Genesis 20 Cross References - Bishops

¹ And Abraham departed thence towarde the south countrey, & dwelled betweene Cades and Sur, and soiourned in Gerar ² And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe, she is my syster: And Abimelech kyng of Gerar sent, and fet Sara away ³ But God came to Abimelech by night in a dreame, and saide to hym: See, thou art but a dead man for the womans sake whiche thou hast taken away, for she is a mans wyfe ⁴ But Abimelech had not yet touched her: and he sayde, Lorde wylt thou slay ryghteous people ⁵ Saide not he vnto me, she is my sister? yea and she her selfe sayde, he is my brother: with a single heart, and innocent handes haue I done this ⁶ And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her ⁷ Nowe therefore delyuer the man his wyfe agayne, for he is a prophete, and he shall pray for thee, that thou mayest lyue: But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne, be sure that thou shalt dye the death, [both thou] and all that thou hast ⁸ Therefore, Abimelech rysyng vp betimes in the mornyng, called all his seruauntes, and tolde all these sayinges in their eares: and the men were sore afrayde ⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, & sayde vnto hym: What hast thou done vnto vs? & what haue I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me & on my kingdome [so] great a sinne? thou hast done deedes vnto me that ought not to be done ¹⁰ And Abimelech saide vnto Abraham: what sawest thou that thou hast done this thyng ¹¹ Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake ¹² Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe ¹³ And after God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I sayde vnto her: this kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me, in all places where we come, that thou say of me, he is my brother ¹⁴ Then toke Abimelech sheepe and oxen, men seruauntes and women seruauntes, & gaue [them] vnto Abraham, and delyuered hym Sara his wyfe agayne ¹⁵ And Abimelech sayde: beholde my lande lyeth before thee, dwell where it pleaseth thee best ¹⁶ But vnto Sara he saide: See I haue geuen thy brother a thousand peeces of syluer: beholde, it is as a coueryng of thyne eyes vnto all that are with thee, and to all [other:] and thus she was reproued ¹⁷ And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren ¹⁸ For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe

¹⁹ The border of the Chanaanites was from Sidon as thou commest to Gerar vnto Azah, and as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorra, and Adama, and Seboim, euen vnto Lesa

¹ And so Abram gat hym vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and al that he had, and Lot with hym, toward the South

⁷ And they returnyng, came to En-mispat, which is Cades, and smote all the countrey of the Amalecites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-thamar

¹ Sarai Abrams wyfe bare hym no chyldren: but she had an handemayde an Egyptian, Hagar by name

⁷ And the angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine in ye wildernes, [euen] by the well that is in the way to Sur

¹⁴ Wherfore ye well was called the well of hym that lyueth and seeth me: and it is betweene Cades and Bared

¹ And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day

⁶² And Isahac was commyng from the waye of the well of the lyuyng and seeyng me: for he dwelt in the South countrey

¹ And there fell a famine in the land, besides the first that was in the dayes of Abraham: And Isahac went vnto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, vnto Gerar

⁶ And Isahac dwelled in Gerar

²⁰ And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isahacs heardmen, saying: the water is ours. Then called he the well contention, because they stroue with hym

²⁶ Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzath his friende, and Phicol the captaine of his armie

²⁶ And they went, and came to Moyses and Aaron, and vnto all the multitude of the chyldren of Israel in the wyldernesse Pharan to Cades, and brought them worde, and also vnto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruite of the lande

¹⁶ And when we cryed vnto the Lorde, he hearde our voyce, and sent an angell, and hath set vs vp out of Egypt: And beholde, we are in Cades, euen in the vttermost citie of thy border

¹⁹ And when we departed from Horeb, we went thorow all that great and terrible wyldernesse, as ye haue seene by the way of the mountayne of the Amorites, as the Lorde our God commaunded vs: and we came to Cades Barnea

⁵¹ Because ye trespassed agaynst me among the children of Israel at the waters of stryfe at Cades in the wildernesse of Zin: for ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel

⁷ And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Heuila, as thou commest to Sur, that lyeth before Egypt

¹³ And Asa & the people that was with him, folowed after them vnto Gerar: And the blacke Moores hoast was ouerthrowen, that there was none of them left, but were destroyed before the Lord and before his hoast: And they caryed away a mightie great pray ¹⁴ And they smote all the cities rounde about Gerar, for the feare of the Lorde came vpon them: And they spoyled all the cities, & there was exceeding much spoyle in them

⁸ (29:7b) the voyce of God maketh the wyldernesse to tremble, God maketh the wyldernesse of Cades to tremble

¹¹ And when he was come neare to enter into Egypt, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: beholde, I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon ¹² Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue ¹³ Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion

¹⁵ The princes also of Pharao sawe her, and comended her before Pharao, and the woman was taken into Pharaos house

¹² Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe

⁷ And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye

¹⁶ And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac: Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then we a great deale

² And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the sear went out to meete him, and sayd to king Iehosaphat: Wouldest thou helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the Lorde? Therfore is wrath come downe vpon thee from before the Lorde

³⁷ And Eliezer the sonne of Dodauah of Maresa prophesied against Iehosaphat, saying: Because thou hast ioyned thy selfe with Ahaziahu, ye lord hath broken thy workes. And the shippes were broke that they were not able to go to Tharsis

