Genesis 48 Cross References - Great

¹ After these deades it happened, that a messaunger sayde vnto Ioseph: thy father is sycke. And he toke wt him his .ii. sonnes, Manasses & Ephraim. ² Then was it sayd vnto Iacob: beholde, thy sonne Ioseph commeth vnto the. And Israel toke his strength vnto hym, & satt vp on the bedd, ³ & Iacob sayde vnto Ioseph: God allmyghtie apeared vnto me at Lus in the lande of Canaan, & blessed me, ⁴ & sayde vnto me: beholde, I wyll make the growe, & wyll multiplye the, & wyll make a great nombre of people of the, and wyll geue thys land vnto thy seed after the vnto an euerlastyng possessyon. ⁵ And now thy .ii. sonnes Manasses & Ephraim which were borne vnto the in the lande of Egypte, before I came to the in to Egypte, are myne: euen as Ruben & Symeon are myne. ⁶ And the children which thou hast gotten after them, shalbe thyne awne: & shalbe called after the names of theyr brethren in theyr enheritaunce. ⁷ And whan I came from Mesopotamia, Rahel dyed vpon my hand in the lande of Canaan, by the waye: when ther was but a feldes brede to come vnto Ephrat. And I buryed her there in the waye to Ephrat. The same is Bethlehem. ⁸ And Israel behelde Iosephs sonnes and sayde: what are these? ⁹ Ioseph sayd vnto his father: they are my sonnes which God hathe geuen me here. And he sayde: oh, brynge them to me, & let me blesse them. ¹⁰ And the eyes of Israel were dymme for age, so that he coulde not well see. And he broughte them to hym, and he kyssed them and embraced them. ¹¹ And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: I had not thought to haue sene thy face, and yet loo, God hath shewed it me and also thy seed. ¹² And Ioseph toke them awaye from his lappe, & worshypped on the grounde before hym. ¹³ Than toke Ioseph them both: Ephraim with his ryghte hande towarde Israels left hande, & Manasses wt hys left hande, towarde Israels ryghte hande, & brought them vnto hym. ¹⁴ And Israel stretched out hys ryghte hande & layde it vpon Ephraims heade which was the yonger, & hys lyfte hande vpon Manasses heed, gydinge hys handes wysely, for Manasses was the elder. ¹⁵ And he blessed Ioseph & sayde: God, before whome my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God whych hath fedd me all my lyfe longe vnto thys daye, ¹⁶ And the angell whych hath delyuered me from all euyll, blesse these laddes: & let my name be named in them, & the name of my fathers Abraham & Isahac, & that they maye growe into a multitude in the myddes of the erth. ¹⁷ When Ioseph sawe that hys father layde hys ryghte hande vpon the heade of Ephraim, it displeased him. And he lyfte vp his fathers hande, to haue remoued it from Ephraims heade vnto Manasses heade, ¹⁸ & Ioseph sayde vnto hys father: Not so my father, for thys is the eldest. Put thy ryght hande vpon hys heade. ¹⁹ And hys father wolde not, but sayde: I knowe it well my sonne, I knowe it well. He shalbe also a people & shalbe great. But hys yonger brother shalbe greatter than he, and hys seed shall be full of people. ²⁰ And he blessed them that daye and sayde: In the let Israel blesse & saye: God make the as Ephraim and as Manasses. And sett Ephraim before Manasses. ²¹ And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: beholde, I dye. And God shalbe wyth you and brynge you agayne vnto the lande of youre fathers. ²² Moreouer I haue geuen vnto the, a porcyon of lande aboue thy brethren, which I gatt out of the hande of the Amorite in my swerde and in my bowe.

⁵⁰ And vnto Ioseph were borne two sonnes (before the yeares of hunger came) whych Asnath the daughter of Putiphar preast of On, bare vnto hym. ⁵¹ And Ioseph called the name of the fyrst sonne Manasse, for God (sayde he) hath made me forgett all my laboure and all my fathers housholde. ⁵² The name of the seconde called he Ephraim, for God (sayd he) hath caused me to growe in the lande of my trouble.

²⁰ And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypte were borne: Manasses and Ephraim whych Asnath the daughter of Putiphar preast of On bare vnto hym.

²³ And Ioseph sawe Ephraims chyldren, euen vnto the thyrde generacyon. And vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses were chyldren borne, on Ioseph knees.

¹⁶ After thys lyued Iob an hundred and fourty yeares, so that he sawe hys chyldren, & hys chyldrens chyldren into the fourth generacion.

⁶ The Lorde frome out of you shall so blesse the, that thou shalt se Ierusalem in prosperyte all thy lyfe longe. Yee that thou shalt se thy chylders chyldren, and peace vpon Israel.

³ Therfore, his syster sent vnto him, saying: Lord, beholde, he whom thou louest, is sicke.

²⁸ But charge Iosua: and courage him, & bolden him. For he shal go before this people, and he shall deuyde vnto them the lande whyche thou shalt se.

¹⁶ And Ionathas Sauls sonne arose, & went to Dauid in to the thicket, & comforted his hand in God,

¹⁸ And I told them of the hande of my God, (that it was gracious ouer me) and the kynges wordes that he had spoken vnto me. And they sayde: let us get vp and buylde: and they strengthed their hande to goode.

³ The Lord comforte hym, when he lyeth syck vpon hys bedd: make thou all his bedd in his sicknesse.

¹⁵ My sonne, yf thy herte receaue wysdome, my herte also shall reioyce:

¹⁰ Finally my brethren, be stronge thorowe the Lorde and thorowe the power of his myght.

¹ Abram was nynetye yere olde & .ix. & the Lorde apeared to Abram & sayde vnto hym: I am the almyghtie God: walke before me and be thou perfecte.

³ And God almyghtye blesse the, & make the to increase, and multyplye the that thou mayst be a nombre of people,

¹² And he dreamed: and beholde, there stode a ladder vpon the erth, and the topp of it reached vp to heauen. And se, the angels of God went vp and downe vpon it, ¹³ yce and God stode vpon it, and sayde. I am the Lorde God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac: The lande whyche thou slepest vpon wyll I geue the and thy seed. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the erth: and thou shalt spreade abrode to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south. And thorowe the and in thy seed shall all the kynredes of the erth be blessed. ¹⁵ And se I am wyth the, and wylbe thy keper in all places whether thou goest, and wyll brynge the agayne in to thys lande: nether wyll I leaue the vntyll I haue made good all that I haue promysed the. ¹⁶ When Iacob was awaked out of hys slepe, he sayde: surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware. ¹⁷ And he was afrayed & sayde: howe fearfull is this place? it is none other, but euen the house of God and the gate of heauen. ¹⁸ And Iacob stode vp early in the mornynge, & toke the stone that he had layde vnder hys head, and pitched it vp an ende and poured oyle on the topp of it. ¹⁹ And he called the name of that place Bethell, but the name of the cytie was called Lus before tyme.

⁶ So came Iacob to Lus which is in the lande of Canaan. The same is Bethell, he & all the people that was with him. ⁷ And he buylded there an aulter, and called the place: The God of Bethell, because that God appered vnto hym there, when he fled from the face of his brother.

⁹ And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne after he came out of Mesopotamia and blessed hym, ¹⁰ and God sayde vnto him: thy name is Iacob. Notwythstondinge thou shalt be no more called Iacob, but Israel shalbe thy name. And he called hys name Israel. ¹¹ And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmyghtye, growe and multiplye, people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the, yee and kynges shall come out of thy loynes. ¹² And the lande whych I gaue Abraham and Isahac, will I geue vnto the, and vnto thy seed after the will I geue that lande also:

³ I appeared vnto Abraham Isahac and Iacob as an allmyghtye God: and in my name Iehouah was I not knowne vnto them.

²³ & the house of Ioseph serched out Bethel, which before tyme was called Lus.

⁴ He strowe with the angell, and gatt the victorye: so that he prayde & desyred hym. He founde him at Bethell, and there he talketh with vs.

¹¹ hauyng the bryghtnes of God. And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone moste precious, euen lyke a Iasper cleare as Cristall:

² And I wyll make of the a greate people, and wyll blesse the, & make thy name greate, that thou mayest be euen a blessynge.

¹⁵ for all the lande whyche thou seeste wyll I geue vnto the and to thy seed for euer. ¹⁶ And I wyll make thy seed, as the dust of the erth: so that yf a man can nombre the dust of the erth, than shall thy seed also be nombred.

⁸ And I wyll geue vnto the and to thy seed after the, the lande where in thou art a straunger: Euen all the lande of Canaan, for an euerlastynge possessyon, and wyll be their God.

¹³ And my testament shall be in youre fleshe, for an euerlastinge bonde.

