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. I.
1 THE Lord forsothe clepide Moyses,
and spak to hym from the tabernacle of
witnessyng,
2 seiynge, Spek to the sones
of Yrael, and thow shalt seie to hem, The
man that offreth of &yogh;ow an oost to God
of the beestis that is, of oxen, and of
sheep,
3 offrynge slawn sacrifices, if al brent
sacrifice were the offryng of hym, and of
the droue, a maal with outen wemme he
shal offre at the dore of the tabernacle
of witnessyng, to plese to hym the Lord.
4 And he shall putte the hondes vpon the
heed of the oost, and it shal be acceptable,
-- --
and profytynge into the clensyng of hym.
5 And he shal offre a calf before the Lord,
and the sones of Aaron, the preest, shulen
offre the blood of it, shedynge bi enuyroun
of the auter, that is before the dore
of the tabernacle.
6 And the skyn of the
oost drawun of, the greet lemes thei shulen
kit in gobetis;
7 and thei schulen leye
fier in the auter maad bifore the heep of
wodde;
8 and the lemes that ben kyt a boue
ordeynynge, the heed, that is, and alle
that cleuen to the mawe,
9 the entrails and
the feet wasshe with watir; and the
preest shal brenne hem vpon the auter
in to al brent sacrifice, and swete smel to
the Lord.
10 That if of the beestis is the
offeryng, the al brent sacrifice of sheep,
or of geyt, he shal offre a loombe of o
&yogh;eer with outen wemme,
11 and he shal offre
at the side of the auter that biholdith to
the north, bifore the Lord. The blood forsothe
of it the sones of Aaron shulen
heelde vpon the auter bi enuyroun,
12 and
thei shulen dyuyde the lemes, the heed,
and alle that cleuen to the mawe, and leie
vpon the wodde, to the which fier is to be
vnder putte;
13 the entrayls forsothe, and
the feet thei shulen wasshe with water;
and the preest shal brenne alle thingis
offred vpon the auter into brent sacrifice,
and moost swete smel to the Lord.
14 If
forsothe of the briddis the offryng of
brent sacrifice were to the Lord, of turturs,
or culuer briddis,
15 the preest shal
offre it at the auter; and the heed crokid
a&yogh;en to the necke, and the place of a
wounde broke, he shal make the blood
renne down vpon the brenke of the auter.
16 The litil bleedre forsothe of the throot,
and the fetheres, he shal cast out biside
the auter, at the eest coost, in the place
where askis ben wonte to be cast out;
and he shal breke the wynges of it,
17 and
-- --
not kyt, ne with yrun dyuyde it; and he
shal brenne it vpon the auter, fier vnder
put to the wodde; al brent sacrifice it is
and offryng of moost swete smel to 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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