[The Pentateuch]

Behold there shall come .vij. year of great plenteousness through out all the land of Egypt. And there shall arise after them vij. years of hunger. So that all the plenteousness shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt. And the hunger shall consume the land: so that the plenteousness shall not be once asene in the land by reason of that hunger that shall come after / for it shall be exceeding great And as concerning that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh the second time / it betokeneth that the thing is certainly prepared of God / and that God will shortly bring it to pass.

Beholde there shall come .vij. yere of great plenteousnes through out all the lande of Egypte. And there shall aryse after them vij. yeres of hunger. So that all the plenteousnes shalbe forgeten in the lande of Egipte. And the hunger shall consume the lande: so that the plenteousnes shall not be once asene in the land by reason of that hunger that shall come after / for it shalbe exceading great And as concernynge that the dreame was dubled vnto Pharao the second tyme / it be•okeneth that the thynge is certanly prepared of God / ād that God will shortly brynge it to passe.

Now therefore let Pharaoh provide for a man of understanding and wisdom / and set him over the land of Egypt. And let ⟨image 70⟩Pharaoh make officers over the land / and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the vij. plenteous years and let them gather all the food of these good years that come / and lay up corn under the power of Pharaoh: that there may be food in the cities / and there let them kept it: that there may be food in store in the land / against the .vij. years of hunger which shall come in the land of Egypt / and that the land perish not through hunger.

Now therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and wysdome / and sett him over the lande of Egipte. And let ⟨image 70⟩