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THE FIRST BOKE OF MOSES,
CALLED GENESIS.


Introductory matter

What this boke conteyneth.


Chap. I. The creacion of the worlde in sixe dayes, and of man.
Chap. II. The rest of the seuenth daye. The tre of knowlege of good and euell is forbydden &c. Of the creacion of Eua.
Chap. III. The serpent disceaueth the woman, they transgresse, and are dryuen out of Paradyse.
Chap. IIII. Abels offerynge pleaseth God, therfore doth his brother Cain hate him, murthureth him, & is cursed. Of the childre of cain.
Chap. V. Of the generacion, age & death of Adam, Seth, and of his sonnes vnto Noe.
Chap. VI. The occasion of the floude, and of the prepayringe of the Arke, &c.
Chap. VII. Noe with his housholde is preserued in the arke, where as all the worlde perisheth thorow the floude.
Chap. VIII. The floude abateth, Noe goeth out of the Arke, &c.
Chap. IX. God blesseth Noe and his sonnes, forbiddeth to eate the bloude of beestes, and to shed mans bloude, maketh a conuenaunt (and geueth the raynbowe for a token of the same) that he wyl destroye the worlde nomore by water. Noe is dronken. Ham vncouereth him, and getteth his curse.
Chap. X. The increace of mans generacion by Noes thre sonnes, which go abrode &begynne to buylde.
Chap. XI. The buyldinge of the tower of Babel is hyndered thorow the confucion of the tonges. The generacion of Sem vntyll Abram, which goeth wyth Lot vnto Haran.
Chap. XII. Abram goeth wyth Lot in to a straunge londe at the worde of the LORDE, which appeareth vnto him in Canaan, and promyseth to geue the same londe vnto his sede. Afterwarde goeth Abram in to Egipte & fayneth Sarai to be his sister.
Chap. XIII. Abram and Loth departe agayne out of Egipte, and haue so many catell that they can not dwell together. Abram receaueth the blessynge and promes.
Chap. XIIII. Lot is taken presoner, Abram delyuereth him, Melchisedec fedeth Abram at his returnynge. Abram geueth him tithes of the spoyles, and holdeth nothinge of the kynge of Sodoms goodes.
Chap. XV. God comforteth Abram, and promyseth him sede: He beleueth, & is iustified.
Chap. XVI. Sarai geueth Abram leue to take hir mayde, which beareth him Ismael.
Chap. XVII. The couenaut of circucision &c.
Chap. XVIII. Thre me appeare vnto Abraha to who the destructio of Sodome is declared.
Chap. XIX. Lot receaueth the II. angels, the men of Sodome go aboute to abuse the, Loth is delyuered, Sodome is destroyed, Loths wyfe is turned to a piler of salt, & his daughters beare children vnto him.
Chap. XX. Abraha departeth as a strauger into Gerar, and fayneth Sara to be his sister the kynge taketh her, & geueth hi her againe.
Chap. XXI. The byrth of Isaac, Agar is put out with hir sonne, Abraha and Abimelech are sworne frendes.
Chap. XXII. God tryeth Abraham, which at his worde wolde offre his awne sonne. The promes is confirmed vnto him with an ooth.
Chap. XXIII. The death of Sara, for whom Abraham byeth a pece of londe to burye her in.
Chap. XXIIII. Abraham wyll haue his sonne to mary in his awne kinred, the seruaut bringeth Rebecca, whom Isaac taketh to wife.
Chap. XXV. Abraham begetteth mo children by another wife, geueth his good vnto Isaac, & dyeth. Isaac begynneth to growe, Esau selleth his byrthrighte.
Chap. XXVI. Isaac goeth in to Gerar, faineth Rebecca to be his sister, increaseth in riches, the Philistynes stoppe his welles. Abimelech & he are sworne frendes.
Chap. XXVII. Iacob is blessed before Esau, which threateneth him, but he flyeth in to Hara to Laban his mothers brother.
Chap. XXVIII. Isaac sendeth Iacob awaye to mary amoge Labans daughters, Iacob seith a vision, God cofirmeth him the promes made vnto Abraham, whervpon Iacob maketh a vowe.
Chap. XXIX. Iacob geueth Labans shepe to drike, serueth seue yeare for Rachel, Lea is geue him, & yet serueth he seuen yeare mo for Rachel.
Chap. XXX. Rachel geueth Iacob hir mayde and so doth Lea, they beare him children, his rewarde is appoynted with a condicion, wherby he is made riche.
Chap. XXXI. Iacob goeth home warde, Rachel stealeth hir fathers ymages, Laban ouertaketh them, and fyndeth not his ymages, they sweare together, the angell meteth Iacob.
Chap. XXXII. Iacob sendeth presentes vnto Esau, puttteth God in remembraunce of his promes, and wrestleth with the angell, which chaungeth his name and blesseth him.
Chap. XXXIII. Iacob and Esau are agreed, &c.
Chap. XXXIIII. Dina Iacobs daughter is forced by Sichem, wherof there cometh greate bloudsheddynge.
Chap. XXXV. Rachel dyeth at the byrth of Be Iamin, Rube lyeth with his fathers cocubyne.
Chap. XXXVI. Of the prices that came of Esau, and how Esau departeth from his brother.
Chap. XXXVII. Ioseph is hated of his brethren, and solde into Egipte.
Chap. XXXVIII. Iuda lyeth with his daughter in lawe, which beareth him two sonnes.
Chap. XXXIX. Ioseph is beloued: & because he wil not consente to the inordinate desyre of his mastresse, he is put in preson.
Chap. XL. Ioseph expoundeth the dreames of the two presoners.
Chap. XLI. Ioseph declareth Pharaos dreame, and is made a lorde of Egipte. The derth begynneth.
Chap. XLII. Iosephs brethren come into Egipte, to by corne, and are troubled of him.
Chap. XLIII. They come againe for corne, bringe BenIamin with them, and are put to more trouble.
Chap. XLIIII. As they go home, he causeth the be brought agayne, and put to more feare.
Chap. XLV. Ioseph vttereth him selfe to his brethren, and sendeth for his father.
Chap. XLVI. Iacob cometh in to Egipte with all his people, Ioseph receaueth him.
Chap. XLVII. Pharao geueth them the lode of Gosen, the derth is greate in Egipte &c.
Chap. XLVIII. Iacob is sicke, and blesseth Iosephs sonnes.
Chap. XLIX. Iacob before his death telleth his sonnes what shal happen vnto the, & dyeth.
Chap. L. Ioseph burieth his father, chargeth his brethren concernynge his bones, and dyeth in Egypte.


THE FIRST BOKE
of MOSES, Called GENESIS.

The first Chapter.

In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth: and ye earth was voyde and emptie, and darcknes was vpon the depe, & ye sprete of God moued vpo the water.

And God sayde: let there be light, & there was light. And God sawe the light that it was good. Then God deuyded ye light from the darcknes, and called the light, Daye: and the darcknes, Night Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first daye.

And God sayde: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it deuyde ye waters a sunder. Then God made ye firmamet, and parted the waters vnder the firmamet, from the waters aboue the firmament: And so it came to passe. And God called ye firmament, Heauen. Then of the euenynge & mornynge was made the seconde daye.

And God sayde: let the waters vnder heauen gather theselues vnto one place, yt the drye londe maye appeare. And so it came to passe. And God called ye drye londe, Earth: and the gatheringe together of waters called he, ye See. And God sawe yt it was good.

And God sayde: let ye earth bringe forth grene grasse and herbe, that beareth sede: & frutefull trees, that maye beare frute, euery one after his kynde, hauynge their owne sede in them selues vpon the earth. And so it came to passe. And the earth brought forth grene grasse and herbe, yt beareth sede euery one after his kynde, & trees bearinge frute, & hauynge their owne sede in them selues, euery one after his kynde. And God sawe that it was good. Then of the euenynge & mornynge was made the thirde daye.

And God sayde: let there be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to deuyde the daye fro the night, that they maye be vnto tokes, seasons, dayes, and yeares. And let them be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to shyne vpon the earth: And so it came to passe. And God made two greate lightes: one greater light to rule the daye, and a lesse light to rule the night, and (he made) starres also. And God set them in the firmament of heauen, yt they might shyne vpo earth, and to rule the daye and the night, and to deuyde the light from darcknes. And God sawe that it was good. Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fourth daye.		 And God sayde: let the waters brynge forth creatures that moue and haue life, & foules for to flye aboue the earth vnder the firmamet of heauen. And God created greate whalles, and all maner of creatures that lyue and moue, which the waters brought forth euery one after his kynde: and all maner of fethered foules, euery one after his kynde. And God sawe that it was good, and blessed them, sayenge: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sees, and let the foules multiplie vpon the earth. Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fifth daye.

And God sayde: let ye earth brynge forth lyuynge soules, euery one after his kynde: catell, wormes & what as hath life vpon earth, euery one after his kynde. And so it came to passe. And God made ye beastes of the earth euery one after his kynde, and catell after their kynde, and all maner wormes of the earth after their kynde. And God sawe that it was good.

And God sayde: let vs make man in or similitude after oure licknesse, that he maye haue rule ouer the fysh of the see, and ouer the foules vnder ye heauen, and ouer catell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer all wormes that crepe on ye earth. And God created man after his licknesse: after ye licknesse of God created he him, male & female created he them.

And God blessed them, and sayde vnto them: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the earth, and subdue it, & haue domynion ouer the fish of the see, and ouer the foules of the ayre, and ouer all the beastes that crepe vpo the earth.

And God sayde: lo, I haue geuen you all maner herbes that beare sede vpon the whole earth, and all maner frutefull trees that beare sede, to be meate for you. And to all beastes of the earth, and to all foules vnder the heauen,and to euery worme that hath life (vpon earth) all maner grene herbes to eate. And so it came to passe. And God behelde all yt he had made, and lo, they were exceadinge good. Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the sixte daye.
The seconde Chapter.

Thus was heaue and earth fynished with all their hoost, and thus in the seuenth daye God ended his worke, which he had made, & rested in the seuenth daye from all his workes which he had made: And blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it, because yt in it he rested from all his workes, which God created and made.

These are the generacions of heaue and earth whan they were created, in the tyme whan the LORDE God made heauen and earth: before there was eny twygg vpon earth, and or euer there grew eny grene herbe vpon the felde. For the LORDE God had yet sent no rayne vpon ye earth, nether was there eny man to tylle the earth. But there arose a myst from the earth, & watered all the londe. And ye LORDE God shope man eue of the moulde of the earth, & brethed in to his face ye breth of life. And so was man made a lyuynge soule.

The LORDE God also planted a garde of pleasure in Eden, towarde ye east, and set man therin whom he had made. And the LORDE God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasaut to loke vpo, and good to eate: and the tre of life in the myddest of the garden, and the tre of knowlege of good and euell.

And out of Eden there wente a ryuer, to water the garden, and there deuyded it selfe into foure heade waters. The first is called Phison, which renneth aboute all the londe of Heuyla. And there is founde golde, (& the golde of that countre is precious,) and there is founde Bedellion, and the precious stone Onix. The second water is called Gihon, which runneth aboute the whole londe of ye Morias. The thirde water is called Hydeckell, which runneth towarde the east syde of ye Assirias. The fourth water is Euphrates.		 And the LORDE God toke man, & set him in the pleasaunt garden of Eden, to dresse it & to kepe it. And the LORDE God commaunded man, sayege: Thou shalt eate of all maner trees in ye garden: But of ye tre of knowlege of good and euell, shalt thou not eate. For loke in what daye so euer thou eatest therof, thou shalt dye the death.

And the LORDE God sayde: It is not good yt ma shulde be alone. I wil make him an helpe, to beare him copany. And whan God the LORDE had made of the earth all maner beastes of the felde, & all maner foules vnder the heaue, he brought them vnto man, to se what he wolde call the: For as ma called all maner of liuinge soules, so are their names. And man gaue names vnto all maner catell, & vnto the foules vnder the heaue, and vnto all maner beastes of ye felde. But vnto man there was founde no helpe, to beare him company.

Then the LORDE God caused an herde slepe to fall vpon man, and he slepte. And he toke out one of his rybbes, and (in steade therof) he fylled vp ye place with flesh. And the LORDE God made a woman, of ye rybbe that he toke out of man, and brought her vnto him. Then sayde man: This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was take of man. For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleue vnto his wife, & they two shalbe one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
The III. Chapter.

Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden? Then sayde the woman vnto the serpent: We eate of the frute of the trees in the garden: But as for the frute of the tre that is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde: Eate not ye of it, and touch it not, lest ye dye.