³¹ And when the princes of Babylon sent vnto him ambassadours, to enquire of the wonder that chaunced in the lande, God left him, to trye him, and that all that was in his heart might be knowen

¹⁶ For a iust man falleth seuen tymes, and ryseth vp agayne: but the vngodly fall into mischiefe

²⁰ For there is not one iust vpon earth that doth good, and sinneth not

¹¹ But whe Peter was come to Antioche, I withstoode him to the face, because he was to be blamed ¹² For yer yt certaine came from Iames, he dyd eate with the gentiles: But whe they were come, he withdrue, and seperated himselfe, fearing them which were of the circumcision

²⁵ Wherfore, puttyng away lying, speake euery man trueth vnto his neyghbour, forasmuch as we are members one of another

⁹ Lye not one to another, seyng that ye haue put of ye olde man with his workes

⁷ Nowe therefore delyuer the man his wyfe agayne, for he is a prophete, and he shall pray for thee, that thou mayest lyue: But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne, be sure that thou shalt dye the death, [both thou] and all that thou hast

¹² And he dreamed, and beholde there stoode a lather vpo the earth, and the toppe of it reached vp to heauen: and see, the angels of God went vp & downe vpon it

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dreame by nyght, and sayd vnto him: take heede that thou speake not to Iacob ought saue good

⁵ Moreouer, when Ioseph had dreamed a dreame, he tolde it his brethren, which hated hym yet the more

⁹ And he dreamed yet another dreame, and tolde it his brethren, saying: behold I haue had one dreame more, and beholde, the sunne, and the moone, & 11 starres made obeysaunce to me

⁸ They aunswered him: We haue dreamed a dreame, and haue no man to declare it. And Ioseph sayde vnto them: do not interpretinges belong to God? tell me I pray you

¹ And after two yeres Pharao dreamed, and beholde, he thought that he stoode by a ryuers syde ² And there came out of the ryuer seuen goodly kyne, and fat fleshed, and fedde in a medowe ³ And seuen other kyne came vp after them out of the ryuer, euyll fauoured, and leane fleshed, & stoode by the other kyne vpon the brynke of the ryuer ⁴ And the euyll fauoured & leane fleshed kyne dyd eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kyne: and Pharao awoke ⁵ And he slept agayne, and dreamed the seconde tyme: and beholde, seuen eares of corne grewe vppon one stalke, ranke and goodly ⁶ And agayne, seuen thinne eares, blasted with the east winde sprang vp after them ⁷ And the seuen thinne eares deuoured the seuen ranke & full eares. And Pharao awaked, and see [it was] a dreame ⁸ And when the mornyng came, his spirite was troubled, and he sent and called for all the southsayers of Egypt, and all the wyse men thereof: and Pharao tolde them his dreame, but there was none of them that coulde interprete it vnto Pharao ⁹ The spake the chiefe butler vnto Pharao, saying: I do remember my faultes this day ¹⁰ Pharao beyng angry with his seruauntes, put in warde in the chiefe stewardes house both me, and the chiefe baker ¹¹ And we dreamed both of vs in one nyght, and eche mans dreame of a sundry interpretation ¹² And there was with vs a young man, an Hebrue borne, seruaunt vnto the chiefe stewarde: to whom when we tolde them, he declared our dreames to vs, accordyng to eyther of our dreames ¹³ And as he declared them to vs, euen so it came to passe: For he restored me to myne office agayne, and hanged hym ¹⁴ Pharao sent therfore and called Ioseph: and they brought him hastyly out of the dungeon. And he shaued himselfe and chaunged his rayment, and came vnto Pharao ¹⁵ And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I haue dreamed a dreame, & no man can interprete it: & I haue heard say of thee that assoone as thou hearest a dreame, thou canst interprete it ¹⁶ Ioseph aunswered Pharao, saying: Not I, but God shall geue Pharao an aunswere of peace ¹⁷ And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: In my dreame me thought I stoode by a ryuers syde ¹⁸ And there came out of the ryuer seuen fat flesshed and well fauoured kyne, and fedde in a medowe ¹⁹ And then seuen other kyne came out after them, poore, and very yll fauoured and leane flesshed, such as I neuer saw in all the lande of Egypt, they were so yll fauoured ²⁰ And the seuen leane and yll fauoured kyne, did eate vp the first seuen fat kine ²¹ And when they had eaten them vp, a man coulde not perceaue that they had eaten them, but they were styll yll fauoured as they were at the begynnyng: and I awoke ²² And I saw againe in my dreame, and beholde, seuen eares sprang out of one stalke, full and fayre ²³ And beholde, seuen eares agayne withered, thinne, and blasted with the east wynde, sprang vp after them ²⁴ And the thinne eares deuoured the seuen good eares: and I haue tolde the southsayers, but there was no man that coulde tell what it meaneth ²⁵ And Ioseph aunswered Pharao: [both] Pharaos dreames are one, God hath shewed Pharao what he is about to do ²⁶ The seuen good kyne, are seuen yeres, and the seuen good eares are seue yeres also: and it is but one dreame ²⁷ Lykewyse the seuen thinne and euyll fauoured kine that came vp after them, are seuen yeres, and the seuen emptie & blasted eares with the east wynde, shalbe seuen yeres of famine ²⁸ This worde which I haue sayde vnto Pharao, is it that God is about to do, and sheweth it vnto Pharao ²⁹ Beholde there come seuen yeres of great plenteousnes throughout all the lande of Egypt ³⁰ And agayne, there shall aryse after them seuen yeres of famine, and all the plenteousnes shalbe forgotten in the lande of Egypt: and the famine shall consume the lande ³¹ Neither shall the plenteousnes be knowen in the lande, by reason of that famine that [shall come] after: for it shalbe exceedyng great ³² And as concernyng that the dreame was doubled vnto Pharao the seconde tyme: beholde, the thyng is certainly prepared of God, and God wyll shortly bryng it to passe ³³ Nowe therfore let Pharao prouide for a man of vnderstandyng, and wisedome, & set him ouer the land of Egypt ³⁴ And let Pharao do this also, that he make officers ouer the lande, & take vp the fift part of the inheritaunce in ye land of Egypt in the seuen plenteous yeres ³⁵ And let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come: and laye vp corne vnder the hande of Pharao, and let them kepe foode in the cities ³⁶ And so shall that foode be for store in the lande agaynst the seuen yeres of famine, which shall come in the lande of Egypt, that ye lande perishe not through famine

