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

CAP. XXI.

[verse 1] And Y sai newe heuene and newe erthe; for the firste heuene and the firste erthe wenten awei, and the see is not now. [verse 2] And Y Joon say the hooli citee Jerusalem, newe, comynge doun fro heuene, maad redi of God, as a wijf ourned to hir hosebonde. [verse 3] And Y herde a greet vois fro the trone, seiynge, Lo! the tabernacle of God is with men, and he schal dwelle with hem; and thei schu|len be his puple, and he God with hem schal be her God. [verse 4] And God schal wipe awei ech teer fro the iȝen of hem; and deth schal no more be, nether mornyng, nether criyng, nether sorewe schal be ouer; whiche `firste thingis [thingis firste Q.] wenten awei. [verse 5] And he seide, that sat in the trone, Lo! Y make alle thingis newe. And he seide to me, Write thou, for these wordis ben moost feithful and trewe. [verse 6] And he seide to me, It is don; I am alpha and oo, the bigynnyng and ende [the eende Rh.] . Y schal ȝyue freli of the welle of quic watir to hym that thirsteth. [verse 7] He that schal ouercome, schal welde these things; and Y schal be God to hym, and he schal be sone to me. [verse 8] But to ferdful men, and vnbileueful, and cursid, and manquelleris, and fornyca|touris, and to witchis, and [and to R.] worschiperis of idols, and to [Om. I pr. m.] alle lieris, the part of hem shal be in the pool brennynge with fier and brymstoon, that is the secounde deth. [verse 9] And oon cam of the seuene aun|gels,

hauynge violis fulle of `seuene the [the seuene K sec. m. Qk. the seuen the laste h sup. ras.] laste veniauncis. And he spak with me, and seide, Come thou, and Y schal schewe to thee the spousesse, the wijf of the lomb. [verse 10] And he took me vp in spirit in to a greet hille and hiȝ; and he schew|ide to me the hooli citee Jerusalem, com|ynge [verse 11] doun fro heuene of God, hauynge the clerete of God; and the liȝt of it lijk a preciouse stoon, as the stoon iaspis, as cristal. [verse 12] And it hadde a walle greet and hiȝ, hauynge twelue ȝatis, and in the ȝatis of it twelue aungels, and names writun in [Om. k sec. m.] , that ben the names of twelue lynagis of the sones of Israel; [verse 13] fro the east thre ȝatis, and fro the north thre ȝatis, and fro the south thre ȝatis, and fro the west thre ȝatis. [verse 14] And the wal of the citee hadde twelue founde|mentis, and in hem the twelue names of twelue [the xij. gkβ.] apostlis, and of the lomb. [verse 15] And he that spak with me, hadde a goldun mesure of a rehed, that he schulde mete the citee, and the ȝatis of it, and the wal. [verse 16] And the citee was set in [in a EQgα.] square; and the lengthe of it is so miche, `as miche [Om. O.] as is the breede. And he mat [that maad EQg pr. m.] the citee with the rehed, bi furlongis twelue thou|syndis. And the heiȝthe, and the lengthe and breede [the brede EKa.] of it, ben euene. [verse 17] And he mat the wallis of it, of an hundrid and `foure and fourti [fourti and four R.] cubitis, bi mesure of man, that is, of an [the R.] aungel. [verse 18] And the bildyng of the wal therof was of the stoon iaspis. And the citee it silf was clene gold, lijk clene glas. [verse 19] And the foundementis of the wal of the citee weren ourned with al preciouse stoon. The firste foundement, iaspis; the se|counde, safiris; the thridde, calcedonyus; [verse 20] the fourthe, smaragdus; the fyuethe,

sardony; the sixte, sardius; the se|uenthe, crisolitus; the eiȝtthe, berillus; the nynthe, topacius; the tenthe, criso|passus; the eleuenthe, iacinctus; the tweluethe, ametistus. [verse 21] And [And in the I pr. m. And the I sec. m. Ra.] twelue ȝatis ben twelue margaritis, bi ech [ech margarite R.] ; `and ech ȝate was of ech margarete [Om. R.] . And the stretis of the citee weren clene gold, as of glas ful schynynge. [verse 22] And Y say no temple in it, for the Lord God almyȝti and the lomb, is [in it h.] temple [the temple KReoβ.] of it. [verse 23] And the citee hath no [not Q sec. m. Rα.] nede of sunne [the sunne R.] , nethir moone, that thei schyne in it; for the clerete [clerenesse K.] of God schal liȝtne [liȝte a.] it; and the lomb is the lanterne of it. [verse 24] And folkis schulen walke in liȝt [the liȝt R.] of it; and the kyngis of the [Om. CIKMQRU aceghoαβ.] erthe schulen brynge her glorie and onour in to it. [verse 25] And the ȝatis of it schulen not be closid bi dai; and niȝt schal not be there. [verse 26] And thei schulen brynge the [Om. K pr. m.] glorie and onour of folkis in to it. [verse 27] Nether ony man defoulid, and [in g.] doynge abhominacioun [fornicacioun R.] and leesyng, schal entre in to it; but thei that ben writun in the book of lijf and [Om. Q sec. m.] of the lomb.