¹⁷ that in blessynge I wyll blesse the, and in multiplienge I wyll multiplie thy seed as the starres of heauen & as the sande which is vpon the see syde. And thy seed shall possesse the gate of hys enemies.

⁴ and wyll multiplye thy seed as the starres of heauen, and wyll geue vnto thy seed all these contreys. And in thy seed shall all the nacyons of the erth be blessed,

¹³ yce and God stode vpon it, and sayde. I am the Lorde God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac: The lande whyche thou slepest vpon wyll I geue the and thy seed. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the erth: and thou shalt spreade abrode to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south. And thorowe the and in thy seed shall all the kynredes of the erth be blessed. ¹⁵ And se I am wyth the, and wylbe thy keper in all places whether thou goest, and wyll brynge the agayne in to thys lande: nether wyll I leaue the vntyll I haue made good all that I haue promysed the.

¹² Thou saydest: I wyll surely do the good, & make thy seed as the sande of the see, which can not be nombred for multytude.

¹¹ And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmyghtye, growe and multiplye, people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the, yee and kynges shall come out of thy loynes.

³ And he sayde: I am God, the God of thy father, fere not to goo downe into Egypt. For I wyll there make of the a great people.

²⁷ And Israel dwelt in Egypte: euen in the countre of Gosan. And they had theyr possessyons therin, & grewe and multiplied exceadyngly.

⁷ and the chyldren of Israel grewe, encreased, multiplyed, and waxed exceadinge myghtye: and the lande was full of them.

¹¹ Therfore dyd they sette taskmasters ouer them, to kepe them vnder wt burthens. And they bylte vnto Pharao treasure cities: Phiton and Rameses.

⁸ When the most highest, deuyded the nacyons, and whan he separated the sonnes of Adam, he put the borders of the nacyons, fast by the multitude of the chyldren of Israel.

¹⁴ & I wyll turne the captiuyte of my people of Israell: they shal repayre the waste cyties, and haue them in possession: they shall plante vyneyardes, and dryncke the wyne therof they shall make gardens, & enioye the frutes of them. ¹⁵ And I wyll plante them vpon theyr awne grounde, so that I will neuer rote them out agayne from theyr lande whych I haue geuen them sayeth the Lorde thy God.

²⁶ Therfore shall ye be holy vnto me, for I the Lorde am holy, and haue seuered you from other nacyons: that ye shulde be myne.

¹⁰ Amonge the chyldren of Ioseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the sonne of Amihud: of Manasse, Gamaliel the sonne of Peda Zur:

³² Of the chyldren of Ioseph: Namely, of the chyldren of Ephraim thorowe out theyr generacyons and theyr kynredes and houses of theyr fathers, the nombre of names from .xx. yeares & aboue, ³³ all that went out to the warre: the nombre of them that were of the tribe of Ephraim was .xl. thousande, & fyue hundred. ³⁴ Of the chyldren of Manasse thorow out their generacions, & theyr kynredes, and houses of their fathers, the nombre of names from twentye yeare olde & aboue, all that went out to the warre: ³⁵ The nombre of them that were of the tribe of Manasse, was .xxxij. thousande & two hundred.

²⁸ The chyldren of Ioseph thorow out their kynredes were: Manasse & Ephraim. ²⁹ The chyldren of Manasse: Machir, of whom commeth the kynred of the Machirites. And Machir begat Gilead, and of Gilead commeth the kynred of the Gileadites. ³⁰ And these are the chyldren of Gilead: Hieser, of whom commeth the kynred of the Hieserites: Helech, of whom commeth the kynred of the Helechites: ³¹ and Asriel, of whom commeth the kynred of the Asrielites: and Sichem, of whom commeth the kynred of the Sichemites: ³² Simida, of whom commeth the kynred of the Simidites: and Hepher, of whom commeth the kynred of the Hepherites. ³³ And Zelaphead the sonne of Hepher had no sonnes but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelaphead were: Mahela, Noa, Hagla, Milcha and Thirza. ³⁴ These are the kynredes of Manasse, and the nombre of them .lii. thousande and seuen hundred. ³⁵ These are the chyldren of Ephraim after theyr kynredes: Suthelah, of whom commeth the kynred of the Suthelahites: Becher, of whom commeth the kynred of the Becherites: Thahen, of whom commeth the kynred of the Thahenites. ³⁶ And these are the chyldren of Suthelah: Eran, of whom commeth the kynred of the Eranites. ³⁷ These are the kynredes of the chyldren of Ephraim after theyr nombres .xxxii. thousande and fyue hundred. And these are the chyldren of Ioseph after theyr kynredes.

⁷ Now therfore deuide thys land to enheret, vnto the nyne trybes & the halfe trybe of Manasses.

⁴ For the children of Ioseph were two tribes, Manasses & Ephraim. And therfore they gaue no parte vnto the Leuites in the land, saue cyties to dwell in with the suburbes of the same, for their beastes and cattell.

¹ And the lotte of the children of Ioseph felle from Iordan by Iericho, vnto the water of Iericho Estward, and to the wildernesse that goeth vp from Iericho thorow out mount Bethel: ² & goeth out from Bethel to Lus, & runneth alonge vnto the borders of Arcimataroth: ³ & goeth downe agayne westard euen to the coaste of Iaphlethi, and vnto the coaste of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gasor, and the endes of their coostes leaue at the west see. ⁴ And so the children of Ioseph Manasses & Ephraim toke their enheritaunce. ⁵ And the border of the children of Ephraim was by their kinreds. Their border on the east syde, was: Ataroth, Ador, euen vnto Bethhoron the vpper, ⁶ & went out westward to Machmathah on the Northside, and returneth Estward vnto Thaanath Silo, and past it on the Estside vnto Ianoah, ⁷ & went downe from Ianoah to Atharoth & Naarath, & came to Iericho, & went out at Iordan. ⁸ And their border went from Thaphuah westwarde vnto the ryuer kanah, and the endes were the west see. This is the enheritaunce of the trybe of the children of Ephraim by their kynredes. ⁹ And the separate cyties for the children of Ephraim, were amonge the enheritaunce of the children of Manasses: euen the cyties with their villages. ¹⁰ And they draue not out the Cananites y dwelte in Gasor: but the Cananites dwell amonge the Ephraites vnto this daye, and serue vnder tribute.

¹ The sonnes of Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel: for asmoche as he was the eldest, and had defyled hys fathers bedd, his byrthryght was geuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel. Howbeit, the genealogy is not rekoned after this byrthryght. ² For Iuda, he preuayled aboue hys brethren, and of this trybe came the chefe, and the byrthryght was geuen to Ioseph.

¹ But nowe, the Lorde that made the O Iacob, and he that fashyoned the: O Israel, sayeth thus: Feare not, for I haue redemed the. I haue called the by name: thou art myne awne.

⁸ Nowe whan I wente by the, & loked vpon the: beholde, thy tyme was come, yee, euen the tyme to wowe the. Then spred I my clothes ouer the, to couer thy dishonestye: yee, I made an othe vnto the, & maried my selfe with the (sayeth the Lord God) and so thou becamest myne awne.

¹⁷ And in the daye that I wyll make (sayth the Lorde of hostes) they shalbe myne awne possession: and I will fauoure them, lyke as a man fauoureth hys awne sonne, that doth hym seruyce.

¹⁸ and wylbe a father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes & daughters, sayth the Lorde allmyghty.

⁵ Which ordeyned vs before thorowe Iesus Christ to be heyres vnto hym selfe, accordinge to the good pleasure of hys wyll,

⁶ Of the trybe of Aser were sealed .xii.M. Of the trybe of Neptali were sealed .xii.M. Of the tryb of Manasses were sealed .xii.M. ⁷ Of the trybe of Symeon were sealed .xii.M. Of the trybe of Leuy were sealed .xii.M. Of the trybe of Isacar were sealed .xii.M.

²⁰ And Isahac was .xl. yeare olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bathuel the Sirian of Mesopotamia and syster to Laban the Sirien.

⁹ And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne after he came out of Mesopotamia and blessed hym,

¹⁶ And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a felde bredth from Ephrath, Rahel began to trauell, and in trauelynge she was in parell. ¹⁷ And it happened as she was in paynes of hyr laboure, the mydwyfe sayde vnto her, feare not, for thys sonne is thyne also. ¹⁸ Then as hyr soule was a departynge, that she must dye, she called his name. Ben Oni. But hys father called hym Ben Iamin. ¹⁹ And thus dyed Rahel and was buryed in the waye to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

² The name of the man was Elimelec, and the name of hys wyfe, Naomi: and the names of hys two sonnes were, Mahlon and Chilion, and they were Ephraites, out of Bethlehem Iuda. And when they came into the land of Moab, they contynued there.

