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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1 Thes ben the names of the sones of
Yrael, that &yogh;eden into Egipte with Jacob;
eche with her housholdes &yogh;eden yn;
Ruben,
2
3 Symeon, Leuy, Judas, Isachar,
Zabulon,
4 and Beniamyn, Dan, and Neptalym,
Gad, and Aser.
5 Thanne weren alle
the soules of hem that &yogh;eden out of the
hipe of Jacob seuenti and fyue.
6 Joseph
forsothe was in Egipte; the which deed,
and alle hys bretheren, and al his cosynage,
the sones of Yrael wexen,
7 and as
-- --
burionynge ben multiplied, and thei
strengthid fulfilliden the erthe.
8 Thanne
a newe kyng roos vpon Egipte, that
knewe not Joseph,
9 and he seide vnto his
puple, Loo! the puple of the sones of
Yrael is myche, and stronger than we;
cometh,
10 wiseli oppresse we it, lest perauenture
thei ben multiplied, and, if batayle
aryse a&yogh;ens vs, it be addid to oure
enemyes, and, we ouercomen, he go out
of the loond.
11 And so he bifore putte to
hem maystris of werkis, that thei shulden
ouertraueylen hem with birthens. And
thei bildeden to Pharao the citees of tabernacles,
Phiton, and Ramesses.
12 And
in as myche as thei oppressiden hem, so
myche more thei weren multiplied, and
wexen.
13 And the Egipciens hatiden the
sones of Yrael, and tourmentiden, scornynge
to hem, and enuyinge;
14 and to bitternes
thei brou&yogh;ten her lijf with harde
werkis of cley and tyle, and with al
seruage, thur&yogh; the which thei weren thrist
down in werkys of the erthe.
15 And the
kyng of Egipte seide to the mydwyues
of Ebrews, of the whiche oon was clepid
Sephora,
16 and `that other Fua, comaundynge
hem, Whanne &yogh;e shulen serue the
wymmen of Ebrew, to taken her children
of her wombe, and the tyme of
birthe come, if it be a maal, sleeth hym;
if a femaal, kepith.
17 Forsothe the mydwyues
dredden God, and diden not after
the heeste of the kyng of Egipte, but
kepten the males.
18 The whyche to hym
clepid, seide the kyng, What now is this
&yogh;e wolden do, that the knaue children &yogh;e
wolen kepe?
19 The whiche answerden,
Wymmen of Ebrew ben not as the wymmen
of Egipte, thei forsothe han the kunnyng
of mydwyuyng, and er we comen
to hem, thei ben delyuered.
20 Thanne
God dide wel to the mydwyues; and the
-- --
puple growide, and was coumfortid greetli.
21 And for the mydwiues dredden God, he
byldyd to hem housis.
22 Thanne Pharao
comaundide to al his puple, seiynge, What
euer of maal kynde shal be born, throwe
&yogh;e it in to the flode; what euer of femaal,
kepith.
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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