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

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

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

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

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

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

And God sayd / let the water bryng forth creatures that move & have lyfe / & foules for to flee over the erth vnder the fyrmament of heaven. And God created greate whalles and all maner of creatures that lyve and moue / which the waters brought forth in their kindes / d all maner of federed foules in their kyndes. And

And God sayd: leth the erth bring forth lyvynge creatures in thir kyndes: catell & wormes & beastes of the erth in their kyndes / & so it came to passe. And god made the beastes of the erth in their kyndes / & catell in their kyndes / d all maner wormes of the erth in their kyndes: and God sawe that it was good.

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

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

And God sayd: se / I have geven yow all herbes that sowe seed which are on all the erth / and all maner trees that haue frute in them and sowe seed: to be meate for yow & for all

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beastes of the erth / and vnto all foules of the ayre / and vnto all that crepeth on the erth where in is lyfe / that they may haue all maner herbes and grasse for to eate / and even so it was. And God behelde al that he had made / d loo they were exceadynge good: and so of the evenynge and mornynge was made the syxth daye

Thus was heav & erth fynished wyth all their apparell: d þ^e seuth daye god ended hys worke which he had made & rested in þ^e seventh daye fr all his workes which he had made. And God blessed þ^e seventh daye / and sanctyfyed it / for in it he rested from all his workes which he had created and made.

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

The LORde God also planted a garden in Eden from the begynnynge / and there he sette

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

And the LORde God toke Adam and put him in the garden of Eden / to dresse it and to kepe it: and the LORde God cmaunded Ad saynge: of all the trees of the gard se tho eate. But of the tre of knowlege of good and badd se that thou eate not: for even þ^e same daye thou eatest of it / thou shalt surely dye.

And the LORde God sayd: it is not good that man shulde be alone / I will make hym an helper to beare him company: And after þ^t the LORde God had make of the erth all maner beastes of the felde / and all maner foules of the ayre / he brought them vnto Adam to see what

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

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

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

And the LORde God sayd vnto the serpt because thou haste so done moste cursed be thou of all catell and of all beastes of the feld: vpp thy bely shalt thou goo: and erth shalt thou eate all dayes of thy lyfe. Morover I will put hatred betwene the and the woman / and betwene thy seed and hyr seed. And that seed shall tread the on the heed / d thou shalt tread hit on the hele.

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

And vnto Ad he sayd: for as moch as thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wyfe / and hast eaten of the tree of which I commaunded the saynge: se thou eate not therof: cursed be the erth for thy sake. In sorow shalt thou eate therof all dayes of thy lyfe / And it shall beare thornes d thystels vnto the. And thou shalt eate the herbes of þ^e feld: In the swete of thy face shalt thou eate brede / vntill thou returne vnto the erth whce thou wast tak: for erth thou art / d vnto erth shalt thou returne.

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

And the LORde God cast him out of the garden of Eden / to tylle the erth whce he was taken. And he cast Ad out / and sette at þ^e enteringe of the garden Eden / Cherubin with a naked swerde movinge in and out / to kepe the way to the tree of lyfe.

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

And it fortuned in processe of tyme / that Cain brought of the frute of the erth: an offerynge vnto the LORde. And Abell / he brought also of the fyrstlynges of hys shepe and of the fatt of them. And the LORde loked vnto Abell and to his offeynge: but vnto Cain and vnto his offrynge / looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceadingly / and loured. And the LORde sayd vnto Cain: why art thou angry / and why loureste thou? Wotest thou not yf thou dost well thou shalt receave it? But & yf thou dost evell / by & by thy synne lyeth open in the dore. Not withstondyng

And Cain sayd vnto the LORde: my synne is greater / then that it may be forgeven. Beholde thou castest me out thys day from of the face of the erth / and fr thy syghte must I hyde my selfe d I must be wandrynge and a vagabunde vpon the erth: Morover whosoever fyndeth me / wyll kyll me, And the LORde sayd vnto h Not so / but whosoever sleyth Cain shalbe punyshed .vij. folde. And þ^e LORde put ^1. a marke vp Cain that no m þ^t founde hym shulde kyll hym.

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And Cain went out fr the face of the LORde and dwelt in the lande Nod / on the east syde of Eden.

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

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

And Enos lyved .lxxxx. yere and begat

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

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

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

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

And Mathusala lyved an hundred and lxxxvij. yere and begat Lamech: and Mathusala

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

And it came to passe / wh men beg to multiplye ap the erth d had begot them doughters / the sonnes of God sawe the doughters of men that / they were fayre / and toke vnto them wyves / which they best liked amge th all. And the LORd sayd: My spirite shall not allwaye stryve withe man / for they are flesh. Nevertheles I wyll geue them yet space / and hundred and .xx. yeres

There were tirantes in the world in thos dayes. For after that the children of God had gone in vnto the doughters of men and had begotten them childern / the same childern were the mightiest of the world and men of renowne

These are the generatis of Noe. Noe was a righteous man and vncorrupte in his tyme / & walked wyth god. And Noe begat .iij. sonnes: Sem / Ham and Iapheth. And the erth was corrupte in the syghte of god and was full of mischefe. And God loked vpon the erth / d loo it was corrupte: for all flesh had corrupte his way vppon the erth.

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

The lenth of the arcke shall be .iij. hundred cubytes / d the bredth of it .l. cubytes / and the heyth of it .xxx. cubytes. A wyndow shalt thou make aboue in the arcke. And wythin a cubyte compasse shalt thou finysh it.

And the dore of the arcke shalt thou sette in þ^e syde of it: and thou shalt make it with .iij loftes one aboue an other. For behold I wil bringe in a floud of water apon the erth to destroy all flesh from vnder heaven / wherin breth of life is so that all that is in the erth shall perish. But I will make myne apoyntement with the / that both thou shalt come in to þ^e arcke and thy sonnes / thy wyfe and thy sonnes wyves with the.

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

And the LORde sayd vnto Noe: goo in to the arcke both thou and all thy houssold. For the haue I sene rightuous before me in thys generacion. Of all clene beastes take vnto the .vij. of every kynde the male and hys female

And Noe dyd acordynge to all þ^t the lorde cmaunded hym: and Noe was .vi. hundred yere olde / when the floud of water came vppon the erth: and Noe went and his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyves wyth hym / in to the arke from the waters of the floud. And of clene beastes and of beastes that ware vnclene and of byrdes and of all that crepeth vpp the erth / came in by cooples of every kynde vnto Noe in to the arke: a male and a female: even as God commaunded Noe. And the seventh daye the waters of the floud came vppon the erth.

In the .vi. hundred yere of Noes lyfe / in the secde moneth / in the .xvij daye of the moneth / þ^t same daye were all the founteynes of the grete depe broken vp / & the wyndowes of heav were opened / d there fell a rayne vpon the erth .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes.

And the selfe same daye went Noe / Sem / Ham and Iapheth / Noes sonnes / and Noes wyfe and the .iij. wyues of his sonnes wyth them in to the arke: both they and all maner of beastes in their kde / & all maner of catell in their kynde & all maner of wormes that crepe vppon

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

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

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

Thus was destroyed all that was vpp the erth / both man / beastes / wormes and foules of the ayre / so that they were destroyed from the erth: save Noe was reserved only and they that were wyth hym in the arke. And the waters prevayled vppon the erth / an hundred and fyftye dayes.

And god rembred Noe & all þ^e beastes & all þ^e catell þ^t were with h in þ^e arke And god made a wynde to blow vpp þ^e erth / & þ^e waters ceased: d þ^e fountaynes of the depe d the wyndowes of heav were stopte and the rayne of heaven was forbidd / and the waters returned from of þ^e erth d abated after the ende of an hundred and .l. dayes.