¹² But wheras a thing was hyd from me, yet myne care hath receaued a litle therof ¹³ In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men

¹⁵ In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes

¹⁴ (105:11) He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes

¹⁴ Againe, if I say vnto the wicked, thou shalt surely dye: and so he turne from his sinnes, and do the thing that is lawfull and right ¹⁵ Insomuch that the same wicked man geueth the pledge againe, restoreth that he had take away by robbery, walketh in the commaundementes of lyfe, and doth none iniquitie: then shall he surely lyue and not dye

⁴ And Ionas began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed & saide: Yet fourtie dayes, & Niniue shalbe destroyed

²⁰ But whyle he thought these thinges, beholde, the Angell of the Lord appeared vnto hym in a dreame, saying: Ioseph, thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take [vnto thee] Marie thy wife, for that which is conceaued in her, is of the holy ghost

¹² And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they shoulde not go agayne to Herode, they returned into their owne countrey another way ¹³ When they were departed, beholde, the Angel of the Lord appeared to Ioseph in a dreame, saying: Aryse, & take the young chylde and his mother, and flee into Egipte, and be thou there, tyll I bryng thee worde. For it wyll come to passe, that Herode shall seke ye young chylde, to destroy hym

¹⁹ When he was set downe to geue iudgment, his wyfe sent vnto hym, saying: haue thou nothing to do with that iuste man: For I haue suffred many thynges this day in a dreame because of him

²³ And Abraham drewe neare, and said: Wylt thou also destroye the righteous with the wicked ²⁴ If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein ²⁵ That be farre from thee that thou shouldest do after this maner, and slaye the ryghteous with the wicked, & that the ryghteous should be as the wicked, that be farre from thee: Shall not the iudge of all the worlde do accordyng to ryght

²⁴ Then the Lorde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorrhe brymstone and fire, from the Lorde out of heauen

⁶ And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her

¹⁷ And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren ¹⁸ For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe

¹¹ Howe much more when wicked men haue slayne a righteous person in his owne house and vpon his bed? Shal I not nowe therfore require his blood of your hande, & take you from the earth

¹⁷ And Dauid sayde vnto God: Is it not I that commaunded the people to be numbred? It is I that haue sinned and done euyll in deede: and what haue these sheepe done? Let thyne hande O Lorde my God be on me, and on my fathers house: but not on thy people, that they shoulde be punished

²² The Lorde God of gods, the Lorde God of gods knoweth, and also Israel shall knowe, yf it be to rebell or to transgresse against the Lorde, then thou Lorde saue vs not this day

⁴ And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, in purenes of heart and in righteousnes, to do all that I haue commaunded thee, and wilt kepe my statutes, and my lawes

³ I beseche the, O Lorde, remember now how I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfect heart, & haue done that whiche is good in thy sight. And Hezekia wept sore

¹⁷ I wot also my God that thou tryest the heartes, and hast pleasure in vnfaynednesse, & in the vnfaonednesse of myne heart I haue wyllingly offered al these thinges: And now haue I seene thy people which are founde here to offer vnto thee wyllyngly, and with gladnesse

⁹ I am cleane without any fault, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me

⁸ God wyll iudge the people: geue thou sentence with me O God according to my righteousnesse, and according to my perfection [that is] within me

⁴ [Euen he that hath] cleane handes, and a pure heart: & that hath not taken his soule in vayne, nor sworne disceiptfully

²¹ (25:19) Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe: for I haue wayted after thee

⁶ I haue wasshed my handes in innocencie: and [so] I haue gone about thine aulter O God

¹³ Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie

⁷² So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart: and guided them by the discretion of his handes

³ The innocent dealyng of the iust shall leade them: but the wickednesse of the offendours shalbe their owne destruction

