CAP. VII.
1 Aftir forsothe that the wal is maad
vp, and I sette the &yogh;ate leuys, and noumbride
the porteres, and the singeris, and
the Leuitis,
2 I comaundede to Aneny, my
brother, and to Ananye, prince of the
hous of Jerusalem; he forsothe as a sothfast
man, and dredende God more than
othere was seen;
3 and I seide to hem,
The &yogh;atis of Jerusalem be thei not opened
vnto the hete of the sunne; and whan &yogh;it
I stod nee&yogh;h, the &yogh;atis ben closid and
stoppid. And I sette keperis of the
dwelleris of Jerusalem, eche bi ther
whilis, and eche a&yogh;en his hous.
4 Forsothe
the cite was myche brod and gret, and
the puple litil in the middel of it, and
ther weren not housis bild.
5 God forsothe
&yogh;af in myn herte, and I gaderede
togidere the most wrshipeful men, and
-- --
the maister iugis, and the comun, that I
noumbre hem; and I fond the boc of the
noumbring of hem, that hadden ste&yogh;id
vp first. And it is founde writen in it,
These the sones of the prouince,
6 that
ste&yogh;eden vp fro the caitifte of transmigracioun,
the whiche Nabugodonosor, king
of Babiloine, hadde translatid; and thei
ben turned a&yogh;een in to Jerusalem and in
to Jude,
7 eche in to his cite, that camen
with Sorobabel; Josue, Neemias, Azarias,
Raamias, Naanum, Mardocheus, Bethsar,
Mesfarath, Beggai, Naum, Banaa. The
noumbre of the men of the puple of
Irael;
8 the sones of Faros, two thousend
and hundrid and two and seuenti;
9 the
sonus of Safaie, thre hundrid foure score
and two;
10 the sonus of Area, sixe hundrid
two and fifti;
11 the sonus of Faeth Moab,
of the sonus of Josue and of Joab, two
thousend ei&yogh;te hundrid and ei&yogh;tetene;
the sonus of Elam,
12 a thousend ei&yogh;te hundrid
and foure and fifti;
13 the sonus of
Zechua, ei&yogh;te hundrid and fiue and fourti;
the sonus of Zachai,
14 seuene hundrid and
sixty;
15 the sonus of Bennui, sixe hundrid
and ei&yogh;te and fourti;
16 the sonus of Ebai,
sixe hundrid `and ei&yogh;te and twenti;
17 the
sonus of Asgad, two thousend thre hundrid
and two and twenti;
18 the sonus of
Asonycham, sixe hundrid and seuene and
sixti;
19 the sonus of Bagoamy, two thousend
and seuene and sixti;
20 the sonus of
Adin, sixe hundrid and fiue and fifti;
the sonus of Aser,
21 sone of Ezechie, ei&yogh;te
and twenti;
22 the sonus of Asem, thre hundrid
and ei&yogh;te and twenti;
23 the sonus of
Bethsai, thre hundrid and foure and
twenti;
24 the sonus of Aref, an hundrid
and seuene and twenti;
25 the sonus of Salaon,
fiue and nynti;
26 the men of Bethlem
and of Nethufa, an hundrid foure
-- --
score and ei&yogh;te;
27 men of Anatot, an hundrid
and ei&yogh;te and twenti;
28 men of Bethsamoth,
two and fourti;
29 men of Cariathiarim,
Sefira, and Beroth, seuene hundrid
and thre and fourti;
30 men of Ramaa and
of Gabaa, sixe hundrid and oon and
twenti;
31 men of Machinas, two hundrid
and two and twenti;
32 men of Bethel and
of Hai, an hundrid and thre and twenti;
men of the tother Nebo,
33 two and fifti;
men of the tother Elam,
34 a thousend two
hundrid and foure and fifti;
35 the sonus
of Arem,
36 thre hundrid and twenti; the
sonus of Jericho, thre hundrid and fiue
and fourti;
37 the sonus of Joiadid and of
Anon, seuene hundrid and oon and
twenti;
38 the sonus of Senaa, thre thousend
nyne hundrid and thretti;
39 prestus,
the sonus of Joiada, in the hous of Josue,
