A13203:230
[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 .xxiij. Chapter.
Sarah was an hundred and .xxvij. year old (for so long lived she) and than dyed in a head city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Than Abraham came to mome Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up from the coarse and talked with the sons of heth saying: I am a stranger and a foreigner among you / give me a possession to bury in with you / that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
SAra was an hundred and .xxvij. yere olde (for so longe lyued she) and than dyed in a heade cyte called Hebron in the londe of Canaan. Than Abraham came to mome Sara and to wepe for her. And Abraham stode vp from the coorse and talked with the sonnes of heth saynge: I am a straunger ād a foryner amonge yow / geue me a possession to bury in with you / that I may bury my dead oute of my sighte.
And the children of heth answered Abraham saying unto him: hear us lord / thou art a prince of God among us. In the chefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: None of us shall forbid thee his sepulchre / that thou shouldest not bury thy dead therein. Abraham stood up & bowed him self before y• people of y• land y• children of heth.
And the children of heth answered Abraham saynge vnto him: heare vs lorde / thou art a prynce of God amonge vs. In the chefest of oure sepulchres bury thy dead: None of vs shall forbydd ye his sepulchre / yt thou shuldest not bury thy deade therein. Abrahā stode vp & bowed hī selfe before y• people of y• lāde y• childrē of heth.