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. VIII.
1 The Lord spak to Moyses, seiynge,
Tak Aaron with his sones,
2 the clothes of
hem, and the oyle of the anoyntyng, a
calf for synne, two wethers, a leepe with
therf loues;
3 and thow shalt gedere togidere
al the companye at the dore of the
tabernacle.
4 Moyses dyde as the Lord comaundide;
and al the puple gadered before
the &yogh;ates of the tabernacle,
5 he seith,
This is the word that the Lord comaundide
to be do.
6 And anoon he offred Aaron
and his sones; and whanne he hadde
washe hem,
7 he clothide the bishop with
a lynnen sherte, girdynge hym with a
gyrdle and clothing hym with a blewe
coote,
8 and putte a boue the coope, the
which streynynge with a lace ioyned it
to the brest broche, in the which was
loore and sothenes.
9 And he couerde the
heed with a mytre, and vpon it, aboute
the frownt, he putte a goldun plate, sacrid
in halowyng, as the Lord comaundide to
him.
10 And he took the oyle of anoyntyng,
with the which he anoyntide the tabernacle
with alle his ournementis;
11 and
whanne halowynge he hadde spreynt the
auter seuen sithes, he anoyntide it; and
alle the vessels of it, and the lauatorye
with his foot he halowide with oyle.
12 The
which heeldynge vpon the heed of Aaron,
he anoyntide hym,
13 and sacrede, and his
-- --
sones offrede he sacride, and clothid with
lynnen cootys, and girde with girdles,
and putte on hem mytrys, as the Lord
comaundide.
14 And he offrede a calf for
synne; and whanne Aaron and his sones
hadden putte her hondes vpon the heed
of it, he offrede it, takynge the blood;
15 and
the fyngre wett, he towchede the hornes
of the auter bi enuyroun, the which
clensid and halowid, he heelde the laft
blood at the foundementis of it.
16 The
talw&yogh; forsothe that was vpon the entrayles,
and the calle of the mawe, and
the two litil reynes with her grece he
brent vpon the auter;
17 the calf with the
skynne, flesh, and dryt, brennynge out of
the tentes, as the Lord comaundide.
18 And
he offred a wether into brent sacrifice;
vpon whos heed whanne Aaron and his
sones hadden putte her hondes,
19 he offred
it, and heelde the blood of it bi enuyroun
of the auter.
20 And thilk wether cuttynge
in gobetis, the heed of it, and the lemes,
and the talw&yogh; he brente with fier,
21 washed
before the entraylis and the feete; and al
the wether he tende to gidere vpon the
auter, forthi that it was brent sacrifice of
moost swete smel to the Lord, as he comaundide
to hym.
22 And he offrede the
secounde wether, into the sacringe of
preestis; and Aaron and his sones puttiden
her hondes vpon the heed of it.
23 The which whanne Moyses hadde offride,
takynge of the blood towchid the ende of
the ri&yogh;t eere of Aaron, and the thowmbe
of his ri&yogh;t hoond, also and of the foote.
And he offred the sones of Aaron.
24 And
whanne of the blood of the offred wether
he hadde towchid the eende of the ri&yogh;t
eere of echon, and the thoumbe of the
hoond, and of the ri&yogh;t foote, the relif he
-- --
heelde vpon the auter bi enuyroun.
25 The
talw&yogh; forsothe, and the tayle, and al the
fatnes that couereth the entrayles, and
the calle of the mawe, and the two reynes
with her talw&yogh;es, and the ry&yogh;t shuldre he
seuerede.
26 Takynge forsothe of the leepe
of therf looues, that was before the Lord,
looues with outen sour dow&yogh;, and a litil
rownd loof spreynt with oyle, and a
thinne caake, he putte vpon the talw&yogh;es,
and the ri&yogh;t shuldre,
27 takynge alle togidere
to Aaron and hys sones.
28 The which
whanne thei hadden rerede hem beforn
the Lord, eftsones takynge of the hondes
of hem, he brente vpon the auter of brent
sacrifice, forthi that it was the offring of
consecracioun, into smel of swetnes of sacrifice
to the Lord.
29 And he took the litil
breest, rerynge it before the Lord, of the
wether of consecracioun into his part, as
the Lord hath comaundide hym.
30 And
takynge the oynement, and the blood that
weren in the auter, he spreynde vpon
Aaron, and his vestementes, and upon his
sones, and her clothis.
31 And whanne he
hadde halowide hem in her clothinge, he
comaundide hem, seiynge, Seethe &yogh;e the
flesh before the &yogh;atis of the tabernacle,
and ther etith it; and the looues of consecracioun
etith, that ben putte in the leepe,
as God hath comaundide to me, seiynge,
Aaron and his sones schulen eete hem;
32 what euer forsothe were laft of the flesh
and of the looues, the fier shal consume.
33 Fro the dore forsothe of the tabernacle &yogh;e
shulen not goo out seuen daies, vnto the
day in the which the tyme of &yogh;oure consecracioun
shal be fulfillid; seuen forsothe
daies is endid the consecracioun,
34 as
now it is doon, that the ryte of the sacrifice
be fulfild.
35 Day and ny&yogh;t &yogh;e shulen
-- --
dwelle in the tabernacle, al about kepynge
the wardes of the Lord, lest &yogh;e dien; so
forsothe it is comaundide to me.
36 And
Aaron and his sones diden alle thingis,
that the Lord spak bi the hoond of
Moyses.
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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