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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[Prologue on the book of Exodus.]
This book of Exodi, that is to seie, of going out, makith mencioun, that whanne
Joseph was deed, and alle hise brethren, and the sones of Israel encresseden, and weren
multiplied as buriownyng, a newe king, that knew&yogh; not Joseph, and Egipcians togidere,
oppresseden the peple of Israel with grete werkis, and hateden hem, and turmenteden,
and scorneden hem. Also how God bifore ordeynde Moises and Aaron, of the kynrede
of Leuy, to lede the peple of Israel out of the lond of Egipt, by strengthe and vertu
doon of God; in so myche that thei weren constreyned to lete hem go, lest thei
scholden alle haue perischid. And how Moises smoot the rede see with the &yogh;erde of
God, and the see stood vp as a wal, while the peple of God passide thoru&yogh;; and that
Farao and al his oost, pursuwinge hem, were drenchid in the see comynge vp on hem.
Also how the peple goinge forth bi desert gruccheden a&yogh;ens the Lord, and Moises and
Aaron, her leders, for hungur and thurst, trauaile and werynesse; and how God spak
to the peple, and thei herden his vois, and dredden greetli, and &yogh;af to hem the ten
comaundementis writen in tablis of stoon. Also Moises wroot to hem the lawe, to
iustifie alle wrongis doon bitwixe man and man. Also how Moises was comaundid to
make a tabernacle, to wurschipe therinne the Lord, and offre sacri[fi]se, and how he
scholde make the prestis clothis, and hise mynystris, and al her aray in the seruyse of
God, and the auters, and propiciatorie, candilstike and li&yogh;tis, lanternes and encens, and
alle othere ournementis of the tabernacle. Here endith the prologe, and here biginneth
the book of Exodi.
Here bygynneth Exodi.
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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