Then saide the serpent vnto the woman: Tush, ye shall not dye the death. For God doth knowe, that in what daye so euer ye eate of it, youre eyes shalbe opened, and ye shalbe as God, and knowe both good and euell. And the woman sawe that ye tre was good to eate of, and lustye vnto the eyes, and a pleasaunt tre to make wyse, and toke of the frute of it, and ate, and gaue vnto hir husbande also therof, and he ate. Then were the eyes of them both opened, and they perceaued that they were naked, and sowed fygge leaues together, and made them apurns.

And they herde the voyce of the LORDE God, which walked in the garden in the coole of the daye. And Adam hyd him self with his wyfe, from the presence of ye LORDE God amonge the trees of the garden. And ye LORDE God called Adam, and sayde vnto him: Where art thou? And he saide: I herde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayed, because I am naked, and therfore I hyd my self. And he sayde: who tolde the, that thou art naked? Hast thou not eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, yt thou shuldest not eate?		 Then sayde Adam: The woman which thou gauest me (to beare me company) gaue me of the tre, and I ate. And the LORDE God sayde vnto the woman: wherfore hast thou done this? The woman sayde: the serpent disceaued me so, that I ate. Then sayde the LORDE God vnto the serpent: Because thou hast done this, cursed be thou aboue all catell and aboue all beastes of the felde. Vpon thy bely shalt thou go, & earth shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life. And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele.

And vnto the woman he sayde: I will increase thy sorow, whan thou art with childe: with payne shalt thou beare thy childre, and thy lust shal pertayne vnto yi hußbande, and he shal rule the.

And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life. Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde. In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.

And Adam called his wyfe Heua, because she is the mother of all lyuynge. And the LORDE God made Adam & his wyfe garmentes of skynnes, & those he put on them. And the LORDE God sayde: lo, Adam is become as it were one of vs, & knoweth good & euell. But now lest he stretch his hande, and take also of the tre of life, and eate, and lyue for euer. Then the LORDE God put him out of the garden of Eden, to tyll ye earth, whece he was take. And he cast Adam out. And before the garden of Eden he set Cherubes, and a naked fyrie swerde, to kepe ye waye vnto the tre of life.
The IIII. Chapter.

Morouer Adam laye with Heua his wyfe, which coceaued & bare Cain, and sayde, I haue opteyned ye man of the LORDE. And she proceaded forth, & bare his brother Abell. And Abell became a shepherde, but Cain became an hußbande man.

And it fortuned after certaine daies, that Cain brought of the frute of the earth, an offrynge vnto ye LORDE. And Abell brought also of the firstlinges of his shepe, and of ye fat of them. And the LORDE had respecte vnto Abell and to his offerynge: but vnto Cain and his offerynge he loked not. Then was Cain exceadinge wroth, and his countenaunce chaunged. And the LORDE sayde vnto Cain: Why art thou angrie? and why doth thy countenaunce chaunge? Is it not so? that yf thou do well, thou shalt receaue it: but and yf thou do euell, thy synne lyeth open in the dore? Shal he then be subdued vnto the? and wilt thou rule him? And Cain talked with Abell his brother.

And it happened, that whan they were in the felde, Cain arose agaynst Abell his brother, and slew him. Then sayde the LORDE vnto Cain: Where is Abell thy brother? He sayde: I can not tell. Am I my brothers keper? And he sayde: What hast thou done? The voyce of thy brothers bloude crieth vnto me out of the earth. And now shalt thou be cursed vpon the earth, which hath opened hir mouth, and receaued thy brothers bloude of thine hande. Whan thou tyllest ye grounde, she shall henßforth not geue hir power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon ye earth.		 And Cain sayde vnto ye LORDE: my synne is greater, then that it maye be forgeuen me. Beholde, thou castest me out this daye from out of ye londe, and from yi sight must I hyde myself, and must be a vagabunde and a rennagate vpon ye earth. And thus shal it go with me: that who so fyndeth me, shal slaye me.

But the LORDE sayde thus vnto him: Who so euer slayeth Cain, it shalbe auenged seuenfolde. And the LORDE put a marck vpon Cain, that no man which founde him, shulde kyll him. So Cain wente out from ye face of the LORDE, and dwelt in the lande Nod, vpon the east syde of Eden.

And Cain laye with his wyfe, which conceaued and bare Henoch. And he buylded a cite, and called it after the name of his sonne Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad, Irad begat Mahuiael. Mahuiael begat Mathusael. Mathusael begat Lamech. And Lamech toke him two wyues: ye one was called Ada, & the other Zilla. And Ada bare Iabel, of whom came they that dwelt in tentes and had catell. And his brothers name was Iuball: Of him came they that occupied harpes & pypes. And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain, a worker in all connynge poyntes of metall & yron. And Tubalcains sister was called Naema.

And Lamech sayde vnto his wyues Ada and Zilla: Heare my voyce (ye wyues of Lamech) and herken vnto my wordes: for I haue slayne a man, and wounded my selfe: and (haue kylled) a yonge man, and gotte my self strypes. Cain shalbe aueged seue tymes: but Lamech seuen and seuentie tymes.

Adam laye yet with his wyfe agayne, & she bare a sonne, and called him Seth. For God (sayde she) hath apoynted me another sede, for Abell, whom Cain slew. And Seth begat a sonne also, and called him Enos. At the same tyme beganne men to call vpon the name of the LORDE.
The V. Chapter.

This is the boke of the generacion of man, in the tyme whan God created man, and made him after the symilitude of God. Male and female made he them, and blessed the, & called their names Man, in the tyme whan they were created. And Adam was an hundreth and thirtie yeare olde, and begat a sonne, which was like his owne ymage, and called his name Seth: & lyued therafter eight hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. And his whole age was nyne hundreth and thirtie yeares, and so he dyed.

Seth was an hundreth and fyue yeare olde, and begat Enos: & lyued therafter eight hundreth and seuen yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. And his whole age was nyene hudreth and twolue yeares, and so he dyed.

Enos was nyentie yeare olde, and begat Renan: and lyued therafter eight hundreth & fyftene yeare, and begat sonnes & daughters. And his whole age was nyene hudreth and fyue yeares, and so he dyed.

Renan was seuetie yeare olde, and begat Mahalaliel: and lyued therafter eight hundreth and fourtie yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. And his whole age was nyene hundreth and ten yeares, and so he dyed.

Mahalaliel was thre score yeare olde & fyue, and begat Iared: and lyued therafter eight hundreth and thirtie yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. And his whole age was eight hundreth, nyentie and fyue yeares, and so he dyed.		 Iared was an hundreth and two & sixtie yeare olde, and begat Henoch: & lyued therafter eight hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. And his whole age was nyene hundreth and two and sixtie yeare, and so he dyed.

Henoch was fyue and thre score yeare olde, and begat Mathusalah: and led a godly conuersacion thre hundreth yeares therafter, and begat sonnes & doughters. And his whole age was thre hundreth and fyue and thre score yeares. And for so moch as he lyued a godly life, God toke him awaye, & he was nomore sene.

Mathusalah was an uhdreth & seue and foure score yeare olde, & begat Lamech: and lyued therafter seuen hundreth and two and foure score yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. And his whole age was nyene hundreth and nyene and trescore yeares, and so he dyed.

Lamech was an hundreth and two and foure score yeare olde, and begat a sonne, & called him Noe, and sayde: This same shall coforte vs in oure workes, and in the sorowe of oure hondes vpon the earth, which the LORDE hath cursed. After this he lyued fyue hudreth and fyue & nyentie yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. And his whole age was seuen hundreth seuen and seuentie yeares, and so he dyed.

Noe was fyue hundreth yeare olde, and begat Sem, Ham and Iaphet.
The VI. Chapter.

So whan men beganne to multiplie vpon the earth, and had begot them doughters, the children of God sawe the doughters of men, that they were fayre, and toke vnto the wyues soch as they liked. Then sayde ye LORDE: My sprete shal not allwaye stryue with man, for he is but flesh also. I wil yet geue him respyte an hundreth and twety yeares. There were giauntes also in the worlde at that tyme. For whan the children of God had lyen with the daughters of men, and begotten them children, ye same (children) became mightie in the worlde, and men of renowne.

But whan the LORDE sawe yt the wickednes of man was increased vpon ye earth, and that all ye thought and imaginacion of their hert was but onely euell contynually, it repented him, that he had made man vpon the earth, and he sorowed in his hert, and sayde: I wyll destroye man kynde which I haue made, from the earth: both man, beest, worme, and foule vnder the heauen: for it repenteth me, that I haue made them. Neuertheles Noe founde grace in the sight of the LORDE.

This is ye generacion of Noe. Noe was a righteous and parfecte ma, and led a godly life in his tyme, and begat thre sonnes: Sem, Ham and Iaphet. Notwithstondinge ye earth was corrupte in ye sight of God, and full of myschefe. Then God loked vpon ye earth: and lo, it was corrupte (for all flesh had corrupte his waye vpon the earth.)		 Then sayde God vnto Noe: The. ende of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of myschefe before them. And lo, I wyll destroye them with the earth. Make the an Arcke of Pyne tre, and make chambers in it, and pitch it within and without with pitch and make it after this fashion: The length shal be thre hundreth cubites, the bredth fiftie cubites, and the heyght thirtie cubites. A wyndow shalt thou make aboue of a cubyte greate: but the dore shalt thou set in the myddest in the syde of it: And the Arke shalt thou make with thre loftes one aboue another. For lo, I wyll bringe a floude of water vpon the earth, to destroye all flesh (wherin the breth of life is) vnder the heaue: All that is vpon earth, shal perishe.

But with the wyll I make a couenaunt, and thou shalt go in to the Arcke with thy sonnes, with thy wyfe, and with thy sonnes wyues. And of all creatures what so euer flesh it be, thou shalt bringe into the Arcke, euen a payre: the male and the female, that they maye lyue wt the: Of foules after their kynde, of beastes after their kynde, and of all maner wormes of the earth after their kinde. Of euery one of these shal there a payre go in vnto the, that they maye lyue. And thou shalt take vnto the all maner of meate that maye be eaten, and shalt laye it vp in stoare by the, that it maye be meate for the and them. And Noe dyd acordinge to all that God commaunded him.
The VII. Chapter.

And ye LORDE sayde vnto Noe: Go in to the Arcke thou & thy whole house: for the haue I sene righteous before me at this tyme. Of all cleane beastes take vnto the seuen and seuen, the male and his female. And of vncleane beastes a payre, the male and his female. Like wyse of the foules vnder the heauen, seuen and seuen, the male and his female, that there maye be sede left a lyue vpon the whole earth.

For yet after seuen dayes, I wil sende raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and wyll destroye all maner of thinges that I haue made, from of the face of the earth.

And Noe dyd all that the LORDE commaunded him. Sixe hudreth yeare olde was he, whan the water floude came vpon earth. And he wente in to the Arcke, with his sonnes, his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues, for the waters of the floude. Of cleane beastes and of vncleane, of all fethered foules, & of all that crepeth vpon earth, wente in vnto him to the Arcke by pares, a male and a female, as ye LORDE comaunded him. And whan the seuen dayes were past, the water floude came vpon the earth.

In the sixe hundreth yeare of Noes age, vpon the seuentene daye of the seconde moneth, that same daye were all ye fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened, and there came a rayne vpon ye earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.		 Vpon the selfe same daye wete Noe into the Arcke, with Sem, Ham and Iaphet his sonnes, and with his wyfe, and the thre wyues of his sonnes, and all maner of beastes after their kynde, all maner of catell after their kynde, all maner of crepynge thinges (that crepe vpo the earth) after their kynde, and all maner of foules (what so euer coude flye & what so euer had fethers) after their kynde: These wente all vnto Noe in to the Arcke by cooples, of all flesh in whom was the breth of life. And these were the male & the female of all maner of flesh, and wente in, acordinge as God commauded him. And the LORDE shut (the dore) vpon him.

Then came the water floude fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the water increased, and bare vp the Arcke, and lift it vp ouer ye earth. Thus the water preuayled, and increased sore vpon the earth, so that the Arcke wente vpon the waters. Yee the waters preuayled and increased so sore vpon earth, that all the hye mountaynes vnder the whole heauen were couered. Fyftene cubytes hye preuayled ye waters ouer the mountaynes, which were couered.

Then all flesh that crepte vpon earth, perished, both foules, catell, beastes, and all yt moued vpon earth, and all men. What so euer had the breth of life vpon the drye londe, dyed.

Thus was destroyed all that was vpon the earth, both man and beast, both wormes and foules vnder ye heaue: all these were destroyed from the earth, Saue Noe onely remayned, and they that were with him in the Arcke. And the waters preuayled vpon the earth, an hundreth and fiftie dayes.
The VIII. Chapter.

