A13203:1655
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
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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.
Notwithstanding ye would not consent to goo up, but were disobedient unto the mouth of the Lord your God, and murmured in your tents and said: because the Lord hateth us, therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us in to the hands of the Amorites and to destroy us. How shall we goo up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts saying: the people is greater and taller than we, and the cities are great and walked even up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Enakimes there.
Notwithstondinge ye wolde not consente to goo vpp, but were dishobedient vnto the mouth of the Lorde youre God, ād murmured in youre tentes and sayde: because the Lorde hateth us, therfore he hath brought us out of the londe of Egipte, to delyuer us in to the handes of the Amorites and to destroye us. How shall we goo vpp? Oure brethern haue discoraged oure hartes sayenge: the people is greater and taller than we, ād the cities are greatte and walked euen vpp to heauen, and moreouer we haue sene the sonnes of the Enakimes there.
And I said unto you: dread not nor be afraid of them: The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did unto you in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness: as thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee as a man should bear his son, through ⟨p. III⟩out all the way which ye have gone, until ye came unto this place. And yet for all this saying ye did not believe the Lord your God which goeth the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, that ye might see what way to go and in a cloud by day.
And I sayed vnto you: dreade not nor be afrayed of thē: The Lorde youre God which goeth before you, he shall fyghte for you, acordynge to all that he dyd vnto you in Egipte before youre eies ād in the wildernesse: as thou hast sene how that the Lorde thy God bare the as a man shulde beare his sonne, thorow ⟨p. III⟩