¹ There was a man of one of the two Ramaths (of the kinred of Zophim, of mount Ephraim) named Elkana the sonne of Ieroham the sonne of Elihu, the sonne of Thohu, the sonne of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

² When thou art departed from me this daye, thou shalt fynde two men by Rahels sepulcre in the border of BenIamin, euen at Zalezah. And they will saye vnto the: the asses which thou wentest to seke, are founde. And lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, & soroweth for you, sayenge: what shall I do for my sonne?

¹² Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Iuda, named Isai, whych had eight sonnes. And was an olde man in the dayes of Saul, and came to age amonge men.

² And thou Bethleem Ephrata, art lytle amonge the thou sandes of Iuda, Out of the shal come vnto me, which shal be the gouernoure in Israel: whose out goynge hath bene from the begynning, & from euerlastynge.

¹⁸ in Rama was there a voyce herde lamentacyon, weping, and great mourninge. Rachel weping for her chyldren, & wolde not be comforted because they were not.

⁴ and make me meate soche as I loue, and brynge it me, that I maye eate, and that my soule may blesse the before that I dye.

²⁸ God geue the of the dewe of heauen, and of the fatnesse of the erth, and plentye of corne and wyne. ²⁹ People be thy seruauntes, and nacyons bowe vnto the. Be Lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers chyldren stowpe vnto the. Curssed be he that cursseth the, and blessed be he that blesseth the.

³⁴ When Esau herde the wordes of hys father, he cryed out greatly and bytterly, aboue mesure, and sayde vnto hys father: blesse me also my father. ³⁵ Who answered: thy brother came wyth subtilte, & hath taken awaye thy blessyng. ³⁶ And he sayd agayne: He maye well be called Iacob, for he hath vndermyned me now two tymes, fyrst he toke awaye my byrthryght: and se, nowe hath he taken awaye my blessynge also. And he sayde: hast thou kept neuer a blessynge for me? ³⁷ Isahac answered and sayde vnto Esau: beholde I haue made hym thy Lord, and all hys mothers chyldren haue I made hys seruauntes. Moreouer wyth corne & wyne haue I stablysshed hym, what can I do vnto the nowe my sonne? ³⁸ And Esau sayde vnto hys father: hast thou but that one blessynge my father? blesse me also my father: so lyfted vp Esau his voyce and wepte. ³⁹ Than Isahac hys father answered & sayde vnto hym: beholde, thy dwellinge place shall be the fatnesse of the erth, and of the dewe of heauen from aboue. ⁴⁰ And wyth thy swerde shalt thou lyue, and shalt be thy brothers seruaunt. And it wyll come to passe, that when thou shalt gett the mastrye, thou shalt lowse hys yocke from of thy necke.

³ And God almyghtye blesse the, & make the to increase, and multyplye the that thou mayst be a nombre of people, ⁴ and geue the the blessynge of Abraham: to the and to thy seed wyth the, that thou mayst possesse the lande (wherin thou art a straunger) whyche God gaue vnto Abraham.

² And Iacob was wrooth wt Rahel sayig: Am I in Goddes stead, which kepeth from the the frute of thy wombe?

⁵ And he lyfte vp hys eyes & sawe the wemen, and the chyldren, and sayde: whence hast thou these? And he answered: they are the chyldren whych God hath geuen thy seruaunte.

²⁸ All these are the .xij. tribes of Israel, and thys their father spake vnto them and blessed them, euery one of them blessed he wyth a seuerall blessynge.

¹ Thys is the blessynge wherwyth Moses the man of God blessed the chyldren of Israell before hys death,

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders sayde: we are wytnesses: the Lord make the woman that is come into thyne house, lyke Rahel and Lea, which twayne dyd builde the house of Israell: do thou also valeauntly in Ephrata, and be famouse in Bethlehem. ¹² Thy house be like the house of Pharez whom Thamar bare vnto Iuda, euen of the sede which the Lorde shall geue the of this younge woman. ¹³ And so Booz toke Ruth, and she was his wyfe. And whan he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue, that she conceaued, and bare a sonne. ¹⁴ And the wemen sayde vnto Naomi: blessed be the Lorde, the which hath not left the without a kinsman, to haue a name in Israell,

²⁰ for in processe of tyme it came to passe, that she conceaued, & bare a sonne, & called his name Samuel (sayeng:) because I haue asked him of the Lord.

²⁷ For this ladde I prayed, and the Lorde hath geuen me my desire, whych I asked of him:

²⁰ and Eli blessed Elkana & his wyfe, and sayde: the Lorde geue the seede of thys woman, for the peticyon that she asked of the lorde. And they went vnto their awne home. ²¹ And the lorde visited Hanna, so that she conceaued & bare thre sonnes & two daughters. And the chylde Samuel grewe before the lorde.

⁵ All these were the sonnes of Heman which was the kynges Sear in the wordes of God to lyfte vp the horne of the regall dignitie. And God gaue to Heman .xiiij. sonnes and the daughters.

⁴ The sonnes of Obed Edom: Semeia the eldest, Iehosabad the seconde, Ioah the thyrde, Sacar the fourth, & Nethanael the fyfte, ⁵ Amiel the syxte, Isachar the seuenth, Peulthai the .viij. for God blessed hym.

³ It is but lost laboure that ye haste to ryse vp early, and so late take rest, and eate the breade of carefulnesse: for so he gyueth hys beloued sleape.

¹⁸ But lo, as for me, and the children which the lord hath geuen me: we are a token and a wondre in Israel, for the Lord of Hostes sake, which dwelleth vpon the hyll of Sion.

³ Then shall not the straunger, which cleaueth to the Lorde, saye: Alas, the Lorde hath shut me cleane out from hys people. Nether shall the gelded man saye: lo, I am a drye tre. ⁴ For thus sayeth the Lorde, vnto the gelded that kepeth my Sabboth: Namely, that holdeth greatly of the thynge that pleaseth me, and kepeth my couenaunt: ⁵ Unto them wyll I geue in my housholde and wythin my walles, a better herytage & name, then yf they had bene called sonnes & daughters. I will geue them an euerlastinge name, that shall not perish.

²¹ By fayth Iacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph, & bowed him selfe towarde the toppe of hys scepter.

¹ And it came to passe that whan Isahac wexed olde and hys eyes were dymme (so that he coulde not see) He called Esau his eldest sonne and sayd vnto hym: my sonne. And he sayde vnto hym: here am I.

²⁷ And he went vnto hym and kyssed hym. And he smelled the sauoure of hys rayment, and blessed hym, and sayde, See, the smelle of my sonne is as the smell of a felde whych the Lorde had blessed.

⁵⁵ And early in the mornynge Laban rose vp and kyssed kys children and hys daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departynge, went vnto hys place agayne.

¹⁵ Moreouer he kyssed all hys brethren and wepte vpon them. And after that, hys brethren talked wyth hym.

² And it chaunsed at that tyme, that Eli laye in his place, and hys eyes beganne to waxe dymme that he coulde not se.

¹⁵ Eli was .xcviij. yeare olde, and hys syght fayled him that he could not se.

²⁰ And he lefte the oxen, & ranne after Elia & sayde: let me I praye the, kysse my father & my mother, & then I will folow the. He sayd vnto him: go backe agayne, for what is it, that I haue done to the?

¹⁰ Harden the harte of this people, stoppe theyr eares, and shut theyr eyes, that they se not with theyr eyes, heare not with theyr eares, and vnderstand not with theyr hertes, and conuerte and be healed.

¹ Beholde the Lordes hande is not so shortened that it can not helpe, nether is his eare so stopped that it maye not heare.

³³ And he knewe it sayinge, it is my sonnes coote, a wycked beast hath deuoured hym, Ioseph is rent in peces.

³⁵ But all his sonnes and all hys doughters rose vp to comforte him. Neuertheles he wolde not be comforted, but sayde: I wyll go downe into the graue vnto my sonne, mourninge. And thus hys father wepte for hym.

³⁶ And Iacob theyr father sayde vnto them: Me haue ye robbed of my chyldren: Ioseph is a waye, and Symeon is awaye, and ye take Ben Iamin awaye. All these thynges are agaynst me.

²⁶ Ioseph is yet alyue, & is gouerner ouer all the lande of Egypte. And Iacobs hert wauered, for he beleued them not.

²⁰ Unto hym that is able to do exceadynge aboundantly aboue all that we aske or thynke accordynge to the power that worketh in in vs,

² And he lifte vp his eyes and looked: & lo, thre men stode by him. And when he sawe them, he ran to mete them from the tent dore, and fell to the ground

¹ And there came .ij. angels to Sodome at euen. And Lot sat at the gate of Sodome. And Lot seinge them, rose vp to mete them, and he bowed him selfe to the grounde wt his face.

