Numbers — Tyndale's Pentateuch (1530)

Numbers, called Numeri in this edition, is the fourth book of Tyndale's Pentateuch of 1530. It opens with his prologue. The original printing has no verse numbers, and none are added: the text keeps the paragraphs of the print.

¶ A prologe into the fourth boke of Moses / called Numeri.

¶ A Prologe in to the fourth boke of Moses / called Numeri.

IN the seconde ād thirde boke they receaved y⟨illegible⟩ lawe. And in this .iiij. they begynne to worke and to practyse. Of which practi⟨illegible⟩ynge yese many good ensamples of vnbeleffe & what frewill doth / when she taketh in hand to kepe the lawe of her awne power without help of fayth in the promyses of god: how she leueth her masters carkesses by the way in the wildernesse and bringeth them not in to the londe of rest. Why coude they not entre in? Because of their vnbeleffe Hebre .iij. For had they beleved / so had they bene vnder grace / and their old synnes had bene forgeuen thē / ād power shulde haue bene geuē them to haue fulfilled the lawe thenceforth & they shuld haue bene kepte from all temptaciōs that had bene to stronge for them. For it is wrytten Iohan. 1. He gaue them power to be the sonnes of god / thorow belevynge in his name. Nowe to be the sonne of god is to loue god and his commaundmentes and to walke in his waye after the ensample of his sonne Christ. But these people toke vppon them to worke without faith as thou seysie in the xiiij. of this boke / where they wold fight and also did / without the worde of promysse: euē when they were warned that they shuld not. And in y⟨illegible⟩ .xvi. a gayne they woulde please god with their holye faithlesse workes (for where gods worde is not there can be no faith) but y⟨illegible⟩ fyre of god consumed their holy workes / as it did Nadab and Abihu Leui .x. And frō these vnbeleuers turne thyne eyes vnto the pharesyes which before the comynge of Christ in his flesh / had layde the fundacion of frewill after the same ensample. Wheron thei bilt holy workes after their awne imaginacion with our faith of the worde / so fervently that for the greate zele of them they slew the kinge of all holy workes and the lorde of frewill which only thorow his grace maketh the will fre and lowseth her from bondage of synne / and geueth her loue and lust vnto the lawes of god / and power to fulfyll them. And so thorowe their holye workes done by the power of frewill / they excluded them selues out of the holy rest of forgeuenesse of synnes by faith in the blonde of Christ.

And then loke on oure ypocrites which in like maner folowinge the doctryne of Aristot le and other hethen paganes / haue agenste all the scripture sett vpp frewill agayne / vnto whose power they ascribe the kepinge of y⟨illegible⟩ cōmaundmētes of god. For they haue set vp wilfull povertye of another maner then any is cōmaunded of god. And the chastite of matrimony vtterlye defyed / they haue set vp another wilfull chastite not required of god / whiche they swere / vowe & professe to geue god / whether he will geue it them or no / and compell all their disciples there vnto / sayenge that it is in the power of euery mans frewill to obserue it / contrarye to Christ and his apostle Paule.

And the obedience of god and man excluded they haue vowed a nother wilfull obedience condemned of all the scripture whiche they will yet geue God whether he will or wyll not.

And what is become of their wilfull pouertye? hath it not robbed the whole worlde & brought all vnder them? ⟨illegible⟩n there be ether kynge or emperoure or of what soeuer degre it be / excepte he will hold of them ād be sworne vnto them to be their servaunte / to go and come at their luste and to defende their quarels be they false or true? Their wilfull pouertye hath all readye eaten vpp the whole worlde & is yet still gredyar then euer it was in so moche that ten worldes mo were not ynough to satisfye the hongre thereof.

Moreouer besydes dayly corruptinge of other mens wyues and open who: edome / vnto what abominacions to fylthye to be spoke off hath their voluntarye chastite broughte them?

And as for their wilfull obediēce what is it but yᵉ disobediēce & the diff⟨illegible⟩aūce h⟨illegible⟩th of all y⟨illegible⟩ lawes of god & mā: in so moch yᵗ yf any price begīne to execute any law of mā vppō thē / they curse him vnto the botom of hell & proclayme him no right kinge & that his lordes ought no longerto obaye him / and interdite his comen people as they were hethē turkes or saracenes. And yf any man preache them gods lawe / him they make an heretike and burne him to asshes. And in steade of gods lawe and mans / they haue sette vpp one off their awne imaginacion which they obserue with dispensacions.

And yet in these workes they haue so greate confidence that they not onlye truste to be saued therby / and to be hyer in heauen then they that be saued thorow christ: but also promessero all other forgeuenesse of their synnes thorow the merites of the same. Wherin they rest and teach other to rest also / excludyn get he whole worlde from the reste of forgeuenesse of synnes thorowe faith in Christes bloude.

And now seynge that faith only letteth a mā in ūto rest & vnbeleffe excludeth hī / what is the cause of this vnbeleffe? verely no synne yᵗ the world seyth / but a pope holynesse & a rightuousnes of their awne imaginacion as Paule sayeth Roma .x. They be ignoraūte of y rightuousnes wherwith god iustifieth & haue set vp a rightuousnes of their awne makige thorow which they be disobediēt vnto y⟨illegible⟩ rightuousnes of god. And Christ rebuketh not the phariseys for grosse synnes whiche the worlde sawe / but for those holyedeades whiche so blered the eyes of the worlde that they were takē as goddes: euē for long prayers / for fastynge / for tythīge so diligētly that they lefte not so moch as their herbes vnlithed / for their clennesse in wasshynge before meate and for washynge of cuppes / dishes / and all maner vessels / for buyldinge the prophetes sepulchres / and for kepinge the holy daye / and for turnynge the he then vnto the fayth / and forgevynge of almes. For vnto soch holy deades they ascribed rightuousnes and therfore when the rightuousnesse of god was preached vnto them they coude not but persecute it / the devell was so stronge in thē Which thinge Christ well describeth Luce .xi. sayenge that after the devell is cast out he cometh agayne and fyndeth his house swepte and made gaye and then taketh seuen we▪sethen him selfe and dwelleth therein / and so is the ende of that man worse then the beginnynge. That is / when they be a litle clensed from grosse synnes whiche the worlde seyth and then made gaye in their awne syght with the rightuousnes of tradicions / then cometh seuen / that is to saye the hole power of y⟨illegible⟩ devell / for seuē with y⟨illegible⟩ hebrues signifieth a multitude without uūbre & the extremyte of a thinge & is a speach borowed (I suppose) out of leuiticus where is so oft mencion made of senē. Where I wolde saye: I will punish the that all the world shall take an ensample of the / there the Jewe wold saye / I will circumcyse the or baptise the .vii. tymes. And so here by seuen is ment all the devels of hell & all y⟨illegible⟩ might & power of the devell. For vnto what further blindnesse coude al the deuels in hell bringe thē / then to make them beleue y⟨illegible⟩ they were iustified thorow their awne good workes. For whē they once beleued y⟨illegible⟩ they were purged frō their synnes & made rightuousse thorowe their awne holye workes / what rowme was there lefte for y⟨illegible⟩ rightuousnes y⟨illegible⟩ is in christes bloudeshedinge? And therfore whē they be fallen in to this blindnesse they cā not but hate & persecute the light. And the more cleare & evidently their deades be rebuked y⟨illegible⟩ furiousser & maliciousser blind are thei vntill they breake out in to opē blasphemye & synnynge agenst y⟨illegible⟩ holy gost / which is y⟨illegible⟩ malicious persecut⟨illegible⟩ge of the clearetrouth so manifestly proued that they cā not once hijsh agenst it. As the pharesyes persecuted Christ because he rebuked their holy deades. And when he proued his doctrine with y⟨illegible⟩ scriptu & miracles / yet though they coude not improue him nor reason agenst him they tought y⟨illegible⟩ the scripture must haue some other meaninge because his interpretacion vndermyned their fundacion & plucked vpp by the rootes the sectes which they had plāted / & they ascribed also his miracles to the deuell. And in like maner though oure ypocrites can not d⟨illegible⟩nye but this is the scripture / yet because there can be no nother sens gathered thereof / but that ouerthroweth their byldynges / therfore they euer thinke that it hath some other meanynge than as the wordes sounde and that no man vnderstondeth it or vnderstode it sene the tyme of the Apostles. Or yf they thynke that some that wrote vppon it sens the apostles vnderstode it: they yet thynke that we in like maner as we vnderstonde not the texte it self / so we vnderstande not the meanynge of the wordes of that docroure. For when thou layest the iustifyinge of holy workes and denyest the iustifyinge of fayth / howe canst thou vnderstond saynt Paule / Peter / Iohan and the Actes of the apostles or any scripture at all / seynge the iustifyinge of faith is almost all that they entende to proue.

Fynally / concernynge vowes whereof thou readest chaptre .xxx. there maye be many questyons / whereunto I answere shortly that we ought to put salt to all oure offerynges: that is / we ought to ministre knowledge in all ovre workes and to do nothinge wherof we coude not geue a reason out off gods wordes. We be now in the daye light / and all the secretes of God and all his counsell and will is opened vnto vs / and he y⟨illegible⟩ was promysed shuld come and blesse vs / is come alredye and hath shed his bloude for vs and hath blessed vs with all maner blessynges and hath obrayned all grace for vs / and in him we haue all. Wherfore god hence forth will receave nomoare sacrifices off beestes of vs / as thou readest Hebre .x. Yf thou burne vnto God the bloude or fatt of beestes / to obtayne forgeuenesse of synnes therby or that god shuld the better heare thy requeste / then thou doest wronge vnto the bloude of Christ / and Christ vnto the is dead in vayne. For in him god hath promysed not forgeuenesse of synnes only / but also what soeuer we axe to kepe vs from synne ād temptacyon with all. And what yf thou burne frankencens vnto him / what yf thou burne a candle / what yf thou burne thy chastite or virginite vnto him for the same purpose / doest thou not like rebuke vnto christes bloude? Moreouer if thou offer gold / syluer or any other good for the same entent / is there any difference? And euen so yf thou goo in pylgremage or fastist or goest wolwarde / or sprinclest thy selfe with holy water or els what soeuer dead it is / or observest what soeuer ceremonye it be for like meanynge / then it is like abhominacion. We must therfore bringe the salt of the knowledge of gods worde with all oure sacrifices / or els we shall make no swete sauoure vnto god thereof.

Thou wilt axe me / shall I vowe nothinge at all? yes / Gods commaundement whiche thou hast vowed in thy baptyme. For what entent? Verely for the loue of Christ whiche hath bought the with his bloude and made the sonne and heyre of god with him / that thou shuldest wayte on his will and commaundmentes and puryfye thy membres acordynge to the same doctryne that hath purifyed thyne harte. For yf the knowlege of goddes wo⟨illegible⟩de haue not purifyed thyne harte / so that thou consentest vnto the lawe of God that it is rightuous and good and sorowest that thy membres moue the vnto the contrarye / so hast thou no parte with christ. For yf thou repent not of thy synne / so it is impossible that thou shuldest beleue that Christ had delyuered the from the daunger therof. Yf thou beleue not that Christ hathe delyuered the / so is it impossible that thou shuldest loue gods commaundmentes. Yf thou loue not the commaundmentes / so is Christes sprete not in the which is the ernest of forgeuenesse of synne and of saluacion.

For scripture teacheth / fyrst repentaunce: then fayth in Christe / that for his sake synne is forgeuē to them that repent: then good workes / which are nothyng saue the commaundement of god only. And the commaundementes are nothinge els saue the helpynge of oure neyghboures at their neade & the tamyinge of oure mēbres that they myght be pure also as the harte is pure thorow hate of vice and loue of vertue as gods word teacheth vs which workes must procede out of faith: yᵗ is / I must do them for the loue which I haue to god for that greate mercye which he hath shewed me in christ / or els I do them not in the sight of god And that I faynte not in the payne of the sleyinge of the synne that is in my flesh / myne helpe is the promesse of the assistence of the power of god and y⟨illegible⟩ comforte of the rewarde to come which rewarde I ascribe vnto the goodnesse / mercye ād truth of the promiser that hath chose me / called me taught me and geuen me the ernest thereof / & not vnto the merites of my doēges or soferīges. For all that I do & soffre is but y⟨illegible⟩ waye to the rewarde ād not the deseruinge thereof. As if the kinges grace shuld promesse me to defend me at whome in myne awne royalme yet the waye thyther is thorow the see wherī I might happlye soffre no litle trouble. And yet for all that / yf I might lyue in rest when I come thither / I wold thike & so wold other saye / that my paynes were well rewarded: which reward & benefyte I wold not proudlye ascribe vnto the merites of my paynes takynge by the waye: but vnto the goodnesse / mercyfulnesse and constaunt truth of the kinges grace whose gifte it is and to whome y⟨illegible⟩ prayse & thanke thereof belongeth of duetye and right. So now a rewarde is a gift geuē ⟨illegible⟩relye of the goodnesse of the geuer and not of the deseruinges of the reaceuer. Thus it appeareth / that if I vowe what soeuer it be / for any other purposse then to tame my membres and to be an ensample of vertue ād edefyenge vnto my neyghboure / my sacrifice is vnsauery and cleane without salt and mylāpe without oyle and I one of the folyshvirginis and shalbe shut out from the feast of the bruydegrome when I thinke my self most sure to entre in.

Yf I vowe voluntary pouerty / this must be my purposse / that I will be content with a competent lyuinge which cometh vnto me ether by succession of myne elders or which I gettetruly with my laboure in ministringe & doynge seruice vnto the comen welth in one office or in a nother or in one occupacyon or other / because that riches and honoure shall not corrupte my mynde and drawe myne harte from god / and to gene an ensample of vertue and edefiynge vnto other & that my neyghboure maye haue a lyuinge by me as well as I / if I make a cloke of dissimulaciō of my vowe / laynge a net of fayned beggerye to catch superfluous aboundaunce of ryches & hye degre and authorite and thorow the estimacion of false holinesse to fede and mayntayne my slowthfull ydlenesse with the sweate / laboure / lādes / & rentes of other men (after y⟨illegible⟩ ensample of oure spiritualtye) robbynge thē of their faythes and god of his honoure turnynge vnto myne ypocrisye that confidence / which shuld be geuē vnto y⟨illegible⟩ promyses of god only / am I not a wilye fox & a raueninge wolfe in a lābes skynne & a paynted sepulchre fayre without ād filthye with in? In like maner though I seke no worldlye promocyon therebye / yet if I do it to be iustifyed therwith ād to gett an hyer place in heauen / thinkynge that I do it of myneawne naturall strength & of y⟨illegible⟩ naturall power of my frewill & yᵗ euery man hath might euen soto doo and that they do it not is their faute & negligēce and so with the proude pharesye in cōparyson of my self despise the sinfull publicanes: what other thinge do I then eate y⟨illegible⟩ bloude & fatt of my sacrifice devowringe yᵗ my self which shuld be offered vnto god alone and his christe. And shortly what soeuer a man doeth of his naturall giftes / of his naturall witte / wisdom / vnderstondinge / reason / will / & good entent before he be otherwyse & cleane cōtrary taught of goddes sprete & haue receaued other witt vnderstondinge / reason ād will / is flesh / worldlye and wrought ⟨illegible⟩ abominable blidnesse / with which a man can but soke him self / his awne profyte / glory & honoure / euē in very spirituall matters. As if I were alone in a wildernesse where no man were to seke profite or prayse of yet if I wold seke heuē of god there / I coude of myne awne naturall gyftes seke it no no ther wayes then for the merites and deseruinges of my good workes and to entre therin by another waye then by yᵗ dore christ / which were very theste / for christ is lord ouer all and what so euer any man wil haue of god / he must haue it geuen him frelye for christes sake. Now to haue heauen for myne awne deseruinge / is myne awne prayse and not christes. For I can not haue it by fauoure & grace in christ and by myne awne merites also▪ For fregeuinge and deseruinge can not stōd together.

Yf thou wilt vowe of thy goodes vnto god thou must put salt vnto this sacrifice: that is thou must ministre knowlege in this deade as Peter teacheth .ij. pet .i. Thou must put oyle of gods worde in thy lāpe & do it accordinge to knowlege / if thou wayte for the comynge of the bridegrome to entre in with him in to his rest. Thou wilt hāge it aboute the image to moue men to deuocyon. Denocyon is a feruent loue vnto gods cōma⟨illegible⟩dmentes and a desyre to be with god and with his euer lastinge promyses. Now shall the sight of soch riches as are shewed at saynt thomas shryne or at walsingham moue a man to loue the cōmaundmētes of god better and to desyre to be loosed from his flesh and to be with god / or shall it not rather make his poore herte sigh because he hath no soch at home and to wysh parte of it in another place? The preast shall haue it in gods stead. Shall the preast haue it? Yf the preast be bought with christes bloude / thē he is christes seruaūte & not his awne & ought therefore to feade christes flocke with christes doctryne & to ministre christes sacramētes vnto thē purely for very loue & not for felthy lucres sake or to be lord ouer thē as Peter teacheth .i. pet .v. & paule Actes .xx. Besyde this christ is oures ād is a gifte geuen vs / & we be heyres of christ & of all that is christes Wherfore the preastes doaryne is oures & we heires of it / it is y⟨illegible⟩ fode of oure soules. Therfore if he ministre it not truly ād frely vnto vs with out sellinge / he is a thefe & a soule murtherar: ād euen so is he if he take vppon him to fede vs & haue not wherewith. And for a like conclusyon because we also with all that we haue be christes / therfore is the preast heyre with vs also of all that we haue receaued of god / wherfore in as moch as y⟨illegible⟩ preast wayteth on y⟨illegible⟩ worde of god ād is oureseruaunte therin / therfore of right we are his dettars & owe him a sufficyent lyuinge of oure goodes / ād euen therto a wiffe of oure doughters owe we vnto him if he requyre her. And now when we haue appoynted him a sufficiēt liuinge / whether in tythes rentes or in yerelye wages / he ought to be cōtent & to require no more nor yet to receaue any more / but to be an ensample of sobernesse & of dispysinge worldly thinges vnto the ensample of his parysheonars.

Wilt thou vowe to offre vnto y⟨illegible⟩ poore people? that is pleasaunte in y⟨illegible⟩ sight of god / for they be lefte here to do oure almes apō in christes stead & they be y⟨illegible⟩ right heyres of all oure abundaūce & ouerplus. Moreouer we must haue a scole to teach goddes worde ī (though it neded not to be so costely) & therfore it is law full to vowe vnto the buyldinge or mayntenaūce therof & vnto helpinge of all good werkes. And we ought to vowe to paye custome / tolle / rent & all maner dutyes and what soeuer we owe: for that is gods commaundmēt

Yf thou wilt vowe pilgrimage / thou must put salt therto in like maner if it shalbe accepted / if thou vowe to go ād viset the poore or to here gods worde or what soeuer edifieth thy soule vnto loue & good worke after knowlege or what soeuer god cōmaūdeth / it is well done and a sacrifyce that sauoreth well ye will happlye saye / that ye will go to this or y⟨illegible⟩ place because god hath chosen one place more then another and will heare youre peticyen more in one place then another. As for youre prayer it must be accordīge to goddes worde. Ye may not desyer god to take vēgeaunce on him whō goddes worde ⟨illegible⟩eacheth you to pytye & to praye for. And as for y⟨illegible⟩ other glose / y⟨illegible⟩ god will heare you more ī one place thē in another / I suppose it sal infatu⟨illegible⟩t⟨illegible⟩m / salt vnsauerye / for if it were wisdome how coude we excuse the deeth of steuē Actes .vij. which dyed for yᵗ article that god dwelleth not in tēples made with hādes we that beleue in god are y⟨illegible⟩ temple of god sayth paule / if a man loue god & kepe his worde he is the tēple of god & hath god presently dwellinge in him / as witnesseth christ Johan .xiiij. sayēge: If a mā loue me he will kepe my worde / & thē my father will loue him & we will come vnto him and dwell with him. And in the .xv. he sayth: if ye abyde in me and my wordes also abyde in you / then axe what ye will & ye shall haue it. If thou beleue in christ & hast the promyses which god hath made the in thyne harte / thē go on pilgrymage vnto thyne awne haite ād there praye & god will heare y⟨illegible⟩ for his mercy and truthes sake and for his sonne christes sake and not for a few stones sakes. What careth god for the temple? The very beestes in that they haue liffe in them be moch better then an hepe of stonnes couched to gether.

To speake of chastite / it is a gif e not geuen vnto all persones testifyeth both christ and also his apostle Paule / wherfore all persones maye not vowe it. Moreouer there be causes wherfore many persones maye better lyue chast at one tyme then at another. Many maye lyue chast at twentye and thirtye for certayne colde diseases folowinge them / which at .xl. when their helth is come cannot do so. Many be occupyed with wylde phantasyes in their youth yᵗ they care not for mariage which same when they be warē sad shalbe greatly desyrouse / yt is a daungerous thynge to make synne where none is ād to for swere y⟨illegible⟩ benefyte of god & to bynde thy self vnder payne of dānacyon of thy soule that thou woldest not vse the remeadye that god hath created if nead requyred. ¶ Another thinge is this / beware that thou ge⟨illegible⟩t the not a false fayned chastite made with yᵉ vngodly perswasions of saynte H⟨illegible⟩erō or of Ouide in his fylthye boke of the remedye agenst loue / lest when thorow soch imaginacyons thou hast vtterlye despysed / defyed ād abhorred all voman kynde / thou come in to soch case thorow the firce wrath of god / yᵗ thou canst nether lyue chast nor fynde in thy harte to marye ād so be cōpelled to faule into the abhominacion of the pope agenst nature and kynde.

Moreouer god is a wyse father & knoweth all y⟨illegible⟩ infirmityes of his children & also mercy full / ād therfore hath created a remedye without synne ād geuen therto his fauoure and blessinge. Let vs not be wyser then god with oure ymaginacyōs nor tēpte him / for as godly chastite is not euery mās gyfre: euen so he y⟨illegible⟩ hath it to daye hath not power to continue it at his awne pleasure / nether hath god ⟨illegible⟩romy sed to geue it him still & to cure his infirmytyes with out his naturall remeadye no more then he hath promysed to slake his hongre with out meate or thirst with out drinke.

Wherfore other let all thinges byde fre as wise god hath created them & nother vowe that which god requyreth not nor for swere that which god permitteth the with his fauoure and blessinge also: or els if thou wilt neades vowe / then vowe godly & vnder a cōdityon / y⟨illegible⟩ thou wilt contynue chast / so longe as god geueth the yᵗ gyfte ād as longe as nether thyne awne necessyte nether cheryte toward thy neighboure nor y⟨illegible⟩ authorite of thē vnder whose power thou arte dryue yᵉ vnto the contrarye.

