A13203:409
[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 there was with us a young man / an Hebrew borne / servant unto the chief marshal. And we told him / and he declared our dreams to us according to ether of our dreams. And as he declared them unto us / even so it came to pass. I was restored to mine office again / and he was hanged.
And there was with vs a yonge man / an Hebrue borne / servaunte vnto the chefe marshall. And we told him / and he declared oure dreames to vs acordynge to ether of oure dreames. And as he declared them vnto vs / euen so it came to passe. I was restored to myne office agayne / and he was hanged.
Than Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of prison. And he shaved himself and changed his raiment / & went in to Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: I have dreamed a dream and no man can interpret it / but I have heard say of the y• as soon as thou hearest a dream / thou dost interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh saying: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace without me.
Than Pharao sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of preson. And he shaued himself and chaunged his rayment / & went in to Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto Joseph: I haue dreamed a dreame and no man cā interpretate it / but I haue herde saye of the y• as soone as thou hearest a dreame / thou dost interpretate it. And Joseph answered Pharao saynge: God shall geue Pharao an answere of peace without me.
Pharaoh said unto Joseph: in my dream me thought I stood by a rivers side / and there came out of the river vij fat fleshed and well favoured kine / and fed in the meadow. And then .vij. other kine came up after them / poor and very evil favoured and lean fleshed: so that I never saw their like in all the land of Egypt in evil favouredness. And the .vij. lean and evil favoured kine ate up the first .vij. fat kine And when they had eaten them up / a man could not perceive that they had eaten them: for they were still as evil favoured as they were at the beginning. And I awoke.