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

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

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

And he abode yet .vij. dayes mo / and sent out the doue agayne out of the arke / And the doue came to hym agayne aboute eventyde / and beholde: There was in hyr mouth a lefe of an olyve tre which she had plucked

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

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

And Noe made an aulter vnto the LORDE / and toke of all maner of clene beastes and all maner of clene foules / and offred sacrifyce vppon the aulter. And the LORDE smellyd a swete savoure and sayd in his hert: I wyll henceforth no more curse the erth for mannes sake / for the imagynacion of mannes hert is

And God blessed Noe and his sonnes / and sayd vnto them: Increase and multiplye and fyll the erth.

The feare also and drede of yow be vppon all beastes of the erth / and vppon all foules of the ayre / d vppon all that crepeth on the erth / and vppon all fyshes of the see / which are geven vnto youre handes And all that moveth vppon the erth havynge lyfe / shall be youre meate: Euen as þ^e grene herbes / so geue I yow all thynge. Only the flesh with his life which is his bloud / se that ye eate not.

^2. For verely the bloude of yow wherein youre lyves are wyll I requyre: Eu of the hande of all beastes wyll I requyre it / And of the hande of man and of the hand off euery mannes brother / wyll I requyre the lyfe of man: so þ^t he which shedeth mannes bloude / shall haue hys bloud shed by man agayne: for God made man after his awne lycknesse. See that ye encrease / and waxe / and be occupyde vppon the erth / & multiplye therein.

Farthermore God spake vnto Noe & to hys sonnes wyth hym saynge: see / I make my bd

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

And God sayd. This is the token of my bde which I make betwene me and yow / d betwene all lyvynge thyng that is with yow for ever: I wyll sette my bowe in the cloudes / and it shall be a sygne of the appoyntment made betwene me and the erth: So that when I brynge in cloudes vp þ^e erth / the bowe shall appere in þ^e cloudes. And than wyll I thynke vppon my testament which I haue made betwene me and yow / and all that lyveth what soeuer flesh it be. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a floud to destroy all flesh.

The bowe shalbe in the cloudes / and I wyll loke vpon it / to remembre the euerlastynge testament betwene God and all that lyveth vppon the erth / what soeuer flesh it be. And God sayd vnto Noe: This is the sygne of the testament which I have made betwene me and all flesh þ^t is on the erth.

The sonnes of Noe that came out of the arke were: Sem / Ham and Iapheth. And Ham

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he is the father of Cana. These are the .iij. sonnes of Noe / and of these was all the world overspred.

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

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

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

The sonnes of Iapheth were: Gomyr / Magog / Madai / Iauan / Tuball / Mesech and Thyras. And the sonnes of Gomyr were: Ascenas Riphat and Togarina. And the sonnes of Iauan were: Elisa / Tharsis / Cithun and Dodanim. Of these came the Iles of the gentylls in there contres / every man in his speach / kynred and nation.

The sonnes of Ham were: Chus Misraim Phut and Canaan. The sonnes of Chus: were Seba / Hevila / Sabta / Rayma and Sabtema. And the sonnes of Rayma were: Sheba / & Dedan. Chus also begot Nemrod / which beg to be myghtye in the erth. He was a myghtie hunter in the syghte of the LORde: Where of came the proverbe: he is as Nemrod that myghtie hunter in the syghte of the LORde. And the begynnynge of hys kyngdome was Babell / Erech / Achad and Chalne in the lande of Synear: Out of that lande came Assur and buylded Ninyue / and the cyte rehoboth / and Calah And Ressen betwene Ninyue d Chalah. That is a grete cyte. And Mizraim begat Iudun / Enamim / Leabim / Naphtuhim / Pathrusim & Castuhim: from whence came the Philystyns / and the Capthiherynes.

Canaan also begat zidon his eldest sonne & Heth / Iebusi / Emori / Girgosi / Hiui / Arki / Sini / Aruadi / Zemari and hamari. And afterward sprange the kynreds of the Canaanytes And the costes of the Canaanytes were fr Sydon

And Sem the father of all þ^e childr of Eber and the eldest brother of Iapheth / begat children also. And his sonnes were: Elam Assur / Arphachsad / Lud d Aram. And þ^e childree of Aram were: Vz / Hul / Gether & Mas And Arphachsad begat Sala / and Sala begat Eber. And Eber begat .ij. sonnes. The name of the one was Peleg / for in his tyme the erth was devyded. And the name of his brother was Iaketanr

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

And all the world was of one tonge and one language. And as they came from the east / they founde a playne

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

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

And Arphacsad lyued .xxxv. yere and begat

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Sala / and lyved after he had begot Sala iiij. hdred yere & .iij & begat sonnes and doughters. And Sala was .xxx. yere old and begat Eber / d lyued after he had begot Eber .iiij. hdred and thre yere / d begat sonnes and doughters

Then the LORde sayd vnto Abr Gett the out of thy contre and from thy kynred / and out of thy fathers house / into a londe which I wyll shewe the. And I wyll make of the a myghtie people / and wyll blesse the / and make thy name grete / that thou mayst be a blessinge. And I wyll blesse th that blesse the / d curse th that curse the. And in the shall be blessed all the generations of the erth.

And Abram wt as the LORde badd hym /

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

After thys there came a derth in the lande. And Abram went doune in to Egipte to soiourne there / for the derth was sore in the lande. And when he was come nye for to entre in to Egipte / he sayd vnto sarai his wife. Beholde / I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke ap. It wyll come to passe therfore wh the Egiptians see the / that they wyll say: she is his wyfe. And so shall they sley me and save the.

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

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

Than Abram departed out of Egipte / both he and his wyfe and all that he had / and Lot wyth hym vnto the

And it chaunsed within a while / that Amraphel kynge of Synear / Arioch kynge of Ellasar / Kedorlaomer kynge of Elam and Thydeall kynge of the nations: made warre wyth Bera kynge of Sodh and with Birsa kynge of Gomorra. And wythe

Therfore in the .xiiij. yere came kedorlaomer and the kynges that were wyth hym / and smote the Raphayms in Astarath Karnaim / and the Susims in Hain / d the Emyms in Sabe Kariathaim / and the Hozyms in their awne mounte Seir vnto the playne of Pharan / which bordreth vpon the wyldernesse. And then turned they and came to the well of iugmente which is Cades / and smote all the contre of the Amalechites / and also the amorytes that dwell in Hazezon Thamar.

Than went out the kynge of Sodome / and the kynge of Gomorra / and the kinge of Adama and the kynge of Zeboijm / and the kynge of Bela now called Zoar. And sette their men in aray to fyghte wyth them in the vale of siddim / that is to say / wyth kedorlaomer the kynge of Elam and with Thydeall kynge of the Nations / and wyth Amraphel kynge of Synear. And with Arioch kynge of Ellasar: foure kynges agenste v. And that vale of siddim was full of slyme pyttes.

And the kynges of Sodome and Gomorra fled / and fell there. And the resydue fled to the mountaynes. And they toke all the goodes

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

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

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

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

After these deades / þ^e worde of God came vnto Abram in a vision saynge feare not Abram / I am thy shilde / and thy rewarde shalbe exceadynge greate. And Abram answered: LORde Iehouah what wilt thou geue me: I goo childlesse / and the cater of myne housse / this Eleasar of Damasco hath a sonne. And Abram sayd: se / to me hast thou geven no seed: lo / a lad borne in my housse shalbe myne heyre.