The purposse of thy vowe must be salted also with yᵉ wisdom of god. Thou mayest no⟨illegible⟩ vowe to be iustefyed therbye or to make satisfaction for thy synnes or towynne heauē nor an hyer place: for then didest thou wrōge vnto the bloude of christ & thy vowe were playne Idolatrye & abhominable in y⟨illegible⟩ sight of god. Thy vowe must be only vnto yᵉ furtheraunce of yᵉ commaūdmētes of god / which are as I haue sayde nothinge but y⟨illegible⟩ taminge of thy mēbres & the seruice of thy neyghboure: that is if thou thyncke thy backe to weake for the burthen of wedlocke & y⟨illegible⟩ thou canst not rule thy wiff / children seruaūtes and make prouision for thē godlye & with out ouermoch busyenge and vnquyetyngethy self ād drounynge thy self in worldly busynesse vnchristenlye or that thou canst serue thy neyghboure in some office better beynge chast then maryed. And then thy vowe is good & lawfull. And eu⟨illegible⟩ so must thou vowe abstinēce of meates & ⟨illegible⟩ ynkes so far forth as it is profitable vnto thy neyghbours & vnto y⟨illegible⟩ tamīge of thy flesh: But thou mayst vowe nether of them vnto y⟨illegible⟩ sleynge of thy bodye. As Paule cōmaūdeth tymothe to drincke wyne & no moare water because of his diseases. Thou wilt saye y⟨illegible⟩ timothy had not happlye forsworne wyne. I thinke the same and that the apostles forsware not wedlocke though many of them lyued chast nother yet any meate or drincke / though they absteyned from thē / & that it were good for vs to folow their ensample. How be it though I vowe & swere ād thynke on none exceptyon / yet is the breakynge of gods cōmaūdmētes except & all chaunces that hāge of god. As if I swere to to be in a certayne place at a certayne houre to make a louedaye with out exception / yet if the kinge in the meane tyme commaunde me a nother waye / I must goo by gods commaūdment ād yet breake not myne othe. And in like case if my father and mother be seke and requyre my presence / or if my wiff / children or houshold be visited that my assistence be requyred / or if my neyghbours house be a fyre at the same houre and a thousand soch chaunces: in which all I breake myne oth and am not forsworne and so forth. Read gods word diligently and with a good herte and it shall teach the all thynges.

The text

¶ The .iiij. boke of Moses / called Numeri.

Chapter 1

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai / in the tabernacle of witnesse / the fyrst daye of the seconde moneth / ād in the seconde yere after they were come out of y⟨illegible⟩ lott de of Egipte sayenge: take ye the summe of al the multitude of the childern of Israel / in the it kynredes and housholdes of their fathers and numbre thē by name all that are males / polle by polle / frō .xx. yere & aboue: euen all yᵗ are able to goo forthe in to warre in Israell / thou & Aarō shall nūbrethē in their armie⟨illegible⟩ / & with you shalbe of euery try be a heed man in the house of his father.

And these are the names of y⟨illegible⟩ mē yᵗ shall s⟨illegible⟩ō de with you⟨illegible⟩in Rubē / Elizur yᵉ sonne of Sedeur: In Simeō / Selumiel yᵉ sonne of Su⟨illegible⟩ Sadar: In y⟨illegible⟩ try be of Iuda / Nahesson yᵉ sonne of Aminadab: In Isachar / Nathaneel yᵉ sonne of Zuar: In Sebulō / uliab y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Helō. Amōge y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ioseph: In Ephraī / Elisam a y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Amihud: In Manasse / Gamaliel y⟨illegible⟩ sōne of Peda zur: In B⟨illegible⟩ Iamin / Abidan the sonne of Gedeom: In Dan / Ahieser the sonne of Amnn Sadai: In Asser / Pagiel the sonne of Ochran: In Gad / Eliasaph the sōne of Deguel: In Naphtaly / Ahira the sonne of Enan.

These were councelers of the congregacion and lordes in the trybes of their fathers & captaynes ouer thousandes in Israel. And Moses and Aaron roke these men aboue named and gathered all the congregacion together / the fyrst daye of the seconde moneth / and rekened them after their byrth & kinredes and houses of their fathers by name frō .xx. yere & aboue hed by hed: as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses / euē so he numbred them in yᵉ wildernesse of Sinai.

And the childern of Ruben Israels eldest sonne in their generacions / kynredes ād houses of their fathers / whē they were numbred eueryman by name / all that were males frō xx. yere and aboue / as many as were able to goo forth in warre: were numbred in the trybe off Ruben / xlvi. thousande and fyne hundred.

Among the childern of Simeon: their generacion in their kynredes and housses of their fathers (when euery mans name was tolde) of all the males from .xx. yeres and aboue / whatsoeuer was mete for the warre: were numbred in the trybe of Simeon .lix. thousande and .iij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Sad: their generacion in their kynredes and housholdes of their fathers / when thei were tolde by name / frō xx. yere and aboue / all that were mete for the warre: were numbred in the tribe of Sad. xl⟨illegible⟩ thousande / sixe hundred and fyftie.

Amonge the childern of Iuda: their generacion in their kinredes and housses of their fathers (by the numbre of names) from .xx. yere and aboue / all that were able to warre / were tolde in the trybe of Iuda .lxxiiij. thousande and sixe hundred.

Amonge the childern of Isachar: their generacion / in their kinredes and houses of their fathere (when their names were counted) from .xx. yere ād aboue / whatsoeuer was apte for warre: were numbred in yᵉ trybe of Isachar .liiij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

Among the children of Sebulon: their generacion / in their kynredes and houses of their fathers (after the numbre of names) from xx. yere and aboue / whosoeuer was mete for the warre: were counted in yᵉ trybe of Sebulō ivij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Joseph: fyrst amōge the childern of Ephraim: their generacion / in their kynredes and housses of theyre fathers (when the names of all that were apte to the warre were tolde) from .xx. yeres and aboue: were in numbre in the trybe off Ephraim / xl. thousande and syxe hundred.

Amonge the childern of Manasse: their generacion / in their kynredes and houses of their fathers (when the names of all yᵗ were apte to warre were tolde) from .xx. and aboue were numbred in the tribe of Manasse. xxxij thousand and two hundred.

Amonge the childern of Ben Jamin: their generacion / in their kynredes and housses of their fathers (by the rale of names) from twentye yere and aboue of all that were mete for warre / were numbred in the trybe off Ben Jamin .xxxv. thousande / and .iiij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Dan: their generacion in theyr kynreddes and housses off theyr fa⟨illegible⟩hers (in the summe of names) off all that was apte to warre from twentye yere and aboue / were numbred in the trybe of Dan .lxij. thousande and .vij. hundred.

Amonge the childern of Aser: their generacyon / in their kynredes & houses of their fathers (when thei were summed by name) from .xx. yeres & aboue / all that were apte to warre were numbred in the tribe of Aser .xli. thousande and .v. hundred.

Amōge the childern of Nepthali: their generacion / in their kynredes & housses of their fathers (when their names were tolde) from xx. yeres ād aboue / what soeuer was mete⟨illegible⟩o warre: were numbred in the trybe of Nephtali .liij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

These are the numbres which Moses ād Aarō numbred with yᵉ .xij. princes of Israel: of euery housse of their fathers a man. And all the numbres of the children of Israel / in the housses of their fathers / from twentye yere and aboue / whatsoeuer was mete for the warre in Israell / drewe vnto the summe of syxe hundred thousande / fyue hundred and .l. But the leuires in the tribe off their fathers were not numbred amonge them.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: only se that thou numbre not the trybe of Leui / nether take the summe of them amonge the childern of Israel. But thou shalt appoynte the leuites vnto the habitaciō of witnesse / and to all the apparell thereof and vnto all that longeth thereto. For they shall bere the tabernacle and all the ordinaunce thereof / and they shall ministre it and shall pitche their tentes rounde aboute it. And when the tabernacle goeth forth the leuites shall take it doune: and when the tabernacle is pitched / they shall sett it vpp: for yf any straunger come nere / he shall dye. And the childern of Israel shall pitch their tentes / euery man in his owne companye and euery mā by his awne standert thorow out all their hostes. But the leuites shall pitche rounde aboute the habitacion of witnesse / that there fall no wrath vpon the congregacion of the childrē of Israel / and the leuites shall wayte apon the habitacion of witnesse. And the childern of Israel dyd acordinge to all that the Lord commaunded Moses.

Chapter 2

¶ The .ij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: The childern of Israel shall pirch: euery man by his owne standert with the armes of their fathers houses / a waye from the presence of the tabernacle of witnesse.

On the east syde towarde the rysynge of y⟨illegible⟩ sonne / shall they of the standert of the hoste of Iuda pitch with their armes: And Nahe sson the sonne of Aminabab shal⟨illegible⟩e captaine ouer the sonnes of Iuda. And his hoste and the numbre of them .lxxiiij. thousande and. vi hundred. And nexte vnto him shall the trybe of Isachar pitche and Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar captayne ouer y⟨illegible⟩ childrē of Isachar: his hoste and the numbre of them .liiij. thousande and .iiij. hundred. And than the trybe of Zabulon: with Eliab the sonne of Helen / captayne ouer the childern of Zabulon / and his hoste in the numbre of them: lvij. thousande and .iiij. hundred. So that all they that perteyne vnto the host of Iuda / are an hundred thousande .lxxxvi. thousande ād .iiij. hundred in their companies: and these shall god in the forefront / wen they iurney.

And on the southsyde / the standert of the hoste of Ruben shall lye with their companes and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ruben / Elizur the sonne of Sedeur / ād his hoste and the numbre of them .xlvi. thousande / and .v. hundred. And fast by him shall y⟨illegible⟩ trybe of Simeon pitche / and the capteyne ouer y⟨illegible⟩ sonnes of Simeon. Selumiel the sonne of zu ri Sadai / & his hoste and the nūbre of them lix thousande and .iij. hundred And the trybe of Gad also: And the captayne ouer the sonnes of Gad / Eliasaph the sonne of Deguel and his hoste and the numbre of them .xlv. thousande .vi. hundred and .l. So that all y⟨illegible⟩ numbre that pertayne vnto the hoste of Ruben / are an hundred thousande .li. thousande iiij. hundred & fyftie / with their companyes / and they shall be the seconde in the iourney

And the tabernacle of witnesse with the hoste of the leuites / shall goo in the myddes of y⟨illegible⟩ hostes: as they lye in their tētes / euen so shall they procede in the iurney / euery man in his quarter aboute their standertes

On the west syde / the standarte and the hoste of Ephraim shall lye with their companies. And the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ephraim / Elisama the sonne of Amthud: & his hoste and the numbre of them .xl. thousande & v. hundred. And fast by him / the trybe of Manasse / and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Manasse / Gamaleel y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Peda zur and his hoste and the numbre of them .xxxij. thousande and .ij. hundred. And the trybe of Ben Iamin also: and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Ben Iamin / Abidan the sonne of Gedeoni / ād his hoste and the numbre of thē xxxv. thousande and .iiij. hundred. All the nūbre that perteyned vnto the hoste of Ephraim / were an hundred thousand .viij. thousande and an hundred in their hostes: and they shalbe the thryde in the iurneye

And the standert and the hoste of Dan shall lye on the north syde with their companyes: & the captayne ouer y⟨illegible⟩ childrē of Dan / Ahiezer the sonne of Ammi Sadai: and his hoste and the nūbre of them .lxij. thousande & vij. hundred. And fast by him shall the trybe of Asser pitche: and the captayne ouer the sōnes of Asser / Pagiel the sonne of Ochran: & his hoste & the nūbre of them xli. thousande & v. hundred. And the trybe of Naphtali also / and the captayne ouer y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Naphta li: Ahira the sonne of Enan: & his hoste and the nūbre of them .liij. thousande & iiij. hūdred So y⟨illegible⟩ the hole nūbre of all that perteyned vnto y⟨illegible⟩ hoste of Dan / was an hūdred thousande lvij. thousande & .vi. hūdred. And they shalbe the last in y⟨illegible⟩ iurney with their stādertes.

These are y⟨illegible⟩ sūmes of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael in the housses of their fathers: euen all the nūbres of the hostes with their cōpanies .vi. hūdred thousande .iij. thousande .v. hūdred and fyftie. And yet y⟨illegible⟩ lenites werenot nūbred amōge the childern of Ysrael / as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael dyd acordynge to all that the Lorde cōmaūded Moses / & so they pitched with their standertes / and so they iurneyd: euery man in his kynred / and in the houssholde of his father.

Chapter 3

¶ The .iij. Chapter.

THese are the generacions of Aaron and Moses / when the Lorde spake vnto Moses in mount Sinai / and these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the eldest sonne / and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar. These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron which were preastes anoynted and their handes fylled to mynistre but Nadab and Abihu dyed before the Lorde / as they broughte straunge fyre before the Lorde in the wyldernesse of Sinai / and had no childern. And Eleazar and Ithamar mynistred in the syght of Aaron their father.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge brynge the trybe of leui / and set them before Aaron the preast / and let them serue him ād wayte apon him & apon all the multitude / before the tabernacle of witnesse / to doo the seruyce of the habitacion. And they shall wayre apō all y⟨illegible⟩ apparell of y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse & apon y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael / to doo y⟨illegible⟩ seruyce of the habitaciō. And thou shalt geue the leuites vnto Aaron & his sonnes / for they are geuen vnto him of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael. And thou shalt appoīte Aarō & his sonnes to way te on their preastes office: & the straūger y⟨illegible⟩ cometh nye / shall dye for it.

And y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: beholde / I haue takē the leuites frō amonge y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael / for all the firstborne that openeth the matryce amonge the childern of Ysrael / so that the leuites shall be myne: because all the first borne are myne: for y⟨illegible⟩ same daye that Ismote all the fyrstborne in the lande of Egipte / Ihalowed vnto me all the firstborne in Ysrael / both man and beest / and myne they shall be: for I am the Lorde.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai sayenge: Numbre the childern of Leui in y⟨illegible⟩ housses of their fathers and Rynredes / all yᵗ are males from a moneth olde and aboue. And Moses numbred them at the worde of the Lorde / as he was cōmaūded. And these are y⟨illegible⟩ names of y⟨illegible⟩ childrē of Leui: Gerson / Cahath & Merari. And y⟨illegible⟩ se arethe names of the childern of Gerson in their kynredes: Libni and Semei. And the sōnes of Cahath in their kynredes were Amram. Iezehar. Hebron and Vsiel. And the sonnes of Merari in their kynredes were Maheli and Musi. These are the kynredes of Leui in the housses of their fathers.

And of Gerson came the kynred of y⟨illegible⟩ Libnites and the Semeites / which are the kynredes of the Gersonites. And yᵉ summe of them (when all the males were tolde) from a moneth olde and aboue / were .vij. thousande and fyue hundred. And the kynredes of the Gersonites pitched behynde the habitacion west warde. And the captayne of the must aw⟨illegible⟩ciēt housse amonge yᵉ Gersonires / was Eliasaph the sonne of La⟨illegible⟩l. And the office of the childern of Gerson in the tabernacle of witnesse was the habitacion and the tente with the coueringe theroff and the hangynge of the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and the hangynges of the courte / and the curtayne of the dore of the courte: which courte went rounde aboute the dwellynge / and the alter / and the cordes yᵗ perteyned vnto all the seruyce therof

And of Cahath came the kynred of y⟨illegible⟩ Amramites and the kynred of the Iezeharites & of the Hebronites and of the Vsielites: And these are the kynredes of y⟨illegible⟩ Cahathites. And the numbre of all the males from a moneth olde and aboue / was .viij. thousande and sixe hundred: which wayted on yᵉ holy place. And the kynred of the childern of Cahath / pitched on y⟨illegible⟩ southsyde of y⟨illegible⟩ dwellynge And y⟨illegible⟩ captayne in y⟨illegible⟩ most auncyent housse of the kynredes of the Cahathites / was Elizaphan thesonne of Vsiel / and their office was: the arcke / the table / the candelsticke / and the alter and the holy vessels to minystre with and the vayle with all that serued there to. And Eleazar y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Aaron the preast / was captayne ouer all the captaynes of the Leuites / and had the ouer syghte of them that wayted vppon the holythynges.

And of Merari came the kynredes of the Mahelites and of the Musites: and these are the kynredes of the Merarites. And the nūbre of them (when all the males frō a moneth olde ād aboue was tolde) drewe vnto. vi thousande & .ij. hundred. And yᵉ captayne of the most auncient housse amonge the kynredes of the Merarites / was Zuriel the sonne of Abihail which pitched on the north syde of the dwellynge. And the office of the sonnes of Merari was: the bordes of y⟨illegible⟩ dwellynge & the barres / pilers with the sokettes thereof / and all the instrumētes there of & all that serued thereto: & the pilers of the courte rounde aboute and their sokettes / with their pynnes & cordes. But on yᵉ fore front of yᵉ habitaciō ād before the tabernacle of witnesse castwarde / shall Moses and Aaron & his sōnnes pytch and wayte on the sanctuary in the steade of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael. And the straunger yᵗ cometh nye / shall dye for it. And the hole summe of the leuites which Moses & Aar⟨illegible⟩n nūbred / at yᵉ cōmaūdmēt of yᵉ Lorde thorow out their kynredes euen / of all yᵉ males of a moneth olde & aboue / was .xxij. thousande.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Numbre all yᵉ first borne that are males amōge the childern of Ysrael / frō amoneth olde & aboue and take y⟨illegible⟩ numbre of their names. And thou shalt appoynte y⟨illegible⟩ leuites to me the Lorde / for all the firstborne amōge y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael and the catell of y⟨illegible⟩ leuites for the firstborne of the childern of Ysrael. And Moses nūbred as y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde cōmaūded him / all the firstborne of yᵉ childern of Ysrael. And all the firstborne males / in y⟨illegible⟩ summe of names / from amoneth olde and aboue / were numbred .xxij. thousande .ii. hundred and .lxxiij.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayen⟨illegible⟩e: take the leuites for all the fyrstborne of the childern of Israel / ād the catell of the leuites for their catell: & the leuites shalbe myne whiche am the Lorde. And for the redemynge of the two hundred and .lxxiij. whiche are moo than the leuites in the firstborne of the children of Israel / take .v. sycles of euery pece / after the sycle of yᵉ holy place .xx. geras the sycle. And gene y⟨illegible⟩ money wherewith the odde numbre of them is redemed / vnto Aaron ād his sonnes. And Moses toke the redempciō money of the ouerplus that were moo then the leuites / amonge the firstborne of the childern of Israel: & it came to a thousande .iij. hundred & .lxv. sycles / of the holye sycle. And he gaue that redempcion money vnto Aaron & his sonnes at the worde of the Lorde / euen as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

Chapter 4

¶ The .iijj. Chapter.

ANd yᵉ Lord spake vnto Moses & Aarō & bade thē take yᵉ summe of yᵉ childern of Cahath frō amonge yᵉ sonnes of leui / in their kynredes and housses of their fathers / from xxx. yere and abo⟨illegible⟩ vntill fyftie / all that were able to warre / for to doo the worke in the tabernacle of witnesse: euen in the most holy place. And when y⟨illegible⟩ hoste remoueth / Aaron ād his sonnes shall come and take donne the vayle and couer the arcke of witnesse there with / and shall put there on a couerynge of taxus skynnes / and shall sprede a cloth yᵗ is altogether of Iacyncte aboue all / and put the stanes thereof in. And apon the shewe table / they shall sprede a cloth of Iacyncte / and put thereō / the dishes / spones / flat peces and pottes to poure with / and the dayly bred shal be thereon: and they shall spred apon them a couerynge of purple / and couer the same with a couerynge of taxus skynnes / and put the staues thereof in.

And they shall take a cloth of Iacyncte & couer the candelsticke of light and hir lāpes and his snoffers and fyre pannes and all hir oyle vessels which they occupye aboute it / & shall put apon her and on all hir instrumentes / a couerynge of taxus skynnes / and put it apon staues. And apon the golden alter they shall sprede a cloth of Iacyncte / and put on hir staues. And they shall take all the ⟨illegible⟩higes which they occupye to minystre with in y⟨illegible⟩ holy place / & put a cloth of Iacyncte apon them and couer them with a couerynge of taxus skynnes and put them on staues. And they shall take a waye the asshes out of the alter / and sprede a searlet cloth thereon: I put aboute it / the fyre pannes / the flesh hokes / the shoness / the basens and all that belongeth vnto the alter / and they shall sprede apon it a coueryng of taxus skynnes and put on the staues of it.

And when Aaron and his sonnes haue made an ende of couerynge the sanctuary ād all the thinges of the sancruarye / agenst that the hoste remoue / then the sonnes of Cahath shall come in for to bere / and so let them not twich the santuary lest they dye. And this ys the charge of the sonnes of Cahath in therabernacle of witnesse. And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the preast / shall haue the charge to prepare oyle for the lightes and swete cens / & the dayly meatofferynge and the anoyntinge oyle / and the ouersyghte of all the dwellynge and of all that therein is: both ouer the sanctuary & ouer all that pertayneth thereto.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses & Aaron sayenge: destroye not the trybe of the kynredes of the Cahathites / from amonge the leuites. But thus doo vnto them that they maye lyve and not dye / whē they goo vnto yᵉ most holy place. Aaron and his sonnes shall goo in and put them / euery man vnto his sernyce and vnto his burthen. But let them not goo in to se when they couer the sanctuarye / lest they dye.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge Take the summe of the childern of Gerson / in the houses of their fathers ād in their kyn redes: from .xxx. yere and aboue / vntyll .l. all that are able to goo forth in warre / for to doo seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse. And this is the seruyce of the kynred of the Gersoni tes / to serue and to beare. They shall bere the curtaynes of the dwellynge and the roffe of yᵉ tabernacle of witnesse and his couerynge ād the coueryng of tarus skynnes that is an hye aboue apon it / and the hangynge of the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse: and the hanginge of the courte and the hangynge of the gate of the courte that is rounde aboute the dwellynge and the altare / and the cordes of them / and all the instrumentes that serue vnto them and all that is made for them. And at the mouth of Aaron and his sonnes / shall all the seruyce of the children of the Gersonites be done / in all their charges and in all their seruyce / and ye shall appoynte them vnto al their charges that they shall wayte apō. And this is the seruyce of the kynred of the children of the Gersonires in y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse / and their wayte shalbe in the honde of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast.

And thou shalt numbre the sonnes of Merari in their kynredes and in the houses of the ir fathers / from .xxx. yeres and aboue vnto .l. All that is able to goo forth in warre / to doo the seruyce of the tabernacle of witnesse. And this is the charge that they must wayte vppon in all that they must serue in the tabernacle of witnesse. The bordes of the dwellynge / and the barres / pylers / and sokettes thereof / and the pylers of the courte rounde aboute / and their sokettes / pynnes and cordes with all that pertayneth and serueth vnto them. And by name ye shall reken the thynges that they must wayte apon to bere. Thys is the seruyce of the kynreddes of the sonnes of Merari in all theyr seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse by the hande of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast.

And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the multitude numbred the sonnes of the Cahathites in their kynredes and housses of theire fathers / from .xxx. yere and aboue vnto fyftie / all that were able to goo forth in the hoste and to do seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse. And the numbre of them in their kynredes were two thousande / seuen hundred and .l. These are the numbres of the kynredes of the Cahathites / of all that dyd seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse / whyche Moses and Aaron dyd numbre at the commaundment of the Lorde by the hāde of Moses.

And the sonnes of Gerson were numbred in their kynredes and in the housses of their fathers / from .xxx. yere vp vnto fyftye / all that were able to goo forth in the hoste for to doo servycr in the tabernacle of witnesse. And the numbre of them in their kynredes / and in the housses of their fathers / was two thousande / sixe hundred and xix. This is the numbre of the kynredes of the sonnes of Gerson / of all that dyd seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse / which Moses and Aaron dyd numbre at the commaundement of the Lorde.

