A13203:1307
[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 of Gerson came the kindred of y• Libnites and the Semeites / which are the kindreds of the Gersonites. And the sum of them (when all the males were told) from a month old and above / were .vij. thousand and five hundred. And the kindreds of the Gersonites pitched behind the habitation west ward. And the captain of the must aw•cient ⟨p. vij⟩house among the Gersonires / was Eliasaph the son of La•l. And the office of the children of Gerson in the tabernacle of witness was the habitation and the tent with the covering thereof and the hanging of the door of the tabernacle of witness / and the hangings of the court / and the curtain of the door of the court: which court went round about the dwelling / and the alter / and the cords that pertained unto all the service thereof
And of Gerson came the kynred of y• Libnites and the Semeites / which are the kynredes of the Gersonites. And ye summe of them (when all the males were tolde) from a moneth olde and aboue / were .vij. thousande and fyue hundred. And the kynredes of the Gersonites pitched behynde the habitacion west warde. And the captayne of the must aw•ciēt ⟨p. vij⟩housse amonge ye Gersonires / was Eliasaph the sonne of La•l. And the office of the childern of Gerson in the tabernacle of witnesse was the habitacion and the tente with the coueringe theroff and the hangynge of the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse / and the hangynges of the courte / and the curtayne of the dore of the courte: which courte went rounde aboute the dwellynge / and the alter / and the cordes yt perteyned vnto all the seruyce therof
And of Cahath came the kindred of y• Amramites and the kindred of the Jezeharites & of the Hebronites and of the Usielites: And these are the kindreds of y Cahathites. And the number of all the males from a month old and above / was .viij. thousand and six hundred: which waited on the holy place. And the kindred of the children of Cahath / pitched on y southsyde of y dwelling And y captain in y most ancient house of the kindreds of the Cahathites / was Elizaphan the son of Usiel / and their office was: the ark / the table / the candlestick / and the alter and the holy vessels to minister with and the veil with all that served there to. And Eleazar y son of Aaron the priest / was captain over all the captains of the Levites / and had the over sight of them that waited upon the holy things.