore in so moch y t Pylate marueyled At that feast of Easter he was wonte to delyuer vnto them a presoner whom so euer they wolde desyre There was ī preson with the sedicious one called Barrabas which in the vproure had committed murthur And the people wente vp and prayed him that he wolde do as he was wonte Pylate answered them wyl ye that I geue lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes For he knew that y e hye prestes had delyuered him of envye But the hye prestes moued y e people that he shulde rather geue Barrabas lowse vnto them Pylate answered agayne and sayde vnto them What wil ye thē that I do vnto him whom ye accuse to be kynge of the Iewes They cried agayne Crucifie hī Pylate sayde vnto thē What euell hath he done But they cried yet moch more Crucifie him So Pylate thought to satisfie the people and gaue Barrabas lowse vnto them and delyuered thē Iesus to be scourgd crucified And the soudyers led him in to the comō hall and called the whole multitude together and clothed him with purple and plated a crowne of thorne and crowned him withall and beganne to salute him Hayle kynge of the Iewes And smote him vpon the heade with a rede and spytted vpō him and fell vpō the kne worshipped him And whā they had mocked him they toke y e purple of him and put his clothes vpon him led him out that they might crucifye him And they compelled one that passed by called Symon of Cyren which came from the felde and was the father of Alexander and Ruffus to beare his crosse And they brought him to the place Golgatha which is by interpretacion a place of deed mens skulles And they gaue him wyne myxted w t myrre to drynke he toke it not And whan they had crucified him they parted his garmētes cast lottes therfore what euery one shulde take And it was aboute y e thirde houre they crucified him And the tytle of his cause was wryttē ouer aboue him namely The kynge of the Iewes And they crucified him w t two murthurers one at y e right hande and one
at the left Then was the scrypture fulfilled which sayeth He was coūted amonge the euell doers And they that wēte by reuyled him and wagged their heades and sayde Fye vpon the how goodly breakest thou downe y e tēple buyldest it agayne in thre dayes Helpe y e self now come downe frō the crosse The hye prestes also in like maner laughed him to scorne amonge thē selues with the scrybes sayde He hath helped other himself can he not helpe Yf he be Christ and y e kyge of Israel let him come downe now frō the crosse y t we maye se it beleue And they y t were crucified w t hī checked hī also And whā it was aboute the sixte houre there was a darcknesse ouer the whole lōde tyll aboute y e nyenth houre And aboute y e nyenth houre Iesus cried loude and sayde Eli Eli lamma asabthani which is interpreted My God my God why hast thou forsaken me And some that stode by whan they herde y t they sayde Beholde he calleth Elias Then rāne there one fylled a spōge w t vyneger stickte it vpō a rede gaue hī to drynke sayde Holde styll let se whether Elias wil come and take him downe But Iesus cried loude and gaue vp the goost And the vale of the tēple rent in two peces from aboue tyll beneth The captayne that stode thereby ouer agaynst him whā he sawe y t he gaue vp the goost with soch a crye he sayde Verely this man was Gods sonne And there were wemen there also which behelde this afarre of amōge whō was Mary Magdalene Mary of Iames y e litle the mother of Ioses Salome which had folowed him whā he was in Galile and mynistred vnto hī many other y t wēte vp w t hī to Ierusalem And at euen for so moch as it was the daye of preparinge which is the fore Sabbath there came one Ioseph of Arimathia a worshipfull Senatoure which loked also for the kyngdome of God wēte in boldely vnto Pilate axed y e body of Iesus But Pylate marueyled y t he was deed allready called y e captayne axed hī whether he had lōge bene deed And whā he had gotten knowlege of the captayne he gaue Ioseph y e body And he bought a lynnē cloth toke him downe wrapped hī in y e lynnē clothe layed him in a sepulcre which was hewē out of a rocke rolled a stone before y e dore of y e sepulcre But Mary Magdalene and Mary Ioses behelde where he was layed The XVI Chapter ANd whan the Sabbath was past Mary Magdalene Mary Iames and Salome bought spyces y t they might come anoynte hī And they came to the sepulcre vpō a daye of y e Sabbathes very early whā y e Sonne arose sayde one to another Who shal rolle vs y e stone frō y e dore of the sepulcre And whan they loked they sawe that the stone was rolled awaye for it was a very greate one And they wente in to the sepulcre and on the right hande they sawe a yonge man syttinge which had a longe whyte garmēt vpon him and they were abaszhed But he sayde vnto thē Be not ye afrayed ye seke Iesus of Nazareth which was crucified he is rysen he is not here Beholde y e place where they layed him But go ye youre waye and tell his disciples and Peter that he wil go before you into Galile there shal ye se him as he sayde vnto you And they wente forth in all the haist and fled from the sepulcre for there was a tremblynge feare come vpon them nether sayde they eny thinge to eny man for they were afrayed But Iesus whan he was rysen vp early vpō the first daye of the Sabbathes he appeared first vnto Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast out seuen deuels And she wēte and tolde thē that were with him as they mourned and wepte And whan they herde that he lyued and had appeared vnto her they beleued it not After warde as two of thē were walkynge he shewed himself vnder another figure whan they were goynge vpon the felde And they wente and tolde the other these they beleued not also At the last as the eleuen sat at the table he shewed himself vnto them and rebuked their vnbeleue and y e hardnesse of their hert because they beleued not thē which had sene him rysen And he sayde vnto them Go ye youre waye in to all the worlde and preach the gospell vnto all creatures Who so beleueth and is baptysed shal be saued but who so beleueth not shal be damned As for the tokens which shal folowe thē that beleue these are they In my name shal they cast out deuyls Speake with new tunges Dryue awaye serpētes And yf they drynke eny deedly thinge it shal not hurte them They shal laye their handes vpō the sicke and they shal recouer And the LORDE after that he had spoken vnto them was taken vp into heauen and sytteth at the right hāde of God And they wente out and preached euery where And the LORDE wrought with them and confirmed the worde with tokens folowynge The ende of the gospell of S. Marke The gospell of S. Luke What S. Luke conteyneth Chap. I. The cōcepcion and byrth of Ihon the baptist The concepcion of Christ. The thākfull songes of Mary and Zachary ▪ Chap. II. The byrth circūcision of Christ. How he was receaued in to the tēple how Symeon and Anna prophecie of him and how he was founde in the tēple amōge the doctours Chap. III. The preachinge baptyme and presonment of Ihon. The baptyme of Christ and a rehearsall of the generacion of the fathers Chap. IIII. Iesus is led into the wyldernesse fasteth all the tyme of his temptacion ouercōmeth the deuell goeth in to Galilee preacheth at Nazareth and Caphernaū the Iewes despyse him the deuels knowlege him he cōmeth into Peters house healeth his mother in lawe and doth greate miracles Chap. V. Christ preacheth in the shippe The disciples forsake all and folowe him He clenseth the leper healeth the man of the palsye calleth Mathew the customer and eateth with open synners Chap. VI. He excuseth the disciples that plucke the eares of corne he healeth the man with the wythred hande choseth his twolue Apostles maketh a swete sermon and teacheth to do good for euell Chap. VII He healeth the captaynes seruaunt rayseth vp the wyddowes sonne from death to life enfourmeth the disciples whom Ihon baptist sent vnto him commendeth Ihon and reproueth the Iewes for their vnthankfulnesse He eateth with the pharisee The woman waszheth his fete with hir teares and he forgeueth her hir synnes Chap. VIII Christ with his apostles goeth frō towne to towne and preacheth sheweth the parable of the sede telleth who is his mother and his brother stilleth
y e tyme of Elias whā the heauē was shut thre yeares and sixe monethes and whan there was a greate derth in all the lande to none of thē was Elias sent but onely vnto Sarepta of the Sydonyans to a wedowe And many lepers were there in Israel in the tyme of Eliseus y e prophet and none of thē was clensed saue onely Naaman of Syria And as many as were in the synagoge whā they herde y t were fylled with wrath And they rose vp and thrust him out of the cite and led him vp to the edge of the hyll whervpō their cite was buylded that they might cast him downe headlynge But he wente his waye euen thorow the myddest of them and came to Capernaum a cite of Galile and taught thē vpō the Sabbathes And they wondred at his doctryne for his preachinge was with power And in the Synagoge there was a man possessed with a foule deuell he cryed loude and sayde Let me alone what haue we to do w t the thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroye vs I knowe y e who thou art euen the Holy of God And Iesus rebuked him and sayde holde thy tūge and departe out of him And the deuell threw hī in the myddest amonge them and departed from him and dyd him no harme And there came a feare ouer thē all and they spake amonge themselues and sayde What maner of thinge is this He commaundeth the foule spretes with auctorite and power and they departe out And y e fame of him was noysed thorow out all the places of y e countre rounde aboute And he rose vp out of the synagoge and came into Symons house And Symōs mother in lawe was takē with a greate feuer they prayde him for her And he wēte vnto her cōmaunded the feuer And it left her īmediatly she rose vp mynistred vnto thē And whan the Sonne was gone downe all they that had sicke of dyuerse diseases brought thē vnto him And he layed his hādes vpon euery one of thē made thē whole The deuels also departed out of many criēge and sayenge Thou art Christ the sonne of God And he rebuked thē suffred them not to speake for they knewe that he was Christ. But whā it was daye he wēte out into a deserte place And the people sought hī and came vnto him kepte him y t he shulde not departe frō thē But he sayde vnto thē I must preach the Gospell of y e kyngdome of God to other cities also for there to am I sent And he preached in the synagoges of Galile The V. Chapter IT came to passe y t the people preassed vpon him to heare the worde of God and he stode by the lake of Genazereth and sawe two shippes stōde by y e lake syde but y e fishers were gone out of thē and had waszhed their nettes Then wente he into one of the shippes which was Symons and prayed him y t he wolde thrust out a litle frō the londe And he sat him downe and taught the people out of y e shippe And whan he had left of talkynge he sayde vnto Symon Launch out in to the depe let slyppe yo nettes to make a draught And Symon answered and sayde vnto him Master we haue laboured all y e night and taken nothinge But vpō thy worde I wil lowse forth the nett And whā they had so done they toke a greate multitude of fiszhes their net brake And they made sygnes to their felowes which were in y e other shippe y t they shulde come helpe thē And they came fylled both the shippes full so y t they soncke Whan Symon Peter sawe y t he fell downe at Iesus knees sayde LORDE go frome for I am a synfull man For he was astonnyed and all that were w t him at this draught of fishes which they toke and so were Iames and Ihon also the sonnes of Zebede which were Symons companyons And Iesus sayde vnto Symō Feare not for frō hence forth thou shalt take men And they brought the shippes to londe and left all and folowed him And it fortuned as he was in a cite beholde there was a man full of leprosy Whā he sawe Iesus he fell vpō his face besought him and sayde LORDE yf thou wilt thou canst make me cleane And he stretched out his hāde and touched him and sayde I wil be thou cleane And immediatly the leprosy departed from him And he charged him y t he shulde tell no mā but go thy waye sayde he and shewe thy self vnto y e prest and offre for y e clensynge as Moses cōmaunded for a witnesse vnto thē But y e fame of hī wēte out farther abrode there came moch people together to heare him to be healed by hī frō their sicknesses And he departed into the wyldernesses gaue himself to prayer And it fortuned vpō a daye y t he taught and there sat y e Pharises and scrybes which were come out of all the townes of Galile and Iewry and frō Ierusalē and the power of the LORDE wēte frō him healed euery man And beholde certayne men brought vpon a bed a man y t had y e palsye and they sought how they might brynge him in and laye him before him And whan they coude not fynde by what waye they might bringe him in for y e people they clymmed vp to y e toppe of the house let him downe thorow the tylinge w t the bed amōge thē before Iesus And whan he sawe their faith he sayde vnto hī Man y i synnes are forgeuē ye. And the scrybes and pharyses begāne to thynke saide What is he this y t speaketh blasphemy Who cā forgeue synnes but onely God Neuertheles whā Iesus perceaued their thoughtes he answered and saide vnto thē What thynke ye in yo r hertes Whether is easier to saye Thy synnes are forgeuē y e Or to saye Aryse and walke But that ye maye knowe that the sonne of mā hath power to forgeue synnes vpon earth he sayde vnto y e sicke of the palsie I saye vnto y e Aryse take vp y e bed and go home And immediatly he rose vp before thē toke vp the bed y t he had lyen vpō and wēte home and praysed God And they were all astonnyed and gaue God y e prayse and were fylled w t feare and sayde We haue sene maruelous thynges to daye And afterwarde he wēte out and sawe a publican named Leui syttinge at y e receate of custome he sayde vnto him Folowe me And he left all rose vp folowed him And Leui made hī a greate feast ī his house And many publicans other sat w t hī at y e table And the scrybes and Pharyses murmured agaynst his disciples saide Wherfore do ye eate drynke w t publicās synners And Iesus
founde euen as he had sayde But whā they lowsed y e foale the owners therof sayde vnto thē Why lowse ye the foale They sayde The LORDE hath nede therof And they brought it vnto Iesus and cast their clothes vpō the foale and set Iesus theron Now as he wente they spred their garmentes in the waye And whan he wēte downe fro mount Oliuete y e whole multitude of his disciples begāne ioyfully to prayse God with loude voyce ouer all the miracles that they had sene and sayde Blessed be he that cōmeth a kynge in the name of the LORDE Peace be in heauen and prayse in the height And some of the Pharises amonge the people sayde vnto him Master rebuke thy disciples And he answered and sayde vnto them I tell you yf these holde their peace yet shal the stones crye And whan he was come neare he behelde the cite and wepte vpō it and sayde Yf thou knewest what were for y e peace thou shuldest remēbre it euen in this present daye of thine But now is it hyd from thine eyes For the tyme shal come vpon the that thine enimies shal cast vp a bāke aboute the and aboute thy children with the and besege y e and kepe the in on euery syde and make the eauen with the grounde and shal not leaue in the one stone vpon another because thou hast not knowne y e tyme wherin thou hast bene visited And he wente in to the temple and begāne to dryue out them that bought and solde therin and sayde vnto them It is wrytten My house is an house of prayer but ye haue made it a denne of murthurers And he taught daylie in the tēple But the hye prestes and the scrybes and the chefest of y e people wente aboute to destroye him and founde not what to do vnto him For all the people stacke by him and gaue him audience The XX. Chapter ANd it fortuned one of those dayes whan he taught the people in the tēple and preached the Gospell the hye prestes and scrybes came to him with the Elders and spake vnto him and sayde Tell vs by what auctorite doest thou these thinges Or who gaue the this auctorite But he answered sayde vnto thē I wil axe you a worde also tell it me The baptyme of Ihō was it from heauen or of men But they thought in them selues and sayde Yf we saye from heauen then shal he saye Why dyd ye not thē beleue him But yf we saye of men then shal all the people stone vs for they be persuaded that Ihon is a prophet And they answered that they coulde not tell whence it was And Iesus sayde vnto them Nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges And he beganne to tell the people this symilitude A certayne man planted a vynyarde and let it out vnto huszbādmen and wente himself in to a straunge countre for a greate season And whan his tyme was come he sent a seruaūt to the huszbādmen that they might geue him of the frute of the vynyarde But the huszbandmen bet him and sent him awaye emptye And agayne he sent yet another seruaūt but they bet him also and intreated him shamefully sent him awaye emptye And besydes this he sent the thirde but they wounded him also and thrust him out Then sayde the lorde of the vynyarde What shal I do I wil sende my deare sonne peraduenture they wil stonde in awe of him whan they se him But whan the huszbande men sawe the sonne they thought in thē selues and sayde This is the heyre come let vs kyll him y t the inheritaunce maye be oures And they thrust him out of y e vynyarde and slew him What shal now the lorde of the vynyarde do vnto them He shal come and destroye those huszbandmen and let out his vynyarde vnto other Whan they herde that they sayde God forbyd But he behelde thē and sayde What is this then that is wrytten The same stone which the buylders refused is become the head corner stone Who so euer falleth vpon this stone shal be broken in sunder but vpō whō so euer he falleth he shall grynde him to poulder And the hye prestes and scrybes wente aboute to laye handes vpon him the same houre and they feared the people for they perceaued that he had spokē this symilitude agaynst them And they watched hī sent forth spyes which shulde fayne thē selues perfecte that they might take him in his wordes to delyuer him vnto the power and auctorite of y e debite And they axed him sayde Master we knowe that thou sayest teachest right and regardest the outwarde appearaūce of no man but teachest the waye of God truly Is it laufull that we geue tribute vnto the Emperoure or not But he perceaued their craftynes and sayde vnto them Why tēpte ye me Shewe me the peny Whose ymage and superscripcion hath it They answered and sayde The Emperours Then sayde he vnto them Geue thē vnto the Emperoure that which is the Emperours vnto God that which is Gods And they coude not reproue his worde before the people and marueyled at his answere and helde their peace Then came vnto him certayne of the Saduces which holde that there is no resurreccion and axed him and sayde Master Moses wrote vnto vs yf eny mans brother dye hauynge a wife and dyeth without childrē then shal his brother take his wife and rayse vp sede vnto his brother Now were there seuē brethrē the first toke a wife and dyed childlesse and the seconde toke the wife and deyed without children also and the thirde toke her likewyse all the seuē and left no children behynde thē and dyed At the last after them all the woman dyed also Now in the resurreccion whose wife shal she be of them For seuen had her to wife And Iesus answered and saide vnto them The childrē of this worlde mary are maried but they y t shal be worthy to enioye that worlde and the resurreccion from the deed shal nether mary ner be maried for they can dye nomore For they are like vnto the angels and are the children of God in so moch as they are children of the resurreccion But that the deed ryse agayne hath Moses also signified besydes the bush when he called the LORDE the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob But God is not a God of the deed but of the lyuynge for they lyue all vnto him Then answered certayne of the scrybes and sayde Master thou haist sayde well And from that tyme forth they durst axe him no mo questions But he sayde vnto them How saye they that Christ is Dauids sonne And Dauid himself sayeth in the boke of the Psalmes The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE Syt thou on my right honde tyll I make thine enemies thy fote stole Dauid calleth him LORDE how
