The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,
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1850.
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"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFZ9170.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.

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CAP. XXIV.

[verse 1] Forsothe to the sonis of Aaron thes porciouns schul ben; the sonis of Aaron, Nadab, and Abiud, Eleasar, and Ytha|mar; [verse 2] forsothe Nadab and Abiud ben deed before their fadir, with oute free chyldre, and Eleasar vsede presthode, and Ythamar. [verse 3] And Dauid deuydide hem, that is, Sadoch, fro the sonys of Eleasar, and Achymalech, fro the sonis of Ytha|mar, [verse 4] aftir their whilis and seruyse; and there ben founden manye mo sonys of Eleasar in the men princis, thanne the sonys of Ythamar. He deuydide forsothe to hem, that is, to the sonys of Eleasar, princes by meynes sextene; and to the sonys of Ythamar by meynes and their houses eyȝt. [verse 5] Bot he deuydide either meynes between hem selue by lottis;

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forsothe there weren princis of the seyn|tuarye, and princis of the hous of God, as wele of the sonys of Eleasar as of the sonys of Ythamar. [verse 6] And Semeyas, the sone of Nathanael, Leuyte scribe, dis|cryuede hem beforn the kyng and the princes, and before Sadoch, the prest, and Achymalech, the sone of Abiather, also before the princis of the prestis meynes and of Leuytis; oon hous, the whiche beforn was to the tother, of Eleasar, and another hous, the whiche vndir hym silf hadde the tother, of Ythamar. [verse 7] And the first lott wente out of Joiarib, the secound [verse 8] of Jedeie, the thrid of Harym, the ferth [verse 9] of Seosym, the fyfthe of Melchia, the [verse 10] sixt of Mayman, the seuenth of Acchos, [verse 11] the eiȝthe of Abia, the nynthe of Jesu, [verse 12] the tenthe of Sethema, the elleuenth of [verse 13] Eliazub, the twelthe of Jacym, the thrit|tenthe of Oofa, the [and E.] fouretenthe of Isbaal, [verse 14] the fyftenthe of Abelgaa, the sixtenthe [verse 15] of Emmer, the seuententhe [seuentith B.] of Ezir, the [verse 16] eiȝtenthe of Ahapses, the nyntenthe of [verse 17] Pheceia, the twentethe of Zechel, the oon and twentithe of Joachym, the two and [verse 18] twentethe of Gamul, the thre and twen|tethe of Dalayan, the foure and twen|tithe [verse 19] of Mazian. Thes the whiles of hem aftir their seruyse, that thei gon in the hous of the Lord, and aftir ther [the ABCFH.] rijt vndir the hond of Aaron, their fader, as the Lord God of Yrael comaundide. [verse 20] For|sothe of the sonys of Leuy that weren laft, of the sonys of Amram, Sebahel was prynce; and of the sonys of Sebahel, Je|deia; [verse 21] of the sonys of Robie, prince Je|sias. [verse 22] Of Isaaris forsothe Salemoth; also [verse 23] the sone of Salemoth, Jonadiath; and the sone of hym, Gerueanus the first, Aman the secound, Azihel [Azihe B.] the thrid, Jethmoam the ferthe. [verse 24] The sone of Ozihel, Mycha; [verse 25] the sone of Mycha, Samur; the brother of Mycha, Jezia; and the sone of Jezie, Za|charie.

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[verse 26] The sonis of Mereri; Mooli and [verse 27] Musi; the sone of Jozan, Bennon; the sone also of Musi; Orian, and Soem, and Saccur, and Ebri. [verse 28] Bot the sone of Mooli, [verse 29] Eliazar, that hadde no free childre; the [verse 30] sone forsothe of Ciz, Jeremyel; the sonis of Musi; Mooli, Jeremuth. Thes the sonys of Leuy, aftir the houses of their meynese. [verse 31] Leyden also and thei lottis aȝeyn their bretheren, sonys [the sonys A.] of Aaron, before Dauid the kyng, and Sadoch, and Achymalech, and the princis of the prestis meynese, and Leuytis; as wele the more as the lasse, alle the lott euenlyche [euenli ACE.] deuydide.

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