Then God remembred Noe and all the beastes, and all the catell that were with him in the Arcke, and caused a wynde to come vpon the earth: and ye waters ceassed, and the fountaynes of the depe and the wyndowes of heauen were stopte, and the rayne of heaue was forbydden, and the waters ranne styll awaye from ye earth, and decreased after an hundreth and fiftye dayes. Vpon the seuentene daye of the seuenth moneth rested the Arcke vpon the mountaynes of Ararat. And the waters wete awaye and decreased vntyll the tenth moneth: for the first daye of the tenth moneth, the toppes of the mountaynes appeared.

After fourtie dayes Noe opened ye wyndow of the Arcke which he had made, & sent forth a rauen, which flew out, and came agayne, vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpo the earth.

Then sent he forth a doue from him, to wete, whether the waters were falle vpon the earth. But when ye doue coude fynde no restynge place for hir fete, she came agayne vnto him in to the Arcke, for the waters were yet vpon the face of all the earth. And he put out his hande, and toke her to him in to the Arke.

Then he abode yet seuen dayes mo, & sent out the doue agayne out of the Arke: & she returned vnto him aboute the euen tyde: and beholde, she had broken of a leaf of an olyue tre, & bare it in hir nebb. Then Noe perceaued, that the waters were abated vpon the earth. Neuertheles he taried yet seuen other dayes, and sent forth the doue, which came nomore to him agayne.		 In the sixte hundreth and one yeare of Noes age, vpon the first daye of ye first moneth, the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth. Then Noe toke of the hatches of the Arke, and sawe yt the face of the earth was drye. So vpon the seuen and twentye daye of the seconde moneth the whole earth was drye.

Then spake God vnto Noe, and sayde: Go out of the Arke, thou and thy wyfe, and thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wyues with the. As for all the beastes that are with the, what so euer flesh it be (both foule & catell and all maner of wormes that crepe vpon the earth) let them go out with the, and be ye occupied vpon the earth, growe and multiplye vpon the earth.

So Noe wente out, with his sonnes, and with his wife, and with his sonnes wyues. All the beastes also and all the wormes, and all the foules, and all that crepte vpon the earth, wente out of the Arke, euery one vnto his like.

And Noe buylded an altare vnto ye LORDE, and toke of all maner of cleane beastes & of all maner of cleane foules, and offred bret sacrifices vpon ye altare. And ye LORDE smelled the swete sauor, & sayde in his hert: I wyl hence forth curse the earth nomore for mas sake, for the ymaginacion of mans hert is euell, euen from the very youth of him. Therfore from hece forth I wil nomore smyte all that lyueth, as I haue done. Nether shall sowynge tyme and haruest, colde and heate Sommer and wynter, daye and night ceasse so longe as the earth endureth.
The IX. Chapter.

And God blessed Noe and his sonnes, and sayde vnto them: increace & multiplye, and fyll the earth. The feare also and drede of you be vpon all beastes of the earth, vpon all foules vnder the heauen, and vpon all that crepeth on the earth, and all fyshes of the see be geuen in to youre hades. All that moueth and hath life, be youre meate. Euen as the grene herbe, so haue I geue you all. Onely eate not the flesh with the bloude, wherin the soule is: For the bloude of you wherin youre soule is, wyll I requyre of the hande of all beastes: and the soule of ma wyll I requyre of mans hande, yee euery mans soule of anothers hande.

He that sheddeth mas bloude, his bloude shal be shed by man agayne, for God made man after his owne licknesse. As for you, be ye frutefull, and increase, and be occupied vpon the earth, that ye maye multiplye therin.

Farthermore, God sayde vnto Noe and to his sonnes wt him: Beholde, I make my couenaunt with you, and with youre sede after you, and with euery lyuynge creature that is with you, both foule, catell, and all beastes vpon the earth with you, of all that is gone out of the Arke, what so euer beast of the earth it be: And thus I make my couenaunt with you, that hence forth all flesh shal not be destroyed with the waters of eny floude, and from hence forth there shall come no floude to destroye the earth.		 And God sayde: This is the token of my couenaunt which I haue made betwene me and you, and all lyuynge creatures amonge you for euermore: My bowe will I set in the cloudes, and it shal be the token of my couenaunt betwene me and ye earth: so that wha I brynge cloudes vpon the earth, the bowe shal appeare in the cloudes. And then wyll I thynke vpon my couenaunt betwixte me and you and all lyuynge creatures in all maner of flesh: so that from hence forth there shall nomore come eny floude of water to destroye all flesh. Therfore shall my bowe be in the cloudes, that I maye loke vpon it, and remembre the euerlastynge couenaunt, betwixte God and all liuynge creatures in all flesh that is vpon earth. God sayde also vnto Noe: This is the toke of the couenaunt, which I haue made betwene me and all flesh vpon earth.

The sonnes of Noe which wente out of the Arke, are these: Sem, Ham and Iaphet. As for Ham, he is the father of Canaa. These are Noes thre sonnes, of whom all londes were ouerspred.

Noe beganne to take hede vnto ye tyllinge of the grounde, & planted a vyniarde. And dranke of the wyne, and was dronken, and laye vncouered in his tente. Now when Ha the father of Canaan sawe his fathers preuities, he tolde his two brethren without. The toke Sem and Iaphet a mantell and put it vpo both their shulders, and wente backwarde, and couered their fathers secretes: & their faces were turned asyde, yt they shulde not se their fathers preuyties.

So whan Noe awaked from his wyne, and perceaued what his yonger sonne had done vnto him, he sayde: Cursed be Canaan, and a seruaunt of seruauntes be he vnto his brethren. He sayde morouer: Praysed be the LORDE God of Sem, and Canaan be his seruaunt. God increase Iaphet, and let him dwell in the tentes of Sem, and Canaan be his seruaunt.

And Noe lyued after the floude thre hundreth & fiftie yeare, so yt his whole age was ix. hudreth and fyftie yeare, and so he dyed.
The X. Chapter.

This is the generacion of the childre of Noe, Sem, Ham, and Iaphet, & they begat children after the floude. The children of Iaphet are these: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Iauan, Tubal, Mesech and Thyras. The childre of Gomer are these: Ascenas, Riphat and Togarma. The children of Iauan are these: Elisa, Tharsis, Cithim and Dodanim: Of these are deuided the Iles of ye Heithen in their countrees, euery one after his speach, kynred and people.

The childre of Ham are these: Thus, Misraim, Phut and Canaan. The children of Chus are these: Seba, Heuila Sabtha, Reyma and Sabthecha.

The children of Reyma are these: Sheba and Deda. Thus also begat Nemrod, which beganne to be mightie in the earth, and was a mightie hunter in the sight of the LORDE. Therof commeth the prouerbe: This is a mightie hunter before the LORDE like as Nemrod. And the origenall of his kyngdome was Babel, Erech, Acad & Chalne in ye londe of Synear. Out of that lode came Assur, and buylded Niniue, and ye stretes of ye cite, and Calah, and Ressen betwene Ninyne & Calah: This is a greate cite. Mizraim begat Ludim, Enamim, Leabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim & Casluhim, from whence came the Philistynes and Capthorims. Canaa also begat Zidon his eldest sonne, & Heth, Iebusi, Emori, Girgosi, Hiui, Arki, Sini, Aruadi, Zemari & Hamati: fro whence ye kynreds of ye Cananites are dispersed abrode. And ye Coastes of ye Cananites were fro Sido forth thorow Gerar vnto Gasa, tyll thou comest vnto Sodoma, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim, & vnto Lasa. These are the children of Ham in their kynreds, tunges, londes & people. And Sem which is ye father of all the children of Eber, & the elder brother of Iaphet, begat childre also. And these are his children: Ela, Assur, Arphachad, Lud & Aram. The childre of Aram are these: Vz, Hul, Gether & Mas.		 And Arphachsad begat Sala, and Sala begat Eber. Eber begat two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, because that in his tyme the worlde was deuyded, and his brothers name was Iaketan, And Iaketan begat Almodad, Saleph, Hazarmaphet, Iarah, Hadoram, Usal, Dikela, Obal, Abimael, Seba, Ophir, Heuila & Iobab: All these are ye childre of Iaketan. And their dwellynge was from Mesa, tyll thou come vnto Sephar a mountayne of ye east. These are ye children of Sem in their generacions, tunges, londes and people. This is now ye generacion of ye children of Noe in their kynredes & people. Of these were ye people vpon earth spred a brode after ye floude.
The XI. Chapter.

Morouer all the worlde had one tonge & language. Now as they wente towarde the East, they founde a playne in ye londe of Synear, & there they dwelt, & saide one to another: Come on, let vs make bryck & burne it. And they toke bryck for stone, & slyme for morter, And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes. Then came ye LORDE downe, to se ye cite & tower, yt ye childre of me had buylded. And ye LORDE saide: Beholde, the people is one, & haue one maner of language amoge the all, & this haue they begonne to do, & wil not leaue of from all yt they haue purposed to do. Come on, let vs go downe, & cofounde their tonge eue there, yt one vnderstonde not what another saieth. Thus ye LORDE scatred the fro thece in all lodes, so yt they left of to buylde the cite. Therfore is it called Babell, because the LORDE cofounded there the language of all the worlde, and from thece scatred them abrode in to all londes.

These are ye generacions of Sem. Sem was an hundreth yeare olde, and begat Arphachsad two yeare after the floude, and lyued therafter fyue hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

Arphachsad was fiue & thirtie yeare olde, and begat Salah, and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thre yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.

Salah was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Eber, & lyued therafter foure hudreth & thre yeare, & begat sonnes and doughters.

Eber was foure and thirtie yeare olde, & begat Peleg, and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thirtie yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.		 Peleg was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Regu, and lyued therafter two hudreth and nyene yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.

Regu was two and thirtie yeare olde, and begat Serug, and lyued therafter two hundreth and seuen yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

Serug was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Nahor, and lyued therafter two hundreth yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.

Nahor was nyene and twentye yeare olde, and begat Terah, and lyued herafter an hundreth and nyentene yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

Terah was seuentie yeare olde, and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.

These are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot, but Hara dyed before Terah his father in ye londe where he was borne, at Vr in Chaldea.

Then Abram and Nahor toke them wyues. Abrams wife was called Sarai, & Nahors wyfe Milca the doughter of Haran, which was father of Milca and Iisca. But Sarai was baren, and had no childe.

Then toke Terah Abra his sonne, & Lot his sonne Harans sonne, & Sarai his doughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, & caried them wt him from Vr in Chaldea, to go in to the lande of Canaan. And they came to Haran, & dwelt there. And Terah was two hundreth & fyue yeare olde, and dyed in Haran.
The XII. Chapter.

And ye LORDE sayde vnto Abram: Get the out of thy countre, and from thy kynred, and out of thy fathers house, in to a londe which I wil shew the. And I wil make of the a mightie people, and wyll blesse the, and make the a greate name, yee thou shalt be a very blessynge. I wil blesse them that blesse the, and curse them that curse the: and in the shal all the generacions of the earth be blessed.

Then wente Abram out, as the LORDE commaunded him, and Lot wente with him. Fyue & seuentie yeare olde was Abra, whan he wente out of Haran. So Abram toke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, wt all their goodes which they had gotten, and soules which they begat in Hara, and departed to go in to ye londe of Canaan. And whe they were come in to the same londe, he wente thorow, tyll he came vnto the place of Sichem, and vnto the Okegroue of More: for ye Cananites dwelt in ye lode at ye same time.

Then the LORDE appeared vnto Abra, & sayde: This londe wil I geue vnto yi sede. And there he buylded an aulter vnto ye LORDE, which appeared vnto him. The brake he vp fro thece, vnto a mountayne yt laye on ye east syde of the cite of Bethel, & pitched his tent: so yt he had Bethel on the west side, and Ay on ye east syde: & there buylded he an altare also vnto the LORDE, & called vpon the name of the LORDE. Afterwarde departed Abram farther, & toke his iourneye southwarde. But there came a derth in the londe.		 Then wente Abram downe in to Egipte to kepe himself there as a straunger, for the derth was sore in the londe. And whan he was come nye for to entre in to Egipte, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: Beholde, I knowe yt thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon. Now whan the Egipcians se the, they wil saye: She is his wife, and so shal they slaye me, and saue the alyue. Therfore (I pray ye) saye thou art my sister, that I maye fare the better by reason of the, and that my soule maye lyue for thy sake. Now whan he came in to Egipte, ye Egipcians sawe ye woman, yt she was very faire: & Pharaos prynces sawe her also, & praysed her before him. Then was she brought in to Pharaos house, and Abram was well intreated for hir sake: and he had shepe, oxe, and he Asses, seruauntes, maydes, she Asses and Camels.