⁷ The chyldren of the iust man which walketh vprightly, shalbe blessed after hym

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions mouthes, so that they might not hurt me, for myne vngiltinesse is founde out before him: and as for thee O king, I neuer offended thee

¹² For our reioycyng is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie & godly purenesse, and not in fleshely wisdome, but by the grace of God, we haue had our conuersatio in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes

¹⁰ Ye [are] witnesses, & God [also] howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue

¹³ Beyng a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and an oppressour: But yet I obtayned mercie, because I dyd it ignorauntly in vnbeliefe

³ But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye

¹⁸ For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe

¹¹ And so Abimelech charged al his people, saying: He that toucheth this man or his wyfe, shall dye the death

⁷ But your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me

⁵ And when they departed, the feare of God fel vpon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sonnes of Iacob

⁹ There is no man greater in the house then I, neither hath he kept any thyng from me but only thee, because thou art his wyfe: how then can I do euen this so great a wickednes, & sinne against God

²⁴ For I wyll cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy coastes: neyther shall any man desyre thy lande, when thou shalt go vp to appeare before the Lorde thy God thryse in a yere

² If a soule sinne and trespasse agaynst the Lorde, and denie vnto his neyghbour that which was taken him to kepe, or that was put into his hands, or doth violent robberie or wrong vnto his neyghbour

²⁶ Now therefore my lorde, as the Lord lyueth, and as thy soule liueth, euen the Lorde that hath withholden thee from comming to [shed] blood, and saued thee thyne hand: So nowe, I pray God that thyne enemies, & they that intende to do my lorde euyll, may be as Nabal

³⁴ For in very deede, as the Lorde God of Israel lyueth, which hath kept me backe from hurting thee: except thou haddest hasted and met me, surely there hadde not ben left vnto Nabal by the dawnyng of the day, any that pysseth against the wall

⁴ Agaynst thee, only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and founde pure when thou art iudged

¹² So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations

¹¹ For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection

¹ The kynges heart is in the hand of the Lord, lyke as are the riuers of water, he maye turne it whyther soeuer he wyll

⁶ Therefore beholde, I wyll stop thy way with thornes, and make a hedge, that she shall not finde her pathes ⁷ And though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not ouertake them: she shall seeke them, but not finde them. Then shall she say, I wyll go and returne to my first husbande: for at that tyme it was better with me then nowe

¹ Nowe as concernyng the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me, it is good for a man not to touche a woman

¹⁷ Wherfore come out fro among them, and separate your selues from them (saith the Lorde) and touche none vncleane thyng, and I wyll receaue you

⁷ For the misterie of iniquitie doth alredie worke, tyll he whiche nowe onlye letteth, be taken out of the way

¹¹ And therefore God shall sende them strong delusion, that they should beleue lyes

¹⁷ But as touching the tree of knowlege of good and euyll thou shalt not eate of it: For in what daye so euer thou eatest therof, thou shalt dye the death

¹⁷ But the Lorde plagued Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wyfe

¹⁶ And he shalbe thy spokesman vnto the people, and he shalbe [euen] he shalbe to thee in steade of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him, in steade of God

¹ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: behold, I haue made thee Pharaos God: and Aaron thy brother shalbe thy prophete

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron in the lande of Egypt, saying ² This moneth shalbe vnto you ye begynnyng of monethes, and the first moneth of the yere shall it be vnto you ³ Speake ye vnto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth daye of this moneth, euery man take vnto hym a lambe according to ye house of the fathers, a lambe throughout euery house

¹⁷ And Moyses father in lawe sayde vnto hym: It is not well that thou doest

⁴ If he haue so sinned and trespassed, he shall restore agayne that he toke violently away, or the wrong which he did, or that whiche was deliuered hym to kepe, or the lost thyng which he founde

⁷ And the priest shall make an attonement for hym before the Lorde, and it shalbe forgeuen hym whatsoeuer thing it be that he hath done and trespassed therein

³² And the earth opened her mouth, and swalowed them vp, and their houses, and all the men that were with Corah, and all their goodes ³³ And they and all that they had went downe alyue vnto the pit, and the earth closed vpon them: and they perished from among the congregation

⁵ And Samuel sayde: Gather all Israel to Mispah, and I wyll praye for you vnto the Lord

⁸ And the children of Israel sayd to Samuel: Ceasse not to crye vnto the lord our God for vs, that he may saue vs out of the hand of the Philistines

¹⁹ And al the people sayd vnto Samuel: Pray for thy seruauntes vnto the Lord thy God, that we dye not: for we haue sinned in asking vs a king, besyde all our [other] sinnes

²³ Moreouer, God forbid that I shoulde sinne against the Lord, and ceasse praying for you: but I will shewe you the good and right way

¹⁷ And Dauid spake vnto the Lorde, when he saw the angell that smote the people, and saide: Lo, it is I that haue sinned, and that haue done wickedlie: But these sheepe, what haue they done? Let thyne hand I pray thee be against me, and against my fathers house

⁶ And the king aunswered, and sayd vnto the man of God: Oh pray vnto the Lorde thy God, and make intercession for me, that my hande may be restored me againe. And the ma of God besought the Lord, and the kinges hand was restored againe, and became as it was afore

