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. XVIII.
1 And the Lord spak to Moyses, seiynge,
Speke to the sones of Yrael,
2 and thow
shalt seie to hem,
3 Y am the Lord &yogh;oure
God; after the custome of the loond of
Egipte, in the which &yogh;e han dwellid, &yogh;e
shulen not doo; after the maner of the
regioun of Chanaan, to the whiche Y am
to bryng &yogh;ow yn, &yogh;e shulen not don, ne
in the lawful thingis of hem &yogh;e shulen
goo.
4 &YOGH;e shulen doo my domes, and the
heestis &yogh;e shulen kepe, and &yogh;e shulen goo
in hem; Y the Lord &yogh;oure God.
5 Kepith
my lawes and domes, the whiche doynge,
a man shal lyue in hem; Y the Lord
&yogh;oure God.
6 Eche man to the nexte woman
of his blood shal not goo to, that
he opne the filthed of hir; Y Lord.
7 The
filthheed of thi fader and the filthheed of
thi moder thow shalt not discouer; thi
moder she is, thow shalt not opne the
filtheheed of hir.
8 The filthheed of the
wijf of thi fader thow shalt not discouer;
the filthheed forsothe of thi fader it is.
9 The filthheed of thi sister, of fader or
-- --
of moder, that at home or with outen is
gotun, thow shalt not opne.
10 The filthheed
of the dow&yogh;ter of thi sone, or of thi
dou&yogh;ter dou&yogh;ter, thow shalt not opne, for
thi filthheed it is.
11 The filthheed of the
dou&yogh;ter of the wijf of thi fader, that she
hath bore to thi fadir, and is thi sister,
thow shalt not opne.
12 The filth of the
sister of thi fader thow shalt not discouer;
the flesh she is of thi fader.
13 The
filthhed of the sister of thi moder thow
shalt not opne, for thi that she is flesh of
thi moder.
14 The filthheed of the brother
of thi fadir thow shalt not opne, ne thow
shalt goo to the wijf of hym, the which
is ioyned to thee thur&yogh; affynyte.
15 The
filthheed of the wijf of thi sone thow
shalt not opne, for the wijf of thi sone
she is, ne thow shalt dyscouer the shenshyp
of hir; and no man take the wijf
of his brother.
16 The filthheed of the wijf
of thi brother thow shalt not opne, for
the filthhed of thi brother it is.
17 The
filthheed of thi wijf, and of the dou&yogh;ter
of hir, thow shalt not opne; the dou&yogh;ter
of the sone of hir, and the dou&yogh;ter of the
dou&yogh;ter of hir thow shalt not take, that
thow opne hir shenship, for the flesh of
hir thei ben, and siche a goyng togidere
is incest.
18 The sister of thi wijf into liggyn
bi hir thow shalt not take, ne opne
the filthhede of hir, &yogh;it she lyuyng.
19 To
the womman that suffreth flux of blood
thow shalt not goo, ne opne the stynkyngnes
of hir.
20 With the wijf of thi
nei&yogh;bore thow shalt not goo togidir, ne
with mengyng togidere of seede thow
shalt `be defoulid.
21 Of thi seede thow
shalt not &yogh;yue, that it be sacryd to the
mawmet of Moloch, ne thow shalt defowle
the name of thi God; Y a Lord.
22 With a maal thow shalt not be mengid,
-- --
bi maner of goyng to gidere with womman,
for abhomynacioun it is.
23 With
alle beestis thow shalt not goo to gidere,
ne thow shalt be defoulid with it. A
womman shal not vnder ligge to a beeste,
ne shal be mengid to it, for hidows synne
it is.
24 Ne be &yogh;e polut in alle thes thinges,
with the whiche alle gentilis ben defoulid,
that Y shal throwe out before &yogh;oure
si&yogh;t,
25 of whom the erthe is polut, whos
hidows synnes Y shal visite, that it caste
out his dwellers.
26 Kepe &yogh;e my lawes and
my domes, that &yogh;e do not of alle thes
abomynaciouns, as wel the with ynne
gotun as the dwellers that pilgrymagen
anentis &yogh;ow.
27 Alle forsothe thes cursidnessis
diden the tiliers of the erthe that
weren bifore &yogh;ow, and polutide it.
28 Shoneth
therfor, lest and also &yogh;ow it caste out,
whanne the same thinges &yogh;e doon, as it
keste out folk that was before &yogh;ow.
29 Eche
lijf that doth of thes abomynaciouns eny
thing, shal perisch fro the myddil of his
puple.
30 Kepe &yogh;e myn heestis, and wole
&yogh;e not doo thingis that diden thes that
weren before &yogh;ow, lest &yogh;e ben polut in
hem; Y the Lord &yogh;oure God.
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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