thus talkinge and reasonynge together Iesus himself drue nye and wente with them But their eyes were holden that they shulde not knowe hī And he sayde vnto them What maner of cōmunicacions are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad Then answered the one whose name was Cleophas and sayde vnto him Art thou onely a straunger at Ierusalē not knowinge what is come to passe there in these dayes And he sayde vnto thē What They sayde vnto him That of Iesus of Nazareth which was a prophet mightie in dede and worde before God and all y e people how oure hye prestes and rulers delyuered him to the condemnacion of death and crucified him But we hoped that he shulde haue delyuered Israel And besydes all this todaye is the thirde daye that this was done Yee certayne wemen also of oure company which were early at the Sepulcre and founde not his body came and tolde that they had sene a visiō of angels which sayde he was alyue And certayne of them that were with vs wente vnto the sepulcre and founde it euen so as y e wemē sayde but hī founde they not And he sayde vnto thē O ye fooles and slowe of hert to beleue all that the prophetes haue spokē Ought not Christ to haue suffred these thinges and to entre in to his glory And he beganne at Moses and at all the prophetes and expounded vnto them all the scriptures that were spoken of him And they drue nye vnto the towne which they wēte vnto and he made as though he wolde haue gone farther And they compelled him and sayde Abyde with vs for it draweth towardes night and the daye is farre passed And he wente in to tary with thē And it came to passe whan he sat at the table with thē he toke the bred gaue thankes brake it and gaue it them Then were their eyes opened and they knewe him And he vanyshed out of their sight And they sayde betwene thē selues Dyd not oure hert burne with in vs whan he talked with vs by the waye whyle he opened the scriptures vnto vs And they rose vp the same houre turned agayne to Ierusalem and founde y e eleuē gathered together and them that were with them which sayde The LORDE is rysen of a trueth and hath appeared vnto Symon And they tolde thē what had happened by y e waye and how they knewe him in breakynge of the bred But whyle they were talkynge therof Iesus himself stode in the myddes amonge thē and sayde Peace be with you But they were abashed and afrayed supposinge that they had sene a sprete And he saide vnto thē Why are ye abashed wherfore ryse there soch thoughtes in yo hertes Beholde my hādes my fete it is euen I my self Handle me and se for a sprete hath not flesh and bones as ye se me haue And whan he had thus spokē he shewed thē his hōdes and his fete But whyle they yet beleued not for ioye and wondred he sayde vnto them Haue ye eny thinge here to eate And they set before him a pece of a broyled fish and an hony combe And he toke it and ate it before thē And he sayde vnto them These are the wordes which I spake vnto you whyle I was yet with you For it must all be fulfilled that was wrytten of me in the lawe of Moses in the prophetes in the Psalmes Thē opened he their vnderstondinge that they might vnderstonde the scriptures and sayde vnto them Thus is it wryttē and thus it behoued Christ to suffre the thirde daye to ryse agayne frō the deed and to let repentaunce and remyssion of synnes be preached in his name amōge all nacions and to begynne at Ierusalē As for all these thinges ye are wytnesses of thē And beholde I wil sende vpon you the promes of my father but ye shal tary in the cite of Ierusalem tyll ye be endewed with power from aboue But he led them out vnto Bethany and lift vp his handes and blessed them And it came to passe whā he blessed them he departed from them and was caried vp in to heauen And they worshipped him and turned agayne to Ierusalem with greate ioye and were contynually in y e tēple geuynge prayse and thankes vnto God Amen The ende of the gospell of S. Luke The gospell of S. Ihon. What S. Ihons gospell conteyneth Chap. I. The euerlastinge byrth of the sonne of God and how he became man The testimony of Ihon and of his baptyme The callinge of Andrew Peter Philip and Nathanael Chap. II. Christ turneth the water vnto wyne at the mariage in Cana and dryueth the marchauntes out of the temple Chap. III. The swete talkinge of Christ with Nicodemus The doctryne baptyme of Ihō and what wytnesse he beareth of Christ. Chap. IIII. The louynge communicacion of Christ with the woman of Samaria by the welles syde How he commeth into Galile and healeth the rulers sonne Chap. V. He healeth the man that was sicke eight thirtie yeare The Iewes accuse him as a breaker of the Sabbath he answereth for himself and reproueth them Chap. VI. Iesus fedeth fyue thousande me◠with fyue barlye Loaues departeth awaye that they shulde not make him kynge goeth vpō the see and reproueth the fleshly hearers of his worde The carnall are offended at hī and forsake him Chap. VII Iesus commeth to Ierusalē at the feast teacheth the Iewes and reproueth thē The pharises the hye prestes hearinge that the people begynne to fauour Christ and to beleue in him sende out officers to take hī There are dyuerse opinions of him amōge the people The pharises rebuke the officers because they haue not taken him and chyde with Nicodemus for takinge his parte Chap. VIII A woman is taken in aduoutrie Christ delyuereth her The fredome of soch as folowe Christ whom they accuse to haue the deuel within him and go aboute to stone him Chap. IX Christ maketh the man to se that was borne blynde where thorow he getteth himself more displeasure amonge the Iewes and Pharises Chap. X. Christ is the true shepherde and the dore of the shepe Some saye Christ hath the deuell and is madd some saye he speaketh not the wordes of one that hath the deuell Because he telleth the trueth the Iewes take vp stones to cast at him call his preachinge blasphemy and go aboute to take him Chap. XI Christ rayseth Lazarus frō death The hye prestes the pharyses gather a councell and cast their heades together agaynst him therfore he getteth him out of the waye Chap. XII Mary anoynteth Christes fete Iudas murmureth Christ excuseth her rydeth in to Ierusalem and is louyngly receaued of the thankfull but vtterly despysed of the vngodly Chap. XIII Christ washeth the disciples fete telleth them of Iudas the traytour and commaundeth thē earnestly to loue one another Chap. XIIII He armeth his disciples with
worlde For his awne brethren also beleued not in him Then sayde Iesus vnto them My tyme is not yet come but youre tyme is allwaye ready The worlde can not hate you but me it hateth because I testifye of it that the workes of it are euell Go ye vp vnto this feast I wyll not go vp yet vnto this feast for my tyme is not yet fulfylled Whan he sayde this vnto them he abode styll in Galile But as soone as his brethren were gone vp then wente he vp also vnto the feast not openly but as it were secretly Then sought him y e Iewes at y e feast and sayde Where is he And there was a greate murmur of him amonge the people Some sayde He is good But other sayde No he doth but disceaue the people Howbeit no man spake frely of him for feare of the Iewes But in the myddes of the feast wēte Iesus vp in to the temple and taught And the Iewes marueyled and sayde How can he y e scrypture seynge he hath not lerned it Iesus answered them and sayde My doctryne is not myne but his that hath sent me Yf eny man wyl do his will he shal knowe whether this doctryne be of God or whether I speake of my self He that speaketh of himself seketh his awne prayse but he that seketh the prayse of him that sent him the same is true there is no vnrighteousnes in him Hath not Moses geuen you the lawe and none of you kepeth the lawe Why go ye aboute to kyll me The people answered and sayde Thou hast the deuell who goeth aboute to kyll the Iesus answered and sayde One worke haue I done and ye all maruayle Moses gaue you the circumcision not because it commeth of Moses but of y e fathers Yet do ye circumcyse a man vpon the Sabbath Yf a man receaue circūcision vpon the Sabbath that the lawe of Moses shulde not be broken diszdayne ye then at me because I haue made a mā euery whyt whole on the Sabbath Iudge not after the vtter appearaūce but iudge righteous iudgment Then sayde some of them of Ierusalem Is not this he whō they go aboute to kyll And beholde he speaketh boldely and they saye nothinge to him Do oure rulers knowe in dede that he is very Christ Howbeyt we knowe whence this is But whā Christ commeth no man shal knowe whence he is Then cryed Iesus in the temple as he taught and sayde Yee ye knowe me and whence I am ye knowe and of my self am I not come but he y t sent me is true whom ye knowe not But I knowe him for I am of him and he hath sent me Then sought they to take him but no mamlayed handes vpon him for his houre was not yet come But many of the people beleued on him and sayde Whan Christ commeth shall he do mo tokens then this doth And it came to the Pharises eares that y e people murmured soch thinges of him And the Pharises and hye prestes sent out seruauntes to take him Then sayde Iesus vnto them I am yet a litle whyle with you and then go I vnto him that hath sent me Ye shal seke me not fynde me and where I am thither can ye not come Then sayde the Iewes amonge them selues Whyther wil he go that we shal not fynde him Wyl he go amōge the Grekes that are scatred abrode and teach the Grekes What maner of sayenge is this that he sayeth ye shal seke me and not fynde me and where I am thither can not ye come But in the last daye which was y e most solempne daye of the feast Iesus stode vp cried and sayde Who so thyrsteth let him come vnto me and drynke He that beleueth on me as the scripture sayeth out of his body shal flowe ryuers of the water of life But this spake he of the sprete which they that beleue on him shulde receaue For the holy goost was not yet there because Iesus was not yet glorifyed Many of the people now whan they herde this sayenge sayde This is a very prophet Other sayde He is Christ. But some sayde Shal Christ come out of Galile Sayeth not the scripture that Christ shal come of the sede of Dauid and out of the towne of Bethleem where Dauid was Thus was there discencion amonge the people for his sake Some of them wolde haue taken him but no man layed handes on him The seruauntes came to the hye prestes and pharises and they sayde vnto them Why haue ye not brought him The seruauntes answered Neuer mā spake as this man doth Then answered them the pharises Are ye also disceaued Doth eny of the rulers or pharises beleue on him But the comon people which knowe not the lawe are cursed Nicodemus sayde vnto them he that came to him by night which was one of them Doth oure lawe iudge eny man before it heare him and knowe what he hath done They answered and sayde vnto him Art thou a Galilean also Searche and loke out of Galile aryseth no prophet And so euery man wente home The VIII Chapter IEsus wente vnto mount Oliuete and early in the mornynge came he agayne in to the temple and all the people came vnto him And he sat downe and taught them And y e scrybes and Pharises brought vnto him a woman taken in aduoutrye and set her there openly and sayde vnto him Master this woman was taken in aduontrye euē as the dede was adoynge Moses in the lawe commaunded vs to stone soch What sayest thou This they sayde to tempte him that they might haue wherof to accuse him But Iesus stouped downe and wrote with his fynger vpō the grounde Now whyle they contynued axynge him he lift him self vp and sayde vnto them He that is amonge you without synne let him cast the first stone at her And he stouped downe agayne and wrote vpon the grounde But whan they herde that they wente out one after another the eldest first and left Iesus alone and the woman stondinge before him Iesus lift himself vp and whan be sawe noman but the woman he sayde vnto her Woman where are thine accusers Hath noman condempned the She sayde LORDE no man Iesus sayde Nether do I cōdempne the Go thy waye and synne nomore Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them and sayde I am the light of the worlde He that foloweth me shal not walke in darknesse but shal haue the light of life Then sayde the Pharises vnto him Thou bearest recorde of thy self thy recorde is not true Iesus answered and sayde vnto them Though I beare recorde of my self yet my recorde is true for I knowe whence I came and whither I go but ye can not tell whence I come and whither I go Ye iudge after the flesh I iudge no man but yf I iudge my iudgment is true for I am not alone but
I do not y e workes of my father beleue me not but yf I do theÌ„ theÌ„ yf ye beleue not me yet beleue y e workes y t ye maye knowe beleue y t the father is in me I in y e father They wente aboute agayne to take him but he escaped out of their haÌ„des and weÌ„te awaye agayne beyoÌ„de Iordane in to y e place where IhoÌ„ had baptysed before there he abode And many came to hiÌ„ and sayde IhoÌ„ dyd no tokeÌ„s but all y t Ihon spake of this man is true And many beleued on him there The XI Chapter THere laye one sicke named Lazarus of Bethania in y e towne of Mary hir sister Martha It was y t Mary which anoynted y e LORDE w t oyntment dryed his fete w t hir heer whose brother Lazarus laye sicke TheÌ„ sent his sisters vnto hiÌ„ sayde LORDE beholde he whoÌ„ thou louest lyeth sicke WhaÌ„ Iesus herde that he sayde This sicknesse is not vnto death but for the prayse of God y t the sonne of God maye be praysed there thorow Iesus loued Martha hir sister Lazarus Now whaÌ„ he herde that he was sicke he abode two dayes in y e place where he was After warde sayde he vnto his disciples Let vs go agayne iÌ„ to Iewry His disciples sayde vnto him Master lately wolde the Iewes haue stoned the wilt thou go thither agayne â–ª Iesus answered Are there not twolue houres in y e daye He y t walketh in the daye stombleth not for he seyeth y e light of this worlde But he that walketh in the night stoÌ„bleth for there is no light in him This he spake after warde sayde he vnto theÌ„ Lazarus o frende slepeth but I go to wake him out of slepe TheÌ„ sayde his disciples LORDE yf he slepe he shal do well ynough Howbeyt Iesus spake of his death but they thought y t he had spokeÌ„ of y e bodely slepe TheÌ„ sayde Iesus vnto theÌ„ planely Lazarus is deed I am glad for yo sakes y t I was not there that ye maye beleue Neuertheles let vs go vnto hiÌ„ TheÌ„ sayde Thomas which is called Didimus vnto y e disciples Let vs go also y t we maye dye w t hiÌ„ TheÌ„ came Iesus founde y t he had lyen in y e graue foure dayes allready Bethanye was nye vnto IerusaleÌ„ aboute fiftene furloÌ„ges And many of the Iewes were come to Martha Mary to coÌ„forte theÌ„ ouer their brother Now whaÌ„ Martha herde y t Iesus came she weÌ„te to mete him But Mary satt styl at home TheÌ„ sayde Martha vnto Iesus LORDE yf thou haddest bene here my brother had not bene deed But neuertheles I knowe also what soeuer thou axest of God that God wyl geue it the. Iesus sayde vnto her Thy brother shal ryse agayne Martha sayde vnto hiÌ„ I knowe y t he shal ryse agayne in the resurreccion at y e last daye Iesus saide vnto her I am the resurreccion the life He y t beleueth on me shal lyue though he were deed allready whosoeuer lyueth and beleueth on me shal neuer dye Beleuest thou this She saide vnto him Yee LORDE I beleue that thou art Christ the sonne of God which shulde come in to the worlde And whaÌ„ she had sayde this she weÌ„te hir waye called Mary hir sister secretly saide The maister is come calleth for the. She whan she herde that rose vp quyckly and came vnto him For Iesus was not yet come in to y e towne but was yet in the place where Martha met him The Iewes that were w t her in the house and comforted her whan they sawe Mary that she rose vp haistely wente out they folowed her saide She goeth to the graue to wepe there Now whaÌ„ Mary came where Iesus was sawe him she fell downe at his fete sayde vnto hiÌ„ LORDE yf thou haddest bene here my brother had not bene deed WhaÌ„ Iesus sawe her wepe the Iewes wepinge also y t came w t her he groned in the sprete was sory w t in himself sayde Where haue ye layed him They sayde LORDE come se it And * Iesus wepte Then sayde y e Iewes Beholde how he loued him But some of theÌ„ saide â–ª Coulde not he * which opened the eyes of y e blynde haue made also that this maÌ„ shulde not haue dyed But Iesus groned agayne iâ— himself and came to the graue It was a caue and a stone layed on it Iesus saide Take awaye y e stone Martha the sister of him â— was deed saide 〈…〉 allready for 〈…〉 Iesus sayde vnto her Sayde I not vnto the that yf thou dyddest beleue thou shuldest se the glory of God Then toke they awaye the stone where the deed laye Iesus lift vp his eyes and sayde Father I thaÌ„ke y e that thou hast herde me Howbeit I knowe that thou hearest me allwaye but because of y e people that stonde by I sayde it that they maye beleue that thou hast sent me Whan he had sayde this he cryed loude Lazarus come forth And y e deed came forth bounde hande fote w t graue clothes his face bounde w t a napkyn Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ Lowse him let him go Many now of y e Iewes which mere come vnto Mary and sawe what Iesus dyd beleued on him But some of theÌ„ wente their waye vnto the pharises and tolde theÌ„ what Iesus had done Then the hye prestes and the pharises gathered a counceâ—l and sayde What do we This man doth many tokens Yf we let him go thus all meÌ„ wyl beleue in him theÌ„ shal the Romaynes come and take awaye oure londe and people But one of them named Caiphas which was hye prest that same yeare sayde vnto them Ye knowe nothinge nether considre ye eny thinge at all It is better for us that one maÌ„ dye for the people then that all the people shulde perishe This spake he not of himself but for so moch as he was hye prest of the same yeare he prophecied For Iesus was for to dye for the people and not for the people onely but that he shulde gather together the children of God which were scatered abrode From that daye forth they toke couÌ„cell how they might put him to death Iesus walked nomore openly amonge the Iewes but wente from thence in to a countre by the wyldernesse to a cite called Ephraim there had he his beynge with his disciples The Iewes Easter was nye at hande And there wente vp many to IerusaleÌ„ out of that countre before y e Easter to purifye them selues Then stode they vp and axed after Iesus and spake amonge them selues in the temple * What thynke ye that he coÌ„meth not to y e feast The hye prestes phaâ—ises had geuen a commaundement that yf â—ny man knewe where he were he shulde hâ—we it that they might take him
