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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. XXXVIII.

1   And he made the auter of brent sacrifyce of the trees of Sichym, of fyue cubitis bi square, and of three in hei&yogh;t; whose hornes &yogh;eden out of the corners; 2    and he couerde it with brasun plates. 3   And he greithide into the vses of it dyuerse vessels of brasse, cawdrowns, toonges, fleshhokes, hokes, and fier pannes. 4   And the gredyrne of it in manere of a nett he made brasun, and vnder it in myddil of the auter a `fier panne. 5   Foure ryngis &yogh;otun, be so feele hei&yogh;tes of the netwise gredyrne, to the berynge staues to be put yn, for to bere; 6   the whiche and hem he made of the trees of Sichym, and he couerde with brasun plates. 7   And he ladde yn cercles, the whiche `stoden ouer in the sides of the auteer. And thilk auter was not massye, but holw&yogh; of tabled thingis, and with ynne voyde. 8   And he made a brasun lauatorye, with his foot, of the shewers of wymmen, the whiche wacchiden in the porche of the tabernacle. 9   And the porche, in whos sowthe coost weren the tentis of bijs folden a&yogh;en of an hundrid cubites, 10   twenti brasun pilers with her feet, the heedes of the pilers and al the grauyng of the werk siluer; euen at the north coost the tentis, 11   pilers, and feet, and the heedes of pilers weren of the same mesure and of werk and of metal. 12   In that forsothe coost the which

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biholdeth the west, weren tentis of fifti cubites, ten pilers with her feet brasun, and the heedes of the pilers, and al the grauyng of the werk, silueren. 13   Forsothe 14   a&yogh;en the est he greithide tentis of fifti cubites, of the whiche o side helde fiftene cubites of three pilers with his feet; 15   and in `that other party, for bitwix either he made the entre of the tabernacle, weren the tentis euen of fiftene cubites, thre pilers, and so feele feete. 16   Alle the tentis of the porche bijs folden a&yogh;en hadde couerde. 17   The feet of the pilers weren brasun, the heedes forsothe of hem with alle her grauyngis silueren; but and thilk pilers of the porche he clothide with siluer. 18   And in the entre of it he made a tent with nedle werk, of iacynct, and purpur, and reed clooth, and of bijs folden a&yogh;en, the whiche hadde twenti cubites in lengthe, the hei&yogh;t forsothe was of fyue cubitis, aftir the mesure that alle the tentis of the porche hadden. 19   The pilers forsothe in the comyng ynne weren foure, with brasun feete, and the heedes of hem, and the grauynges silueren; 20   the litil stakis forsothe of the tabernacle and of the porche by enuyroun he made brasun. 21   Thes ben the instrumentis of the tabernacle of witnessyng, that ben noumbred out after the heestis of Moyses in the serymonyes of Leuytis, by the hoond of Ythamer, sone of Aaron, preest. 22   The whiche thingis Beseleel, the sone of Hury, the sone of Hur, of the lynage of Juda, the Lord bi Moyses comaundynge, hadde fulfillid; 23   ioyned to hym a felawe, Ooliab, the sone of Achisamech, of the lynage of Dan, the which and he was a noble crafti man of trees, and a browdrer, and a worcher with nedlis, of iacynct, and purpur, `reed clooth, and bijs. 24   Al the gold

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that was spendid in the werk of the seyntuarye, and that was offerd in &yogh;iftis, was of twenti and nyne talentis, and of seuen hundrid and thretti siclis, at the mesure of the seyntuarie. 25   There was forsothe offerd of hem that camen to the noumbre, fro twenti &yogh;eer and aboue, of six hundrid thre thowsynd and of fyue hundrid and fifti men of aarmes. 26   There weren forthermore an hundryd talentes of siluer, of the which ben &yogh;otun the footstakis of the seyntuarye, and of the entre, where the veyle hongith; 27   an hundred footstakis ben maad of an hundrid talentes, eche talentis countid bi eche footstakis. 28   Of a thowsynd forsothe and seuen hundrid and seuenti and fyue sicles he made the heedes of the pilers, the whiche and hem he clothide with siluer. 29   Of brasse forsothe there weren offred talentis seuenti and two thowsynd, and foure hundrid ouermore sicles. 30   Of the whiche ben &yogh;oten footstakis in the entre of the tabernacle of witnessyng, and a brasun auter with his fier panne, and alle the vessels that perteyneden to the vse of it, 31   and the footstakis of the porche, as wel in the enuyroun as in the comyng yn of it, and litle stakis of the tabernacle, and of the porche al aboute.
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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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