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. XV.
1 So thes thingis past ouer, the word of
the Lord was maad to Abram bi a visioun,
seiynge, Abram, wolt thow not
dreed, I am thi defendour, and thi meed
is ful greet.
2 And Abram seide, Lord
God, what shal thow &yogh;yue me? I shal go
withouten fre children, and the sone of
the proctour of myn hows, this Damask
of Elyzar, shal be myn eyre.
3 And Abram
addide, To me forsothe thow hast not
&yogh;ouun seed, and, lo! the seruaunt of myn
howshold shal be myn eyre.
4 And anoon
the word of God was maad to hym, seiynge,
This shal not be thin eire, but he
-- --
that shal gon out of thi womb, hym thow
shalt make thin eire.
5 And he ledde hym
out, and seide to hym, Biholde heuene,
and noumbre the sterrys, if thow mayst.
And he seide to hym, so shal be thi seed.
6 Abram leuede to God, and it was alowid
to hym to ry&yogh;twisnes.
7 And he seide to
hym, I the Lord, that out lad thee fro Vr
of Caldeis, that I shulde &yogh;yue to thee this
lond, and thow shuldist haue it.
8 And he
seide, Lord God, wherof may I knowe
that I am to haue it?
9 And the Lord answeride,
Take, he seith, to thee a kow
of thre &yogh;eer, and a she gehet of thre &yogh;eer,
and a wethir of thre &yogh;eer, and a turtur,
and a culuer.
10 The which, takynge alle
thes thingis, dyuydide hem by the mydil,
and putte eithir partis a&yogh;ens hemsilf,
either to othre; the briddis forsothe he
dyuydide not.
11 And fowlis descendiden
vpon the careyns, and Abram `droue
hem awey.
12 And whanne the sunne was
goon down, feer felle vpon Abram, and
greet grisynes and derk assaileden hym.
13 And it was seid to him, Bifore knowynge
know thow, that thi seed is to be a pilgrym
in the lond not his, and men shulen
suget hem to thraldom, and men shulen
ouer traueile hem fowre hundrid wynter;
14 netheles I shal deme the folk of kynde
to whom thei ben to serue; and after thes
thingis thei shulen gon out with a greet
substaunce.
15 Thow forsothe shalt go to
thi fadres in pees, biried also in god
eld.
16 The ferthe forsothe generacioun thei
shulen turne a&yogh;en hidir, ne &yogh;it forsothe
ben not fulfillid the shrewidnes of the
Amoreis, vnto the tyme that is now.
17 Thanne whan the sunne is gon down,
there was maad a derk clowd, and a furneys
smekynge aperyde, and a lawmpe
of fijr, passynge bitwix tho dyuysiouns.
18 In that day the Lord couenauntide with
Abram a bond of pees, seiynge, To thi
seed I shal &yogh;yue this lond, fro the flood
-- --
of Egipt vnto the greet flood of Eufraten;
Cyneos,
19 and Cynyseos, and Sephmonios,
and Etheos,
20 and Phariseos, Raphaim forsothe,
and Amorreos,
21 and Chananeos, and
Gergeseos, and Gebeseos.
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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