But ye LORDE plaged Pharao & his house wt greate plages, because of Sarai Abras wife. Then Pharao called Abra vnto him, and sayde: Why hast thou dealt thus wt me? Wherfore toldest thou not me at the first, yt she was thy wife? Why saydest thou then, that she was yi sister? Wherfore I toke her to my wife. And now lo, there is yi wife, take her, and go thy waye. He gaue his officers also a charge ouer him, to conveye him out, and his wife, and all that he had.
The XIII. Chapter.

So Abra departed out of Egipte, wt his wife, & with all yt he had, & Lot wt him also, towarde ye south. Abram was very rich in catell, siluer & golde. And he wente on forth from the south vnto Bethel, vnto the place where his tent was at ye first, betwene Bethel and Ay: euen vnto ye place where he had made the altare before, & where he called vpon the name of the LORDE Lot also which wente with him, had shepe, greate catell & tentes: so yt the londe was not able to receaue them, that they might dwell together: for the substaunce of their riches was so greate, that they coude not dwell together. And there fell a strife betwene the hirdmen of Abrams catell, and the hirdmen of Lots catell. The Cananites also and the Pheresites dwelt at that tyme in the londe.

Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: O let there be no strife betwene me and the, and betwene my hyrdmen and thine, for we are brethre. Is not all the whole londe open before the? Departe fro me, I praye the. Yf thou wilt go to the left hande, I wil take the right: Or yf thou wilt go to the right hande, I wil take the left. Then Lot lift vp his eyes, and behelde all the countre rounde aboute Iorda, that it was a plenteous countre of water. For before the LORDE destroyed Sodoma and Gomorra, it was rounde aboute Zoar, euen as the pleasaunt garden of the LORDE, and as the londe of Egipte.		 Then Lot chose all the coastes of Iorda, and toke his iourney towarde ye East. And so the one brother departed from the other. Abram dwelt in the lande of Canaan, and Lot in the cities of the same coastes, and pitched his tent towarde Sodome. But ye men of Sodome were wicked, and synned exceadingly agaynst the LORDE.

Now whan Lot was departed from Abram, the LORDE saide vnto Abram: Lift vp thine eyes, and loke from the place where thou dwellest, northwarde, southwarde, eastwarde, and westwarde: for all the londe that thou seist, wyll I geue vnto the and to thy sede for euer, and wyll make thy sede as the dust of the earth: so that yf a man can nombre the dust of the earth, he shall nombre thy sede also. Arise, and go thorow the londe, in the length and bredth, for I wyl geue it vnto the.

So Abram remoued his tent, and wente and dwelt in ye Okegroue of Mamre, which is in Ebron, and buylded there an altare vnto the LORDE.
The XIIII. Chapter.

And it chaunsed in the tyme of Amraphel the kynge of Synear, Arioch the kynge of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer the kinge of Elam, & Thy deal the kynge of ye Heithen, That they made warre wt Bera ye kynge of Sodome, and wt Birsa the kynge of Gomorra, & with Sineab the kynge of Adama, & with Semeaber the kynge of Zeboim, and with the kynge of Bela, which is called Zoar. These came all together in to the brode valley, where now the salt see is: for twolue yeares were they subiectes vnto kinge Kedorlaomer, & in the thirtenth yeare they fell from him. Therfore in the fourtenth yeare came Kedorlaomer, and the kynges yt were with him, & smote the Giauntes in Astaroth Karnaim, & Susim at Ham, & Emim in the felde of Kiriathaim, and ye Horites in their owne mount Seir vnto the playne of Pharan, which bordreth vpo the wildernes. And then they turned, & came to the well of iudgment (which is Cades) & smote all the countre of the Amalechites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon Thamar.

Then wente out the kynge of Sodome, & the kynge of Gomorra, & the kynge of Adama, and the kynge of Zeboim, and the kynge of Bela (called Zoar) & prepared them selues to fight in the brode valley wt Kedorlaomer the kynge of Elam, & with Thideal ye kynge of the Heithen, & with Amraphel ye kynge of Synear, & with Arioch the kynge of Ellasar: foure kynges wt fyue. And yt brode valley had many slyme pyttes. But the kynge of Sodoma and Gomorra were put to flight, & fell there, & the residue fled vnto ye mountaynes. Then toke they all the goodes at Sodoma and Gomorra, & all their vytales, & wente their waye. They toke Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his good (for he dwelt at Sodome) and departed.		 Then came one that had escaped, and tolde Abram the Aleaunt, which dwelt in the Okegroue of Mamre the Amoryte, which was the brother of Escol & Aner: for these were confederate with Abram.

Now whan Abram herde yt his brother was taken, he harnessed his bonde seruauntes borne in his owne house, thre hundreth & eightene, & folowed after them vntill Dan, & deuyded the, & fell vpo them by night wt his seruauntes, and smote the, and chased them awaye vnto Hoba, which lieth on ye left hande of the cite of Damascos, and brought agayne all the goodes, and also his brother Lot, and his goodes, ye wemen also and the people. And as he came agayne from the slaughter of Kedorlaomer & of the kinges that were with him, the kynge of Sodome wente to mete him in to the playne felde, which is called kynges dale.

But Melchisedech the kynge of Salem brought forth bred and wyne. And he beynge the prest of the most hye God, blessed him and sayde: Blessed be thou Abram vnto the most hye God possessor of heauen and earth. And praysed be God the Hyest, which hath delyuered thine enemies in to thy handes. And Abram gaue him tythes of all.

Then sayde the kynge of Sodome vnto Abram: Geue me the soules, and take ye goodes vnto thy self. But Abram sayde vnto the kinge of Sodome: I lift vp my honde vnto the LORDE the most hye God, possessor of heauen and earth, that I wyll not take of all that is thyne, so moch as a threde or a shue lachet, lest thou shuldest saye: I haue made Abram ryche: Saue onely that which the yonge men haue spent, and the men Aner Escol and Mamre, that wente with me, let them take their parte.
The XV. Chapter.

It happened after these actes, yt the worde of ye LORDE came vnto Abra in a vysion, and sayde: Feare not Abram, I am thy shylde and thy exceadinge greate rewarde. But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, what wilt thou geue me? I go childles, and the seruaunt of my house (this Eleasar of Damascos) hath a sonne. And Abram sayde morouer: Beholde, vnto me hast thou geuen no sede: and lo, the sonne of my housholde shal be myne heyre. And beholde, the worde of the LORDE spake vnto him, and saide: He shal not be thine heyre, but one that shal come out of thine owne body, he shal be thine heyre. And he bad him go forth, and sayde: Loke vp vnto heauen, and tell ye starres: Canst thou nombre them? And he sayde vnto him: Euen so shal thy sede be.

Abram beleued the LORDE, and yt was counted vnto him for righteousnes. And he sayde vnto him: I am ye LORDE, yt brought the from Vr out of Chaldea, to geue ye this londe to possesse it. But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, Wherby shall I knowe, that I shall possesse it? And he sayde vnto him: Take a cow of thre yeare olde, and a she goate of thre yeare olde, and a ramme of thre yeare olde, and a turtyll doue, and a yonge pigeon. And he toke all these, and deuyded them in the myddes, and layde the one parte ouer agaynst the other, but the foules deuyded he not. And the foules fell vpo the flesh, but Abram droue them awaye.		 Now whan the Sonne beganne to go downe, there fell an heuy slepe vpo Abram. And lo, feare and greate darcknes fell vpon him. And he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertye, that thy sede shalbe a strauger, in a londe that is not theirs. And they shall make bonde men of them, and intreate them euell foure hundreth yeares. But the people who they shal serue, wyl I iudge. Afterwarde shall they go forth with greate substaunce: and thou shalt departe vnto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good age. And after the fourth generacion they shall come hither agayne, for the wickednes of ye Amorites is not yet full.

So whan the Sonne was downe, and it was waxed darcke: Beholde, there smoked a fornace, and a fyre brande wente betwene ye partes. The same daye made the LORDE a couenaut with Abram, and sayde: Vnto thy sede wil I geue this lode, from the water of Egipte, vnto the greate water Euphrates: the Kenytes, the Kenizites, the Kydmonites, the Hethites, the Pherezites, the Giauntes, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Gergesites, and the Iebusites.
The XVI. Chapter.

Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children: but she had an handmayde an Egipcian, whose name was Agar, and sayde vnto Abram: Beholde, the LORDE hath closed me, that I can not beare. Go in (I praye the) vnto my mayde: peraduenture I shalbe multiplied by her, more then by myself. And Abram herkened vnto the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai Abrams wife toke Agar hir mayde ye Egipcian (after they had dwelt ten yeare in the londe of Canaan) and gaue her vnto hir hußbande Abra, to be his wife. And he wente in vnto Agar, and she conceaued. Now whan she sawe yt she had conceyued, she despysed hir mastresse.

Then sayde Sarai vnto Abram: I must suffre wronge for thy sake. I layde my mayde by the: but now because she seyth, that she hath conceaued, I must be despysed in hir sight: the LORDE be iudge betwene me and the. And Abram sayde vnto Sarai: Beholde, thy mayde is vnder thine auctorite, do with her, as it pleaseth the.

Now whan Sarai dealt hardly wt her, she fled from her. But the angell of the LORDE founde her besyde a well of water in the wildernesse (euen by the well in the waye to Sur) and sayde vnto her: Agar Sarais maide, whence commest thou? & whyther wylt thou go? She sayde: I fle fro my mastresse Sarai. And the angel of the LORDE sayde vnto her: Returne to thy mastresse agayne, and submitte thyself vnder hir hande.		 And the angel of the LORDE sayde vnto her: Beholde, I wil so encreace yi sede, that it shall not be nombred for multitude. And the angel of the LORDE sayde further vnto her: Beholde, thou art with childe, & shalt bringe forth a sonne, and shalt call his name Ismael, because the LORDE hath herde yi trouble. He shal be a wylde man. His hande agaynst euery man, and euery mans hande agaynst him: and he shal dwel ouer agaynst all his brethren.

And she called the name of the LORDE yt spake vnto her: Thou art the God that seist me. For she sayde: Of a suertye I haue sene the back partes of him that sawe me. Therfore called she the well: The well of the liuinge that sawe me. Which (well) is betwene Cades and Bared.

And Agar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name which Agar bare him, Ismael. And Abram was foure score yeare olde and sixe, whan Agar bare him Ismael.
The XVII. Chapter.

Now whan Abram was nyentye yeare olde and nyene, the LORDE appeared vnto him, & sayde vnto him: I am the allmightie God, walke before me, & be vncorrupte. And I wyll make my couenaunt betwene me & the, and wyl multiplye the exceadyngly. Then fell Abram vpon his face.

And God talked furthur, with him, and sayde: Beholde, It is I, and haue my couenaut with the, and thou shalt be a father of many people. Therfore shalt thou nomore be called Abram, but thy name shal be Abraham: For I haue made the a father of many nacions, & I wil multiplye the exceadingly, and wil make people of ye, yee and kynges also shal come out of the. Morouer I wil make my couenaut betwene me and the, and thy sede after the thorow out their posterities, that it maye be an euerlastinge couenaunt, so that I wyll be the God of the, and of thy sede after the. And vnto the and to thy sede after the, will I geue the lande, wherin thou art a straunger: euen all the lande of Canaan for an euerlastinge possession, and will be their God.

And God sayde morouer vnto Abraham: Kepe my couenaunt then, thou and they sede after the. This is my couenaunt which ye shal kepe betwene me and you, and thy sede after ye thorow out their posterites. Euery manchilde that is amonge you, shalbe circumcyded: and ye shall circumcyde the foreskynne of yor flesh. This same shalbe a token of the couenaunt betwene me and you. Euery manchilde whan it is eight dayes olde, shalbe circucyded thorow out youre posterities: In like maner all houßholde folkes borne at home, or bought, or eny other also that is a strauger and not of thy sede. Thus shall my couenaunt be in youre flesh for an euerlastinge couenaunt. And yf there shalbe any manchilde vncircumcided in the foreskinne of his flesh, his soule shalbe roted out from his people, because he hath broken my couenaunt.		 And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai, but Sara shal be hir name: for I will blesse her, and geue the a sonne of her. I wil blesse her, and people shall come of her, yee and kynges of many people. Then fell Abraha vpo his face, and laughed, and sayde in his hert: Shal a childe be borne vnto me that am an hundreth yeare olde? And shall Sara yt is nyentie yeare olde, beare? And Abraha sayde vnto God: O that Israel might lyue in thy sight. Then sayde God: Yee euen Sara thy wyfe shall beare the a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: for with him wil I make my euerlastinge couenaunt, and with his sede after him. And as concernynge Ismael also, I haue herde thy request: Beholde, I haue blessed him, and will increase him, and multiplye him exceadingly. Twolue prynces shal he beget, and I wyll make a greate nacion of him.