⁷ Abraham stode vp and bowed him selfe before the people of the lande the children of Heth.

³ And he went before them and fell on the grownde .vij. tymes vntill he came vnto his brother.

⁶ And Ioseph was gouerner in the lande, and solde to all the people of the lande. And hys brethren came, and fel flat on the grounde before hym.

¹² Honour thy father & thy mother, that thy dayes maye be longe in the lande which the Lord thy God geueth the.

⁸ And Moses bowed him selfe to the earth quyckly, and worshipped,

³ Ye shall feare euery man hys father & hys mother, and kepe my Sabothes, I am the Lorde youre God.

³² Thou shalt ryse vp before the horehed, and reuerence the face of the olde man, and dread thy God. I am the Lorde.

¹⁹ Bethsabe therfore went vnto the kinge Salomon, to speake vnto him for Adonia. And the kinge rose vp to mete her, and bowed him selfe vnto her, and satt him downe on his seate. And there was a seate sett for the kinges mother, and she sat on his right syde.

³⁷ Therfore she went in, and fell at his fete, & bowed her selfe to the grounde, and toke vp her sonne, and went out.

²⁸ Her children shall aryse, and call her blessed: & her housband shall make moch of her.

¹ Chyldren, obey youre fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for that is ryght

⁵¹ And Ioseph called the name of the fyrst sonne Manasse, for God (sayde he) hath made me forgett all my laboure and all my fathers housholde.

¹⁸ & Ioseph sayde vnto hys father: Not so my father, for thys is the eldest. Put thy ryght hande vpon hys heade.

⁶ Thy ryght hande Lorde, is become glorious in power: thy ryght hande Lorde hath all to dashed the enemy.

¹⁰ and brynge the Leuites before the Lorde, and the chyldren of Israel shall put their handes vpon the Leuites.

¹⁸ and I haue taken the Leuites for all the fyrst borne of the chyldren of Israel,

⁹ And Iosua the sonne of Nun was full of the spryte of wysdome: for Moses had put hys handes vpon hym. And the chyldren of Israel were obedient vnto hym, and dyd as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

¹ A Psalme of Dauid. The Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde: Syt thou on my ryght hand, vntill I make thine enemyes thy fotestole.

¹⁶ The ryght hande of the Lorde hath the preeminence, the ryght hande of the Lorde bryngeth mightie thynges to passe.

⁵ And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the ypocrytes are. For they vse to stand praieng in the synagoges, and in the corners of the stretes, that they maye be sene of men. Uerely, I saye vnto you: they haue theyr rewarde.

¹⁸ And I saye also vnto the that thou art Peter: & vpon this rocke I wil bylde my congregacion. And the gates of hell shal not preuayle agaynst it.

¹³ Then were there brought vnto hym yonge chyldren, that he shuld put hys handes on them, & praye. And the disciples rebuked them.

¹⁵ And when he had put hys handes on them, he departed thence.

⁴⁰ When the sonne was downe, all they that had syck, taken with diuers diseases, brought them vnto hym: and he layde hys handes on euery one of them, and healed them.

¹³ And he layde his handes on her, and immediatly, she was made strayght, and glorified God.

⁶ These they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they layde theyr handes on them.

¹⁷ Then layd they their handes on them, & they receaued the holy ghos ¹⁸ When Simon sawe that thorow laying on of the apostles handes, the holy ghost was geuen, he offered them money, ¹⁹ saying: geue me also this power, that on whomsoeuer I put the handes, he maye receaue the holy ghost.

³ And whan they had fasted and prayed, and layde their handes on them, they let them go.

¹⁴ Despyse not the gyfte that is in the, whych was geuen the thorowe prophesye, with the layinge on of handes by the auctoryte of presthode.

²² Laye handes sodenly on no man, nether be partaker of other mens synnes: kepe thy selfe pure.

²² And Henoch walked wyth God after he begat Methuselah, thre hundreth yeres, & begat sonnes & daughters. ²³ And all the dayes of Henoch were thre hundreth syxtie & fyue yeres. ²⁴ And Henoch walked with God, & he (was no more sene,) for God toke hym awaye.

⁹ These are the generacyons of Noah Noah was iust & perfect in his generacions, and walked wt God.

²⁰ And she powred out hyr pytcher in to the trough hastely, and ranne agayne vnto the well to fett water: and drewe for all hys camels.

²⁰ And Iacob vowed a vowe, sayinge: If God wyll be wyth me, and wyll kepe me in thys iourney which I goo, and will geue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on,

²² and thys stone which I haue set vp an ende, shalbe goddes house: and of all that thou shalt geue me, wyll I geue the tenth vnto the.

¹⁶ And the angell whych hath delyuered me from all euyll, blesse these laddes: & let my name be named in them, & the name of my fathers Abraham & Isahac, & that they maye growe into a multitude in the myddes of the erth.

²⁴ But hys bowe abode fast, and the armes of hys handes were made stronge, by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob. Out of hym shall come an herde man, a stone in Israel:

⁶ And Salomon sayde: thou haste shewed vnto thy seruaunt Dauid my father great mercy, when he walked before the in trueth, in ryghtewesnes, & in playnesse of hert with the. And thou hast kepte for hym this greate mercy, that thou hast geuen hym a sonne, to sytt on hys seate: as it is come to passe thys daye.

⁸ I wyll thanke the Lorde for geuynge me warnynge: my reynes also chasten me in the nyght season.

¹ A psalme of Dauid. The Lord is my shepherde, therfore can I lack nothing.

³ Put thou thy trust in the Lorde, & be doinge good: dwell in the lande, and verely thou shalt be fedd.

⁴ Which saueth thy lyfe from destruccyon, and crowneth the with mercy and louynge kyndnesse. ⁵ Whych satisfyeth thy mouth wyth good thynges, makyng the yonge and lusty as an Aegle.

²⁴ Is it not better then for a man to eate & drynche, & his soule to be mery in his labour? Yee I sawe that thys also was a gyfte of God: ²⁵ For who will eat or go more lustely to hys worcke then I? And why?

¹² A labouringe man slepeth swetely, whether it be lytle or moch that he eateth: but the aboundaunce of the ryche will not suffre him to slepe.

¹⁸ Therfore me thincke it a better & as fayrer thyng, a man to eate and dryncke, and to be refreshed of all hys laboure, that he taketh vnder the Sunne all the dayes of his lyfe which God geueth hym, for this is hys porcyon.

⁷ All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, & yet his desire is neuer fylled after his minde.

²¹ Yee, and thyne care shall heare the talkynge of hym that doeth speake behynde the. Thys is the waye, walke ye in it. Turne not aside nether to the ryght hande ner to the lyft.

¹⁶ He it is, that shall dwell on hye: whose sauegarde shalbe in a bulwarcke of rockes, to hym shalbe geuen meate, & hys waters shall not fayle.

² & layed agaynst the Sunne, the Moone & all the heauenly hoost: whom they loued, whom they serued, whom they ranne after, whom they sought and worshypped. They shall nether be gathered together ner buryed, but shall lye as donge vpon the earth, to theyr shame and despysynge.

²⁵ Therfore I saye vnto you: be not carefull for youre lyfe, what ye shall eate or drincke, nor yet for youre bodye, what rayment ye shall put on. Is not the lyfe more worth then meat: and the body more of value then rayment? ²⁶ Behold, the foules of the ayer: for they sowe not, nether do they reape, nor cary into the barnes: and youre heuenly father fedeth them. Are ye not moch better then they? ²⁷ Whych of you (by takynge carefull thought) can adde one cubyte vnto hys stature? ²⁸ And why care ye for rayment? Consydre the lylies of the felde, how they growe. They laboure not, nether do they spynne. ²⁹ And yet I saye vnto you, that euen Salomon in all hys royalte was not arayed lyke one of these. ³⁰ Wherfore, yf God so cloth the grasse of the felde (which though it stande to daye, is to morow cast into the fornasse) shall he not moch more do the same for you, O ye of lytle fayth? ³¹ Therfore, take no thought, saying: what shall we eate, or what shall we dryncke, or wherwith shall we be clothed? ³² after all these thynges do the gentyls seke. For youre heuenly father knoweth, that ye haue nede of all these thynges. ³³ But rather seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of God, and the ryghteousnesse therof, and al these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you. ³⁴ Care not then for the morow, for the morowe daye shall care for it selfe: sufficient vnto the daye, is the trauayle therof.

⁶ they were, both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordynaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fawte with them.

³¹ Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke, or whatsoeuer ye do, do all to the prayse of God.

