Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. XXVI.
1 Forsothe these weren the departingis
of porteris; of the sones of Chore, Mellesemye
was the sone of Chore, of the
sones of Asaph.
2 The sones of Mellesemie
weren Zacharie the firste gendrid, Jedihel
the secounde, Zabadie the thridde,
Yathanyel the fourthe,
3 Aylam the fifthe,
Johannan the sixte, Helioenay the seuenthe.
4 Forsothe the sones of Ebededom
weren these; Semey the firste gendrid,
Jozabab the secounde, Joaha the
thridde, Seccar the fourthe, Nathanael
the fyuethe,
5 Amyhel the sixte, Isachar
the seuenthe, Pollathi the ei&yogh;the, for the
Lord blesside hym.
6 Forsothe to Semeye,
his sone, weren borun sones, souereyns of
her meynees; for thei weren ful stronge
men.
7 Therfor the sones of Semeye weren
Othyn, and Raphael, and Obediel, and
Zadab; and hise britheren, ful stronge
men; also Helyu, and Samathie.
8 Alle these
weren of the sones of Obededom; thei
and her sones and britheren, ful stronge
men for to serue, two and sixti of Obededom.
9 Sotheli of Mellesemeye, the sones
and britheren, ful stronge, `weren ei&yogh;tene.
10 Forsothe of Oza, that is, of the sones of
Merarie, Sechri was prince; for he hadde
no firste gendrid note, and therfor his fadir
settide hym in to prince;
11 and Elchias
the secounde, Thebelias the thridde, Zacarie
the fourthe; alle these threttene
-- --
weren the sones and britheren of Osa.
12 These weren departid in to porteris, that
euere the princes of kepyngis, as also her
britheren, schulden mynystre in the hows
of the Lord.
13 Therfor lottis weren sent
euenly, bothe to the litle and to the
grete, bi her meyneeis, in to ech of the
&yogh;atis.
14 Therfor the lot of the eest bifelde
to Semelie; forsothe the north coost bifelde
bi lot to Zacarie, his sone, a ful prudent
man and lernd;
15 sotheli to Obededom
and hise sones at the southe, in
which part of the hows the counsel of
the eldre men was;
16 Sephyma and Thosa
weren at the west, bisidis the &yogh;ate that
ledith to the weie of stiyng, kepyng a&yogh;ens
kepyng.
17 Sotheli at the eest weren sixe
dekenes, and at the north weren foure bi
dai; and at the south also weren foure
at the myddai; and, where the counsel
was, weren tweyne and tweyne.
18 And in
the sellis, ethir `litle housis, of porteris
at the west, weren foure in the weie, and
tweyne bi the sellis.
19 These weren the
departyngis of porteris, of the sones of
Chore and of Merary.
20 Forsothe Achias
was ouer the tresours of the hows of the
Lord, and ouer the vessels of hooli
thingis.
21 The sones of Leedan, the sone
of Gerson; of Leedan weren the princis
of meynees of Leedan, and of Gerson, and
of Jehiel.
22 The sones of Jehiel weren, Zethan,
and Johel, his brother, ouer the tresours
of the hows of the Lord,
23 Amramytis,
and Isaaritis, and Ebronytis, and
Ezielitis.
24 Forsothe Subahel, the sone of
Gerson, sone of Moises, was souereyn of
the tresour;
25 and his brother, Eliezer;
whos sone was Raabia; and his sone was
Asaye; his sone was Joram; and his sone
was Zechry; but and his sone was Selemith.
26 Thilke Selemith, and his britheren, weren
-- --
ouer the tresours of hooli thingis, whiche
`Dauid the kyng halewide, and the princes
of meynees, and the tribunes, and the centuriouns,
and the duykis of the oost,
27 of
the batels, and of the spuylis of batels,
whiche thei halewiden to the reparacioun
and purtenaunce of the temple of the
Lord.
28 Forsothe Samuel, the prophete,
halewide note alle these thingis, and Saul, the
sone of Cys, and Abner, the sone of Ner,
and Joab, the sone of Saruye; and alle
halewiden tho thingis bi the hond of Salemyth,
and of his britheren.
29 Sotheli Chonenye
was souereyn and hise sones to
Isaaritis, to the werkis with outforth on
Israel, to teche note and to deme hem.
30 Sotheli
of Ebronytis, Asabie, and Sabie, and hise
britheren, ful stronge men, a thousynde
and seuene hundrid, weren souereyns on
Israel bi&yogh;ende Jordan a&yogh;ens the weste, in
alle the werkis of the Lord, and in to
the seruyce of the kyng.
31 Forsothe Herie
was prynce of Ebronytis, bi her meynees
and kynredis. In the fourtithe &yogh;eer of
the rewme of Dauid there weren noumbred
and foundun ful stronge men in Jazer
Galaad;
32 and hise britheren, of strongere
age, twei thousynde and seuene hundrid,
princes of meynees. Sotheli `Dauid the
kyng made hem souereyns of Rubenytis
and Gaditis, and of the half lynage of
Manasses, `in to al the seruyce of God
and of the kyng.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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