A13203:118
[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.
And all the world was of one tongue and one language. And as they came from the east / they found a plain ⟨image 22⟩in the land of Shinar / and there they dwelled. And they said one to another: come on / let us make brick and burn it with fire. So brick was there stone and slime was there mortar And they said: Come on / let us build us a city and a tour / that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name / for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth.
ANd all the world was of one tonge and one language. And as they came from the east / they founde a playne ⟨image 22⟩in the lande of Synear / and there they dwelled. And they sayd one to another: come on / let us make brycke ād burne it wyth fyre. So brycke was there stone and slyme was there morter And they sayd: Come on / let vs buylde vs a cyte and a toure / that the toppe may reach vnto heauen. And let vs make us a name / for perauenture we shall be scatered abrode over all the erth.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tour which the children of Anā had builded. And the LORD said: See / the people is one and have one tongue among them all. And this have they begun to do / and will not leave of from all that they have purposed to do. Come on / let us descend and mingle their tongue even there / that one understand not what another sayeth. Thus y• LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left of to build the city. Wherefore the name of it is called Babel / because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world. And because that the LORD from thence / scattered them abroad upon all the earth.
And the LORde came downe to see the cyte and the toure which the childern of Anā had buylded. And the LORde sayd: See / the people is one and haue one tonge amonge them all. And thys haue they begon to do / and wyll not leaue of from all that they haue purposed to do. Come on / let vs descende and myngell theire tonge even there / that one vnderstonde not what another sayeth. Thus y LORde skatered them from thence vppon all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cyte. Wherfore the name of it is called Babell / because that the LORDE there confounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from thence / skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.