CAP. IV.
1 Sones of Juda; Phares, and Esrom, and
Carmy, and Hur, and Sobal.
2 Reya forsothe,
the sone of Sobal, gat Jeth; of
whom ben born Achymay, and Laed.
3 Thes the kynredis of Sarathy. This
forsothe the lynage of Ethan; Jesrael,
Jezema, and Jedeboz; name forsothe of
the syster of hem Azalelfuny.
4 Funyel
forsothe the fadir of Jedor, and Ezer,
the fadir of Osa; thes ben the sones of
Hur, first goten of Effrata, the fadir of
Bethleem.
5 Of Asur forsothe, fader of
-- --
Techue, weren two wijues, Hala, and
Naara;
6 forsothe Naara bare to hym
Chosam, and Epher, and Theman, and
Aschari; thes ben the sonys of Naara.
7 Forsothe the sones of Hala; Cereth,
Ysaar, and Ethan.
8 Chus forsothe gat
Anob, and Sobaba, and the cognaciouns
of Arab, sone of Arym.
9 Jabes forsothe
was noble beforn alle his bretheren;
and his modir clepide the name of hym
Jabes, seyinge, For I bare hym in sorow.
10 Forsothe Jabes inwardly clepyde
the God of Yrael, seyinge, &YOGH;if blessynge
thou schalt blessen to me, and largen
my termys, and thin hond were with me,
and makist me not to ben oppressed of
malice. And the Lord &yogh;aue to hym that
he preyed.
11 Caleph forsothe, brother of
Sua, gat Machir, that was the fadir of
Eston;
12 forsothe Eston gat Bechus, Rapha,
aud Phese, and Thena, the fadir of
the cyte of Naas. Thes ben the men of
Recha.
13 The sonys forsothe of Cenes;
Othonyel, and Saraia. Forsothe the
sonys of Othonyel;
14 Othiath, and Maonathi,
the whiche gat Ofra. Saraias forsothe
gat Joab, fadir of the valey of
craftis men; ther forsothe weren craftise
men.
15 Sonys forsothe of Caleph, sone of
Jephone; Hyn, and Hela, and Nahem.
16 The sonys forsothe of Hela; Jalael, and
Cenes. The sonys forsothe of Jalael;
Ceph, and Cipha, and Thiria, and Asrahech.
17 And the sonys of Esra; Jether,
and Merid, and Epher, and Jason; and
he gat Mariam, and Semoi, and Jesba,
the fadir of Eschamo.
18 The wijf forsothe
of hym, Judaia, gat Jared, fadir of Jedor;
and Eber, fadir of Socho; and Hieutiel,
fader of Zanon. These forsothe the sonys
of Bethie, dou&yogh;tir of Pharao, the whiche
Mered toke.
19 And the sonys of the wijf
of Odoye, syster of Nathan, fadir of
-- --
Seila; Garmy, and Escamo, that was of
Machathi.
20 The sonys forsothe of Symeon,
Amon, and Rena; the sone of Aman,
Chilon; and the sonys of Jeci, Zoeth, and
Benzoeth.
21 The sonys of Cela, sone of
Juda; Her, fadir of Lecha, and Laada,
fadir of Marasa; and the kynredis of the
hous of men wirchynge bijs in the hous
of oth;
22 and the whiche maad the sonne
to stonden, and men of lesynge, and
syker, and goynge, the whiche weren
princis in Moab, and the whiche ben
turned a&yogh;eyn in Leem; thes forsothe ben
the olde wordis.
23 Thes ben potters dwellynge
in plauntyngis, and in cratchis,
anentis kyngis in their werkis; and thei
dwelliden there.
24 The sonys of Symeon;
Namyel, and Jamyn, Jarib, Zara, Saul.
25 Sellum, the sone of hym; Mapsan, the
sone of hym; and Masma, the sone
of hym.
26 The sonys of Masma; Accuel,
the sone of hym; and Zaccur, the sone of
hym; and Semei, the sone of hym.
27 The
sonys of Semei sixtene, and dou&yogh;tris sixe;
the bretheren forsothe of hym hadden
not many sonys, and al the kynrede
my&yogh;te not maken euen to the soumme of
the sonys of Juda.
28 Forsothe thei dwelliden
in Bethsabe, and Molada, and
Asersual,
29 and in Balaa, and in Asometh,
and in Tholoth,
30 and in Bathuel, and
Orma,
31 and in Sichelech, and in Beth,
and Mathaboth, and in Archasusyn, and
in Bethberai, and in Saarym; thes the
cytees of hem, vnto kyng Dauid.
32 The
touns forsothe of hem; Ethan, and Aen,
and Remmon, and Techen, and Azan;
fyue cytees.
33 And alle the lityll touns
of hem by enuyroun of thes cytees, vnto
Baal; this is the dwellynge of hem, and
the delynge of setis.
34 Mosobali forsothe,
and Jenyleth, and Josa, the sone of Amasie,
and Joel,
35 and Jeu, the sone of Josabie,
and the sonys of Saraie, the sone
-- --
of Aziel,
36 and Elioneay, and Jamcoba,
aud Sycua, and Azaia, and Adiel, and
Isemeel, and Banaya;
37 Sisa forsothe, the
sone of Cephei, the sone of Allon, sone
of Adaia, sone of Semri, sone of Samaia.
38 Thes ben the princis nempnyd in their
kynredis, and in the hous of ther affynytese
thei ben multiplied hugely.
39 And thei
wenten, that thei camen in to Gador, vnto
the este of the valey, and for to sechen
lesewes to their scheep.
40 And thei founden
most plenteuows leswes, and ful good,
and most large lond, and quyete, and
bryngynge fruyt, in the whiche beforn
hadden dwellid of the lynage of Cam.
41 Thes than camen, the whiche beforn we
han discryued name by name, in the dais
of Ezechie, kyng of Juda; and thei
smyten the tabernaclis of hem, and the
dwellers that ben founden there; and thei
dyden hem aweye vnto the present day;
and thei dwelliden for hem, for most
plenteuows leswes weren founden there.
42 Of the sonys forsothe of Symeon wenten
in to the hil of Seir fyue hundreth men,
hauynge princis Phalsie, and Nariam,
and Raphayam, and Osiel, the sonys of
Jesy;
43 and thei smyten the relikis, that
mi&yogh;ten not ascapyn of Amalachytes; and
thei dwelliden for hem there vnto this
day.
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].
