A13203:1279
[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 were counsellors of the congregation and lords in the tribes of their fathers & captains over thousands in Israel. And Moses and Aaron roke these men above named and gathered all the congregation together / the first day of the second month / and reckoned them after their birth & kindreds and houses of their fathers by name from .xx. year & above head by head: as the Lord commanded Moses / even so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
These were councelers of the congregacion and lordes in the trybes of their fathers & captaynes ouer thousandes in Israel. And Moses and Aaron roke these men aboue named and gathered all the congregacion together / the fyrst daye of the seconde moneth / and rekened them after their byrth & kinredes and houses of their fathers by name frō .xx. yere & aboue hed by hed: as the Lorde cōmaunded Moses / euē so he numbred them in ye wildernesse of Sinai.
And the children of Reuben Israels eldest son in their generations / kindreds and houses of their fathers / when they were numbered every man by name / all that were males from xx. year and above / as many as were able to goo forth in war: were numbered in the tribe off Reuben / xlvi. thousand and fine hundred.
And the childern of Ruben Israels eldest sonne in their generacions / kynredes ād houses of their fathers / whē they were numbred eueryman by name / all that were males frō xx. yere and aboue / as many as were able to goo forth in warre: were numbred in the trybe off Ruben / xlvi. thousande and fyne hundred.
Among the children of Simeon: their generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when every mans name was told) of all the males from .xx. years and above / whatsoever was mete for the war: were numbered in the tribe of Simeon .lix. thousand and .iij. hundred.