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. IV.
1 And the sones of Yrael addeden to doo
yuel in the si&yogh;t of the Lord, after the
deeth of Aod.
2 And the Lord took hem
in to the hoondis of Jabyn, kyng of Chanaan,
that regnede in Asor, and hadde a
duk of his oost, Siseram bi name; and
he dwellyd in Aroseth of Gentilis.
3 And
the sones of Yrael crieden to the Lord;
forsothe he hadde nyne hundred chaaris,
ful of wepenes, the maner of sithis, and
bi twenti &yogh;eer greetli he oppresside hem.
4 Forsothe Delbora was a prophetesse, wijf
of Laphidoth, that demyde the puple in
that tyme;
5 and she sat vndur the palm
tree, `the which bi name of hir was
clepid, bitwix Rame and Bethel, in the
mount of Effraym; and the sones of
Yrael stieden vp to hir into al doom.
6 The whiche sente, and clepide Barach,
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the sone of Abynoen, of Cedes of Neptalym,
and she seide to hym, The Lord
God of Yrael hath comaundide to thee,
Go, leed the oost into the hil of Thabor,
and tak with thee ten thousand of fi&yogh;tynge
men of the sones of Neptalym and
of the sones of Zabulon.
7 Forsothe I shal
brynge to thee, in the place of the streem
of Cyson, Sisaram, prince of the oost of
Jabyn, and the chaaris of hym, and al
the multitude; and Y shal taak hem in
thin hoond.
8 And Barach seide to hyr,
If thow comest with me, Y shal goo; if
thow wolt not come with me, Y shal not
goo.
9 The which seide to hym, Forsothe
Y shal goo with thee; but in this while
victory shal not be witid to thee; for in
the hoond of a womman Sisara shal be
taak. And so Delbora roos, and wente
with Barach in to Cedes.
10 The which,
clepid Zabulon and Nepthalym, stiede vp
with ten thousand of fy&yogh;tynge men, hauynge
Delbora in his felawship.
11 Forsothe
Aber Cynee wente a wey sumtyme fro
other Cynees his britheren, the sones of
Obbab, cosyn of Moyses; and he strei&yogh;te
tabernaclys vnto the valey, that is clepid
Sennym, and was biside Cedes.
12 And it
is told to Cysare, that Barach, the sone
of Abynoem, hadde stied vp into the hil
of Thabor.
13 And he gedryd nyn hundryd
chaaris, ful of wepenys, maner of sithis,
and al the oost fro Aroseth of gentilis to
the streem of Cyson.
14 And Delbora seide
to Barach, Rise, this is forsothe the day,
in the which the Lord hath taak Sysaram
into thin hoondys; loo! he is thi
leder. And so Barach descendide fro the
hil of Thabor, and ten thowsand of fi&yogh;tynge
men with hym.
15 And the Lord
feeryde Sisaram, and alle the chaaris of
hym, and al the multytude, in the mouth
of swerd, at the si&yogh;t of Barach, in so
myche that Sisara of the chaar lepynge
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doun on his feet, fli&yogh;.
16 And Barach pursuede
the fleynge chaaris and the oost
vnto the see vnto Aroseth of Gentilis;
and al the multitude of enemyes fellen
doun vnto the deeth.
17 Sisara forsothe
fleynge cam to the tent of Jahel, wijf of
Aber Cynei; forsothe there was pees bitwix
Jabyn, the kyng of Asor, and the
hows of Aber Cynei.
18 Jahel thanne goon
out in to a&yogh;en comynge of Sisare, seide
to hym, Com into me, my lord; ne drede
thow. The which goon into the tabernacle
of hyr, and couerd of hir with a
mantel,
19 he seide to hir, &YOGH;if to me, Y biseche,
a litil of water, for Y thriste
myche. The which openyde a botel of
mylk, and &yogh;af to hym to drynk, and
couerde hym.
20 And Sisara seide to hir,
Stoond before the dore of the tabernacle,
and whanne there cometh eny man, askinge
thee, and seiynge, Whether here is
eny man? thou shalt answere, Noon is.
21 And so Jahel, the wijf of Aber, took a
neyl of the tabernacle, takynge there
with an hamer; and she goon out priuelich,
and with silence putte vpon the
templis of his heed a neyl, and smyten
with an hamer pi&yogh;t doun into the brayn
vnto the erthe; the whych, felawshipynge
sleep to deeth, faylide, and died.
22 And lo!
Barach folwynge Sisaram cam; and Jahel,
goon into a&yogh;en comynge of hym, seide to
hym, Com, and Y shal shewe to thee a
man, whom thow sechist. The whych,
whanne he hadde goo in to hir, he saw&yogh;
Sisaram liggynge deed, and a neyl pi&yogh;t
into his templis.
23 God therfor lowide in
that day Jabyn, the kyng of Chanaan,
bifore the sones of Yrael; the whiche
woxen eche day, and with strong hoond
beren doun Jabyn, the kyng of Chanaan,
to the tyme that thei hadden doo hym
a wey.
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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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