A13203:235
[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 .xxiiij. Chapter
Abraham was old and stricken in days / and the LORD had blessed him in allthings. And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hand under my thy that I may make the swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth / that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son / of the daughters of the canaanites / among which I dwell. But shalt goo unto my country and to my kindred / and there take a wife unto my son Isaac.
ABraham was olde and stryken in dayes / and the LORde had blessed him in allthinges. And he sayde vnto his eldest servaunte of his house which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hande vnder my thye that I maye make the swere by the LORde that is God of heauen and God of the erth / that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne / of the doughters of the canaanytes / amonge which I dwell. But shalt goo vnto my contre and to my kynred / and there take a wyfe vnto my sonne Isaac.
Than said the servant unto him: what and if the woman will not agree to come with me unto this land / shall I bring thy son again unto the land which thou camest out of▪ And Abraham said unto him: beware of that / that thou b••ge not my son thither. The LORD God of heaven which toke me from my fathers