And the kynredes of the sonnes of Merari were numbred in their kynredes and in the houses of their fathers / from .xxx. yere vp vn to fyftie. all that were able to goo forth with the hoste / ro do seruice in y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse. And the numbre of them was in theyr kynredes / thre thousande and two hundred. This is the numbre of the kynredes of y⟨illegible⟩ sonnes of Merari / whiche Moses and Aaron numbred at the byddynge of the Lorde / by y⟨illegible⟩ hande of Moses.

The whole summe which Moses / Aaron and the lordes of Israell numbred amonge the leuites in their kynredes and housholdes of their fathers / from .xxx. yere vpp vnto. ⟨illegible⟩. euery man to doo his office and seruyce and to bere his burthen in the tabernacle of witnesse: was .viij. thousonde / fyue hundred ād lxxx. which they numbred at the commaundement of the Lorde by the honde of Moses euery man vnto his seruyce and burthen: as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

Chapter 5

¶ The. fyfte Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: commaunde the childern of Israel that they put out of the hoste / all the lepers and all that haue yssues and all that are defyled apon the deed / whether they be males or females ye shall put them out of the hoste / that they defyle not the tentes amōge which I dwell. And the childern of Israel dyd so / and put them out of the hoste: euen as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses / so dyd the childern of Israel.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel: whether it be man or woman / whē they haue synned any maner of synne which a man doeth wherewith a man trespaseth agenst the Lorde / so that the soule hath done amysse: then they shall knowlege their synnes which they haue done / and restore a gayne the hurte that they haue done in the hole / and put the fyfte¹ parte of it moare thereto / and geue it vnto him whom he hath trespased agenste. But and yf he that maketh the amendes have no man to doo it to / then the amendes that is made shalbe the Lordes and the preastes / besyde the ram of the attonement offerynge where with he maketh an attonemēt for hymselfe And all heue offerynges of all the halowed thinges which the childern of Israel brynge vnto the preaste / shalbe the preastes / and euery mans halowed thinges shalbe his awne / but what soeuer any man geueth the preast / it shalbe the preastes.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israell and saye vnto them. Yf any mans wyfe goo a syde and trespase agaynst hym / so that another man lye with her fleshely and the thynge be hydd from the eyes of hir husbonde and is not come to lighte that she is defyled (for there is no witnesse agenst her) in as moche as she was not taken with the maner / and the sprere of gelousye cometh apon him and he is gelouse ouer his wyfe and she defyled / Or happely the sprete of gelousye cometh apon him / and he is gelouse ouer hys wyfe ād she yet vndefyled. Thē let hyr husbonde bringe her vnto the preaste and brynge an offerynge for her: the tenthe parte of an Epha of barlye meele / but shall poure none oyle therevnto / nor put frankencens thereon: for it is an offerynge of gelousye / and an offerynge that maketh remembraunce of synne.

And let the preast brynge her and sett her before the Lorde / and let him take holy water in an erthen vessell & of the dust that is in y⟨illegible⟩ flore of the habyracyon / and put it in to the water. And the preast shall set the wyfe before the Lorde and vncouer hir heed / and put the memoryall of the offerynge in hyr handes whiche is the gelousye offerynge / and y⟨illegible⟩ preast shall haue bytter and cursynge water in his hande / and he shall coniure her and shall saye vnto her. Yf no man haue lyen wyth the nether haste gone asyde / and defyled thy selfe behynde thy husbonde / then haue thou no harme of this bytter cursynge water.

But and yf thou hast gone asyde behynde thyne husbonde and art defyled and some other man hath lyen with the besyde thyne husbonde (and let the preaste coniure her with the coniuracyon of the curse and saye vnto her) the Lorde make the a curse and a coniuracyon amonge thy people: so that the Lorde make thy thye rotte / and thy bely swell and thys bytter cursynge water goo in to the bowels of the / that thy bely swell and thy ⟨illegible⟩rot⟨illegible⟩e / and the wyfe shall saye Amen Amen.

And the preast shall wrytte this curse in a byll and wasshe it out in the bytter water. And when the cursynge water ys yn her that it is bytter / then let the preast take the gelousy offerynge out of the wyfes hande / and waue it before the Lorde / and brynge i⟨illegible⟩ vnto the altare: and he shall take an handefull off the memoryall offerynge and burne it apon the alter / and then make her dryncke the water and when he hath made her drynke the water. Yf she be defyled and haue trespased agenst her husbond / then shall the cursynge water goo in to her and be so bitter / y⟨illegible⟩ hir bely shall swell and hir thye shall ro⟨illegible⟩te / & she shalbe a curse amonge hir people. And yf she be not defyled but is cleane / then she shall haue no harme / but that she maye conceaue.

This is the lawe of gelonsye / when a wyfe goeth a syde behynde hyr husbonde ād is defyled / or when the spirite of gelousye cometh apon a man / so that he is gelouse ouer his wife: then he shall beinge her before the Lorde / and the preast shall ministre all thie lawe vn to her / & the man shalbe giltlesse / & the wyfe shall bere hir synne.

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto y⟨illegible⟩ childrē of Israel & saye vnto them: when ether man or woman appo⟨illegible⟩nteth to vowe a vowe of abstinence for to abstene vnto the Lorde / he shall abstene from wyne and stronge drynke / and shall dryncke no vynegre of wyne or of stronge drynke / nor shal drynke what soeuer is pressed out of grapes: & shal eate no fresh grapes nether yet dryed / as lōge as his absimēce ēdureth. Moreouer he shall eate nothyng y⟨illegible⟩ is made of the vynetre / no n⟨illegible⟩ so moch as y⟨illegible⟩ cornel⟨illegible⟩ or the huske of the grape.

And as longe as the vowe of his abslin⟨illegible⟩ce endureth / there shall no rasure nor sheres come apon his heed / vntill his dayes be out which he fas⟨illegible⟩eth vnto the Lorde / and he shalbe holy and shall let the lockes of his heer growe. As longe as he ab⟨illegible⟩en⟨illegible⟩th vnto the Lorde he shall come at no deed bodye: he shall not make him selfe vncleane at the deeth of his father / mother / brother or syster. for the abstinēce of his God is apon his heed. And therfore as longe as his abstynence lasteth / he shal⟨illegible⟩ be hely vnto the Lorde.

And yf i⟨illegible⟩ fortune that any man by chaunce dye sedenly before him / and defyle the heed of his abstinēce / ⟨illegible⟩hen must he shaue his heed the daye of his ⟨illegible⟩l⟨illegible⟩syng⟨illegible⟩ ▪ euen the seuenth daye he shall shaue it. And the eyght daye he shall brynge .ij. turtels or .ij. yonge pigeons to the preast / vnto y⟨illegible⟩ dore of y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse And y⟨illegible⟩ preast shall offer the one for a synofferynge and the other for a burntofferynge & make an aronement for him / as concernynge that he synned apon the deed / and shall also halowe his heed the same daye and he shall abstene vpto the Lorde theryme of his abstinencye / and shall brynge a lambe of a⟨illegible⟩ yere olde for a trespace offerynge: but the dayes y⟨illegible⟩ were before are lost / because his abstinence was defyled. ¶ This is the lawe of the absteyner / when the tyme of his abstinēce is out. he shalbe broughte vnto y⟨illegible⟩ dore of y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse & he shall brynge his offerynge vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lord: an he lābe of a yere olde with out blemysh f⟨illegible⟩r a burntofferynge & a she lambe of a yere olde without blemysh for a synofferynge / a ram without blemysh also for a peaseofferynge / & a basket of swete breed of fyne floure myngled with oyle & wafers of swete bred anoyntyd with oyle with meatofferynges ād drynkofferynges that longe thereto.

And the preast shall brynge him before y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde & offer his synofferynge & his burntofferynge / & shall offer y⟨illegible⟩ ram for a peaseofferynge vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde with the basker of swete brede / ād the preast shall offer also his meat offerynge & his drynckofferynge. And y⟨illegible⟩ abs⟨illegible⟩yner shall shaue his heed in y⟨illegible⟩ dore of y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse ād shall take the heer of his sober heed & put it in y⟨illegible⟩ fyre which is vnder the peaseofferynge. Then the preast shall take the sodden shulder of y⟨illegible⟩ ram ād one swete cake out of y⟨illegible⟩ basket & one swete wafer also ād put them in the hāde of the abste⟨illegible⟩ner after he hath shanē his abstinēce of / & the preast shall waue them vnto the Lorde / which offerynge shalbe holy vnto the preast with y⟨illegible⟩ wauebrest and heue shulder: & then the abs⟨illegible⟩eyner may⟨illegible⟩ drynke wyne. This is the lawe of the absieyner which hath vowed his offerynge vnto ⟨illegible⟩ Lorde for his abstynence / besydes that his hāde can gete And acordyng to the vowe which he vowed / euen so he must doo in the lawe of his abstinence.

And the Lorde talked with Moses sayeng⟨illegible⟩ speake vnto Aaron and his sonnes sayē⟨illegible⟩ of this wise ye shall blesse the childern of² Ysrael saynge vnto them.

The lordeblesse the and kepe the.

The lorde make his face shyne apon the & be mercyfull vnto the.

The lorde lifte vpp his countena⟨illegible⟩nce apō the / and geue the peace For ye shall put my name apon the childern of Ysrael / that Imaye blessethem.

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7

¶ The .vij. Chapter.

ANd when Moses had full sett vp the habitacion and anoynted it ād sanctifyed it and all the apparell thereof / and had anoynted and sanctifyed y⟨illegible⟩ alter also and all the vessels there of: then the prynces of Ysrael heedes ouer the housses of their fathers which were the lordes of the trybes that stode ād numbred / offered ād broughte their giftes before the Lorde sixe couered charettes and .xij. ⟨illegible⟩xen: two and two a charet and an oxe euery man / and they broughte them before the habitacion.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge take it of them and let them be to do the seruy⟨illegible⟩ ce of y⟨illegible⟩ tabernacle of witnesse / and geue them vnto the leuites / euery man acordynge vnto his office And Moses toke the charettes ād the oxen / & gaue them vnto the leuites: ij. charettes and .iiij. oxen he gaue vnto the sonnes of Gerson acordynge vnto their office. And iiij. charettes and eyght oxen he gaue vnto y⟨illegible⟩ sonnes of Merari acordynge vnto their offices / vnder the handes of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast. But vnto the sonnes of Cahath he gaue none / for the office that perteyned to them was holy / & therfore they must bere vppon shulders.

And the princes offered vnto the dedycatynge of the alter in the daye yᵗ it was anoyn ted / and brought their giftes before the alter And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: let the priches brynge their offerynges / euery daye one prynce / vnto the dedicatynge of the alter.

He that offered his offerynge y⟨illegible⟩ first daye / was Nahesson the sonne of Aminadab of the trybe of Iuda. And his offerynge was: a syluer charger / of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weight: and a syluer boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle / both of them full of fyne whe⟨illegible⟩ flou re myngled with oyle for a meat offerynge: & a spone of .x. sicles of golde full of cens: & an oxe / a ram ād a lambe of a yere olde for burn⟨illegible⟩ offerynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for pease offerynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of a yere olde. and this was the gifte of Nahesson the sonne of Aminadab.

The seconde daye / dyd Nathancel offer / y⟨illegible⟩ sonue of Zuar / captayne ouer Yfachar. And his offerynge which he broughte was: a syluer charger of an hundred & .xxx. sicles weyght / and a syluern boule of lxx. sicles / of y⟨illegible⟩ holy sicle: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens: and an oxe / a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges: ād for peaseofferyn ges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was y⟨illegible⟩ offerynge of Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar.

The thyrde daye / Eliab the sonnne of Helon the chefest amonge the childern of Zabulon / brought his offerynge. And his offerynge was / a syluer charger of an hundred and. xxx sicles weyghte / and a siluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle / & both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meat offerynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cēs: and an oxe and a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an hegoore for a synofferynge: and for peascofferynges .ij. oxen. v rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Eliab the sonne of Helon.

The fourtdaye / Elizur the sonne of Sedeur / chefe lorde amonge the childern of Ruben / broughte his offerynge. And his gifte was: a syluer charger of an hundred and. xxx sicles weyghte / and a syluern boule of .lxx. ⟨illegible⟩icles of the holy sicle / & both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens: and an oxe / a ram & a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Elizur the sonne of Sedeur.

The fyfth daye / Selumiel y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Zuri Sadai / chefe lorde amonge the childern of Simeon / offered. whose gifte was: a syluer charger of an hundred & .xxx. sicles weyghte: and a syluer boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle: ād both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: & a golden spone of x. sicles full of cens. And an oxe / a ram ād a lābe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / ād an he goote for a synofferynge: & for peaseofferiges .ij. oxen .v. rāmes .v. he gootes ād .v. lābe⟨illegible⟩ of a yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Selumielthe sonne of Zuri Sadai.

The sixte daye / Eliasaph y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of ⟨illegible⟩eguel the chefe lorde amonge the childern of Gad / offered. whose gifte was: a syluer charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weyghte: and a syluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle: & both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens. And an oxe / a ram ād a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / & an he goote for a synofferynge: And for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes and .v. lābes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Eliasaph the sonne of ⟨illegible⟩eguel.

The seuenth daye / Elisama the sonne of Amiud / y⟨illegible⟩ chefelorde of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ephraim / offered. And his gifte was: a siluern charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weyght: ād a syluern boule of lxx. sicles of the holy sicle: ād both full of fyne floure myngled with oyl⟨illegible⟩ for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of. x sicles / full of cens. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / ād an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes & v. lambes of a yere olde. And this was yᵉ offerynge of Elisama the sonne of Amiud.

The .viij. daye / offered Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur / the chefe lorde of the childern of Manasse. And his gifte was: a sylueren charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles weyght: and a syluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the hely sicle: ād both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: & a golden spone of .x. sycles / full of cēs. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes / fyue he gootes and fyue lābes of a yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Gamaliel the sonne of Peda zur.

The .ix. daye / Abidan y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Gedeoni y⟨illegible⟩ chefelord amōge y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ben Iamm offered. And his gifte was: a syluern charger of an hundred and .xxx. sicles wey g⟨illegible⟩t: & a syluern boule of .lxx. sicles of the holy sicle / and both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of x. sicles / full of cens. and an oxe / a ram and a lambe of one yere olde for burntofferynges: & an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes .v. he gootes & v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Abidan the sonne of Gedeoni.

The .x. daye / Ahieser the sonne of Ammi Sadai / chefelorde amōge yᵉ children of ⟨illegible⟩an offered. And his gifte was: a syluern charger of an hundred and .xxx. sycles weyght: a syluern boule of seuentye sicles of the holy sycle: and both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of .x. sicles full of cens: and an oxe / a rā and a lambe of a yere olde for burntofferynges / and an he goote for a synofferynge: and for peaseofferynges .ij. oxen .v. rammes / fyue he gootes and fyue lābes of a yere olde. And this was the offrynge of Ahieser the sonne of Ammi Sadai.

The .xi. daye / Pagiel the sonne of Ochran the chefe Lorde amonge the childern of Asser offered: And his gifte was: a syluerē charger of an hundred and .xxx. sycles weyghte: a sylueren boule of .lxx. sycles of the holye sycle and both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meateoffrynge: and a golden spone of .x. sycles / full of cens. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of one yere olde for burntofferinges: and an he goote for a synneofferynge: ād for peaceofferynges: two oxen / fyue rammes v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Pagiel yᵉ sonne of Ochran.

The .xij. daye / Ahira the sonne of Enan / chefe lorde amonge the childern of Nephtali offered. And his gifte was: a sylueren charger of an hundred and .xxx. sycles weyghte: a sylueren boule of .lxx. sycles of the holye sycle / both full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferynge: and a golden spone of twentye sycles / full of cens. And an oxe / a ram and a lambe of one yere olde for burntofferynges: and an he goote for a synneofferinge: and for peaceofferynges / two oxen .v. rāmes .v. he gootes and .v. lambes of one yere olde. And this was the offerynge of Ahira / the sonne of Enan.

Of this maner was the dedicacyon of the alter / when it was anoynted: vnto the whiche was broughte of the prynces of Israel .xij. chargers of syluer .xij. syluern boules and. xij spones of golde: euery charger contaynynge an hundred and .xxx. sycles of syluer / and euery boule .lxx. so that all the syluer of all the vessels / was two thousande and .iiij. hundred sycles of the holy sycle. And the .xij. golden spones which were full of cens / contayned ten sycles a pece of the holy sycle: so that all the golde of the spones / was an hundred and .xx. sycles.

All the oxen that were broughte for the burntoffrynges were .xij. and the rāmes. xij & the lābes .xij. of a yere olde a pece / with the meateofferynges: with he gootes for synneyr offrynges. And all the oxē of the peaceofferynges were .xxiiij. the rammes .lx. the gootes .lx. and lambes of a yere olde a pece .lx. & this was the dedicacion of the alter / after yᵉ it was anoynted.

And when Moses was gone in to the tabernacle of witnesse to speke with hī / he hardethe voyce of one speakinge vnto him from of the mercy seate that was apon the arcke of witnesse: euen from betwene the two cher⟨illegible⟩byns he spake vnto him.

Chapter 8

¶ The .viij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge: speake vnto Aaron and saye vnto hym: when thou puttest on the lampes se that they lighte all seuen apon the forefront of the candelsticke. And Aaron dyd euen so / and put the lampes apon the forefrōt of the candelsticke / as the Lorde commaunded Moses / and the worke of the candelsticke was of stiffe golde: both the shaft and the floures thereof. And accordinge vnto the visyon whiche the Lorde had shewed Moses / euen so he made the candelsticke.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: take the leuites from amonge the childern of Israel / and clense them. And this deo vnto them when thou clensest them / sprinckle water of purifyenge apon them and make a rasure to runne alonge apon all the fleshe of them / and let them washe their clothes / and then they shall be cleane. And let them take a bollocke and his meatofferynge / fyne floure myngled with oyle: & another bollocke shalt thou take to be a synneofferynge.

Than brynge the lennes before the tabernacle of witnesse and gather the hole multitude of the chyldern of Israel together. And bringe the lemtes before the Lorde / and let the childern of Israel put their handes apon the leuites. And let Aaron heue the lemtes before the LORDE / for an heueofferynge geuen of the childern of Israel / ād thē let them be appoynted to wayte apon the seruyce of the Lorde.

And let the leuites put their handes vpō the heedes of the bollockes / and then offer them: the one for a synne offerynge and the other for a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde / to make an attonement for the leuites. And make the leuites stonde before Aaron & hys sonnes / and heue them to be a heueofferynge vnto the Lorde. And thou shalt separate the leuites / from amonge the childern of Israel / that they be myne: and after that let them goo and do the seruice of the tabernacle of witnesse. Clense them and waue them / for they are geuen vnto me from amonge the childrē of Israel: for I haue taken them vnto me for all y⟨illegible⟩ firstborne that opē any matrice amōge the childern of Israel.

For all the fyrstborne among the childern of Israel are myne both man and beest: because the same tyme that I smote the fyrstborne in the lande of Egipte / I sanctyfyde them for my selfe: and I haue taken the Leuites for all the fyrstborne amonge the childern of Israel / and haue geuen them vnto Aaron and his sonnes from amonge the childern of Israel / to doo the seruyce of the childern of Israel in the tabernacle of witnesse and to make an attonement for the chyldern of Israell / that there be no plage amonge the childern of Ysraell / yf they come nye vnto the sanctuary.

And Moses and Aaron and all the congregacion of the childern of Israel dyd vnto the leuites acordynge vnto all that y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde commaunded Moses. And the leuites purifyed them selues / and wasshed their clothes. And Aaron waued them before y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde / and made an attonement for them to clense them. And after that they went into doo their seruyce in the tabernacle of wytnesse / before Aaron and his sonnes. And acordinge as the Lorde had commaunded Moses as concernynge the leuites / euen so they dyd vnto them.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: this shalbe the maner of the leuites: from xxv. yere vppwarde they shall goo in to wayte vppon the seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse / and at fyftye they shall ceasse waytynge apon the seruyce thereof / and shall laboure no moare: but shall ministre vnto their bretheren in the tabernacle of witnesse / and there wayte / but shall doo no moare seruyce. And se that thou doo after this maner vnto the leuites in their waytynge tymes.

Chapter 9

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai / in the fyrste moneth of the seconde yere / after they were come out of the londe of Egipte sayeng: let y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel offer Passe ouer in his season euen the .xiiij. daye of this moneth at euen they shall kepe it in his season / accordynge to all the ordinaunces & maners thereof. And Moses bade the childern of Ysrael that they shulde offer Passeouer / & they offered Passeouer the .xiiij. daye of the first moneth at euen in the wildernesse of Sinai: and dyd acordinge to all that the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And it chaunced that certayne men whyche were defyled with a deed corse that they myghte not offer Passeouer the same daye / came before Moses and Aaron the same daye / and sayde: we are defyled apon a deed corse / wherfore are we kepte backe that we maye not offer an offerynge vnto the Lorde in the due season / amonge the childern of Israell? And Moses sayde vnto them: tary / that I maye heare what the Lorde wille commaunde you And the Lord spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israell and saye. Yf any man amonge you or youre childern after you be vncleane by the reason of a cōrse or is in the waye ferre of / then ⟨illegible⟩t hym offer Passeouer vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde: the. xiiij daye of the seconde moneth at euen / and eate it with swete bred and soure herbes / ād let them leaue none of it vnto the mornynge nor breake any boone of it. And acordynge to all the ordinaunce of the Passeouer let them offer it.

But yf a man be cleane and not let in a iurney / and yet was negligent to offer Passeouer / the same soule shall perish from his people / because he brought not an offerynge vnto the Lorde in his due season: and he shall bere his synne. And when a straunger dwelleth amonge you and will offer Passeouer vnto the Lorde / accordynge to the ordinaunce of Passeouer and maner thereof shall he offre it. And ye shall haue one lawe both for the straunger and for him that was borne at home in the lande.

And the same daye that the habitaciō was reered vpp / a cloude couered it an hye apon the tabernacle of witnesse: and at euen there was apon the habitacyon / as it were the symilitude of fyre vntyll the mornynge. And so it was allwaye / that the cloude couered it by daye / and the symylitude of fyre by nyghte. And when the cloude was taken vpp from of the tabernacle / then the childern of Israel iurneyed: and where the cloude abode there the childern of Israel pitched their tentes. At the mouthe of the Lorde the childern of Israell iurneyed / and at the mouthe of the Lorde they pitched. And as longe as the cloude abode apon the habitacion / they laye styll / and when the cloude taryed still apon the habitacion longe tyme / the childern of Israell wayted apon the Lorde and iurneyed not.

Yf it chaunched that the cloude abode any space of tyme apon the habitacion / then they kepte their tentes at the mouth of the Lorde: and they iurneyed also at the commaundement of the Lorde. And yf it happened that the cloude was apon the habitacion from euen vnto mornynge and was taken vpp in y⟨illegible⟩ mornynge / then they iurneyed. Whether it was by daye or by nyghte that yᵉ cloude was taken vpp / they iurneyed. But when y⟨illegible⟩ cloude taryed two dayes or a moneth or a longe season apon the habitacion / as longe as it taried thereon / the childern of Israel kepte ther⟨illegible⟩ tentes and iurneyed not. And as soone as the cloude was taken vpp / they iurneyed. It the mouth of the Lorde they rested / and at the commaundment of the Lorde they iurneyed. And thus they kepte the wayte of the Lorde / at the commaundement of the Lorde by the hande of Moses.