¹² For oure reioysinge is this, euen the testimony of oure conscience, that in synglenes and godly purenes, & not in fleshly wysdom, but by the grace of God, we haue had oure conuersacyon in the world, and most of all to you wardes.

⁶ As ye haue therfore receaued Christ Iesu the Lorde euen so walke ye in hym,

¹² that ye wolde walke worthy of God, whych hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glorye.

⁶ Godlynes is greate ryches If a man be content with that he hath. ⁷ For we brought nothynge into the worlde, nether maye we cary any thynge out. ⁸ But when we haue fode and rayment we must ther with be content. ⁹ They that wylbe ryche, fall into temptacyon and snares, & into many folysshe & noysome lustes, which droune men into perdicyon & destruccyon. ¹⁰ For coueteousnes of money is the rote of all euyll: whych whyll some lusted after, they erred from the fayth, & tanglyd them selues with many sorowes.

²¹ And God created great whalles and euery lyuing and mouyng creature, which the waters brought forth after their kynde: and euery fethered foule after their kynde. And God sawe that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, sayinge: Growe & increace and fyll the waters of the see: and let fethred foules be multiplyed in the earth.

⁷ And the Angell of the Lorde founde her besyde a fountayne of water in the wyldernes: euen by the well that is in the waye to Sur. ⁸ And he sayde: Hagar Sarais mayde, whence camest thou and whether wilt thou goo? She sayde: I flee from the face of my mastresse Sarai. ⁹ And the angell of the Lorde sayde vnto her: returne to thy mastresse againe, & submytte thy selfe vnder her handes. ¹⁰ And agayne, the angell of the Lorde sayde vnto her: In encreasinge I wyll encrease thy seed and it shall not be nombred for multitude. ¹¹ And the Lordes angell sayde vnto her, se, thou art with chylde and shalt bere a sonne, and shalt call hys name Ismael: because the Lorde hath herde thy tribulacyon. ¹² He also will be a wylde man, and hys hande will be agaynst euery man, and euery mans hande agaynst him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. ¹³ And she called the name of the Lorde that spake vnto her: thou God lokest on me, for she sayde: haue I not sene here the backe partes of hym that seeth me?

¹¹ And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame, saying: Iacob? And I answered: here am I. ¹² And he sayde: lyfte vp nowe thyne eyes & se all the rammes leapinge vpon the shepe that are straked, spotted & partye: for I haue sene all that Laban doth vnto the, ¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where thou anoyntedst the stone, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me. Now therfore aryse & get the out of this countre, and returne vnto the lande wher thou wast borne.

²⁸ He sayde: thou shalt be called Iacob nomore, but Israell. For as a prynce hast thou wrastled wyth God: and wyth man, and hast preuayled.

⁵ And now thy .ii. sonnes Manasses & Ephraim which were borne vnto the in the lande of Egypte, before I came to the in to Egypte, are myne: euen as Ruben & Symeon are myne.

²² That florysshynge childe Ioseph, that plenteous chylde by the well syde, the daughters ran vpon the wall

² And the angell of the Lorde appeared vnto him in a flame of fyre out of the myddes of a bush. And he loked, & beholde, the bush burned wt fyre, and the bush was not consumed. ³ Therfore Moses sayde: I wyll goo nowe, and see thys greate syght, howe it cometh that the bushe burneth not. ⁴ And when the Lorde sawe that he came for to see, God called vnto him out of the myddes of the bushe, and sayde: Moses, Moses. He answered: here am I. ⁵ And he sayde: come not hyther, put thy shooes of thy fete: for the place where on thou stondest is holy grounde. ⁶ And he sayde I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac & the God of Iacob And Moses hyd his face, for he was afrayed to loke vpon God.

²⁰ Beholde, I sende an Angell before the, to kepe the in the waye, and to brynge the into the place which I haue prepared. ²¹ Beware of hym, and heare his voyce, and resyst hym not: for he wyll not spare youre mysdedes & my name is in hym.

⁴⁶ drewe all vnto the summe of syxe hundred thousande and thre thousande, fyue hundred and fyftye.

¹⁰ And all nacyons of the erth shall se, that the name of the Lorde, is called vpon ouer the, and they shalbe aferde of the.

¹⁷ his firstborne oxe hath be wtie, and his hornes are as the hornes of an vnycorne. And wyth them he shall trouble the nacyons together, euen vnto the endes of the worlde. These are also the many thousandes of Ephraim, & the thousandes of Manasses.

¹⁷ And Iosua sayde vnto the house of Ioseph, Ephraim & Manasses: ye be moche people, and haue great power, & shall not therfore haue one lotte.

¹ And the angell of the Lorde came vp from Gilgall to Bochim, & sayde: I made you to come out of Egypte, and haue brought you vnto the lande which I sware vnto youre fathers. And I sayd: I wyll not breake myne appoyntment that I made with you. ² And ye also shall make no couenant wyth the enhabytoures of this lande, but shall breake downe their aultares: Neuertheles ye haue not herkened vnto my voice, why haue ye this done? ³ Wherfore, I haue lykewyse determyned, that I wyll not cast them out before you: but they shalbe thornes vnto you, and their goddes shalbe a snare vnto you. ⁴ And when the angell of the Lorde spake these wordes vnto all the chyldren of Israel, the people cryed out and wepte:

²¹ Then the angell of the Lord put forth the ende of the staffe that he helde in his hande, & touched the fleshe and the swete kakes. And there arose vp fyre out of the rocke, & consumed the flesh & the swete kakes. But the angell of the Lord vanished out of his syght. ²² And when Gedeon perceaued that it was an angell of the Lord, he sayd: Alas, O Lord God, haue I therfore sene an angell of the lord face to face, that I shulde dye? ²³ And the Lord sayde vnto him: peace be vnto the, feare not, thou shalt not dye. ²⁴ Then Gedeon made an aultare there vnto the Lord, & called it: The Lorde of peace. And vnto thys daye it is yet in Ephrath, that pertayneth vnto the father of the Eserites.

²¹ But the angel of the Lorde dyd nomoare apeare vnto Manoah and his wife. And then Manoah knew that it was an angel of the Lorde, ²² and sayde vnto hys wyfe we shall suerlye dye, because we haue sene God.

¹⁴ and yf they that are of my people, amonge whom my name is called vpon, do humble them selues, and make intercessyon, and seke my presence, and turne from their wycked wayes, then will I heare from heauen, and be mercyfull to their synne, & wyll heale their lande.

² My soule shall make her boast in the Lord the humble shall heare therof, and be glad.

⁷ The Angell of the Lorde taryethe rounde about them that feare hym, and delyuereth them.

²² The Lorde delyuereth the soules of hys seruauntes: and all they that put theyr trust in hym shall not be destitute.

⁷ The Lorde shall preserue the from all euell, yee it is euen he that shall kepe thy soule.

⁴ sayeth oure redemer, which is called the Lorde of Hostes the holy one of Israel.

⁹ In their troubles he was also troubled wt them, and the angell that went forth from hys presence, delyuered them: Of very loue & kyndnesse that he had vnto them, redemed he them. He hath borne them, and caryed them vp euer, sence the worlde beganne.

⁹ Why wilt thou make thy selfe a cowarde, & as it were a gyaunt that yet maye not helpe? For thou (O Lorde) art in the myddest of vs, & thy name is called vpon of vs: forsake vs not.

⁴ He strowe with the angell, and gatt the victorye: so that he prayde & desyred hym. He founde him at Bethell, and there he talketh with vs. ⁵ Yee, the Lorde God of Hoostes, euen the Lorde him selfe remembred him.

¹² that they maye possesse the remnaunt of Edom, yee, and all soch people as call vpon my name wyth them, sayeth the Lorde, whych doth these thynges.

¹ Beholde, I will sende my messaunger, whiche shall prepare the waye before me: and the Lorde whom ye wolde haue, shal soone come to his temple, yee, euen the messaunger of the couenaunt whom ye longe for. Beholde, he commeth, saieth the Lorde of hostes.

¹³ And leade vs not into temptacyon: but delyuer vs from euyll. For thyne is the kyngdome and the power, and the glorye for euer. Amen.

¹⁵ I desyre not that thou shuldest take them out of the worlde: but that thou kepe them from euyll.