Symon Peter sayde vnto theÌ„ I go a fyshinge They sayde vnto hiÌ„ We also wil go w t the. They weÌ„te out entred into a shippe straight waye And y t same night toke they nothinge But whaÌ„ it was now morow Iesus stode on the shore but his disciples knewe not y t it was Iesus Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ ChildreÌ„ haue ye eny thinge to eate They answered hiÌ„ No. He sayde vnto theÌ„ Cast out the nett on y e right syde of the shippe ye shal fynde TheÌ„ they cast out coulde nomore drawe it for y e multitude of fishes TheÌ„ sayde y e disciple whoÌ„ Iesus loued vnto Peter It is the LORDE Whan Simon Peter herde that is was the LORDE he gyrde his mantell aboute him for he was naked and sprange in to y e see But other disciples came by shippe for they were not farre froÌ„ londe but as it were two hundreth cubytes and they drewe the net with the fiszhes Now whan they were come to londe they sawe coles layed and fysh theron and bred Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ Bringe hither of the fyshes that ye haue taken now Symon Peter stepped forth and drew the nett to the londe full of greate fyszhes and hundreth and thre and fyftie And for all there were so many yet was not the net broken Iesus sayde vnto them Come and dyne But none of the disciples durst axe him Who art thou For they knewe that it was the LORDE Then came Iesus and toke y e bred and gaue it theÌ„ and the fyszhe likewyse This is now the thirde tyme that Iesus appeared vnto his disciples after that he was rysen agayne from the deed Now whaÌ„ they had dyned Iesus sayde vnto Symon Peter SymoÌ„ IohaÌ„na louest thou me more then these do He sayde vnto him Yee LORDE thou knowest y t I loue the. He sayde vnto him Fede my laÌ„bes He sayde vnto him agayne the seconde tyme SymoÌ„ IohaÌ„na louest thou me He sayde vnto him Yee LORDE thou knowest y t I loue ye. He sayde vnto him Fede my shepe He saide vnto him y e thirde tyme Symon IohaÌ„na louest thou me Peter was sory because he sayde vnto him louest thou me And he sayde vnto him LORDE thou knowest all thinges thou knowest that I loue ye. Iesus sayde vnto him Fede my shepe Verely verely I saye vnto the Whan thou wast yoÌ„ge thou gerdedst thyselfe and walkedst whither thou woldest But whaÌ„ thou art olde thou shalt stretch forth thy handes and another shal gyrde the and lede the whither thou woldest not But this he sayde to signifye with what death he shulde glorifye God Whan he had spoken this he sayde vnto him Folowe me Peter turned him aboute and sawe the disciple folowinge whom Iesus loued which also leaned vpoÌ„ his brest at the supper and sayde LORDE who is it that betrayeth the WhaÌ„ Peter sawe him he sayde vnto Iesus LORDE but what shal he do Iesus sayde vnto him Yf I wil that he tary tyll I come what is that to the Folowe thou me Then wente there out a sayenge amonge the brethren This disciple dyeth not And Iesus sayde not vnto him He dyeth not but Yf I wil that he tary tyll I come what is that to the This is the same disciple which testifyeth of these thinges and wrote these thinges and we knowe that his testimony is true There are many other thinges also that Iesus dyd which yf they shulde be wrytteÌ„ euery one I suppose the worlde shulde not contayne the bokes that were to be wrytten The ende of the Gospell of S. Ihon. The Actes of the Apostles wrytten by S. Luke the Euangelist What the Actes conteyne Chap. I. The ascension of Christ. Mathias is chosen in the steade of Iudas Chap. II. The commynge of the holy goost The sermon of Peter before the coÌ„gregacion at Ierusalem and the increase of the faithfull Chap. III. The halt is restored to his fete Peter preacheth Christ vnto the people Chap. IIII. The Apostles are takeÌ„ and brought before the councell They are forbydden to preach but they turne them vnto prayer and are more obedient vnto God then vnto men Chap. V. The dyssemblynge of Ananias and Saphira is punyshed Miracles are done by the Apostles which are taken but the angel of God bryngeth them out of preson They are brought before the councell The sentence of Gamaliel The apostles are bett they reioyse in trouble Chap VI. Ministers or deacons are ordened in the congregacion to do seruyce in necessary thinges of the body that the Apostles maye wayte onely vpoÌ„ the worde of God Steuen is accused Chap. VII Steuen maketh answere to his accusacion rebuketh the hardnecked Iues and is stoned vnto death Chap. VIII Saul persecuteth the ChristeÌ„ The Apostles are scatred abrode Philip commeth in to Samaria Simon magus is baptised he dyssembleth Philip baptiseth the chamberlayne Chap. IX Paul is conuerted and confoundeth the Iues â–ª Peter rayseth Tabitha Chap. X. The vision that Peter sawe How he was sent to Cornelius The Heithen also receaue the sprete and are baptised Chap. XI Peter sheweth the cause wherfore he wente to the Heithen Barnabas and Paul preach vnto the Heithen Agabus prophecieth derth for to come Chap. XII Herode persecuteth the christeÌ„ kylleth Iames and putteth Peter in preson whoÌ„ the LORDE delyuereth by an angell The shamefull death of Herode Chap. XIII Paul and Barnabas are called to preach amonge the Heithen â–ª Of Sergius Paulus and Elymas the sorcerar Paul preacheth at Antioche Chap. XIIII Paul and Barnabas preach at Iâ—â—nium some beleue some stere vp sedicion Aâ— Listra they wolde do sacrifice to Barnabas and Paul which refuse it and exorte the people to worshipe the true God Paul is stoned after that commeth he to Derba lystra I conium and to Antioche Chap. XV. Variaunce aboute circumcision The Apostles pacifie the matter at IerusaleÌ„ Paul and Barnabas preach at Antioche Chap. XVI Timothy is circumcised Paul preacheth at Philippos and there is he put in preson Chap. XVII Paul coÌ„meth to Thessalonica where the Iues set the cite on a roore Paul escapeth and commeth to Athens where he preacheth the true and vnknowne God Chap. XVIII Paul preacheth at Corinthum contynuinge there a yeare and a half goeth agayne in to Syria commeth to Ephesus Cesarea and Antioche Of Apollos Aquila and Priscilla Chap. XIX Of the xij men whom Paul baptised at Ephesus and what miracles were done by him Demetrius moueth sedicion in the cite Chap. XX. Paul goeth in to Macedonia and in to Grekelonde At Troas he rayseth vp a deed body At Ephesus he calleth the elders of the congregacion together committeth the kepinge of Gods flocke vnto them warneth theÌ„ for false teachers maketh his prayer with them and departeth to shippe Chap. XXI Pauls iourneye by shippe Of Philippe the EuaÌ„gelist and Agabus the Prophet which warneth Paul not to go to Ierusalem He remayneth stedfast in his purpose and is taken in the
greate and notable daye of the LORDE come And it shall come to passe Who so euer shal call vpō the name of the LORDE shal be saued Ye men of Israel heare these wordes Iesus of Nazareth y e man approued of God amonge you with miracles and wonders and tokens which God dyd by him in the myddes amonge you as ye yo selues knowe also him after that he was delyuered by the determinate councell and foreknowlege of God haue ye taken by the handes of vnrighteous personnes and crucifyed him slayne him whō God hath raysed vp and lowsed the sorowes of death for so moch as it was vnpossyble that he shulde be holden of it For Dauid speaketh of him Afore honde haue I set the LORDE allwayes before me for he is on my right hōde that I shulde not be moued Therfore dyd my hert reioyse and my tunge was glad For my flesh also shal rest in hope For thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell nether shalt thou suffer y e Holy to se corrupcion Thou hast shewed me the wayes of life thou shalt make me full of ioye with thy countenaunce Ye men and brethren let me frely speake vnto you of the Patryarke Dauid For he is deed and buried and his sepulcre is with vs vnto this daye Wherfore now seinge y t he was a prophet and knewe that God had promised him with an ooth that the frute of his loynes shulde syt on his seate he sawe it before and spake of the resurreccion of Christ for his soule was not left in hell nether hath his flesh sene corrupcion This Iesus hath God raysed vp wherof we all are witnesses Seynge now that he by the right hande of God is exalted and hath receaued of y e father y e promyse of the holy goost he hath shed forth this that ye se and heare For Dauid is not ascended in to heauen but he sayde The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE Syt thou on my righte hande vntyll I make thine enemies y t fote stole So therfore let all the house of Israel knowe for a suertye y t God hath made this same Iesus whom ye haue crucified LORDE and Christ. Whan they herde this their hert pricked them and they sayde vnto Peter and to the other Apostles Ye men and brethrē What shal we do Peter sayde onto them Amēde youre selues and let euery one of you be baptysed in the name of Iesus Christ for the remyssion of synnes and ye shal receaue the gifte of the holy goost For this promyse was made vnto you and youre children and to all that are farre of whō so euer the LORDE oure God shal call And w t many other wordes bare he witnesse and exorted them and sayde Saue youre selues from this vntowarde generacion They that gladly receaued his preachinge were baptysed the same daye there were added vnto them aboute thre thousande soules They contynued in the Apostles doctryne and in the felashippe and in breakynge of bred and in prayer And feare came vpō euery soule and many wonders and tokens were done by y e Apostles But all they that beleued were together and had all thinges commen They solde their goodes and possessions and parted them out amonge all acordinge as euery mā had nede And they contynued daylie with one acorde in the tēple and brake bred in euery house they toke their meate with ioye synglenesse of hert praysinge God and had fauoure with all y e people And the LORDE added to the congregacion daylie soch as shulde be saued The III. Chapter PEter and Ihon wente vp together in to the temple aboute the nyenth houre to praye And there was a certayne man halt from his mothers wombe whom they brought and layed daylie at the gate of the tēple which is called the Bewtyfull that he might axe almesse of them that wēte in to the temple Now whan he sawe Peter and Ihon that they wolde in to the temple he desyred to receaue an almesse Peter behelde him with Ihon and sayde Loke on vs. And he gaue hede vnto them hopynge to receaue somethinge of them Howbeit Peter saide Syluer and golde haue I none but soch as I haue geue I the. In the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth ryse vp walke And he toke him by the righte hande and lifte him vp Immediatly his legges ancle bones were made strōge and he sprange stode and walked and entred with them in to the tēple walkynge and leapinge and praysinge God And all the people sawe him walke and prayse God And they knewe him y t it was he which sat for almesse at the bewtyfull gate of the temple And they were fylled with wondrynge and were astonnyed at that which had happened vnto hī But as this halt which was healed helde him to Peter and Ihon all the people ranne vnto them in to the porche which is called Salomōs and wondred Whan Peter sawe that he answered vnto the people Ye men of Israel why maruayle ye at this or why loke ye so at vs as though we by oure awne power or deseruynge had made this man to walke The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Iacob y e God of oure fathers hath glorifyed his childe Iesus whom ye delyuered and denyed in the presence of Pilate whan he had iudged him to be lowsed But ye denyed the holy and iust and desyred the murthurer to be geuen you but ye slewe the prynce of life whom God hath raysed from the deed of the which we are witnesses And thorow y e faith in his name hath he confirmed his name vpon this man whom ye se and knowe and faith thorow him hath geuē this man this health before youre eyes Now deare brethrē I knowe that ye haue done it thorow ignoraunce as dyd also youre rulers But God which by the mouth of all his prophetes had shewed before y t his Christ shulde suffre hath so fulfilled it Do penaunce now therfore and turne you that youre synnes maye be done awaye whan the tyme of refreshinge shal come before the presence of the LORDE and whan he shal sende him which now before is preached vnto you euen Iesus Christ which must receaue heauen vntyll the tyme that all thinges which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophetes sence y e worlde beganne be restored agayne For Moses sayde vnto y e fathers A prophet shal the LORDE youre God rayse vp vnto you euen from amōge youre brethren like vnto me him shal ye heare in all that he shal saye vnto you And it shal come to passe what soule soeuer shal not heare the same prophet shal be destroyed from amonge the people And all the prophetes from Samuel and thence forth as many as haue spoken haue likewyse tolde of these dayes Ye are the children of the prophetes and of the couenaunt which God made vnto o r fathers
whan he sayde vnto Abrahā Thorow y e sede shal all y e naciōs of y e earth be blessed First vnto you hath God raysed vp his childe Iesus sent hī vnto you to blesse you y t euery one shulde turne frō his wickednesse The IIII. Chapter BVt as they spake to y e people there came vnto thē the prestes and the rulers of the tēple and the Saduces whō it greued y t they taught the people preached in Iesu y e resurreccion frō the deed and they layed handes vpon them and put thē in holde tyll the morow for it was now euentyde Howbeit many of thē which herde the worde beleued and the nombre of y e men was aboute fyue thousande And it chaunced on y e morow that their rulers and Elders and scrybes as Annas y e hye prest and Caiphas and Ihon Alexander and as many as were of the hye prestes kynred gathered them selues together at Ierusalem and set them before them and axed them By what auctorite Or in what name haue ye done this Peter full of the holy goost sayde vnto them Ye rulers of the people and ye Elders of Israel Yf we this daye be examyned concernynge this good dede vpon the sicke mā by what meanes he is made whole be it knowne then vnto you and to all the people of Israel that in y e name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified whō God hath raysed vp from the deed stōdeth this man here before you whole This is the stone refused of you buylders which is become the heade corner stone nether is there saluacion in eny other Ner yet also is there geuē vnto mē eny other name wherin we must be saued They sawe the boldnesse of Peter Ihon and marueyled for they were sure y t they were vnlerned men and laye people And they knewe thē also that they were w t Iesu. As for the man y t was made whole they sawe hī stōdinge by thē coulde not saye agaynst it Then cōmaunded they thē to stōde asyde out of y e councell cōmened amōge thēselues saide What shal we do to these mē for a manyfest token is done by them and is openly knowne vnto thē that dwell at Ierusalem and we can not denye it But that it breake out no farther amōge the people let vs threatē them earnestly that hence forth they speake of this name vnto noman And they called them and cōmaunded thē that in eny wyse they shulde not speake ner teache in the name of Iesu. But Peter Ihon answered and sayde vnto thē Iudge ye youre selues whether it be right before God that we shulde be more obedient vnto you then vnto God We can not chose but speake that we haue sene herde But they threatened them and let them go and founde nothinge how to punyshe them because of y e people for they all praysed God because of that which was done For the man vpon whom this token of health was done was aboue fourtye yeare olde And whan they were let go they came to their folowes and tolde them what y e hye prestes and Elders sayde vnto them Whā they herde that they lifte vp their voyce w t one acorde vnto God and sayde LORDE thou that art the God which made heauen and earth and the see and all that therin is thou that by the mouth of Dauid thy seruaūt hast sayde Why do the Heythē rage and y e people ymagin vayne thinges The kynges of the earth stonde vp and the prynces haue gathered them selues together agaynst y e LORDE and agaynst his Christ. Of a trueth agaynst thy holy childe Iesus whom thou hast anoynted both Herode Pontius Pilate with the Heythen and people of