Chapter 10

¶ The .x. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Make the two trompettes of harde syluer / that thou mayst vse thē to call the congregacion together / and when the hoste shall iurney. when they blowe with them / all the multitude shall resorte to the / vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. Yf but one trumpet blowe only / then the princes which are heedes ouer the thousandes of Ysrael shall come vnto the. And when ye trompe the first tyme / the hostes that lye on the east partes shall goo forwarde. And when ye trōpe the seconde tyme / then the hostes that lye on y⟨illegible⟩ south syde shall take their iurney: for they shall trompe when they take their iurneyes. And in gatherynge the congregacion together / ye shall blowe and not trompe. And the sonnes of Aaron thè preastes shall blowe the trompettes and shall haue them and it shalbe alawe vnto you for euer & amonge youre children after you.

And when ye shall goo to warre in youre londe agenst youre enymies that vexe you / ye shall trompe with the trompettes and ye shalbe remēbred before the Lorde youre God³ and saued from youre enymies. Also when ye be mery in youre fest dayes and in the first dayes of youre monethes / ye shall blowe the trompettes ouer youre burnt sacrifices and pease offerynges / that it maye be a remēbraūce of you before youre God. I am the lorde youre God.

And it came to passe the .xx. daye of the seconde moneth in y⟨illegible⟩ seconde yere / that the cloude was take vpp from of the habitacion of witnesse. And the childern of Israel toke their iurney out of the deserte of Sinai / and the cloude rested in y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse of Parā. And y⟨illegible⟩ first toke their iurney at the mouth of the Lorde / by the honde of Moses: euen the standerte of y⟨illegible⟩ hoste of Iuda remoued first with their armies / whose captayne was Nahesson y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Aminadab. And ouer the hoste of y⟨illegible⟩ trybe of the childern of Isachar / was Nathaneel the sonne of zuar. And ouer the hoste of y⟨illegible⟩ try be of the childern of Zabulon / was Eliab the sonne of Helon. And the habitacion was taken doune: and the sonnes of Gerson and Merari went forth bearynge the habitacion

Then the standert of the hoste of Ruben went forth with their armies / whose captayne was Elizur the sonne of Sedeur. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of yᵉ childern of Simeon / was Selumiel the sonne of Deguel. Then the Cahathites went forwarde and bare the holy thynges / and the other dyd set vp the habitacion agenst they came.

Then the standert of the hoste of the childern of Ephraim went forth with their armies / whose captayne was Elisama the sonne of Amiud. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of the sonnes of Manasse / was Samaleel the sonne of Pedazur. And ouer the hoste of the tr⟨illegible⟩ be of the sonnes of Ben Iamin / was Abidan the sonne of Gedeoni.

And hynmost of all the hoste came the standert of the hoste of the childern of Dan with their armies: whose captayne was / Ahiezar the sonne of Ammi Sadai. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of the childern of Asser / was Pagiel the sonne of Ochran. And ouer the hoste of the trybe of the childern of Naphtali / was Ahira the sonne of Enan / of this maner were the iurneyes of the childern of Israel / with▪ their armies when they remoued.

And Moses sayde vnto ⟨illegible⟩obab the sonne of Ragnel the Madianyte / Moses father lawe: we goo vnto the place of which the Lorde sayde I will geue it you. Goo with us ād we will doo the good / for the Lorde hath promysed goode vnto Israel. And he sayde vnto him: I will not: but will goo to myne awne londe and tomy kynred. And Moses sayde oh nay / leaue us not / for thou knowest where is best for us to pitche in the wildernesse: and thou shalt be oure eyes And yf thou goo with us / loke what goodnesse the Lorde sheweth apon us / the same we will shewe apon the

And they departed from the mount of the Lorde .iij. dayes iurney / and the arcke of the testament of the Lorde went before them in the .iij. dayes iurney to serche out a restynge place for them. And the cloude of the Lorde was ouer them by daye / when they went out of the tentes.

And when the arcke went forth / Moses sayde Ryse vp Lorde and lat thine enemies be scatered / and let them that hate the flee before the. And when the arcke rested / he sayde returne Lorde / vnto the many thousandes of Ysrael.

Notes to Chapter 10

Chapter 11

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

ANd the people waxed vnpacient / vnd it displeased the cares of the Lorde. And when the Lorde herde it he was wroth / and the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge them and consumed the vtter most of the hoste. And the people cried vnto Moses / & he made intercession vnto the Lorde and the fyre qwenched. And they called y⟨illegible⟩ name of the place Tabera because the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge them.

And the rascall people that was amonge them fell a lustynge / And the childern of Ysrael also went to and wepte and sayde: who shall geue us flesh to eate? we remembre the fysh which we shulde eate in Egipte for noughte / and of the Cucumbers and melouns / lekes / onyouns and garleke. But now oure soules ar dryed awaye / for oure eyes loke on nothynge els / sane apon Manna.

The Manna was as it had bene co⟨illegible⟩ander seed / and to see to lyke Bedellion. And y⟨illegible⟩ people went aboute and gathered it / & groūde it in milles or bett it in morters and boke it in pannes and made cakee of it. And the tast of it was like vnto the tast of an oylecake And when the dewe fell aboute yᵉ hoste in the nyghte / the Manna fell therewithe.

And when Moses herde the people wepe in their housholdes euery man in the dore of his tent / then the wrath of the Lorde waxed whote excedyngly: and it greued Moses also. And Moses sayde vnto the Lorde: wherfore dealest thou so cruelly with thi seruaunte: wherfore doo I not fynde fauoure in thi syghte / seynge that thou puttest the weyght of this people apon me? haue I conceyued all this people / or haue I begote them / that thou shuldest saye vnto me / carye them in thi bosome (as a nurse beareth the suckynge childe) vnto the londe which thou swarest vnto their fathers? where shulde I haue flesh to geue vnto all this people? For they wepe vnto me sayenge: geue us flesh that we maye eate. I ⟨illegible⟩ not able to bere all this people alone / for it is to heuy for me. Wherfore yf thou deale thus with me / fyll me / I praye the / yf I haue founde fauoure in thi syght and let me not se my wrechidnesse.

And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: gather vnto me .lxx. of the elders of Ysrael / which thou knowest that they are the elders of y⟨illegible⟩ people and officers ouer them / and brynge them vnto the tabernacle of witnesse / and let them stonde there with the. And I wyll come doune and talke with the there / and take of y⟨illegible⟩ spirite which is apon the and put apon them / ād they shall bere with them the burthen of the people / and so shalt thou not beare alone.

And saye vnto y⟨illegible⟩ people: halowe youre selues agenst to morow / that ye maye eate flesh for ye haue whyned in the eares of the Lorde saynge: who shall geue vs flesh to eate / for we were happie when we were in Egipte? therfore the Lorde will geue you flesh / and ye shall ⟨illegible⟩ate: Ye shall not eate one daye only other .ij. or .v. dayes / other .x. or .xx. dayes: but euen a moneth longe / ād vntill it come out at the nostrels of you / that ye be ready to perbrake: because that ye haue cast y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde a syde which is amonge you / and haue wepte before him saynge: why came we out of Egipte.

And Moses sayde: sixe hundred thousande fotemen are there of the people / amonge which I am. And thou hast sayde: I will ⟨illegible⟩e them flesh and they shall care ⟨illegible⟩ moneth ⟨illegible⟩ōge Shall the she⟨illegible⟩e ād the oxen be slayne for them to fy⟨illegible⟩d⟨illegible⟩ them / ether shall all the fysh of the see be gathered together to serue them? And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: is the lordes hande waxed shorte? Thou shalt se whe ther my worde shall come to passe vnto the or not.

And moses went out and tolde the people the sayenge of the Lorde / and gathered the lxx. elders of the people / and sett them rounde aboute the tabernacle. And the Lorde came doune in a cloude and spake vnto him / ād toke of the sprete that was apon him / ād put it apon the .lxx. elders. And as the spirite rested apon them / they prophecied and did nought els. But there remayned .ij. of y⟨illegible⟩ mē in the hoste: the one called Eldad / ād the other Medad. And the spirite rested apon them for they were of them that were written / but they wē ⟨illegible⟩ not out vnto the tabernacle: and they prophecied in the hoste.

And there ran a younge & tolde Moses and sayed: Eldad ād Medad do prophecye in the hoste. And Iosua the sonne of Nil the seruaunte of Moses which he had chosen out / answered and sayed: master Moses / forbyd them. And Moses sayed vnto him: enuy est thou for my sake? wolde God that all the⁴ Lordes people coude prophecye / and that the Lorde wolde put his spirite apon them. And then both Moses and the elders of Israel / gat them in to the hoste.

And there went forth a wynde frō y⟨illegible⟩ lorde and brought quayles from the see and let them fall aboute the hoste / euen a dayes intney rounde aboute on euery syde of the hoste / and .ij. cubetes hye apon the erth. And the people stode vpp all that nyghte and on the morowe / ād gathered quayles. And he that gathered the lest / gathered .x. homers full. And they kylled them rounde aboute the hoste

And whyle the flesh was yet betwene theirteeth / yer it was chewed vpp / the wrath of the Lorde waxed whore apon the people / and the Lorde slewe of the people an exceadynge myghtie slaughter. And they called the name of the place / the graues of lust: because they buried the people that lusted there.

And the people toke their iurney from the graues of lust vnto hazeroth / and bode at ha⟨illegible⟩roth.

Notes to Chapter 11

Chapter 12

¶ The .xij. Chapter.

ANd Mir Jam and Aaron spake agēst Moses / because of his wife of inde which he had taken: for he had taken to wyfe one of India. And they sayed: doth y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde speake ōly thorow Moses? doth he not speake also by us? And the Lorde herde it. But Moses was a very meke man aboue all the men of the erthe. And y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde spake attonce vnto Moses vnto Aaron & Mir Jam: come out ye .iij. vnto the tabernacle of witnesse: and they came out all thre.

And the Lorde came doune in the piler of the cloude and stode in the dore of the tabernacle and called Aaron ād Mir Jam. And they went out both of them. And he sayed: heare my wordes. Yf there be a prophet of the Lordes amonge you / I will shewe my selfe vnto him in a vision and will speake vnto him in a dreame: But my servaunte Moses is not so / which is faythfull in all myne housse. Vnto him I speake mouth to mouth and he seeth the syght and the facyon of the Lorde / ād notthorow rydels. Wherfore the were ye notafrayed to speake agenst my servaunte Moses?

And the Lorde was angrye with them and went his waye / and the cloude departed from of the tabernacle. And beholde / Myr-Jam was become leprous / as it were snowe And when Aaron looked apon Mir Jam and sawe that she was leprous / he sayed vnto Moses: Oh I beseche the my lorde / put not the synne apon vs which we haue folishly commytted and synned. Oh / let her not be as one that came deed oute of his mothers wombe: for halfe hyr fleshe is eaten awaye.

And Moses cryed vnto the Lorde sayenge: Oh god / heale her. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: Yf hir father had spitte in hyr face / sholde she not be ashamed .vij. dayes? let her be shut out of the hoste .vij. dayes / & after that let her be receyued in agayne. And Mir Jam was shett out of the hoste .vij. dayes: ād the people remoued not / till she was broughte in agayne. And afterwarde they remoued from▪ Hazeroth / and pitched in y⟨illegible⟩ weldernesse of Pharan.

Chapter 13

¶ The .xiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Sende men out to serche the londe of Canaan / which I geue vnto the childern of Israel: of euery trybe of their fathers a man and let them all be soche as are ruelars amonge them. And Moses at the commaundement of the Lorde sent forth out of the wildernesse of Pharan: soche men as were all heedes amonge the childern of Israel / whose names are these.

In the trybe of Ruben / Sammua y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Zacur: In the trybe of Symeon / Saphat the sonne of Hori. In the trybe of Iuda Caleph the sonne of Jephune. In the trybe of Isachar / Igeal the sonne of Joseph. In the trybe of Ephraim / Hosea the sonne of Nun. In the trybe of Ben Jamin / Paltithe sonne of Raph⟨illegible⟩. In the trybe of Zabulon / Gadiel the sonne of Sodi. In the trybe of Joseph: In the trybe of Manasse / Gaddi the sonne of Susi. In the trybe of Dan / Amiel the sonne of Gemali. In the trybe of Asser / Sethur the sonne of Micheel. In the trybe of Nephrali / Nahebi the sonne of Vaphsi. In the trybe of Gad / Guel the sonne of Machi. These are the names of the men whiche Moses sent to spie out the londe. And Moses called the name of Hosea the sonne of Nun / Josua.

And Moses sent them forth to spie out the lande of Canaan / and sayed vnto them: get you southwarde and goo vpp in to the hye contre / and see the londe what maner thynge it is ād the people that dwelleth therein: whether they be stronge or wele / ether fewe or many / and what the londe is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad / and what maner of cities they dwell in: whether they dwell intentes or walled townes / ād what maner of londe it is: whether it be fatt or leane / & whether there betrees therein or not. And be of a good corage / and brynge of the frutes of the londe. And it was aboute the tyme that grapes are first rype.

And they went vp and serched out the lande from the wildernesse of Zin vnto Rehob as men goo to Hemath / and they ascended vnto the south and came vnto Hebron / where Ahiman was and Sefai and Thalman⟨illegible⟩ the sonnes of Enacke. Hebron was bylt .vij. yere before Zoan in Egipte. And they came vnto the ryuer of Escol and they cutt doune there a braunch with one clouster of grapes & bare it apō a staffe betwene twayne / & also of the pomgranates & of the fygges of the place. The ryuer was called Escol / because of the clouster of grapes whiche the childern of Israel cutt doune there.

And they turned backe agayne from serchinge the londe / at .xl. dayes ende. And thei went and came to Moses and Aaron & vnto all the multitude of the childern of Israel / vnto the wildernesse of Pharan: euen vnto Cades / and broughte them worde and also vnto all the congregacion / and shewed them the frute of the lande. And they tolde him sayenge: we came vnto the londe wether thousendedst vs / & surely it is a lōde that floweth with milke & honye & here is of the frute of it Neuerthelesse the people be stronge y⟨illegible⟩ dwell in the londe / and the cities are walled and erceadinge greate / and moreouer / we sawe the childrē of Enack there. The amaleckes dwel in the south cuntre / and the Hethites / Iebu sites and the Amorites dwell in the moūraynes / and the Cananites dwell by the see ād alonge by the coste of Iordayne.

And Caleb stylled the murmure of the people agenst Moses sayenge: let vs goo vp and conquere it / for we be able to ouercome it. But the men that went vpp with him / sayde: We be not able to goo vpp agenst the people / for they are stronger then we: And they broughte vpp an euell reporte of the londe which they had serched / vnto the childern of Israel sayenge. The londe which we haue gone thorowe to serche it out / is a londe that cateth vpp the inhabiters thereof / and the people that we sawe in it are men of stature. And there we sawe also geantes / the childrē of Enack which are of the geaūtes. And we semed in oure syght as it were greshoppers` and so we dyd in their sighte.

Chapter 14

¶ The .xiiij. Chapter.

ANd all the multitude cryed out / & the people wepte thorow out that nyght / & all the childern of Ysrael murmured agenst Moses & Aaron. And the hole congregacion sayed vnto them: wolde god that we had dyed in the loud of Egipte / ether we wolde that we had dyed in thys wildernesse. Wherfore hath the Lorde broughte vs vnto this londe to fall apon the swerde / that both oure wy⟨illegible⟩es / & also oure childrē shulde be a praye? is it not better that we returne vnto Egipte agayne? And they sayde one to another: let vs make a captayne and returne vnto Egipte agayne.

And Moses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregacion of the multitude of the childern of Israel. And Iosua the sonne of Nun / and Caleb the sonne of Iephune which were of them that serched the londe rent their clothes and spake vnto all the companye of the childern of Ysrael saynge: The londe which we walked thorowe to serche it / is a very good lande. Yf the Lorde haue lust to vs / he will bringe vs in to this londe & geue it vs / which is a lond y⟨illegible⟩ floweth with mylke & hony. But in any wise rebell not agenst the Lorde / Moreouer feare ye not the people of the londe / for they are but bred for vs. Their shylde is departed from them / & the Lorde is with vs: feare them not therfore.

And all the whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glorie of the Lorde appered in the tabernacle of witnesse / vnto all the childern of Israel. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: Howe longest all thys people rayle apon me / and how longe will it be / yer they beleue me / for all my signes whiche I haue shewed amonge them? I will smyte them with the p⟨illegible⟩stilence & destroy thē / and will make of the a greatter nacion and a mightier then they.

And Moses sayed vnto the Lorde: then⁵ the Egiptians shall heare it / for thou broughtest this people with thy mighte from amonge them. And it wilbe tolde to the inhabiters of this lande also / for they haue herde likewise / that thou the Lorde art amōge this people / ād yᵗ thou art sene face to face / & y⟨illegible⟩ t⟨illegible⟩y cloude stondeth ouer them & that thou goest before them by daye tyme in a piler of a cloude / & in a piler of fyre by nyght. Yf thou shall kill all this people as thei were but one mā then the nacions which haue herde the fame of the / will speake sayenge: because yᵗ Lorde was not able to bringe in this people in to ⟨illegible⟩ londe which he swore vnto them / therfore he slewe them in the wildernesse.

So now lat the power of my Lord be greate / acordynge as thou hast spoken sayenge: the Lorde is longe yer he be angrye / ād full of merey / and suffereth synne and trespace / and leaueth no man innocent / and visiteth the vnryghtuousnesse of the fathers vppon y⟨illegible⟩ childern / euē vpō yᵗ thirde & fourth generacion. be mercyfull I beseche y⟨illegible⟩ therfore / vnto yᵉ synne of this people acordinge vnto thi greate mercy / & acordinge as thou hast forgeuē this people from Egipte euen vnto this place.

And the Lorde sayed: I haue forgeuē it / acordynge to thy request. But as trulye as Ilyue / all the erth shalbe fylled with my glorye. For of all those mē whiche haue sene my glorye & my miracles which I dyd in Egipte & in y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse / & yet haue tempted me now this .x. tymes & haue not herkened vnto my voyce / there shall not one se the lond whiche I sware vnto their fathers / nether shall any of thē that rayled apō me / se it. But my servan̄te Caleb. because there is another maner sprite with hi / & because he hath folowed me vnto the vttmost: him I will bringe in to the lond which he hath walked in / & his seed shall conquere it / & also the Amalechites ād Cananites which dwell in the lowe contrees Tomorowe turne you and gete you in to the wildernesse: euen the waye towarde the re⟨illegible⟩ see.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses ād Aaron sayenge: how longe shall this euell multitude murmure agenst me? I haue herde y⟨illegible⟩ murmurynges of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Ysrael whyche they murmure agenste me. Tell them / y⟨illegible⟩ the Lorde sayeth. As truely as I lyue / I wil do vnto you euen as ye haue spoken in myne eares. Youre carkasses shall lye in this wildernesse / nether shall any of these numbres which were numbred from .xx. yere & aboue of you which haue murmured agenst me come in to the londe ouer which I lifted myne hande to make you dwell therein / saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune / and Iosua the sonne of Nun.

And youre childern whiche ye sayed shuld be a praye / thē I will bringe in / & they shall knowe the londe which ye haue refused / and youre carkesses shall lye in this wildernesse And youre childern shall wādre in this wildernesse .xl. yeres & suffre for youre whoredome vntill your carkasses be wasted in the wildernesse / after the numbre of the dayes in which ye serched out y⟨illegible⟩ londe .xl. dayes / & euery daye a yere: so that they shall bere your vnrightuousnes .xl. yere / & ye shall fele my vengeaunce I the Lorde haue sayed yᵗ I will do it vnto all this euell congregacion y⟨illegible⟩ are gathered together agenst me: euen in thys wildernesse ye shalbe consumed / and here ye shall dye.

And the men which Moses sent to serche the londe / and which (when they came agayne) made all the people to murmure agenst it in that they broughte vpp a slaunder apon y⟨illegible⟩ londe: dyed for their bryngenge vp that euell slaunder apon it / and were plaged before the Lorde. But Iosua the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephune which were of y⟨illegible⟩ mē that went to serche the londe / lyued still. And Moses tolde these sayenges vnto all the childern of Ysrael / and the people toke great sorowe.

And they rose vp yerlee in the mornynge &⁶ gau them vpp in to the toppe of the mountayne sayenge: lo we be here / ād will goo vpp vn to the place of which the Lorde sayed / for we haue synned. And Moses sayed: wherfore will ye goo on this maner beyonde the worde of the Lorde? it will not come well to passe goo not vpp for the Lorde is not amonge you that ye be not slayne before youre enemyes. For the Amalechytes and the Cananites are there before you / & ye will fall apon the swerde: because ye are turned a waye from y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde / and therfore the Lorde wyll not be with you.

But they were blynded to goo vpp in to y⟨illegible⟩ hyll toppe: Neuer the lather / the arke of the testament of the Lorde and Moses departed not out of the hoste. Then the Amalekytes ād the Cananites which dwelt in that hill / came doune and sinote them and hewed thē: euen vnto Horma.

Notes to Chapter 14

Chapter 15

¶ The .xv. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayēge: speake vnto the childern of Israel & saye vnto them: when ye be come in to y⟨illegible⟩ londe of youre habitacion which I geue vnto you / and will offre an offerynge apon the fyre vnto the Lorde / whether it be a burnt offerynge or a speciall vowe or frewill offerynge or yf it be in youre principall festes to make a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde / of the oxen o⟨illegible⟩ of the flocke.

Then / let him that offereth his offerynge vnto the Lorde / brynge also a meat offerynge of a tenth deale of floure myngled with the fourth parte of an hin of oyle / and the fourth parte of an hin of wine for a drynk offerynge and offer with y⟨illegible⟩ burnt offerynge or any other offerynge when it is a lambe. And vnto a rā thou shalt offer a meat offerynge of .ij. tenth deales of floure / myngled with y⟨illegible⟩ thyrde parte of an hin of oyle / and to a drynk offerynge thou shalt offer the thyrde parte of an hin of wyne / to be a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde.

When thou offerist an oxe to a burnt offerynge or in any speciall vowe or pease offeringe vnto the Lorde / then thou shalt brynge vn to an oxe / a meat offerynge of .iij. tenth deales of floure myngled with halfe an hin of oyle. And thou shalt brynge for a drynk offerynge halfe an hin of wyne / that is an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. This is the maner that shalbe done vnto one oxe / one ram a lambe or a kyd. And acordynge to the numbre of soche offerynges / thou shalt encrease y⟨illegible⟩ meat offerynges and the drynk offerynges

All that are of youre selues shall do these thinges after this maner / when he offereth an offerynge of swete sauoure vnto the L⟨illegible⟩de And yf there be a straunger with you or be amonge you in youre generacions / and will offer an offerynge of a swete sauoure vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde: euen as ye do / so he shall doo. One ordynaunce shall serue both for you of the congregacion / and also for the straunger. And it shalbe an ordynaunce for euer amonge youre childern after you / that the straunger and ye shalbe lyke before the Lorde. One lawe and one maner shall serue / both for you and for y⟨illegible⟩ straunger that dwelleth with you.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel ād saye vnto them: When ye be come into the londe whether I will brynge you / then whē ye will eate of the bred of the londe / ye shall geue an heue offerynge vnto the Lorde. Ye shall geue a cake of the first of youre dowe vnto an heue offerynge: as ye do the heue offerynge of the barne / euen so ye shall heue it. Of the first of youre dowe ye must geue vnto the Lorde an heue offerynge / thorow out youre generacions.

