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. VII.
1 Thanne Cysennes, the litil vndir kyng
of Choelem Cyrie and Fenycen, and Satrabusanes,
and her felawis, obeisheden to
these thingis, that weren demyd of kyng
Darie,
2 and stoden ful diligently in to the
hooly werkis, wirchinge togidre with the
eldre men of Jewis, princis of Cirie.
3 And
the hooly werkis ben maad welsum, as
the prophetes Agge and Zacharie prophecieden.
4 And thei fulfilliden alle thingis,
aftir the heest of the Lord God of Israel,
and aftir the counseil of Cyri, and of
-- --
Darij, and of Artaxersis, kyng of Persis.
5 And oure hous is endid, in the three and
twentithe dai of the monthe of Marche,
in the sixte &yogh;eer of kyng Darij.
6 And the
sones of Israel, and the prestis, and dekens,
and othere that weren of the caitiftee,
the whiche ben sett to, diden aftir thoo
thingis that ben writen in the book of
Moyses.
7 And thei offreden in to the dedicatioun
of the temple of the Lord, an hundrid
bolis, two hundrid wetheris, foure
hundrid lambren,
8 twelue kides, for the
synnes of al Israel, after the noumbre of
the xij. lynages of Israel.
9 And the prestis
and dekens stoden, clothid with the stolis,
bi her lynagis, upon the werkis of the
Lord God of Israel, aftir the book of
Moyses; and ther weren porters bi alle
the &yogh;atis.
10 And the sones of Israel diden
that pask, with hem that weren of the
caitiftee, in the moone of the first monthe,
the fourtenthe day, whanne the prestis
and dekens ben halewid.
11 And alle the
sones of caitiftee thei ben not halewid togidre,
for alle the Leuytis ben halewid
togidere.
12 And thei offreden pask to alle
the sones of caitiftee, and to her bretheren,
prestis, and to them selff.
13 And the sonus
of Israel, the whiche weren of the caitiftee,
alle thei that hadden left fro alle the
cursidnessis of Gentiles, or hethen folk,
of the eerthe, eeten, and sou&yogh;ten the Lord;
14 and thei halewiden the feest day of therff
looues, seuene daies etynge in si&yogh;t of the
Lord;
15 for he conuertide the counseil of
the kyng of Assirijs in hem, to coumforte
the hondis of hem to the werkis of the
Lord God of Israel.
1 And aftir this, while
Artaxerse, kyng of Persis, regnyde, ther
wente to Esdras, a man that was the sone
of Azarie, sone of Elchie, sone of Salome,
sone of Sadduch,
2 sone of Achitob, sone of
Amarie, sone of Aza, sone of Bocce, sone
of Abisae, sone of Phynees, sone of Eleazar,
sone of Aaron, the first preest.
3 This
Esdras stiede up fro Babiloyne, whanne
he was scribe, and witty in the lawe of
Moyses, the whiche was &yogh;ouen of the Lord
-- --
of Israel, to sey it and do it.
4 And the
kyng &yogh;aaf to him glorie, that he hadde
founden grace in al dignytee, and in desijr,
in the si&yogh;t of him.
5 And ther stiede
up with him in to Jerusalem of the sones
of Israel, bothe prestis, and dekens, and
holy syngers of the temple, and vsshers,
and seruauntis of the temple.
6 In the seuenthe
&yogh;eer regnynge Artaxerse, in the
fifthe monthe, this is the seuenthe &yogh;eer of
the rewme, goynge out forsothe fro Babiloyne
in the newe moone of the fifte
monthe,
7 thei camen to Jerusalem, aftir
the heestis of him, whanne the prosperitee
of the wey was grauntid to hem of that
Lord.
8 In these thingis forsothe Esdras
weldide greet discipline, lest he passide
ony thing of tho thingis that weren of
the lawe of the Lord, and of the heestis,
and in techynge al Israel al ri&yogh;twisnesse
and doom.
9 Thei forsothe that writen the
writyngis of kyng Artaxerses, comynge
ni&yogh;, token writen that, that came from
kyng Artaxerses to Esdras, the prest, and
redere of the lawe of the Lord, the ensaumple
of the whiche thing writen is
sett next aftir.
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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