Israel haue gathered thēselues together to do what soeuer thy hande and thy councell determyned before to be done And now LORDE beholde their threatenynges and graunte vnto thy seruauntes with all stedfast boldnesse to speake thy worde and stretch out thine hande that healinge and tokēs and wonders maye be done by the name of thy holy childe Iesus And whā they had prayed the place moued where they were gathered together they were all fylled with y e holy goost spake the worde of God boldly The multitude of them that beleued were of one hert and of one soule Also none of them sayde of his goodes that they were his awne but had all thinges cōmen And with greate power gaue the Apostles witnesse of the resurreccion of the LORDE Iesu and greate grace was with them all Nether was there eny amonge them that lacked For as many as were possessers of londes or houses solde thē and brought y e money of the goodes that were solde and layed it at the Apostles fete And distribucion was made vnto euery mā acordinge as he had nede Ioses which was also called of y e Apostles Barnabas that is to saye the sonne of consolacion a Leuite of the countre of Cypers had londe and solde it brought the money and layed it at the Apostles fete The V. Chapter BVt a certayne man named Ananias with Saphira his wife solde his possession and kepte awaye parte of the money his wife knowinge of it and broughte one parte layed it at the Apostles fete But Peter sayde Ananias Wherfore hath Sathan fylled thine hert that thou shuldest lye vnto the holy goost and withdrawe awaye parte of the money of the lyuelod Mightest thou not haue kepte it whan thou haddest it And whan it was solde the money was also in thy power Why hast thou then conceaued this thinge in thine hert Thou hast not lyed vnto mē but vnto God Whan Ananias herde these wordes he fell downe gaue vp the goost And there came a greate feare vpon all thē that herde of this The yonge men rose vp and put him asyde and caried him out and buried him And it fortuned as it were aboute y e space of thre houres after his wife came in and knewe not what was done But Peter answered vnto her Tell me solde ye the londe for somoch She sayde Yee for so moch Peter sayde vnto her Why haue ye agreed together to tempte the sprete of the LORDE Beholde the fete of thē which haue buried thy huszbande are at the dore shal carye the out And immediatly she fell downe at his fete and gaue vp the goost Then came in the yonge men and founde her deed and caried her out and buried her by hir huszbāde And there came a greate feare ouer the whole congregacion and ouer all thē that herde it Many tokens and wonders were done amonge the people by the hādes of the Apostles and they were all together with one acorde in Salomons porche but of other there durst no man ioyne him self vnto thē neuertheles the people helde moch of them The multitude of the men and wemen that beleued in the LORDE
grewe more and more In so moch that they brought out the sycke in to the stretes and layed them vpon beddes and barowes that at the leest waye the shadowe of Peter whan he came by might ouershadowe some of theÌ„ There came many also out of y e cities rounde aboute vnto Ierusalem and brought the sicke and theÌ„ that were vexed with vncleane spretes and they were healed euery one But the hye prest rose vp and all they y t were with him which is the secte of the Saduces and were full of indignacion layed handes on the Apostles and put them in the comon preson But the angell of y e LORDE by night opened the preson dores and brought theÌ„ out and sayde Go youre waye and steppe vp and speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this life Whan they herde that they entred in to the temple early in the mornynge and taught But the hye prest came and they y t were with him and called the councell together all y e Elders of the children of Israel and sent to the preson to fet them The mynisters came and founde them not in the preson â—ame agayne and tolde and sayde The preson founde we shut with all diligence and the kepers stondinge without before the dores but whaÌ„ we had opened we founde noman therin Whan the hye prest and the rulers of the temple and the other hye prestes herde these wordes they douted of them whervnto this wolde growe Then came there one which tolde them Beholde the men that ye put in preson are in the temple stondinge and teachinge the people Then weÌ„te y e rulers with their mynisters and fetched them without violence for they feared the people lest they shulde haue bene stoned And whan they had brought them they set theÌ„ before the councell And the hye prest axed them and sayde Dyd not we coÌ„maunde you strately that ye shulde not teache in this name And beholde ye haue fylled Ierusalem with youre doctryne and ye inteÌ„de to brynge this mans bloude vpon vs. But Peter and the Apostles answered and sayde We ought more to obeye God then men The God of oure fathers hath raysed vp Iesus whoÌ„ ye slewe and hanged on tre Him hath the righte hande of God exalted to be a prynce and Sauioure to geue repentaunce and forgeuenesse of synnes vnto Israel And we are his recordes of these wordes and the holy goost whoÌ„ God hath geuen vnto theÌ„ that obeye him WhaÌ„ they herde that it wente thorow the hertes of them and they thoughte to slaye them Then stode there vp in y e councell a pharyse named Gamaliel a scribe had in greate reputacion before all y e people and bad put the Apostles asyde a litle and sayde vnto them Ye men of Israel take hede to youre selues what ye do as touchinge these men Before these dayes rose vp one Theudas boostinge himself And there cleued vnto him a noÌ„bre of meÌ„ aboute a foure hundreth which was slayne and all they y t enclyned vnto him were scatred abrode and brought to naught After this stode vp Iudas of Galile in y e dayes of trybute and drewe awaye moch people after him he also perished all they that enclyned vnto him are scatred abrode And now I saye vnto you refrayne yo selues froÌ„ these men and let theÌ„ go Yf this councell or worke be of meÌ„ it wil come to naught but yf it be of God ye are not able to destroye it lest ye be founde to be the men that wil stryue agaynst God Then they agreed vnto him and called the Apostles and bet them and commaunded them that they shulde speake nothinge in the name of Iesu and let them go But they departed from the presence of the councell reioysinge that they were worthy to suffre rebuke for his names sake And daylie in the temple and in euery house they ceassed not to teache and to preache the Gospell of Iesus Christ. The VI. Chapter IN those dayes whan the nombre of the disciples increased there arose a grudge amoÌ„ge the Grekes agaynst the Hebrues because their wyddowes were not loked vpon in the daylie handreachinge Then the twolue called the multitude of the disciples together and sayde It is not mete that we shulde leaue the worde of God and to serue at the tables Wherfore brethren loke out amonge you seueÌ„ men that are of honeste reporte and full of the holy goost and wyszdome whom we maye appoynte to this nedefull busynes But we wil geue oure selues vnto prayer and to the mynistracion of the worde of God And the sayenge pleased the whole multitude And they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy goost and Philippe and Procorus and Nicanor and Thimon and Parmenas and Nicolas the Proselite of Antioche These they set before y e Apostles and they prayed and layed their handes vpon them And the worde of God increased and the nombre of the disciples multiplied greatly at Ierusalem And there were many prestes also obedient vnto the fayth Steuen full of faith and power dyd wonders and greate tokens amonge the people Then arose there certayne of the synagoge which is called the synagoge of y e Libertynes of the Cyrenites and of the AlexaÌ„drines and of theÌ„ y t were of Celicia and Asia disputed with SteueÌ„ and they coulde not resiste the wyszdome and the sprete out of the which he spake Then sent they in certayne men that sayde We haue herde him speake blasphemous wordes agaynst Moses and agaynst God And they moued the people and the Elders and the scrybes and came vpon him caught him and brought him before the councell and set false witnesses there which sayde This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynst this holy place and the lawe For we herde him saye Iesus of Nazareth shall destroye this place and chaunge the ordinaunces which Moses gaue vs. And all they that sat in the councell loked vpoÌ„ him and sawe his face as the face of an angell The VII Chapter Then sayde the hye prest Is it eueÌ„ so He sayde Deare brethren and fathers herken to The God of glorye appeared vnto o father AbrahaÌ„ whyle he was yet in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Haran and sayde vnto him Get y t out of thy couÌ„tre and froÌ„ thy kynred and come in to a londe which I wil shewe ye. TheÌ„ wente he out of the lande of the Caldees and dwelt in Haran And from theÌ„ce whan his father was deed he brought him ouer in to this londe where ye dwell now and gaue him no enheritauÌ„ce therin no not y e bredth of a fote and promysed him that he wolde geue it him to possesse and to his sede after him whan as yet he had no childe But thus sayde God vnto him Thy sede shal be a straunger in a straunge londe and they shal
e congregacion and toke his iourney downe to Antioche and taried there a certayne tyme and departed and walked thorow all y e countre of Galatia and Phrigia by ordre and strengthed all the disciples There came vnto Ephesus a certayne Iewe named Apollo borne at Alexādria an eloquent man and mightie in the scriptures the same was infourmed in the waye of the LORDE and spake feruently in the sprete and taughte diligently the thinges of the LORDE and knewe but the baptyme off Ihon onely The same beganne to speake boldly in the synagoge Whan Aquila and Priscilla herde him they toke him vnto thē and expounded the waye of God vnto him more perfectly But whan he wolde go in to Achaia the brethren wrote and exorted the disciples to receaue him And whan he was come thither he helped them moch which beleued thorow grace For he ouercame the Iewes mightely and shewed openly by y e scripture that Iesus was Christ. The XIX Chapter BVt it fortuned whan Apollo was at Corinthum that Paul walked thorow the vpper coastes and came to Ephesus and founde certayne disciples vnto whom he sayde Haue ye receaued y e holy goost sence ye beleued They sayde vnto hī We haue not herde whether there be an holy goost He sayde vnto them Where with then were ye baptysed They sayde With the baptyme of Ihon. Paul sayde Ihon baptysed with the baptyme of repentaunce and spake vnto y e people that they shulde beleue on him which shulde come after him that is on Iesus that the same is Christ. Whan they herde that they were baptysed in the name of the LORDE Iesu. And whan Paul layed the hādes on thē the holy goost came vpon them and they spake with tunges and prophecied And all the men were aboute twolue He wēte in to y e synagoge and preached boldly thre monethes longe teachinge and geuynge them exortacions of the kyngdome of God But whan dyuerse waxed herde herted and beleued not and spake euell of the waye of the LORDE before the multitude he departed from them and separated the disciples and disputed daylye in the scole of one called Tyrannus And this was done two yeares lōge so that all they which dwelt in Asia herde the worde of the LORDE Iesu both Iewes Grekes And God wroughte no small miracles by the handes of Paul so that from his body there were broughte napkyns or partlettes vnto the sicke and the diseases departed from them and the euell spretes wente out of them But certayne of the vagabounde Iewes which were coniurers vndertoke to name y e name of the LORDE Iesus ouer those that had euell spretes and sayde We charge you by Iesus whom Paul preacheth They were seuen sonnes of one Sceua a Iewe the hye prest which dyd so The euell sprete answered and sayde Iesus I knowe and Paul I knowe but who are ye And the mā in whō the euell sprete was ranne vpon them and ouercame them and cast them vnder him so that they fled out of the same house naked and wounded This was knowne vnto all the Iewes and Grekes which dwelt at Ephesus and there fell a feare vpon them all And y e name of the LORDE Iesus was magnified Many of thē also that beleued came and cōfessed and shewed their workes But many of them that had vsed curious craftes broughte the bokes together and burnte them openly and they counted the pryce of them and founde it of money fiftye thousande pens So mightely grewe y e worde of the LORDE and preuayled Whan this was done Paul purposed in sprete to take his iourney thorow Macedonia and Achaia and to go to Ierusalē and sayde After that I haue bene there I must se Rome also And he sent into Macedonia two that mynistred vnto him Timotheus and Erastus But he himselfe remayned in Asia for a season At the same tyme there rose no litle a doo aboute that waye For a certayne man named Demetrius a goldsmyth which made syluer shrynes for Diana and broughte them of the crafte no small vauntage Them he gathered together and the felowe workmē of the same occupacion and sayde Syrs ye knowe that by this craft◠we haue vauntage and ye se and heare that not onely at Ephesus but almost also thorow out all Asia this Paul turneth awaye moch people with his persuadynge and sayeth They be not goddes that are made with hondes Howbeit it shal not onely brynge oure occupacion to this poynte to be set at naught but also the temple of greate Diana shal from hence forth be despysed and hir maiestye also shal be destroyed whō neuertheles all Asia and the worlde worshippeth Whan they herde this they were full of wrath cried out and sayde Greate is Diana of the Ephesians And all y e cite was on a roore and they ruszhed in with one assent in to the open place and toke Gaius and Aristarchus of Macedonia Pauls companyons Whan Paul wolde haue gone in amonge the people the disciples suffred him not Certayne also of y e chefe of Asia which were Pauls good frendes sent vnto him and desyred him that he shulde not preasse in to the open place Some cried one thinge some another And the congregacion was out of quyete and the more parte knewe not wherfore they were come together Some of the people drue forth Alexander whan y e Iewes thrust him forwarde Alexāder beckened with the hande and wolde haue geuen the people an answere But whan they knewe that he was a Iewe there arose a shoute of all and cried the space of two houres Greate is Diana of the Ephesians Whan the towne clarke had stylled the people he sayde Ye men of Ephesus what man is it which knoweth not that the cite of y e Ephesiās is a worshipper of the greate goddesse Diana and of the heauenly ymage Seinge now that this can not be sayde agaynst ye ought to be contente and to do nothinge without aduysement Ye haue broughte hither these men which are nether churchrobbers ner blasphemers off youre goddesse But yff Demetrius and they that are craftesmen with him haue ought to saye vnto eny man the lawe is open and there are rulers let them accuse one another But yf ye wil go aboute eny other thinge it maye be determyned in a laufull congregacion For we stonde in ioperdy to be accused of this dayes vproure and yet is there no man giltye of whom we mighte geue a rekenynge of this vproure And whan he had sayde this he let the congregacion departe The XX. Chapter NOw whan the vproure was ceassed Paul called the disciples vnto him and toke his leue of them and departed to go in to Macedonia And whan he had gone thorow those partes and exhorted them with many wordes he came in to Grekelonde and there abode thre monethes But whan the Iewes layed wayte for him as he was aboute to sayle in to Syria he purposed to turne agayne thorow Macedonia There
