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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. XVII.

1   And the Lord spak to Moyses, seiynge, Spek to Aaron and his sones, 2   and to alle

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the sones of Yrael, seiynge to hem, This is the word that the Lord hath comaundide, seiynge, 3   Eche man of the hows of Yrael, if he slee an oxe, or a sheep, or a she goot in the tentes, or out of the tentes, 4   and offreth not at the dore of the tabernacle offrynge to the Lord, he shal be gilti of blood; as he hadde shedde blood, so he shal perishe fro the myddil of his puple. 5   Therfor the sones of Yrael shulen offre to the preest her oostes, that thei slewen in the feelde, that thei ben halowid to the Lord, before the dore of the tabernacle of witnessyng, and offre thei the oostes pesible to the Lord. 6   And the preest shal heelde the blood vpon the auter of the Lord, at the dore of the tabernacle of witnessyng; and he shal brenne the talw&yogh; into smel of swetnes to the Lord. 7   And thei shulen no more offre her oostes to feendes, with the whiche thei han do fornycacioun; lawful euerlastynge it shal be to hem, and to the after comers of hem. 8   And to hem thow shalt seye, A man of the hows of Yrael, and of the comlinges that pilgrimagen anentis &yogh;ow, that offrith brent sacrifice, other slayn offryng, 9   and to the dore of the tabernacle of witnessyng bryngith it not, that it be offred to the Lord, he shal spille fro his puple. 10   Eche man of the hows of Yrael, and of comlyngis that pilgrimagen among &yogh;ow, if he eete blood, Y shal a&yogh;en fastne my face a&yogh;ens the soule of hym, and Y shal lese hym fro his puple; for the soule of flesh is in blood, 11   and I haue &yogh;ouun it to &yogh;ow, that &yogh;e purgen myn auter for &yogh;oure soules, and blood be fore the hidows gilt of soule. 12   And therfor Y seide to the sones of Yrael, Eche lijf of &yogh;ow ete no blood, ne of the comlyngis that pilgrymagen among &yogh;ow. 13   Eche man of the sones of Yrael, and of

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the comelyngis that pilgrymagen anentis &yogh;ow, whether with huntyng or with foulyng, take wilde beeste, or bridd, the which it is leeful to eete, sheed he his blood, and couer it the erthe; 14   the soule forsothe of al flesh is in blood. Wherfor Y seide to the sones of Yrael, The blood of al flesh &yogh;e shulen not eete, for the soule of flesh is in blood, and who so euer etith it, shal dye. 15   The lijf that etith faln to deth, other the takun of a beeste, as wel of with ynne getun, as of comlyngis, shal washe his clothis and hym silf with water, and he shal be defowlid vnto the euen, and bi this ordre he shal be maad clene; 16   that if he wasshe not his clothes, or body, he shal bere his wickidnes.
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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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