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

And he wente in vnto Hagar / & she conceaved. And when she sawe that she had conceyved

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

Moreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the / and thy seed after the / in their tymes

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

And God sayde vnto Abraham. Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai: but Sara shall hir name be. For I will blesse her & geue the a sonne of her and will blesse her: so that people / ye and kynges of people shall springe of her. And Abraham fell vpon his face d

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

And God left of talkynge with him / and departed vp from Abraham. And Abraham toke Ismaell his sonne & all the servauntes borne in his housse and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren amonge the m of Abrahs housse / and circumcysed the foreskynne of their flesh / even the selfe same daye / as God had sayde vnto him. Abraham was nynetie yere olde and .ix. when he cutt of the foreskynne of his flesh. And Ismaell his sonne was .xiij. yere olde / when the foreskynne of hys flesh was circumcysed. The selfe same daye was Abrah circcised & Ismael his sonne. And all the men in his housse / whether they were borne in his housse or bought wyth

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

Than the men stode vp from thence d loked towarde Sodome. And Abraham went with them to brynge them on the waye. And the LORde sayde: Can I hyde from Abraham that thinge which I am aboute to do / seynge that Abraham shall be a great d a myghtie people / and all the nations of the erth shalbe blessed in him? For I knowe him that he will commaunde his childern and

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his housholde after him / þ^t they kepe the waye of the LORde / to do after righte and conscyence / that the LORde may brynge vppon Abraham that he hath promysed him.

And the LORde sayde? The crie of Sodome and Gomorra is great / and there synne is excedynge grevous. I will go downe and see whether they haue done all to gedder acordynge to that crye which is come vnto me or not / that I may knowe. And the m departed thce and went to Sodomeward. But Abraham stode yet before þ^e LORde / & drewe nere & sayde

Wylt thou destroy the rightwes with the wyked? Yf there be .l. rightwes within the cyte / wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of .l. rightwes that are therin? That be farre from the / that thou shuldest do after thys maner / to sley the rightwes with the weked / d that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that befarre from the. Shulde not the iudge of all þ^e worlde do acordynge to righte? And the LORde sayde: Yf I fynde in Sodome .l. rightwes within the cyte / I will spare all the place for their sakes.

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

And he spake vnto him yet agayne and sayde:

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what yf there be .xl. fode there: And he sayde: I wyll not do it for forties sake. And he sayde: O let not my LORde be angrye / that I speake. What yf there be fode .xxx. there? And he sayde: I will not do it / yf I finde .xxx. there. And be sayde: Oh / se / I haue begonne to speake vnto my LORde / what yf there be .xx. founde there? And he sayde: I will not distroy th for twties sake. And he sayde: O let not my LORde be angrye / that I speake yet / but eu once more only. What yf ten be founde there?. And he sayde: I will not destroy th for .x. sake.

And the LORde wt his waye as soone as he had lefte comenynge with Abrah. And Abraham returned vnto his place

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

But before they went to rest / the men of the cyte of Sodome compassed the house rownde

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

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

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

And Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes

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

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

And he sayde to him: se I haue receaved thy request as concernynge this thynge / that I will nott overthrowe this cytie for the

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which thou hast spoken. Haste the / d saue thy selfe there / for I can do nothynge tyll thou be come in thyder. And therfore the name of the cyte is called Zoar. And the sone was vppon the erth when Lot was entred in to Zoar.

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

Abraham rose vp early and got him to the place where he stode before the LORde / and loked toward Sodome and Gomorra and toward all the londe of that contre. And as he loked: beholde / the smoke of the contre arose as it had bene the smoke of a fornace. But yet wh God destroyed the cities of þ^e regi / he thought a pon Abrah: and sent Lot out from the dger of the overthrowenge / when he overthrewe the cyttes where Lot dwelled.

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

Than sayde the elder vnto the yonger oure father is olde / and there are no moo men in the erth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the world. Come therfore / let vs geue oure father wyne to dryncke / and let vs lye with him

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that we may saue seed of oure father. And they gaue their father wyne to drynke that same nyghte. And the elder doughter went and laye with her father. And he perceaued it not / nether when she laye doune / nether when she rose vp.

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

Thus were both the doughters of lot with childe by their father And the elder bare a sone and called hym Moab / which is the father of the Moabytes vnto this daye. And the yonger bare a sonne and called hym Ben Ammi / which is the father of the childern of Ammon vnto this daye.

And Abraham departed thence towarde the southcontre and dwelled betwene Cades and Sur d sogeorned in Gerar. And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe / that she was his sister. Than Abimelech kynge of Gerar sent and fett Sara awaye.

And God came to Abimelech by nyghte in a dreame and sayde to him: Se / thou art but a

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

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

And Abraham Answered. I thought that peradvture the feare of God was not in this

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

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

The lorde visyted Sara as he had sayde and dyd vnto her acordynge as he had spoken. And Sara was with childe and bare Abrah a sonne in his olde age

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

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

And Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng and toke brede and a bottell with water / and gaue

And God herde the voyce of the childe. And the angell of God called Hagar out of heaven and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the Hagar? Feare not / for God hath herde the voyce of the childe where he lyeth. Aryse and lyfte vp the lad / and take hym in thy hande / for I will make off him a greate people. And God opened hir eyes and she sawe a well of water. And she went and fylled the bottell with water / and gaue the boye drynke. And God was wyth the lad / and he grewe and dweld in the wildernesse / and became an archer. And he dweld in the wyldernesse of Pharan. And hys mother gott him a wyfe out of the land of Egypte.

And it chaunced the same season / that Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe captayne spake vnto Abraham saynge: God is wyth the in all that thou doist. Now therfore swere vnto me even here by God / that thou wylt not hurt me nor my childern / nor my childerns childern.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And when they came vnto the place which God shewed him / Abrah made an aulter there and dressed the wodd / d bownde Isaac his

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

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

So turned Abraham agayne vnto his yonge men / and they rose vp and wt to gether to Berseba.

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

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

And the children of heth answered Abraham saynge vnto him: heare vs lorde / thou art a prynce of God amonge vs. In the chefest of oure sepulchres bury thy dead: None of vs shall forbydd þ^e his sepulchre / þ^t thou shuldest not bury thy deade therein. Abrah stode vp & bowed h selfe before þ^e people of þ^e lde þ^e childr of heth.

And he comoned with them saynge: Yf it

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

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

Thus was the felde of Ephron where in the dubbill caue is before Mamre: euen the felde &

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

Th sayde the seruaunte vnto him: what d yf the wom wyll not agree to come with me vnto this lde / shall I brynge thy sonne agayne vnto the lande which thou camest out of: And Abrah sayde vnto him: bewarre of that / that thou brge not my sonne thither. The LORde God of heauen which toke me from my fathers

And the seruaunte toke .x. camels of the camels of his master and departed / and had of all maner goodes of his master with him / and stode vp and went to Mesopotamia / vnto the cytie of Nahor. And made his camels to lye doune with out the cytie by a wels syde of water / at euen: aboute the tyme that women come out to drawe water / and he sayde.

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

And it came to passe yer he had leeft spakynge

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

And she hasted and late downe her pytcher apon hyr arme and gaue him drinke. And wh she had geven hym drynke / she sayde: I will drawe water for thy camels also / vntill they haue dronke ynough. And she poured out hyr pitcher in to the trough hastely and ranne agayne vnto the well / to fett water: and drewe for all his camels.

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

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

And Laban ranne out vnto the man / to the well: for as soone as he had sene the earynges and the bracelettes apon his sisters handes / d herde the wordes of Rebecca his sister saynge thus sayde the man vnto me / than he went out vnto the man. And loo / he stode yet with the camels by the well syde. And Laban sayde: come in thou blessed of the LORde. Wherfore stondest thou without? I haue dressed the house and made rowme for the camels. And than the m came in to the house. And he vnbrydeld the camels: and brought litter and prauonder for the camels / and water to weshe his fete and their fete that were with him / and there was meate sett before him to eate.

