A13203:506
[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 .l. Chapter.
And Joseph commanded his servants that were Physicians / to embalm his father / and the Physicians ē •awmed Israel .xl. days long / for so long doth y• embalming last / & the Egyptians bewept him .lxx. days.
ANd Ioseph commaunded his seruauntes that were Phisicions / to embawme his father / and the Phisiciōs ē •awmed Israel .xl. dayes lōge / for so lōge doth y• embawminge last / & the Egiptians bewepte him .lxx. dayes.
And when the days of weeping were ended / Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying: If I have found favour in your eyes / speak unto Pharaoh and tell him / how that my father made me swear and said: lo / I dye / see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let me goo and bury my father / and than will I come again. And Pharaoh said / goo and bury thy father / according as he made the swear.
And when the dayes of wepynge were ended / Ioseph spake vnto ye house of Pharao saynge: Yf I haue founde fauoure in youre eyes / speake vnto Pharao and tell him / how that my father made me swere and sayde: loo / I dye / se that thou burye me in my graue which I haue made me in the lande of Canaan. Now therfore let me goo and burye my father / ād thā will I come agayne. And Pharao sayde / goo and burye thy father / acor•ynge as he made the swere.