Yf ye ouerse youre selues and obserue not all these commaundmētes which the Lorde hath spoken vnto Moses / & all that the Lorde hath commaunded you by y⟨illegible⟩ hāde of Moses / from the first daye forwarde that the Lorde commaunded amonge youre generacion: when oughte is commytted ignorantly before the eyes of the congregacion / then all the multitude shall offer a calfe for a burnt offerynge to be a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde / & the meat offerynge and the drynk offerynge there to / acordynge to the maner: and an he goote for a synofferynge. And the preast shall make an aronement for all the multitude of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel / ād it shalbe forgeuen the for it was ignoraunce. And they shall brynge their giftes vnto the offerynge of the Lorde / and their synofferynge before the Lorde for their ignoraunce. And it shalbe forgeuen vnto all the multitude of the childern of Israel / & vnto the straunger that dwelleth amōge you: for the ignorauncye perteyneth vnto all the people.

Yf any one soule synne thorow ignoraunce he shall brynge a she goote of a yere olde for a synofferynge. And the preast shall make an atonement for the soule that synned ignorauntly with the synofferynge before the Lorde and reconsyle him / and it shalbe forgeuen him. And both thou that art borne one of the childern of Israel and the straunger that dwelleth amonge you shall haue both one lawe / yf ye synne thorow ignorauncye.

And the soule that doth ought presumpmously / whether he be an Israelite or a straūger / the same hath despysed the Lorde. And that soule shalbe destroyed from amonge his people / because he hath despised the worde of the Lorde a hath brokē his cōmaūdmentes / y⟨illegible⟩ soule therfore shall perysh ād his synne shalbe apon him.

And whyle the childern of Ysrael were in the wildernesse / they founde a man gatherynge stickes vppon the Sabath daye. And they y⟨illegible⟩ founde him gatherynge stickes / broughte him vnto Moses and Aaron and vnto all y⟨illegible⟩ congregacion: ād they put him in warde / for it was not declared what shulde be done vnto him. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: y⟨illegible⟩ mā shall dye. let all the multitude stone him with stones without the hoste. And all y⟨illegible⟩ multitude broughte him without the hoste ād stoned him with stones / and he dyed as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Ysrael and byd them / that they make them gardes apon the quarters of their garmētes thorow out their generacions / ād let them make the gardes of ribandes of Iacyncte And the garde shall⁷ be vnto you to loke apon it / that ye remembre all the commaundmentes of the Lorde and doo them: that ye seke not a waye after youre awne hertes and after youre awne eyes / for to goo a whooringe after them: but that ye remembre and doo all my commaundmentes and be holy vnto youre God / for I am y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde youre God / which broughte you out of y⟨illegible⟩ londe of Egipte / to be youre God. I am the Lorde God.

Notes to Chapter 15

Chapter 16

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

ANd Corah the sonne of Iezehar the sonne of Cahath the sonne of Leui: & Dathan & Abiram the sonne of Eliab / and On the sonne of Peleth / the sonne of Ruben: stode vpp before Moses / with other of the childern of Israel .ij. hundred and fyftie / heedes of the congregacion / and councelers / and men of fame / and they gathered thēselues together agenst Moses and Aaron & sayed vnto them: ye haue done ynough. For all the multitude are holy euery one of them / and the Lorde is amonge them. Why therfore heue ye youre selues vpp aboue the congregacion of the Lorde.

When Moses herde it / he fell apon his face and spake vnto Corah and vnto all his companye sayenge: tomorow the Lorde will shewe who is his and who is holy / and will take them vnto him / and whom so euer he hath chosen / he will cause to come to him. This doo: take fyre pannes / thou Corah and all thi companye / and do fyre therein ād put cēs thereto before the Lorde tomorowe: And then whom soeuer the Lorde doeth chose / the same is holy. Ye make ynough to doo ye childern of Leui.

And Moses sayed vnto Corah: heare ye childern of leui / Semeth it but a small thynge vnto you / that y⟨illegible⟩ God of Israel hath separated you frō the multitude of Israel to brynge you to him / to doo the seruyce of the dwellynge place of the Lorde / and to stonde before the people to minystre vnto them? he hath taken the to him and all thi brethern the sonnes of leui with the / and ye seke the office of y⟨illegible⟩ preast also. For which cause both thou and all thi companye are gathered together agenst the Lorde: for what is Aaron / that ye shulde murmure agenst him.

And Moses sent to call Dathan ād Abiram the sonnes of Eliab / and they answered: we will not come. Semeth it a small thynge vnto the that thou hast broughte us out of a londe that floweth with mylke and honye / to kyll us in y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse. But that thou shuldest reygne ouer us also? More ouer thou hast broughte us vnto no londe that floweth with mylke and honye / nether hast geuen us possessions of feldes or of vynes. Echer wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men: we wyll not come.

And Moses waxed very angrye and sayed vnto the Lorde: Turne not vnto their offerynges. I haue not taken so moch as an asse⁸ from them / nether haue vexed any of them. Then Moses sayed vnto Corah: Be thou ād all thy companye before the Lorde: both thou / they and Aaron to morowe. And take euery man his censer and put cens in them / & come before the Lorde euery man with hys censer: two hundred and fyftie censers / and Aaron with his censer. And they toke euery man his censer and put fyre in them & layed cens thereon / and stode in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and Moses & Aaron also. And Corah gathered all the congregacyon agenst them vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse.

And the glorye of the Lorde appered vnto all the congregacion. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: separate youre selues from this congregacion / that I maye consume them a tonce. And they fell apon their faces and sayed: O most myghtie God of the spirites of all fleshe / one mā hath synned / and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude? And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the congregacion and saye: Gett you awaye from aboute the dwellynge of Corah / Dathan & Abiram.

And Moses rose vpp and went vnto Dathan & Abirā / & the elders of Israel folowed him. And he spake vnto the congregacyon sayenge: departe from the tentes of these weked men and twyche nothinge of theres: lest ye peryshe in all there synnes. And they gate them from the dwellynge of Corah / Dathan and Abiram / on euery syde. And Dathan and Abiram came out & stode in yᵉ dore of there tētes with their wyues / their sonnes and their childern.

And Moses sayed: Hereby ye shall knowe that the Lorde hath sent me to doo all the se workes / and that I haue not done them of myne awne mynde: Yf these men dye the comon deth of all men or yf they be visyted after the visitacion of all men / then the Lorde hath not sent me. But and yf the Lorde make a newe thinge / and the erth open hir mouthe and swalowe them and all that pertayne vnto them / so that they goo doune quycke in to hell: then ye shall vnderstōd / that these mē haue rayled apon the Lorde.

And as soone as he had made an ende of speakynge all these wordes / the grounde cla⟨illegible⟩e a sunder that was vnder them / and y⟨illegible⟩ erth opened hir mouthe and swalowed them and their housses and all the mē that were with Corah and all their goodes. And they and all that pertayned vnto them / went doune alyue vnto hell / and the erthe closed apon them / and they peryshed from amonge the congregacyon. And all Israel that were aboute them / fledde at the crye of them. For they sayed: The erthe myghte happelye swalowe vs also. And there came oute a fyre from the Lorde and consumed the two hundred and fyftye men that offred cens.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Speake vnto Eleazer the sonne of Aaron the preaste and let him take vppe the censers oute of the burnynge and scater the fyre here and there / for the censers of these synners are halowed in theyr deethes: and let them be beten in to thyne pla⟨illegible⟩es and fastened apon the altare. For they offred thē before the Lorde / and therfore they are holye and they shalbe a sygne vnto the childern of Israel.

And Eleazar the preast toke the brasen censers which they that were burnt had offered / and bet them and fastened them vppon the altare / to be a remembraunce vnto the childern of Israel / that no straunger whiche is not of the seed of Aaron / come nere to offer cens before the Lorde / that he be not made like vnto Corah and his companye: as the Lorde sayed vnto him by the hande of Moses.

And on the morowe all the multitude of the childern of Israell murmured agenste Moses and Aaron sayenge: ye haue kylled the people of the Lorde. And when the multitude was gathered agenste Moses and Aaron / they loked towarde the tabernacle of witnesse. And beholde / the cloude had couered it and the glorye of the Lorde appeared. And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witnesse. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Gett you from this congregacyon / that I maye consume them quyckelye. And they fell apon theyr faces.

And Moses sayde vnto Aaron: take a censer and put fyre therein out of the alter / and poure on cens / and goo quyckly vnto the cōgregacion and make an attonement for thē. For there is wrath gone oute from the Lorde / and there is a plage begone. And Aaron toke as Moses commaunded him / and ran vnto the congregacion: and beholde / the plage was begone amonge the people / and he put on cens / and made an attonement for the people. And he stode betwene the deed / and them that were alyue / and the plage ceased. And the numbre of them that dyed in the plage / were .xiiij. thousande and seuen hundred: besyde them that dyed aboute the busynes of Corah. And Aaron went agayne vnto Moses vnto the dore off the tabernacle of witnesse / and the plage ceased.

Notes to Chapter 16

Chapter 17

¶ The .xvij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and take of them / for euery pryncypall housse a rod / of their princes ouer the housses of their fathers: euen .xij. roddes / and wryte euery mans name apon his rod. And wryte Aarons name apon the staffe of Leui: for euery heedman ouer the housses of their fathers shall haue a rod. And put thē in the tabernacle of witnesse where I wyll mete you. And his rod whom I chose / shall blossome: So I wyll make cease from me the grudgynges of the childern of Israel which they grudge agenst you.

And Moses spake vnto the childern off Israel / and all the prynces gaue him for euery prynce ouer their fathers housses / a rod: euen. xij roddes / and the rod of Aaron was amonge the rodes. And Moses put y⟨illegible⟩ roddes before the Lorde in the tabernacle of witnesse. And on the morowe / Moses went in to the tabernacle: and beholde / the rod of Aaron of the housse of Leui was budded & bare blosomes and almondes. And Moses broughte out all the staues from before the Lorde / vnto all the childern of Israel / & thei loked apon them / and toke euery man his staffe.

And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: brynge Aarons rod agayne before the witnesse to be kepte for a token vnto the childern of re bellyon / that their murmurynges maye ceasse frome / that they dye not. And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaunded him. And the childern of Israel spake vnto Moses sayenge: beholde / we are destroyed and all come to nought: for whosoeuer cometh nyethe dwellynge of the Lord / dyeth. Shall we vtterly consume awaye?

Chapter 18

¶ The .xviij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde sayed vnto Aaron▪ Thou and thy sonnes and thy fathers housse with the / shall bere the faute of that whiche is done amysse in the holy place. And thou and thy sonnes with the / shall beare the fame of that whiche is done amysse in youre preasthode. And thy brethern also y⟨illegible⟩ tribe of l⟨illegible⟩ui / y⟨illegible⟩ trybe of thy father take with the / and let them be yoyned vnto the and ministre vnto the. And thou and thy sonnes with the shall ministre before the tabernacle of witnesse. And let them wayte apon the and apon all the tabernacle: only let them not come nye the holy vessels & the alter / that both they ād ye also dye not. And let them be by the and wayte on the tabernacle of witnesse / and on all the seruyce of the tabernacle / and let no straunger come nye vnto you.

Wayte therfore apon the holye place and apon the alter / yᵗ there fall no moare wrath apon the childern of Israel: beholde / I haue taken youre brethern the leuites from amonge childern of Israel / to be youres / as giftes geuen vnto the Lorde to doo the seruyce of the tabernacle of witnesse. And se that both thou and thy sonnes with the take hede vnto youre preastes office / in all thinges that pertayne vnto the alter and within the vayle. And se that ye serue / for I haue geuē youre preastes office vnto you for a gifte to do seruyce: & the straunger that cometh nye / shall dye.

And the Lorde spake vnto Aaron: beholde / I haue geuen the the kepynge of myne heueofferynges in all the halowed thynges of the childern of Israel. And vnto the I haue geuen them vnto anoyntynge ād to thy sonnes: to be a dutye for euer. This shall be thyne of most holy sacrifyces: All their giftes / thorow out all their meatofferynges synneoffrynges and trespaceoffrynges whiche they bringe vnto me: They shalbe most holy vnto the ād vnto thy sonnes. And ye shall eate it in the most holye place: all that are males shall eate of it: for it shalbe holye vnto the.

And this shalbe thyne: the heueofferynge of their giftes / thorow out all the waueofferynges of the childern of Israel / for I haue geuen them vnto the and thy sonnes / and thy doughters with the / to be a dutye for euer: and all that are cleane in thy house / shall eate of it / all the fatt of the oyle / of the wyne and of the corne: their first frutes which they geue vnto the Lorde that haue I geuen vnto the. The first frutes of all that is in their londes whiche they brynge vnto the Lorde / shalbe thyne: and all that are cleane in thyne housse / shall eate off it.

All dedicate thinges in Israel / shalbe thine. All that breaketh the matrice of all flesh that men bringe vnto the Lorde / bothe of man and beest / shalbe thyne. Neuerthelater, the firstborne of man shalbe redemed / and the firstborne of vncleane beestes shalbe redemed. And their redemptions shalbe at a moneth olde / valowed at .v. sycles of syluer / of the holy sycle. A sycle maketh twentye Geras. But the firstborne of oxen / shepe & goo tes shall not be redemed. For they are holy / and thou shalt sprinkle their bloud apon the alter / and shalt burne their fatt to be a sacrifyce of a swete sauoure vnte the Lorde.

And the flesh of them shalbe thyne / as the waue brest and all the right shulder is thyne. All the holy heueofferynges whiche the childern of Israel heue vnto yᵉ Lorde / I geue the & thy sonnes & thi doughters with the to be a dutye for euer. And it shalbe a salted couenaunte for euer / before the Lorde: vnt⟨illegible⟩ the and to thy seed with the.

And the Lorde spake vnto Aaron: thou shalt haue none enheritaunce in their lande / nor parte amonge them. For I am thy parte and thy enheritaunce among the childern of Israel. And beholde I haue geuen the children of Leui / the tenth in Israel to enherite / for the seruyce whiche they serue in the rabernacle of witnesse / that the childrē of Israel henceforth come ne⟨illegible⟩nye the tabernacle of witnesse / and beare synne and dye. And the leuites shall do the seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse and beare their synne / and it shalbe a lawe for euer vnto youre childern after you: But amongethe children of Israel they shall enheret none enheritaunce. For⁹ therithes of the childern of Israel whiche they heve vnto the Lorde / I haue geuen the Leuites to enherett. Wherfore I haue sayed vnto them: Amonge the chyldern off Israell ye shall enherett none enheritaunce.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the leuites and saye vnto thē: when ye take of the childern of Israel therithes whiche I haue geuen you of them to youre enheritaunce / ye shall take an heueoffrynge of that same forthe Lorde: euen the tenth of that tythe. And it shalbe rekened vnto you for youre heueofferynge / euen as though ye gaue corne out of the barne or a full offerynge from the wyne presse, And of this maner ye shall heue an heueofferynge vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde / of all youre tithes which ye receaue of the childern of Israel / & ye shall geue there of the Lordes heueofferinge vnto Aaron the preast Of all youre giftes / ye shall take out the Lordes heue offerynge: euen the fatt of all their halowed thynges.

And thou shalt saye vnto them: when ye haue take a wayethe fatt of it from it / it shalbe counted vnto the leuites / as y⟨illegible⟩ encrease of corne and wyne And ye shall care it in all places both ye and youre housholdes / for it is youre rewarde for youre seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse. And ye shall beare no synne by y⟨illegible⟩ reason of it / when ye haue taken from it the fatt of it: nether shall ye vnhalowe y⟨illegible⟩ halowed thynges of the childern of Israel / and so shall ye not dye.

Notes to Chapter 18

Chapter 19

¶ The .xix. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: this is the ordynaunce of the lawe which y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde cōmaūdeth sayenge: speake vnto y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel and let them take the a redd cowe with out spot wherein is no blemysh / & which neuer bare yocke apō her. And ye shall geue her vnto Eleazer the preast / and he shall brynge her with out the hoste and cause her to be slayne before him.

And Eleazar y⟨illegible⟩ preast shall take of hir bloude vppon his fynger / and sprynkle it streghe towarde the tabernacle of witnesse. vi⟨illegible⟩. tymes And he shall cause the cowe to be burnt in his syghte: both skyn / flesh and bloude / with the doūge also. And let the preast take cipresse wodd / and Isope and purple cloth / and cast it apon the cowe as she burneth. And let the preast wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water / and then come in to the hoste / and y⟨illegible⟩ preast shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.

And he that burneth her / shall wash his clothes in water a bathe his flesh also in water / ād be vncleane vntill euen. And one that is cleane / shall goo and take vpp the asshes of the cowe / and put them without the hoste in a cleane place / where they shall be kepte to make sprynklynge water for the multitude of¹⁰ the childern of Israel: for it is a synofferynge And let him that gathereth the asshes of the cowe / wash his clothes / and remayne vncleane vntill euen. And this shalbe vnto the childern of Israel ād vnto the straunger y⟨illegible⟩ dwelleth amonge them / a maner for euer.

He that twycheth any deed persone / shalbe vncleane .vii. dayes. And he shall purifye him selfe with the asshes the thyrde daye ād then he shalbe cleane the seuenth daye. And yf he purifye not himselfe the thyrde daye / thē the seuenth daye / he shall not be cleane. Who soeuer twicheth any persone y⟨illegible⟩ dyeth a sprynkleth not him selfe / defyleth the dwellynge of the Lorde: ād therfore that soule shalbe roted out of Israel / because he hath not sprynkled the sprynklynge water vppon him. he shalbe vncleane / and his vnclennesse shall remayne vppon him.

This is the lawe of the man that dyeth in in a tent: all that come in to the tent and all y⟨illegible⟩ is in the tent / shalbe vncleane. vij dayes. And all the vessels that be opē which haue no lyd nor couerynge apon them / are vncleane. And who soeuer twicheth one that is slayne with a swerde in the feldes / or a deed persone / or a bone of a deed man / or a graue: shall be vncleane .vij. dayes.

And they shall take for an vncleane persone / of the burnt asshes of the synofferynge / & put runnynge water thereto in to a vessell. And a cleane persone shall take Isope and dyppe it in the water / and sprynkle it apon y⟨illegible⟩ tent and apon all the vessells and on the son that were there / and apon him that twyched a bone or a slayne persone or a deed body or a graue. And the cleane persone shall sprynkle apon the vncleane the thyrde daye and the seuenth daye. And the seuenth daye he shall purifie him selfe and wasshe his clothes and bathe him selfe in water / and shalbe cleane at euen.

Yf any be vncleane and sprynkle not him selfe / the same soule shalbe destroyed frō amōge the congregacion: for he hath defyled the holy place of the Lorde. And he that sprynkleth yᵉ sprynklynge water / shall wassh his clothes.

And he that twicheth the sprynklynge water / shalbe vncleane vntill euē. And what soeuer yᵗ vncleane persone twicheth / shalbe vncleane. And the soule that twicheth it / shalbe vn cleane vntill the euen.

Notes to Chapter 19

Chapter 20

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

ANd the whole multitude of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel / came in to the deserte of Sin in the first moneth / & the people dwelt at cades. And there dyed Mir Iam / & was buried there. More ouer there was no water for the multitude / wherfore they gathered thēselues together agēst Moses and agēst Aaron. And the people chode with Moses and spake sayenge: wold God that we had perysshed when oure brethern perysshed before yᵉ Lorde. Why haue ye brought the congregacion of the Lorde vnto this wildernesse / that both we & oure catell shulde dye here? Wherfore brought ye us out of Egipte / to brynge us into this vngracious place / which is no place of seed nor offygges nor vynes nor of pomgranates / nether is there any water to drynke?

And Moses and Aaron went from the congregacion vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and fell apon their faces. And yᵉ glorye of the Lorde appered vnto them. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: take y⟨illegible⟩ staffe / and gather thou and thi brother Aarō the congregacion together / and saye vnto the rocke before their eyes / that he geue forth his water. And thou shalt brynge thē water out of the rocke and shalt geue the company drynke / and their beesse also.

And Moses toke the staffe from before yᵉ Lorde / as he commaunded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregacion together before the rocke / ād he sayed vnto thē heare ye rebellyons / must we f⟨illegible⟩t you water out of this rocke? And Moses lifte vp his hāde with his staffe and smote the rocke .ij. tymes / and the water came out abundantly / & the multitude dranke and their beesse also.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses & Aaron: Because ye beleued me not / to sanctifye me in the eyes of the childern of Israel / therfore ye shall not brynge this congregacion in to the londe which I haue geuen them. This is the water ofstryffe / because the childern of Israel stroue with the Lorde / & he was sanctifyed apon them.

And Moses sent messengers from cades vnto the kynge of Edome. Thus sayeth thi brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trauell yᵗ hath happened us / how oure fathers wēt doune in to Egipte / and how we haue dwelt in Egipte a longetyme / and how the Egip⟨illegible⟩ans vexed both us and oure fathers. Then we cryed vnto the Lorde and he herde oure voyces / and sent an angell and hath fett us out of Egipte. And beholde / we are in Cades & citi⟨illegible⟩ harde by the borders of thi contre let us goo a good felowshipe thorow thi contre we wyll not goo thorow the feldes nor thorow the vyneyardes / nether will we drynke of the water of the fountaynes: but we will goo by the hye waye and nether turne vnto yᵉ ryghte hande nor to yᵉ lefte / vntill we be past thi contre.

And Edom answered him: Se thou come not by me / lest I come out agēst the with the swerde And the childern of Israel sayed vnto him: we will goo by the beeten waye: & yf ether we or oure catell drynke of thi water / we will paye for it / we wyll doo nomoare but passe thorow by sote only. And he sayed: ye shall not goo thorow. And Edom came out agenst him with moch people and with a myghtie power. And thus Edom denyed to geue Israel passage thorow his contre. And Israel turned a waye from him.

And the childern of Israel remoued frō Cades and went vnto mount Hor with all the congregacion. And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor / harde vppon the costes of the londe of Edom sayenge: let Aaron be put vnto his people / for he shall not come in to the londe which I haue geuen vnto the childern of Israel: because ye dishobeyed my mouth at the water of stryffe Take Aaron and Eleazer his sonne / & brynge them vpp in to mount Hor / and stryppe Aaron out of his vestimentes and put them apon Eleazer his sonne / ād let Aaron be put vnto his people and dye there.

And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaunded: and they went vpp in to mount Hor in the syghte of all the multitude. And Moses toke off Aarons clothes and put them apon Eleazer his sonne / and Aaron dyed there in the toppe of the mount. And Moses & Eleazer came doune out of the mount. And all yᵉ¹¹ housse of Israel morned for Aarō .xxx. dayes

Notes to Chapter 20

Chapter 21

The .xxi. Chapter.