also certayne of the disciples off Cesarea and broughte with them one of Cypers named Mnason an olde disciple with whom we shulde lodge Now whā we came to Ierusalem the brethren receaued vs gladly But on the nexte daye Paul wente in with vs vnto Iames and all the Elders came together And whan he had saluted them he tolde by order what God had done amōge the Heythen by his mynistracion Whan they herde that they praysed the LORDE and sayde vnto him Brother thou seyst how many thousande Iewes there are which beleue and are all Zelous ouer y e lawe But they are enfourmed agaynst the that thou teachest all the Iewes which are amōge the Heythē to forsake Moses and sayest that they oughte not to circumcyse their children ner to walke after the same custome What is it therfore The multitude must nedes come together for they shal heare that thou art come Do this therfore that we saye vnto the We haue foure men which haue a vowe on them take them vnto y e and purifye thyselfe with them and do the cost on them that they maye shaue their heades and they shal knowe that it is nothinge wherof they are enfourmed agaynst the but that thou also walkest and kepest the lawe For as touchinge them that beleue amonge the Heythen we haue wrytten and concluded that they shulde obserue no soch but onely to kepe them selues from the offeringes of Idols from bloude from strāgled and from whordome Then Paul toke the men vnto him and was purified with them on the nexte daye and entred in to the temple declaringe that he fulfylled the dayes of purificacion tyll there was an offeringe offred for euery one of them But whan the seuen dayes were allmost fulfylled the Iewes of Asia sawe him in the temple and moued all the people layed handes vpon him and cryed Ye men of Israel helpe this is the man that teacheth all men euery where agaynst oure people the lawe and this place He hath broughte Grekes also in to the temple and hath defyled this holy place For they had sene Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the cite him they thoughte y t Paul had broughte in to the temple And all the cite was moued and the people ranne together And they toke Paul and drue him out off the temple and forth with the dores were shut to But whan they wēte aboute to kyll him tydinges came to the chefe captayne of the company that all Ierusalem was moued Which immediatly toke soudyers and captaynes vnto him and ranne in amōge them Whan they sawe the captayne and the soudyers they lefte smytinge of Paul Whan the captayne came nye he toke him and commaunded him to be bounde with two cheynes and axed what he was and what he had done One cried this another that amonge the people But whan he coulde not knowe the certente because of the rumoure he commaunded him to be caried in to the castell And whā he came to the steppes it fortuned that he was borne of y e soudyers because of the violence of the people For the multitude off the people folowed after and cryed Awaye with him Whan Paul was now to be caried in to the castell he sayde vnto y e captayne Maye I speake vnto the He sayde Canst thou Greke Art not thou the Egipcian which before these dayes maydest an vproure leddest out in to the wyldernesse foure thousande preuy murthurers Paull sayde I am a man which am a Iewe off Tharsis a citesyn of a famous cite in Celicia I beseke the suffre me to speake vnto the people Whan he had geuen him lycence Paul stode on the steppes and beckened with the hande vnto the people Now whan there was made a greate sylēce he spake vnto them in Hebrue and sayde The XXII Chapter YE men brethren and fathers heare myne answere which I make vnto you Whan they herde that he spake vnto them in the Hebrue they kepte the more sylence And he sayde I am a man which am a Iewe borne at Tharsis in Celicia and broughte vp in this cite at the fete off Gamaliel enfourmed diligently in the lawe of the fathers and was feruent mynded to God warde as ye all are also this daye and I persecuted this waye vnto the death I bounde them and delyuered them vnto preson both men and wemen as y e hye prest also doth beare me wytnesse and all y e Elders of whom I receaued letters vnto the brethren and wente towarde Damascon that I mighte brynge them which were there bounde to Ierusalem to be punyshed But it fortuned as I made my iourney and came nye vnto Damascon aboute noone sodenly there shone a greate lighte aboute me from heauen and I fell to the earth and herde a voyce which sayde vnto me Saull Saull why persecutest thou me I answered Who art thou LORDE And he sayde vnto me I am Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest As for them that were with me they sawe y e lighte and were afrayed but they herde not the voyce of him that spake with me I sayde LORDE what shal I do The LORDE sayde vnto me Aryse and go in to Damascon there shal it be tolde y t of all that is appoynted the to do But whan I sawe nothinge for the bryghtnesse of the lighte I was led by the hande of them that were with me and came to Damascon There was one Ananias a deuoute man after the lawe which had a good reporte of all the Iewes that dwelt there the same came and stepte vnto me and sayde Brother Saul loke vp And I loked vp vpon him the same houre He sayde The God of oure fathers hath ordeyned the before that thou shuldest knowe his wyll and se the thinge y t is rightfull and heare the voyce out of his mouth for thou shalt be his wytnesse vnto all men of tho thinges which thou hast sene and herde And now why tariest thou Aryse and be baptysed and wasze awaye thy synnes and call vpon the name of the LORDE But it fortuned that whan I was come agayne to Ierusalē and prayed in the temple I was in a traunce and sawe him Then sayde he vnto me Make haist and get the soone out of Ierusalem for they wyl not receaue the witnesse that thou bearest of me And I sayde LORDE they thē selues knowe that I put in preson and bett in euery synagoge them that beleued on the. And whā the bloude of Steuē thy witnesse was shed I stode by also consented vnto his death and kepte the clothes of them that slewe him And he sayde vnto me Go thy waye for I wil sende the farre amonge the Heythen They gaue him audience vnto this worde and lifte vp their voyce sayde Awaye with soch a felowe from the earth for it is not reason that he shulde lyue But as they cried and cast of their clothes thrue dust in to
the Iewes thorow out all the worlde and a manteyner of the secte of the Nazaretes and hath taken in hande also to suspende the temple whom we toke and wolde haue iudged him acordinge to oure lawe But Lysias the hye captayne came vpoÌ„ vs and with greate violence delyuered him out of oure handes and commaunded his accusers to come vnto the of whom yf thou wilt enquyre thou mayest haue knowlege of all these thinges wherof we accuse him The Iewes likewyse affirmed and sayde that it was euen so But Paul whan the debyte had beckened vnto him that he shulde speake answered Seynge I knowe that thou hast bene iudge now many yeares amonge this people I wil not be afrayed to answere for my selfe because that thou mayest knowe that there are yet nomore but twolue dayes sence I came vp to Ierusalem for to worshippe and that they nether founde me in the temple disputinge with eny man or makynge eny vproure amonge the people ner in y e synagoges ner in the cite nether can they proue the thinges wherof they accuse me But this I confesse vnto the that after this waye which they call heresye so worshippe I the God of my fathers that I beleue all that is wrytten in the lawe and in the prophetes and haue hope towarded God that the same resurreccion of the deed which they them selues loke for also shal be both of the iust and vniust Therfore studye I to haue allwaye a cleare conscience towarde God and towarde men But after many yeares I came and broughte allmesse vnto my people and offeringes whervpon they founde me purifyed in the temple without eny maner of rumoure or vnquyetnesse Howbeit there were certayne Iewes out of Asia which shulde be here presente before the and accuse me yf they had oughte agaynst me or els letâ— these same here saye yf they haue founde eny vnrighteousnes in me whyle I stonde here before y e councell excepte it be for this one worde that I cried stondinge amonge them Of the resurreccion off the deed am I iudged of you this daye Whan Felix herde this he dyfferred theÌ„ for he knewe very well of that waye and sayde Whan Lysias the vpper captayne commeth downe I wyl knowe y e vttemost of youre matter But he commaunded the vndercaptayne to kepe Paul and to let him haue rest and that he shulde forbydde none of his acquauntauÌ„ce to mynister vnto him or to come vnto him But after certayne dayes came Felix w t his wife Drusilla which was a Iewesse and called for Paul and herde him of the faith in Christ. Howbeit whan Paul spake off righteousnesse and off chastite and off the iudgment to come Felix trembled and answered Go thy waye for this tyme. Whan I haue a conuenyent tyme I wil sende for the. He hoped also that money shulde haue bene geuen him of Paul therfore called he oft for him and commened with him But after two yeares came Portius Festus in to felix rowme Yet Felix wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure left Paul bounde The XXV Chapter NOw whan Festus was come in to the countre ouer thre dayes he wente vp from Cesarea to Ierusalem Then appeared the hye prestes and the chefe of the Iewes before him agaynst Paul and intreated him and desyred fauoure agaynst him that he wolde sende for him to Ierusalem and layed wayte for him that they might slaye him by the waye Then answered Festus that Paul shulde be kepte at Cesarea but that he himselfe wolde shortly go thither agayne Let them therfore sayde he which are able amonge you come downe with vs to accuse the man yf there be ought in him Whan he had taried amonge them more then ten dayes he wente downe to Cesarea And on the nexte daye he sat downe on the iudgment seate and commaunded Paul to be broughte Whan he was come y e Iewes which were come downe from Ierusalem stode rounde aboute him and broughte vp many and greuous quarels agaynst Paul which they coulde not proue whyle he answered for himselfe I haue nether offended ought agaynst the lawe of the Iewes ner agaynst the teÌ„ple ner agaynst the Emperoure But Festus wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure answered Paul and sayde Wilt thou go vp to Ierusalem and there be iudged off these thinges before me But Paul sayde I stonde at the Emperours iudgmeÌ„t seate where I ought to be iudged to the Iewes haue I done no harme as thou also knowest very well Yf I haue hurte eny man or committed eny thinge worthy off death I refuse not to dye But yf there are no soch thinges as they accuse me off then maye no man delyuer me vnto them I appeale vnto the Emperoure Then spake Festus with the Councell and answered Thou hast appealed vnto the Emperoure to the Emperoure shalt thou go After certayne dayes came kynge Agrippa and Bernice to Cesarea to welcome Festus And whan they had taried there many dayes Festus rehearsed Pauls cause vnto the kynge and sayde There is a man left bounde of Felix for whose cause the hye prestes and Elders of the Iewes appeared before me whan I was at Ierusalem and desyred a sentence agaynst him Vnto whom I answered It is not the maner off the Romaynes to delyuer eny man that he shulde perishe before that he which is accused haue his accusers presente and receaue libertye to answere for him selfe to the accusacion WhaÌ„ they were come hither together I made no delaye but sat the nexte daye in iudgment and commaunded the man to be broughte forth Of whom whan the accusers stode vp they broughte no accusacion of soch thinges as I supposed But had certayne questions agaynst him of their awne supersticions and of one Iesus deed whom Paul affirmed to be alyue Howbeit because I vnderstode not the question I axed hiÌ„ whether he wolde go to IerusaleÌ„ and there be iudged of these matters But whaÌ„ Paul had appealed that he might be kepte vnto the knowlege of the Emperoure I coÌ„maunded him to be kepte tyll I mighte sende him to the Emperoure Agrippa sayde vnto Festus I wolde fayne heare the man also He sayde Tomorow shalt thou heare him And on the nexte daye came Agrippa Bernice with greate pompe and weÌ„te in to the comon hall with the captaynes chefe meÌ„ of the cite And at Festus coÌ„maundement Paul was brought forth And Festus sayde Kynge Agrippa and all ye men which are here with vs ye se this man aboute whom all the multitude of the Iewes haue entreated me both at IerusaleÌ„ and here also and cried that he ought not to lyue eny lenger But whan I perceaued that he had done nothinge worthy off death and that he himselfe also had appealed vnto the Emperoure I determyned to sende him of whoÌ„ I haue no certayne thinge â—o â—â—ryte vnto my lorde Therfore haue I caused hiÌ„ to be broughte forth before you specially before the O kynge Agrippa
lest they shulde haue fallen in to the Syrtes and let downe the vessell and so were caried And whan we had bydden a greate teÌ„pest on the nexte daye they made an outcastinge And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe But whaÌ„ nether Sonne ner starres appeared in many dayes and no small tempest laye vpon vs all the hope of oure life was taken awaye And after longe abstinence Paul stode forth in the myddes of theÌ„ and sayde Syrs ye shulde haue herkened vnto me and not to haue lowsed from Candy and not to haue broughte vs this harme and losse And now I exhorte you to be of good cheare for there shal none of oure lyues perishe but the shippe onely For this night stode by me the angell off God whose I am whoÌ„ I serue saide Feare not Paul thou must be broughte before the Emperoure And lo God hath geuen vnto the all theÌ„ that sayle with the. Wherfore syrs be of good cheare for I beleue God y t it shal come so to passe as it was tolde me Howbeit we must be cast in to a certayne ylonde But whan the fourtenth night came as we were caried in Adria aboute mydnight y e shipmen demed that there appeared some countre vnto them and they cast out the leade and founde it tweÌ„tye feddoms and whaÌ„ they were gone a litle farther they cast out the leade agayne and founde fyftene feddoms Then fearinge lest they shulde fall on some rocke they cast foure anckers out of the sterne and wyszhed for the daye Whan the shipmen were aboute to flye out of the shippe and let downe the bote in to the see vnder a coloure as though they wolde cast ankers out of the fore shippe Paul sayde to y e vnder captayne and to the soudyers Excepte these byde in the shippe ye can not be saued Then the soudyers cut of the rope from the bote and let it fall And whan it beganne to be daye Paul exhorted them all to take meate and sayde To daye is the fourtene daye that ye haue taried and contynued fastinge and haue receaued nothinge Wherfore I praye you to take meate for youre health for there shal not one heer fall from the heade of eny of you And whan he had thus spoken he toke bred and gaue thankes to God before them all and brake it and begaÌ„ne to eate Then were they all of good cheare and toke meate also We were all together in the shippe two hundreth thre score and sixtene soules And whan they had eaten ynough they lightened the shippe and cast out the wheate in to the see Whan it was daye they knewe not the londe But they spyed an hauen with a banke in to which they were mynded yf it were possible to thrust in the shippe And whan they had takeÌ„ vp the anckers they commytted them selues to the see and lowsed the rudder bandes and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde and drue towarde londe And whan we chaunced on a place which had the see on both the sydes the shippe daszhed vpon it And the fore parte abode fast vnmoued but the hynder parte brake thorow the violence of the wawes The soudyers councell was to kyll y e presoners lest eny of them whan he had swymmed out shulde flye awaye But the vndercaptayne wyllinge to saue Paul keped them from their purpose and commaunded that they which coulde swymme shulde cast them selues first in to the see and escape vnto londe and the other some on bordes some on broken peâ—es of the shippe And so it came to passe that all the soules came safe vnto londe The XXVIII Chapter ANd whaÌ„ we were escaped we knewe that the I le was called Melite As for the people they shewed vs no litle kyndnesse for they kyndled a fyre and receaued vs all because of the rayne that was come vpoÌ„ vs and because of the colde Whan Paul had gathered a bondell of stickes and layed them on the fyre there came a vyper out of the heate and leape on Pauls hande Whan the people sawe the beest hange on his hande they sayde amonge them selues This man must nedes be a murthurer whoÌ„ vengeaunce suffreth not to lyue though he haue escaped the see But he shoke of y e beest in to the fyre and and felt no harme Howbeit they wayted whaÌ„ he shulde haue swollen or fallen downe deed sodenly But whan they had loked a greate whyle and sawe y t there happened no harme vnto him they chaunged their myndes and sayde that he was a God In the same quarters the chefe man of the Ile whose name was Publius had a lordshipe the same receaued vs and lodged vs thre dayes curteously It fortuned whaÌ„ Publius father laye sicke of the feuers and of a bloudy fluxe Paul wente in vnto him and prayed and layed the handes on him and healed him Whan this was done other also which had diseases in the I le came and were healed And they dyd vs greate honoure And whan we departed they laded vs with thinges necessary After the monethes we sayled in a shippe of Alexandria which had wyntred in the I le and had a badge of Castor and Pollux And whan we came to Syracusa we taried there thre dayes And whan we had sayled aboute we came to Rhegium and after one daye whan the south wynde blewe we came to Putiolus where we founde brethreÌ„ and were desyred of them to tarye there seueÌ„ dayes and so came we to Rome And from thence whan the brethren herde of vs they came forth to mete vs to Apiforum and to the Thre tauerns Whan Paul sawe them he thaÌ„ked God and waxed bolde But whaÌ„ we came to Rome the vndercaptayne delyuered the presoners to y e chefe captayne As for Paul he had leue to byde alone with one soudyer that kepte him After thre dayes it fortuned y t Paul called y e chefe of y e Iewes together And whaÌ„ they were come he sayde vnto theÌ„ Ye meÌ„ brethreÌ„ I haue coÌ„mytted nothinge agaynst o people ner agaynst y e lawes of y e fathers yet was I bouÌ„de delyuered out of IerusaleÌ„ in to y e Romaynes haÌ„des which whaÌ„ they had examyned me wolde haue let me go for so moch as there was no cause of death iÌ„ me But whaÌ„ y e Iewes spake y e coÌ„trary I was coÌ„strayned to appeale vnto y e Empero not as though I had ought to accuse my people of For this cause haue I called you eueÌ„ to se you to speake w t you because y t for y e hope of Israel I am bounde w t this cheyne They sayde vnto hiÌ„ We haue nether receaued letter out of Iewry coÌ„cernynge the nether came there eny of the brethreÌ„ y t shewed or spake eny harme of ye. But we wyl heare of y e what thou thinkest for we haue herde of this secte that euery where it is spoken
