A13203:326
[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.
And the messengers came again to Jacob saying: we came unto thy brother Esau / and he cometh against thee and .iiij. hundred men with him. Than was Jacob greatly afraid / and wist not which way to turn him self / and divided the people that was with him & the sheep / oxen and camels / in to .ij. companies / and said If Esau come to the one part and smite it / the other may save it self.
And the messengers came agayne to Iacob sainge: we came vnto thi brother Esau / and he cometh ageynst the and .iiij. hundred men with hī. Than was Iacob greatlye afrayde / and wist not which waye to turne him selfe / and devyded the people that was with him & the shepe / oxen and camels / in to .ij. companies / and sayder Yf Esau come to the one parte and smyte it / the other may saue it selfe.
*And Jacob said: O god of my father Abraham / and God of my father Isaac: LORD which saidest unto me / return unto thy country and to thy kindred / and I will deal well with thee. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan / and now have I gotten .ij. droves Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau / for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with the children. Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good / and wouldest make •• seed as the sound of the see which can not be numbered for multitude.
*And Iacob sayde: O god of my father Abraham / and God of my father Isaac: LORde which saydest vnto me / returne vnto thy cuntre and to thy kynrede / and I will deall wel with the. I am not worthy of the leaste of all the mercyes and treuth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunte. For with my staf came I over this Iordane / and now haue I goten .ij. droves Delyver me from the handes of my brother Esau / for I feare him: lest he will come and smyte the mother with the childern. Thou saydest that thou woldest surely do me good / and woldest make seed as the sonde of the see which can not be nombred for multitude.