A13203:946
[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 they made the bres•lappe of conning work, after the work of the Ephod: even of gold, Jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse ⟨p. LXXIII⟩And they made it .iiij. square and double, an hā de bredth longe and an hand breadth broad. And they filled it with .iiij. rows of stones (the first row: Sardius, a Topaz and smaragdus. the second row: a Rubin, a Sapphire and a Diamond The .iij. row: Ligurios, an Agate and a Amethyst. The fourth row: a Turcas, an Onyx and a Jaspis) closed in ouches of gold in their enclosers. And the .xij. stones were graven as signet •es with the names of the children of Israel: every stone with his name, according to the. xij tribes.
And they made the bres•lappe of conning worke, after the worke of the Ephod: euen of golde, Iacincte, scarlet, purple ād twyned bysse ⟨p. LXXIII⟩And they made it .iiij. square ād double, an hā de bredth longe and an hande bredth brode. And thei filled it with .iiij. rowes of stones (the first rowe: Sardios, a Topas ād smaragdus. the secōde rowe: a Rubin, a Saphir ād a Diamōde The .iij. rowe: Ligurios, an Achat ād a Amatist. The fourth rowe: a Turcas, an Onix ād a Iaspis) closed in ouches of gold in their inclosers. And the .xij. stones were grauē as sygnet •es with the names of the childern of Israel: euery stone with his name, acordinge to the. xij trybes.
And they made upon the brestlappe, two fastening chains of wreathen work and pure gold. And they made two hooks of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings upon the two corners of the brestlappe. And they put the two chains of gold in the .ij. rings, in the corners of the brestlappe. And the .ij. ends of the two chains they fastened in the .ij. hooks, and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod upon the forefront of it.