ANd when kynge Arad the cananite which dwelt in the south parties / harde tell that Israel came by the waye that the spies had founde out: he came and foughte with Israel and toke some of them presoners. Then Israel vowed a vowe vnto the Lorde and sayed: Yf thou wilt geue this people in to oure hādes / we will destroye their cities. And the Lorde herde yᵉ voyce of Israel / ād delyuered them the Cananites. And they destroyed both them and their cities / and called the place Horma.

Then they departed from mount hortowarde the redd se: to compasse the londe of Edō. And the soules of the people faynted by the waye. And the people spake agenst God and agenst Moses: wherfore hast thou brought us out of Egipte / for to dye in the wildernesse for here is nether bred nor water / and oure soules lotheth this lyghte bred.

Then the Lorde sent fyrie serpentes amōge the people / which stonge them: so that moch people dyed in Israel. And the people came to Moses and sayed: we haue synned / for we haue spoken agenst the Lorde and agenst the make intercession to the Lorde / that he take a wayethe serpentes from us And Moses made intercession for the people. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: make the a serpent ād hāge it vpp for a sygne / and lett as many as are bytten loke apon it and they shall lyue. And Moses made a serpent of brasse ād sert it vp for a sygne And when the serpentes had bytten any man / he went and behelde the serpent of brasse and recouered.

And the childern of Israel remoued and pitched in Oboth. And they departed from Oboth and laye at Egebarim in the wildernesse which is before Moab on the cast syde. And they remoued thence / and pitched ap⟨illegible⟩ the ryuer of zarad. And they departed thence and pitched on the other syde of Arnō / which ryuer is in the wildernesse / and cometh out of the costes of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab / betwene Moab and the Amorites. Wherfore it is spoken in the boke of the warre of the Lorde: goo with a violence / both on the ryuer of Arnon and on the ryuers heed / whiche sho⟨illegible⟩eth doune to dwell at Ar / and leneth vppon the costes of Moab.

And from thence they came to Bear / whiche is the well whereof the Lorde spake vnto Moses: gather the people together / that I maye geue them water. Then Israel sange this songe: Aryse vpp well / synge thereto: The well whiche the rulers dygged and the captaynes of the people with the helpe of the lawegeuer and with their staues.

And from this wildernesse they went to Ma⟨illegible⟩ana / and from Ma⟨illegible⟩ana to Nahali⟨illegible⟩l / and from Nahali⟨illegible⟩l to Bamoth / and from Bamoth to the valay that is in the felde of Moab in the toppe of Pisga which boweth towarde the wildernesse.

And Israel sent messengers vnto Sihō / kynge of the Amorites sayenge: let vs goo thorow thy londe. we will not turne in to thy feldes nor in to thy vyneyardes / nether drynke of the water of the welles: but we will goo alonge by the comon waye / vntill we be past thy contre. And Sihō wolde geue Israel no licence to passe thorow his contre / but gathered all his people together & went out agēst Israel in to the wildernesse. And he came to Iaheza and foughte with Israel.

And Israel smote him with the edge of the swerde and conquered his londe / from Arnon vnto Iabock: euen vnto the childern of Ammon. for the borders of the childern of Ammon / are stronge. And Israel toke all these cities & dwelt in all y⟨illegible⟩ cities of y⟨illegible⟩ Amorites: in Esbon and in all the townes that longe there to. For Esbon was the citie of Sihon the kinge of the Amorites which Sihon had fought before with the kinge of the Moabites / ād had taken all his londe out of his hande / euen vnto Arnon.

Wherfore it is a prouerbe: goo to Hesbō and let the citie of Sihon be bylt ād made redye for there is a fyre gone out of Hesbon & a flame frō the citie of Sihō ād hath cōsumed Ar of the Moabites and the men of the hylles of Arnon. Wo be to the Moab: o people of Chemos ye are forloren. His sonnes are put to flighte & his doughters brought captyne vnto Sihon kinge of the Amorites. There lighte is out from Hesbon vnto ⟨illegible⟩bon and we made a wildernesse euen vnto Nopha whiche reacheth vnto Mediba. And thus Israell dwelt in the londe of the Amorites.

And Moses sent to serche oute Iaezer / & they toke the townes belongynge thereto ād conquered the Amorites that were there. And then they turned and went vppe towarde Bason. And Og the kynge of Bason came out agenst them / both he and all his people / to warre at Edrei. And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: feare him not / for I haue delyuered him in to thy handes with all his people and his lande. And thou shalt do with him as thou dydest with Sihon the kynge of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And they smote him and his sonnes and all hys people / vntyll there was nothinge left him. And they conquered his lande. And y⟨illegible⟩ children of Israel remoued and pitched in the feldes of Moab / on the other syde of Iordane / by Iericho.

Chapter 22

¶ The .xxij. Chapter.

ANd Balac the sonne of Ziphor sawe all that Israel had done to the Amorites / and the Moabites were sore a frayed of the people / because they were many / and abhorred the childern of Israel: And Moab sayed vnto the elders of Madian / now this companye hath lickte vpp all that are rounde aboute vs / as an oxe lycketh vp the grasse of the felde. And Balac the sonne of Ziphor was kinge of the Moabites at that tyme.

And he sent messangers vnto Balam the sonne of Beor / the interpreter whiche dwelt vppon the ryuer of the lande of the childern of his folke / to call him sayenge: beholde / there is a people come out of Egipte which couereth the face of the erthe and lye euen harde by me. Come nowe a felashippe and curse me this people. For they are to myghtie for me / so pera⟨illegible⟩enture I myghte be able to smyte them and to dryue them oute of the londe. For I wote that whome thou blessest shalbe blessed / and whome thou cursest shalbe cursed.

And the elders of Moab went with the elders of Madian / and the rewarde of the sothe sayenge in their handes. And they came vnto Balam and tolde him the wordes of Balac. And he sayed vnto them: tary here all nyghte and I will bringe you worde / euen as the Lorde shall saye vnto me. And the lordes of Moab abode with Balam.

And god came vnto Balam and sayed: what men are these which are with the▪ And Balam sayed vnto god: Balac the sonne of Ziphor kynge of Moab hath sent vnto me sayenge: beholde / there is a people come out of Egipte and couereth the face of the erthe: come now therfore and curse me them / that so peraduenture I maye be able to ouercome them in batell / and to dryue thē out. And god sayed vnto Balam: thou shalt not goo with them / nether curse the people / for they are blessed.

And Balam rose vp in the mornynge & sayed vnto the lordes of Balac: gett you vnto youre lande / for the Lorde will not suffre me to goo with you. And the lordes of Moab rose vpp and went vnto Balac and sayed Balam wolde not come with vs. And Balac sent agayne a greatter companye of lordes ād more honorable than they. And they came to Balam and tolde him: Thus sayeth Balac the sonne of Ziphor: oh / let nothynge lett the to come vnto me / for I will greatly promote the vnto great honoure / ād will doo whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me / come therfore I praye the / curse me this people.

And Balam answered and sayed vnto the servauntes of Balac: Yf Balac wolde geue me his housfull of syluer and golde / I can goo no further than the worde of the Lorde my god / to do lesse or moare. Neuerthelesse tarye ye here all nyghte: that I maye were / what the Lorde will saye vnto me once moare. And God came to Balam by nyghte and sayed vnto him: Yf the men come to fett the / ryse vppe and goo with them: but what I saye vnto the / that onlye thou shalt doo.

And Balam rose vppe carly and sadelde his asse and went with the lordes of Moab / But God was angrye because he went. And the angell of the Lorde stode in the waye agenste hym. And he ryd vppon hys asse and two seruauntes with him. And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde stonde in the waye and his swerde drawen in his hande / she turned a syde oute of the waye and went out in to the felde. And Balam smote the asse / to turne her in to the waye.

And the angell of the Lorde went and stode in a path betwene the vyneyardes / where was a wall on the one syde and another on the other. When the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde / she wrenshed vnto the walle and thrust▪ Balams fote vnto the wall / and he smote her agayne. And the angell of y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde went forder and stode in a narowe place / where was no waye to turne / ether to the right hande or to the lyfte. And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde / she fell downe vnder Balam: & Balam was wroth & smote the asse with a staffe.

And the Lorde opened the mouthe of the asse / and she sayed vnto Balam: what haue I done vnto the / that thou smytest me this. iij tymes? And Balam sayde vnto the Asse: because thou hast mocked me? I wolde that I had a swerde in myne hande / that I myghte now kyll the. And the asse sayed vnto Balam: am not I thyne asse whiche thou hast rydden vppon sence thou wast borne vn to this daye? Was I euer wont to do so vnto the? And he sayed / nay.

And the lorde opened the eyes of Balam that he sawe the angell of the Lorde stondinge in the waye / with his swerde drawen in his honde. And he bowed him selfe and fell flatt on his face. And y⟨illegible⟩ angell of y⟨illegible⟩ Lord sayed vnto him: Wherfore smytest thou thyne asse this .iij. tymes? beholde / I came oute to resyst the / for the waye is contrary vnto me: and the asse sawe me and avoyded me thre tymes: or else (had she not turned fro me) I had suerly slayne the and saued her alyue. And Balam sayed vnto the angell of y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde: I haue synned: for I wist not that thou stodest in the waye agenst me. Now therfore yf it displease thyne eyes / I will turne agayne. And the angell sayde vnto Balam / goo with the men: but in any wise / what I saye vnto the / that saye. And Balam went with the lordes of Balac.

And when Balac herde that Balā was come he went out agenst him vnto a cytie off Moab that stode in the border of Arnō / whiche was the vttmost parte of his c⟨illegible⟩ntre. And Balac sayed vnto Balam: dyd I not sende for the / to call the? wherfore camest thou not vnto me? thinkest thou that I am not able to promote the vnto honoure? And Balam sayed vnto Balac: Loo I am come vnto the. But I can saye nothynge at all saue what God putteth in my mouthe that must I speake. And Balam went with Balac / and they came vnto the cytie of Buzoth. And Balac offered oxen and shepe / & sent for Balam and for the lordes that were with hym.

Chapter 23

¶ The .xxiij. Chapter.

ANd on the mornynge Balac toke Balam and brought him vpp in to the hye place of Baall / ād thēce he sawe vnto the vttmost parte of the people. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: bylde me here seven alters and prouyde here seuē oxen and seuen rammes. And Balac dyd as Balam sayed. And Balac and Balam offered on euery alter an oxe and a ram. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: stonde by the sacrifyce / whyle I goo to wete whether the Lorde will come ād mete me: & what soeuer he sheweth me / I will tell the / and he went forthwith.

And god came vnto Balam / and Balam sayed vnto him: I haue prepared .vij. alters / and haue offered apō euery alter / an oxe & a ram. And y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde put a sayenge in Balās mouth & sayed: goo agayne to Balac & saye on this wyse. And he went agayne vnto him and loo / he stode by his sacrifice / both he ād all the lordes of Moab. And he began hys parable and sayed: Balac the kinge of Moab hath fett me fro Mesopotamia out of the mountaynes of the easte sayenge: come & curse me Iacob / come and defye me Israel. How shall I curse whom God curseth not¹² and how shall I defye whom the Lorde defyeth note from the toppe of y⟨illegible⟩ rockes Ise him and from the hylles I beholde him: loo / yᵉ people shall dwell by him selfe and shall not be re⟨illegible⟩ened amōge other nacions. Who can tell the dust of Iacob & the numbre of the fourth parte of Israel. I praye God that my soule / maye dye the deeth of the righteous / ād that my last ende maye be like his.

And Balac sayed vnto Balam / what hast thou done vnto me? I fett y⟨illegible⟩ to curse myne enemyes: and beholde / thou blessest them. And he answered and sayed: must I not kepe that and speake it / which the Lorde hath put in my mouthe? And Balac sayed vnto him: Come I praye the with me vnto another place / whence thou shalt se them / and shalt se but y⟨illegible⟩ vtmoste parte of them ād shalt not se them all and curse me them there.

And he brought him in to a playne felde where men myght se farre / euen to the toppe of Pisga / and bylt .vij. alters and offered an oxe and a rā on euery alter. And he sayed vnto Balac: stonde here by thi sacrifyce whyle I goo yonder. And the Lorde mett Balam and put wordes in his mouth and sayed: goo agayne vnto Balac ād thus saye. And when he came to him: beholde / he stode by his sacrifyce and the lordes of Moab with him And Balac sayed vnto him: what sayeth y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde?

And he toke vp his parable and sayed: ryse vpp Balac and heare / and herken vnto me thou sonne of Ziphor The Lorde is not a mā / that he can lye / nether the sonne of a mā that he can repent: shulde he saye and not doo / or shulde he speake and not make it good? beholde / I haue begon to blesse and haue blessed / and can not goo backe there fro. He beheld no wikednesse in Iacob nor sawe Idolatrye in Israel: The Lorde his God is with him / and the trompe of a kynge amonge thē. God that broughte them out of Egipte / is as the strength of an vny corne vnto them / for there is no sorcerer / in Iacob / nor soth sayer in Israel. When the tyme cometh / it wylde sayed of Iacob & of Israel / what God hath wrought Beholde / y⟨illegible⟩ people shall ryse vp as a lyonesse and heue vpp hym selfe as a lion / & shall not lye downe agayne / vntill he haue eaten of the praye and drenke of the bloude of them that are slayne.

And Balac sayed vnto Balam: nether curse them nor blesse thē. And Balam answered ād sayed vnto Balac: tolde not I the sayēge / all that the Lorde byddeth me / y⟨illegible⟩ I must doo? And Balac sayed vnto Balam: come I praye the / I will brynge the yet vnto another place: so per auenture it shall please God / that thou mayst curse thē there. And Balac broughte Balam vnto the toppe of Peor / that boweth towarde the wildernesse. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: make me here .vij. alters / & prepare me here .vij. bollockes and .vij. rāmes And Balac dyd as Balam had sayed / and offered a bollocke and a ram on euery alter.

Notes to Chapter 23

Chapter 24

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter.

WHen Balam sawe that it pleased y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde that he shulde blesse Israel / he went not as he dyd twyse before to fett sothsayenge / but sett his face towarde y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse / and lyfte vpp his eyes and loked apon Israel as he laye with his trybes / and the spirite of God came apon him. And he toke vp his parable and sayed: Balā the sonne of Beor hath sayed / and the man whose eye is open hath sayed: he hath sayed which heareth the wordes of God and seeth the visions of the allmightie / which falleth downe & his eyes are opened.

How goodly are the tentes of Iacob and thi⟨illegible⟩e habitacions Israel / euen as the brode ⟨illegible⟩leyes and as gardens by the ryuers syde / as the tentes which the Lorde hath pitched & as ⟨illegible⟩perstrces apon the water. The water shall flowe out of his boket and his seed shall be many waters / and his kynge shalbe hyer then Agag / And his kyngdome shalbe exalted. God that broughte him out of Egipte is as the strenght of an vnycorne vnto him / and he shall eate the nacions that are his enemies and breake their bones and perse them thorow with his arowes. He couched him selfe and laye d⟨illegible⟩ne as a lion and as a lyonesse / who shall stere him vp? blessed is he that blesseth the / ād cursed is he that curseth the.

And Balac was wroth with balam and smote his handes together / and sayed vnto him: I sent for the to curse myne enemyes: & beholde / thou hast blessed them this thre tymes / and now gett the quyckly vnto thi place. I thoughte that I woldè promote the vnto honoure / but the Lorde hath kepte the backe from worshepe. And Balam sayed vnto Balac: tolde I not thi messēgers which thou sentest vnto me sayenge: Yf balac wolde geue me his house ful of syluer ād golde / I can not passe the mouth of the Lorde / to doo ether good or bad of myne awne mynde. What the Lorde sayeth / that must I speake. And now beholde / I goo vnto my people: come let me shewethe / what this people shall doo tothi folke in the later dayes.

And he began his parable ād sayed: Balam the sonne of Beor hath sayed / and y⟨illegible⟩ man that hath his eye open hath sayed / & he hath sayed that heareth the wordes of God & hath the knowlege of the most hye and beholdeth y⟨illegible⟩ vision of the allmightie / and when he falleth downe hath his eyes opened. I se him but not now / I beholde him but not nye. There shall come a starre of Jacob and rysea cepter of Israel / which shall smyte yᵗ coostes of Mo ab and vndermyne all the childern of Seth. And Edom shalbe his possession / and y⟨illegible⟩ possession of Seir shalbe their enimyes / and Israel shall doo manfully. And out of Jacob shall come he that shall destroye the remnaūt of the cities.

And he loked on Amaleck and began his parable and sayed: Amaleck is the first of the nacions / but his latter ende shall perysh utterly. And he loked on the Renites / and toke his parable and sayed: stronge is thi dwellynge place and put thinest apon a rocke / Neuer the later thou shalt be a burnynge to Rain / vntill Assur take y⟨illegible⟩ prisoner. And he toke his parable & sayed: Alas / who shall lyue when God doeth this? The shippes shall come out of the coste of Cittim and subdue Assur and subdue Eber / and he him selfe shall perysh at the last. And Balam rose vp and went and dwelt in his place: and Balac also went his waye.

Chapter 25

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

ANd Israel dwelt in Sittim / and the people began to commytt whoredome with the doughters of Moab / which called the people vnto y⟨illegible⟩ sacrifyce of their goddes. And the people are and worshipped their goddes / and Israel coupled him selfe vnto Baal Peor. Then yᵉ Lorde was angrie with Israel / and sayed vnto Moses: take all y⟨illegible⟩ heedes of the people / and hange them vp vnto yᵗ Lorde agenst the sonne / that the wrath of the Lorde mayeturne awaye from Israel. And Moses sayed vnto the iudges of Israel: goo and slee those men that ioyned thē selues vnto Baal Peor.

And beholde / one of the childern of Israel came and broughte vnto his brethern / a Madianitish wife euen in the sighte of Moses & in the sighte of all the multitude of yᵉ childern of Israel / as they were wepynge in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And when Phineas the sonne of Eleazer the sonne of Aarō the preast sawe it / he rose vp out of the companye and toke a wepon in his hande / and wēt after the man of Israel in to the horchousse / & thrust them thorow: both the man of Israel and also the woman euen thorow the belye of hir. And the plage ceased from the childern of Israel. And there dyed in the plage .xxiiij. thousande.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: Phineas the sonne of Eleazer the sonne of Aaron the preast / hath turned myne anger awaye from the childern of Israel / because he was gelous for my sake amonge them / that I had not cōsumed the childern of Israel in my gelousye. Wherfore saye: beholde / I geue vnto him my couenaunte of pease / and he shall haue it and his seed after him / euen the couenaunte of the preastis office for euer / because he was gelous for his Gods sake and made an atonement for the childern of Israel.

The name of the Israelite which was smytten with the Madianitish wife / was S⟨illegible⟩ri the sonne of Sal⟨illegible⟩ / a lorde of an aunciēt honsse amonge the Simeonites. And the name of the Madianitish wife / was Cosbi the doughter of Zur and heed ouer the people of a⟨illegible⟩ auncient housse in Madian.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: vexe the Madianites and smyte them / for they haue troubled you with their wiles with the which they haue begyled you / thorow P⟨illegible⟩or and thorow their syster Cosby y⟨illegible⟩ doughter of a lorde in Madian / which was slayne in y⟨illegible⟩ daye of the plage for Peors sake.

Chapter 26

¶ The .xxvi. Chapter.

ANd after the plage / y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde spake vnto Moses and vnto Eleazer sayenge: take the number of all the multitude of the childern of Israel from .xx. yere ād aboue thorow out their fathers housses / all that are able to goo to warre in Israel. And Moses & Eleazer the preast tolde them in the feldes of Moab / by Iordane fast by Iericho / from xx. yere and aboue / as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And the childern of Israel that came out of Egipte / were.

Ruben the eldest sonne of Israel. The childern of Ruben were / Hanoch / of whome cometh the kynred of the Hanochires: & of Palu / cometh the kynred of the Pal⟨illegible⟩tes: And of Hesron / cometh the kynred of the Hesronites: and of Carmi / cometh the kynred of the Carmites. These are the kynredes of the Rubenites / which were in numbre .xliij. thousande .vij. hūdred an .xxx. And the sonnes of Palu were Eliab. And the sonnes of Eliab were: Nemuel / Darhan and Abiram.

This is that Dathan and Abiram councelers in the cōgregacion / which stroue agēst Moses and Aaron in the companye of Corah / when they stroue agenst the Lorde. And the erth opened hir mouth ād swalowed thē and Corah also / when the multitude dyed / what tyme the fyre consumed .ij. hundred and fiftie men / and they became a signe: Notwithstondynge / the childern of Corah dyed not.

And the childern of Simeon in their kynredes were: Nemuel / of whom cometh y⟨illegible⟩ kynred of the Nemuelites: Iamin / of whom cometh the kynred of the Iaminytes: Iachin / of whom cometh the kynred of the Iachi⟨illegible⟩es: Serah / of whome cometh the kynred of the Serahites: Saul / of whom cometh the kynred of the Saulites. These are the kynredes of the Simeonites: in numbre .xxij. thousande and .ij. hundred.

And the childern of Gad in their kynredes were: Zephon / of whom cometh the kynred of the Zephonites: and of Haggi / cometh the kynred of the Haggites: and of Suni / cometh the kynred of the Sunites: and of A seni / cometh the kynred of the A senites: and of Eri cometh the kynred of the Erites: and of Arod cometh the kynred of the Arodites: and of Ar⟨illegible⟩el cometh the kynred of the Arielites. These are the kynredes of the children of Gad / in numbre .xl. thousande and .v. hundred.

The childern of Iuda: Er and Onā / whiche dyed in the londe of Canaan. But the childern of Iuda in their kynred were: Sela of whom cometh the kynred of the Selamires: and of Phares cometh the kynred of y⟨illegible⟩ Pharesites: and of Serah cometh the kynred of the Serahites. And the childern of Phares were Hesron / of whom cometh the kynred of the Hesronites: and of Hamul cometh y⟨illegible⟩ kynred of the Hamulites. These are the kynredes of Iuda / in numbre .lxxvi. thousande and .v. hundred.

And the childern of Isachar in their kyndes were: Tola / of whō cometh y⟨illegible⟩ kynred of the Tolaites: & Phuva / of whō cometh y⟨illegible⟩ kinred of the Ph⟨illegible⟩aites: and of Iasub cometh the kynred of the Iasubites: and of Symron cometh the kynred of the Sunronites. These are y⟨illegible⟩ kynredes of Isachar in numbre. lxiiij thousande and .iij. hundred.

The childern of Zabulon in their kynredes were: Sered / of whom cometh the kynred of the Seredites: and Elon / of whom cometh the kynred of the Elonites: and of Iaheliel / cometh the kynred of the Iehalelites. These are the kynredes of Zabulon: in numbre .lx. thousand & .v. hundred.