³⁰ And whan fourty yeares were expired, there appeared to hym in the wildernesse of mount Sina an angell of the Lord in a flamme of fyre in a busshe. ³¹ When Moses sawe it, he wondred at the syght. And as he drue neare to beholde, the voyce of the Lord came vnto hym. ³² I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. Moses trembled, and durst not beholde. ³³ Then sayd the Lorde to him: Put of thy shoes from thy fete, for the place where thou standest, is holy grounde. ³⁴ I haue perfectlye sene the affliccyon of my people, which is in Egypte, and I haue heard theyr gronyng, and am come downe to delyuer them. And nowe come, and I wyll sende the into Egypte. ³⁵ This Moses whom they forsoke (saying: who made the a ruler and a iudge?) the same dyd God sende to be a ruler and a delyuerer, by the handes of the aungell which appeared to hym in the busshe.

¹⁷ that the resydue of men myght seke after the Lord & also the Gentyls vpon whom my name is named sayth the Lorde, which doth all these thynges:

²³ Not onely it, but we also which haue the fyrst frutes of the spryte, morne in oure selues also, and wayte for the adopcyon euen the delyueraunce of oure bodye.

⁴ and dyd all dryncke of one maner of spirituall dryncke. And they drancke of that spirituall rocke that folowed them, whych rocke was Chryst.

⁹ Nether let vs tempte Christ, as some of them tempted, & were destroyed of serpentes.

¹⁸ And the Lorde shall delyuer me from all euyll doynge, and shall kepe me vnto hys heuenly kyngdom. To whom be prayse for euer and euer. Amen.

¹⁴ whych gaue him selfe for vs, to redeme vs from all vnryghtewesnes, and to pourge vs a peculyer people vnto hym selfe feruently geuen vnto good workes.

⁸ & Esau seynge also that the daughters of Chanaan pleased not Isahac hys father:

¹⁰ And the thynge whych he dyd, displeased the Lorde, wherfore he slewe him also.

¹⁴ And Israel stretched out hys ryghte hande & layde it vpon Ephraims heade which was the yonger, & hys lyfte hande vpon Manasses heed, gydinge hys handes wysely, for Manasses was the elder.

¹ And it fortuned, that whan the people dyd wykedlye, it was a dyspleasure in the eares of the Lord. And when the Lord heard it, his countenaunce was prouoked to wrath, & the fier of the Lord burnt among them, & consumed them that were the vttemost of the hoste.

³⁴ Balaam sayd vnto the angell of the Lord: I haue synned: for I wist not that thou stodest in the waye agaynst me Nowe therfore yf it displease the I wyll turne home agayne.

⁷ But the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel: loke not on his fashyon, or on the heyght of hys stature, because I haue refused hym: for God seyth not as man seyth. For man loketh on the outwarde apperaunce but God beholdeth the harte.

²⁵ But Amri wrought that which is euell in the eyes of the Lorde, and dyd worsse then all that were before hym.

⁷ And the Lorde was displeased with thys thynge, and smote Israel.

¹⁸ Lest the Lord (when seith it) be angrye, and turne hys wrath from hym vnto the.

⁷ nether are they all chyldren strayght waye, that are the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seed be called: ⁸ that is to saye: they which are the chyldren of the flesshe, are not the children of God. But they which be the chyldren of promes, are counted the seede.

¹¹ For yer the chyldren were borne, when they had nether done good nether bad (that the purpose of God by eleccyon, myght stande) it was sayde vnto her, not by the reason of workes, but by the caller:

¹⁸ And Lot sayde vnto them. Oh nay Lorde:

¹⁵ And Rebecca fett goodly rayment of hyr eldest sonnes Esau, whych was in the house wyth hyr, & put yt vpon Iacob hyr youngest sonne,

²⁶ Laban answered: it is not the maner of thys place, to marye the yongest before the eldest.

³³ And they satt before hym: the eldest accordynge vnto hys age, & the yongest accordynge vnto hys youth. And the men merueled amonge them selues.

³ Ruben myne eldest sonne, thou art my myghte and the beginnynge of my strength, the noblenesse of dignyte, and the noblenesse of power.

¹¹ Naye, not so: but go they that are men, and serue the Lorde: for that was your desyre. And they thrust them out of Pharaos presence.

⁹ But the wyse answered, sayinge: not so, lest ther be not ynough for vs and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, & by for your selues.

¹⁴ But Peter sayd: not so Lorde, for I haue neuer eaten eny thinge that is commen or vncleane.

⁸ But I sayde: not so Lorde, for nothynge comen or vncleane hath at eny tyme entred into my mouth.

²⁰ And as concernynge Ismael also, I haue herde the: for I haue blessed him, & wyll make him to encrease, & will multiplye him excedyngly. Twelue princes shal he begette, & I will make a great nacyon of him. ²¹ But my bonde will I make with Isahac, which Sara shall bere vnto the: euen this tyme twelue moneth.

²⁸ Isahac loued Esau, because he dyd eate of hys venyson, but Rebecca loued Iacob.

¹⁹ Hys hoste and the nombre of them .xl. thousande and fyue hundred. ²⁰ And fast by hym, shalbe the trybe of Manasse, and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Manasse was Gamaleel the sonne of Pedazur. ²¹ Hys hoste and the nombre of them .xxxii. thousande and .ii. hundred.

¹⁰ For the Lorde youre God had multiplyed you: and beholde, ye are thys daye as the starres of heauen in nombr

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders sayde: we are wytnesses: the Lord make the woman that is come into thyne house, lyke Rahel and Lea, which twayne dyd builde the house of Israell: do thou also valeauntly in Ephrata, and be famouse in Bethlehem. ¹² Thy house be like the house of Pharez whom Thamar bare vnto Iuda, euen of the sede which the Lorde shall geue the of this younge woman.

¹⁷ The Lorde also shall sende a tyme vpon the, vpon thy people, & vpon thy fathers house (soch as neuer came sence the tyme that Ephraim departed from Iuda) thorowe the kynge of the Assirians.

¹⁰ The Perses, Lydians and phutens were in thyne host, & helped the to fyght: these hanged vp theyr shyldes & helmettes with the, these sett forth they bewty.

⁶ Of the trybe of Aser were sealed .xii.M. Of the trybe of Neptali were sealed .xii.M. Of the tryb of Manasses were sealed .xii.M.

⁸ Of the trybe of Zabulon were sealed .xii.M. Of the trybe of Ioseph were sealed .xii.M. Of the trybe of Beniamin were sealed .xii.M.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: Thou art oure syster, growe into thousande thousandes and thy seed possesse the gate of theyr enemyes.

¹⁸ The westsyde shall the standard of the hoste of Ephraim kepe wyth theyr armyes, & the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ephraim, was Elisama the sonne of Amihud:

⁴⁸ The seuenth daye, Elisama the sonne of Amiud captayne of the chyldren of Ephraim, offered.

⁵⁴ The eyght daye, offered Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur, the captayne of the chyldren of Manasse.

²² And the standart of the hoost of the children of Ephraim went forth accordynge to theyr armyes, whose captayne was Elisama the sonne of Amiud. ²³ And ouer the hoost of the tribe of the sonnes of Manasse, was Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur.

⁸ Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osea the sonne of Nun.

¹¹ Of the tribe of Ioseph, namelye of the trybe of Manasse, Gaddi the sonne of Susi.

¹⁶ These are the names of the men, which Moses sent to spye oute the lande. And Moses called the name of Osea the sonne of Nun, Iosua.

⁵ And Abram toke Sarai his wife & Lot his brothers sonne, & all theyr substaunce that they had in possessyon, & the soules that they had begotten in Haran. And they departed, that they myght come in to the londe of Chanaan,

¹⁴ But the nacyon whom they shall serue, wyll I iudge. And afterwarde shall they come out with great substaunce.

³ soiourne in thys lande, and I wyll be wyth the, and wyll blesse the: for vnto the and vnto thy sede I wyll geue all these contreys. And I wyll performe the oothe which I swore vnto Abraham thy father,

¹⁵ And se I am wyth the, and wylbe thy keper in all places whether thou goest, and wyll brynge the agayne in to thys lande: nether wyll I leaue the vntyll I haue made good all that I haue promysed the.

¹ Iacob dwelt in the lande where in his father was a straunger, euen in the lande of Chanaan.

⁴ I will goo downe with the into Egypt, & I will also bringe the agayne, and Ioseph shall put hys hande vpon thyne eyes.

