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].
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CAP. XXX.
1 Ezechie also sente to al Irael and Juda,
and he wroote letters to Effraym and
Manassen, that thei schulden commen in
to the hous of the Lord in Jerusalem,
and do pasch to the Lord God of Irael.
2 Thanne gon in the counsele of the kyng,
and of the princis, and of al the companye
of Irael, thei deemedyn that they
schulden don pasch the secounde moneth.
3 Forsothe thei camen not to gydre to don
in his tyme; for the prestis that my&yogh;ten
suffisen weren not halowed, and the puple
not &yogh;it was gadered in to Jerusalem.
4 And the word pleside to the kyng, and
to al the multitude.
5 And they deemeden
for to senden messagers in to al Irael,
fro Bersabe vnto Dan, that thei schulden
commen, and don pasch to the Lord God
of Irael in Jerusalem; manye forsothe
hadden not done, as in the lawe it is
beforn writen.
6 And curours wenten with
letters, of the heste of the kyng and of
his princis, in to al Irael and Juda, after
the whiche thing the kyng hadde comaundide
prechours, Sonis of Irael,
turnith a&yogh;ein to the Lord God of Abraham,
and of Ysaac, and of Irael; and he
schal be turned a&yogh;ein to the releuys, that
scapeden the hondis of the kyng of Assiries.
7 Willith not ben maad as &yogh;oure
fadirs and bretheren, that wenten awey
fro the Lord God of their fadirs; and he
toke hem in to deth, as &yogh;e seen.
8 Willith
not ful hardne &yogh;our nollis, as &yogh;oure fadirs;
-- --
takith hondis to the Lord, and commith
to the seyntuarye of hym, that he halowed
with out eende; seruith to the
Lord God of &yogh;our fadirs, and schal ben
turned awey fro &yogh;ou the wrath of his
woodnesse.
9 &YOGH;if forsothe &yogh;e weren turned
a&yogh;ein to the Lord, &yogh;our bretheren and
&yogh;our sonus schul haue mercy, with their
lordis that hem laddyn caitijf; and thei
schul ben turned a&yogh;ein into this lond. Forsothe
pytouse and mercyable is the Lord
oure God; and he schal not turnen awey
his face fro &yogh;ou, &yogh;if &yogh;e weren turned a&yogh;ein
to hym.
10 Thanne currours wente swiftly
fro cyte vnto cite thoru&yogh; the lond of Effraym
and Manasse vnto Zabulon, hem
scoornynge and vndermowynge hem.
11 Neuerthelater
sum men of Aser, and of
Manasse, and of Zabulon, assentynge to
the counseile, camen in to Jerusalem.
12 In
Juda forsothe is done the hond of the
Lord, that he schulde &yogh;euen to hem oon
herte, and thei schulden don, after the
heste of the kyng and princis, the word
of the Lord.
13 And there ben gadered into
Jerusalem many puplis, that thei don the
solempnyte of therf looues in the secounde
moneth.
14 And rijsyng thei distruyden
the auters, that weren in Jerusalem;
and alle thingus in the whiche to
mawmetis was brend encense, turnynge
vpsadoun, thei threwen in to the streme
of Cedron.
15 Thei offriden forsothe pasch
the fourtenth day of the secound moneth;
the prestis also and Leuytis at the last
halowed, offreden brent sacrifice in the
hous of the Lord.
16 And thei stoden in
their ordre, aftir the disposicyoun and the
lawe of Moyses, the man of God. The
prestis forsothe hadden taken the blood
to ben sched of the hondis of Leuytis,
forthi that myche puple was not halowed;
17
-- --
and therfore the Leuytis schulden
offren pasch to hem, that `came not to
gydre to ben halowed to the Lord.
18 A
grete also part of the puple of Effraym,
and Manasse, and Ysachar, and Zabulon,
the whiche was not halowed, eetyn pasch
not after that it is writen. And Ezechie
preyede for hem, seyinge, The good
Lord schal haue mercy to alle,
19 that in al
herte sechen the Lord God of ther fadirs;
and it schal not ben wijtid to hem,
that thei ben not halowed.
20 Whome the
Lord herde, and is plesid to the puple.
21 And the sonus of Irael, that ben founden
in Jerusalem, diden the solempnyte of
therf looues seuen days in grete ioye,
preisynge the Lord bi eche dais; the
Leuytis also and the prestis by orgnys,
that to their office fellen.
22 And Ezechias
spac to the herte of alle the Leuytis, that
hadden good vndirstondynge vpon the
Lord; and thei eeten seuen days of the
solempnyte, offrynge slayn sacrifice of
pesyble thingus, and preysyng the Lord
God of their fadirs.
23 And it pleside to
al the multitude, that thei schulden also
halowen other seuen days; the whiche
and thei diden with ful grete ioy.
24 Ezechias
forsothe, king of Juda, &yogh;af to the
multitude a thousand boolis, and seuen
thousand of scheep; the princis forsothe
&yogh;euen to the puple a thousand boolis,
and scheep tenn thousand. Thanne is
halowed a more multitude of prestis;
and gladnesse thoru&yogh;
25 held al the puple
of Juda, both of prestis and of Leuytis,
and of al the besy commyng, that weren
commen of Irael, and of the comlyngis
of the lond of Irael, and of the dwellers
of Juda.
26 And ther is don a grete solempnyte
in Jerusalem, whiche maner
-- --
was not in the same cyte fro the days of
Salomon, sone of Dauid, kyng of Irael.
27 Forsothe the prestis and Leuytis risen,
blessyng to the puple; and the voyce of
hem is herd, and the preyer ful came
into the hooly dwellinge place of heuen.
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].
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