A13203:162
[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 .xvi. Chapter.
Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children. But she had an hand maid an Egyptian / whose name was •agar. Wherefore she said unto Abram. Behold the LORD hath closed me / that I can not bear. I pray the god in unto my maid / peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her And Abram heard the voice of Sarai. Than Sarai Abrams wife toke Hagar her maid the Egyptian (after Abram had dwelled▪ •. year •n the land of Canaan and gave her to her husband Abram / to be his wife.
SArai Abrams wyfe bare him no childerne. But she had an hand mayde an Egiptian / whese name was •agar. Wherfore she sayde vnto Abram. Beholde the LORde hath closed me / that I can not bere. I praye the god in vnto my mayde / peraduēture I shall be multiplyed by meanes of her And Abram herde the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai Abrams wife toke Hagar hyr mayde the Egitian (after Abram had dwelled▪ •. yere •n the lande of Canaan• and gaue her to hyr husbonde Abram / to be his wyfe.
And he went in unto Hagar / & she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived ⟨image 28⟩her mistress was despised in her sight. Than said Sarai unto Abram: Thou dost me unright / for I have given my maid into thy bosom: & now because she seeth that she hath conceived / I am despised in her sight: the LORD judge between thee and me. Than said Abram to Sarai behold / thy maid is in thy hand / do with her as it pleaseth thee.