A13203:459
[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.
Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision / that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not ye that sent me hither / but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharaoh and lord over all his house / and dueller in all the land of Egypt. Hast you and goo to my father and tell him / this sayeth thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord over all Egypt. Come down unto me and tarry not / And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gosan & be by me: both thou and thy children / and thy children's children: and thy sheep / and beasts and all that thou hast. There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet v years of dearth / lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.
Wherfore God sent me before you to make prouision / that ye myghte continue in the erth and to save youre lyues by a greate delyuerance. So now it was not ye that sent me hither / but God: and he hath made me father vnto Pharao and lorde ouer all his house / and •ueler in all the land of Egipte. Hast you ād goo to my father and tell him / this sayeth thy sonne Joseph: God hath made me lorde ouer all Egipte. Come downe vnto me and tarye not / And thou shalt dwell in the londe of Gosan & be by me: both thou and thi childern / and thi childerns childern: and thy shepe / and beestes and all that thou hast. There will I make provision for the: for there remayne yet v yeres of derth / lest thou and thi houshold and all that thou hast perish.
Behold / your eyes do see / and the eyes also of my brother Ben Jamin / that I speak to you by mouth. Therefore tell my father of all my bonoure which I have in Egypt and of all that ye have seen / and make hast and bring in ⟨p. lxviij⟩father hither. ¶ And he fell on his brother Ben Jamis neck & wept / & Ben Jamin wept on his neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that / his brethren talked with him. And when the ridynges was come unto Pharaoh's house that Josephs brethren were come / •• pleased Pharaoh well and all his servants.