CAP. X.
38 Therfor on alle these thingis note we `vs
silf smyten and writen boond of pees,
and oure princes, oure dekenes, and oure
prestis aseelen.
1 Forsothe the seeleris
weren Neemye, Athersata, the sone of
Achilai,
2 and Sedechie, Saraie, Azarie, Jeremye,
Phasur,
3
4 Amarie, Melchie, Accus,
Sebenye,
5 Mellucarem, Nerymuth, Oddie,
Danyel,
6
7 Genton, Baruc, Mosollam, Abia,
Mianymy, Mazie, Belga, and Semeie;
8 these
weren prestis.
9 Forsothe dekenes weren
Josue, the sone of Azarie, Bennuy, of the
sones of Ennadab,
10 Cedinyel, and hise britheren,
Sethenye, Odenmye, Telita, Phalaie,
Anam,
11
12 Myca, Roob, Asebie, Zaccur,
Serebie,
13 Sabanye, Odias, Bany, Hamyn.
14 The heedis of the puple, Phetos, Moab,
-- --
Elam,
15 Zecu, Banny, Bonny, Azgad, Bebay,
Donai,
16
17 Bogoia, Adyn, Ather, Azochie,
Azur,
18
19 Odenye, Assuyn, Bessaie, Ares,
Anatoth,
20 Nebai, Methpie, Mosollam, Azir,
Meizabel,
21
22 Sadoch, Reddua, Pheltie, Ananye,
Osee,
23
24 Anaie, Azub, Aloes, Phaleam,
Sobeth,
25
26 Reu, Asebyne, Mathsie, Ethaie,
Anam, Mellucarem, Baana;
27
28 and othere of
the puple, prestis, dekenes, porteris, and
syngeris, Natynneis, and alle men that
departiden hem silf fro the puplis of
londis to the lawe of God, the wyues of
hem, and `the sones of hem, and the dou&yogh;tris
of hem;
29 alle that my&yogh;ten vndurstonde,
bihetynge for her britheren, the
principal men of hem, `and thei that
camen to biheete, and to swere, that
thei schulden go in the lawe of the Lord,
which he `hadde &yogh;oue bi the hond of
Moyses, his seruaunt, that thei schulden
do and kepe alle the heestis of `oure
Lord God, and hise domes, and hise cerymonyes;
and that we schulden not &yogh;yue
30
oure dou&yogh;tris to the puple of the lond,
and that we schulden not take her dou&yogh;tris
to oure sones.
31 Also the puplis of
the lond, `that bryngen in thingis set to
sale, and alle thingis to vss, bi the dai of
sabat, for to sille, we schulen not take
of hem in the sabat, and in a dai
halewid; and we schulen leeue note the seuenthe
&yogh;eer, and the axynge of al hond.
32 And we schulen ordeyne comaundementis
`on vs, that we &yogh;yue the thridde
part of a sicle `bi the &yogh;eer to the werk of
`oure Lord God,
33 to the looues of settyngforth,
and to the euerlastynge sacrifice,
`and in to brent sacrifice euerlastynge, in
sabatis, in calendis, `that is, bigynnyngis
of monethis, in solempnytees, in halewid
-- --
daies, and for synne, that `me preie for
Israel, and in to al the vss of the hows of
oure God.
34 `Therfor we senten `lottis on
the offryng of trees, bitwixe prestis and
dekenes and the puple, that tho schulden
be brou&yogh;t in to the hows of oure God, bi
the housis of oure fadris bi tymes, fro
the tymes of a &yogh;eer `til to a &yogh;eer, that `tho
schulden brenne on the auter of `oure
Lord God, as it is writun in the lawe of
Moyses;
35 and that we bringe the firste gendrid
thingis of oure lond, and the firste
fruytis of al fruyt of ech tree, fro &yogh;eer in
to &yogh;eer,
36 in to the hows of the Lord, and
the firste gendrid thingis of oure sones,
and of oure beestis, as it is writun in the
lawe, and the firste gendrid thingis of
oure oxis, and of oure scheep, that tho
be offrid in the hows of oure God, to
prestis that mynystren in the hows of
oure God;
37 and we schulen brynge the
firste fruytis of oure metis, and of oure
moiste sacrifices, and the applis of ech
tre, and of vendage, and of oile, to
`prestis, at the treserie of the Lord, and
the tenthe part of oure lond to dekenes;
thilke dekenes schulen take tithis of alle
the citees of oure werkis.
38 Sotheli a prest,
the sone of Aaron, schal be with the dekenes
in the tithis of dekenes; and the
dekenes schulen offre the tenthe part of
her tithe in the hows of oure God, `at the
tresorie, in the hows of tresour.
39 For the
sones of Israel and the sones of Leuy
schulen brynge the firste fruytis of wheete,
of wiyn, and of oile; and halewid vessels
schulen be there, and prestis, and syngeris,
and porteris, and mynystris; and we
schulen not forsake the hows of `oure
God.
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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].
