A13203:111
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah: of Gem / Ham and Japheth / which begat them children after the flood.
THese are the generations of the sonnes of Noe: of Gem / Ham and Iapheth / which begat them children after the floude.
The sons of Japheth were: Gomer / Magog / Madai / Javan / Tubal / Mesech and Thy ras. And the sons of Gomer were: Ascenas Ripha• and Togarma. And the sons of Javan were: Elisa / Tarshish / Cithim and Dodanim. Of these came the Isles of the gentiles in there countries / every man in his speech / kindred and nation.
The sonnes of Japheth were: Gomyr / Magog / Madai / Jauan / Tuball / Mesech and Thy ras. And the sonnes of Gomyr were: Ascenas Ripha• and Togarma. And the sonnes of Jauan were: Elisa / Tharsis / Cithim and Dodanim. Of these came the Iles of the gentylls in there contres / every man in his speach / kynred and nation.
The sons of Ham were: Chus Misraim Phut and Canaan. The sons of Chus: were Seba / Hevila / Sabta / Rayma and Sab•ema. And the sons of Rayma were: Sheba / & De dan. Chus also begot Nimrod / which began to be mighty in the earth. He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD: Where of came the proverb: he is as Nimrod that mighty hunter in the sight of the LORde. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel / Erech / Achad and Chalne in the land of Shinar: Out of that land came Assur and builded Nineveh / and the city reho both / and Calah And Ressen between Nineveh and Chalah. That is a great city. And Mizraim begat ludim / Enanum / Leabim / Naphtuhim / Pathrusim & Castuhim: from whence came the Philistines / and the Capthherynes.