A13203:1406
[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.
¶ The .xiiij. Chapter.
And all the multitude cried out / & the people wept through out that night / & all the children of Israel murmured against Moses & Aaron. And the hole congregation said unto them: would god that we had dyed in the loud of Egypt / ether we would that we had dyed in this wilderness. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword / that both our wy•es / & also our children should be a pray? is it not better that we return unto Egypt again? And they said one to another: let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again.
ANd all the multitude cryed out / & the people wepte thorow out that nyght / & all the childern of Ysrael murmured agenst Moses & Aaron. And the hole congregacion sayed vnto them: wolde god that we had dyed in the loud of Egipte / ether we wolde that we had dyed in thys wildernesse. Wherfore hath the Lorde broughte vs vnto this londe to fall apon the swerde / that both oure wy•es / & also oure childrē shulde be a praye? is it not better that we returne vnto Egipte agayne? And they sayde one to another: let vs make a captayne and returne vnto Egipte agayne.
And Moses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the multitude of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun / and Caleb the son of Jephune which were of them that searched the land rent their clothes and spake unto all the company of the children of Israel saying: The land which we walked through to search it / is a very good land. If the Lord have lust to us / he will bring us in to this land & give it us / which is a land y floweth with milk & honey. But in any wise rebel not against