¹ After processe of many dayes, the word of the Lord came to Elias in the third yere, saying: Go shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I wyll sende rayne vpon the earth ² And Elias went to shewe him selfe vnto Ahab: and there was a great famishment in Samaria ³ And Ahab called Obadia, which was the gouernour of his house: (and Obadia feared God greatly ⁴ For when Iezabel destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadia toke an hundred prophets, and hid them by fiftie in a caue, and prouided bread and water for them. ⁵ And Ahab saide vnto Obadia: Go into the lande, vnto all fountaines of water, and vnto all brookes, if happyly we may finde grasse to saue the horses and mules aliue, and that we destroy not [some of] the beastes ⁶ And so they deuided the lande betweene them to walke through it: Ahab went one way by him selfe, and Obadia went another way by him selfe ⁷ And it chaunced that as Obadia was in the way, beholde Elias met him, and he knew him, and fell on his face, and saide: Art not thou my lorde Elias ⁸ And he aunswered him, I am he: Go, and tel thy lorde, beholde, Elias is here ⁹ He saide: What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest delyuer thy seruaunt into the hande of Ahab, to slay me ¹⁰ As the Lorde thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whyther my lord hath not sent to seeke thee: And when they saide, he is not there: he toke an oth of the kingdome and nation when he found thee not ¹¹ And now thou sayest, Go, and tell thy lorde that Elias is here ¹² And assoone as I am gone from thee, the spirite of the Lorde shall carrie thee into some place that I do not knowe, and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can not finde thee, he shall slay me: But I thy seruaunt feare the Lorde from my youth vp ¹³ Was it not tolde my lorde what I did, when Iezabel slue the prophets of the Lorde? how I hid an hundred men of the Lordes prophets, fiftie men in one caue, and fiftie in another, and prouided them of bread and water ¹⁴ And thou sayest, Go thou now & shewe thy lorde, beholde Elias is here: that he may slay me ¹⁵ And Elias saide: As the Lorde of hoastes liueth before whom I stand, I wyll shewe my selfe vnto him this day ¹⁶ So Obadia went to meete Ahab, and tolde him: And Ahab went to meete Elias ¹⁷ And it fortuned that when Ahab sawe Elias, he saide vnto him: Art thou he that troubleth Israel ¹⁸ He aunswered: It is not I that haue troubled Israel, but thou and thy fathers house, in that ye haue forsaken the commaundements of the Lorde, & thou hast folowed Baal ¹⁹ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel vnto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure hundred and fiftie, and the prophets of the [idols] groues foure hundred, which eate at Iezabels table ²⁰ So Ahab sent vnto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together vnto mount Carmel ²¹ And Elias came vnto all the people, and said: how long halt ye betweene two opinions? If the Lorde be God, folowe him: but if Baal be he, then go after him. And the people aunswered him not one worde ²² Then saide Elias vnto the people [againe] I onely remayne a prophete of the Lorde: but Baals prophets are foure hundred and fiftie ²³ Let them therefore geue vs two oxen, and let them choose the one, & cut hym in peeces, and lay him on wood, and put no fire vnder: and I wyll dresse the other oxe, and laye him on wood, & wyll put no fyre vnder ²⁴ And call ye on the name of your gods, & I wyl call on the name of the Lorde: and then the God that aunswereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people aunswered and saide, It is wel spoken ²⁵ And Elias saide vnto the prophets of Baal: Choose you an oxe, & dresse him first, for ye are many: & call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder ²⁶ And they toke the one oxe that he dyd geue them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning to noone, saying, O Baal heare vs. But there was no voyce, nor one to aunswere: And they lept vpon the aulter that they had made ²⁷ And at noone Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye lowde, for he is a God, peraduenture he is talking, or occupied in folowing vpon his enemies, or is in his iourney, or happyly he slepeth, and must be awaked [with your crie. ²⁸ And they cried lowde, and cut them selues as their maner was with kniues & launcers, till the blood folowed on the ²⁹ And it chaunced, that when midday was passed, they prophesied vntill the time of the euening sacrifice: But there was neither voyce, nor one to aunswere, nor any that regarded them ³⁰ And Elias said vnto all the folke: Come to me. And all the people came to him: And he repaired the aulter of the Lord that was broken ³¹ And Elias toke twelue stones, according to the number of the twelue tribes of the sonnes of Iacob, vnto whom the word of the Lorde came, saying: Israel shalbe thy name ³² And with the stones he made an aulter in the name of the Lorde: And he made a ditch about the aulter, as great as would conteyne two measures of seede ³³ And he put the wood in order, and hewed the oxe in peeces, and layed him on the wood, and said: Fill foure barrels with water, and powre it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood ³⁴ And he sayde: Do so againe. And they dyd so the seconde time. And he sayde againe: Do it the thirde time. And they dyd it the thirde time ³⁵ And the water ran round about the aulter, & he filled the pitte with water also ³⁶ And it fortuned, that when they should offer the euening sacrifice, Elias the prophete came, and sayde: Lorde God of Abraham, Isahac, and of Israel, it shalbe knowen this day that thou art the God in Israel, & [that] I [am] thy seruaunt, and that I haue done all these thinges at thy commaundement ³⁷ Heare me O Lord, heare me, that this people may knowe that thou art the Lorde God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart againe nowe at the last ³⁸ And the fire of the Lord fel, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the duste, and licked vp the water that was in the pit ³⁹ And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and sayde: The Lord he is God, the Lorde he is God ⁴⁰ And Elias sayd vnto them: Take the prophetes of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And they toke them, and Elias brought them vnto the brooke Kison, and slue them there ⁴¹ And Elias sayde vnto Ahab: Get thee vp, eate and drinke: for there is a sounde of much rayne ⁴² And so Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Elias went vp to the top of Carmel, and he layde him selfe flat vpo the earth, and put his face betweene his knees ⁴³ And sayde to his seruaunt: Go vp [I pray thee] and loke towarde the way of the sea. And he went vp, and loked, and sayde: There is nothing. And againe he sayde: Go againe seuen times ⁴⁴ And it fortuned that at the seuenth time, he sayde: Beholde there aryseth a litle cloude of the sea lyke a mans hand. He sayde: Go, and say vnto Ahab, Make fast [thy charet] and get thee downe, that the rayne stoppe thee not ⁴⁵ And it came to passe, that in the meane whyle the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, & there was a great rayne: And Ahab gat vp, and came to Iezrahel ⁴⁶ And the hande of the Lorde was on Elias, and he girded vp his loynes, and ranne before Ahab, till he came to Iezrahel

