ABRAM LEAVES MESOPOTAMIA.

700 Cristes helpe be us amonge!
Noe, ſem, arfaxath, ſale,
Heber, phaleth, ðe ſexte iſ he,
Reu, ſaruch, nacor, thare,
704 ðiſ iſ ðe tende fro noe.
The family of Shem.
Ðis oðer werldes elde iſ ſo,
A ðhuſent ger ſeuenti and two.
 [Fol. 14b.]
ðe ðridde werldeſ elde cam,
708 Quanne thare bi-gat abram;
for he bi-gat a ſune aram,
Nachor midleſt, laſt abram;
The third age of the world began when Terah begat Abram.
Aram bi-gat loth, and ſarray,
712 And melcham, and waſ ſort leui
Haran begat Lot and Sarai and Milcah.
In lond caldea, hur hicte ðe tun,
Quor deades ſtrenge warp him dun;
They dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees.
ðor fader, and breðere, and childre, and wif,
716 Him bi-ſtoden wið ſorwes ſtrif;
ðo ðogte thare on hiſ mod,
Much strife was there between father and brother, children and wife.
long bigging iſ here nogt god.
Nachor he gaf wif melcam,
720 And trewe ſarray abram.
Terah did not care to remain long in this town.
Quanne abram wurð wiſ and war
ðat ſarray non childre ne bar,
He toc him loth on ſunes ſtede;
724 He waſ hiſe neve, wol wel he dede.
Abram having no children adopted Lot as his son.
Thare let hur, and ðeðen he nam,
And wulde to lond canahan,
Cam into a burgt[[121]] ðat het aram,
728 In londe meſopothaniam.
Terah left Ur and came to Haran in Mesopotamia.
Wið him ledde he nachor, melcam,
Sarray, loth, and abram.
With him he took his sons and daughters.
Tho[[122]] hundred ger and fifue mo,
 [Fol. 15.]
732 Thare waſ old, ſtarf he ðo.
Tereſ gliden for herteſ ſor
fro loth, and abram, and nachor;
Terah died when he was two hundred and five years old.
Thare lið biried in aram.
He lies buried in Haran.

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