But he sayde: I will not eate / vntill I haue sayde myne earde: And he sayde / saye on. And he sayde: I am Abrahs servaunte / & the LORDE hath ^3. blessed my master out of measure that he is become greate and hath geven him shepe oxen / syluer and golde / menservauntes /

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

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

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

Than answered Laban and Bathuel saynge: The thinge is proceded even out of the lorde / we can not therfore saye vnto the / ether good or bad: Beholde Rebecca before thy face / take her and goo / and let her be thy masters sonnes wife / / euen as the LORde hath sayde. And wh Abrahams servaunte herde their wordes / he bowed him selfe vnto the LORde / flatt vpon the erth. And the servaunte toke forth iewells

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of syluer and iewelles of gold and rayment / and gaue them to Rebecca: But vnto hir brother & to hir mother / he gaue spyces. And then they ate and dranke / both he and the men that were with him / and taried all nyghte and rose vp in the mornynge.

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

Than they broughte Rebecca their sister on the waye and her norse and Abrahs servaunte / and the men that were wyth him. And they ^4. blessed Rebecca & sayde vnto her: Thou art oure sister / growe in to thousande thousandes / & thy seed possesse þ^e gates of their emnies. And Rebecca arose & hir damsels / & satt th vp ap the camels & went their waye after the man. And þ^e servaunte toke Rebecca & went his waye

And Isaac was a comge from the well of þ^e lyvynge & seynge / for he dwelt in the south ctre / & was gone out to walke in his meditatis before þ^e eu tyde. And he lyfte vp his eyes & loked / & beholde þ^e camels were cominge. And

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Rebecca lyfte vp hir eyes / & wh she sawe Isaac / she lyghted of the camel / d sayde vnto þ^e servaunte: what m is this þ^t cometh agenst vs in the feld? And the servate sayde: it is my master. And then she toke hir mantell d put it aboute her. And the servate tolde Isaac all that he had done. Th Isaac broughte her in to his mother Saras tente / d toke Rebecca & she became his wife / & he loved her: & so was Isaac cforted over his mother.

Abrah toke h another wyfe cald Ketura / which bare h Sunram / Iacksam / Medan / Midi Iesback & Suah. And Iacksan begat Seba & Ded. And the sonnes of sedan were Assurim / Letusim & Leumim. And the sonnes of Midian were Epha / Epher / Hanoch / Abida & Elda. All these were the childern of Bethura. But Abrah gaue all that he had vnto Isaac. And vnto the sonnes of his concubines he haue giftes / and sent them awaye from Isaac his sonne (while he yet lyved) east ward / vnto the east contre.

These are the dayes of the life of Abrah which he lyved: an hdred & .lxxv. yere and than fell seke d dyed / in a lustie age (wh he had lyved ynough) d was put vnto his people. And his sonnes Isaac d Ismael buried h in the duble caue in the feld of Ephr sne of Zoar the Hethite before Mamre. Which felde abrah boughte of the sonnes of Heth: There was Abrah buried and Sara hys wife. And after þ^t deeth of Abrah God blessed Isaac his sonne

These are the generatis of Ismael Abrahs sonne / which Hagar the Egipti Saras hand mayde bare vnto Abraham. And these are the names of the snes of Ismaell / with their names in their kreddes. The eldest sne of Ismael Neuatoth / th Redar / Adbeel / Mibs / Misma Duma / Masa / Hadar / Thema / Ietur / Naphis & Redma. These are the snes of Ismael / and these are their names / in their townes and castels .xij. princes of natis. And these are the yeres of the lyfe of Ismael: an hdred and .xxxvij yere / & than he fell seke & dyed & was layde vnto his people. And he dweld from Euila vnto Sur þ^t is before Egypte / as men go toward the Assiris. And he dyed in the presence of all his brethren.

And these are the generatis of Isaac Abrahs sonne: Abrah begat Isaac. And Isaac was .xl. yere olde wh he toke Rebecca to wyfe the doughter of Bethuel the Sirian of Mesopotamia & sister to Iaban the Sirien.

And Isaac made intercessi vnto þ^e LORde for his wife: because she was bar: and þ^e LORde was treated of h / & Rebecca his wife cceaued: and þ^e childern stroue together with her, th she sayde: yf it shulde goo so to passe / what helpeth it þ^t I am with childe? And she went & axed þ^e LORde. And þ^e LORde sayde vnto her there are .ij. maner of people in the wombe and ij. nations shall springe out of thy bowels /

And wh hir tyme was come to be delyuered beholde: there were .ij. twyns in hir wbe. And he that came out first / was redde & rough ouer all as it were an hyde: and they called his name Esau. And after ward his brother came out & his hande holdynge Esau by the hele. Wher fore his name was called Iacob. And Isaac was .lx. yere olde wh she bare th: and the boyes grewe / and Esau became a conynge hunter & a tyllman. But Iacob was a simple man & dwelled in the tentes. Isaac loved Esau because he dyd eate of his venys / but Rebecca loued Iacob

Iacob sod potage & Esau came from the feld & was fane / & sayd to Iacob: let me syppe of þ^t redde potage / for I am fayntie. And therfore was his name called Edom. And Iacob sayde: sell me this daye thy byrthrighte. And Esau answered: Loo I am at the poynte to dye / & what profit shall this byrthrighte do me? And Iacob sayde / swere to me then this daye. And he swore to him & sold his byrthrighte vnto Iacob.

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

And there fell a derth in þ^e lande / passinge the first derth þ^t fell in the dayes of Abraham. Wherfore Isaac

And Isaac dwelled in Gerar. And þ^t m of the place asked h of his wife / & he sayde þ^t she was his sister: for he feared to calle her his wife lest the m of the place shulde haue kylled hym for hir sake / because she was bewtyfull to þ^e eye. And it happened after he had bene there longe tyme / þ^t Abimelech kinge of þ^e Philistis loked out at a wyndow & sawe Isaac sportinge with Rebecca his wife. And Abimelech sende for Isaac & sayde: se / she is of a suertie thi wife / and why saydest thou þ^t she was thi sister? And Isaac saide vnto h: I thoughte þ^t I mighte peradventure haue dyed for hir sake. Th fayde Abimelech: whi hast thou done this vnto vs? one of þ^e people myght lightely haue lyne by thy wife & so shuldest thou haue broughte synne vpon vs Th Abimelech charged all his people saynge: he þ^t toucheth this man or his wife / shall surely dye for it.

And Isaac sowed in þ^t lde / & founde in þ^e same yere an hdred bushels: for þ^e LORde blessed h / & the man waxed mightye / & wt forth & grewe till he was exceadinge great / þ^t he had possessi of shepe / of ox & a myghtie housholde: so þ^t the Philestians had envy at him: In so moch þ^t they stopped & fylled vp with erth / all the welles which his fathers servauntes dygged in his father Abrahams tyme. Than sayde Abimelech vnto Isaac: gett the fr me / for thou art myhhtier then we a greate deale.

Than Isaac departed thense & pitched his tente in the valey Gerar & dwelt there, And Isaac digged agayne / the welles of water which they dygged in the dayes of Abrah his father which the Philestis had stoppe after þ^e deth of Abrah / & gaue th the same names which hys father gaue th. As Isaacs seruates dygged in the valey / they founde a well of springynge water. And the herdm of Gerar dyd stryue with Isaacs herdm saynge: the water is oures Than called he the well Eseck because they stroue with hym.

Than dygged they another well / & they stroue for þ^t also. Therfore called he it Sitena. And than he departed thse & dygged a nother well for the which they stroue not: therfore called he it Rehoboth sage: þ^e LORde hath now made vs rowme & we are encreased vp the erth. Afterward departed he thce & came to Berseba

And the LORde apered vnto h the same nyghte & sayde. I am the God of Abrah thy father / feare not for I am with the & will blesse

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

And þ^e same daye came Isaacs servates & tolde h of a well which they had dygged: & sayde vnto h / that thei had founde water. And he called it Seba / wherfore the name of the cyte is called Berseba vnto this daye.

When Esau was .xl. yere olde / he toke to wyfe Judith the doughter of Bely an Hethite / and Busmath the doughter of Elon an Hethite also / which were dishobedient vnto Isaac and Rebecca.