¹¹ But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and saide: Beholde, I thought with my selfe, he would surely come out, and stande and call on the name of the Lord his god, & put his hand on the place, that he may heale the leprosie

² And sent Eliakim which was the steward of the houshold, and Sobna the scribe, and the elders of the priestes clothed in sacke, to Isai the prophete, the sonne of Amoz ³ And they sayd vnto him, thus sayth Hezekia: This day is a day of tribulation, & of rebuke and blasphemie: For the children are come to the byrth, and there is no strength to be deliuered ⁴ Peraduenture the Lorde thy God will heare al the wordes of Rabsakeh, who the king of Assyria his maister hath sent to rayle on the lyuing God, & to rebuke him with wordes which the Lorde thy God hath hearde: And lift thou vp thy prayer for the remnaunt that are left

²² Touche not myne annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes

¹⁹ God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes

⁸ Therefore take you now seuen oxen, and seuen rammes, and go to my seruaunt Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruaunt Iob shall pray for you: him wyll I accept, and not deale with you after your foolishnesse, in that ye haue not spoken of me the thing which is right, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done

¹⁴ (25:12) The secrete of God is among them that feare hym: and he wyll make knowen vnto them his couenaunt

⁹ (105:7b) euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac ¹⁰ (105:8) And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt ¹¹ (105:9) Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce ¹² (105:10a) When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it ¹³ (105:10b) and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people ¹⁴ (105:11) He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes ¹⁵ (105:12) Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes

¹¹ Yea euen thus sayde the Lorde vnto me: Thou shalt not pray to do this people good

¹ Thus spake the Lorde vnto me, Though Moyses and Samuel stoode before me, yet haue I no heart to this people: driue them away, that they may go out of my sight

¹⁸ But yf they be true prophetes in very deede, and yf the worde of the Lorde be committed vnto them, then let them pray the Lord of hoastes, that the remnaunt of the ornamentes which are in the house of the Lorde & in the house of the kyng of Iuda, and at Hierusalem, be not caryed to Babylon also

¹⁸ When I shall say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely dye, and thou geuest not him warning, nor speakest to admonishe the wicked of his euill way, and so to liue: then shal the same vngodly man dye in his owne vnrighteousnesse, but his blood wyl I require of thyne hand

⁸ If I say vnto the wicked, thou wicked, thou shalt surely dye: & thou speakest not to admonish the wicked of his way: that wicked man shall dye in his owne sinne, but his blood wyl I require at thy hande

¹⁴ Againe, if I say vnto the wicked, thou shalt surely dye: and so he turne from his sinnes, and do the thing that is lawfull and right ¹⁵ Insomuch that the same wicked man geueth the pledge againe, restoreth that he had take away by robbery, walketh in the commaundementes of lyfe, and doth none iniquitie: then shall he surely lyue and not dye ¹⁶ None of the sinnes that he hath committed shalbe mentioned vnto him: for insomuch as he doth now the thing that is lawfull and right, he shall lyue

⁴ He that speaketh with the tongue, edifieth hym selfe: he that prophesieth, edifieth the Churche

¹ God which in time past, at sundrie tymes, and in diuers maners, spake vnto the fathers in the prophetes

⁴ Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge

¹⁴ Is any diseased among you? let hym call for the elders of the Churche, and let them pray for him, and annoynt him with oyle in the name of the Lorde ¹⁵ And the prayer of fayth shall saue the sicke, and the Lorde shall raise him vp: and yf he haue committed sinnes, they shalbe forgeuen hym ¹⁶ Knowledge your faultes one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: For ye feruent prayer of a ryghteous man auayleth much

¹⁶ If any man see his brother sinne a sinne not vnto death, let hym aske, and he shal geue him life for them that sinne not vnto death. There is a sinne vnto death: I say not that thou shouldest pray for it