But my couenaunt wyll I make wt Isaac, whom Sara shal beare vnto the, eue this tyme twolue moneth. And he left of talkynge with him, and God wente vp from Abraham. Than toke Abraham his sonne Ismael, and all the seruauntes borne in his house, and all that were bought, (as many as were men children in his house,) and circumcyded the foreskynne of their flesh, euen the same daye, as God had sayde vnto him. And Abraham was nyentie yeare olde and nyne, whan he cut of the foreskynne of his flesh. As for Ismael, he was thirtene yeare olde, whan the foreskynne of his flesh was circumcyded. Euen vpon one daye were they all circumcyded: Abraham, and Ismael his sonne, and all the men in his house, (whether they were borne at home, bought, or eny other straunger:) they were all circumcyded with him.
The XVIII. Chapter.

Annd the LORDE apeared vnto him in the Okegroue of Mamre, as he sat in his tent dore in the heate of ye daie. And as he lift vp his eyes, and loked, beholde, there stode thre men ouer agaynst him. And whan he sawe them, he ranne to mete them from his tent dore, and bowed him self downe vpon the grounde, and sayde: LORDE, yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight, go not by yi seruaut. There shalbe brought you a litle water, & ye shall wash yor fete, & rest youre selues vnder the tre. And I wyll fet you a morsell of bred, to comforte youre hertes withall, and then shall ye go youre wayes, for therfore are ye come to youre seruaunt. They sayde: do euen so as thou hast spoken:

Abraham wente a pace in to the tent to Sara, and sayde: Make haist, & mengle thre peckes of fyne meele, knede it, and bake cakes. And he ranne to the beastes, & fet a calf that was tender and good, and gaue it vnto a yonge man, which made it ready at once. And he toke butter and mylke and of the calfe that he had prepared, and set it before the, stode him self by them vnder the tre, & they ate. Then saide they vnto him: where is Sara thy wyfe? He answered: within in ye tent. Then sayde he: aboute this tyme twolue moneth, (yf I lyue) I will come to the agayne, and Sara thy wyfe shal haue a sonne. And Sara herde that out of the tent dore, which was behynde his backe. And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age: so that it wente nomore with Sara after ye maner of wemen: therfore laughed she within hir self, and sayde: Now that I am olde & my lorde olde also, shal I yet geue my self to lust?

Then sayde ye LORDE vnto Abraham: Wherfore doth Sara laugh, and saye: Is this true in dede, that I shal beare, and yet am olde? Shulde eny soch thinge be to harde for the LORDE? Aboute this tyme (yf I lyue) I wil come to the agayne, & Sara shal haue a sonne. Then Sara denyed it, and sayde: I laughed not, for she was afrayed. But he sayde: It is not so, thou dyddest laughe. Then the men stode vp from thence, and turned them towarde Sodome: and Abraham wente with them, to brynge them on their waye.		 Then sayde the LORDE: How can I hyde from Abraham, ye thinge that I wil do? seynge he shal be a greate and mightie people, and all ye people vpo earth shalbe blessed in him? For I knewe him that he wil comaunde his children and his housholde after him, to kepe the waye of ye LORDE, and to do after right and conscience, that the LORDE maye bringe vpo Abraham what he hath promised him. And the LORDE sayde: There is a crie at Sodome and Gomorra, which is greate, & their synnes are exceadinge greuous: therfore will I go downe & se, whether they haue done all together, acordinge to that crye, which is come before me, or not, that I maye knowe. And the men turned their face, and wete towarde Sodome. But Abraham stode still before ye LORDE, and stepte vnto him, and sayde:

Wilt thou then destroye the righteous with the vngodly? Peradueture there maye be fiftie righteous within ye cite: wilt thou destroye those, and not spare the place, for fiftie righteous sake that are therin? That be farre fro the, yt thou shuldest do this, and to slaye the righteous with the vngodly, and that the righteous shulde be as the vngodly. That be farre from the. Shulde not the iudge of all the worlde do acordinge to right? And the LORDE sayde: Yf I fynde fiftie righteous at Sodome in the cite, I wil spare all the place for their sakes.

Abraham answered, and sayde: O se, I haue taken vpon me to speake vnto the LORDE, howbeit I am but dust and asshes. Peraduenture there maye be fyue lesse then fiftie righteous therin: Wilt thou then destroye the whole cite because of those fyue? He sayde: yf I fynde fyue and fourtie therin, I will not destroye them?

And he proceded further to speake vnto him, and sayde: Peraduenture there might be fourtie founde therin. And he sayde: I wil do nothinge vnto them for those fourtyes sake. Abraham sayde: Oh let not my LORDE be angrie, that I speake yet more. Peradueture there might be thirtie founde therin. And he sayde: Yf I fynde thirtie therin, I will do nothinge vnto them. And he sayde: O se, I haue taken vpon me to speake vnto my LORDE.

Peradueture there might be twetie founde therin. He answered: I wyll not destroye them for those twentyes sake. And sayde: O let not my LORDE be angrie, that I speake yet once more. Peraduenture there might be ten founde therin. He saide: I wil not destroye them for those ten sake.

And the LORDE wente his waye, whan he had left talkynge with Abraham. And Abraham returned vnto his place.
The XIX. Chapter.

In the euenynge came the two angels vnto Sodome. And Lot sat vnder the gate of the cite. And whe he sawe them, he rose vp for to mete them, and bowed him self downe to the grounde vpon his face, & sayde: Se lordes, turne in (I praye you) in to youre seruauntes house, and tarye all night: let youre fete be waßshen, so maye ye ryse tomorow by tymes, and go youre waye. Neuertheles they sayde: Nay, but we wyll byde in the stretes all night. Then compelled he them sore: and they turned in vnto him, and came in to his house. And he made them a feast, and baked swete cakes, and they ate.

But before they wente to rest, the men of the cite of Sodome came and compased the house rounde aboute, yonge and olde, all the people from all quarters, and called Lot, and sayde vnto him: Where are the me that came vnto the to night? Bringe them out here vnto vs, that we maye knowe them.

And Lot wente out at the dore vnto the, and shut the dore after him, and sayde: O brethren, do not so wickedly. Beholde, I haue two doughters, which yet haue knowne no man: them will I brynge out vnto you, do with them as it liketh you. Onely do nothinge vnto these men of God, for therfore are they come vnder the shadowe of my rofe. But they sayde: Come thou hither. Then sayde they: Camest not thou onely herin as a straunger, and wilt thou now be a iudge? Wel, we will deale worse with the the with them.

And they pressed sore vpon ye man Lot. And whan they ranne to, and wolde haue broken vp the dore, the men put out their hondes, and pulled Lot vnto them in to the house, and shut to the dore. And the men at ye dore of the house were smytte with blyndnesse both small and greate, so that they coude not fynde the dore.

And ye men saide vnto Lot: Hast thou yet here eny sonne in lawe, or sonnes or doughters? Who so euer belongeth vnto the in the cite, brynge him out of this place: for we must destroye this place, because the crye of them is greate before the LORDE, which hath sent vs to destroye them. Then wente Lot forth, and spake to his sonnes in lawe, which shulde haue maried his doughters, and sayde: O stonde vp, and get you out of this place, for the LORDE wyll destroye this cite. Neuertheles they toke it but for a sporte.

Now whan the mornynge arose, the angels caused Lot to spede him, and sayde: Stonde vp, take thy wife & thy two doughters which are at hande, that thou also perishe not in the synne of this cite. But whyle he prolonged the tyme, the men caught him and his wife, and his two doughters by the hande (because the LORDE was mercifull vnto him,) and brought him forth, & set him without the cite.		 And whe they had brought him out, they sayde: Saue thy soule, and loke not behynde the, nether stonde thou in all this countre: Saue thy self vpon the mountayne, that thou perish not. Then sayde Lot vnto the: Oh no my LORDE, beholde, in as moch as thy seruaut hath founde grace in thy sight, now make ye mercy greate, which thou hast shewed vnto me, in that thou sauest my soule alyue. I can not saue my self vpon the mountayne. There might some mysfortune fall vpon me, that I shulde dye. Beholde, here is a cite by, that I maye flye vnto, and it is a litle one: let me saue myself there in. Is it not a litle one, that my soule maye lyue?

Then sayde he vnto him: Beholde, I haue loked vpon the in this poynte also, that I will not ouerthrowe the cite, wherof thou hast spoken. Haist the, and saue thy self there: for I can do nothinge tyll thou be come thither. Therfore is the cite called Zoar. And the Sonne was vp vpon the earth, whan Lot came in to Zoar.

Then the LORDE caused brymstone and fyre to rayne downe from the LORDE out of heauen vpon Sodoma and Gomorra, and ouerthrew those cities, the whole region, and all that dwelt in the cities, and that that grew vpon the earth. And his wife loked behynde her, and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Abraham rose vp early in the mornynge, and gat him vnto the place, where he had stonde before the LORDE, and turned his face towarde Sodoma and Gomorra, and all ye londe of that countre, and loked. And beholde, there rose vp a smoke from ye countre, as it had bene ye smoke of a fornace. For whan God destroyed ye cities of the region, he thought vpon Abraham, and conueyed Lot out of the cities which he ouerthrew, wherin Lot dwelt.

And Lot departed out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountaynes with both his daughters (for he was afrayed to tary at Zoar) and so remayned he in a caue wt both his daughters.

Then sayde ye elder vnto the yonger: Oure father is olde, and there is not a man more vpon earth, that can come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde. Come therfore, let vs geue oure father wyne to drynke, and lye with him, that we maye saue sede of oure father. So they gaue their father wyne to drynke that same night. And the elder doughter wente in, and laye with hir father: and he perceaued it not, nether when she laye downe, ner when she rose vp. On the morow the elder sayde vnto the yonger: Beholde, yesternight laye I with my father: let vs geue him wyne to drynke this night also: that thou mayest go in and lye with him, that we maye saue sede of oure father. So they gaue their father wyne to drynke that night also: And the yonger arose like wyse, and laye with him: & he perceaued it not, nether when she laye downe, ner when she rose vp.

Thus were both the doughters of Lot with childe by their father. And the elder bare a sonne, and called him Moab, of whom come ye Moabytes vnto this daye. And ye yonger bare a sonne also, and called him the sonne Ammi, of whom come the children of Ammon vnto this daye.
The XX. Chapter.

As for Abraham, he departed thence, into the south countre, and dwelt betwixte Cades and Sur, and was a straunger at Gerar, and sayde of Sara his wife: She is my sister. Then Abimelech the kinge of Gerar sent for her, and caused her be fett awaye.

But God came to Abimelech by night in a dreame, & sayde vnto him: Beholde, thou art but a deed man, for the womans sake which thou hast taken, for she is a mans wife. Neuertheles Abimelech had not yet touched her, and sayde: LORDE, wilt thou sley a righteous people? Sayde not he vnto me: she is my sister? Yee and sayde not she her self also: he is my brother? With a pure hert & with innocent handes haue I done this.

And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I knowe that thou dyddest it wt a pure hert, and therfore I kepte the, that thou shuldest not synne agaynst me, nether haue I suffred the to touch her. Now therfore delyuer the man his wife ageyne, for he is a prophet: and let him pray for ye, and thou shalt lyue. But and yf thou delyuer her not ageyne, be sure, that thou shalt dye the death, and all that is thine.		 Then Abimelech rose vp by tymes in the mornynge, and called all his seruauntes, and tolde all these thinges in their eares, and the men were sore afrayed, and Abimelech called Abraham, and sayde vnto him: Wherfore hast thou done this vnto vs? And what haue I offended ye, that thou shuldest brynge on me and on my kyngdome so greate a synne? Thou hast not dealt with vs, as a man shulde deale. And Abimelech saide morouer vnto Abraham: What sawest thou, yt thou hast done this thinge?

Abraham sayde: I thought: Peraduenture there is no feare of God in this place, & they shall sleye me for my wifes sake, And of a trueth she is my sister, for she is my fathers doughter, but not my mothers doughter, and is become my wife. So whan God charged me to wadre out of my fathers house, I sayde vnto her: Shew this kyndnes vpon me, that, where so euer we come, thou saye of me, that I am thy brother.