But Rebecca hard wh Isaac spake to Esau his sonne. And as soone as Esau was gone to the felde to catche venyson & to brge it / she spake vnto Iacob hir sonne sainge? Behold I haue herde thi father talkinge with Esau thy brother & saynge: bringe me venyson & make me meate that I maye eate & blesse the before the LORde yer I dye. Now therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I cmaunde the: gett the to the flocke / & bringe me thce .ij. good kiddes / & I will make meate of th for thi father / soch as he loueth. And thou shalt brge it to thi father & he shal eate / þ^t he maye blysse the before his deth

Than sayde Iacob to Rebecca his mother. Beholde Esau mi brother is rugh & I am smooth. Mi father shal peraduture fele me / d I shal seme vnto h as though I wt aboute to begyle h / & so shall he brge a curse vp me & not a blessge: & his mother saide vnto him. Vpp me be thi curse my sonne / only heare my voyce & goo and fetch me them. And Iacob went d

And his mother made meate of them accordinge as his father loued And she went and fett goodly rayment of hir eldest sonne Esau which she had in the house with hir / and put them vpon Iacob hir yongest sonne / d she put the skynnes vpon his hdes & apon the smooth of his necke. And she put þ^e meate & brede which she had made in the hde of hir sonne Iacob

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

And he axed him / art thou my sonne Esau? And he sayde: that I am. Than sayde he: brynge me and let me eate of my sonnes venyson / that my soule maye blesse the. And he broughte him / and he ate. And he broughte him wyne

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

And Isaac was greatly astoyned out of mesure and sayde: Where is he then that hath hted venyson and broughte it me / and I haue eaten of all before thou camest / and haue blessed him / d he shall be blessed styll. Wh Esau herde the wordes of his father / he cryed out greatly & bitterly aboue mesure / and sayde vnto his father: blesse me also my father. And he sayde thy brother came with subtilte / d hath tak awaye thy blessynge. Than sayde he: He maye

Isaac answered and sayde vnto Esau: beholde I haue made him thi LORde & all his mothers childern haue I made his seruauntes. Moreouer wyth corne d wyne haue I stablesshed him / what c I do vnto the now my sonne? And Esau sayde vnto his father? hast thou but þ^t one blessynge my father? blesse me also my father: so lyfted vp Esau his voyce & wepte Th Isaac his father answered & sayde vnto him

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

And Esau hated Iacob because of the blessynge þ^t his father blessed him with all / & sayde in his harte: The dayes of my fathers sorowe are at hde / for I will sley my brother Iacob. And these wordes of Esau hir eldest sonne / were told to Rebecca. And she sente d called Iacob hir yongest sonne / and sayde vnto h: beholde thy brother Esau threatneth to kyll the: Now therfore my sne heare my voyce / make the redie & flee to Lab my brother at Haran And tarie with him a while / vntill thy

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

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

When Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob / and sent him to Mesopotamia / to fett him a wife thence / and that / as he blessed him

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

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

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

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

Then Iacob lyfte vp his fete & wt toward the east countre. And as he loked aboute / behold there was a well in the feld / and .iij. flockes of shepe laye therby (for at that well were the flockes watered) & there laye a great stone at the well mouth And the maner was to brynge the flockes thyther / & to roull the stone fr the welles mouth and to water the shepe / and to put the stone agayne

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

Whyle he yet talked with th / Rahel came with hir fathers shepe / for she kepte them. As soone As Iacob sawe Rahel / the doughter of Laban his mothers brother / and the shepe of Laban his mothers brother / he went and rowled the stone fr the wells mouth / and watered the shepe of Lab his mothers brother And Iacob kyssed Rahel / and lyfte vp his voyce and wepte: and tolde her also þ^t he was hir fathers brother and Rebeccas sonne. Th Rahel ranne and tolde hir father.

When Laban herd tell of Iacob his sisters sonne / he ranne agaynst him and embraced h & kyssed him d broughte him in to his house. And th Iacob told Lab all þ^e matter And th Lab sayde: well / thou art my bone & my flesh.

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

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

And when the mornynge was come / beholde it was Lea. Than sayde he to Laban: wherfore hast thou played thus with me? dyd not I serue the for Rahel / wherfore than hast thou begyled me? Laban answered: it is not the maner of this place / to marke the yongest before the eldest. Passe out this weke / & th shall this also be geuen the for þ^e seruyce which thou shalt

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

When Rahel sawe that she bare Iacob no childern / she enuied hir sister & sayde vnto Iacob: geue me childern / or ells I am but deed. Than was Iacob wrooth with Rahel saynge: Am I in godes steade which kepeth fr the the frute of thi wbe? Th she sayde: here is my mayde Bilha: go in vnto

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

And Rub wt out in the wheat haruest & fode mandragoras in the feldes / and brought th vnto his mother Lea. Than sayde Rahel to Lea geue me of thy sonnes mdragoras. And Lea answered: is it not ynough / þ^t thou hast tak awaye my housbde / but woldest take awaye my sonnes mandragoras also? Than sayde Rahel well / let him slepe with the this nyghte / for thy sonnes mandragoras. And wh Iacob came from the feldes at euen / Lea went out to mete him / & sayde: come into me / for I haue bought

And he slepte with her that nyghte. And God herde Lea / þ^t she cceaued and bare vnto Iacob þ^t .v. sonne. Than sayde Lea. God hath geue me my rewarde / because I gaue my mayd to my housbd / and she called him Isachar. And Lea cceaued yet agayne and bare Iacob the sexte sonne. Than sayde she: God hath endewed me with a good dowry. Now will my housbond dwell with me / because I haue borne him .vi. sonnes: and called his name Zabul. After that she bare a doughter and called her Dina.

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

As soone as Rahel had borne Ioseph / Iacob sayde to Laban: Sde me awaye þ^t I maye goo vnto myne awne place and ctre / geue me my wives and my childern for whome I haue serued the / and let me goo; for thou knowest what seruyce I haue done the. Than sayde Laban vnto h: If I haue fownde fauoure in thy syghte (for I suppose þ^t the LORde hath blessed me for thy sake) appoynte what thy rewarde shalbe / and I will geue it þ^e. But he sayde vnto hym / thou knowest what seruyce I haue done þ^e / & in what takynge thy catell haue bene vnder me: for it was but litle that thou haddest before I came / and now it is encreased in to a multitude / and the LORDE hath blessed the for my sake.

But now when shall I make provysion for myne awne house also? And he sayde: what shall I geue the? And Iacob answerd: thou shalt geue me nothinge at all / yf thou wilt do this one thinge for me: And then will I turne agayne & fede thy shepe and kepe them.

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

Than sayde Laban: loo / I am contte / that it be acordinge as thou hast sayde. And he toke out that same daye the he gootes that were partie & of dyuerse coloures / & all the she gootes that were spotted and partie coloured / & all that had whyte in th / & all the blacke amonge the lambes: d put th in the kepinge of his sonnes / & sett thre dayes ourney ibetwixte hselfe & Iacob. And so Iacob kepte þ^e rest of Labs shepe.

Iacob toke roddes of grene popular / hasell / & of chestnottrees / & pilled whyte strakes in th & made the white apere in the staues: And he put the staues which he had pilled / eu before þ^e shepe

And Iacob herde the wordes of Labs sonnes how they sayde: Iacob hath tak awaye all that was oure fathers / and of oure fathers goodes / hath he got all this honoure. And Iacob behelde the countenace of Laban / that it was not toward him as it was in tymes past.