⁵ And yf any man wyll hurt them, fyre shal proceade out of their mouthes, & cosume their enemies: And if any man wil hurt them, this wyse must he be kylled ⁶ These haue power to shut heauen, that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng: and haue power ouer waters, to turne them to blood, and to smite the earth with all maner plagues, as often as they wyll

¹⁸ And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me

¹⁰ Abimelech said: why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people myght lyghtly haue lyne by thy wyfe, and so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs

⁷ And when the sonnes of Iacob (comming out of the fielde) hearde it, it greeued them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lien with Iacobs daughter, which thing ought not to be done

²⁴ And it came to passe, after three monethes one tolde Iuda, saying: Thamar thy daughter in lawe hath played the harlot, and with playing the harlot is become great with chylde. And Iuda sayde: Bryng her foorth, that she may be brent

²¹ And Moyses said vnto Aaron: What did this people vnto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them

³⁵ And the Lorde plagued the people, because they made the calfe whiche Aaron made

¹⁰ And the man that breaketh wedlocke with another mans wyfe, euen he that breaketh wedlocke with his neyghbours wyfe, let be slayne both the adulterer and the adultresse

²⁵ And Iosuah sayde: In as much as thou hast troubled vs, the Lorde shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned hym with stones, and burned them with fire, and ouerwhelmed them with stones

¹⁸ And he sayde: Wherefore doth my lorde thus persecute his seruaunt? for what haue I done? or what euyll is in myne hand ¹⁹ Nowe therefore I praye thee, let my lorde the king heare the wordes of his seruaunt: If the Lorde haue stirred thee vp against me, let him smell the sauour of a sacrifice: But and if they be the children of men, cursed are they before the Lorde, for they haue cast me out this day from abidyng in the inheritaunce of the Lorde, saying: Go, serue other goddes

⁵ And Dauid was exceeding wroth with the man, and saide to Nathan: As the Lorde lyueth, the man that hath done this thing is the childe of death

¹⁰ Now therefore, the sword shall neuer depart from thyne house, because thou hast despised me, and taken the wyfe of Urias the Hethite to be thy wyfe ¹¹ Wherefore thus saith the Lorde: Beholde, I will stirre vp euil against thee, euen out of thyne owne house, and wyll take thy wyues before thyne eyes, and geue them vnto thy neyghbour, and he shall lye with thy wyues in the sight of this sunne

¹² And she aunswered him: Nay my brother, do not force me, for there hath no such thing ben done in Israel: Do not thou this folly

¹⁰ Who so causeth the righteous to go astray by an euill way, shall fall into his owne pit: but the iust shall haue the good in possession

¹¹ For there is no respect of persos with God

¹¹ Whose mouthes must be stopped, which subuert whole houses, teachyng thynges which they ought not, for fylthie lucre sake

¹² Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue

¹² And he sayde: lay not thy hande vpon the chylde, neyther do any thyng vnto hym, for nowe I knowe that thou fearest God, & hast for my sake not spared [yea] thine onlye sonne

¹⁸ And Ioseph said vnto them the thirde day: this do & liue, [for] I feare God

¹⁵ For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God

¹ In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill

²⁸ And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding

⁴ Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God

¹ The wickednes of the vngodly speaketh in the middest of my heart: that there is no feare of the Lorde before his eyes ² For he flattereth him selfe in his owne sight: so that his iniquitie is found worthy of hatred ³ The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good ⁴ He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil

⁷ The feare of the Lorde is the begynnyng of knowledge: but fooles dispise wisdome and instruction

⁵ Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lorde, and finde the knowledge of God

¹³ The feare of the Lorde abhorreth wickednes, pryde, disdayne, and the euil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked thinges I vtterly abhorre

⁶ With mercie and faythfulnesse sinnes be forgeuen: and by the feare of the Lorde euyll is eschewed

¹⁸ There is no feare of God before their eyes

²⁹ Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa

¹³ Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion

²² Abstayne from all appearaunce of euyll

¹ And the Lord had sayde vnto Abram: get thee out of thy coutrey, and out of thy nation, and from thy fathers house, vnto a lande that I wyll shewe thee

⁹ And Abram toke his iourney, goyng and iourneying towarde the south

¹¹ And when he was come neare to enter into Egypt, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: beholde, I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon ¹² Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue ¹³ Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion ¹⁴ And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre ¹⁵ The princes also of Pharao sawe her, and comended her before Pharao, and the woman was taken into Pharaos house ¹⁶ And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheepe and oxen, and he asses, menseruauntes, & maydeseruauntes, she asses and camelles ¹⁷ But the Lorde plagued Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wyfe ¹⁸ And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me ¹⁹ Why diddest thou not tel me, that she was thy wyfe? why saydest thou, she is my sister? and so I might haue taken her to be my wyfe? Nowe therfore beholde, there is thy wyfe, take her, and go thy way ²⁰ And Pharao gaue his men commaundement concerning him: and they conuayed him foorth, and his wyfe, and all that he had

²¹ And Saul sayde: Blessed are ye in the Lord, for ye haue compassion on me

⁵ They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them

⁹ Then Peter sayde vnto her: Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the spirite of the Lorde? Beholde, the feete of the which haue buried thy husbande, are at the doore, and shall cary thee out

