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Great [1540], ¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the cont&ebar;t of al the holy scrypture both of þe; olde, and newe testam&ebar;t, with a prologe therinto, made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury, ¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches (Printed by Edward Whytchurche) [word count] [B06000].
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¶ The .vij. Chapter. ¶ After the wall once buylded, ys the watch appoynted. They that returned from the captyuyte are nombred.

A   Now when the wall was buylded, I h&abar;ged on the dores also, and the porters, syngers ∧ leuites were appoynted. And I commaunded my brother Hanani, and Hanania the ruler of the castel at Ierusalem: for he was a faithfull m&abar;, and feared God more then dyd many other, and I sayde vnto th&ebar; let not the gates of Ierusal&ebar; be opened, vntyll the sonne be whote. And whyle they were st&abar;dinge in the watch, they shutt the dores and barred th&ebar;. And we appoynted certayne cytesins of Ierusalem, appoynted to be watchmen, euery one to kepe hys watch, and euery one to be ouer against his house. As for þe; cite, it was large of rowme, and great, but the people were fewe therin, and the houses were not buylded.

And my God gaue me in my hert, that I gathered togeather the principall men, ∧ the officiers, and the people, to nombre them, &abar;d I fo&ubar;de a register of the n&obar;bre of th&ebar; note which came vp before out of the captiuyte: ∧ founde wryten therin: these are the sonnes of þe; land that wente vp from the captiuyte of the caryinge awaye (whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had brought awaye) ∧ came agayne to Ierusalem ∧ Iuda, euery one

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vnto his cytie. They which came &wt; Zorobabel are these: Iesua, Nehemia, Asariah, Raamia, Nahamani, Mardochee, Bels&abar;, Mesperath, Beguai, Nahum and Baanah.

This is the nombre of the men of the people of Israel. The chyldren of Pharos were two thousand, an hundred ∧ two ∧ seu&ebar;tye: the chyldr&ebar; of Saphatiah, thre hundred and two ∧ seuentye: the childr&ebar; of Arah, syxe h&ubar;dred and two and fyftye: the chyldren of the captayne of Moab am&obar;ge the chyldr&ebar; of Iesua ∧ Ioab, C   two thousande, eyght hundred, and eyghtene: the chyldren of Elam, a thousande, two h&ubar;dred and foure and fyftye: the chyldren of Zathua, eyght hundred and fyue ∧ fortye, the chyldren of Zachai seuen h&ubar;dred and threskore: the chyldr&ebar; of Banui: sixe h&ubar;dred ∧ eyght ∧ fortie: the chyldren of Bebai, syxe hundred ∧ eyght ∧ twentye: the chyldr&ebar; of Asgad, two thousande, thre hundred and two and twentye: the chyldren of Adonic&abar;, syxe hundred thre skore and seuen: the chyldren of Begoai, two thousande, thre skore ∧ seuen: the chyldren of Adin, syxe hundred &abar;d fyue an fyftie: the chyldren of Ater of Hezekia, eyght and nyentye.

The chyldren of Hasom, thre hundred and eyght ∧ twentye: the chyldren of Bezai, thre hundred and foure and twentye: the children af Hariph, an h&ubar;dred ∧ twelue: the chyldren of Gibeon, nynetye ∧ fyue: the men of Bethlehem ∧ Nethophah, an hundred foure skore and eyght: the men of Anathoth, an hundred ∧ eyght ∧ tw&ebar;tie: þe; men of Beth Asmaneth, two and fourtye: the m&ebar; of Kariath Iarim, Cephirah ∧ Beeroth, seuen hundred ∧ thre ∧ fortye: the m&ebar; of Ramah and Geba, syxe h&ubar;dred ∧ one ∧ twentye: the men of Michmas, an hundred and two and twentye: the men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred and thre and twentye: the men of Nebo, an hundred and two and fyftie: the chyldren of the other El&abar;, a thousande, two h&ubar;dred and foure and fyftye: the chyldren of Harim: thre hundred and tw&ebar;tye: D   the chyldr&ebar; of Iericho: thre h&ubar;dred ∧ fyue and fortye: the chyldren of Lodhadid ∧ Ono, seuen hundred and one and twentye: þe; chyldren of Sanaa, thre thousande, nyne h&ubar;dred and thyrtye.

The preastes. The chyldr&ebar; of Iedaiah of the house of Iesua, nyne hundred and thre &abar;d seuentye: the chyldr&ebar; of Immer, a thousande and two ∧ fyftye: the chyldren of Phashur, a thousand, two hundred ∧ seuen ∧ fortye: the chyldren of Harim, a thousande ∧ seuentene.

The Leuytes. The chyldren of Iesua of Cadmiel and of the chyldren of Hoduah, foure ∧ seuentye. The syngers. The chyldren of Asaph, an hundred and eyght and fortye. E   The porters: The chyldren of Sallum, the chyldren of Ater, the chyldren of Talmon, the chyldren of Acub, the chyldr&ebar; of Hatita, the chyldren of Sobai, all together an hundred and eyght and thyrtye.

The Nethinims. The chyldren of Ziha, the chyldren of Hasupha, the chyldr&ebar; of Tebahoth, the chyldren of Ceros, the chyldren of Sia, the chyldren of Phadon, the chyldren of Lebanah, the chyldren of Hagaba, the chyldren of Salmat, the chyldren of Hanan, the chyldren of Gidel, the chyldren of Gaher, the chyldren of Reaia, the chyldren of Rezin, þe; chyldren of Necoda, the chyldren of Gasam, the chyldren of Usa the chyldren of Phaseah, the children of Besai, the chyldren of Meunim, the chyldren of Nephussim, the chyldren of Bachur, the chyldren of Hacupha, the chyldren of Harhur, the chyldren of Bazlith, the chyldren of Mehida, the chyldren of Harsa, the chyldren of Barcos, the chyldren of Sissera, the chyldren of Thamah, the chyldr&ebar; of Neziah, the chyldren of Hatipha.

The chyldren of Salomons seruauntes: the chyldren of Sotai, the chyldren of Sophereth, the chyldren of Pherida, the chyldren of Iaala, the chyldren of Darcon, the chyldren of Giddel, the chyldren of Saphatiah, the chyldren of Hatil, the chyldren of Pochereth of Zabaini, the chyldr&ebar; of Amon. All these Nethinims and the children of Salomons seruauntes, were thre h&ubar;dred ∧ nynetie and two.

F   And these wente vp also of Thel Mela, Thel Harsa, Cherub, Adon and Immer: but they coulde not shewe theyr fathers house nor theyr sede, and that they were of Israel. The chyldren of Dalaiah, the chyldren of Tobia and the chyldren of Necoda, syxe h&ubar;dred and two and fortye. And of the preastes, the chyldren of Habaiah: the chyldren of Hacos, the chyldren of Bersilai, whych toke one of the daughters of Bersilai the Gileadite to wyfe, and was named after their name. These soughte theyr writyng in þe; register of theyr generacion, but they were not founde, therfore they were put from the presthode. And Hathirsata sayd vnto them, that they shulde not eate of the moost holy, tyll there came vp a Preaste whych shulde were Urim and Thumin.

And so þe; whole c&obar;gregacy&obar; together was two ∧ fortye thousande, thre h&ubar;dred, ∧ thre skore: besyde their serua&ubar;tes and maydens, of whom there were seuen thousande, thre hundred and seu&ebar; and thirtye. And they had two hundred and seu&ebar; and fortye syngynge men and wemen. G   Their horses, seu&ebar; h&ubar;dred and syxe ∧ thirtye, ∧ their Mules: two hundred ∧ fyue ∧ fortye. The camels, foure hundred ∧ fyue ∧ thirtye: syxe thousande, seuen hundred and twentye Asses.

And certayne of the auncy&ebar;t fathers gaue vnto þe; worcke. Hathirsatha gaue to the

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treasure a thousand peces of gold, fyftie basens, fyue hundred ∧ thirtye prestes garm&ebar;tes. And some of the chefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousande peces of gold ∧ two thousande ∧ two hundred po&ubar;de of syluer. And the other people gaue twentye thousande peces of golde, and two thousande pounde of syluer &abar;d thre skore and seuen preastes garmentes. And þe; preastes ∧ Leuites, the Porters, and the syngers, ∧ the other of the people, &abar;d the Nethinims, ∧ all Israel, dwelt in their cyties. And the seuenth moneth came, and the chyldr&ebar; of Israel were in theyr cyties.
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Great [1540], ¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the cont&ebar;t of al the holy scrypture both of þe; olde, and newe testam&ebar;t, with a prologe therinto, made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury, ¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches (Printed by Edward Whytchurche) [word count] [B06000].
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