And the LORde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne in to the lde of thy fathers & to thy kynred / & I wilbe with þ^e. Th Iacob sent & called Rahel & Lea to the felde vnto his shepe / & sayde vnto th: I se youre fathers countenace þ^t it is not toward me as in tymes past. Morouer

Ap the thirde day after / was it tolde Lab þ^t Iacob was fled. Th he toke his brethr with him and folowed after him .vij. dayes iourney and ouer toke him at the mounte Gilead. And God came to Lab the Siri in a dreame by nyghte / and sayde vnto him: take hede to thi selfe / that thou speake not to Iacob oughte save good. And Lab ouer toke Iacob: and Iacob had pitched his tte in þ^t mounte. And Laban with his brethern pitched their tte also apon the mounte Gilead. Than sayde Lab to Iacob: why hast thou this done vnknowynge to me / and hast caried awaye my doughters as though they had bene tak captyue with swerde? Wherfore wentest thou awaye secretly vnknowne to me & didest not tell me / þ^t I myghte haue broughte þ^t on the waye with myrth / syngynge / tymrells and harppes / and hast not suffred me to kysse my childern & my doughters. Thou wast a fole to do it / for I am able to do you evell. But the God of youre father spake vnto me yesterdaye saynge take hede tha

Iacob answered & sayde to Lab: because I was afrayed / & thought that thou woldest haue tak awaye thy doughters fro me. But with whome soeuer thou fyndest thy goddes / let him dye here before oure brethr. Seke that thine is by me / & take it to the: for Iacob wist not that Rahel had stoll th. Th wt Lab in to Iacobs tte / & in to Leas tte / & in to .ij. maydens tentes: but fownde th not. Th wt he out of Leas tte / & entred in to Rahels tte. And Rahel toke the ymages / & put them in the camels strawe & sate doune ap th. And Lab serched all the tte: but fownde th not. Th sayde she to hir father: my lorde / be not angrye þ^t I c not ryse vp before the / for the disease of wem is come apon me. So searched he / but fode th not.

Iacob was wrooth & chode with Lab: Iacob also answered and sayde to him: what haue I trespaced or what haue I offended / that thou foloweddest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuffe / and what hast thou founde of all thy housholde stuffe? put it here before thi brethern & myne / & let th iudge betwyxte vs both. This xx. yere þ^t I haue bene wyth the / thy shepe and thy gootes haue not bene baren / and the rammes of thi flocke haue I not eat. What soeuer was torne of beastes I broughte it not vnto þ^e /

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

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

Than sayde Laban: this heape be witnesse betwene the and me this daye (therfore is it called Gilead) and this totehill which the lorde

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

Iacob sente meessengers before him to Esau his brother / vnto the lande of Seir and the felde of Edom. And he cmaunded them saynge: se that ye speake after

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

^5. And Iacob sayde: O god of my father Abraham / and God of my father Isaac: LORde which saydest vnto me / returne vnto thy cuntre and to thy kynrede / and I will deall wel with the. I am not worthy of the leaste of all the mercyes and treuth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunte. For with my staf came I over this Iordane / and now haue Igoten .ij. droves Delyver me from the handes of my brother Esau / for I feare him: lest he will come and smyte the mother with the childeru. Thou saydest that thou woldest surely do me good / and woldest make mi seed as the sonde of the see which can not be nombred for multitude.

And he taried there that same nyghte / & toke of that which came to hande / a preasent /

Wh Esau my brother meteth the d axeth the saynge: whose seruate art thou & whither goost thou / & whose ar these that goo before þ^e: thou shalt say / they be thy seruaunte Iacobs / & are a present sent vnto my lorde Esau / and beholde / he him selfe cometh after vs. And so cmaunded he the seconde / d euen so the thirde / and lykewyse all that folowed the drooues sainge / of this maner se that ye speake vnto Esau wh ye mete him / d saye more ouer. Beholde thy seruaunte Iacob cometh after vs / for he sayde. I will pease his wrath with the present þ^t goth before me and afterward I will see him myself / so peradventure he will receaue me to grace.

So went the prest before him d he taried all that nyghte in the tente / d rose vp the same nyghte d toke his .ij. wyves and his .ij. maydens & his .xi. sonnes / & went ouer the foorde Iabok. And he toke them d sent th ouer the ryuer / d sent ouer that he had d taried behinde him selfe alone.

And there wrastled a man with him vnto the

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

Iacob lyfte vp his eyes and sawe hys brother Esau come / & with him .iiij. hundred men. And he deuyded the childern vnto Lea and vnto Rahel and vnto þ^e ij. maydens. And he put the maydens d their childern formest / d Lea and hir childern after / and Rahel d Ioseph hindermost. And he went before them and fell on the grownde, vij.

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

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

And he sayde: let us take oure iourney and goo / and I will goo in thy cpany. And he sayde vnto him: my lorde knoweth that I haue tendre childern / ewes and kyne with yonge vnder myne hande / which yf men shulde ouerdryue but euen one daye / the hole flocke wolde dye.

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

And Iacob went to Salem to þ^e cytie of Sichem in the lande of Cana / after that he was come from Mesopotamia / and pitched before the cyte / and bought a parcell of ground where he pitched his tent / of the childern of Hemor Sichems father / for an hundred lambes. And he made there an aulter / and there called vpon the myghtie God of Israell.

Dina the doughter of Lea which she bare vnto Iacob / went out to see the doughters of the lande. And Sich the sonne of Hemor the Heuite lorde of the countre / sawe her / & toke her / & laye with her / and forced her: & his harte laye vnto Dina þ^e doughter of Iacob. And he loued þ^t damsell & spake kdly vnto her / & spake vnto his father Hemor saynge / gett me this mayd vnto my wyfe.

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

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

Then the sonnes of Iacob answered to Sichem d Hemor his father deceytefully / because he had defyled Dina their syster. And they sayde vnto them / we can not do this thinge / þ^t we shulde geue oure syster to one that is vncircumcysed / for that were a shame vnto us. Only in this will we consent vnto you? Yf ye will

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

And vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonneharkened all that went out at the gate of his cyte. And all the men childern were circumcysed what soeuer went out at the gates of his cyte. And the third daye when it was paynefull to them / ij. of the sonnes of Iacob Simeon & Leui

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

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

And God sayd vnto Iacob / aryse d get the vp to Bethell / & dwell there. And make there an aulter vnto God that apeared vnto the / when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. Than sayd Iacob vnto his

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

Than dyed Deborr Rebeccas norse / and was buryed benethe Bethell vnder an ooke. And the name of it was called the ooke of lamentation.

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

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

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

And it chaunced as Israel dwelt in that lande / that Ruben went & laye with Bilha his fathers concubyne / & it came to Israels eare.

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The sonnes of Iacob were .xij. in nombre. The sonnes of Lea. Ruben Iacobs eldest sonne / & Sime / Leui / Iuda / Isachar / & Zabulon The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph & Ben Iamin. The sonnes of Bilha Rahels mayde: Dan & Nepthali. The sonnes of Zilpha Leas mayde Gad & Aser. Thes are the snes of Iacob which were borne him in Mesopotamia.

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

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

And Esau toke his wyues / his sonnes and doughters and all the soules of his house: his

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

These were dukes of the sonnes of Esau. The childern of Eliphas the first sne of Esau were these: duke Theman / duke Omar / duke Zepho / duke Kenas / duke Korah / duke Gaetham & duke Amalech: these are þ^e dukes that came of Eliphas in the lande of Edom / d these were the sonnes of Ada.

These were the childern of Requel. Esaus sonne: duke Nahath / duke Serah / duke Samma / duke Misa. These are the dukes that came of Reguel in the lande of Edom / d these were the sonnes of Basmath Esaus wyfe.

These were the childern of Ahalibama Esaus wife: duke Ieus / duke Iaelam / duke Korah these dukes came of Ahalibama þ^e doughter of Ana Esaus wife. These are the childern of Esau / and these are the dukes of them: which Esau is called Edom:

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

The childern of Sobal were these: Alvan / Manahath / Ebal / Sepho & Onam. These were the childern of Zibe. Aia & ana / this was þ^t Ana þ^t fode þ^e mules in þ^e wildernes / as he fed his father Zibeons asses. The childern of Ana were these. Dison and Ahalibama þ^e doughter of Ana.

