CAP. XXIV.
1 Forsothe to the sonis of Aaron thes
porciouns schul ben; the sonis of Aaron,
Nadab, and Abiud, Eleasar, and Ythamar;
2 forsothe Nadab and Abiud ben
deed before their fadir, with oute free
chyldre, and Eleasar vsede presthode,
and Ythamar.
3 And Dauid deuydide hem,
that is, Sadoch, fro the sonys of Eleasar,
and Achymalech, fro the sonis of Ythamar,
aftir their whilis and seruyse;
4 and
there ben founden manye mo sonys of
Eleasar in the men princis, thanne the
sonys of Ythamar. He deuydide forsothe
to hem, that is, to the sonys of Eleasar,
princes by meynes sextene; and to the
sonys of Ythamar by meynes and their
houses ey&yogh;t.
5 Bot he deuydide either
meynes between hem selue by lottis;
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forsothe there weren princis of the seyntuarye,
and princis of the hous of God,
as wele of the sonys of Eleasar as of the
sonys of Ythamar.
6 And Semeyas, the
sone of Nathanael, Leuyte scribe, discryuede
hem beforn the kyng and the
princes, and before Sadoch, the prest, and
Achymalech, the sone of Abiather, also
before the princis of the prestis meynes
and of Leuytis; oon hous, the whiche
beforn was to the tother, of Eleasar, and
another hous, the whiche vndir hym silf
hadde the tother, of Ythamar.
7 And the
first lott wente out of Joiarib, the secound
of Jedeie,
8 the thrid of Harym, the ferth
of Seosym,
9 the fyfthe of Melchia, the
sixt of Mayman,
10 the seuenth of Acchos,
the ei&yogh;the of Abia,
11 the nynthe of Jesu,
the tenthe of Sethema,
12 the elleuenth of
Eliazub,
13 the twelthe of Jacym, the thrittenthe
of Oofa, the fouretenthe of Isbaal,
the fyftenthe of Abelgaa,
14 the sixtenthe
of Emmer,
15 the seuententhe of Ezir, the
ei&yogh;tenthe of Ahapses,
16 the nyntenthe of
Pheceia,
17 the twentethe of Zechel, the oon
and twentithe of Joachym, the two and
twentethe of Gamul,
18 the thre and twentethe
of Dalayan, the foure and twentithe
of Mazian.
19 Thes the whiles of hem
aftir their seruyse, that thei gon in the
hous of the Lord, and aftir ther rijt
vndir the hond of Aaron, their fader, as
the Lord God of Yrael comaundide.
20 Forsothe
of the sonys of Leuy that weren
laft, of the sonys of Amram, Sebahel was
prynce; and of the sonys of Sebahel, Jedeia;
of the sonys of Robie,
21 prince Jesias.
22 Of Isaaris forsothe Salemoth; also
the sone of Salemoth, Jonadiath;
23 and the
sone of hym, Gerueanus the first, Aman
the secound, Azihel the thrid, Jethmoam
the ferthe.
24 The sone of Ozihel, Mycha;
the sone of Mycha, Samur;
25 the brother of
Mycha, Jezia; and the sone of Jezie, Zacharie.
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26 The sonis of Mereri; Mooli and
Musi;
27 the sone of Jozan, Bennon; the
sone also of Musi; Orian, and Soem, and
Saccur, and Ebri.
28 Bot the sone of Mooli,
Eliazar, that hadde no free childre;
29 the
sone forsothe of Ciz, Jeremyel;
30 the sonis
of Musi; Mooli, Jeremuth. Thes the sonys
of Leuy, aftir the houses of their meynese.
31 Leyden also and thei lottis a&yogh;eyn their
bretheren, sonys of Aaron, before Dauid
the kyng, and Sadoch, and Achymalech,
and the princis of the prestis meynese,
and Leuytis; as wele the more as the
lasse, alle the lott euenlyche deuydide.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