³ And sayde vnto him: Get thee out of thy countrey, & fro thy kinrede, & come into the lande which I shall shew thee ⁴ Then came he out of the lande of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, whe his father was dead, he brought hym into this lande wherin ye nowe dwell ⁵ And he gaue hym none inheritaunce in it, no not the breadth of a foote: and promised that he woulde geue it to hym to possesse, and to his seede after hym, when as yet he had no chylde

⁸ By fayth Abraham when he was called, obeyed, to go out into a place whiche he shoulde afterwarde receaue to inheritaunce: and he went out, not knowyng whyther he shoulde go

¹⁶ And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheepe and oxen, and he asses, menseruauntes, & maydeseruauntes, she asses and camelles

² And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe, she is my syster: And Abimelech kyng of Gerar sent, and fet Sara away

¹¹ Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake

⁹ Is not the whole lande before thee? Seperate thy selfe I pray thee from me: yf thou wilt take the left hande, I wyll go to the ryght: or yf thou depart to the ryght hande, I wyll go to the left

¹⁰ And ye shall dwell with vs, and the lande shalbe before you: dwell, and do your busines therein, and haue possessions therin

⁶ The lande of Egypt is before thee: In the best place of the lande make both thy father and thy brethren dwell, eue in the land of Gosen let them dwel. Moreouer, if thou knowest any man of actiuitie amongest them, make them rulers ouer my [cattell]

⁵ Saide not he vnto me, she is my sister? yea and she her selfe sayde, he is my brother: with a single heart, and innocent handes haue I done this

⁶⁵ (For she said vnto the seruaunt: what man is this, that commeth walkyng against vs in the fielde? And the seruaunt sayd, it is my maister): therfore she toke her vayle and couered her

³ And Ioab aunswered: The Lorde make his people an hundred times so many mo as they be: But my lorde, O king, are they not all my lordes seruauntes? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will my lorde be a cause of trespasse to Israel ⁴ Neuerthelesse the kinges word preuayled against Ioab: And Ioab departed, and walked throughout all them of Israel, and came to Hierusalem againe ⁵ And gaue the summe of the number of the people vnto Dauid: And all they of Israel were a thousande thousand and an hundred thousande men that drue sworde: and Iuda was foure hundred threescore and ten thousande men that drue sworde ⁶ But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them: For the kinges word was abhominable to Ioab

⁸ Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe thee euyll will: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wyll loue thee ⁹ Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge

¹ Who so loueth correction loueth knowledge: but he that hateth to be reproued is a foole

¹² Who so reproueth a wyse man that hath an obedient eare, is as a golden earring, and an ornament of fine golde

⁵ Open rebuke, is better then secrete loue

⁶ And the shippe maister came to him, and saide: What meanest thou sleeper? Up, and call vpon thy God, if so be that God wyl shine vnto vs, that we perishe not

¹⁹ As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: Be feruent therfore, & repent

³¹ When the Lorde sawe that Lea was despised, he made her fruitfull, and Rachel remayned baren

¹¹ And so they sent, and gathered together al the lordes of the Philistines, and saide: Send away the arke of the God of Israel, to go agayne to his owne place, that it slea vs not, and our people. For there was a destruction and death thorowout all the citie, and the hand of God was exceeding sore there ¹² And the men that dyed not, were smitten with the emerodes: And the crye of the citie went vp to heauen

¹⁰ That they may haue to offer sweete sauours vnto the God of heauen, & pray for the kinges lyfe, and for his children

⁹ So Eliphas the Themanite, and Bildad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite, went and did according as the Lorde commaunded them: the Lorde also accepted the person of Iob ¹⁰ And the Lorde tourned the captiuitie of Iob when he prayed for his friendes: Yea the Lorde gaue Iob twyse as much as he had afore

⁸ The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym

²⁹ The Lorde is farre from the vngodly: but he heareth the prayer of the ryghteous

¹¹ Thus saith the Lorde, euen the holy one and maker of Israel: Aske me of thinges for to come concerning my sonnes, and put me in remembraunce as touching the workes of my handes

⁷ Aske, and it shalbe geuen you: seke, and ye shall fynde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you

²² And all thynges, whatsoeuer ye aske in prayer, beleuyng, ye shall receaue them

²⁴ All the prophetes also fro Samuel & thencefoorth, as many as haue spoken, haue lykewise tolde you of these dayes

⁶ Be carefull for nothyng: but in all thynges, let your petition be manifest vnto God, in prayer and supplication with geuyng of thankes

²⁵ Brethren, pray for vs

¹⁶ Knowledge your faultes one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: For ye feruent prayer of a ryghteous man auayleth much

² And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: beholde, nowe the Lorde hath restrayned me, that I can not beare, I pray thee go in to my mayde, it may be that I may be builded by her: and Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai

² And Iacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe

⁶ And her enemie [Phenenna] vexed her sore, forasmuche as she vpbrayded her, because the Lord had made her barren

¹⁰ Therfore they sent the arke of God to Acaron: and assoone as the arke of God came to Acaron, the Acaronites cryed out, saying: They haue brought the arke of the God of Israel to vs, to slea vs, and our people