These are the childern of Dison. Hemdan Esban / Iethran & Cher. The childern of Ezer were these / Bilhan / Seavan & Akan. The childern of Disan were: Vzand Aran.

These are the dukes that came of Hori: duke Lothan / duke Sobal / duke Zibe / duke Ana

These are the kynges that reigned in the lande of Edom before there reigned any kynge amonge the childern of Israel. Bela the sonne of Beor reigned in Edomea / and the name of his cyte was Dinhaba. And when Bela dyed / Iobab the sonne of Serah out of Bezara / reigned in his steade. When Iobab was dead / Husam of the lande of Themany reigned in his steade. And after the deth of Husam / Hadad the sonne of Bedad which stewe the Madianytes in the feld of the Moabytes / reigned in his steade / and the name of his cyte was Avith. Wh Hadad was dead / Samla of Masteka reigned in his steade. Wh Samla was dead / Saul of the ryver Rehoboth reigned in his steade. When Saul was dead / Baalhanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his steade. And after the deth of Baal Hanan the sonne of Achbor / Hadad reigned in his steade / and the name of his cyte was Pagu. And his wifes name Mehetabeel the doughter of matred the doughter of Mesaab.

These are the names of the dukes that came of Esau / in their kynreddds / places and names: Duke Thimma / duke Alua / duke Ietheth duke Ahalibama / duke Ela / duke Pinon / duke Kenas / duke Theman / duke Mibzar / duke Magdiel / duke Iram. These be the dukes of

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

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

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

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

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

And wh they sawe him a farr of before he came at them / they toke councell agaynst him / for to sley him / and sayde one to another / Beholde this dreamer cometh / come now and let

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

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

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

And they brought him into Egipte.

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

Than came all his sonnes d all his doughters to comforte him. And he wold not be comforted / but sayde: I will go doune in to þ^e grave vnto my sonne / mornynge. And thus his father wepte for him. And the Madianytes solde him in Egipte vnto Putiphar a lorde of Pharaos: and his chefe marshall.

And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam / and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he toke her d went in vnto her. And she conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name Er. And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne and called him

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

And in processe of tyme / the doughter of Sua Iudas wife dyed. Than Iudas when he had left mornynge / went vnto his shepe sherers to Thimnath with his frende Hira of Odollam. And one told Thamar saynge: beholde / thy father in lawe goth vp to Thimnath / to shere his shepe. And she put hyr wydows garmtes of from her and couered her with a clooke / and disgyssed herself: And sat her downe at the entrynge of Enaim which is by the hye

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

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

And it came to passe that after .iij. monethes

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

Ioseph was brought vnto Egipte / d Putiphar a lorde of Pharaos: d his chefe marshall an Egiptian / bought him of þ^e Ismaelites which brought h thither

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

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

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

And he toke Ioseph and put him in pryson: euen in the place where the kinges prisoners laye bounde. And there contynued he in preson. But the LORde was with Ioseph d shewed him mercie / and gott him fauoure in the syghte of the keper of þ^e preson which commytted

And it chaunced after this / that the chefe butlar of the kynge of Egipte and his chefe baker had offended there lorde the kynge of Egypte. And Phrao was angrie with them and put th in warde in his chefe marshals house: euen in þ^e preson where Ioseph was bownd. And the chefe marshall gaue Ioseph a charge with them / & he serued them. And they contynued a season in warde.

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

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

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

When the chefe baker sawe that he had well interpretate it / he sayde vnto Ioseph / me thought also in my dreame / þ^t I had. iij. wyker baskettes on my heade? And in þ^e vppermost basket / of all maner bakemeates for Pharao.

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

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

And it fortuned at .ij. yeres end / that Pharao dreamed / and thought that he stode by a ryuers syde / and that there came out of the ryver .vij. goodly kyne and fatt fleshed / and fedd in a medowe. And him though that .vij. other kyne came vp after them out of the ryver euelfauored and leane fleshed and stode by the other vpon the brynke

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

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

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

Than Pharao sent and called Ioseph. And they made him haste out of preson. And he shaued him self and chaunged his rayment / & went in to Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I haue dreamed a dreame and no man c interpretate it / but I haue herde saye of the þ^t as soon as thou hearest a dreame / thou dost interpretate it. And Ioseph answered Pharao saynge: God shall geue Pharao an answere of peace without me.

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

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

Now therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and wysdome / and sett him over the lande of Egipte. And let

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Pharao make officers ouer the lande / and take vp the fyfte parte of the land of Egipte in the vij. plenteous yeres and let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come / d lay vp corne vnder the power of Pharo: that there may be foode in the cities / and there let them kepte it: that there may be foode in stoore in the lande / agaynst the .vij. yeres of hunger which shall come in the lande of Egipte / and that the lande perishe not thorow hunger.

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

And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I am Pharao / without thi will / shall no man lifte vp ether

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his hande or fote in all the lande of Egipte. And be called Iosephs name Zaphnath Paenea. And he gaue him to wyfe Asnath the doughter of Potiphara preast of On. Than went Ioseph abrode in the lde of Egipte. And he was .xxx. yere olde wh he stode before Pharao kynge of Egipte. And than Ioseph departed from Pharao / and went thorow out all the lande of Egipte.

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

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

And when the .vij. yeres plenteousnes that was in the lands of Egypte were ended / than came the .vij. yeres of derth / acordynge as

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Ioseph had sayde. And the derth was in all landes: but in the lde of Egipte was there yet foode. When now all the lande of Egipte began to hunger / than cried the people to Pharao for bread. And Pharao sayde vnto all Egipte: goo vnto Ioseph / and what he sayth to you that doo And when the derth was thorow out all the lande / Ioseph opened all that was in the cities and solde vnto the Egiptis And hunger waxed fore in the land of Egipte. And all countrees came to Egipte to Ioseph for to bye corne: because that the hunger was so sore in all landes.

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

And the sonnes of Israell came to bye corne amonge other that came / for there was derth also in the lande of Canaan. And Ioseph

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

And Israell sayde: wherfore delt ye so cruelly with me / as to tell the man that ye had yet

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

Take also youre brother with you / and aryse and goo agayne to the man. And God almightie geue you mercie in the sighte of the man and send you youre other brother

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and also B Iamin / and I wilbe as a m robbed of his childern.

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

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

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

And he sayde: be of good chere / feare not: Youre God and the God of youre fathers hath put you that treasure in youre sackes / for I had

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youre money. And he brought Simeon out to them d led th into Iosephs house / & gaue th water to washe their fete / and gaue their asses prauender: And they made redie their present agaynst Ioseph came at none / for they herde saye that they shulde dyne there.

When Ioseph came home / they brought the present in to the house to him / which they had in their handes / d fell flat on the grounde befor him. And he welcomed th curteously sainge: is youre father that old man which ye tolde me of / in good health? and is he yet alyue? they answered: thy servaunte oure father is in good health / d is yet alyue. And they bowed them selues and fell to the grounde.

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

And they prepared for him by himselfe / and for them by them selues / and for the Egiptians which ate with him by them selues / because the Egyptians may not eate bread with the Hebrues / for that is an abhomynacyon vnto the Egiptians. And they satt before him: the eldest acordynge vnto his

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age / and the yongest acordyng vnto his youth. And the men marveled amonge them selves. And they broughte rewardes vnto them from before him: but Ben Iamins parte was fyue tymes so moch as any of theirs. And they ate and they dronke / and were dronke wyth him.

And he commaunded the rueler of his house saynge: fyll the mens sackes with food / as moch as they can carie / and put euery mans money in his bagge mouth / and put my syluer cuppe in the sackes mouth of the yongest and his corne money also. And he dyd as Ioseph had sayde. And in þ^e mornynge as soone as it was lighte / the m were let goo with their asses.

