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. IV.
1 Adam forsothe knewe Eue his wijf, the
which conceyuede, and bare Caym, seiynge,
I haue had a man bi God.
2 And
eft soons she bare his brother Abel. Forsothe
Abel was a sheepherd of sheep, and
Caym an erthe tilyer.
3 And don it is
after many dayes, that Caym shulde offre
of the fruytis of the erthe &yogh;iftis to the
Lord;
4 Abel forsothe offride of the first
gotun of his flok, and of the fatnes of
hem. And the Lord bihelde to Abel and
to his &yogh;iftis;
5 to Caym forsothe and to
the &yogh;iftis of hym he bihelde not. And
Caym was greetli wroth, and therwith
felle his chere.
6 And the Lord seide to
hym, Whi art thow wroth, and whi therwith
fallith thi face?
7 Shalt thow not reseyue
wel, if thou wel dost; ellis forsothe
euel, anoon in the &yogh;atis thi synnes
shal ben at thee? but vndre thee shal be
the appetite of hym, and thow shalt haue
lordship of hym.
8 And Caym seide to
Abel his brother, Go we out. Whanne
thei weren in the feeld, aroos there with
Caym a&yogh;ens his brother Abel, and slowe
him.
9 And the Lord seide to Caym,
Where is Abel thi brother? The which
answeryde, I wote neuere; whether am I
-- --
the keper of my brother?
10 And he seide
to hym, What hast thow don? the vois
of the blood of thi brother crieth to me
fro the erthe.
11 Now than thow shalt be
cursid vpon the erthe, the which openyde
his mowthe, and toke the blood of thi
brother of thin honde.
12 Whanne thow
worchist the erthe, it shal not &yogh;iue thee
his fruytis; vagaunt and fer fugitif thow
shalt be vpon the erthe alle the daies of
thi lijf.
13 And Caym seide to the Lord,
More is my wickidnes than that I deserue
for&yogh;euenes;
14 se! thow castist me out
to day fro the face of the erthe; and fro
thi face I shal be hid, and I shal be vagaunt
and fer fugitif in the erthe; al
thanne that shal fynd me shal sle me.
15 And the Lord seide to hym, It shal not
be do so, but al that shal sle Caym shal
seuene fold be punysshid. And the Lord
sette a signe in Caym, that ech that
fonde hym shulde not sle hym.
16 And
Caym, passid out fro the face of the
Lord, dwellide fer fugitif in the erthe, at
the eest plage of Eden.
17 Caym forsothe
knewe his wijf, the which forsothe conseyuede,
and bare Enok; and he bildide
a citee, and callide the name of it after
the name of his sone Enok.
18 Forsothe
Enok gate Yrad, and Yrad gate Manyael,
and Manyael gate Mathusael, and Mathusael
gate Lameth;
19 the which toke
two wyues, the name of the toon Ada,
and name of the tother Sella.
20 And
Ada gate Jabel, that was fadre of dwellers
in tentis and of sheepherdis;
21 and the
name of his brother Tubal, he was the
fadre of syngerys in harp and orgon.
22 Sella forsothe gate Tubalcaym, that was
an hamer smyth, and a smyth into alle
werkis of bras and of yrun; the sister
forsothe of Tubalcaym, Noema.
23 And Lameth
seide to his wijfes Ade and Selle,
Here &yogh;e my vois, wifes of Lameth, herken
&yogh;e my word; for I slowe a man into my
-- --
wound, and a litle waxen man into my
wannesse;
24 veniaunce shal be &yogh;ouun of
Caym seuene fold, of Lameth forsothe
seuenti sithes seuenfold.
25 Forsothe &yogh;it
Adam knewe his wijf, and she bare a
child, and callide the name of hym Seth,
seiynge, God sette to me another seed for
Abel, whom Caym slowe.
26 But and to
Seth is borne a sone, whom he callide
Enos; this bigan inwardli to clepe the
name of the Lord.
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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