A13203:1318
[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 thou shalt number the sons of Merari in their kindreds and in the houses of the ir fathers / from .xxx. years and above unto .l. All that is able to goo forth in war / to do the service of the tabernacle of witness. And this is the charge that they must wait ⟨p. x⟩upon in all that they must serve in the tabernacle of witness. The boards of the dwelling / and the bars / pillars / and sockets thereof / and the pillars of the court round about / and their sockets / pins and cords with all that pertaineth and serveth unto them. And by name ye shall reckon the things that they must wait upon to bear. This is the service of the kindreds of the sons of Merari in all their service in the tabernacle of witness by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
And thou shalt numbre the sonnes of Merari in their kynredes and in the houses of the ir fathers / from .xxx. yeres and aboue vnto .l. All that is able to goo forth in warre / to doo the seruyce of the tabernacle of witnesse. And this is the charge that they must wayte ⟨p. x⟩vppon in all that they must serue in the tabernacle of witnesse. The bordes of the dwellynge / and the barres / pylers / and sokettes thereof / and the pylers of the courte rounde aboute / and their sokettes / pynnes and cordes with all that pertayneth and serueth vnto them. And by name ye shall reken the thynges that they must wayte apon to bere. Thys is the seruyce of the kynreddes of the sonnes of Merari in all theyr seruyce in the tabernacle of witnesse by the hande of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the preast.
And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the multitude numbered the sons of the Cahathites in their kindreds and houses of their fathers / from .xxx. year and above unto fifty / all that were able to goo forth in the host and to do service in the tabernacle of witness. And the number of them in their kindreds were two thousand / seven hundred and .l. These are the numbers of the kindreds of the Cahathites / of all that did service in the tabernacle of witness / which Moses and Aaron did number at the commandment of the Lord by the hā de of Moses.