where he sayeth Aboute this tyme wyl I come and Sara shal haue a sonne Howbeit it is not so with this onely but also whan Rebecca was with childe by one namely by oure father Isaac or euer the childrē were borne had done nether good ner bad that the purpose of God might stōde acordinge to the eleccion not by the deseruynge of workes but by the grace of the caller it was sayde thus vnto her The greater shal serue the lesse As it is wrytten Iacob haue I loued but Esau haue I hated What shal we saye then Is God then vnrighteous God forbyd For he sayeth vnto Moses I shewe mercy to whom I shewe mercy and haue cōpassion on whō I haue compassion So lyeth it not then in eny mans wyll or runnynge but in the mercy of God For the scripture sayeth vnto Pharao For this cause haue I stered the vp euen to shewe my power on the that my name mighte be declared in all lōdes Thus hath he mercy on whom he wyl and whom he wyl he hardeneth Thou wilt saye then vnto me Why blameth he vs yet For who can resiste his will O thou man who art thou that disputest with God Sayeth the worke to his workman Why hast thou made me on this fashion Hath not the potter power out of one lompe of claye to make one vessell vnto honoure and another vnto dishonoure Therfore whan God wolde shewe wrath and to make his power knowne he broughte forth with greate pacience the vessels off wrath which are ordeyned to damnacion that he mighte declare the riches off his glorye on y e vessels of mercy which he hath prepared vnto glorye whom he hath called namely vs not onely of the Iewes but also of the Gentyles As he sayeth also by Osee I wil call that my people which is not my people and my beloued which is not y e beloued And it shal come to passe in y e place where it was sayde vnto them Ye are not my people there shal they be called the children of the lyuynge God But Esay crieth ouer Israel Though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see yet shal there but a remnaunt be saued For there is the worde that fynisheth and shorteneth in righteousnes for a shorte worde shal God make vpon earth And as Esay sayde before Excepte the LORDE of Sabbaoth had lefte vs fede we shulde haue bene as Sodoma and like vnto Gomorra What shal we saye then This wil we saye The Heythen which folowed not righteousnes haue ouertaken righteousnes but I speake of the righteousnes that commeth of faith Agayne Israel folowed the lawe of righteousnes and attayned not vnto the lawe of righteousnes Why so Euen because they soughte it not out of faith but as it were out of the deseruynge of workes For they haue stombled at the stomblinge stone As it is wrytten Beholde I laye in Sion a stone to stōble at and a rocke to be offended at and who so euer beleueth on him shal not be confounded The X. Chapter BRethren my hertes desyre prayer vnto God for Israel is that they might be saued For I beare them recorde that they are zelous for Gods cause but not w t vnderstondinge For they knowe not the righteousnes which auayleth before God and go aboute to manteyne their awne righteousnes and thus they are not subdued vnto the righteousnes that is off value before God For Christ is the ende of the lawe vnto righteousnes for euery one y t beleueth Moses wryteth of y e righteousnes which commeth of the lawe that the man which doth y e same shal lyue therin But y e righteousnes which cōmeth of faith speaketh on this wyse Saye not in thine hert Who wil go vp in to heauē that is nothinge els then to fetch Christ downe Or who wyl go downe in to y e depe that is nothinge els thē to fetch vp Christ from the deed But what sayeth the scripture The worde is nye the euen in thy mouth and in thine hert This is y e worde of faith y t we preach For yf thou knowlegest Iesus with thy mouth that he is the LORDE and beleuest in thine hert that God hath raysed him vp from the deed thou shalt be saued For yf a man beleue from the hert he shal be made righteous and yf a mā knowlege with the mouth he shal be saued For the scripture sayeth Who so euer beleueth on him shal not be confounded Here is no difference nether of the Iewe ner of the Gentyle For one is LORDE of all which is riche vnto all y t call vpō him * For who so euer shal call vpon the name of the LORDE shal be saued But how shal they call vpō him on whō they beleue not How shal they beleue on him of whō they haue not herde How shal they heare without a preacher But how shal they preach excepte they be sent As it is wryttē How beutyfull are the fete of thē y t preach peace y t brynge good tidinges But they are not all obedient vnto the Gospell For Esaye sayeth LORDE who beleueth oure preachinge So thē faith cōmeth by hearynge but hearinge cōmeth by the worde of God But I saye Haue they not herde No doute their sounde wēte out in to all londes and their wordes in to the endes of the worlde But I saye Hath not Israel knowne First Moses sayeth I wil prouoke you to enuye by them that are not my people by a foolish nacion wyl I anger you Esaye after him is bolde and sayeth I am founde of them that sought me not haue appeared vnto them that axed not after me But vnto Israel he sayeth All the daye lōge haue I stretched forth my handes vnto a people y t beleueth not but speaketh agaynst me The XI Chapter I Saye then Hath God thrust out his people God forbyd for I also am an Israelite of the sede of Abraham out of the trybe of Ben Iamin God hath not thrust out his people whom he knewe before Or wote ye not what the scripture sayeth of Elias how he maketh intercession vnto God agaynst Israel and sayeth LORDE they haue slayne thy prophetes dydged downe thine altares and I am lefte ouer onely and they seke my life But what sayeth the answere of God vnto him I haue reserued vnto me seuen thousande men which haue not bowed their knee before Baal Euē so goeth it now at this tyme also w t this remnaunt after y e eleccion of grace Yf it be done of grace thē is it not of deseruynge els were grace no grace But yf it be of deseruynge then is grace nothinge els were deseruynge no deseruynge What thē Israel hath not optayned y t which he soughte but the eleccion hath optayned it As for y e other they are blynded As
another I holde of Apollo are ye not thē fleshlye What is Paul What is ▪ Apollo Euē mynisters are they by whom ye are come to the beleue and the same acordinge as the LORDE hath geuen vnto euery man I haue planted Apollo hath watred but God hath geuen the increace So then nether is he that planteth eny thinge nether he that watreth but God which geueth the increace As for him that planteth and he that watreth y e one is as the other but yet shal euery one receaue his rewarde acordinge to his laboure For we are Gods labourers ye are Gods huszbandry ye are Gods buyldinge Acordinge to the grace of God which is geuen vnto me as a wyse buylder haue I layed the foundacion but another buyldeth theron Yet let euery man take hede how he buyldeth theron For other foūdacion can noman laye then that which is layed the which is Iesus Christ. But yf enyman buylde vpon this foundacion golde syluer precious stones tymber haye stobble euery mās worke shal be shewed For the daye of the LORDE shal declare it which shal be shewed with fyre and the fyre shal trye euery mās worke what it is Yf eny mans worke that he hath buylde theron abyde he shal receaue a rewarde Yf eny mans worke burne he shal suffre losse but he shal be saued himselfe neuertheles as thorow fyre Knowe ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the sprete of God dwelleth in you Yf eny man defyle the tēple of God him shal God destroye For the temple of God is holy which ye are Let no mā disceaue himselfe Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amōge you let him become a foole in this worlde that he maye be wyse For the wyszdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God For it is wrytten He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse And agayne The LORDE knoweth the thoughtes of the wyse that they are vayne Therfore let no man reioyse in men For all is youres whether it be Paul or Apollo whether it be Cephas or ▪ the worlde whether it be life or death whether it be presente or for to come All is youres but ye are Christes and Christ is Gods The IIII. Chapter LEt euery man this wyse esteme vs euen for the mynisters of Christ and stewardes of the secretes of God Now is there no more requyred of the stewardes then that they be founde faithfull It is but a small thinge vnto me that I shulde be iudged of you or of mans daye nether iudge I myne awne selfe I knowe noughte by my selfe yet am I not therby iustified It is the LORDE that iudgeth me Therfore iudge ye nothinge before y e tyme vntyll the LORDE come which shal brynge it to lighte that is hyd in darknesse and opē the councels of y e hertes and thē shal euery one haue prayse of God These thinges brethren haue I described in myne awne preson in Apollos for youre sakes that ye mighte lerne by vs that noman counte hygher of him self then aboue is wrytten that one be not puft vp agaynst another for eny mans cause For who preferreth the What hast thou that thou hast not receaued Yf thou hast receaued it why makest thou thē thy boost as though thou haddest not receaued it Now ye are full now ye are made riche ye raigne without vs and wolde God ye dyd raigne that we might raigne with you Me thynketh that God hath set forth vs Apostles for the lowest off all euen as those that are appoynted vnto death For we are agasynge stocke vnto y e worlde and to the angels and vnto men We are fooles for Christes sake but ye are wyse in Christ We weake but ye strōge Ye honorable but we despysed Euen vnto this daye we hōger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted with fystes and haue no certayne dwellinge place and laboure and worke with oure awne handes We are reuyled and yet we blesse we are persecuted and suffre it We are euell spoken of and we praye We are become as it were the very outswepinges of y e worlde yee the of scowringe of all men vnto this tyme. I wryte not this to shame you but as my deare childrē I warne you For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ yet haue ye not many fathers For I haue begotten you in Christ Iesu thorow y e Gospell Wherfore I exhorte you be ye my folowers For this cause haue I sent vnto you Timotheus which is my deare sonne and faithfull in the LORDE that he maye put you in remembraunce of my wayes which are in Christ euē as I teach euery where in all congregacions Some are puft vp as though I wolde come nomore at you But I wil come to you shortly yf the LORDE wyl and wyl knowe not the wordes of thē that are puft vp but y e power For the kyngdome of God is not ī wordes but in power What wil ye Shal I come vnto you w t the rodd or with loue and the sprete of mekenesse The V. Chapter THere goeth a commen reporte that there is whordome amōge you and soch whordome as is not once named amōge the Heythen that one shulde haue his fathers wife And ye are puft vp and haue not rather sorowed that he which hath done this dede mighte be put frō amōge you For I verely as absent in body but present in sprete haue determyned allready as though I were present cōcernynge him that hath done this dede in y e name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ whā ye are gathered together with my sprete and with the power of oure LORDE Iesus Christ to delyuer him vnto Sathan for the destruccion of the flesh that the sprete maye be saued in the daye of the LORDE Iesus You re reioysinge is not good Knowe ye not that a litle leuen sowereth the whole lompe of dowe Pourge out therfore the olde leuen that ye maye be new dowe like as ye are swete bred For we also haue an Easter lambe which is Christ that is offred for vs. Wherfore let vs kepe Easter not in y e olde leuen ner in the leuen of maliciousnes and wickednes but in the swete bred of purenesse and of the trueth I wrote vnto you in the Epistle that ye shulde haue nothinge to do with whoremōgers that meant I not at all of the whoremongers of this worlde ether of the couetous or of extorcioners or of thē that worshippe ymages for then must ye nedes haue gone out of the worlde But now haue I wryttē vnto you y t ye shulde haue nothinge to do with them Namely yf there be eny man that is called a brother and is an whoremonger or couetous or a worshipper of ymages ether a raylar or a dronkarde or an extorcioner with soch shal ye not eate For what haue I to do to
haue wedowes let them make prouysion for theÌ„ and let not the congregacion be charged that they which are righte wedowes maye haue ynough The Elders that rule well are worthy of double honoure most specially they which laboure in the worde in teachinge For y e scripture sayeth Thou shalt not mosell the mouth of y e oxe y t treadeth out y e corne And The labourer is worthy of his rewarde Agaynst an Elder receaue none accusacion but vnder two or thre witnesses TheÌ„ that synne rebuke in the presence of all that other also maye feare I testifye before God and the LORDE Iesus Christ and y e electe angels that thou obserue these thinges without haistie iudgment and do nothinge parcially Laye hondes sodenly on no maÌ„ nether be partaker of other meÌ„s synnes Kepe y e selfe pure Drynke no lenger water but vse a litle wyne for y e stomackes sake and because thou art oft tymes sicke Some meÌ„s synnes are opeÌ„ so that they maye be iudged afore hande but some mens synnes shal be manifest herafter Likewyse also good workes are manifest afore haÌ„de and they that are other wyse can not be hyd The VI. Chapter LEt as many seruauntes as are vnder the yocke counte their mâ—sters worthy of all honoure that the name of God and his doctrine be not euell spoken of Se that they which haue beleuynge masters despyse them not because they are brethreÌ„ but rather do seruyce for so moch as they are beleuynge and beloued and partakers of the benefite These thinges teach and exhorte Yf eny maÌ„ teach otherwyse and agreeth not vnto the wholsome wordes of oure LORDE Iesus Christ and to the doctryne of godlynes he is puft vp and knoweth nothinge but waysteth his brayne aboute questions and stryuynges of wordes wherof sprynge envye stryfe raylinges euell surmysinges vayne disputacioÌ„s of soch men as haue corrupte myndes and are robbed of the trueth which thynke that godlynes is lucre From soch separate thy selfe Howbeit it is greate avauÌ„tage who so is godly and holdeth him content with that he hath For we broughte nothinge in to the worlde therfore is it a playne case y t we can cary nothinge out Whan we haue fode and rayment let vs therwith be content For they that wylbe riche fall in to the teÌ„ptacion and snare and in to many foliszhe noysome lustes which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion For Couetousnes is the rote of all euell which whyle some lusted after they erred from the faith and tangled them selues with many sorowes But thou man of God flye soche thinges folowe righteousnes godlynes faith loue pacience mekenes fighte a good fighte of faith laye honde on eternall life where vnto thou art called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses I geue the charge before God which quyckeneth all thinges before Iesu Christ which vnder Pontius Pilate witnessed a good witnessynge that thou kepe the commaundement without spot vnreproueable vntyll the appearynge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ which appearynge at his tyme he shal shewe that is blessed and mightie onely the kynge of all kynges and LORDE of all lordes which onely hath immortalite and dwelleth in a lighte that no man can attayne whom no man hath sene nether can se. Vnto whom be honoure and empyre euerlastinge Amen Charge theÌ„ which are riche in this worlde that they be not proude ner trust in the vncertayne riches but in the lyuynge God which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to 〈◊〉 them That they do good that they be rich in good workes that they geue and distribute with a good wyll gatherynge vp treasure for them selues a good foundacion agaynst y e tyme to come that they maye laye honde on eternall life O Timothy kepe that which is committed vnto the and avoyde vngoostly vayne wordes and opposicions of science falsly so called which whyle some professed they haue erred as concernynge the faith Grace be with the Amen Wrytten from Laodicea which is the chefest cite of Phrigia Pacaciana The seconde Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to Timothy The summe of this epistle Chap. I. Paul exhorteth Timothy to stedfastnesse and pacience in persecucion and to continue in the doctryne that he had taught him A commendacion of Onesiphorus Chap. II. Like as in the first chapter so here he exhorteth him to be constant in trouble to suffre manly and to byde fast in the wholsome doctrine of oure LORDE Iesus Christ. Chap. III. He prophecieth of the parelous tymes setteth out ypocrites in their culours telleth vs what they be within for all their fayre faces outwardly Persecucion for the gospell Chap. IIII. He exhorteth Timothy to be ferueÌ„â— in the worde and to suffre aduersite maketh mension of his awne death and byddeth Timothy come vnto him The first Chapter PAul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the wyll of God to preach the promes of y e life which is in Christ Iesu. To my deare sonne Timotheus Grace mercy and peace from God the father and from Christ Iesu oure LORDE I thanke God whome I serue fro my fore elders in a pure conscience that without ceassynge I make mencion of the in my prayers night and daye and longe to se the whan I remembre thy teares so that I am fylled with ioye whan I call to remembraunce the vnfayned faith that is in the which dwelt first in thy graundemother Lois and in thy mother Eunica And am assured that it dwelleth in y e also Wherfore I warne the that thou stere vp y e gifte of God which is in the by puttynge on of my handes For God hath not geuen vs the sprete of feare but of power and of loue and of right vnderstondynge Be not thou aszhamed therfore of y e testimony of o r LORDE nether of me which am his presoner but suffre thou aduersite also w t the Gospell acordinge to the power of God which hath saued vs and called vs with an holy callynge not acordinge to oure dedes but acordinge to his owne purpose and grace which was geuen vs in Christ Iesu before the tyme of the worlde but is now declared openly by the appearynge of oure Sauioure Iesu Christ. Which hath taken awaye y e power of death and hath brought life and immortalite vnto lighte thorow the Gospell whervnto I am appoynted a preacher and an Apostell and a teacher of the Heythen for the which cause I also suffre these thinges neuertheles I am not ashamed For I knowe whom I haue beleued and am sure that he is able to kepe that which I haue commytted vnto his kepynge agaynst that daye Holde the after y e ensample of the wholsome wordes which thou heardest of me concernynge faith and loue in Christ Iesu. This hye charge kepe thou thorow the holy goost which dwelleth in vs. This thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned
drye londe which whā the Egipcians assayed to do they were drowned By faith the walles of Iericho fell whā they were compased aboute seuen dayes By faith the harlot Raab perished not with the vnbeleuers whā she had receaued the spyes to lodginge peaceably And what shal I more saye y t tyme wolde be to shorte for me to tell of Gedeon of Barac and of Samson of Iepthae and of Dauid and Samuel and of the prophetes which thorow faith subdued kyngdomes wroughte righteousnes optayned y e promyses stopped y e mouthes of lyōs quenched the violēce of fyre escaped y e edge of the swerde of weake were made stronge became valeaunt in batayll turned to flighte the armyes of the aleauntes the wemen receaued their deed agayne from resurreccion But other were racked and accepted no delyueraunce that they mighte optayne the resurreccion that better is Other taisted of mockinges and scourginges of bondes also and presonment were stoned were hewen a sunder were tempted were slayne with the swerde wente aboute in shepe skynnes and goates skynnes in nede in tribulacion in vexacion which men the worlde was not worthy of they wandred aboute in wyldernesses vpon mountaynes in dennes and caues of the earth And these all thorow faith optayned good reporte and receaued not y e promes because God had prouyded a better thinge for vs that they without vs shulde not be made perfecte The XII Chapter WHerfore seynge we haue so greate a multitude of witnesses aboute vs let vs also laye awaye all y t presseth downe and the synne that hangeth on and let vs runne with pacience vnto the batayl that is set before vs lokynge vnto Iesus y e aucto r and fyniszher of faith which whan the ioye was layed before him abode the crosse and despysed the shame and is set downe on y e righte hāde of y e trone of God Cōsidre him therfore that endured soch speakinge agaynst hī of synners lest ye be weery and faynte in youre myndes for ye haue not yet resisted vnto bloude stryuynge agaynst synne and haue forgotten the consolacion which speaketh vnto you as vnto children My sonne despyse not the chastenynge off the LORDE nether faynte whan thou art rebuked of him for whō the LORDE loueth him he chasteneth yee and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth Yf ye endure chastenynge God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes What sonne is that whom the father chasteneth not Yf ye be not vnder correccion wherof all are partakers then are ye bastardes and not sonnes Morouer seyenge we haue had fathers off oure flesh which corrected vs we gaue them reuerence shulde we not then moch rather be in subieccion vnto y e father of spirituall giftes y t we mighte lyue And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure but he lerneth vs vnto y t which is profitable that we mighte receaue of his holynes No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous but greuous neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes vnto them which are exercysed therby Life vp therfore the handes which were let downe and the weake knees and se that ye haue straight steppes vnto youre fete lest eny haltinge turne you out of the waye yee let it rather be healed Folowe after peace with all men and holynes without the which no man shal se the LORDE ād loke well that no mā be destitute of the grace of God lest there sprynge vp eny bytter rote and cause disquyetnes and therby many be defyled that there be no whoremonger or vncleane person as Esau which for one meate sake solde his byrth righte For ye knowe how that afterwarde whan he wolde haue inhereted the blessynge he was put by for he foūde no place of repētaunce though he desyred y e blessynge with teares For ye are not come to y e moūt that can be touched and burneth with fyre nether yet to myst and darcknes and tempest of wedder nether to the sounde of the trompe and y e voyce of wordes which they that herde wyszhed awaye that the worde shulde not be spoken to them for they were not able to abyde that which was spoken And yf a beest had touched the mountayne it must haue bene stōed or thrust thorow with a darte And so terrible was the sighte which appeared that Moses sayde I feare and quake But ye are come to the mount Sion and to the cite of the lyuynge God to the celestiall Ierusalem and to the multitude of many thousande angels and vnto the congregacion of the first borne which are wrytten in heauen and to God the iudge of all and to the spretes of iust and perfecte men and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament and to the sprenklynge off bloude that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel Se that ye despyse not him that speaketh vnto you for yf they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth moch more shal we not escape yf we turne awaye from him that speaketh from heauē whose voyce shoke the earth at that tyme. But now promyseth he sayeth Yet once more wyl I shake not the earth onely but also heauen No doute that same that he sayeth yet once more signifieth the remouynge awaye of those thinges which are shaken as off thinges which are made that y e thinges which are not shakē maye remayne Wherfore seynge we receaue the vnmoueable kyngdome we haue grace wherby we maye serue God please him with reuerence and godly feare For oure God is a consumynge fyre The XIII Chapter LEt brotherly loue cōtynue Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers for therby haue dyuerse receaued angels in to their houses vnawares Remembre them that are in bondes euē as though ye were bounde with them and be myndefull off them which are in aduersite as ye which are also in the bodye Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes let y e chamber be vndefyled For whorekepers and aduouterers God wil iudge Let youre conuersacion be without couetousnes and be content with that ye haue allready for he hath sayde I wyl not fayle the nether forsake the so that we maye boldely saye The LORDE is my helper and I wyl not feare what man maye do vnto me Remembre thē which haue the ouersighte of you which haue declared vnto you the worde of God The ende of whose cōuersacion se that ye loke vpon and folowe their faith Iesus Christ yesterdaye and Todaye the same cōtinueth foreuer Be not caried aboute w t dyuerse and straunge lernynges for it is a good thinge that the herte be stablyszhed with grace and not with meates which haue not profited them that haue had their pastyme in them We haue an altare wherof they haue no power to eate which serue in the Tabernacle For the bodies of
be vncleane vntyll the euen Whan he toucheth an erthen vessell it shal be broken but the treen vessell shal be rensed w t water And whā he is cleane of his yssue he shal nombre vij dayes after y t he is made cleane wash his clothes bathe him self w t sprynginge water thē is he cleane And vpon the eight daye shal he take two turtill doues or two yonge pigeōs and brynge them before the LORDE before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and geue them vnto the prest And the prest shal make of the one a syn offeringe of the other a burnt offerynge and make an attonement for him before the LORDE as concernynge his yssue Whan a mans sede departeth from him in slepe the same shal bathe all his flesh w t water and be vncleane vntyll the euen And all clothes and euery skynne that is stained with soch sede shall he wash with water be vncleane vntyll the euen A woman by whom soch one lyeth shall bathe hir self w t water and be vncleane vntyll the euen Whan a woman hath the bloude yssue of hir flesh she shal be put a parte vij daies in to a sundrie place Who so euer toucheth her shal be vncleane vntyll the euē And all that she lyeth vpon as longe as she is put aparte shal be vncleane And that she sytteth vpō shal be vncleane And who so euer toucheth hir bed shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euen And who so euer toucheth eny maner thinge that she hath sytten vpō shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water and be vncleane vntyll the euē And yf a man lye with her whyle she is put a parte he shal be vncleane seuen dayes and the bed that he laye vpon shal be vncleane But whan a woman hath hir bloude yssue a longe season not onely at the tyme of hir naturall course but also out of the tyme of hir naturall course then shall she be vncleane so longe as she hath the yssue euē as she is at the tyme whan she is put aparte so shall she be vncleane here also What so euer she lyeth vpon all the tyme of hir yssue shal be as hir bed whan she is put aparte And all that she sytteth vpon shal be vncleane as is hir vnclennesse whan she is put aparte Who so euer toucheth eny of them shal be vncleane and shal wash his clothes and bathe him self with water be vncleane vntyll the euen But yf she be cleane of hir yssue thē shal she nombre seuen dayes afterwarde shall she be cleane and vpon the eight daye shall she take two turtill doues or two yonge pigeons and brynge them vnto the prest before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse And the prest shall make of the one a synofferynge of the other a burnt offerynge and make an attonement for her before the LORDE as concernynge the yssue of hir vnclennesse Thus shal ye se that the childrē of Israel kepe them selues from their vnclēnesse that they dye not in their vnclennesse whan they defyle my habitacion which is amōge you This is the lawe ouer him that hath a runnynge sore him whose sede departeth from him in slepe so that he is vncleane ther of And ouer her that hath hir bloude yssue and who so euer hath a runnynge sore whether it be man or woman and whan a man lyeth with her that is vncleane The XVI Chapter ANd the LORDE spake vnto Moses after that Aarons two sonnes were deed whan they offered before the LORDE sayde Speake vnto Aaron thy brother y t he go not at all tymes in to y e ynnermer Sanctuary within the vale before the Mercyseate which is vpon the Arke y t he dye not for I wyll appeare in a cloude vpon y e Mercyseate But herewithall shal he go in euen with a yonge bullocke for a syn offerynge and with a ramme for a burntofferynge and shal put on the holy lynnen albe and haue lynnen breches vpon his flesh and gyrde him with a lynnē girdell and haue the lynnen myter vpon his heade For these are y e holy garmentes he shal bathe his flesh with water put them on of the cōgregacion of the childrē of Israel he shal take two he goates for a syn offerynge and a ramme for a burnt offerynge And Aaron shal brynge the bullocke his owne syn offerynge and make an attonemēt for himself and his house and afterwarde shall he take the two goates and present them before the LORDE euen before the dore of the Tabernacle of witnesse and shall cast lottes ouer the two goates the lot of the one goate for the LORDE and the other for the fre goate And the goate that y e LORDES lot fell vpon shal he offre for a syn offerynge But the goate that the fre goates lot fell vpon shal he present alyue before y e LORDE to make an attonement for him and to let the fre goate go into y e wyldernes And so shal he brynge the bullocke of his syn offerynge and make an attonement for him and his housholde and shal kyll him And he shall take a censor full of coales from the altare that stondeth before the LORDE and his handfull of beaten incense and brynge them in within y e vayle and put the incense vpon the fyre before y e LORDE that the cloude of the incense maye couer the Mercyseate which is vpon the witnesse that he dye not And he shall take of the bloude of the bullocke and sprenkle it with his fynger towarde the Mercyseate on the foresyde Seuen tymes shall he sprenkle of the bloude thus with his fynger before the Mercyseate Thē shal he kyll the goate which is the peoples syn offerynge brynge in of his bloude within the vayle shall do with his bloude as he dyd with the bloude of the bullocke and sprenkle therwith also on the foresyde towarde the Mercyseate and so shal he reconcyle the Sāctuary from the vnclennesse of the childrē of Israel and frō their trespaces in all their synnes Thus shal he do vnto the Tabernacle of wytnesse which is the habitacion with them amōge their vnclennesses No man shal be in the Tabernacle of witnesse whan he goeth in to make an attonement in the Sāctuary vntyll he go out and so shall he make an attonement for him self and his house and for the whole congregacion of Israel And whā he goeth forth vnto the altare that stondeth before the LORDE he shal reconcyle it and shal take of y e bullockes bloude and of the goates bloude put it vpon the hornes of the altare rounde aboute And with his fynger shal he sprēkle of the bloude theron seuen tymes and halowe it and consecrate it from the vnclennesse of the children of Israel And whan he hath made an ende of reconcylinge the Sanctuary and the Tabernacle of witnesse and the altare
fell Israel awaie froÌ„ the house of Dauid vnto this daye The XI Chapter ANd whan Roboam came to Ierusasalem he gathered together the house of Iuda and Ben Iamin euen an huÌ„dreth and foure score thousande chosen men of armes to fyghte agaynst Israel that they mighte brynge the kyngdome agayne vnto Roboam But y e worde of the LORDE came to Semaia the man of God and sayde Speake to Roboam the sonne of Salomon kynge of Iuda and to all Israel y t are in Iuda and Ben Iamin and saye Thus sayeth the LORDE Ye shal not go vp ner fyght agaynst youre brethren let euery man go home agayne for this is my dede They herkened vnto the wordes of y e LORDE and weÌ„te not forth agaynst IeroboaÌ„ As for RoboaÌ„ he dwelt at Ierusalem and buylded vp the stronge cities in Iuda namely BethleeÌ„ Etan Tekoa Bethzur Socho AdullaÌ„ Gath Maresa Siph Adoraim Laches Aseka Zâ—rega Aialon and Hebron which were the fensed cities in Iuda and Ben Iamin he made them stronge and set prynces therin prouyded them of vytayles oyle and wyne and in all cities prepared he shildes and speares and made them very stronge And Iuda and Ben Iamin were vnder him The Prestes and Leuites also came vnto him out of Israel and from all the borders therof And lefte their suburbes possession and camt to Iuda vnto Ierusalem for Ieroboam and his sonnes expelled them that they shulde not execute the offyce of y e presthode vnto y e LORDE But for himselfe he fouÌ„ded prestes to y e hye places to felde deuels calues which he caused to make And after them came there men out of all the trybes of Israel which gaue ouer their hertes to seke y e LORDE God of Israel came to IerusaleÌ„ for to offre vnto the LORDE God of their fathers And so strengthed they y e kingdome of Iuda and maÌ„tayned Roboam the sonne of Salomon thre yeare longe for they walked in y e waye of Dauid Salomon thre yeares And Roboam toke Mahelath y e doughter of Ieremoth y e sonne of Dauid to wife Abihail the doughter of Eliab y e sonne of Isai which bare him these sonnes Ieus Semaria Saham After her toke he Maecha the doughter of Absalom which bare him Abia Athai Sisa and Selomith But Roboam loued Maecha the doughter of Absalom better then all his wyues concubynes for he had eightene wyues and thre score coÌ„cubynes and begat eight twentye sonnes and thre score doughters And Roboam set Abia the sonne of Maecha to be heade and prynce amonge his brethren for he thoughte to make him kynge for he was wyse more mightie then all his sonnes in all the countrees of Iuda Ben Iamin and in all the stronge cities And he gaue them plenteousnes of fode and desyred many wyues The XII Chapter BVt whaÌ„ the kyngdome of Roboam was confirmed and stablyshed he forsoke the lawe of the LORDE all Israel with him And in the fyfth yeare of Roboam weÌ„te Sisack the kynge of Egipte vp agaynst Ierusalem for they had transgressed agaynst the LORDE with a thousande and two hundreth charettes and with thre score thousande horsmen and the people were innumerable that came with him out of Egipte Libya Sâ—chim out of Ethiopia and he wanne the stroÌ„ge cities that were in Iuda and came to Ierusalem Then came Semaia y e prophet vnto Roboam and to y e rulers of Iuda which were gathered together at Ierusalem for Sisack sayde vnto them Thus sayeth y e LORDE Ye haue lefte me therfore haue I lefte you also in Sisacks hande TheÌ„ the rulers in Israel with the kynge submytted them selues and sayde The LORDE is righteous But whaÌ„ the LORDE sawe y t they huÌ„bled themselues y e worde of the LORDE came to Semaia sayde They haue humbled them selues therfore wyl I not destroye them but I wyl geue them a litle delyueraunce that my indignacion fall not vpon Ierusalem by Sisack for they shal be subdued vnto him y t they maye knowe what it is to serue me to serue the kyngdomes of the worlde Thus weÌ„te Sisack the kynge of Egipte vp to Ierusalem toke the treasures in the house of the LORDE the treasures in the kynges house and caried all awaye and toke the shyldes of golde that Salomon caused to make in steade wherof kynge RoboaÌ„ made shyldes of stele and commytted theÌ„ vnto the chefe fotemen which kepte the dore of the kynges house And as oft as the kynge wente in to the house of the LORDE y e fote men came bare them broughâ—â—hem againe in to y e fote mens chaÌ„ber And for so moch as he submytted himselfe y e wrath of y e LORDE turned froÌ„ him so that all was not destroied for there was yet some good in Iuda Thus was Roboam the kinge stablished in Ierusalem and reigned One and fortye yeare olde was Roboam whaÌ„ he was made kynge and reigned seuentene yeare at Ierusalem in the cite which the LORDE had chosen out of all the trybes of Israel to set his name there His mothers name was Naemaan Ammonitisse and he did euell and prepared not his hert to seke the LORDE These actes of Roboam both fyrst and last are wrytten in the actes of Semaia the prophet of Iddo the Seer and are noted so are the warres that Roboam and Ieroboam had together as longe as they lyued And Roboam fell on slepe with his fathers and was buryed in the cite of Dauid Abia his sonne was kynge in his steade The XIII Chapter IN the eightenth yeare of kynge Ieroboam was Abia kynge in Iuda reigned thre yeare at Ierusalem His mothers name was Michaia the doughter of Veiel of Gibea And there was warre betwene Abia and Ieroboam And Abia prepared himselfe to the battayll with foure huÌ„dreth thousande stronge chosen men of warre But Ieroboam made himselfe ready to fight agaynst him w t eight hundreth thousande chosen men of strength And Abia gatt him vp vpon the hyll Zemaraim which lyeth vpon mount Ephraim and sayde Herken vnto me thou Ieroboam and all Israel Knowe ye not that the LORDE God of Israel hath geuen Dauid y e kyngdome of Israel for euer vnto him and his sonnes with a Salt couenaunt But IeroboaÌ„ the sonne of Nebat the seruaunt of Salomon Dauids sonne gat him vp fell awaye from his lorde And there resorted vnto him vagaboundes and children of Belial and haue strengthed them selues against RoboaÌ„ the sonne of SalomoÌ„ for Roboam was but yonge and of a fearfull hert and coulde not resiste them Now thinke ye to set youre selues against the kyngdome of the LORDE amonge the sonnes of Dauid for so moch as there is so greate a multitude of you and haue y e golden calues y t Ieroboam made you for goddes Haue ye not expelled the prestes of the LORDE the children of Aaron and the Leuites