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

And he ouertoke them and sayde the same wordes vnto them. And they answered him: wherfore sayth my lorde soch wordes? God forbydd that thy servauntes shulde doo so. Beholde / the money which we founde in oure sackes mouthes / we brought agayne vnto the / out of the lande of Cana: how then shulde we steale

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

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

Then Iuda went vnto him and sayde: oh my lorde / let thy servaunte speake a worde in my lordes audyence / and be not wrooth with

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

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

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

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

And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: come nere to me / and they came nere. And he

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

Beholde / youre eyes do se / and the eyes also of my brother Ben Iamin / that I speake to you by mouth. Therfore tell my father of all my honoure which I haue in Egipte and of all that ye haue sene / d make hast and brynge in

And he fell on his brother Ben Iams necke & wepte / & Ben Iamin wepte on his necke. Moreouer he fylled all his brethern and wepte apon them. And after that / his brethern talked with him. And when the tidynges was come vnto Pharaos housse that Iosephes brethern were come / it pleased Pharao well and all his seruauntes.

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

And the childern of Israell dyd euen so / And Ioseph gaue them charettes at the commaundment of Pharao / and gaue them vitayle also to spende by the waye. And he gaue vnto eche of them chaunge of rayment: but vnto Ben Iamin he gaue .iij. hundred peces of syluer and .v. chaunge of rayment. And vnto his father he sent after the same maner: .x. he asses laden with good out of Egipte / and .x. she asses laden with corne / bred and meate: to serue his

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

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

And Iacob rose vp from Berseba. And þ^e sonnes of Israel I caried Iacob their father / d

These are the names of the childern of Israel which came in to Egipte / both Iacob and his sonnes: Rub Iacobs first sonne. The childern of Ruben: Hanoch / Pallu / Hezron and Charmi. The childern of Simeon: Iemuel / Iamin / Ohad / Iachin / Zohar and Saul the sonne of a Cananitish woman The childern of Leui: Gerson / Rahath and Merari. The childern of Iuda: Er / Onan / Sela / Pharez and Zerah / but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Canaan. The childern of Pharez / Hezr & Hamul. The childern of Isachar: Tola / Phuva Iob and Semnon. The childern of Sebulon: Sered / Elon and Iaheleel. These be the childern of Lea which she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his doughter Dina. All these soulles of his sonnes and doughters make .xxx and .vi.

The childern of Gad: Ziphion / Haggi / Suni / Ezbon / Eri / Arodi and Areli. The childern of Asser: Iemna / Iesua / Iesui / Brya and Serah

The childern of Rahel Iacobs wife: Ioseph and ben Iamin. And vnto Ioseph in the lde of Egipte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which Asnath the doughter of Potiphera preast of On bare vnto him. The childern of BenIamin: Bela / Becher / Asbel / Gera / Naeman / Ehi Ros Mupim / Hupim and Aro. These are the childern of Rahel which were borne vnto Iacob: xiiij. soules all to gether.

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

And he sent Iuda before him vnto Ioseph that the waye myghte be shewed him vnto Gosan / and they came in to the lande of Gosan And Ioseph made redie his charett and went agaynst Israell his father vnto Gosan / d presented

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

And Ioseph wt and tolde Pharao and sayde: my father and my brethern their shepe and their beastes and all that they haue / are come out of the lde of Canaan and are in the lande of Gosan. And Ioseph toke a parte of his brethern: euen fyue of them / and presented them vnto Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto his brethern: what is youre occupation? And they sayde vnto Pharao: feaders of shepe are thi seruauntes / both we d also oure fathers. They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao:

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

There was no bread in all the londe / for the derth was exceadge sore: so þ^t þ^e lde of Egipte & þ^e lde of Canaan / were fameshyd by þ^e reason

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

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

And Ioseph boughte all the lande of Egipte for Pharao. For the Egiptians solde euery man his londe because the derth was sore ap them: and so the londe be came Pharaos. And he appoynted the people vnto the cities / from one syde of Egipte vnto the other: only the londe of the Prestes bought he not. For there

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

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

When the tyme drewe nye / that Israel must dye: he sent for his sonne Ioseph and sayde vnto him: Yf I haue founde grace in thy syghte / put thy hande vnder my thye and deale mercifully d truely with me / that thou burie me not in Egipte: but let me lye by my fathers / and carie

After these deades / tydges were brought vnto Ioseph: that his father was seke. And he toke with him his ij. snes / Manasses and Ephraim. Then was it sayde vnto Iacob: beholde / thy sonne Ioseph commeth vnto the. And Israel toke his strength vnto him / and satt vp on the bedd / and sayde vnto Ioseph: God all mightie appeared vnto me at lus in the lande of Canaan / d blessed me / and sayde vnto me: beholde / I will make the growe and will multiplye the / and will make a great nombre of people of the / and will geue this lande vnto the and vnto thy seed after þ^e vnto an euerlastinge possession. Now therfore thy .ij. snes Manasses d Ephraim which were borne vnto the before I came to the / in to Egipte / shalbe myne: euen as Ruben and Sime shall they be vnto me. And the childern which thou getest after them / shalbe thyne awne: but shalbe called with the names of their brethern in their enheritaunces.

And after I came from Mesopotamia / Rahel dyed apon my hande in the lande of Cana / by the waye: when I had but a feldes brede

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

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

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

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

And Iacob called for his sonnes d sayde: come together / that I maye tell you what shall happ you in the last dayes. Gather you together and heare ye sonnes of Iacob / and herken vnto Israel youre father.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gad / men of warre shall invade him. And he shall turne them to flyght.

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

Nepthali is a swyft hynde / d geueth goodly wordes.

That florishynge childe Ioseph / that florishing childe and goodly vn to the eye: the doughters come forth to bere ruele. The shoters haue envyed him and chyde with him d hated him / and yet his bowe bode fast / & his armes and his handes were stronge / by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde m a stone in Israel. Thi fathers God shall helpe the / & the almightie shall blesse the with blessinges from heaven aboue / and with blessinges of the water that lieth vnder / & with blessinges of the brestes & of the wombe.

Ben Iamin is a raueshynge wolfe. In the mornynge be shall deuoure his praye / d at nyghte he shall deuyde his spoyle.

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

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

And Ioseph commaunded his seruauntes that were Phisicions / to embawme his father / and the Phisicis bawmed Israel .xl. dayes lge / for so lge doth þ^e embawminge last / & the Egiptians bewepte him .lxx. dayes.

And when the dayes of wepynge were ended / Ioseph spake vnto þ^e house of Pharao saynge: Yf I haue founde fauoure in youre eyes / speake vnto Pharao and tell him / how that my father made me swere and sayde: loo / Ioye / se that thou burye me in my graue which I haue made me in the lande of Canaan. Now therfore let me goo and burye my father / d th will I come agayne. And Pharao sayde / goo and burye thy father / acordynge as he made the swere.

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

And when they came to þ^e feld of Atad beyonde Iordane / there they made great & exceadinge

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

Wh Iosephs brethern sawe that their father was deade / they sayde: Ioseph myghte fortune to hate us and rewarde us agayne all the euell which we dyd vnto him. They dyd therfore a commaundment vnto Ioseph saynge: thy father charged before his deth saynge. This wise say vnto Ioseph / forgeue I praye the the trespace of thy brethern & their synne / for they rewarded the euell. Now therfore we praye the / forgeue the trespace of the servuantes of thy fathers God. And Ioseph wepte when they spake vnto him.

And his brethern came d fell before him and sayde: beholde we be thy servauntes. And

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

And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: I die And God will suerlie vysett you and bringe you out of this lande / vnto the lande which he sware vnto Abraham / Isaac and Iacob. And Ioseph toke an ooth of the childern of Israel d sayde: God will not fayle but vysett you / se therfore that ye carye my boones hence. And so Ioseph dyed / when he was an hundred and .x. yere olde. And they enbawmed him and put him in a chest in Egipte.