The children of Ioseph in their kinredes were: Manasse ād Ephraim. The childern of Manasse: Machir / of whom cometh the kynred of the Machirites. And Machir begat Gilead / of whom cometh the kinred off the Gileadites. And these are the childern of Gilead: Hieser / of whom cometh the kynred of the Hieserites: and of Helech cometh the kynred of the Helechites: and of Asriel y⟨illegible⟩ kinred of the Asric⟨illegible⟩tes: and of Sichem cometh the kinred of the Sichimites: & of Simida cometh the kinred of the Simidites: & of Hepher cometh the kinred of the Hepherites. And Zelaphead the sonne of Hepher had no sonnes bu⟨illegible⟩ doughters And y⟨illegible⟩ names of y⟨illegible⟩ doughters of Zelaphead were: Mabe la / Noa / Hagla / Milcha ād Thirza. These are the kinredes of Manasse / in numbre / lij. thousande and seuen hundred.

These are the childern of Ephraim in their kinredes: Suthelah / of whom cometh the kinred of the Suthelahi⟨illegible⟩es: and Becher / of whom cometh the kinred of the Becher⟨illegible⟩tes: & of Thaha cometh the kynred of the Thahanites. And these are the childern of Suthelah: Eran / of whom cometh the kynred of the Eranites. These are the kynredes of the childern of Ephraim in numbre .xxxij. thousande & .v. hundred. And these are the childern of Ioseph in their kinredes.

These are the childern of Ben Iamin in their kinredes: Bela / of whom cometh the kinred of the Belaites: and of Asbel cometh the kinred of the Asbelites: and of Ahiram / the kinred of the Ahiramites: and of Suphā the kinred of the Suphamites: and of Hupham the kinred of the Huphamites. And the childern of Bela were A⟨illegible⟩d and Naamā fro whence come the kinredes of the Ardites and of the Naamites. These are the childern of Ben Iamin in their kinreddes / and in numbre .xlv. thousande and syxe hundred.

These are the childern of Dan in their kynreddes: Suham / of whom cometh the kynred of the Suhamites. These are the kynreddes of Dan in their generacyons. And all the kynreddes of the Suhamites were in numbre .lxiiij. thousand ād iiij. hundred.

The childern of Asser in their kynredes were: Jemna / of whom cometh the kynred of the Jemnites: ād Jsui / of whom cometh the kinred of the Jsuites: & of Bria cometh the kinred of the Br⟨illegible⟩tes. And the childern of bria were Heber / of whom cometh y⟨illegible⟩ kynred of the Heberites: and of Malchiel came the kynred of the Malchielites. And y⟨illegible⟩ doughter of Asser was called Sarah. These are the kinredes of Asser in numbre .liij. thousande and .iiij. hundred.

The childern of Nephtali in their kynreddes were: Jaheziel / of whom came the kynred of the Jahezielites: and G⟨illegible⟩i / of whom came the kynred of the Gimites: & of Jezer / came the kynred of the Jezerites: and of Silem the kynred of the Silemites. These are the kinredes of Naphtali in their generaciōs in numbre .xlv. thousande and .iiij. hundred. These are the numbres of the childern of Israel: sixe hundred thousande / & a thousande vij. hundred and .xxx.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: vnto these the londe shalbe deuyded to enherett / acordinge to the numbre of names: to many thou shalt gene y⟨illegible⟩ moare enheritaunce & to fewe y⟨illegible⟩ lesse: to euery tribe shall y⟨illegible⟩ enheritaūce be geuē acordinge to yᵉ numbre therof. Notwithstondinge / y⟨illegible⟩ londe shalbe deuyded by lott / & acordinge to yᵉ names of yᵉ tribes of their fathers / thei shall enherett: & acordinge ⟨illegible⟩ lott thou shalt deuyde their lond / h⟨illegible⟩th to the many and to the fewe.

These are the summes of y⟨illegible⟩ leuites in the in kinredes: of Gerson / came the kynred of yᵉ Gersonites: and of Cahath came the kinred of the Cahathites: and of Merari came the kinred of the Merarites. These are the kynredes of Leui: the kinred of the Libnites / the kynred of the Hebronites / the kynred of the Mahelites / the kynred of the Musites / the kynred of the Rarahites.

Rahath begate Amram / and Amrams wife was called Jochebed a doughter oflein / which was borne him in Egipte. And she bare vnto Amram / Aaron / Moses and Mir Jam their syster. And vnto Aaron were borne / Nadab / Abihu / Eleazer and Jthamar. But Nadab and Abihu dyed / as they offered straunge fyre before the Lorde. And the numbre of them was .xxiij. thousande / of all the males from a moneth olde and aboue For they were not numbred amonge yᵉ children of Israel / because there was no enheritaunce geuen them amonge the childern off Israel.

These are the numbres of the childern of Israel which Moses and Eleazer the preast numbred in the feldes of Moab / fast by Jordane nye to Jericho. And amonge these there was not a man of the numbre of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron tolde in the wildernesse of Sinai. For the Lorde sayed vnto them / that they shulde dye in yᵉ wildernesse & that there shulde not be lefte a man of them: saue Caleb the sonne of Jephune & Josua the sonne of Nun.

Chapter 27

¶ The .xxvij. Chaptre

ANd the doughters of Zelaphead the sonne of Heber the sonne of Gilead / the sonne of Machirthe sonne of Manasse / of the kinredes of Manasse the sonne of Joseph (whose names were Mahcla / Noa / Hagla / Melcha and Thirza) came & stode before Moses and Eleazer the preast ād before the lordes & all the multitude in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse sayenge: oure father dyed in the wildernesse / & was not amonge the companye of them that gathered them selues together agenst the Lorde in the congregacion of Corah: But dyed in his awne synne / and had no sonnes. Wherfore shulde the name of oure fathers be taken awaye from amonge hys kynred / because he had no sonne? Geue vnto vs a possessyon amonge the brethern of oure father.

And Moses broughte their cause before the Lorde. And yᵉ Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: The doughters of Zelaphead speke righte: thou shalt geue them a possession to en herett amonge their fathers brethern / & shall turne the enheritaunce of their father vnto them. And speake vnto the childern of Israel sayenge: Yf a man dye and haue no sonne ye shall turne his enheritaunce vnto his doughter. Yf he haue no doughter / ye shall geue his enheritaunce vnto his brethern. Yf he haue no brethern / ye shall geue his enheritaunce vnto his fathers brethern. Yf he haue no fathers brethern / ye shall geue his enheritaunce vnto him that is nexte to him of his kinred / & let him possesse it. And this shalbe vnto the childern of Israel an ordynaunce / and a lawe / as the Lorde hath commaūded Moses.

And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: get yᵉ vpp in to this mount Aabrun / and beholde / the londe which I haue geuen vnto the children of Israel. And whē thou hast sene it / thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people also / as Aaron thy brother was gathered vnto his people. For ye were disobedient vnto my mouthe in the deserte of Zin in y⟨illegible⟩ stryfe of the congregacion / that ye sanctified me not in the water before their eyes. That is the water of stryfe in cades in the wildernesse of Zin. And Moses¹³ spake vnto the Lorde sayenge: let the Lorde God of the spirites of all flesh / sett a man ouer the congregacion / which maye goo in & out before them / and to lede them in and oute that the congregacion of the Lorde be not as a flocke of shepe without a sheparde.

And yᵉ Lorde sayed vnto Moses: take Josua the sonne of Nun in whom there is spirite / and put thyne handes apon him / and set¹⁴ him before Eleazer the preast and before all the congregacion and geue him a charge in their fyghte. And put of thi prayse apon him that all the companye of yᵉ childern of Israel maye heare. And he shall stonde before Eleazer y⟨illegible⟩ preast which shall axe councell for him after y⟨illegible⟩ maner of the * lighte before yᵉ Lorde: And atthe mouth of Eleazer shall both he and all the childern of Israel with him and all the congregacion / goo in and out.

And Moses dyd as the Lorde commaūded him / and he toke Josua and sett him before Eleazer the preast and before all the congregacion / & * put his handes apon him & gaue him a charge / as the Lorde commaunded thorow the hande of Moses.

Notes to Chapter 27

Chapter 28

¶ The .xxviij. Chaptre

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: geue yᵉ childern of Israel a charge and saye vnto them / that they take hede to offer vnto me y⟨illegible⟩ offryng of my * bred in the sacrifyce of swete sauoure / in his due season. And saye vnto thē. This is y⟨illegible⟩ offerynge which ye shall offer vnto yᵉ Lorde .ij. lābes of a yeare olde with out spot daye by daye to be a burntofferynge perpetually. One lambe thou shalt offer in the mornynge / and yᵉ other ⟨illegible⟩t euen / And thereto y⟨illegible⟩ tēth parte of an Epha offloure for a me⟨illegible⟩offerynge myngled with beten oyle / the fourth parte of an hin: which is a dayly offerynge ordened in the mount Sinai vnto a swete sauoure in the sacrifyce of y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde. And the drynkofferynge of the same: the fourth parte of an hin vnto one lambe / & poure the drynkofferynge in the holy place / to be good drynke vnto the Lorde. And y⟨illegible⟩ other lambe thou shalt offer at euen / with the meat offerynge and the drynkofferynge after y⟨illegible⟩ maner of the mornynge: a sacrifyce of a swe⟨illegible⟩e sanoure vnto the Lorde.

And on the Sabbath daye .ij. lambes of a yere olde a pece and with out spot / and two tēthdeales of floure for a meatofferynge myngled with oyle / and the drynkofferynge thereto. This is the burrtofferynge of euery Sabbath / besydes the dayly burntofferynge and his drynkofferynge.

And in the first daye of youre monethes / ye shall offer a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde: two yonge bollockes / and a ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde without spott / and .iij. tēthdeales of floure for a meatofferynge mingled with oyle vnto one bollocke / and .ij. tēthdeales of floure for a meatofferynge myngled with oyle vnto one rā. And euermoare / ⟨illegible⟩ tēth deale of floure myngled with oyle / for a meatofferinge vnto one lābe. That is a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure in the sacrifyce of the Lorde. And their drynkofferynges shal be halfe an hin of wyne vnto one bollocke / ād the thyrde parte of an hin of wyne vnto a ram and the fourth parte of an hin vnto a lambe. This is the burntofferynge of euery moneth thorow out all the monethes of the yere: & one he goote for a synofferynge vnto the Lorde / which shalbe offered with the dayly burntofferynge and his drynkofferynge.

And the .xiiij. daye of the first moneth shalbe Passeouer vnto the Lorde. And y⟨illegible⟩ .xv. daye of the same moneth shalbe a feast / in which vij. dayes men must eate vnleuēded bred The first daye shalbe an holy feast / so that ye shall do no maner of laboryous worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde .ij. bollockes / one ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde without spott / and their meatofferynge of floure myngled with oyle .iij. tenthdeales vnto a bollocke / and .ij. tenthdeales vnto a ram / and euermoare one tenthdeale vnto a lambe / thorow out the .vij. lambes: & an hegoote for a synofferynge to make an atonement for you. And ye shall offer these / besyde the burntofferynge in yᵉ mornynge that is allway offered. And after this manerye shall offer thorow out the .vij. dayes / the fode of the sacrifice of swete sauoure vnto the Lorde. And it shalbe done besydethe dayly burntofferynge and his drynkofferynge. And the seuenth daye shall be an holy feast vnto you / so that ye shall doo no laboryous wo⟨illegible⟩ke therein.

And the daye of youre first frutes when ye brynge a new meatofferynge vnto the Lorde in youre wekes / shalbe an holy feast vnto you: so that ye shall doo no laboryous worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde .ij. younge bollockes / and a ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde a pece / with their meatofferynges of floure myngled with oyle .iij. tenthdeales vnto a bollecke .ij. tenthdeales to a ram / ād euermoare one tenthdeale vnto a lambe thorow out the .vij. lambes / ād an he goote to make an atonement for you. And this ye shall doo besydes the dayly burntofferynge / and his meatofferynge: & they shalbe without spot / with their drynkofferynges.

Chapter 29

¶ The .xxix. Chapter.

ANd y⟨illegible⟩ first daye of yᵉ .vij. moneth shalbe an holy feast vnto you / ād ye shall doo no laboryous worke therein. It shalbe a daye of tromperblowynge vnto you. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto yᵉ Lorde: one younge bollocke & one rā & .vij. lābes of a yere olde a pece that are pure. And their meatofferinges of floure myngled with oyle: iij tenth deales vnto the bollocke / and .ij. vnto the ram / and one tenth deale vnto one lambe thorow the .vij. lambes And an he goote for a synofferynge to make an atonement for you / besyde the burntofferynge of the moneth and his meatofferynge and besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meatofferynge / and the drynkofferynges of the same: acordynge vnto the maner of them for a sauoure of swetnesse in the sacrifice of y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde.

And the tenth daye of that same seuenth moneth shalbe an holy feast vnto you / and ye shall humble youre soules and shall doo no maner worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde of a swete sauoure: one bollocke / and a ram / and .vij. lambes of a yere olde a pece / without faute & their meatofferynges of floure myngled with oyle: iij. tenth deales to a bollocke / ād .ij. to a rā and all waye a tenth deale vnto a lambe / thorow out the .vij. lambes And one he goote for a synofferynge / besyde y⟨illegible⟩ synofferynge of atonement and the dayly burntofferynge / and y⟨illegible⟩ meate and drynkofferynges that longe to the same.

And the .xv. daye of the seuenth moneth shalbe holy daye & ye shall doo no laboryous worke therein / and ye shall kepe a feast vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde of .vij. dayes longe. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde: xiij. bollockes .ij. rammes and .xiiij. lābes which are yerelynges and pure / with oyle iij tenth deales vnto euery one of the .xiij. bollockes .ij. tē ⟨illegible⟩h deales to ether of the rammes / and one tenth deale vnto eche of the .xiiij. lambes. And one he goote vnto a synofferynge / besyde y⟨illegible⟩ dayly burntofferynge with his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the seconde daye .xij. younge bollockes .ij. rammes & .xiiij. yerlynge lambes without spot: & their meatofferynges and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes and lambes / acordynge to the numbre of them & after the maner And an he goote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge ād his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the thyrde daye .xi. bollockes .ij. rammes & .xiiij. yerelynge lambes without spot: & their meate and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes & lambes / after the numbre of thē & acordynge to the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge & his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the fourth daye .x. bollockes .ij. rammes & .xiiij. lābes / yerelynges & pure: ād their meate & drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes rāmes & lābes / acordynge to their nūbre and after the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge ād his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the fyfte daye .ix. bollockes .ij. rāmes and .xiiij. lambes of one yere olde a pece without spott. And their meat and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rāmes and lambes / acordynge to the numbre of them and after the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the syxte daye .viij. bollockes .ij. rammes ād. xii⟨illegible⟩j. yerelynge lambes without spot And their meate and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes and lambes / acordynge to the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the seuenth daye .vij. bollockes .ij. rāmes and .xiiij. lambes that are yerelynges & pure. And their meate and drynkofferynges vnto the bollockes / rammes and lābes / acordynge to their numbre & to the maner. And an hegoote for a synofferynge / besyde yᵉ dayly burntofferynge and his meate and drynkofferynges.

And the eyght daye shalbe the conclusion¹⁵ of y⟨illegible⟩ feaste vnto you / & ye shall doo no maner laboryous worke therein. And ye shall offer a burntofferynge of a swete sauoure vnto the Lorde: one bollocke / one rā & .vij. yerelynge lābes without spott. And the meate & drynkofferynges vnto the bollocke / rā and lābes / acordynge to their nūbres & acordynge to y⟨illegible⟩ maner. And an he goote for a synofferynge besyde the dayly burntofferynge and his meate & drynkofferynges.

These thinges ye shall doo vnto the Lorde in youre feastes: besyde youre vowes and ⟨illegible⟩rewyll offerynges / in youre burntofferinges meatofferynges / drynkofferynges and pease offerynges. And Moses tolde the childern of Israel / acordynge to all that the Lorde commaunded him.

Notes to Chapter 29

Chapter 30

¶ The .xxx. Chapter.

ANd Moses spake vnto the heedes of¹⁶ the trybes of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel sayēge: this is the thynge which the Lorde commaundeth. Yf a man vowe a vowe vnto the Lorde or swere an othe ād bynde his soule / he shall not goo ba⟨illegible⟩ke with his worde: but shal fulfyll all y⟨illegible⟩ proceadeth out of his mouth

Yf a damsell vowe a vowe vnto y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde & binde herselfe beynge in hir fathers housse and vnmaried: Yf hir father heare hir vowe & bonde which she hath made vppon hir soule / & holde his pease thereto: then all hir vowes & bōdes which she hath made vppō hir soule shall stonde in effecte. But & yf hir father for byd her the same daye that he heareth it / none of hir vowes nor bondes which she hath made vppon hir soule shalbe of value / ād the Lorde shall forgeue her / because hir father forbade her.

Yf she had an husbonde when she vowed or pronounsed oughte out of hir lippes wherewith she bonde hir soule / and hir husbonde her de it and helde his peace there at the same daye he herde it: Then hir vowes and hir bondes wherewith she bounde hir soule / shal stonde in effecte. But ād yf hir husbonde forbade her the same daye that he herde it / than hath he made hir vowe which she had vppō her of none effecte / and that also whiche she pronounsed with hir lippes wherewith she bounde hir soule / and the Lorde shall forgeue her.

The vowe of a wedowe and of her that is deuorsed / & all that they haue bound their soules with all / shall stonde in effecte with them.

Yf she vowed in her husbandes housse or bounde her soule with an oth / and her husbande herde it and helde his peace and forbade her not: then all her vowes and bondes wherewith she bound her soule / shall stōde. But yf her husbande disanulled them y⟨illegible⟩ same daye that he herde them / then nothing that proceded out of her lippes in vowes ād boundes wherewith she bounde her soule shall stonde in effecte: for her husbande hath lowsed them / and the Lorde shall forgeue her.

All vowes and othes that binde to humble the soule / maye her husbande stablish or breake. But yf her husbande hold his peace from one daye vnto another / then he stablisheth all her vowes and boundes whiche she had vppon her / because he helde his peace the sa⟨illegible⟩e daye that he herde them. And yf he afterwarde breake them / he shall beare her synne him. self.

These are the ordinaunces which y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde commaunded Moses / betwene a man and his wife / and betwene the father and his doughter / beyenge a damsell in hir fathers housse.

Notes to Chapter 30

Chapter 31

¶ The .xxxi. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: auenge the childern of Israel of the Madianites / and afterwarde be gathered vnto thy people. And Moses spake vnto the folke sayenge: Harnesse some of you vnto warre / and let them goo apon the Madianites and auenge the Lorde of the Madianitis. Ye shall sende vnto the warre a thousande of euery try be thorow out all the trybes of Israel. And there were taken oute of the thousandes of Israel .xij. thousande prepared vnto warre / of euery trybe a thousande. And Moses sent them a thousande of euery trybe / with Phineas the sonne of Eleazer the preaste to warre / and the holye vessels & the trompettes to blowe with in his honde.

And they warred agenst the Madianites / as the Lorde commaunded Moses / ād ⟨illegible⟩lewe all the males. And they slewe the kynges of Madian among other that were slayne: Eui / Rekem / Zur / Hur and Reba: fyne kynges of Madian. And they slewe Balā the sonne of Beor with the swerde. And the childern of Israel toke all the wemen of Madian presoners and their childern / and spoyled all their catell / their substance and their goodes. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt / and all their castels with fyre. And they roke all the spoyle and all they coude catche / both of men and beestes. And they broughte the captyues and that which they had taken and all the spoyle vnto Moses and Eleazer the preast ād vnto the companye of the childern of Israel: euen vnto the hoste / in y⟨illegible⟩ feldes of Moab by Jordanenye to Jericho.

And Moses and Eleazer the preast and all the lordes of the congregacion went out of the hoste agenst them. And Moses was angrie with the officers of the hoste / with y⟨illegible⟩ captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundredes / which came from warre and batayle / and sayde vnto them: Haue ye saued the wemen alyue? beholde / these caused the childern of Israel thorow Balam / to commytt trespace agēst y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde / by y⟨illegible⟩ reason of Peor / & their folowed a plage amōge y⟨illegible⟩ congregacion of the Lorde. Nowe therfore slee all the men childern and the wemen that haue ly⟨illegible⟩ with men fleshlye: But all the wemen children that haue not lyen with men / kepe alyue for youre selues. And lodge without the hoste .vij. dayes all that haue killed any persone & all that haue twiched any dead body / & purifye both youre selues & youre presoners the .iij. daye & the .vij. And sprinkle all youre raymentes & all that is made of skynnes / & all worke of gootes heer / ād all thynges made of wodd.

And Eleazer the preast sayed vnto all y⟨illegible⟩ mē of warre which went out to batayle: this is the ordinaunce of the lawe which the Lorde commaunded Moses: Gold / syluer / brasse / yeron / tyn & leed / & all that maye abyde y⟨illegible⟩ fyre / ye shall make it goo thorow the fyre / ād then it is cleane. Neuerthelater / it shalbe sprinkled with sprinklinge water. And all y⟨illegible⟩ soffereth not the fyre / ye shall make goo thorow the water. And wash youre clothes the seuenth daye / & then ye are cleane. And afterwarde come in to the hoste.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: take the summe of the praye that was taken / both of the wemē & of catell / thou & Eleazer the preast and the auncient heedes of y⟨illegible⟩ congregacion. And deuyde it into two parties / betwene them that toke the warre vppō thē and went out to batayle and all the congregacion. And take a porcion vnto the Lorde of the men of warre whiche went o⟨illegible⟩te to batayle one of fyue hundred / of the women and of the oxen and of the asses and of the shepe: and ye shall take it of their halfe and geue it vnto Eleazer the preast / an heueofferynge vnto the Lorde. And of the halfe of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel / take one of fystye / of y⟨illegible⟩ wemen / of the oxen / of the asses and of the shepe / and of all maner of beestes / & geue them vnto the leuites which wayte apon yᵉ habitacion of the Lorde.

And Moses and Eleazer the preast did as the Lorde commaunded Moses. And y⟨illegible⟩ botye and the praye which the men of warre had caught / was .vi. hundred thousande & lxxv. thousande shepe: ād .lxxij. thousande ox en: & .lxi. thousande asses: & .xxxij. thousande wemen that had lyen by no man.

And the halfe which was the parte of thē that wēt out to warre / was .iij. hundred thousande and .xxxvij. thousande and fyue hundred shepe: And the Lordes parte of the shepe was .vi. hundred and .lxxv. And the oxen were .xxxvi. thousande / of which the Lordes parte was .lxxij.. And the asses were .xxx. thousande and fyue hundred / of whiche the Lordes parte was .lxi.. And the wemen were .xvi. thousande / of which the Lordes parte was .xxxij. soules. And Moses gaue that summe which was the Lordes heueofferynge vnto Eleazer the preast: as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses.

And the other halfe of the childern of Israel whiche Moses seperated from the men of warre (that is to were / the halfe that pertayned vnto the congregacion) was .iij. hundred thousande and .xxxvij. thousande and fyue hundred shepe: and .xxxvi. thousande oxen: and .xxx. thousande asses and fyue hūdred: and .xvi. thousande wemen. And Moses toke of this halfe that pertayned vnto the childern of Israel: one of euery fyftie / both of the wemen & of the catell / and gaue them vnto the leuites which wayted vppon the habitacion of the Lorde / as the Lorde commaunded Moses.

