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. XXIX.
1 Therfor Jacob passide forth, and cam in
to the eest lond;
2 and sei&yogh; a pit in the
feeld, and thre flockis of scheep restynge
bisidis it, for whi scheep weren watrid
therof, and the mouth therof was closid
with a greet stoon.
3 And the custom was
that whanne alle scheep weren gaderid
togidere, thei schulden turne awei the stoon,
and whanne the flockis weren fillid thei
schulden put it eft on the mouth of the
pit.
4 And Jacob seide to the scheepherdis,
Brithren, of whennus ben &yogh;e? Whiche
answeriden, Of Aran.
5 And he axide hem
and seide, Wher &yogh;e knowen Laban, the
sone of Nachor? Thei seiden, We knowen.
6 Jacob seide, Is he hool? Thei seiden, He
is in good staat; and lo! Rachel, his dou&yogh;tir,
cometh with his flok.
7 And Jacob seide,
&YOGH;it myche of the dai is to come, and it is
not tyme that the flockis be led a&yogh;en to
the fooldis; sotheli &yogh;yue &yogh;e drynk to the
scheep, and so lede &yogh;e hem a&yogh;en to mete.
8 Whiche answeriden, We moun not til alle
scheep be gederid to gidere, and til we remouen
the stoon fro the mouth of the pit
to watir the flockis.
9 &YOGH;it thei spaken, and
lo! Rachel cam with the scheep of hir
fadir.
10 And whanne Jacob sei&yogh; hir, and
knewe the dou&yogh;tir of his modris brothir,
and the scheep of Laban his vncle, he remeuyde
the stoon with which the pit was
closid;
11 and whanne the flok was watrid,
he kisside hir, and he wepte with `vois
reisid.
12 And he schewide to hir that he
was the brothir of hir fadir, and the sone
of Rebecca; and sche hastide, and telde
to hir fadir.
13 And whanne he hadde herd,
that Jacob, the sone of his sistir, cam, he
ran a&yogh;ens hym, and he biclippide Jacob
and kisside hym, and ledde in to his
hows. Forsothe whanne the causis of the
-- --
iurney weren herd,
14 Laban answeride, Thou
art my boon and my fleisch. And aftir
that the daies of o moneth weren fillid,
Laban seide to him,
15 `Whethir for thou
art my brothir, thou schalt serue me frely?
seie thou what mede thou schalt take.
16 Forsothe
Laban hadde twei dou&yogh;tris, the name
of the more was Lya, sotheli the lesse
was clepid Rachel;
17 but Lya was blere
i&yogh;ed, Rachel was of fair face, and semeli
in si&yogh;t.
18 And Jacob louede Rachel, and
seide, Y schal serue thee seuene &yogh;eer for
Rachel thi lesse dou&yogh;tir.
19 Laban answeride,
It is betere that Y &yogh;yue hir to
thee than to anothir man; dwelle thou at
me.
20 Therfor Jacob seruyde seuene &yogh;eer
for Rachel; and the daies semyden fewe
to hym for the greetnesse of loue.
21 And he
seide to Laban, &YOGH;yue thou my wijf to me,
for the tyme is fillid that Y entre to hir.
22 And whanne many cumpenyes of freendis
weren clepid to the feeste, he made weddyngis,
23 and in the euentid Laban brou&yogh;te
in to hym Lya his dou&yogh;tir,
24 and &yogh;af an
handmaide, Selfa bi name, to the dou&yogh;ter.
And whanne Jacob hadde entrid to hir bi
custom, whanne the morewtid was maad,
he sei&yogh; Lya,
25 and seide to his wyues fadir,
What is it that thou woldist do? wher Y
seruede not thee for Rachel? whi hast
thou disseyued me note?
26 Laban answerde, It
is not custom in oure place that we &yogh;yue
first the `lesse dou&yogh;tris to weddyngis;
27 fille
thou the wouke of daies of this couplyng,
and Y schal &yogh;yue to thee also this Rachel,
for the werk in which thou schalt serue
me bi othere seuene &yogh;eer.
28 Jacob assentide
to the couenaunt, and whanne the wouke
was passid,
29 he weddide Rachel, to whom
the fadir hadde &yogh;oue Bala seruauntesse.
30 And at the laste he vside the weddyngis
desirid, and settide the loue of the `wijf
suynge bifore the former; and he seruede
at Laban seuene othere &yogh;eer.
31 Forsothe the
-- --
Lord sei&yogh; that he dispiside Lya note, and
openyde hir wombe while the sistir
dwellide bareyn.
32 And Lia childide a sone
conseyued, and clepide his name Ruben,
and seide, The Lord sei&yogh; my mekenesse;
now myn hosebonde schal loue me.
33 And
eft sche conseyuede, `and childide a sone,
and seide, For the Lord sei&yogh; that Y was
dispisid, he &yogh;af also this sone to me; and
sche clepide his name Symeon.
34 And sche
conseyuede the thridde tyme, and childide
anothir sone, and she seide also, Now myn
hosebonde schal be couplid to me, for Y
childide thre sones to him; and therfor
sche clepide his name Leuy.
35 The fourthe
tyme sche conseyuede, and childide a sone,
and seide, Now I schal knouleche to the
Lord; and herfor she clepide his name
Judas; and ceesside to childe.
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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