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

CAP. VII.

[verse 1] Aftir forsothe that the wal is maad vp, and I sette the ȝate leuys, and noum|bride the porteres, and the singeris, and [verse 2] the Leuitis, I comaundede to Aneny, my brother, and to Ananye, prince of the hous of Jerusalem; he forsothe as a soth|fast man, and dredende God more than [verse 3] othere was seen; and I seide to hem, The ȝatis of Jerusalem be thei not opened vnto the hete of the sunne; and whan ȝit I stod neeȝh, the ȝatis ben closid and stoppid. And I sette keperis of the dwelleris of Jerusalem, eche bi ther whilis, and eche aȝen his hous. [verse 4] Forsothe the cite was myche brod and gret, and the puple litil in the middel of it, and ther weren not housis bild. [verse 5] God for|sothe ȝaf in myn herte, and I gaderede togidere the most wrshipeful men, and

the maister iugis, and the comun, that I noumbre hem; and I fond the boc of the noumbring of hem, that hadden steȝid vp first. And it is founde [Om. E pr. m.] writen in it, [verse 6] These [These ben A.] the sones of the prouince, that steȝeden vp fro the caitifte of transmigra|cioun, the whiche Nabugodonosor, king of Babiloine, hadde translatid; and thei ben turned aȝeen in to Jerusalem and in [verse 7] to Jude, eche in to his cite, that camen with Sorobabel; Josue, Neemias, Azarias, Raamias, Naanum, Mardocheus, Bethsar, Mesfarath, Beggai, Naum, Banaa. The noumbre of the men of the puple of [verse 8] Irael; the sones of Faros, two thousend [verse 9] and hundrid and two and seuenti; the sonus of Safaie, thre hundrid foure score [verse 10] and two; the sonus of Area, sixe hundrid [verse 11] two and fifti; the sonus of Faeth Moab, of the sonus of Josue and of Joab, two thousend eiȝte [sexe A.] hundrid and eiȝtetene; [verse 12] the sonus of Elam, a thousend eiȝte hun|drid [verse 13] and foure and fifti; the sonus of Zechua, eiȝte hundrid and fiue and fourti; [verse 14] the sonus of Zachai, seuene hundrid and [verse 15] sixty; the sonus of Bennui, sixe hundrid [verse 16] and eiȝte and fourti; the sonus of Ebai, [verse 17] sixe hundrid `and eiȝte [Om. A.] and twenti; the sonus of Asgad, two thousend thre hun|drid [verse 18] and two and twenti; the sonus of Asonycham, sixe hundrid and seuene and [verse 19] sixti; the sonus of Bagoamy, two thou|send [verse 20] and seuene and sixti; the sonus of Adin, sixe hundrid and fiue and fifti; [verse 21] the sonus of Aser, sone of Ezechie, eiȝte [verse 22] and twenti; the sonus of Asem, thre hun|drid [verse 23] and eiȝte and twenti; the sonus of Bethsai, thre hundrid and foure and [verse 24] twenti; the sonus of Aref, an hundrid [verse 25] and seuene and twenti; the sonus of Sa|laon, [verse 26] fiue and nynti; the men of Beth|lem and of Nethufa, an hundrid foure

