Whẽ Iosephs brethern sawe that their father was deade/ they sayde: Ioseph myghte fortune to hate us and rewarde us agayne all the euell which we dyd vnto him. They dyd therfore a commaundment vnto Ioseph saynge: thy father charged before his deth saynge. This wise say vnto Ioseph/ forgeue I pray the the trespace of thy brethern & their synne/ for they rewarded the euell. Now therfore we praye the/ forgeue the trespace of the servauntes of thy fathers God. And Ioseph wepte when they spake vnto him.
And his brethern came ãd fell before him and sayde: beholde we be thy servauntes. And Ioseph sayde vnto them: feare not/ for am not I vnder god? Ye thoughte euell vnto me: but God turned it vnto good to bringe to passe/ as it is this daye/ euen to saue moch people a lyue Feare not therfore/ for I will care for you and for youre childern/ and he spake kyndly vnto them.
Ioseph dwelt in Egipte and his fathers house also/ ãd lyved an hundred & .x. yere. And Ioseph sawe Ephraims childern/ euẽ vnto the thyrde generation. And vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses were childern borne/ & satt on Iosephs knees.
And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: I die
And God will suerlie vysett you and bringe you
out of this lande/ vnto the lande which he sware
vnto Abraham/ Isaac and Iacob. And Ioseph
toke an ooth of the childern of Israel ãd
sayde: God will not fayle but vysett you/ se therfore
that ye carye my boones hence. And
so Ioseph dyed/ when he was an
hundred and .x. yere olde.
And they enbawmed him
and
put him in a chest in Egipte.
The end of the first boke of Moses.
¶ A table expoundinge certeyne wordes.
Abrech/ tender father/ or as some will/ bowe the knee.
Areke/ a shippe made flatte as it were a chest or cofer.
Bisse: fyne whyte/ whether it be silke or linen.
Blesse: godes blessinges are his giftes/ as in the firste chaptre he blessed them saynge: growe & multiplye & haue dominion &c. And in the .ix. chaptre he blessed Noe & his sonnes & gaue thẽ dominiõ over all beestes & authoryte to care thẽ And God blessed Abrahã with catell ãd other ryches. And Iacob desyred Esau to receaue ye blessinge which he brought him/ yt is the preasent & gifte. God blessed the .vij. daye/ yt is/ gaue it a prehemynence yt men shuld rest therein from bodely laboure & lerne to know the will of god & his lawes & how to worke their workes godly all the weke after. God also blesseth all nations in Abrahams seed/ that is/ he turneth his loue & favoure vnto thẽ and geveth thẽ his spirite and knowledge of the true waye/ ãd lust and power to walke therin/ and all for christes sake Abrahams sonne.