and haue made you prestes of youre awne euen as the people of the londes Who so euer commeth to fyll his hande with a yonge bullocke and seuen rammes shal be preste vnto them that are not goddes But with vs is y e LORDE oure God whoÌ„ we forsake not and the prestes that minister vnto the LORDE the children of Aaron and the Leuites in their busines and euery mornynge and euery euenynge kyndle they the burnt offerynges vnto the LORDE and the swete incense and prepare the shewbred vpoÌ„ the pure table and the golden candilsticke with his lampes to be kyndled euery euenynge for we wayte vpoÌ„ the LORDE oure God As for you ye haue forsaken him Beholde God is the captayne of oure hoost and with vs are his prestes and the blowynge trompettes to trompe agaynst you Ye children of Israel fight not agaynst the LORDE God of yo r fathers for ye shal not prospere Neuertheles Ieroboam made a preuy watch on euery syde to come vpon them behynde so that they were before Iuda and y e preuy watch behynde Now whaÌ„ Iuda turned them beholde there was battayll before theÌ„ behynde Then cryed they vnto y e LORDE the prestes tromped with the trompettes whaÌ„ euery man in Iuda gaue a shoute God plaged Ieroboam and Israel before Abia and Iuda And the children of Israel fled before Iuda and God gaue them in to their handes so that Abia his people dyd a greate slaughter vpon them and there fell wounded of Israel fyue hundreth thousande chosen men Thus were the children of Israel subdued at that tyme but the children of Iuda were comforted for they put their trust in y e LORDE God of their fathers And Abia folowed vpon Ieroboam and wanne cities froÌ„ him Bethel with the vyllages therof Iesana w t hir vyllages and Ephron with the villages therof so that Ieroboam came nomore to strength as longe as Abia lyued And the LORDE smote him that he dyed Now whan Abia was strengthed he toke fourtene wyues and begat two and twentye sonnes and sixtene daughters What more there is to saye of Abia and of his wayes and his doynges it is wrytten in the storye of the prophet Iddo And Abia fell on slepe with his fathers and they buryed him in 〈◊〉 cite of Dauid and Asa his sonne was 〈◊〉 in his steade In his tyme was the londe 〈◊〉 rest ten yeares The XIIII Chapter ANd Asa dyd that which was goodâ— right in the sighte of the LORDE his God and put awaye the straunge â—â—tares and the hye places and brake the pâ—lers and hewed downe the groues and sayde vnto Iuda that they shulde seke the LORDE God of their fathers and to do after y e lawe and commaundementes And the hye places and ymages put he awaye out of 〈◊〉 the cities of Iuda and the kyngdome haâ— rest before him And he builded stroÌ„ge cities in Iuda whyle the londe was in quietnes whyle there was no warre agaynst him 〈◊〉 the same yeares for y e LORDE gaue him rest And he sayde vnto Iuda Let vs buylde vp these cities and fense them rounde aboâ—te with walles and towres with portes and barres while the londe is yet with vs for we haue soughte tâ—e LORDE oure God and he hath geuen vs rest on euery syde So they buylded and it wente prosperously with theÌ„ â–ª And Asa had an hoost of meÌ„ which bare sâ—â—des speares out of Iuda thre C. thousande and out of Ben Iamin two huÌ„dreth and foâ—re score thousande that bare shyldes coulde shute w t bowes and all these were mightie stronge men But Serah the Moryan came out against theÌ„ w t an hoost of a thousande times a thousande and with thre hundreth charettes and came vnto Maresa And Asa wente forth agaynst him And they prepared them selues to the battayll in the valley Zephatâ— beside Maresa And Asa called vpon y e LORDE his God and sayde LORDE it is no differeÌ„ce w t y e to helpe by fewe or by many Helpe vs O LORDE oure God for oure trust is in the in thy name are we come forth against this multitude LORDE oure God let no man preuayle agaynst the. And the LORDE smote the MoriaÌ„s before Asa and before Iuda so that they fled And Asa with y e people that was by him folowed vpon them vnto Gerar. And the MoriaÌ„s fell so that none of them remained alyue but were smytten before the LORDE and before his hoost And they caried exceadinge moch spoyle from thence And he smote all the cyties aboute Gerar for a fearfulnesse of the LORDE came vpon them And they spoyled all the cities for there was moch spoyle in them They smote the tentes of the catell also and toke many shepe and Camels and came agayne to Ierusalem The XV. Chapter ANd the sprete of God came vpoÌ„ Asarias the sonne of Obed which wente forth to Asa and sayde vnto him Heare me Asa and all Iuda Ben Iamin The LORDE is with you whyle ye are with him and yf ye seke him he wylbe founde of you But yf ye forsake him he shal forsake you also Neuertheles there shal be many dayes in Israel that there shal be no true God no prest to teach no lawe And whan they turne in their trouble vnto the LORDE God of Israel and seke him he shal be founde At that tyme shall it not be well with him that goeth out and in for there shal be greate vproures vpon all them y t dwell on the earth For one people shall all to smyte another one cite another for God shal vexe them w t all maner of trouble But be ye stronge and let not youre handes be feble for youre worke hath his rewarde Whan Asa herde these wordes and the prophecieÌ„ge of Asarias the sonne of Obed the prophet he toke a corage vnto him and put awaye the abhominacions out of all y e londe of Iuda and Ben Iamin and out of the cities that he had wonne vpon mount Ephraim and renued the LORDES altare which stode before the porche of the LORDE And all Iuda and Ben Iamin gathered them selues together and the straungers with them out of Ephraim Manasses and Simeon for there fell many vnto him out of Israel whan they sawe that the LORDE his God was with him And they resorted vnto Ierusalem in the thirde moneth of the fyftenth yeare of the reigne of Asa and the same daye offred they vnto the LORDE of the spoyle that they had broughte seuen huÌ„dreth oxen and seuen thousande shepe And they entred in to y e couenaunt that they wolde seke the LORDE God of their fathers with all their hert and with all their soule And who so euer wolde not seke y e LORDE God of Israel shulde dye both small greate both man and woman and they sware vnto the LORDE with loude voyce with shoutinge with trompettes and with shawmes And all Iuda were glad ouer the ooth for
Be it knowne vnto the kynge that we came in to Iewry to the house of y e greate God which is buylded with all maner of stone and balckes are layed in the walles and y e worke goeth fast forth and prospereth in their handes Neuertheles we axed the Elders and sayde vnto them Who hath cōmaunded you to buylde this house and to make vp the walles therof We axed their names also that we might certifye the and haue wrytten the names of the men that were their rulers But they answered vs w t these wordes and sayde We are the seruaūtes of the God of heauen and earth and buylde the house y t was buylded many yeares agoo which a greate kynge of Israel buylded and set vp Howbeit whan oure fathers prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath he gaue them ouer in the hande of Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon the Caldee which brake downe this house caried y e people awaye vnto Babilon Neuertheles in the first yeare of Cyrus the kynge of Babilon y e same kynge Cyrus commaunded to buylde this house of God for the vessels of golde and siluer in the house of God which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Ierusalē and broughte thē in to y e temple at Babilon those dyd Cyrus the kynge take out of y e temple at Babilon and delyuered them vnto Seszbazer by name whom he made Debyte and sayde vnto him Take these vessels go thy waye and brynge them vnto the temple at Ierusalem and let the house of God be buylded in his place Then came the same Seszbazar and layed y e foundacion of the house of God at Ierusalem Sence that tyme hath it bene in buyldinge and yet is it not fynished Yf it please y e kynge now let there be search made in y e kynges treasure house which is at Babilon whether it haue bene kynge Cyrus commaundement that the house of God at Ierusalem shulde be buylded sende vs y e kynges mynde concernynge the same The VI. Chapter THen cōmaunded kinge Darius that search shulde be made in y e library of y e kynges treasure house which laye at Babilon So at Egbathanis in a castell that lyeth in the londe of the Meedes there was founde a boke in it was there an acte wrytten after this maner In the first yeare of kynge Cyrus cōmaunded the same kynge Cyrus to buylde y e house of God at Ierusalem in the place where the sacrifice is made to laye the foundacion to beare thre score cubites heyght thre score cubites bredth thre walles of all maner of stones and one wall of tymber the expences shal be geuen of the kynges house And the goldē and syluer vessell of y e house of God which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Ierusalem and broughte vnto Babilon shal be restored agayne y t they maye be broughte vnto the temple at Ierusalē to their place in to the house of God Get you farre from them therfore thou Thathnai Debyte beyonde the water and Sethar of Bosen youre councelers which are beyonde the water Let them worke in y e house of God that the Debyte of y e Iewes and their Elders maye buylde the house of God in his place I haue commaunded also what shal be done to y e Elders of Iuda for the buyldinge of the house of God that there shal diligently be takē of the kynges goodes euen of the rentes beyonde the water geuen vnto the men and that they be not hyndered And yf they haue nede of calues lambes or goates for the burnt offrynge vnto y e God of heauen wheate salt wyne and oyle after the custome of the prestes at Ierusalem there shal be geuen them daylie as is acordinge and se that this be not done necligētly that they maye offre swete sauoures vnto y e God of heauen and praye for the kynges lyfe and for his children This commaundement haue I geuē And what man so euer he be that altereth these wordes there shal a balke be taken from his house and set vp and he shal be hanged theron and his house shal be prysed for the dede But the God that dwelleth in heauen destroye all kynges and people that put to their hāde to alter and to breake downe the house of God at Ierusalem I Darius haue commaunded that this be diligently done Then Thathnai y e Debyte beyonde y e water and Sethar of Bosen with their councelers to whom kynge Darius had sent dyd their diligence And y e Elders of the Iewes buylded and they prospered thorow the prophecienge of Aggeus the prophet and Zachary the sonne of Iddo and they buylded and set vp the worke acordinge to the commaundement of the God of Israel and after the commaundement of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerses kynges of Persia. And they perfourmed the house vnto the thirde daye of the moneth Adar that was the sixte yeare of the reigne of kynge Darius And the children of Israel the prestes the Leuites and the other children of y e captyuite helde the dedicacion of the house of God with ioye and offred at the dedicacion of the house of God an hundreth calues two hundreth lambes foure hundreth goates and for the syn offerynge for all Israel twolue he goates acordinge to the nombre of the trybes of Israel and set the prestes in their courses and y e Leuites in their offices to mynister vnto God which is at Ierusalē as it is wrytten in the boke of Moses And the children of the captyuite helde Passeouer vpon the fourtenth daye of the first moneth for y e prestes and Leuites had purified them selues so y t they were all cleane as one man and kylled Passeouer for all the children of the captyuite and for their brethrē the prestes and for them selues And the childrē of Israel which were come agayne out of captiuyte and all soch as had separated them selues vnto them from the fylthinesse of the Heythen in the londe to seke the LORDE God of Israel ate helde the feast of vnleuēded bred seuen dayes with ioye for the LORDE had made them glad and turned the hert of the kynge of Assur vnto thē so that their handes were strengthed in the worke of the house of God which is y e God of Israel The VII Chapter AFter these actes in the reigne of Artaxerses kynge of Persia there wente vp from Babilon Eszdras the sonne of Seraia the sonne of Asaria the sonne of Helchias the sonne of Sallum the sonne of Sadoc the sonne of Achitob the sonne of Amaria the sonne of Asaria the sonne Meraioth the sonne of Serahia y e sonne of Vsi the sonne of Buki the sonne of Abisua the sonne of Phineas the sonne of Eleasar the sonne of Aaron the chefe prest which was a quycke scrybe in the lawe of Moses which the LORDE God of Israel dyd geue And y e kynge gaue him all that he
requyred acordinge to the hande of the LORDE his God vpon him And there wente vp certayne of the children of Israel and of the prestes and of the Leuites of the syngers of the porters and of the Nethinims vnto Ierusalem in the seuenth yeare of kynge Artaxerses And they came to Ierusalem in the fifth moneth that is the seuenth yeare of the kynge For vpon the first daye of the first moneth deuysed he to go vp from Babilon and on y e first daye of the fifth moneth came he to Ierusalem acordinge to the good hande of God vpon him For Eszdras prepared his hert to seke the lawe of the LORDE and to do it and to teach the precepte iudgment in Israel And this is the summe of the letter that kynge Artaxerses gaue vnto Eszdras the prest the scrybe which was a teacher in the wordes of the LORDE and of his statutes ouer Israel Vnto Eszdras the prest and scrybe in the lawe of the God of heauen peace and salutacion I haue commaunded that all they of the people of Israel and of the prestes and Leuites in my realme which are mynded of their awne good wyll to go vp to Ierusalem that they go with the beynge sent of the kynge and of the seuen lordes of the councell to vyset Iuda and Ierusalem acordinge to the lawe of God which is in thy haÌ„de And that thou shuldest take with the syluer and golde which the kynge and the lordes of his councell geue of their awne good wyll vnto the God of Israel whose habitacion is at Ierusalem and all the syluer and golde that thou canst fynde in all y e countre of Babilon with it that the people and prestes geue of their awne good wil vnto the house of God at Ierusalem Take thou the same and bye diligently with the same money calues lambes goates and meat offerynges and drynk offerynges to be offred vpon the altare of the house of youre God at Ierusalem And loke what it lyketh the and thy brethren to do with the remnaunt of the money that do after the wyll of youre God And the vessels that are geuen the for the mynistracion in the house of thy God those delyuer thou before God at Ierusalem And what so euer thinge more shal be nedefull for the house of thy God which is necessary for the to spende let the same be geueÌ„ out of the kynges chamber I kynge Artaxerses haue commaunded all the treasurers beyonde the water y t loke what so euer Eszdras the prest and scrybe in the lawe of the God of heaueÌ„ requyreth of you that ye fulfyll the same diligently vntyll an hundreth taleÌ„tes of syluer and tyll an hundreth quarters of wheate and tyll an huÌ„dreth Batthes of wyne and tyll an hundreth Batthes of oyle and salt without measure Whatsoeuer belongeth to the lawe of the God of heaâ—uen let the same be done with diligence for the house of the God of heaueÌ„ that there come no wrath vpon the kynges realme his children And knowne be it vnto you that ye shall haue no auctorite to requyre taxinge custome and yearly rentes vpon eny of the prestes Leuites syngers porters Nethinims and mynisters in y e house of this God But thou Eszdras after the wyszdome of y e God that is in thy hande set thou iudges and arbiters to iudge all the people that is beyonde Iordane euen all soch as knowe the lawe of thy God and them that knowe it not those se that ye teache And who so euer wyl not diligently fulfyll the lawe of thy God and the kynges lawe shall haue his iudgmeÌ„t for the dede whether it be vnto death or to be banyshed or to be condemned in good or to be put in preson Praysed be the LORDE God of oure fathers which so hath inspyred y e kynges herâ— to garnysh the house of God at Ierusalem and hath enclyned his mercy vnto me in the presence of the kynge and his councelers and before all the kynges hye estates And I was comforted acordinge to the haÌ„de of the LORDE my God ouer me and so gathered I the heades of Israel together y t they mighte go vp with me The VIII Chapter THese are the heades of their fathers that were named which wente vp w t me from Babilon what tyme as kynge Artaxerses reigned Of the childreÌ„ of Phineas Gersom of the children of Ithamar Daniel of the children of Dauid Hattus of the childreÌ„ of Pareos Zachary and the men childreÌ„ nombred with him an hundreth and fiftye Of the children of Pahath Moab Eleoenai the sonne of Serahia and w t him two hundreth males Of the children of Sechania the sonne of Iehasiel and with him thre hundreth males Of the children of Adin Ebed the sonne of Ionathan and with him fiftie males Of the children of Elam Iesaia the sonne of Athalia and with him seuentie males Of the children of Sephatia Sebadia the sonne of Michael and w t him foure score males Op the children of Ioab Obadia the sonne of Iehiel and with him two hundreth eightene men children Of the children of Selomith the sonne of Iosiphia and with him an hundreth and thre score males Of the children of Bebai Zachary the sonne of Bebai and with him eight and twentye males Of the children of Asgad Iohanan the yongest sonne and with him an hundreth and ten males Of the last children of Adonicam and these were their names Eliphelet Ieiel and Semaia and with them thre score males Of the children of Bigenai Vthai and Sabud and with them seueÌ„ males And I gathered them together by the water that renneth towarde Ahena there abode we thre dayes And whan I loked amonge the people the prestes I founde no Leuites there TheÌ„ sent I Elieser Ariel Semaia Elnathan Iarib Elnathan Natha Zachary and Mesullam the rulers and Ioiarib and Elnathan the teachers and those sent I vnto Iddo y e chefest at Casiphia that they shulde fetch us mynysters for the house of oure God and I tolde them what they shulde saye vnto Iddo and to his brethren the Nethinims at Casiphia And acordinge to the good hande of oure God vpon us they broughte us a wyse man from amonge the children of Maheli the sonne of Leuithe sonne of Israel euen Serebia with his sonnes and brethren eightene And Hasabia and with him Iesaia of the children of Merari with his brethren their sonnes twentye And of the Neâ—hinims whom Dauid and the princes gaue to mynister vnto the Leuites two hundreth twentye all named by name And euen there at the water besyde Ahena caused I a fastinge to be proclamed y t we mighte humble oure selues before oure God to seke of him a righte waye for us oure children and all oure substaunce For I was ashamed to require of the kynge soudyers horsmen to helpe us agaynst the enemye in the waye For we had sayde vnto the kynge The hande of oure God is for the best vpon