[verse 27] score and eiȝte; men of Anatot, an hun|drid [verse 28] and eiȝte and twenti; men of Beth|samoth, [verse 29] two and fourti; men of Cariathi|arim, Sefira, and Beroth, seuene hundrid [verse 30] and thre and fourti; men of Ramaa and of Gabaa, sixe hundrid and oon and [verse 31] twenti; men of Machinas, two hundrid [verse 32] and two and twenti; men of Bethel and of Hai, an hundrid and thre and twenti; [verse 33] men of the tother Nebo, two and fifti; [verse 34] men of the tother Elam, a thousend two [verse 35] hundrid and foure and fifti; the sonus [verse 36] of Arem, thre hundrid and twenti; the sonus of Jericho, thre hundrid and fiue [verse 37] and fourti; the sonus of Joiadid and of Anon, seuene hundrid and oon and [verse 38] twenti; the sonus of Senaa, thre thou|send [verse 39] nyne hundrid and thretti; prestus, the sonus of Joiada, in the hous of Josue, [verse 40] nyne hundrid and foure and seuenti; the sonys of Emmer, a thousend and two and [verse 41] fifti; the sonus of Fassur, a thousend two [verse 42] hundrid seuene and fourti; the sones of Arem, a thousend and seuentene; Le|uitus, [verse 43] sonus of Josue and of Gadimel, [verse 44] sonus of Odina, seuenti and foure; singeres, [verse 45] sonus of Asaf, an hundrid and seuene and [verse 46] fourti; porteres, sonus of Sellum, sonus of Ather, sonus of Thelmon, sonus of Accub, sonus of Accita, sonus of Sobai, an hun|drid [verse 47] and eiȝte and thretti; sodeknes, sonus of Soa, sonus of Asfa, sonus of The|baoth, [verse 48] sonus of Cheros, sonus of Sicca, sonus of Fado, sonus of Lebana, sonus of [verse 49] Agaba, sonus of Selmon, sonus of Anon, [verse 50] sonus of Jeddel, sonys of Gair, sonus of Raaia, sonus of Rasym, sonus of Nechoda, [verse 51] sonus of Jesem, sonus of Asa, sonus of [verse 52] Fascha, sonus of Besai, sonus of Minum, [verse 53] sonus of Nefusym, sonis of Bechue, sonus [verse 54] of Acufa, sonus of Assur, sonus of Belloth, [verse 55] sonus of Meida, sonus of Arsa, sonus of Berchos, sonus of Cizara, sonus of Thema, [verse 56] sonus of Nezia, sonus of Athifa, [verse 57] sonus of the seruauns of Salomon, sonus of Sothai,

[verse 58] sonus of Soforeth, sonus of Ferida, sonus of Jachala, sonus of Dalchon, sonns of [verse 59] Jeddel, sonus of Safacia, sonus of Atchil, sonus of Focereth, that was born of [verse 60] Abaim, sone of Amon; alle the sodek|nes, and the sonus of the thrallis of Sala|mon, thre hundrid and two and twenti. [verse 61] These ben that steȝeden vp of Themelath, Thelarsa, Cherub, Addo, and Emmer, and thei myȝten not shewe the hous of ther fadirs, and ther sed, whether of [verse 62] Israel thei weren; sonus of Dalaia, sonus of Thobia, sonus of Nethoda, sixe hun|drid [verse 63] and two and fourti; and of the prestis, sonus of Abia, sonus of Achos, sonus of Bersellai, that toc a wif of the doȝtris of Bersellai Galadite, and is cle|pid [verse 64] bi the name of hem; these soȝten the scripture of ther genelogie, and founde [verse 65] not, and ben cast out fro presthod. And Athersatha seide to them, that thei shul|den not eten of the holi thingus of ha|lewis, to the time that ther rijse a taȝt and lerned prest. [verse 66] Al the multitude as o man, two and fourti thousend thre hun|drid [verse 67] and sixti, with oute the seruauns and the hand wymmen of hem, that weren seuen thousend thre hundrid and seuene and thretti; and among hem sing|eres and singressis two hundrid and fiue and fourti. [verse 68] The hors of hem, seuene [verse 69] hundrid and thre and thretti; the camailis of hem, foure hundrid and fiue and thretti; the assis of hem, sixe thousend seuene hundred and thretti; `the mulis of hem, two hundrid and fiue and fourti [Om. ACFH.] . [verse 70] Summe forsothe of the princis of the meynes ȝeuen expensis in to the werc of God; Athersatha ȝaf in to the tresorie, of gold, dragmys a thousend, fifty violis, prestus cotus fiue hundrid and thretti.

[verse 71] And of the princis of the [Om. A.] meines ther ȝeuen in to the tresorie of the werk, of gold, dragmis twenti thousend, and of siluer, two thousend besauntus and two hundrid. [verse 72] And that that ȝaf the tother puple, of gold, dragmis twenti thousend, and of siluer, besauntus two thousend, and prestus cotus sixti and seuenn. Forsothe the prestus, and Leuitus, and the porteris, and singeris, and the tother comun, and the sodeknys, and al Irael dwelten in ther cites.