A13203:488
[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 .xlix. Chapter.
And Jacob called for his sons and said: come together / that I may tell you what shall happen you in the last days. Gather you together and hear ye sons of Jacob / and hearken unto Israel your father.
ANd Iacob called for his sonnes ād sayde: come together / that I maye tell you what shall happē you in the last dayes. Gather you together and heare ye sonnes of Iacob / and her•en vnto Israel youre father.
Reuben / thou art mine eldest son / my might and the beginning of my strength / chief in receiving and chief in power. As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chefest / for thou wentest up upon thy fathers bed / and than defiledest thou my couch with going up.
Ruben / thou art myne eldest sonne / my myghte and the begynnynge of my strength / chefe in receauynge and chefe in power. As vnstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therfore not be the chefest / for thou wenst vp vpō thy fathers bedd / and than defyledest thou my couche with goynge vppe.
The brethren Simeon and Levi / wicked instruments are their weapons. In to their secrets come not my soul / and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled for in their wrath they slew a man / and in their self-will they houghed an ox. Cursed be their wrath for it was strong / and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore deuyde them in Jacob / & scatter them in Israel.