²⁴ And Ioseph sayde vnto hys brethren: I dye. And God wyll suerlye vysett you & brynge you out of this lande, vnto the lande whych he sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

¹ These be the wordes which Moses spake vnto all Israel, on the other syde Iordan in the wildernesse, in the plaine ouer agaynst the redd see, betwene Pharan and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Disahab, ² eleuen dayes iourney from Horeb vnto Cades barne, by mount Seir. ³ And it fortuned the fyrst daye of the eleuenth moneth in the fortieth yere, that Moses spake vnto the chyldren of Israel accordinge vnto all that the Lorde had geuen him in commaundement vnto them, ⁴ after that he had smytten Sehon the kynge of the Amorites which dwelt in Hesbon, and Og kyng of Basan which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrai. ⁵ On the other syde Iordan in the lande of Moab, begane Moses to declare thys lawe sayinge: ⁶ the Lorde oure God spake vnto vs in Horeb saying: Ye haue dwelt longe ynough in this mount. ⁷ departe therfore & take youre iourney, and go vnto the hyll of the Amorites and vnto all places nye there vnto: both vnto the playne, and hylles and dales: to the south, to the sees syde, to the lande of Canaan, and vnto Libanon: euen vnto the greate ryuer Euphrates. ⁸ Beholde, I haue set the land before you: goo in and possesse the lande whych the Lorde sware vnto youre fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to geue vnto them and theyr seede after them. ⁹ And I spake vnto you the same ceason sayinge: I am not able to beare you my selfe alone. ¹⁰ For the Lorde youre God had multiplyed you: and beholde, ye are thys daye as the starres of heauen in nombr ¹¹ (the Lorde God of youre fathers make you a thousande tymes so many moo as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promysed you) ¹² howe can I my selfe alone, beare the combraunce, charge and stryfe that is amonge you? ¹³ brynge (from amonge you) men of wysdome and of vnderstandynge, and experte, accordynge to youre trybes, and I wyll make them ruelars ouer you. ¹⁴ And ye answered me and sayde: that whyche thou hast spoken is good for vs to do. ¹⁵ And out of youre trybes I toke the captaynes, (men of wysdome and that were experte) and made them ruelars ouer you: captaynes ouer thousandes & ouer hundredes ouer fyftye and ouer ten, and offycers amonge youre trybes. ¹⁶ And I charged youre Iudges that same tyme saying: heare the cause of your brethren and iudge ryghteously betwene euery man and hys brother, and the straunger that is with hym. ¹⁷ Se that ye knowe no faces in Iudgement: but heare the small as well as the greate, and be afrayed of no man, for the iudgement is Gods. And the cause that is to harde for you, brynge vnto me, and I will heare it. ¹⁸ And I commaunded you the same ceason, all the thynges whyche ye shulde do. ¹⁹ And when we departed from Horeb, we went thorowe all that greate and terrible wyldernesse, as ye haue sene alonge by the waye of the hyll of the Amorites, as the Lorde oure God commaunded vs, and came to Cades Barne. ²⁰ And I sayde vnto you: Ye are come vnto the hyll of the Amorites, which the Lord oure God wyll geue vnto vs. ²¹ Beholde, the Lorde thy God hath set the lande before the: goo vp and conquere it, as the Lorde God of thy fathers hath sayde vnto the feare not, nether be discouraged. ²² But ye came vnto me euery one and sayde we wyll sende men before vs, to searche vs oute the lande, and to brynge vs worde agayne, what waye we must go vp by, & vnto what cyties we shall come. ²³ And the sayinge pleased me well, and I toke twelue men of you, of euery trybe one. ²⁴ Whych departed, and went vp into the hye contrey, and came vnto the ryuer Escoll, and serched it out, ²⁵ & toke of the frute of the lande in theyr handes & brought it vnto vs, and brought vs worde agayne, & sayde: it is a good lande, whych the Lorde oure God doth geue vs. ²⁶ Notwithstandynge ye wolde not consente to goo vp, but were disobedient vnto the mouth of the Lord youre God, ²⁷ and murmured in youre tentes, & sayde: because the Lorde hateth vs, therfore hath he brought vs out of the lande of Egypte, to delyuer vs into the hande of the Amorites, and to destroye vs. ²⁸ Howe shal we goo vp? Oure brethren haue discoraged oure herte, sayinge: the people is greater & taller then we, and haue cyties greate and walled euen vp to heauen, & moreouer we haue sene the sonnes of the Enakims there. ²⁹ And I sayde vnto you: dreade not, nor be afrayed of them. ³⁰ The Lorde youre God which goeth before you, he shall fyghte for you, accordynge to all that he dyd vnto you in Egypte before youre eyes. ³¹ In the wyldernersse also thou hast sene howe that the Lorde thy God bare the, euen as a man doth beare hys sonne, in all the waye whyche ye haue gone by, vntyll ye came vnto thys place. ³² And yet in this thyng ye dyd not beleue the Lorde youre God. ³³ He went in the waye before you, to serche you out a place to pytche youre tentes in, in fyre by nyght, that ye myghte se what waye to go, and in a cloude by daye. ³⁴ And the Lorde hearde the voyce of youre wordes, and was wroth, & sware, sayinge: ³⁵ there shall not one of these men and of this frowarde generacyon se that good lande which I sware to geue vnto youre fathers, ³⁶ saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune, he shall se it and to hym wyll I geue that lande that he hath trodden vpon, and to his chyldren, because he hath folowed the Lord ³⁷ the Lorde was angrye wythe me lykewyse for youre sakes, saying: thou also shalt not go in thither. ³⁸ But Iosua the sonne of Nun which standeth before the, he shall go in thither. Bolden hym therfore, for he shal cause Israel to inheret the lande. ³⁹ Moreouer youre chyldren, which ye sayde shulde be a praye, and youre sonnes which in that daye had no knowlege betwene good and euell, they shall goo in thither, and vnto them will I geue it, and they shall enioye it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, turne youre face, and take youre iourneye into the wildernesse: euen by the waye of the reade see. ⁴¹ Then ye answered & sayde vnto me: We haue synned agaynst the Lorde: we wyll go vp and fyghte, accordynge to all that the Lord oure God commaunded vs. And when ye had gyrde on euery man his wepons of warre, beholde, ye were ready to goo vp into the hyll. ⁴² And the Lorde sayde vnto me: saye vnto them, that they go not vp, and that they fyghte not, for I am not among you: lest ye fall before youre enemyes ⁴³ I tolde you therfore, and ye wolde not heare, but disobeyed the mouth of the Lorde, & went presumptuously vp into the hyll. ⁴⁴ And the Amorites whych dwelt in that hyll, came out agaynst you, and chased you (as bees vse to do) & smote you in Seir, euen vnto Horma. ⁴⁵ And ye came agayne, & wepte before the Lorde: but the Lorde wolde not heare youre voyce, nor geue you audience. ⁴⁶ And so ye abode in Cades a longe ceason, according vnto the tyme that ye remayned in other places.

⁸ And the Lorde he doth go before the: He shall not fayle the, neyther forsake the: feare not therfore, nor be discomforted.

⁵ There shall not a man be able to withstande that all the dayes of thy lyfe. For as I was with Moses, so will I be with the and will not fayll the, nor forsake the.

⁹ Haue not I commaunded the, that thou shuldest be stronge & hardye & not feare ner be faynt harted? For I the Lord thy God am with the, whether soeuer thou goest.

⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosua: this daye will I begynne to magnifie the, in the syght of all Israel, that they maye knowe how that as I was with Moses so wyll I be with the.

¹⁴ And behold, this daye, do I entre in to the waye of all the worlde, & ye knowe in all your hertes & in all youre soules, that nothyng hath fayled of all the good thynges which the Lord youre God promysed you:

¹ And Iosua geathered all the trybes of Israell to Sichem, and called for the elders of Israell, and for theyr heades, Iudges and officers, and they presented them selues before God. ² And Iosua sayde vnto all the people: thus sayth the Lord God of Israell: youre fathers dwelt on the other syde of the floud in olde tyme: euen Thareh the father of Abraham & of Nachor, and serued straunge goddes. ³ And I toke youre father Abraham from the other syde of the floude, & brought him thorow out all the lande of Canaan, & multiplied his seed, and gaue him Isahac. ⁴ And I gaue vnto Isahac, Iacob & Esau. And I gaue vnto Esau mount Seir, to possesse it. But Iacob and his children went downe into Egypte. ⁵ I sent Moses also & Aaron. And I plaged Egypte: & whan I had so done among them, ⁶ I brought you out, and I brought youre fathers out of Egypte. And as they came vnto the see, the Egypcians folowed after youre fathers with charettes & horsmen, vnto the redd see. ⁷ And whan they cried vnto the Lord, the Lord put darcknesse betwene you and the Egypcians, and brought the see vpon them, and couered them. And youre eyes haue sene what I haue done to the Egypcians. And ye dwelt in the wildernesse a longe ceason. ⁸ And I brought you into the lande of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other syde Iordan. And they fought with you: and I gaue them into your hand, that ye myght conquere their contre. And I destroyed them from out of youre syght. ⁹ Then Balak the sonne of Ziphor, king of Moab arose, & warred agaynst Israell, & sent & called Balaam the sonne of Beor for to cursse you. ¹⁰ But I wolde not herken vnto Balaam, & therfore he rather blessed you: And so I deliuered you out of his hande. ¹¹ And ye went ouer Iordan, and came vnto Iericho, and the men of Iericho fought agaynst you: the Amorites, Pheresites, Canaanites, Hethites, Girgosites, Heuites, & Iebusites, and I deliuered them in to youre hande. ¹² And I sent hornettes before you, whych cast them out of youre sight: euen the two kinges of the Amorites: but not with your owne swerde, or with youre owne bowe. ¹³ And I haue geuen you a lande, in which ye dyd no laboure, and cyties which you bilt not, and which ye dwell in: vineyardes also, and Olyue trees which ye planted not, and whereof ye do eate. ¹⁴ Now therfore feare the Lorde, & serue him in perfectnesse and truthe: And put awaye the goddes, whych youre fathers serued on the other syde of the floude, and in Egypte, and serue ye the Lorde. ¹⁵ And yf it seme euell vnto you to serue the Lorde, then chose you this daye whom you will serue: whether the goddes which youre fathers serued (that were on the other syde of the floude) ether the Goddes of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. As for me and my howse, we will serue the Lorde. ¹⁶ The people answered and sayde: God forbyd, that we shulde forsake the Lorde, and serue straunge goddes. ¹⁷ For the Lorde oure God, he it is that brought vs and oure fathers out of the lande of Egypte, and from the howse of bondage, and which dyd those great miracles in oure syght, & preserued vs in all the waye that we went, & amonge all the nacions which we came thorow. ¹⁸ And the Lorde dyd cast out before vs all the nacions, specially the Amorites, which dwelt in the lande. And therfore will we also serue the Lorde, for he is oure God. ¹⁹ And Iosua sayd vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lorde: for he is an holye God, and a gelous God, and cannot beare youre iniquite and synne. ²⁰ Yf ye forsake the Lorde and serue straunge goddes, he will turne and do you euell, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. ²¹ And the people sayde vnto Iosua: naye, but we will serue the Lorde. ²² And Iosua sayde vnto the people: ye are witnesses youre selues, that ye haue chosen you the Lorde, to serue him: and they sayd: we are wytnesses. ²³ Then put awaye (sayde he) the straunge goddes which are amonge you, and bowe youre hertes vnto the Lorde God of Israell. ²⁴ The people sayde vnto Iosua: the Lord oure God will we serue, and his voyce will we obeye, ²⁵ And so Iosua made a couenant with the people the same daye, and set an ordinaunce and lawe before them in Sichem. ²⁶ And Iosua wrote these wordes in the boke of the lawe of God, and toke a great stone, and pitched it on ende in the sayde place, euen vnder an oke that was in the sanctuarye of the Lorde. ²⁷ And Iosua sayde vnto all the people: beholde, this stone shalbe a witnesse vnto vs, for it hath hearde all the wordes of the Lorde which he spake wyth vs, It shalbe therfore a witnesse vnto you, lest ye denye youre God. ²⁸ And so Iosua let the people departe, euery man vnto his enheritaunce. ²⁹ And after these thinges it came to passe, that Iosua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lorde died, beyng an hundreth and ten yeres olde. ³⁰ And they buryed hym in the contrey of hys enheritaunce, euen in Thamnath Sareth, which is in mount Ephraim, on the northsyde of the hill of Gaas. ³¹ And Israel serued the Lord all the dayes of Iosua, & all the dayes of the elders that ouer lyued Iosua, and whych had knowne all the worckes of the Lorde that he had done for Israel. ³² And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israell brought out of Egypte, buryed they in Sichem in a parcell of grounde, whych Iacob bought of the sonnes of Hemor the father of Sichem, for an hundreth peaces of syluer, and it became the enheritaunce of the children of Ioseph. ³³ And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron dyed, whom they buryed in a hill that pertayned to Phinehes his sonne, which (hill) was geuen him in mount Ephraim.

² I go the waye of all the worlde, be thou stronge therfore, and shewe thy selfe a man. ³ Kepe thou the watch of the Lorde thy God, that thou walke in hys wayes, and kepe his statutes, and his preceptes, hys iudgementes, and hys testimonyes, euen as it is wrytten in the lawe of Moses: that thou mayest prospere in all that thou doest, and in euery thynge that thou medlest withall. ⁴ That the Lorde also maye make good hys worde which he spake vnto me, sayinge: yf thy chyldren take heade to theyr waye, that they walke before me in truethe, with all their hertes, and with all their soules, then shalt thou not be without a man on the seat of Israell.

⁴⁶ The straunge chyldren shall fayle, and be afrayed out of theyr presons.

³ For when the breth of man goeth forth he shall turne againe to his earth, and then all his thoughtes peryshe. ⁴ Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for hys helpe, and whose hope is in the Lorde hys God.

⁵ What is now become of youre forefathers and the prophetes? are they yet styll alyue? ⁶ But dyd not my wordes and statutes (which I commaunded by my seruauntes the prophetes) touche youre forefathers? Upon this, they gaue answere and sayde: like as the Lorde of hoostes deuised to do vnto vs, according to oure owne wayes and ymagynacyons, euen so hath he delt with vs.

²⁹ Lorde, now lettest thou thy seruaunt departe in peace, accordynge to thy promes.

³⁶ For Dauid (after he had in hys tyme fulfylled the wyll of God) fell on slepe, and was layde vnto hys fathers, and sawe corrupcyon.

⁶ For I am nowe ready to be offered, and the tyme of my departynge, is at hande.

³ wythout father without mother, without kynne, & hath nether begynnynge of dayes, nether yet ende of lyfe: but is likened vnto the sonne of God and contynueth a preste for euer.

⁸ And here men that dye, receaue tythes. But there he receaueth tythes, of whom it is wytnessed, that he lyueth.

²³ And amonge them many were made prestes, because they were not suffred to endure by the reason of deeth ²⁴ But this man (because he endureth euer) hath an euerlasteng presthode. ²⁵ Wherfore, he is able also euer to saue them to the vttemost, that come vnto God by him, seynge he euer lyueth to make intercession for vs.

¹⁴ as I am sure, that shortly I must put of thys my tabernacle, euen as oure Lorde Iesus Christ shewed me.

¹⁶ But in the fourth generacyon they shall come hyther againe, for the wickednesse of the Amorites ys not yet full.

¹⁹ and bought a parcell of grounde (were he pytched hys tent) of the chyldren of Hemor Sichems father for an hundred peces of money.

²⁸ & toke their shepe, oxen, and their asses and whatsoeuer was in the cytie and also in the feldes.

¹⁷ But he shall knowe the sonne of the hated for the fyrstborne, and geue hym dowble porcyon of all that he hath. For he is the fyrst of his strength, and to hym belongeth the ryght of the fyrst borne.

¹⁴ And the chyldren of Ioseph spake vnto Iosua saying: why hast thou geuen me but one lotte and one porcyon to enheret, seing I am a great people, & for as moche as the Lorde hath blessed me hitherto? ¹⁵ and Iosua answered them: yf thou be moche people, then gett the vp to the wodde contreye, and prepare for thy selffe there in the lande of the Pheresites & of the Giauntes, yf mounte Ephraim be to narowe for the. ¹⁶ And the children of Ioseph sayd: The hill is not ynough for vs: & all the Cananites that dwel in the lowe contreye haue charettes of yron, & so haue they that enhabite Bethsean, and the townes of the same, & they also dwel in the valeye of Iezreel. ¹⁷ And Iosua sayde vnto the house of Ioseph, Ephraim & Manasses: ye be moche people, and haue great power, & shall not therfore haue one lotte. ¹⁸ Therfore the hill shalbe youres, & ye shall cut downe the wodd that is in it: & the endes of it shalbe youres, yf ye cast out the Cananites which haue yron charettes, & are very stronge.

³² And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israell brought out of Egypte, buryed they in Sichem in a parcell of grounde, whych Iacob bought of the sonnes of Hemor the father of Sichem, for an hundreth peaces of syluer, and it became the enheritaunce of the children of Ioseph.

²³ So now, seyng the Lorde God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before hys people Israel, shuldest thou possesse the land?

² For Iuda, he preuayled aboue hys brethren, and of this trybe came the chefe, and the byrthryght was geuen to Ioseph.

¹³ Thus sayth the Lorde God: Let thys be the border, wherin ye shall deuyde the lande vnto the .xii. tribes of Israel, with the lyne.

⁹ Yet destroyed I the Amoryte before them, that was as hye as the Cedre trees, and as stronge as the okes: notwithstandynge I destroyed his frute from aboue and his rote from vnder:

⁵ Then came he to a cytie of Samaria (which is called Sichar) Besydes the possessyon that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph,