Genesis 30 Cross References - Bishops

¹ Rachel when she sawe that she bare Iacob no children, she enuied her sister, and sayde vnto Iacob: Geue me children, or els I am but dead ² And Iacobs anger was kyndled agaynst Rachel, and sayde: Am I in Gods steade, whiche kepeth from thee the fruite of thy wombe ³ Then she sayde: Here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my knees, that I also may haue chyldren by her ⁴ And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her ⁵ And Bilha conceaued, and bare Iacob a sonne ⁶ Then saide Rachel: God hath geuen sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath geuen me a sonne: therfore called she hym Dan ⁷ And Bilha Rachels seruant conceaued againe, & bare Iacob another sonne ⁸ And Rachel said: With godly wrastlynges haue I wrastled with my sister, & haue gotten the vpper hande: and she called his name Nephthali ⁹ When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe ¹⁰ And Zilpha Leas mayde bare Iacob a sonne ¹¹ Then sayde Lea, Good lucke: and called his name Gad ¹² And Zilpha Leas seruaunt bare Iacob an other sonne ¹³ Then saide Lea: happy am I, for the daughters wyll call me blessed: and called his name Aser ¹⁴ And Ruben went out in the dayes of the wheate haruest, & founde Mandragoras in the fielde, and brought them vnto his mother Lea. Then said Rachel to Lea: Geue me I praye thee of thy sonnes Mandragoras ¹⁵ To whom Lea aunswered: Is it not enough that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away my sonnes Mandragoras also? Then saide Rachel: well, let hym sleepe with thee this night for thy sonnes Mandragoras ¹⁶ And Iacob came from the fielde at euen, and Lea went out to meete hym, and sayde: thou shalt come in to me, for I haue bought thee in deede with my sonne Mandragoras. And he slept with her that same nyght ¹⁷ And God hearde Lea, that she conceaued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne ¹⁸ Then sayde Lea: God hath geuen me a rewarde, because I gaue my mayden to my husbande: and she called him Isachar ¹⁹ And Lea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixt sonne ²⁰ And Lea sayde: God hath endued me with a good dowrie, nowe wyll my husbande dwell with me, because I haue borne hym sixe sonnes: and called his name Zabulon ²¹ After that, she bare a daughter, and called her name Dina ²² And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull ²³ So that she conceaued & bare a sonne: and sayde, God hath taken awaye my rebuke ²⁴ And she called his name Ioseph, saying: the Lorde geue me yet another sonne ²⁵ Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey ²⁶ Geue me my wyues and my chyldren for whom I haue serued thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee ²⁷ To whom Laban aunswered: I pray thee, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght [tary]: for I haue proued that the Lorde blessed me for thy sake ²⁸ Also he sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue [it thee. ²⁹ But he saide vnto him: Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee, and in what takyng thy cattell haue ben vnder me ³⁰ For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also ³¹ And he sayde: What shall I then geue thee? And Iacob aunswered, Thou shalt geue me nothyng at all: yf thou wylt do this thyng for me, then wyll I turne agayne, feede thy sheepe, and kepe them ³² I wyll go about all thy flockes this day, and seperate from them all the cattell that are spotted & of diuers colours: and all the blacke among the sheepe, & the partie & spotted amongst the kiddes [the same] shalbe my rewarde ³³ So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me ³⁴ And Laban sayde: go to, would God it myght be accordyng to thy saying ³⁵ Therfore he toke out the same day the hee goates that were ryngstraked and of diuers colours, & all the shee goates that were spotted and coloured, and all that had whyte in them, & all the blacke amongst the sheepe, and put them in the kepyng of his sonnes ³⁶ And set three dayes iourney betwixte himselfe and Iacob: and so Iacob kept the rest of Labans sheepe ³⁷ Iacob toke roddes of greene populer, hasell, and chesse nut trees, and pilled whyte strakes in them, and made the whyte appeare in the roddes ³⁸ And put the roddes which he had pilled, [euen] before the sheepe, in the gutters and watryng throughes when the sheepe came to drynke, that they should conceaue when they came to drynke ³⁹ And the sheepe conceaued before the roddes, & brought foorth lambes ryngstraked, spotted, and partie ⁴⁰ And Iacob did seperate these lambes, and turned the faces of the sheepe whiche were in the flocke of Laban, towarde these ryngstraked, and al maner of blacke: and so put his owne flockes by them selues, and put them not with Labans cattell ⁴¹ And in euery conceauyng tyme of the stronger cattel, Iacob layed the roddes before the eyes of the cattell in the gutters, namely that they myght conceaue before the roddes ⁴² But when the cattell were feeble, he put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs ⁴³ And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattell, and mayde seruauntes, and man seruauntes, and camels, and asses

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

¹⁶ And they departed from Bethel: and when he was but a fielde breadth from Ephrath, Rachel began to trauell, and in trauayling, she was in perill ¹⁷ And as she was in paynes of her labour, the midwife saide vnto her: feare not, for this sonne is thyne also ¹⁸ Then as her soule was a departing (for she died) she called his name Benoni, but his father called hym Beniamin ¹⁹ And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, whiche is Bethlehem

¹¹ And his brethren enuied hym: but his father noted the saying

¹⁵ If thou deale thus with me, kyll me I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, yt I see not my wretchednesse

²⁹ And Moyses sayd vnto hym: Enuiest thou for my sake? woulde God that all the Lordes people could prophesie, and that the Lorde woulde put his spirite vpon them

⁴ And it fel on a day, that Elkana offered, and gaue to Phenenna his wyfe, and to all her sonnes and daughters, portions ⁵ But vnto Hanna he gaue a worthy portion: for he loued Hanna, & the Lorde had made her barren ⁶ And her enemie [Phenenna] vexed her sore, forasmuche as she vpbrayded her, because the Lord had made her barren ⁷ (And so dyd he yere by yere) and as oft as she wet vp to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept, and dyd not eate ⁸ Then sayde Elkana her husband to her: Hanna, why wepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thine hearte troubled? Am not I better to thee then ten sonnes

⁴ But he him selfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sat downe vnder a Iuniper tree, and desired for his soule that he might dye, and sayde: It is nowe enough O Lorde, take my soule, for I am not better then my fathers

¹ After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day ² And Iob aunswered, and sayde ³ Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued

¹¹ [Alas] why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of [my mothers] wombe

²⁰ Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes ²¹ Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures ²² Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue

² As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant

¹⁹ What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye

¹⁶ They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes: [and] at Aaron the saint of God

³⁰ A mery heart is the lyfe of the body: but enuie consumeth away the bones

⁴ Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of labour that euery man taketh in hande, was done of enuie agaynst his neighbour: This is also a vayne thyng, and a vexation of mynde

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth ¹⁵ Cursed be the man that brought my father the tidinges to make hym gald, saying, Thou hast begotten a sonne ¹⁶ Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling ¹⁷ Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her ¹⁸ Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame

³ He left Iurie, and departed agayne into Galilee

⁸ For his disciples were gone away, vnto the towne to bye meate

³ For ye are carnal. Seing then, there is among you enuying, & stryfe, and sectes, are ye not carnall, and walke as men

¹⁰ For godly sorowe, causeth repentaunce vnto saluatio, not to be repented of: but the sorowe of the world causeth death

²¹ Enuyinges, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonies, and such lyke: of the whiche I tell you before, as I haue tolde you in tyme past, that they which do suche thinges, shall not inherite the kingdome of God

³ For we our selues also were some tyme foolyshe, disobedient, deceaued, seruyng diuers lustes & voluptuousnes, lyuyng in maliciousnesse and enuie, full of hate, hatyng one another

¹⁴ But yf ye haue bitter enuiyng & strife in your hearte, glorie not, neither be lyers agaynst the trueth

⁵ Either do ye thynke that the scripture sayth in vayne, the spirite that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie

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

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

²¹ And Isahac made intercession vnto the Lorde for his wyfe, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of hym, and Rebecca his wyfe conceaued

³⁶ And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban. Iacob also aunswered and sayd to him: what haue I trespassed? or what haue I offended thee, that thou doest sore pursue after me

¹⁹ To whom Ioseph sayde: Feare not, am I God

¹⁹ And assoone as he came nigh vnto the hoast, he sawe the calfe, and the daunsing: and Moyses wrath waxed whot, and he cast the tables out of his handes, and brake them beneath the hyll

¹³ He wyll loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he wyll also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy lande, thy corne, thy wine, and thine oyle, and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe, in the lande which he sware vnto thy fathers to geue thee ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed aboue all nations: there shalbe neither man nor woman vnfruitfull among you, nor any of your cattell shalbe barren

⁵ But vnto Hanna he gaue a worthy portion: for he loued Hanna, & the Lorde had made her barren

⁵ They that were full, haue hyred out them selues for bread, and they that were hungry, ceasse, tyll the barren hath borne seuen, and she that had many children, is waxed feeble ⁶ The Lord kylleth and maketh alyue, bryngeth downe to the graue & fetcheth vp agayne

⁷ And it fortuned, that when the king of Israel had red the letter, he rent his clothes, and saide: Am I God, that I should slay, and make a lyue? For he doth send to me that I should delyuer a man from his leprosie: Wherefore consider I pray you, & see how he seeketh a quarell against me

⁹ (113:8) He maketh the barren woman to kepe house: and to be a ioyful mother of children. Prayse ye the Lorde

³ Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde

²² But I say vnto you, that who so euer is angry with his brother, vnaduisedly, shalbe in daunger of iudgement. And who so euer shall say vnto his brother, racha, shalbe in daunger of a councell: But, whosoeuer shall saye (thou) foole, shalbe in daunger of hell fire

⁵ And when he had loked rounde about on them with anger, mournyng for the hardnesse of their heartes, he sayth to the man: stretch foorth thyne hande. And he stretched it out: And his hande was restored, euen as whole as the other

⁴² And she cryed with a loude voyce, and saide: Blessed art thou among women, because ye fruite of thy wombe is blessed

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sinne not, let not the sunne go downe vpon your wrath

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 ³ And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe

⁹ When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe

²³ And Ioseph sawe Ephraims children euen vnto the thirde generation: and vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses, were chyldren borne on Iosephes knees

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, sayde, We are witnesses: The Lord make the woma that is come into thyne house, lyke Rahel and Lea, whiche twayne dyd buylde the house of Israel: & that thou mayest do worthyly in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem

¹² Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes

³ And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe ⁴ And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceaued. And when she sawe that she had conceaued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes

¹⁰ Wherfore she sayd vnto Abraham: cast out this bond woman, & her sonne: for the sonne of this bonde woman, shal not be heyre with my sonne Isahac

²⁴ And his concubine called Reumah, she bare also Tebah, & Gaham, Thahas, and Maacha

¹ Abraham proceeded further, and toke hym another wyfe, called Cetura

⁶ But vnto the sonnes of the concubines whiche Abraham had, he gaue gyftes, and sent them away from Isahac his sonne (whyle he yet lyued) eastwarde vnto the east countrey

² And he put the handmaydens & theyr chyldren formost, and Lea and her children after, and Rachel and Ioseph hindermost

²² And as Israel dwelt in that land, Ruben went and lay with Bilha his fathers concubine: And it came to Israels eare. The sonnes of Iacob were twelue in number

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

³² And Lea conceaued and bare a sonne, and she called his name Ruben: for she sayde, the Lord hath loked vpon my tribulation: nowe therfore my husband wyll loue me ³³ And she conceaued agayne, and bare a sonne, & sayde: The Lorde hath hearde that I am despised, and hath therefore geuen me this [sonne] also: and she called his name Simeon ³⁴ And she conceaued yet, & bare a sonne, and sayde: Nowe this once wyll my husbande kepe me company, because I haue borne him three sonnes: and therfore was his name called Leui ³⁵ And she conceaued yet agayne, and bare hym a sonne, saying: Nowe wyll I prayse the Lorde. Therefore she called his name Iuda, & left bearyng

²⁵ And the sonnes of Bilha Rachels handmayde: Dan and Nephthali

²³ And the children of Dan: Husim

¹⁶ Dan shall iudge his people, and one of the tribes of Israel ¹⁷ Dan shalbe a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, bytyng ye horse heeles, and his ryder fell backewarde

²² And vnto Dan he sayde: Dan is a Lions whelpe, he shal leape fro Basan

²⁴ Iudge me according to thy righteousnesse O God my Lorde: and let them not triumph ouer me

¹ Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man

² Then I got me a girdle accordyng to the commaundement of the Lorde, and put it about my loynes

²⁴ Therfore wyll I scatter them like as the stubble that is taken away with the south wynde

¹⁴ And I wyll bryng thee with thine enemies into a lande that thou knowest not: for the fire that is kindled in myne indignation shall burne you vp ¹⁵ O Lorde thou knowest, therfore remember me, and visite me, reuenge me of my persecutours: take me not from this life in the tyme of thine anger, thou knowest that for thy sake I suffer rebuke ¹⁶ When I had founde thy wordes I did eate them vp greedyly, they haue made my heart ioyfull and glad: for thy name was called vpon me O Lorde God of hoastes ¹⁷ I dwell not among the scorners, neither is my delight therin: but I dwell alone because of thy hande, for thou hast fylled me with bitternesse ¹⁸ Shall my heauinesse endure for euer? Are my plagues then so great that they may neuer be healed? Wylt thou be as one that is false, and as a water that falleth, and can not continue ¹⁹ Upon these wordes, thus sayde the Lorde vnto me, If thou wylt turne agayne, I shall set thee in my seruice, and yf thou wylt take out the thynges that is precious from the vile, thou shalt be euen as myne owne mouth: they shall conuert vnto thee, but turne not thou vnto them ²⁰ And so shall I make thee a strong brasen wall agaynst this people, they shall fyght agaynst thee, but they shall not preuayle: for I my selfe wyll be with thee, to helpe thee and deliuer thee, saith the Lorde

⁵⁹ O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee

⁶ Heare vs my Lorde, thou art a prince of God amongest vs, in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbyd thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead [therin.

²⁴ And Iacob was left hym selfe alone: and there wrasteled a man with hym, vnto the breakyng of the day ²⁵ And when he sawe that he coulde not preuayle agaynst hym, he smote hym vpon the hucklebone of his thigh, and the hucklebone of Iacobs thigh loosed out of ioynt as he wrastled with him

²⁴ The children of Naphthali: Iahseel, and Guni, Ieser, and Sillem

²¹ Nephthalim is a hynde sent for a present geuyng goodly wordes

²⁸ Pray ye vnto the Lorde, that these thundringes of God and hayle may be sufficient, and I will let you go, and ye shall tary no longer

²³ And vnto Nephthali he sayde: O Nephthali, satisfied with Gods fauour, and full with the blessing of the Lorde, possesse thou the west and the south

¹⁵ And there was a feare in the hoast, in the field, & among al ye people: insomuch that they that were gone out of the garrison to robbe, were afrayde also, & the earth trembled, for the feare that was sent of God

¹³ And left Nazareth, and went & dwelt in Capernaum, whiche is (a citie) vpon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim

³ And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe

³⁵ And she conceaued yet agayne, and bare hym a sonne, saying: Nowe wyll I prayse the Lorde. Therefore she called his name Iuda, & left bearyng

⁴ And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her

¹⁷ And God hearde Lea, that she conceaued, and bare Iacob the fift sonne

²⁶ And the sonnes of Zilpha Leas handmayde: Gad and Aser: These are the sonnes of Iacob which were borne him in Mesopotamia

¹⁶ The children of Gad: Siphion, and Haggi, Suni, and Esbon, Eri, & Arodi, and Areli

¹⁹ Gad, an hoast of men shall ouercome hym: but he shall ouercome [him] at the last

²⁰ And vnto Gad he sayde: Blessed be he that inlarged Gad: he dwelleth as a Lion that catcheth for a pray the arme with the head ²¹ He loked to hym selfe at the beginning, because there was a portion of the lawgeuer hid, & he came with the heades of the people, and executed the ryghteousnesse of the Lorde, and his iudgementes with Israel

¹¹ But as for you, ye are they that haue forsaken the Lorde, and forgotten my holy hyll: ye haue set vp an aulter vnto Iupiter, and geuen riche drinke offeringes vnto the planets

¹⁷ The children of Aser: Imnah, and Iisuah, and Iisui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the chyldren of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel

²⁰ Out of the fat [lande] of Aser shalbe his bread, and he shall geue pleasures for a kyng

²⁴ And to Aser he sayde: Aser shalbe blessed with children, he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethren, and shall dyp his foote in oyle ²⁵ Thy shoes shalbe iron and brasse, and thy strength shall continue as long as thou lyuest

²⁸ Her children arise vp & call her blessed: and her husbande shall make much of her

⁹ One is my doue, one is my dearlyng: She is the only beloued of her mother, and deare vnto her that bare her: When the daughters sawe her, they sayde she was blessed, yea the queenes & wiues praysed her

⁴⁸ For he hath loked on the lowe degree of his handmayden: For loe, now from hencefoorth shal all generations call me blessed

³⁰ And Esau sayd to Iacob: feede me I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for I am fayntie: and therfore was his name called Edom

¹³ the Mandragoras geue their sweete smell, and besyde our doores are all maner of pleasaunt fruites both newe and olde, which I haue kept for thee O my beloued

⁹ Seemeth it but a small thyng vnto you, that the God of Israel hath seperated you from the multitude of Israel, and brought you to hym selfe, to do the seruice of the tabernacle of the Lorde, and to stande before the multitude, and to minister vnto them ¹⁰ He hath taken thee to hym, and all thy brethren the sonnes of Leui with thee: and seeke ye the office of the priest also

¹³ Is it a small thyng, that thou hast brought vs out of the land that floweth with mylke and honie, to kyll vs in the wildernesse: except thou make thy selfe lorde and ruler ouer vs also

¹³ The prophete aunswered, Then heare ye of the house of Dauid: Is it not inough for you that ye be greeuous vnto me, but ye must greeue my God also

⁴⁷ Yet hast thou not walked after their wayes, nor done after their abhominations, as a litle and a litle: but in all thy wayes thou hast ben more corrupt then they

³ With me it is but a very small thyng that I shoulde be iudged of you, either of mans iudgement: No, I iudge not mine owne selfe

⁶ Then saide Rachel: God hath geuen sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath geuen me a sonne: therfore called she hym Dan

²² And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull

⁷ And the Lorde saide: I haue surely seene the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie from the face of their taske maisters: for I knowe their sorowes

²⁰ For in processe of time it came to passe, that she conceaued, and bare a sonne, & called his name Samuel, [saying:] Because I haue asked him of the Lorde

²⁶ And she sayd: Oh my Lorde, as thy soule lyueth my Lorde, I am the woman that stoode before thee here praying vnto the Lorde ²⁷ For this lad I prayed, and the Lorde hath geuen me my desyre whiche I asked of him

¹³ But the Angel sayde vnto him: Feare not Zacharie, for thy prayer is hearde: and thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare thee a sonne, & thou shalt cal his name Iohn

²³ The sonnes of Lea: Ruben Iacobs first borne sonne, and Simeon, & Leui, and Iuda, and Isachar, and Zabulon

¹³ And the children of Isachar: Thola, Puuah, and Iob, and Simron

¹⁴ Isachar [is] a strong asse, couchyng hym downe betweene two burthens ¹⁵ And sawe that rest was good, and the lande that it was pleasaunt: and bowed his shoulder to beare, and became a seruaunt vnto tribute

¹⁸ And vnto Zabulon he sayde: Reioyce Zabulon in thy goyng out, and thou Isachar in thy tentes

³² And of the children of Isachar, which were men that had vnderstanding of the tymes, to knowe what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred: & all their brethren were at their wyll

³⁴ And she conceaued yet, & bare a sonne, and sayde: Nowe this once wyll my husbande kepe me company, because I haue borne him three sonnes: and therfore was his name called Leui

¹⁵ To whom Lea aunswered: Is it not enough that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away my sonnes Mandragoras also? Then saide Rachel: well, let hym sleepe with thee this night for thy sonnes Mandragoras

¹⁴ The chyldren of Zabulon: Sered, and Elon, and Iahelel

¹³ Zabulon shall dwell besyde the hauen of the sea, & nye the haue of shippes, his border shalbe vnto Sidon

¹⁰ And Barak called Zabulon & Nephthalim to Kedes, and led after him ten thousande men: and Debora went vp with him

¹⁴ Out of Ephraim was there a roote of them agaynst Amelek, and after thee Beniamin among thy people: Out of Machir came rulers, and out of Zabulon they that handell the penne of the writer

²⁷ There is litle Beniamin their ruler, & the princes of Iehuda their counsell: the princes of Zabulon [and] the princes of Nepthali

¹ Dina the daughter of Lea, whiche she bare vnto Iacob, went out to see the daughters of the lande ² Whom whe Sichem the sonne of Hemor the Heuite Lorde of the countrey sawe, he toke her, & lay with her, and forced her ³ And his heart laye vnto Dina the daughter of Iacob, and he loued that damsell, and spake kyndly vnto her

²⁶ And slue also Hemor and Sithem his sonne with the edge of the sworde, and toke Dina out of Sichems house, and went theyr way

¹⁵ These be the children of Lea, whiche she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia, with his daughter Dina. All the soules of his sonnes and daughters, [make] thirtie and three

¹ And God remebred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke: and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceassed

¹ The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke ² For Sara conceaued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen the same season whiche the Lorde had appoynted

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

¹⁹ And they rose vp early, & worshipped before the Lorde, and then returned, & came to their house to Ramath: And when Elkana knewe Hanna his wyfe, the Lorde remembred her ²⁰ For in processe of time it came to passe, that she conceaued, and bare a sonne, & called his name Samuel, [saying:] Because I haue asked him of the Lorde

⁴² (105:38) For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt

⁵ But vnto Hanna he gaue a worthy portion: for he loued Hanna, & the Lorde had made her barren ⁶ And her enemie [Phenenna] vexed her sore, forasmuche as she vpbrayded her, because the Lord had made her barren

¹ In that day, seuen women shall take holde of one man, saying: we wyll finde our selues meate and apparell: only let vs be called by thy name, to take our shamefull reproofe [from vs.

²¹ And the people waited for Zacharias, and marueyled that he taried so long in the temple

²⁵ Thus hath the Lorde dealt with me, in the dayes wherein he loked on me, to take fro me my rebuke among men

²⁷ To a virgin, spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph, of the house of Dauid, and the virgins name was Marie

¹⁷ And as she was in paynes of her labour, the midwife saide vnto her: feare not, for this sonne is thyne also ¹⁸ Then as her soule was a departing (for she died) she called his name Benoni, but his father called hym Beniamin

²⁴ The sonnes of Rachel: Ioseph and Beniamin

² These are ye generations of Iacob: when Ioseph was seuenteen yeres olde, he kept sheepe with his brethren, and the ladde was with ye sonnes of Bilha, and with the sonnes of Zilpha, his fathers wyues. And Ioseph brought vnto his father their euyll report

⁴ And when his brethren saw that their father loued hym more then all his brethren, they hated hym, and coulde not speake peaceably vnto hym

¹ Ioseph was brought vnto Egypt, and Putiphar, a Lorde of Pharaos, and his chiefe stewarde, an Egyptian, bought hym of the Ismaelites, whiche had brought hym thyther ² And God was with Ioseph, and he became a luckie man, continuyng in the house of his maister the Egyptian ³ And his maister saw that God was with hym, and that God made all that he dyd to prosper in his hande ⁴ And Ioseph founde grace in his maisters syght, and serued hym: And he made hym ouerseer of his house, & put all that he had in his hande ⁵ And it came to passe from the tyme that he had made hym ouerseer of his house, and ouer all that he had, the Lorde blessed the Egyptians house for Iosephes sake: and the blessyng of the Lorde was vpon all that he had in the house and in the fielde ⁶ And therfore he left all that he had in Iosephes hande: and he knewe nothyng with hym, saue onlye the breade which he dyd eate. And Ioseph was a goodly person, and a well fauoured ⁷ And after this, his maisters wyfe cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide: [come] lye with me ⁸ But he refused, and sayde vnto his maisters wyfe: Beholde, my maister woteth not what he hath in the house with me, and hath committed all that he hath to my hande 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 ¹⁰ And after this maner spake she to Ioseph day by day: but he hearkened not vnto her to sleepe neare her, or to be in her company ¹¹ And on a certaine conuenient day, Ioseph entred into the house to do his businesse, and there was none of the housholde by, in the house ¹² Then she caught him by the garment, saying: lye with me. And he left his garment in her hande, and fledde, and got hym out ¹³ And when she sawe that he had lefte his garment in her hande, and was fled out ¹⁴ She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying: See, he hath brought in an Hebrue vnto vs, to do vs shame: for he came in to me to haue lyen with me, and I began to crie with a loude voyce ¹⁵ And when he hearde that I lyft vp my voyce and cryed, he left his garment with me, & fled away, and got hym out ¹⁶ And she layed vp his garment by her, vntyll her Lorde came home ¹⁷ And she tolde him with these wordes, saying: This Hebrue seruaunt whiche thou hast brought vnto vs, came vnto me to do me shame ¹⁸ But assoone as I lyft vp my voyce and cryed, he left his garment with me, and fledde out ¹⁹ When his maister hearde the wordes of his wyfe whiche she tolde hym, saying, after this maner dyd thy seruaunt to me: he waxed wroth ²⁰ And Iosephes maister toke hym, and put hym in pryson, euen into the place where the kynges prysoners laye bounde: and there continued he in prison ²¹ But the Lord was with Ioseph, and shewed hym mercie, and got hym fauour in the sight of the lord of the prison ²² And the keper of the prison committed to Iosephes hande all the prisoners that were in the prison house, and what so euer was done there, that dyd he ²³ And the keper of the prison loked vnto nothyng that was vnder his hande, seyng that the Lord was with hym: For whatsoeuer he dyd, the Lorde made it to prosper

⁶ And Ioseph was gouernour in the lande, and solde to all the people of the lande. And Iosephes brethren came and bowed them selues with theyr faces downe to the grounde before him

¹ After these deedes, one tolde Ioseph: beholde, thy father is sicke. And he toke with hym his two sonnes, Manasses and Ephraim ² Then this message was declared vnto Iacob: beholde, thy sonne Ioseph cometh vnto thee. And Israel toke his strength vnto hym, and sate vpon the bedde ³ And Iacob sayd vnto Ioseph: God almyghtie appeared vnto me at Luz in the lande of Chanaan, and blessed me, and sayde vnto me ⁴ Beholde, I wyll make thee fruiteful, and cause thee to multiplie, and wyll make a great number of people of thee, and wyll geue this lande vnto thy seede after thee vnto an euerlastyng possession ⁵ And nowe thy two sonnes Manasses and Ephraim, whiche were borne vnto thee in the land of Egypt before I came vnto thee into Egypt, are myne, euen as Ruben and Simeon are mine ⁶ And the children which thou hast gotten after them, shalbe thyne owne, and shalbe called after the names of their brethren in their inheritaunce ⁷ And when I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel dyed vpon my hande in the land of Chanaan, by the way, when there was but a fieldes breadth to come vnto Ephratha: and I buried her there in the waye to Ephratha, the same is Beth-lehem ⁸ And Israel beheld Iosephes sonnes, and sayde: What are these ⁹ Ioseph sayde vnto his father: They are my sonnes whiche God hath geuen me here. And he sayde: Oh bring them to me, and let me blesse them ¹⁰ (And the eyes of Israel were dymme for age, so that he coulde not [well] see) And he brought them to hym, and he kyssed them, and imbraced them ¹¹ And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, I had not thought to haue seene thy face: and yet loe, God hath shewed me also thy seede ¹² And Ioseph toke them away fro his lappe, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the earth ¹³ Then toke Ioseph them both, Ephraim with his ryght hande towarde Israels left hande, and Manasses with his left hande towarde Israels ryght hande, and brought them vnto hym ¹⁴ And Israel stretched out his ryght hande, and layed it vppon Ephraims head, which was the younger: and his left hande vpon Manasses head, guydyng his hande wyttyngly, for Manasses was the first borne ¹⁵ And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day ¹⁶ And the angell which hath deliuered me from al euyl, blesse these laddes, and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham & Isahac, & that they may growe into a multitude in the middes of the earth ¹⁷ When Ioseph sawe that his father layed his ryght hande vpon the head of Ephraim, it displeased hym: and he lift vp his fathers hande, to haue remoued it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head ¹⁸ And Ioseph sayde vnto his father, Not so my father, for this is the first borne: put thy right hande vpon his head ¹⁹ And his father would not, but sayde: I knowe it well my sonne, I knowe it well, he shalbe also a people, and shalbe great: But his younger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall become a great people ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, & saide: In thee let Israel blesse & saye, God make thee as Ephraim, & as Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses ²¹ And Israel said vnto Ioseph: behold I dye, & God shalbe with you, & bryng you againe vnto ye land of your fathers ²² Moreouer, I haue geuen vnto thee a portion of lande aboue thy brethren, which I gat out of the hand of the Amorite in my sworde, and in my bowe

²² Ioseph is lyke a floryshyng bough, a bough floryshyng by a well syde [whose] small boughes ran vpon the wall ²³ The archers haue greeuously prouoked hym, and shot him through with dartes, they haue hated him to his hinderaunce ²⁴ But his bowe abode fast, and the armes of his handes were made strong by the handes of the myghtie God of Iacob: Out of him shal come an heardman, a stone in Israel ²⁵ From thy fathers God which hath helped thee, and from the almyghtie which hath blessed thee with blessinges from heauen aboue, with blessynges of the deepe that lyeth vnder, & with blessynges of the brestes and of the wombe ²⁶ The blessynges of thy fathers shall be stronger then the blessinges of my elders: vnto the vtmost of the hylles of the worlde, they shalbe on the head of Ioseph, and on the toppe of the head of hym that was seperate from his brethren

¹³ And of Ioseph he sayde: Blessed of the Lorde is his lande for the fruites of heauen, through the deawe & springes that lye beneath ¹⁴ And for the sweete fruites of the increase of the sunne, and rype fruites of the moone ¹⁵ For the first fruites of the principall mountaynes, and for the fruites that the hylles bryng foorth for euer ¹⁶ And for the fuites of the earth, and fulnesse therof: and for the good wyll of hym that dwelt in the bushe, shall the blessing come vpon the head of Ioseph, and vpon the toppe of the head of hym that was seperated from among his brethren ¹⁷ His first borne oxe hath beautie, and his hornes are as the hornes of an vnicorne, and with them he shall trouble the nations together, euen vnto the endes of the worlde: These are also ten thousandes of Ephraim, and the thousandes of Manasses

¹⁶ Thou sonne of man, take one sticke, and write vpon it, Unto Iuda and to the children of Israel his companios. Then take another sticke and write vpon it, Unto Ioseph the stocke of Ephraim, & to all the housholde of Israel his companions

⁹ And the patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: and God was with hym ¹⁰ And deliuered hym out of all his aduersities, and gaue hym fauour & wisedome in the syght of Pharao kyng of Egypt: and he made hym gouernour ouer Egypt, & ouer all his housholde ¹¹ But there came a dearth ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan: and great affliction, that our fathers founde no sustenaunce ¹² But when Iacob hearde that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first ¹³ And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephes kinrede was made knowen vnto Pharao ¹⁴ Then sent Ioseph, and caused his father to be brought, and all his kynne, three score and fyfteene soules ¹⁵ And Iacob descended into Egypt, and dyed, both he and our fathers

²¹ By fayth Iacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph, and worshypped towarde the toppe of his scepter ²² By fayth Ioseph when he dyed, remembred the departyng of the chyldren of Israel, and gaue commaundement of his bones

⁸ Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed 12 thousande. Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed 12 thousande. Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed 12 thousand

³³ And the Lorde went his way assoone as he had left communyng with Abraham, and Abraham [also] turned vnto his place

⁶ To whom Abraham aunswered: beware that thou bring not my sonne thyther agayne ⁷ The Lorde God of heauen whiche toke me from my fathers house, & from the land of my kinred, and which spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, vnto thy seede wyll I geue this lande: he shall sende his angell before thee, and thou shalt take a wyfe vnto my sonne from thence

⁵⁴ And they did eate and drinke, both he and the men that were with hym, and taried all night: and when they rose vp in the mornyng, he said: let me depart vnto my maister

⁵⁶ He sayde vnto them: hynder me not, beholde, the Lorde hath prospered my iourney, sende me away therefore, that I may go to my maister

³ Soiourne in this lande, and I wyl be with thee, and wyll blesse thee: for vnto thee and vnto thy seede I wyll geue all these countreys, and I wyll perfourme the othe whiche I sware vnto Abraham thy father

⁴⁴ And tary with him awhyle vntyl thy brothers fiercenesse be swaged ⁴⁵ And vntyll thy brothers wrath turne away from thee, & he forget the thinges which thou hast done to hym: then wyll I sende and fet thee away from thence: why should I be desolate of you both in one day

¹³ Yea, and God from aboue leaned vpon it, and sayde: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac, the land which thou sleepest vpon, wyll I geue thee and thy seede

¹⁵ And see, I am with thee, and wyll be thy keper in all [places] whyther thou goest, and wyll bryng thee agayne into this lande: For I wyl not leaue thee, vntyll I haue made good that whiche I haue promised thee

¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the stone set vp on an ende, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me: nowe therefore aryse, and get thee out of this countrey, and returne vnto the lande where thou wast borne

⁵⁵ And early in the mornyng Laban rose vp, and kyssed his sonnes and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departyng, went into his place agayne

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

⁹ By fayth he remoued into the lande of promise, as into a straunge countrey, whe he had dwelt in tabernacles, with Isaac and Iacob, heires with hym of the same promise

¹⁵ Also yf they had ben myndfull of that [countrey] from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned ¹⁶ But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie

¹⁹ Laban aunswered: It is better that I geue her [vnto] thee, then that I shoulde geue her to another man: abide with me ²⁰ And Iacob serued seuen yere for Rachel: and they seemed vnto hym but a fewe dayes, for the loue he hadde to her

³⁰ So lay he by Rachel also, and loued Rachel more then Lea, and serued hym yet seuen yeres more

²⁹ But he saide vnto him: Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee, and in what takyng thy cattell haue ben vnder me ³⁰ For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also

⁶ And ye knowe howe I haue serued your father to the best of my power

²⁶ And Laban said to Iacob: what hast thou done? for thou hast stollen away my heart, and caryed away my daughters as though they had ben taken captiue with the sworde

³¹ Iacob aunswered and sayde to Laban: because I was afrayde, & thought that peraduenture thou wouldest take away thy daughters from me

³⁸ Behold, this twentie yere haue I ben with thee, thy sheepe and thy goates haue not ben barren, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten ³⁹ Whatsoeuer was torne [of beastes] I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of my hande diddest thou require it that was stolen by day or nyght ⁴⁰ I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes ⁴¹ Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes

¹² Iacob fled into the lande of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheepe.

³ I wyll also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse the that curseth thee: and in thee shall all kinredes of the earth be blessed

³ And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt

²⁴ And the Lorde appeared vnto hym the same night, and sayde: I am the God of Abraham thy father, feare not, for I am with thee, and wyl blesse thee and multiple thy seede for my seruaunt Abrahams sake

³⁰ For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also

¹⁵ And Esau sayd: I will leaue some of my folke with thee. And he aunswered: what needeth it? I shall finde grace in the sight of my Lorde

¹¹ And Sichem said, vnto her father and vnto her brethren: let me finde grace in your eyes, and whatsoeuer ye appoint me, that wyll I geue

² And God was with Ioseph, and he became a luckie man, continuyng in the house of his maister the Egyptian ³ And his maister saw that God was with hym, and that God made all that he dyd to prosper in his hande ⁴ And Ioseph founde grace in his maisters syght, and serued hym: And he made hym ouerseer of his house, & put all that he had in his hande ⁵ And it came to passe from the tyme that he had made hym ouerseer of his house, and ouer all that he had, the Lorde blessed the Egyptians house for Iosephes sake: and the blessyng of the Lorde was vpon all that he had in the house and in the fielde

²⁵ And they aunswered: Thou hast saued our lyues, let vs fynde grace in the syght of my lorde, and we wylbe Pharaos seruauntes

²¹ And I wyll get this people fauour in the syght of the Egyptians, so that when ye go, ye shall not go emptie

¹¹ And Moyses sayde vnto the Lorde: Wherefore hast thou dealt cruelly with thy seruaunt? And wherefore haue I not founde fauour in thy sight, seyng that thou puttest the wayght of all this people vpon me

¹³ Then she sayde: Let me finde fauour in thy sight my lord, thou that hast comforted me, and spoken comfortably vnto thy mayde, whiche yet am not lyke vnto one of thy maydens

²² And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let Dauid nowe remaine with me, for he hath founde fauour in my sight

¹⁹ And Hadad gat great fauour in the sight of Pharao, so that he gaue him to wyfe the sister of his owne wyfe, euen the syster of Thahpenes the queene

¹¹ O Lorde I besech thee, let thyne eare hearken to the prayer of thy seruaunt, and to the prayer of thy seruauntes, whose desire is to feare thy name: and let thy seruaunt prosper this day, and graunt him mercie in the sight of this man. For I was the kinges butler

⁵ And sayd vnto the king: If it please the king, and if thy seruaunt haue founde fauour in thy sight, sende me vnto Iuda vnto the citie of my fathers burialles, that I may buylde it

³ And he shalbe lyke a tree planted by the waters syde, that bryngeth foorth her fruite in due season: and whose leafe wythereth not, for whatsoeuer he doth it shall prosper

¹³ Yet in it shall succeede ten kinges, and it shall returne and be afterwarde wasted: [But] as the Teyle tree and the Oke in the fall of their leaues haue yet the sappe remayning in them, [euen so] the holy seede shalbe the stay therof

⁹ Their seede also and their generation shalbe knowen among the gentiles, and among the people: all they that see them, shall knowe that they are the hye blessed seede of the Lorde

⁸ Moreouer, thus saith the Lord: Like as when newe wine is founde in the cluster, and one saith, Lose it not, for there is blessing therein: euen so wyll I do also for my seruauntes sakes, that I wyll not destroy them all

⁹ (And God brought Daniel into fauour and tender loue with the chiefe chamberlayne.

¹⁰ And deliuered hym out of all his aduersities, and gaue hym fauour & wisedome in the syght of Pharao kyng of Egypt: and he made hym gouernour ouer Egypt, & ouer all his housholde

¹⁵ And Laban said vnto Iacob: Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for naught? Tell me what shall thy wages be

¹⁹ Laban aunswered: It is better that I geue her [vnto] thee, then that I shoulde geue her to another man: abide with me

⁵ And Bilha conceaued, and bare Iacob a sonne

³⁸ Behold, this twentie yere haue I ben with thee, thy sheepe and thy goates haue not ben barren, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten ³⁹ Whatsoeuer was torne [of beastes] I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of my hande diddest thou require it that was stolen by day or nyght ⁴⁰ I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes

⁴⁵ Who is a faythfull and wise seruaunt, whom his Lorde hath made ruler ouer his householde, to geue them meate in season

⁵ Seruauntes obey them that are your bodyly maisters, with feare and tremblyng, in singlenesse of your heart, as vnto Christe ⁶ Not with seruice vnto the eye, as men pleasers: but as the seruautes of Christ ⁷ Doyng the wyll of God fro the heart, with good wyll seruyng the Lorde, and not men ⁸ Knowyng, that whatsoeuer good thyng any man doeth, that shall he receaue agayne of the Lorde, whether [he be] bonde or free

²² Seruauntes, obey in all thynges to your bodyly maisters: not with eye seruice, as men pleasers, but in singlenesse of heart, fearyng God ²³ And whatsoeuer ye do, do it heartilie, as to the Lorde, and not vnto men ²⁴ Knowyng, that of the Lorde ye shall receaue the rewarde of inheritaunce, for ye serue the Lorde Christe ²⁵ But he that doth wrong, shall receaue for the wrong he hath done: And there is no respect of persons

⁹ [Exhort] seruauntes, to be obedient vnto their owne maisters, and to please them in all thynges, not aunsweryng agayne ¹⁰ Neither pickers, but shewing all good faythfulnesse, that they may adourne the doctrine of God our sauiour in all thynges

¹⁵ For so is the wyll of God, that with well doyng, ye may stoppe the mouthes of foolishe and ignoraunt men

¹⁸ Seruauntes, obey your maisters with all feare, not only yf they be good & curteous, but also though they be frowarde

¹⁰ For the lande whyther thou goest to possesse it, is not as the lande of Egypt that ye came out of, where thou sowedst thy seede, and wateredst it with thy feete, as a garden of hearbes

