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CAP. X.

[verse 1] In that tyme the Lord seide to me, Plaan to thee two stonen tables, as the rather weren; and sty vp to me into the hil. And thow shalt make a treen ark, [verse 2] and I shal write in the tablis wordes that weren in hem `the whiche [that C.] before thou breeke; and thow shalt putt hem into the ark. [verse 3] I made therfor the ark of trees of Sechym; and whanne I hadde planed two stonen tablis, at the lyknes of the rather, I stide vp into the hil, hauynge hem in hoondes. [verse 4] And he wroot in the tables, after that that he hadde wryten before ten wordes, that the Lord spak to vs in the hil, fro the myddil of fier, whanne the puple was [is E pr. m.] gedryd, and hath ȝeue hem to me. [verse 5] And turned aȝen fro the hil, Y dessendid, and putte the ta|bles into the ark that I made, the whiche ȝit hidir to there ben, as the Lord hath comaundid to me. [verse 6] Forsothe the sones of Yrael meeueden tentis fro Be|roth, of the sones of Jachan, in Mosera,

where Aaron is deed, and biryed, for whom his sone Eleazar bere the office of preest. [verse 7] Thens thei camen in Galaad; fro the which place goon forth, thei set|tiden [sette C.] tentis in Gethabatha, in the loond of watris and of stremes. [verse 8] That tyme I [he B.] seuerde the lynage of Leuy, that he bere the ark of the boond of pees of the Lord, and stoond before hym in seruyce, and blesse in the name of hym, into the pre|sent day. [verse 9] Wherfor Leuy hadde no part ne possessioun with his britheren, for he the Lord is the possessioun of hym, as the Lord thi God hath bihoot to hym. [verse 10] I forsothe stood in the hil, as bifore, fourti dais and fourti nyȝt, and the Lord herde me in this while, and wold not lese thee. [verse 11] And he seide to me, Go, and weend before the puple, that he goo yn, and weelde the loond that I haue sworn to the fadres of hem, that I shulde take to hem. [verse 12] And nowe, Yrael, what thing the Lord thi God askith of thee, but that thow drede the Lord thi God, and goo in the weies of hym, and loue hym, and serue to the Lord thi God in al thin [verse 13] herte, and in al thi soule; and kepe the heestis of the Lord thi God, and the cerymouns of hym, that I to day co|maunde to thee, that wel it be to thee. [verse 14] Loo! of the Lord thi God is heuene, and heuene of heuene, erthe, and alle thingis [verse 15] that in it ben; and neuerthelater [nerthelater E.] to thi faders ioyned is the Lord, and he [Om. CE pr. m.] louede hem, and hath chosen the seed of hem, after hem, that is, ȝow, fro alle gentils, as to day is preued. [verse 16] Kutte ȝe about ther|fore the vttermore part of ȝoure herte, and ȝoure nolle forthermore harde ȝe not. [verse 17] For the Lord oure God he is God of goddis, and Lord of lordyngis; a greet God, and myȝti, and dreedful [ferdeful BCDEFH.] , that

persoone taketh not, ne ȝiftis. [verse 18] He doth doom to the faderles child, and to [to the C.] wi|dewe, and loueth the pilgrime, and ȝyueth to hym lyuelod, and clothinge. [verse 19] And ȝe therfore loueth pilgrimys, for and ȝe ȝoure self weren pilgrimys [comlynges BCDE.] in the loond of E|gipt. [verse 20] The Lord thi God thow shalt drede, and to hym [hym oonly E pr. m.] thow shalt serue, and to hym thow shalt drawe to, and swere in the name of hym. [verse 21] He is thi preysynge, and thi God, that hath do [made E pr. m.] to thee thes greet thingis, and feerful, that thin eyen han seen. [verse 22] In seuenti soules thi fadres des|sendeden into Egipte, and loo! now the Lord thi God hath multiplied thee as sterres of heuene.