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. III.
1 Thes ben the generaciouns of Aaron
and of Moyses, in the day that the Lord
spak to Moises, in the mownt of Synay.
2 And thes the names of the sones of Aaron;
the first goten of hym Nadab; aftirward,
Abyu, and Eliazar, and Ythamar;
thes the names of the sones of Aaron,
3
prestis, that ben anoynt, and of whom
the hoondes fulfillid and sacrid ben, that
thei vsen preesthod.
4 Nadab and Abyu
dieden, whanne thei offerden alien fier in
the si&yogh;t of the Lord, in desert of Synay,
with outen free children; and Eliazar and
Ythamar vseden preesthod before Aaron
her fader.
5 And the Lord spak to Moyses,
seiynge,
6 Sett the lynage of Leuy, and
mak stonde in the si&yogh;t of Aaron, the
preest, that thei mynystren to him;
7 and
waken, and weyten aboute al thing that
to the heryynge perteyneth of the multitude,
before the tabernacle of witnessynge;
8 and that thei kepen the vessels of
the tabernacle, seruynge in the seruyce
of hym.
9 And thow shalt &yogh;yue bi &yogh;iftis
Leuytes to Aaron, and to the sones of hym,
to the whiche thei ben take of the sones
of Yrael.
10 Aaron forsothe and his sones
-- --
thow shalt ordeyne vpon the heriynge of
preesthod; of another kynrede that goth
to mynystre, he shal die.
11 And the Lord
spak to Moyses,
12 seiynge, I toke the Leuytes
fro the sones of Yrael for al the
firste geten that openeth the wombe in the
sones of Yrael; and thei shulen be my
Leuytes,
13 myn is forsothe al the first
goten; sithen I smoot the first gotun in
the loond of Egipte, I halowide to me
al thing that is first born in Yrael; fro
man vnto beeste myn thei ben; I the
Lord.
14 And the Lord spak to Moyses, in
desert of Synay,
15 seiynge, Noumbre the
sones of Leuy, bi the howses of her faders,
and meyneis, eche maal from a
moneth and aboue.
16 And Moyses noumbred,
as the Lord comaundide.
17 And there
ben founden the sones of Leuy, bi her
names, Gerson, and Caath, and Merary;
the sones of Gerson, Lebyn, and Semey;
18
the sones of Caath,
19 Amram, and Jessaar,
and Ebron, and Osiel;
20 the sones of Merary,
Mooly, and Musy.
21 Of Gerson weren
twey meyneis, Lebyntica, and Semetica;
22 of the whiche is noumbrid a puple of
maal kynde, fro o moneth and aboue, seuen
thowsyndes and fyue hundred.
23 Thes
after the tabernacle shulen sette tentis at
the west,
24 vndur the prince Eliasaph, the
sone of Jael.
25 And thei shulen haue wacches
in the tabernacle of the boond of pees,
thilke tabernacle, and his couertour, the
tente that is drawen before the &yogh;ates of
the roof of witnessynge of boond of pees;
and the cortyns of the porche,
26 and the
tente that is hongid in the entre of the
porche of the tabernacle, and al thing
that to the rijt of the auter perteyneth,
the coordes of the tabernacle, and alle
vsable thinges of it.
27 The kynred of Caath
shal haue the puples Amramytas, Jessaarytas,
and Ebronytis, and Esielites;
28 thes
ben the meyneis of Caatices, noumbrid bi
-- --
her names, of al maal kynd, fro a moneth
and aboue, ei&yogh;t thousyndes and six hundrith.
29 And thei shulen haue bisy wardes
of the seyntuarie, and thei shulen sette
tentes at the sowth plage;
30 and the prince
of hem shal be Elyzaphan, the sone of
Oziel.
31 And thei shulen kepe the ark, and
the table, and the candelstik, the auters,
and the vessels of the seyntuarie in the
which it is mynystryd, and the veyl, and
al siche maner purtenaunce.
32 The prince
forsothe of the princes of Leuytes, Eleazar,
the sone of Aaron, preest; and he
shal be vpon the wakers of the warde of
the seyntuarie.
33 And forsothe of Merarye
shal be puples, Moolites, and Musites,
noumbred bi her names,
34 of al maal kynde
fro o moneth and aboue, six thousyndes
and two hundreth;
35 the prynce of hem
Suryel, the sone of Abiahiel; in the north
plage thei shulen sette tentes.
36 There
shulen be vnder the warde of hem the
tables of the tabernacle, and the berynge
staues, and the pilers, and the feet of
hem, and alle thinges that to suche maner
heriynge perteynen,
37 and the pilers of the
porche bi enuyroun, with her feet, and
the stakis, with the coordes.
38 Thei shulen
sette tentes before the tabernacle of the
boond of pees, that is, at the eest plage,
Moyses, and Aaron with his sones, hauynge
warde of the seyntuarye, in the
mydil of the sones of Yrael; `who so
euer alien come ther to, shal die.
39 Alle the
Leuytes, the whiche noumbreden Moises
and Aaron, after the heest of the Lord,
bi her meyneis, in maal kynde, fro o
moneth and aboue, weren two and twenti
thousyndes.
40 And the Lord seith to Moyses,
Noumbre the firste geten of maal kynde
of the sones of Israel, fro o moneth and
aboue; and thou shalt haue the sowm of
-- --
hem;
41 and thou shalt take Leuitis to me
for alle the first gotyn of the sones of
Israel; I am the Lord; and the beestis of
hem for alle the first gotyn of the sones
of Israel.
42 And Moises tolde, as the Lord
comaundide, the first goten of the sones
of Israel;
43 and there weren maalis bi her
names, fro o moneth and aboue, two and
twenti thousandis two hundrid and seuenti
and thre.
44 And the Lord spak to
Moises,
45 seiynge, Tak Leuites for the first
goten of the sones of Yrael, and the
beestis of Leuytes for the beestis of hem,
and Leuytes shulen be myn; I am the
Lord.
46 In the prijs forsothe of two hundrith
seuenti and thre, that passen the noumbre
of Leuytes, of the fyrst gotun of the sones
of Yrael,
47 thow shalt take fyue siclis bi
eche heedes, at the mesure of the seyntuarie;
a cicle hath twenti halfpens;
48 and
thou shalt &yogh;yue the money to Aaron and
his sones, the prijs of hem that ben aboue.
49 Therfor Moyses toke the money of hem
that weren more ouer, and the whiche thei
a&yogh;enbou&yogh;ten of the Leuytes, for the first
gotun of the sones of Yrael,
50 of a thousynd
thre hundrid and fyue and sixti sicles,
after the wei&yogh;t of the seyntuarie;
51 and he
&yogh;aue it to Aaron and his sones, after the
word that the Lord comaundide to hym.
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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