¹⁴ Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren

⁸ But if any prouide not for his owne, and specially for them of his housholde, he hath denyed the fayth, and is worse then an infidell

⁴ The Gibeonites aunswered him: We will haue no siluer nor golde of Saul nor of his house, neither is it our mind that thou shouldest kil any man in Israel. He saide: What you shall say, that will I do for you ⁵ They aunswered the king: The man that consumed vs, and imagined to bring vs to naught, that we are destroyed from remaining in any of the coastes of Israel ⁶ Let seuen men of his sonnes be deliuered vnto vs, & we will hang them vp vnto the Lorde in Gibeah of Saul whom ye Lord did choose. And the king saide: I will geue them you

⁸ It is better to trust in God: then to put any confidence in man

⁵ Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, beyng content with such thynges as ye haue. For he hath sayde: I wyll not fayle thee, neither forsake thee

³⁵ Therfore he toke out the same day the hee goates that were ryngstraked and of diuers colours, & all the shee goates that were spotted and coloured, and all that had whyte in them, & all the blacke amongst the sheepe, and put them in the kepyng of his sonnes

⁸ When he sayde, the spotted shalbe thy wages: then al the sheepe bare spotted. And when he sayd, the ringstraked shalbe thy rewarde: then bare all the sheepe ringstraked

¹⁰ But in rammyng tyme, I lifted vp myne eyes, and sawe in a dreame, and beholde, the Rammes leaped vpon the sheepe that were ringstraked, spotted, and partie

³⁷ Thou hast tossed vp all my stuffe, and what hast thou founde of all thy householde stuffe? put it here before thy brethren and my brethren, that they may iudge betwixt vs both

¹⁴ And when thy sonne aske thee in time to come, saying: what is this? Thou shalt saye vnto hym: With a myghtie hande the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage

²³ The Lorde rewarde euery man according to his righteousnes, and faythfulnesse: For the Lorde deliuered thee into my hand this day, but I would not lay mine hand vpon the Lordes annoynted

²¹ The Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse: accordyng to the purenes of my hands he recompensed me

⁶ He shall make thy righteousnesse appeare as cleare as the light: and thy iust dealing as the noone tyde

¹² For our offences are many before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs: yea we must confesse that we offende, and knowledge that we do amisse

²⁹ And Balaam sayd vnto the asse, Because thou hast mocked me: I would also there were a sworde in myne hande, for euen nowe woulde I kyll thee

⁷ For I woulde that all men were as I my selfe [am:] but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, another after that

⁵ I woulde yt ye al spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: For greater is he that prophesieth, then he that speaketh with tongues, except he expounde it, that the Churche may haue edifiyng

¹² I woulde to God they were cut of which trouble you

⁹ Thus hath God taken away the increase of your fathers flocke, and geuen it to me

⁹ Thus hath God taken away the increase of your fathers flocke, and geuen it to me ¹⁰ But in rammyng tyme, I lifted vp myne eyes, and sawe in a dreame, and beholde, the Rammes leaped vpon the sheepe that were ringstraked, spotted, and partie ¹¹ And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame, saying: Iacob? And I aunswered: here am I ¹² And he sayd: lift vp nowe thyne eyes, and see all the Rammes leapyng vpon the sheepe that are ringstraked, spotted, and partie: for I haue seene all that Laban doth vnto thee ¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the stone set vp on an ende, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me: nowe therefore aryse, and get thee out of this countrey, and returne vnto the lande where thou wast borne

⁸ No Cedar tree might hyde hym in the garden of God, there was no fyrre trees like his braunches, the chestnut trees were not like the bowes of him: all the trees in the garden of God, might not be compared vnto him in his beautie ⁹ Thus hath God taken away the increase of your fathers flocke, and geuen it to me ¹⁰ But in rammyng tyme, I lifted vp myne eyes, and sawe in a dreame, and beholde, the Rammes leaped vpon the sheepe that were ringstraked, spotted, and partie ¹¹ And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame, saying: Iacob? And I aunswered: here am I ¹² And he sayd: lift vp nowe thyne eyes, and see all the Rammes leapyng vpon the sheepe that are ringstraked, spotted, and partie: for I haue seene all that Laban doth vnto thee

³⁸ Behold, this twentie yere haue I ben with thee, thy sheepe and thy goates haue not ben barren, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten

⁴⁰ I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes

⁴² And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isahac had ben with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe all emptie: but God behelde my tribulation and the labour of my handes, and rebuked [thee] yesternyght

³⁵ And the chyldren of Israel dyd accordyng to the saying of Moyses: and they borowed of the Egyptians iewels of siluer, and iewels of golde, and rayment ³⁶ And the Lord gaue the people fauour in the syght of the Egyptians, so that they graunted such thynges as they required: And they robbed the Egyptians

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 Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde

³⁵ And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses

¹³ And the man waxed myghtie, & went foorth, and grewe tyll he was exceeding great ¹⁴ For he had possessio of sheepe, of oxen, and a myghtie housholde: and therfore the Philistines had enuie at hym

⁷ But your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me ⁸ When he sayde, the spotted shalbe thy wages: then al the sheepe bare spotted. And when he sayd, the ringstraked shalbe thy rewarde: then bare all the sheepe ringstraked

¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercyes and trueth whiche thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iordane, & nowe haue I gotten two companies

¹¹ Oh take my blessyng that is brought thee: for God hath had mercy on me, and I haue inough. And so he compelled him, and he toke it

⁷ For theyr ryches was much, and they coulde not dwell together: and the land wherein they were straungers coulde not receaue them, because of theyr possessions

⁷ I bought seruauntes and maydens, and had a great housholde: As for cattel and sheepe, I had more substaunce of them then all they that were before me in Hierusalem

¹⁰ So that they shall els bring no wood from the fielde, neither hew downe any out of the wood: for with weapons shal they make their fire, they shall rob those that robbed them, and spoyle those that spoyled them, sayth the Lorde God