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CAP. XXIV.

[verse 1] Also he [he, that is, the aungel BCKLP. the aungel IS. he, the aungel N.] seide to Moises, `Stie thou [go thou vp I. stie thou vp S.] to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, and Nadab, and Abyu, and seuenti eldere men of Is|rael; [verse 2] and ȝe schulen worschipe afer, and Moises aloone stie [go vp I. stie he vp S.] to the Lord, and thei schulen not neiȝe, nether the puple schal stie [go vp I. stie vp S.] with hym. [verse 3] Therfore Moises cam, and telde to the puple alle the wordis and domes [the domes S.] of the Lord; and al the puple an|sweride with o vois, We schulen do alle the wordis of the Lord, whiche he spak [hath spoke IS.] . [verse 4] Forsothe Moises wroot alle the wordis of the Lord; and he roos eerli, and bildide an auter to the Lord at the rootis of the hil, and he bildide [bildide or leide S.] twelue titlis [titlis ether stonys BCEGKNPQX. titlis or stones IS.] bi twelue lynagis of Israel. [verse 5] And he sente ȝonge men of the sones of Israel, and thei of|friden brent sacrifices, and `thei offriden [Om. DIKMN sec. m. ORST sec. m. W.] pesible sacrifices `to the Lord [Om. F.] , twelue [twelue is not in Ebreu, and therfor it semeth that ij. caluys onely weren there. Lire here. CGQX.] calues. [verse 6] And so Moises took half the part of the [Om. IS.] blood, and sente [putte it IS. putte MW.] in to grete [the grete LP.] cuppis; forsothe he schedde the residue part on [vpon IS.] the auter. [verse 7] And he took the book of the [Om. DGQRST.] boond of pees, and redde [he redde IS.] , while [the while F pr. m.] the puple herde; whiche [the whiche I.] seiden, We schu|len do alle thingis which [that IS.] the Lord spak, and we schulen be obedient. [verse 8] Forsothe he [Moises IS.] took [took the blood IS.] , and sprengide [spreinte L. sprengide it IS.] `the blood [Om. IOS. blood M pr. m. W.] on the puple, and seide, This is the [Om. IS.] blood of the boond of pees, which the Lord coue|nauntide with ȝow on alle these wordis. [verse 9] And Moises, and Aaron, and Nadab, and Abyu, and seuenti of the eldere men of [verse 10] Israel stieden [wenten up I. stieden vp S.] , and seiȝen God [and sien God, not in his be|yng, but in mannus lic|nesse repre|sentinge him. Lire here. CGK QX.] of Israel, vndur hise feet, as [sawȝen as I. thei sien as S.] the werk of safire [a safir ILS.] stoon [stoones K.] , and as heuene whanne it is cleer. [verse 11] And he sente not his hond on hem [Ebrus seyn, that this is the very text, and he sente not his hond on the lordis of the sones of Israel. GQX. that is, on lordis, the gloos seith. S.] of the sones of Israel, that [the whiche I.] hadden go fer awei; and thei sien God [God, that camen niȝ to him IS.] , and eeten and drunkun.

[verse 12] Forsothe the Lord seide to Moises, `Stie thou [come thou vp I. stie thou vp S.] to me in to the hil, and be thou there, and Y schal ȝyue to thee tablis of stoon, and the lawe, and comaundementis [heestis IS.] , whiche Y haue write, that thou teche [teche hem FIS.] the [Om. O.] children of Israel. [verse 13] Moises and Josue his mynystre [seruaunt IS. mynys|tris O.] risen [risiden B.] , and Moises stiede [ȝede vp I. stiede vp S.] in to [verse 14] the hil of God, and seide to the eldere men, Abide ȝe here, til [to S.] we turnen aȝen to ȝou; ȝe han Aaron and Hur with ȝou, if ony thing of questioun is [be IS.] maad, ȝe schulen telle to hem. [verse 15] And whanne Moises [verse 16] hadde stied [gon vp I. stied vp S.] , a cloude hilide the hil, and the glorie of the Lord dwellide on [vpon W.] Synai, and kyueride it with a cloude sixe daies; forsothe in the seuenthe dai the Lord cle|pide hym fro the myddis of the cloude; [verse 17] forsothe the licnesse of glorie [the glorie ISX.] of the Lord was as fier brennynge on the cop of the hil in the siȝt of the sones of Israel. [verse 18] And Moises entride into the myddis of the cloude, and stiede [ȝede up I. stiede vp S.] in to the hil, and he was there fourti daies and fourti nyȝtis.