And the officers of thousandes of the hoste / the captaynes ouer the thousandes and the captaynes ouer the hundreds came forth & sayed vnto Moses: Thy servauntes haue taken the summe of the men of warre / which were vnder oure hande / & there lacked not one man of them. We haue therfore broughte a present vnto the Lorde what euery man founde of Jewels of golde / cheyns / bracelettes / ringes / earynges & spangels / to make an attonement for oure soules before the Lorde.

And Moses & Eleazer toke the golde off them: Jewels of all maner facions. And all the golde of the heueoffrynge of the Lord / of the captaynes ouer thousandes & hundreds was .xvi. thousand .vij. hundred & .l. sycles / which y⟨illegible⟩ mē of warre had spoyled / euery man for him selfe. And Moses & Eleazer y⟨illegible⟩ preast toke the golde of the captaynes ouer the thousandes & ouer the hundreds / & brought it in to the tabernacle of witnesse: to be a memoriall vnto y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel / before y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde.

Chapter 32

¶ The▪ xxxij. Chapter.

THe childern of Rubē & the childern of Gad / had an exceadinge greate multitude of catell. And whē they sawe the lōde of Iaeser & the lōde of Gilead y⟨illegible⟩ it was an apte place for catell / they came & spake vnto Moses & Eleazer y⟨illegible⟩ preast & vnto y⟨illegible⟩ lordes of y⟨illegible⟩ cōgregaciō sayenge. The lōde of Ataroth Dibo & Beon / whiche contre y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde smote before the congregacion of Israel: is a londe for catell and we thy servauntes haue catell wherfore (sayed they) yf we haue founde grace in thy syghte / let this londe be geuen vnto thy servauntes to possesse / and bringe vs not ouer Iordane.

And Moses sayed vnto the childrē of Gad and of Ruben: shall youre brethern goo to warre and yetarye here? Wherfore discorage ye the hertes of the children of Israel for to goo ouer in to the londe which the Lorde hath geuē them? This dyd youre fathers / whē I sent them from Cades bernea to sethe londe. And they went vp euen vnto the ryuer of Escol & sawe the londe / & discoraged the he⟨illegible⟩tes of the childern of Israel / that they shulde not goo into the londe whiche the Lorde had geuen them.

And the Lorde was wroth the same tyme and sware sayenge: None of the men that came out of Egipte frō twentye yere olde and aboue / shall se the londe whiche I swore vnto Abraham / Isaac and Iacob / because they haue not continually folowed me: saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune the Benesite / & Iosua the sonne of Nun / for they haue folowed me continually. And the Lorde was angrie with Israel / and made them wandre in the wildernesse .xl. yere / vntill all the generacion that had done euell in the syghte of the Lorde were consumed.

And beholde / ye are rysen vp in youre fathers stede / the encrease of synfull men / to augmente the ferse wrath of the Lorde to Israel warde. For yf ye turne awaye from after him / he wyll yet agayne leue the people in the wildernesse / so shall ye destroy all this folke.

And they went nere him ād sayed: we will bylde shepefoldes here for oure shepe and for oure catell / and cities for oure childern: But we oure selues will go ready armed before yᵉ childern of Israel / vntill we haue broughte them vnto their place. And oure childrē shall dwell in the stronge cities / because of the inhabiters of the londe. And we will not returne vnto oure housses / vntill the childern off Israel haue enhereted: euery man his enheritaunce. For we will not enheret with them on yonder syde Iordane forwarde / because oure enheritaunce is fallen to vs on this syde Iordane eastwarde.

And Moses sayed vnto them: Yf ye will do this thing / that ye will go all harnessed before the Lorde to warre / and will go all of you in harnesse ouer Iordane before y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde / vntill he haue cast out his enemyes before him / & vntill the londe be subdyed before y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde: then ye shall returne & be without sinne agenst the Lorde & agenst Israel / & thie lōde shalbe youre possession before the Lorde. But & yf ye will not do so / beholde / ye synne agenst the Lorde: ād be sure youre synne will fynde you out. Bilde youre cities for youre childern & foldes for youre shepe / & se ye do y⟨illegible⟩ ye haue spoken.

And the childern of Gad & of Ruben spake vnto Moses sayenge: thy servauntes will do as my lorde commaundeth. Oure childrē oure wines substāce & all oure catell shall remayne here in the cities of Gilead. But we thi servauntes will goo all harnessed for the warre vnto batayle before the Lorde / as my lorde hath sayed.

And Moses cōmaūded Eleazer y⟨illegible⟩ preast & Iosua y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Nun & the aunciēt hedes of the tribes of the childern of Israel / & sayed vnto them: Yf the childern of Gad and Ruben will goo with you ouer Iordane / all prepared to syghte before the Lorde: then when the lande is subdued vnto you / geue them the londe of Gilead to possesse / but & yf they will not goo ouer with you in harnesse / then they shall haue their possessions amonge you in y⟨illegible⟩ londe of Canaan. And the childern of Gad & Ruben answered sayenge: that which y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde hath sayed vnto thi seruaūtes we will doo We wil goo harnessed before the Lorde in to the londe of Canaan / & the possession of oure enheritaunce shalbe on this syde the Iordane.

And Moses gaue vnto y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Gad and of Ruben & vnto halfe the try be of Manasse the sonne of Ioseph / the kyngdome of Sihon kynge of the Amorites / and the kyngdome of Ogkynge of Basan / the lande that longed vnto the cities thereof in the costes of the contre rounde aboute. And the childern of Gad bylt Dibō / ataroth / Aroer / Atroth / So phan / Iaeser / Iegabcha / Bethnimra & Betharan stronge cities / and they bylt foldes for their shepe. And the childern of Ruben bylt Besebon / Elalea / Ririathaim / Nebo / Baal Meon and turned their names / and Sibama also: & gaue names vnto the cities which they bylt.

And the childern of Machir the sonne of Manasse went to Gilead and token / and put out the Amorites y⟨illegible⟩ were therein. And Moses gaue Gilead vnto Machir the sonne of Manasse / & he dwelt therein. And Iair the sonne of Manasse wēt & toke y⟨illegible⟩ small townes thereof / & called thē the townes of Iair. And Nobah went & toke kenath with the townes longinge thereto / & called it Nobah after his awne name.

Chapter 33

¶ The .xxxiij. Chapter

THese are the iurneyes of the childern of Israel which went out of the lande of Egipte with their armies vnder Moses ād Aaron. And Moses wrote their goenge out by their iurneyes at y⟨illegible⟩ cōmaundment of the Lorde: euen these are y⟨illegible⟩ iurneyes of their goenge out. The childern of Israel departed from Rahēses the .xv. daye of the first moneth / on y⟨illegible⟩ morowe after Passeouer & went out with an hye hande in the syghte of all Egipte / while the Egiptians buried all their firstborne which the Lorde had smoten amonge thē. And vppō their goddes also the Lorde dyd execucion. And y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Israel remoued from Rahemses and pitched in Sucoth.

And they departed frō Sucoth & pitched their tentes in Ethā / which is in the edge of y⟨illegible⟩ wyldernesse. And they remoued frō Ethā ād turned vnto the entrynge of Hiroth which is before ba all Zephon / & pitched before Migdol. And they departed frō before Hiroth & went thorow the myddes of the see in to the wildernesse / & wēr .iij. dayes iurney in y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse of Ethā / & pirched in Marah. And they remoued frō Marah & wēt vnto Elim where were .xij. fountaynes ād .lxx. datetrees and they pitched there.

And they remoued from Elim & laye fast by the red see. And they remoued frō the red see & laye in y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse of Sin. And they toke their iurney out of y⟨illegible⟩ wildernesse of Sin / & sett vpp their tentes in Daphka. And they departed from Daphka / and laye in Alus. And they remoued from Alus / & laye at Raphedim / where was no water for the people to drynke. And they departed from Raphedim / and pitched in the wildernesse of Sinai

And they remoued from the deserte of Sinai / & lodged at the graues of lust. And they departed from the sepulchres of lust / ād laye at Haseroth. And they departed from Hazeroth / & pitched in Rithma. And departed frō Rithma and pitched at Rimon Parez. And they departed from Rimon Parez / & pitched in Libna. And they remoued from Libna / & pitched at Rissa And they iurneyed frō Rissa ād pitched in Rehelatha. And they went frō Rehclatha / & pitched in moūt Sapher And they remoued from mount Sapher / and laye in Harada. And they remoued from Harada / and pitched in Makeheleth.

And they remoued from Makeheloth / & laye at Tahath / ād they departed frō Tahath & pitched at Tharath And they remoued frō Tharath / and pitched in Mithca. And they went from Mithca / and lodged in Hasmona. And they departed from Hasmona / and laye at Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth / and pitched amonge the childern of Iaecon. And they remoued from the childern of Iaecon / ād laye at Hor gidgad. And they went from Hor gidgad / and pitched in Iathbatha. And they remoued from Iathbatha / and laye at Abrona. And they departed from Abrona / and laye at Ezeon gaber. And they remoued from Ezeon gaber / and pitched in the wildernesse of Zin / which is Cades.

And they remoued from Cades / & pitched in mount Hor / in y⟨illegible⟩ edge of the londe of Moab. And Aaron the preast went vpp in to mount Hor at the commaūdment of y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde & dyed there / euen in the fortieth yere / after the childern of Israel were come out of y⟨illegible⟩ londe of Egipte / & in the first daye of the fyfte moneth. And Aaron was an hundred ād xxxiij. yere olde when he dyed in mount Hor

And kinge Erad the canaamte which dwelt in y⟨illegible⟩ south of yᵉ lond of canaā / herd y⟨illegible⟩ the childern of Israel were come.

And they departed frō mount Hor / & pitched in Zalmona. And they departed from Zalmona / & pitched in Phimon / & they departed from Phimon / & pitched in Oboth. And they departed frō Oboth / & pitched in Igim Abarim in the borders of Moab. And they departed from Igim / and pitched in Dibon Gad. And they remoued from Dibon Gad / and laye in Almon Diblathama. And they remoued from Almon Diblathama / ād pitched in y⟨illegible⟩ mountaynes of Abarim before Nibo. And they departed from the mountaynes of Abarim / & pitched in the feldes of Moab fast by Iordane nye to Iericho. And they pitched apon Iordayne / from Beth Haiesmoth vnto y⟨illegible⟩ playne of Sitim in y⟨illegible⟩ feldes of Moab

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the feldes of Moab by Iordayne nye vnto Iericho / sayēge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye are come ouer Iordane in to the londe of Canaan / sethat ye dryue out all the inhabiters of the londe before you / & destroy their Ymaginacions & all their Ymages of Metall / ād plucke downe all their alters bylt on hilles: And possesse yᵉ londe & dwell therein / for I haue geuen you the londe to enioye it. And ye shall deuyde the enheritaunce of the londe by lott amonge youre kynreddes / ād geue to the moo the moare enheritaunce / & to the fewer the lesse enheritaunce. And youre enheritaunce shalbe in y⟨illegible⟩ tryhes of youre fathers / in y⟨illegible⟩ place where euery mans lott falleth.

But and yf ye will not dryne out the inhabiters of y⟨illegible⟩ londe before you / then these which ye let remayne of thē / shalbe thornes in youre eyes and dartes in youre sydes / & shall vexe you in the lōde wherein ye dwell. More ouer it will come to passe / y⟨illegible⟩ I shall doo vnto you as I thought to doo vnto them.

Chapter 34

¶ The .xxxiiij. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: cōmaūde the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye come in to the londe of Canaan / this is the londe that shall fall vnto youre enheritaunce / the londe of Canaan with all hir costes. And youre south quarter shalbe from the wildernesse of Zin alonge by the coste of Edom / so that youre south quarter shalbe from the syde of the salte see eastwarde / & shall fet a compasse frō the south vpp to Acrabim / & reach to Zinna. And it shall goo out on y⟨illegible⟩ south side of Cades Bernea / & goo out also at Hazar Adar / and goo alōge to Azmon. And shall fet a cōpasse from Azmon vnto the ryuer of Egipte / and shall goo out at the see.

And youre west quarter shall be the greate see / which coste shalbe youre west coste.

And this shalbe youre north quarter: ye shall compasse from the great see vnto moūt Hor. And from mount Hor / ye shall compasse & goo vnto Hemath / and the ende of y⟨illegible⟩ coste shalbe at Zedada / & the coste shall reach out to Ziphron and goo out at Hazor Enan. And this shalbe youre north quarter.

And ye shall compasse youre east quarter frō Hazar Enan to Sephain And the coste shall goo downe from Sephain to Ribla on the east syde of Ain. And then descende and goo out at the syde of the see of Chinereth eastwarde. And then goo downe alonge by Iordayne / and leue at the salte see. And this shall be youre lōde with all the costes thereof rounde aboute.

And Moses commaunded the childern of Israel sayēge: this is the lōde which ye shall enherett by lotte / and which the Lorde cōmaūded to geue vnto .ix. trybes and an halfe: for the trybe of the childern of Ruben haue receaued / in the houssholdes of their fathers / and the trybe of the childern of Gad in their fathers houssholdes / & halfe the trybe of Manasse / haue receaued their enheritaunce / that is to were .ij. trybes and an halfe haue receaued their enheritaunce on y⟨illegible⟩ other syde of Iordayne by Iericho castwarde / towarde the sonne rysynge.

And the Lorde spake to Moses sayenge: These are the names of y⟨illegible⟩ men / which shall deuyde you the londe to enherett. Eleazer y⟨illegible⟩ preast / ād Iosua the sonne of Nun. And ye shall take also a lorde of euery trybe to deuyde the londe / whose names are these: In the trybe of Iuda / Caleb y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Iephune. And in y⟨illegible⟩ trybe of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Simeon / ⟨illegible⟩emuel y⟨illegible⟩ sōne of Amiud / ād in y⟨illegible⟩ tribe of Bē Iamin / Elidad the sonne of Cis⟨illegible⟩on. And the in trybe of yᵉ childern of Dan / the lorde Bucki the sonne of Iagli. And amonge the childern of Ioseph: in the trybe of the childern of Manasse / the lorde Hamel the sonne of Ephod. And in the trybe of the childern of Ephraim / yᵉ lorde Cemuel the sonne of Siphtan. And in the trybe of the sonnes of Zabulon / yᵉ lorde Elizaphan the sonne of Parnac. And in the trybe of the childern of Isachar / the lorde Palthiel yᵉ sonne of Asan. And in the trybe of the sonnes of Asser / the lorde Ahihud yᵉ sonne of Selomi. And in the trybe of the childern of Naphtali / the lorde Peda El the sonne of Ammihud. These are they which the Lorde commaūded to deuyde the enheritaūce vnto the childern of Israel / in the londe of Canaan.

Chapter 35

¶ The .xxxv. Chapter.

ANd the Lorde spake vnto Moses in y⟨illegible⟩ feldes of Moab by Iordayne Iericho sayenge: commaunde the childern of Israel / that they geue vnto the leuites of the enheritaūce of their possession: cities to dwell in. And ye shall geue also vnto the cities of y⟨illegible⟩ leuites / suburbes rounde aboute them. The cities shalbe for them to dwell in / and y⟨illegible⟩ suburbes for their catell / possession and all maner bestes of theirs.

And the suburbes of the cities which ye shall geue vnto the lemtes / shall reach from the wall of yᵉ citie outwarde / a thousande cubites rounde aboute. And ye shall measure without the citie / and make the vtmost border of the eastsyde: two thousande cubites / And the vtmost border of the south syde: two thousande cubetes / And the vtmost border of the west syde: two thousande cubetes: and the vtmost border of the north syde: two thousande cubetes also: and the citie shalbe in the myddes. And these shall be the suburbes of their cities.

And amonge the cities which ye shall geue vnto the leuites / there shall be sixe cities of fraundyes which ye shall geue to that intent that he which killeth / maye flye thyder. And to them ye shall adde .xlij. cities mo: so that all the cities which ye shall geue the leuites shalbe .xlviij. with their suburbes.

And of the cities which ye shall geue oute of the possessyons of the childern of Israel / ye shall geue many out of their possessions that haue moche and fewe out of their possessiōs that haue litle: so that euery tribe shall geue of his cities vnto the leuites / acordinge to the enheritaunce which he enhereteth.

And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: speake vnto the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye be come ouer Jordayne into the londe of Canaan / ye shall bylde cities whiche shalbe preuyleged townes for you: that he whiche sleeth a man vnwares / maye flyethither. And the cities shalbe to flee from the executer of bloude / that he whyche kylled dye not / vntill he stonde before the congregacion in indgement. And of these vi. fre cities which ye shall geue .iij. ye shall¹⁷ geue on this syde Jordayne and. i⟨illegible⟩j. in y⟨illegible⟩ londe of Canaan. And these sixe fre cities shalbe for the childern of Israel & for the straunger & for him that dwelleth amonge you / y⟨illegible⟩ all thei which kill any persone vnwares / maye fl⟨illegible⟩rhuher.

Yf any man smyte another with a wepō of yerne that he dye / than he is a murtherer / & shall dye for it.

Yf he smyte him with a throwinge stone that he dye therwith / then he shall dye: for he is a murtherer and shalbe slayne therfore.

Yf he smyte him with a handwepon of wodd that he dye therwith / then he shall dye: for he is a murtherer and shalbe slayne the⟨illegible⟩fore.

The iudge of bloude shall ⟨illegible⟩ee the murtherer / as sone as he fyndeth him: Yf he ⟨illegible⟩h⟨illegible⟩ust him of hate or hourle at him with layenge of wayte that he dye or smyte him with his hande of enuye that he dye / he that smote him shall dye / for he is a murtherer. The iustice of bloude shall slee him as soone as he fyndeth him.

But and yf he pusshed him by chaunce & not of hate or cast at him with any maner of thynge and nor of layenge of wayte: or cast any maner of stone at him that he dye therewith / and sawe him not: And he cast it apon him and he dyed / but was not his enemyes nether soughte him ony harme: Then the cōgregacion shall iudge betwene the sleer ād the executer of bloude in soche cases. And the congregacion shall delyuer the sleer out of the hande of the iudge of bloude / and shall restore him agayne vnto the fraun⟨illegible⟩esed cytye / whother he was fleed. And he shall byde there vnto the dethe off the hye prcaste whiche was anoynted with holy ⟨illegible⟩yle.

But and yf he came without the borders of his preuyleged citie whether he was fled / yf the bloudvenger fynde him without the borders of his fre towne / he shall slee the murtherer and be giltlesse / because he shulde haue bidden in his fre towne vntyll the deth of the hye preaste / and after the deth of the hye preast / he shall returne agayne vnto the londe of his possessyon. And this shalbe an ordinaunce and a lawe vnto you / amonge youre childern after you in all youre habitacions.

Whosoeuer sleeth / shalbe ⟨illegible⟩laine at yᵉ mouthe of witnesses. For one witnesse shall not answere agenste one persone to put him to deeth. Moreouer ye shall take none amendes for the lyfe of the murtherer whiche is worthy to dye: But he shall be putto deeth. Also ye shall take none atonement for him y⟨illegible⟩ is fled to a fre citie / that he shulde come agayne and dwell in the londe before the deeth of the hye preast.

And se that ye polute not the londe which ye are in / for bloude defyleth the londe. And the londe can none other wyse be clensed of y⟨illegible⟩ bloude that is shed therein / but by the bloude of it that shed it. ⟨illegible⟩efyle notherfore the londe which ye in habitt / & in the myddes of which I also dwell / for I am y⟨illegible⟩ Lorde which dwell amonge the childern of Israel.

Notes to Chapter 35

Chapter 36

¶ The .xxxvi. Chapter.

ANd the auncyēt heedes of the childern of Gilead the sonne of Machir y⟨illegible⟩ sonne of Manasse of the kynred of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Joseph / came forth and spake before Moses and the prynces which were aunciēt heedes amōge the childern of Israel & sayed: The Lorde commaunded my lorde to geue y⟨illegible⟩ lande to enherette by lotte to the childern of Israel. And then my lord commaunded in y⟨illegible⟩ name of the Lorde to geue the enheritaunce of Zelaphead oure brother vnto his doughters. Now when any of the sonnes of the trybes of Israel take them to wy⟨illegible⟩es / then shall their enheritaunce be taken from the enheritaunce of oure fathers / and shall be put vnto the enheritaunce of the trybe in which they are and shalbe taken from the lott of oure enheritaunce. And when the fre yere cometh vnto the childern of Israel / then shall their enheritaunce be put vnto the enheritaunce of the trybe where they are in / and so shall their enheritaunce betaken awaye from the enheritaunce of the trybe of oure fathers.

And Moses commaunded the childern of Israel at the mouth of the Lorde sayenge: the trybe of y⟨illegible⟩ childern of Joseph haue sayed well. This therfore doeth the Lorde commaūde the doughters of Zelaphead sayenge: let them be wy⟨illegible⟩es to whom they thē silfe thynke best / but in the kynred of the trybe of their father shall they marye / that the enheritaunce of the childern of Israel roole not from trybe to trybe. But that the childern of Israel maye abyde / euery man in the enheritaunce of the trybe of his fathers And euery doughter that possesseth any enheritaunce amonge the trybes of the childern of Israel / shalbe wife vnto one of the kynred of the trybe of hir father / that the childern of Israel maye enioy euery man the enheritaunce of his father / & that the enheritaunce goo not from one trybe to another: but that the trybes of the childern of Israel / maye abyde euery man in his awne enheritaunce.

And as the Lorde commaunded Moses euen so dyd the doughters of Zelaphead: Mahela. Thirza / Hagla / Milca and Noa / ⟨illegible⟩d were maried vnto their fathers brothers sonnes / of the kynted of the childern of Manasse the sonne of Joseph: ād so they had their enheritaunce in the trybe of the kynred of their father.

These are the commaundmentes & lawes which the Lorde commaunded thorow Moses / vnto the childern of Israel in the feldes of Moab apon Jordayne nye vnto Jerich⟨illegible⟩.

¶ The ende of the .iiij. boke of Moses.

Colophon

Transcribed from Tyndale's Pentateuch ("Malborow in the lande of Hesse" [Antwerp]: "Hans Luft" [Johannes Hoochstraten], 17 January 1530; STC 2350), Cambridge University Library copy, as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP Phase I, text A13203): keyed by Apex CoVantage from the ProQuest page images in 2005, then sampled and proofread by Ali Jakobson in 2006. The TCP transcription was released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. The printed text is in the public domain.

Spelling, capitals, punctuation (including the virgule /), abbreviation marks (the macron, as in thē, and ꝭ) and the signs ¶ ✚ ⊢ ❧ are kept as printed. The only changes are these: long s (ſ) is set as s; superscript letters are set as ᵉ ᵗ ᵒ (yᵉ = the, yᵗ = that); ▪ marks a stop the transcribers could not identify; a word divided at the end of a line, with or without a printed hyphen, is joined into one word; page breaks and catchwords are removed. Woodcuts and decorated initials are not reproduced, but woodcut captions are given. The margin notes are given as numbered footnotes. Printed headings are kept, including their misprints, as italic lines under the library's chapter headings.

The 1530 print has no verse numbers, and no verse-numbered text of this same printing was used, so none are added. The paragraphs are those of the print. Words or letters that the transcribers could not read are marked ⟨illegible⟩ (558 places on this page). None has been supplied from another text.

This is an archival transcription of Tyndale's printed English, not a Good Works Translation: nothing here has been translated or modernised by the library.

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