Then toke Abimelech shepe and oxen, seruauntes and maydens, and gaue them vnto Abraham, and delyuered him Sara his wife agayne, and sayde: Beholde, my londe stondeth open before the, dwell where it liketh the. And vnto Sara he sayde: Beholde, I haue geuen thy brother a thousande syluer pens: lo, he shalbe vnto the a couerynge of the eyes, for all that are with the, and euery where, and a sure excuse.

As for Abraham, he prayed vnto God: Then God healed Abimelech, and his wyfe, and his maydens, so that they bare childre. For a fore the LORDE had closed all the matrices of Abimelechs house, because of Sara Abrahams wife.
The XXI. Chapter.

The LORDE also vysited Sara, acordinge as he had promysed: & dealt with her, euen as he had sayde. And Sara was with childe, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen in the tyme appoynted, like as God had spoken vnto him afore. And Abraham called his sonne which was borne vnto him (who Sara bare him) Isaac, and circumcided him the eight daye, like as God commaunded him. An hundreth yeare olde was Abraha, whan his sonne Isaac was borne vnto him.

And Sara sayde: God hath prepared a ioye for me, for who so euer heareth of it, wyll reioyse with me. She sayde morouer: Who wolde haue saide vnto Abraham, that Sara shulde geue children sucke, and beare him a sonne in his olde age? And the childe grew, and was weened. And Abraham made a greate feast, in ye daye whan Isaac was weened.

And Sara sawe the sonne of Agar the Egipcian (whom she had borne vnto Abraham) that he was a mocker, and sayde vnto Abraham: Cast out this bonde mayden and hir sonne, for this bonde maydes sonne shall not be heyre wt my sonne Isaac. This worde displeased Abraham sore, because of his sonne.

Neuertheles God sayde vnto him: let it not displease the because of the childe and the hand mayde: What so euer Sara hath sayde vnto the, folowe it, for in Isaac shall the sede be called vnto the. As for the honde maydens sonne, I wyll make a people of him also, because he is of thy sede.

Then Abraham rose vp early in the mornynge, and toke bred and a botell with water, and put it vpon Agars shulders, and gaue her the childe, and sent her awaye. Then departed she, and wandred out of the waye in ye wyldernes beside Berseba. Now whan the water in the botell was out, she layed the childe vnder a bush, and wente, and sat hir downe ouer on ye other syde, a bowe shote of. For she sayde: I can not se the childe dye. And she sat hir downe ouer on ye other syde, and lifte vp hir voyce, and wepte.		 Then God herde the voyce of the childe, and the angell of God called vnto Agar out of heauen, and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the, Agar? Feare not, for God hath herde ye voyce of the childe, where he lyeth. Aryse and take the childe, and holde him by the hande, for I wyll make a greate people of him. And God opened hir eyes, that she sawe a well of water.

Then wente she and fylled ye botell with water, and gaue ye childe drynke. And God was with the childe, which grew vp, and dwelt in ye wildernes, and became a connynge archer, and dwelt in ye wildernes of Pharan, and his mother toke him a wyfe out of the londe of Egipte.

At the same tyme talked Abimelech and Phicol his chefe captayne with Abraham, and sayde: God is with the in all that thou doest. Therfore sweare now vnto me by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, ner my children, ner my childers children: but that thou shalt shewe vnto me (and to the londe wherin thou art a straunger) the same kyndnesse that I haue done vnto the.

Then sayde Abraham: I wyll sweare. And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for the well of water, which Abimelechs seruauntes had taken awaye by violence. Then answered Abimelech: I knewe not who dyd it, nether dyddest thou tell me, and I haue not herde of it but this daye. The toke Abraham shepe and oxen, and gaue them vnto Abimelech, and they both made a bonde together. And Abraham set seuen lambes by them selues. Then sayde Abimelech vnto Abraha: What meane those seuen lambes, which thou hast set by them selues? He answered: seue lambes shalt thou take of my hande, that they maye be wytnes vnto me, that I haue dygged this well. Therfore is the place called Berseba, because they sware there both together. And so they made the bonde at Berseba.

Then rose Abimelech and Phicol his chefe captayne, and departed agayne in to the londe of ye Philistynes. And Abraham planted trees at Berseba, and called vpon the name of the LORDE ye euerlastinge God, and was a straunger in ye londe of the Philistynes a longe season.
The XXII. Chapter.

After these actes God tempted Abraham, and sayde vnto him: Abraham. And he answered: I am here. And he sayde: Take ye sonne, this onely sonne of thine, eue Isaac whom thou louest, and go thy waye in to the londe of Moria, & offre him there for a burntofferynge, vpon a mountayne that I shal shew the. Then Abraham stode vp by tymes in the mornynge, and sadled his Asse, and toke with him two yonge men, and his sonne Isaac, and cloue wodd for the brentofferynge, gat him vp, and wente on vnto the place, wherof the LORDE had sayde vnto him.

Vpon the thirde daye Abraham lift vp his eyes, and sawe the place a farre of, and sayde vnto his yonge me: Tary ye here with the Asse: as for me and the childe, we wyl go yonder: and whan we haue worshipped, we wyll come to you againe. And Abraha toke the wodd to the brentofferynge, and layed it vpon Isaac his sonne. As for him self, he toke the fyre and a knyfe in his hande, and wente on both together.

Then sayde Isaac vnto his father Abraham: My father. Abraham answered: here I am, my sonne. And he sayde: lo, here is fyre and wodd, but where is the shepe for the brentofferynge? Abraham answered: My sonne, God shall prouyde him a shepe for the brentofferynge. And they wente both together.

And whan they came to the place which God shewed him, Abraham buylded there an altare, and layed the wodd vpon it, and bande his sonne Isaac, layed him on the altare, aboue vpo the wodd, and stretched out his hande, and toke the knyfe, to haue slayne his sonne.		 Then the angell of the LORDE called from heauen vnto him, and sayde: Abraham Abraham. He answered: here am I. He sayde: Laye not thy handes vpon the childe, & do nothinge vnto him: for now I knowe that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thine onely sonne for my sake. Then Abraham lift vp his eyes, and sawe behynde him a ramme, holde fast by the hornes in the breres, and wente, and toke the ramme, and offred him for a brent sacrifice, in steade of his sonne. And Abraham called the place. The LORDE shall prouyde. Therfore it is a comon sayenge yet this daye: Vpon the mountayne shal the LORDE prouyde.

And the angell of the LORDE cryed vnto Abraham from heauen the seconde tymy, and sayde: I haue sworen by myne owne self (sayeth the LORDE) that for so moch as thou hast done this, and hast not spared thine onely sonne, I wyll prospere and multiplye thy sede as the starres of heauen, and as the sonde vpon the see shore. And thy sede shall possesse the gates of his enemies: and in thy sede shal all the nacions of the earth be blessed, because thou hast herkened vnto my voyce. So Abraham turned ageyne to the yonge men, and they gat vp, and wente together vnto Berseba, and dwelt there.

After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor: namely, Hus ye eldest, and Bus his brother, and Kemnel, of whom came the Syrians: and Cesed, and Haso, and Pildas, and Iedlaph and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eight dyd Milca beare vnto Nahor Abrahams brother. And his concubyne called Rehuma, bare also: namely, Theba, Sahan, Thahas, and Maacha.
The XXIII. Chapter.

Sara was an hundreth and seue and twentye yeare olde: so longe lyued she, and dyed in the head cite which is called Hebron, in the lande of Canaan. Then wente Abraham, to mourne and wepe for her. Afterwarde he stode vp from his coarse, and talked with the Hethites, & sayde: I am a strauger and an indweller amonge you, geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I maye bury my coarse by me.

Then the Hethites answered Abraham, and sayde vnto him: O heare lorde, thou art a prynce of God amonge vs: bury thy dead in the best of oure sepulcres, there shall none of vs forbyd ye, that thou shuldest not bury thy deed in his sepulcre. Then Abraham stode vp, and thanked the people of ye londe: namely the Hethites.

And he talked with them, and sayde: Yf it be youre wyll that I burye my coarse by me, heare me the, & speake for me to Ephron the sonne of Zoar, that he maye geue me the dubble caue, which he hath in ye ende of his felde. For a reasonable money let him geue it me, for a possession to burye in amoge you. For Ephron dwelt amonge the Hethites. Then answered Ephron the Hethite vnto Abraham, that the Hethites might heare, before all that wente out and in at the gates of his cite, and sayde: No my lorde, but heare me: As for the felde, and the caue also that is therin, I geue it the: and in the sight of my people I geue it the, to burye thy deed in.		 Then Abraham thanked the people of the londe, and talked with Ephron, that the people of the londe might heare, and sayde: Heare me then, Receaue of me the money that I geue the for the felde, and so wyll I burye my deed there.

Ephron answered Abraham, and sayde vnto him: Heare me my lorde: The felde is worth foure hundreth Sycles of syluer: but what is that betwixte me and the? Burye thy deed. Abraham herkened vnto Ephron, and weyed him the money which he had sayde, that the Hethites might heare: namely foure hundreth syluer sycles of currant money amonge marchauntes.

Thus Ephrons felde (where in the dubble caue is) which lyeth ouer before Mamre, euen the felde and the caue, was made sure for Abrahams owne good, with all the trees of the felde also rounde aboute, in the sight of the Hethites, and of all that go out and in at the gates of his cite. Then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the dubble caue of the felde, that lyeth ouer before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the londe of Canaan. So the felde and the caue therin was made sure of the Hethites vnto Abraham, for a possession to bury in.
The XXIIII. Chapter.

Abraham was olde and well stricken in age, and the LORDE had blessed him in all thinges. And he sayde vnto his eldest seruaunt of his house, which had the rule of all his goodes: Laye thine hade vnder my thye, that I maye make the sweare by ye LORDE the God of heauen and earth, that thou take no wife vnto my sonne amonge ye doughters of ye Cananites, (amonge whom I dwell) but that thou go in to my countre? and to myne owne kynred, and brynge my sonne Isaac a wife.

The seruaunt sayde: What and the woman wyl not folowe me in to this countre? shal I then cary thy sonne agayne in to yonder londe, where thou camest out of? Abraham sayde vnto him: Beware of that, that thou brynge not my sonne thither agayne. The LORDE, the God of heauen, which toke me fro my fathers house and from the londe of my kynred, and that talked with me, and sware also vnto me, and sayde: Vnto yi sede wyll I geue this londe: Euen he shall sende his angell before the, that thou maiest brynge my sonne a wife from thence. But yf the woman wyll not folowe the, thou art discharged of this ooth: onely brynge not my sonne thither agayne. Then ye seruaunt layed his hade vnder his master Abrahams thye, and sware the same vnto him.

So the seruaunt toke ten Camels of the Camels of his master and departed, and had wt him of all maner of goodes of his master, and gat him vp, and departed vnto Mesopotamia, to the cite of Nahor. Then let he the Camels lye downe without before the cite besyde a well of water in the euenynge, aboute the tyme that the wemen vsed to go forth, and to drawe water. And he sayde:

O LORDE, thou God of my master Abraham, mete me to daye, and shew mercy vnto my master Abraham. Lo, I stonde here besyde the well of water, & the mens doughters of this cite wyll come forth to drawe water: Now yf there come a damsell, to whom I saye: bowe downe thy pytcher, & let me drynke, and yf she saye: drynke, and I wyll geue ye Camels drynke also: That ye same be she, whom thou hast prouyded for thy seruaunt Isaac: & that I maye knowe by ye same that thou hast shewed mercy vpon my master. And or euer he had left of speakynge, beholde, Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel (which was the sonne of Milca, that was the wyfe of Nahor Abrahams brother) came forth, and bare a pytcher vpon hir shulder, and she was a very fayre damsell of face, and yet a virgin, and vnknowne of eny man: She wente downe to the well, and fylled hir pitcher, and came vp agayne. Then ranne the seruaunt to mete her, and sayde: Let me drynke a litle water out of yi pitcher. And she sayde: drynke syr.

And haistely let she downe the pitcher in hir hande, and gaue him drynke. And whan she had geuen him drynke, she sayde: I wyll drawe for thy Camels also, tyll they haue dronke ynough. And she made haist, and poured out hir pitcher in to the trough, and ranne agayne to the well to drawe, and drew for all his Camels. The ma marueyled at her, and helde his tonge, tyll he knewe whether the LORDE had prospered his iourney or not.

Now whan the Camels had all dronken, he toke a golde earynge of half a Sycle weight, and two bracelettes for hir handes, weynge ten Sycles of golde, and sayde: Doughter, whose art thou? tell me. Is there rowme for vs in thy fathers house to lodge in? She sayde vnto him: I am the doughter of Bethuel, the sonne of Mylca, whom she bare vnto Nahor. And sayde morouer vnto him: We haue plentye of litter and prouender, and rowme ynough to lodge in.

Then the man bowed himself, and thanked the LORDE, and sayde: Praysed be the LORDE the God of my master Abraham, which hath not withdrawen his mercy and his trueth fro my master, for the LORDE hath brought me the waye to my masters brothers house. And the damsell ranne and tolde all this in hir mothers house. And Rebecca had a brother called Laban.

And Laban ranne to the man without by the well syde: and that came by the reason that he sawe the earynges, and the bracelettes vpon his sisters handes, and herde the wordes of Rebecca his syster, that she sayde: thus spake the man vnto me.

And whan he came to the man, beholde, he stode by the Camels at the well syde. And he sayde: Come in thou blessed of the LORDE, wherfore stondest thou without? I haue dressed the house, and made rowme for ye Camels. So he brought the man in to ye house, and vnbridled the Camels, and gaue them litter and prouender, and water to wash his fete, and the mens that were with him, and set meate before him.		 Neuertheles he sayde: I wil not eate, tyll I haue fyrst tolde myne earade. They answered: Tell on. He sayde: I am Abrahams seruaunt, and the LORDE hath prospered my master richely, so yt he is become greate: and he hath geuen him shepe and oxe, syluer and golde, seruauntes and maidens, Camels and Asses: yee and Sara my masters wife hath borne my master a sonne in hir olde age: vnto him hath he geuen all that he hath.

And my master hath taken an ooth of me and saide: Thou shalt not take a wife for my sonne amonge the doughters of the Cananites, in whose lande I dwell, but go yi waye to my fathers house and to myne owne kynred, and there take a wyfe for my sonne. But I sayde vnto my master: What and the woman wyl not folowe me? Then sayde he vnto me: The LORDE (before whom I walke) shall sende his angell with the, and prospere thy iourney, that thou mayest take a wife for my sonne of myne owne kynred, and of my fathers house. And so whan thou commest to my kynred, yf they geue her not vnto ye, thou shalt be discharged of myne oothe.

So I came this daye vnto the well of water, and sayde: O LORDE thou God of my master Abraham, Yf thou hast prospered my iourney that I go: Beholde, I stonde here by the well of water: Now yf there come forth a virgin to draw water, and I saye vnto her: geue me a litle water to drinke out of thy pitcher, and she saye vnto me: Drynke thou, and I wyll drawe water for thy Camels also: that the same be the woma, which the LORDE hath prouyded for my masters sonne. Now or euer I had spoken out these wordes in my hert, beholde, Rebecca commeth forth with a pitcher vpon hir shulder, and goeth downe to the well, and draweth.

Then sayde I: geue me a drynke. And immediatly she toke downe the pitcher fro hir shulder, and sayde: drynke, and I wyll geue thy Camels drynke also. So I dranke, and she gaue the Camels also to drynke. And I axed her, and sayde: Doughter, whose art thou? She answered: I am ye doughter of Bethuel the sonne of Nahor, whom Milca bare vnto him. Then layed I the earinge vpon hir face, and the bracelettes vpon hir handes, and bowed myself, and thanked the LORDE, and praysed the God of my master Abraham, which had brought me ye right waye, to take my masters brothers doughters vnto his sonne.

Yf ye be they then that shew mercy and faithfulnes vnto my master, tell me: Yf not, yet tell me, that I maye turne me to ye right hande or to the left.

Then answered Laban and Bethuel, and sayde: This is come of the LORDE, therfore can we saye nothinge agaynst the, nether euell ner good. There is Rebecca before the, take her, and go thy waye, that she maye be thy masters sonnes wife, as the LORDE hath sayde. When Abrahams seruaunt herde these wordes, he bowed him self vnto the LORDE flat vpon the earth, and toke forth Iewels of syluer and golde, and rayment, and gaue them vnto Rebecca. But vnto hir brethren and the mother, he gaue spyces. Then he ate and dronke, and the men also that were with him, and caried there all night.

But in the mornynge he arose, and sayde: Let me departe vnto my master. Neuerthelesse hir brother and hir mother sayde: Let the damsell tary with vs at the leest ten dayes, and then shall she go. Then sayde he vnto them: holde me not, for the LORDE hath prospered my iourney: let me go, that I maye departe vnto my master. Then sayde they: let vs call the damsell, and axe her, what she sayeth therto. And they called Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: Wilt thou go with this man?

And she answered: Yee I wyll go with him. So they let Rebecca their syster go with hir norse and Abrahams seruaunt, and his men. And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: Thou art oure syster, growe in to many thousande tymes thousandes, and thy sede possesse the gates of his enemies.

So Rebecca gat hir vp wt hir damsels, and satt them vpon the Camels, and wente their waye after the man. And the seruaunt toke Rebecca, and departed.

As for Isaac, he was commynge from the well of ye liuynge & seynge, for he dwelt in the south countre, and was gone forth to his meditacions in the felde aboute the euen tyde. And he lift vp his eyes, and sawe, that there were Camels commynge. And Rebecca lift vp hir eyes, and sawe Isaac. Then lighted she of the Camell, and sayde vnto ye seruaunt: What man is this, that commeth agaynst vs in the felde? The seruaut sayde: The same is my master.

Then toke she hir cloke, and put it aboute her. And the seruaunt tolde Isaac all the earande that he had done. Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Saras tent, and toke Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loued her. So Isaac was comforted ouer his mother.
The XXV. Chapter.

Abraham toke another wife called Ketura, which bare him Simram & Iaksan, Medan & Midian, Ießbak and Suah. Iaksan begat Seba and Dedan. The children of Dedan were Assurim, Latusim, and Leumim. The children of Midian were Epha, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaa. All these are the children of Ketura. And Abraham gaue all his goodes vnto Isaac: As for the children that he had of the concubynes, he gaue them giftes, and (whyle he yet lyued) he sent the awaye from his sonne Isaac, eastwarde in to the east countre.

This is the age of Abraham which he lyued: euen an hundreth and fyue and seuentye yeare, and fell sicke and dyed in a good age, whan he was olde, & had lyued ynough and was gathered vnto his people. And his sonnes Isaac and Ismael buried him in the dubble caue in the felde of Ephron the sonne of Zoar the Hethite, which lyeth ouer before Mamre, in the felde that Abraham bought of the Hethites. There was Abraham buried with Sara his wife. And after the death of Abraham God blessed his sonne Isaac. And he dwelt by the well of the lyuynge and seynge.

This is the generacion of Ismael Abrahams sonne, whom Agar Saras mayde the Egipcian bare vnto him. And these are the names of Ismaels children, of whom their kynredes are named. The eldest sonne of Ismael, Nebaioth, Cedar, Abdeel, Mibsan, Misma, Duma, Masa, Hadar, Thema, Iethur, Naphis and Kedma. These are the childre of Ismael with their names in their courtes and cities twolue londeprynces. And this is the age of Ismael, euen an hundreth and seuen and thirtie yeare, and he fell sicke and dyed, and was gathered vnto his people. He dwelt from Heuila vnto Sur towarde Egipte, as men go to the Assirians And he dyed in the presence of all his brethren. This is the generacion of Isaac the sonne of Abraha. Abraham begat Isaac. Isaac was fourtye yeare olde, whan he toke to wyfe Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel ye Syrian of Mesopotamia, & Sister of Laban the Syrian.		 Isaac besought the LORDE for his wyfe (because she was baren) and the LORDE was intreated, and Rebecca his wyfe conceaued. And the children stroue totogether in her wombe. Then sayde she: Yf it shulde go so with me, why am I then wt childe? And she wente for to axe the LORDE. And the LORDE sayde vnto her: Two maner of folke are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shall be deuyded out of thy body, and the one nacion shall ouercome the other, and the greater shall serue the lesse.

Now whan the tyme came that she shulde be delyuered, beholde, there were two twyns in hir wombe. The first that came forth, was reed, all rough as an hyde, and they called him Esau. Anone therafter came his brother forth, which helde the hele of Esau with his hade, and they called him Iacob. Thre score yeare olde was Isaac, whan they were borne. And whan the boies were growne vp, Esau became an hunter, & an hußbande man. As for Iacob, he was a symple man, and dwelt in the tentes. And Isaac loued Esau, because he ate of his venison. But Rebecca loued Iacob.

And Iacob dight a meace of meate. The came Esau from the felde, and was weery, and sayde vnto Iacob: Let me proue of yt reed meace of meate, for I am fayntie (therfore is he called Edom.) But Iacob sayde: Sell me this daye thy byrthright. Esau answered: Lo, I must dye neuerthelesse, what good then shall my byrthright do me? Iacob sayde: Then sweare vnto me euen this same daye. And he sware vnto him, and so he solde his byrthright vnto Iacob. Then Iacob gaue him bred and that meace of ryse. And he ate and dronke, and stode vp, and wente his waye. And so Esau regarded not his byrthright.
The XXVI. Chapter.

There came a derth in the londe, passynge the other that was in Abrahams tyme. And Isaac wente to Gerar, vnto Abimelech the kynge of ye Philistynes. Then the LORDE appeared vnto him, and sayde: Go not downe in to Egipte, but tary in the lande that I shall saye vnto the. Be thou a strauger in this lande, and I wil be with the and blesse the. For vnto the and thy sede wyll I geue all this londe, and wyll perfourme myne ooth that I sware to thy father Abraham. And I wyll multiplye thy sede as the starres of heauen, and vnto thy sede wyll I geue all this londe, and thorow thy sede shall all nacions be blessed, because Abraham was obedient vnto my voyce, and kepte myne ordinaunces, my comaundementes, my statutes, and my lawes.

So Isaac dwelt at Gerar. And whan the men of the same place axed him of his wife, he sayde: she is my sister. For he was afrayed to saye: she is my wife, (thinkinge thus:) they might slaye me for Rebeccas sake, for she was beutifull to loke vnto. Now whan he had bene there a longe season, Abimelech the kynge of the Phylistynes loked out at a wyndow, and sawe Isaac sportinge with Rebecca his wife.

Then Abimelech called Isaac, and sayde: Beholde, she is thy wyfe, why saydest thou then: She is my sister? Isaac answered him: I thought, I might peraduenture hahe died because of her. Abimelech saide: Why hast thou then done this vnto vs? It coude lightly haue come to passe, that some of the people might haue lyen with thy wyfe, and so haddest thou brought synne vpo vs. The Abimelech commaunded all the people, and sayde: Who so toucheth this man or his wyfe, shal dye the death.

And Isaac sowed in that londe, and foude the same yeare an hundreth bußshels, for the LORDE blessed him. And he became a greate man, wente forth, and grew, tyll he was exceadinge greate, so that he had moch good in shepe and greate catell, and a greate housholde. Therfore had the Philistynes envye at him, and stopped all the welles, that his fathers seruauntes had dygged in the tyme of Abraham his father, and fylled them with earth, In so moch that Abimelech also himself sayde vnto him: Departe from vs, for thou art farre mightier then we.		 Then departed Isaac from thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And whan he was satled, he caused to dygge vp the welles agayne, that they had dygged vp in his father Abrahas tyme, which the Philistynes had stopte after the death of Abraham, and he called the after ye same names that his father had named them withall.

Isaacs seruauntes also dygged in the valley, and there they founde a well of lyuinge water. But the hyrdmen of Gerar stroue with Isaacs hyrdmen, and saide: The water is oures. Then called he the well Eseck, because they had done him wronge.

Then dygged they another well, and stroue for that also: therfore called he it Sytena. So he gatt him from thence, and dygged another well, for the which they stroue not: therfore he called it Rehoboth, and sayde: Now hath the LORDE made vs rowme, and letten vs growe in the londe. Afterwarde he departed thence vnto Berseba.

And the LORDE appeared vnto him the same night, and sayde: I am the God of thy father Abraham, feare thou not, for I am with the, and wyll blesse the, and multiplye thy sede for my seruaunt Abrahams sake. Then buylded he an altare there, and called vpon the name of the LORDE, and pitched his tent there, and there his seruauntes dygged a well.

And Abimelech wente vnto him from Gerar, and Ahusath his frende, and Phicolhis chefe captayne. But Isaac sayde vnto them: Wherfore come ye to me? seynge ye hate me, and haue put me awaye from you? They sayde: We se with open eyes, that the LORDE is with the, therfore we deuysed that there shulde be an ooth betwixte vs and the, and that we wolde make a bonde with the, that thou do vs no harme, like as we haue not hurte the, and as we haue done nothinge vnto the, but all good, and let the departe in peace.

As for the, thou art ye blessed of the LORDE. Then Isaac made them a feast, and they ate and dronke. And on the morow they arose, and sware one to the other. And Isaac let them go, and they departed from him in peace.

The same daye came Isaacs seruauntes, and tolde him of the well that they had digged, and sayde vnto him: We haue founde water. And he called it Saba. Therfore is ye cite called Bersaba vnto this daye.
The XXVII. Chapter.

Whan Esau was fourtye yeare olde, he toke wyues: Iudith the doughter of Beri the Hethite, and Basmath the doughter of Elon the Hethite: both these were dishobedient vnto the sprete of Isaac and Rebecca.

And it came to passe when Isaac was olde, his eyes waxed dymme of sight, and he called Esau his greater sonne, and sayde vnto him: My sonne. He answered him: Here am I. And he sayde: Beholde, I am olde, and knowe not whan I shal dye. Now therfore take thy geer, thy quyuer and thy bowe, and get the forth to the felde, and take me some venyson, and make me meate (soch as I loue) and brynge it me herein, that I may eate, yt my soule maye blesse the, before I dye.

But Rebecca herde these wordes, that Isaac sayde vnto his sonne. And Esau wente his waye in to the felde, to hunte venyson, and to brynge it home. Then sayde Rebecca vnto Iacob hir sonne: beholde, I haue herde thy father talkinge with Esau thy brother, and sayenge: Brynge me venyson, and make me meate, that I maye eate, and blesse the before ye LORDE, yer I dye. Now therfore my sonne, heare my voyce, what I commaunde the: Go thy waye to the flocke, and fetch me two good kyddes, that I maye make meate of them for thy father, soch as he loueth: this shalt thou brynge in vnto thy father, that he maye eate, that he maye blesse the before his death.

Neuertheles Iacob sayde vnto Rebecca his mother: Beholde, my brother Esau is tough, and I am smooth: then might my father peraduenture fele me, and I shulde seme vnto him as though I begyled him, and so brynge a curse vpon me and not a blessynge. Then sayde his mother vnto him: That curse be vpon me my sonne, folowe thou my voyce: go thy waye and fetch it me. So he wente his waye, and fetched it, and brought it vnto his mother.

Then his mother made meate, acordinge as his father loued, and toke Esaus hir elder sonnes costly rayment (which she had with her in ye house) and put them vpon Iacob hir yonger sonne. But the kyddes skynnes put she aboute his handes, and where he was smooth aboute the neck: and so she put the meate with bred (as she had made it) in hir sonne Iacobs hande.

And he brought it in vnto his father, and sayde: My father. He answered: here am I, who art thou my sonne? Iacob sayde: I am Esau thy firstborne sonne, I haue done as thou saydest vnto me: aryse, syt vp, and eate of my venyson, that thy soule maye blesse me. But Isaac sayde vnto his sonne? My sonne, how hast thou founde it so soone? He answered: The LORDE yi God brought it to my hande.

The sayde Isaac vnto Iacob: Come neare my sonne, that I maye fele the, whether thou be my sonne Esau or not. So Iacob wete vnto Isaac his father. And whan he had felt him, he sayde: The voyce is Iacobs voyce, but the handes are the handes of Esau. And he knew him not, for his handes were rough like as ye handes of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.

And he sayde vnto him: art thou my sonsonne Esau? He answered: Yee I am. Then sayde he: Bringe me here then to eate of thy venyson my sonne, that my soule maye blesse the. Then he brought it him, and he ate: and he brought him wyne also, and he dranke. And Isaac his father sayde vnto him: Come nye, and kysse me my sonne. So he came nye, and he kyssed him.		 Then smelled he the sauoure of his clothes, and blessed him, and sayde: Beholde, the smell of my sonne is as ye smell of the felde, which ye LORDE hath blessed. God geue the of the dew of heauen, and of the fatnesse of the earth, and plenteousnes of corne and wyne. Nacions be thy seruauntes, and people fall downe at yi fote. Be thou lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children fall downe at thy fote. Cursed be he, that curseth the: and blessed be he, that blesseth the.

Now whan Isaac had made an ende of blessynge, and Iacob was scace gone out from his father Isaac, his brother Esau came from his huntinge, and made meate also, and brought it vnto his father, and sayde vnto him: Aryse my father, and eate of yi sonnes venyson, that thy soule maye blesse me. Then answered him Isaac his father: Who art thou? He sayde: I am Esau thy firstborne sonne. Then was Isaac exceadingly amased aboue measure, and saide: Who? Where is then the hunter that brought me, and I haue eaten of all afore thou camest, and haue blessed him? And he shall be blessed still.

Whan Esau herde these wordes of his father, he cried loude, and was exceadynge sory, and sayde vnto his father: O blesse me also my father. But he sayde: Thy brother came with sotyltie, and hath taken thy blessinge awaye. Then sayde he: He maye well be called Iacob, for he hath vndermined me now two tymes. My byrth right hath he awaye, and beholde, now taketh he awaye my blessynge also.

And he sayde: Hast thou not kepte one blessynge for me? Isaac answered, and sayde vnto him: I haue made him lorde ouer ye, and all his brethren haue I made his seruautes. With corne & wine haue I prouyded him. What shal I do vnto the now my sonne? Esau sayde vnto his father? Hast thou not one blessynge more my father? O blesse me also my father.

And he lift vp his voyce, & wepte. Then Isaac his father answered and sayde vnto him: Beholde, thou shalt haue a fat dwellinge vpon earth, & of ye dew of heauen from aboue: with thy swerde shalt thou get thy lyuynge, and shalt serue thy brother. And it shall come to passe, yt thou shalt put of his yock, and plucke it from thy neck.

And Esau bare euell wyll vnto Iacob, because of the blessynge that his father had blessed him withall, and sayde in his herte: The tyme wyll come shortly, that my father shal mourne, for I wil slaye my brother Iacob. The was it tolde Rebecca of these wordes of hir elder sonne, and she sent, and bad call for Iacob hir yonger sonne, and saide vnto him: Beholde, thy brother Esau threateneth the, that he wil slaye the. And now my sonne heare my voyce: Get the vp, and flye vnto my brother Laban in Haran, and tary there with him a whyle, tyll the furiousnes of thy brother be swaged, and till his wrath agaynst ye be turned from the, and he forget what thou hast done vnto him. So wyll I then sende for the, and cause the be fetched from thece. Why shulde I be robbed of you both in one daye?

And Rebecca sayde vnto Isaac: I am weery of my life, because of the doughters of Heth: Yf Iacob take a wife of the doughters of Heth, which are as the doughters of this londe, what shall this life then profit me?
The XXVIII. Chapter.

Then called Isaac his sonne Iacob and blessed him, and charged him, & sayde vnto him: Take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan, but get the vp, and go in to Mesopotamia vnto the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and take ye there a wife of ye doughters of Laban yi mothers brother. And the Allmightie God blesse the, and make the frutefull, and multiplye the, (that thou mayest be a multitude of people) and geue the the blessynge of Abraham vnto ye & thy sede with the, that thou mayest possesse the lande, wherin thou art a straunger, which God gaue vnto Abraham. So Isaac let Iacob departe, that he might go in to Mesopotamia vnto Laban the sonne of Bethuel of Siria, ye brother of Rebecca, his and Esaus mother.

Now when Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob, and let him departe in to Mesopotamia, that he might take a wife there: and yt, as he blessed him, he charged him, & sayde: Thou shalt not take a wife of the doughters of Canaan, and that Iacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone vnto Mesopotamia: seynge also that Isaac his father loked not gladly vpon the doughters of Canaan, he wente his waye vnto Ismael, and besyde the wyues that he had afore, he toke Mahaloth the doughter of Ismael (Abrahas sonne) the sister of Nebaioth, to wife.		 As for Iacob, he departed from Bersaba, and wente vnto Haran and came to a place, where he taried all night: for the Sonne was downe. And he toke a stone of ye place, & put it vnder his heade, and layed him downe in ye same place to slepe. And he dreamed, and beholde, there stode vpon ye earth, a ladder, whose toppe reached vnto the heauen. And beholde, the angels of God wente vp and downe vpon it, and the LORDE stode vpon it, and sayde:

I am the LORDE God of thy father Abraham, and the God of Isaac: The londe yt thou lyest vpon, wyl I geue vnto the, and to thy sede: and thy sede shal be as ye dust of ye earth. And thou shalt sprede forth towarde the west, east, north, and south: and thorow the and thy sede shall all the kynreds vpon earth be blessed. And beholde, I am with ye, and wyll kepe the where so euer thou goest, & wyl brynge the hither agayne in to this lande: for I wil not leaue the, tyll I haue made good, all that I haue promysed the.

Now whan Iacob awaked from his slepe, he saide: Surely the LORDE is in this place, and I knew not. And he was afraied, and sayde: How fearfull is this place? here is nothinge els but an house of God, & a gate vnto heaue. And Iacob arose early in the mornynge, and toke the stone that he had layed vnder his heade, and set it vp, and poured oyle vpon it. And he called the place Bethel, but afore the cite was called Lus. And Iacob made a vowe, and sayde: Yf God wyll be with me, and kepe me in this iourney yt I go & geue me bred to eate, and clothinge to put on, and brynge me peaceably home agayne vnto my father: The shall the LORDE be my God, and this stone that I haue set vp, shalbe an house of God: and all that thou geuest me, I wyl geue the the tenth therof.
The XXIX. Chapter.

Then Iacob gat him vp vpon his fete, and wente in to the east countre, & loked aboute him, and beholde, there was a well in the felde, and ye flockes of shepe therby, for the flockes dranke of the well. And there laye a greate stone at the welles mouth, and thyther they vsed to brynge the flockes, and to roule the stone from ye mouth of the well, and to geue the shepe drynke, & so they put the stone agayne vpon the welles mouth in to his place.

And Iacob sayde vnto them: Brethren, whece be ye? They answered: we are of Haran. He sayde vnto them: Knowe ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? They answered: We knowe him well. He sayde: Is he in good health? They answered: he is in good health. And lo, there commeth his doughter Rachel with the shepe. He sayde: It is yet hye daye, & is not yet tyme to dryue in the catell: geue the shepe to drynke, & go youre waye, & fede them. They answered: We can not, tyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyll we roule the stone from the welles mouth, & so geue the shepe drynke.

Whyle he yet talked with them, Rachel came with hir fathers shepe, for she kepte ye shepe. Whan Iacob sawe Rachel ye doughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the shepe of Laban his mothers brother, he wete, & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, and gaue his mothers brother shepe to drynke, and kyssed Rachel, lift vp his voyce, and wepte, and tolde her, yt he was hir fathers brother, and ye sonne of Rebecca. Then ranne she, and tolde her father.

Wha Laban herde of Iacob his sisters sonne, he ranne to mete him, and enbraced him, and kyssed him, and brought him in to his house. And so he tolde him all this matter. The sayde Laban vnto him: Wel, thou art my bone and my flesh. Abyde with me a moneth longe. But after that saide he vnto Iacob: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou therfore serue me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be. Laban had two doughters, the eldest was called Lea, & the yongest Rachel. And Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beutyfull & well fauoured of face, and Iacob loued her well, and sayde: I will serue the seuen yeare, for Rachel thy yongest doughter. Laban answered: It is better that I geue her the, then vnto another: tary thou with me.		 So Iacob serued seuen yeare for Rachel, and they semed vnto him but few dayes, he loued her so well. And Iacob saide vnto Laban: geue me my wyfe, for the tyme is come that I shulde lye with her. The Laban bad all the people of that place, and made a mariage. But at eue he toke his doughter Lea, and brought her in vnto him, and he laye wt her. And Laban gaue Zilpa his mayde vnto his doughter Lea to be hir mayde.

But on the morow, beholde, it was Lea. And he sayde vnto Laban: Why hast thou done this vnto me? Haue not I serued ye for Rachel? Why hast thou then begyled me? Laban answered: It is not the maner in oure countre, to mary the yongest before the eldest. Holde out this weke, & I will geue the this also, for the seruyce yt thou shalt do me yet seuen yeares more. Iacob dyd so, & helde out yt weke. Then gaue he him Rachel his doughter to wyfe. And Laban gaue Bilha his mayden vnto Rachel his doughter to be hir mayden. So he laye with Rachel also, & loued Rachel more the Lea, and serued him yet seuen yeares more.

But when the LORDE sawe, that Lea was nothinge regarded, he made her frutefull, and Rachel baren. And Lea coceaued, and bare a sonne, whom she called Ruben, and sayde: The LORDE hath loked vpon my aduersite. Now wyll my huß