nyne hundrid and foure and seuenti;
40 the
sonys of Emmer, a thousend and two and
fifti;
41 the sonus of Fassur, a thousend two
hundrid seuene and fourti;
42 the sones of
Arem, a thousend and seuentene; Leuitus,
sonus of Josue and of Gadimel,
43
44 sonus
of Odina, seuenti and foure; singeres,
sonus of Asaf,
45 an hundrid and seuene and
fourti;
46 porteres, sonus of Sellum, sonus of
Ather, sonus of Thelmon, sonus of Accub,
sonus of Accita, sonus of Sobai, an hundrid
and ei&yogh;te and thretti;
47 sodeknes,
sonus of Soa, sonus of Asfa, sonus of Thebaoth,
sonus of Cheros,
48 sonus of Sicca,
sonus of Fado, sonus of Lebana, sonus of
Agaba,
49 sonus of Selmon, sonus of Anon,
sonus of Jeddel,
50 sonys of Gair, sonus of
Raaia, sonus of Rasym, sonus of Nechoda,
sonus of Jesem,
51 sonus of Asa, sonus of
Fascha,
52 sonus of Besai, sonus of Minum,
sonus of Nefusym,
53 sonis of Bechue, sonus
of Acufa,
54 sonus of Assur, sonus of Belloth,
sonus of Meida,
55 sonus of Arsa, sonus of
Berchos, sonus of Cizara, sonus of Thema,
sonus of Nezia,
56
57 sonus of Athifa, sonus of
the seruauns of Salomon, sonus of Sothai,
-- --
sonus of Soforeth,
58 sonus of Ferida, sonus
of Jachala, sonus of Dalchon, sonns of
Jeddel,
59 sonus of Safacia, sonus of Atchil,
sonus of Focereth, that was born of
Abaim,
60 sone of Amon; alle the sodeknes,
and the sonus of the thrallis of Salamon,
thre hundrid and two and twenti.
61 These ben that ste&yogh;eden vp of Themelath,
Thelarsa, Cherub, Addo, and Emmer,
and thei my&yogh;ten not shewe the hous of
ther fadirs, and ther sed, whether of
Israel thei weren;
62 sonus of Dalaia, sonus
of Thobia, sonus of Nethoda, sixe hundrid
and two and fourti;
63 and of the
prestis, sonus of Abia, sonus of Achos,
sonus of Bersellai, that toc a wif of the
do&yogh;tris of Bersellai Galadite, and is clepid
bi the name of hem;
64 these so&yogh;ten the
scripture of ther genelogie, and founde
not, and ben cast out fro presthod.
65 And
Athersatha seide to them, that thei shulden
not eten of the holi thingus of halewis,
to the time that ther rijse a ta&yogh;t
and lerned prest.
66 Al the multitude as o
man, two and fourti thousend thre hundrid
and sixti,
67 with oute the seruauns
and the hand wymmen of hem, that
weren seuen thousend thre hundrid and
seuene and thretti; and among hem singeres
and singressis two hundrid and fiue
and fourti.
68 The hors of hem, seuene
hundrid and thre and thretti;
69 the camailis
of hem, foure hundrid and fiue and
thretti; the assis of hem, sixe thousend
seuene hundred and thretti; `the mulis of
hem, two hundrid and fiue and fourti.
70 Summe forsothe of the princis of the
meynes &yogh;euen expensis in to the werc of
God; Athersatha &yogh;af in to the tresorie,
of gold, dragmys a thousend, fifty violis,
prestus cotus fiue hundrid and thretti.
-- --
71 And of the princis of the meines ther
&yogh;euen in to the tresorie of the werk, of
gold, dragmis twenti thousend, and of
siluer, two thousend besauntus and two
hundrid.
72 And that that &yogh;af the tother
puple, of gold, dragmis twenti thousend,
and of siluer, besauntus two thousend, and
prestus cotus sixti and seuenn. Forsothe
the prestus, and Leuitus, and the porteris,
and singeris, and the tother comun, and
the sodekyns, and al Irael dwelten in
ther cites.
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].
