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A11777 The holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages. With arguments of the bookes, and chapters: annotations. tables: and other helpes ... By the English College of Doway; Bible. O.T. English. Douai. Martin, Gregory, d. 1582. 1609-1610 (1610) STC 2207; ESTC S101944 2,522,627 2,280

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vpon the head wherof Aaron his sonnes shal lay their handes † Which when thou hast killed thou shalt take of the bloud therof and powre round about the Altar † And the ramme it selfe thou shalt cut into peeces and his entralles and feete being washed thou shalt put vpon the flesh cut in peeces and vpon his head † And thou shalt offer the whole ramme for a burnt sacrifice vpon the Altar it is an oblation to the Lord a most sweete sauoure of the victime of the Lord. † Thou shalt take also the other ●amme vpon whose head Aaron and his sonnes shal lay their handes † Which when thou hast immolated thou shalt take of his bloud and put vpon the tippe of the right eare of Aaron and of his sonnes and vpon the thumbes and great toes of their right hand and foote and thou shalt powre the bloud vpon the Altar round about † And when thou hast taken of the bloud that is vpon the Altar and of the oile of vnction thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture his sonnes their vestmentes And after they and their vestmentes are consecrated † thou shalt take the fatte of the ramme and the tayle the talow that couereth the lunges and the caule of the liuer and the two kidneies and the fatte that is vpon them and the right shoulder because it is the ramme of consecration † and a peece of one loafe a cake tempered with oile a wafer out of the basket of azymes which is sette in the sight of the Lord † and thou shalt put al vpon the handes of Aaron and of his sonnes and shalt sanctifie them eleuating before the Lord. † And thou shalt take al from their handes and shalt burne them vpon the Altar for an holocauste a most sweete sauour in the sight of the Lord because it is his oblation † Thou shalt take also the brest of the ramme wherwith Aaron was consecrated and eleuating it thou shalt sanctifie it before the Lord and it shal fal to thy patt † And thou shalt sanctifie both the consecrated brest and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ramme † wherwith Aaron was consecrated and his sonnes and they shal fal to Aarons part and his sonnes by a perpetual right from the children of Israel because they are the primitiues and beginninges of their pacifique victimes which they offer to the Lord. † And the holie vesture which Aaron shal vse his sonnes shal haue after him that they may be anoynted and their handes consecrated in it † He of his sonnes that shal be appoynted high priest in his steede that shal enter into the tabernacle of testimonie to minister in the Sanctuarie shal weare it seuen dayes † And thou shalt take the ramme of the consecration and shalt boyle the flesh therof in a holie place † which Aaron shal eate and his sonnes The lo●ues also that are in the basket they shal eate in the entrie of the tabernacle of testimonie † that it may be a placable sacrifice and the handes of the offerers may be sanctified A stranger shal not eate of them because they are holie † And if there remaine of the consecrated flesh or of the bread til the morning thou shalt burne the remaynes with fire they shal not be eaten because they are sanctified † Al that I haue commanded thee thou shalt doe vpon Aaron and his sonnes Seuen dayes shalt thou consecrate their handes † and thou shalt offer a calfe for sinne euerie day for expiation And thou shalt cleanse the Altar when thou hast offered the hoste of expiation and shalt anoynt it vnto sanctification † Seuen dayes shalt thou expiate the altar sanctifie it and it shal be most Holie euerie one that shal touch it shal be sanctified † This is it which thou shalt doe vpon the Altar Two lambes of a yeare old euerie day continually † one lambe in the morning an other at euen † the tenth part of flowre tempered with oile beaten which shal haue in measure the fourth part of an hin and wine for libation of the same measure to one lambe † And the other lambe thou shalt offer at euen according to the rite of the morning oblation and according to that which we haue said for a sauour of sweetnesse † it is a sacrifice to the Lord by perpetual oblation vnto your generations at the doore of the tabernacle of testimonie before the Lord where I wil appoint to speake vnto thee † And there wil I command the children of Israel and the Altar shal be sanctified in mv glorie † I wil sanctifie also the tabarnacle of testimonie with the Altar and Aaron with his sonnes to doe the function of priesthood vnto me † And I wil dwel in the middes of the children of Israel and wil be their God † and they shal know that I am the Lord their God that haue brought them out of the Land of Aegypt that I might abide among them I the Lord their God CHAP. XXX How and of what matter the Altar of incense shal be made 12. VVhat money shal be gathered for the vse of the Tabernacle 18. A brasen lauer is also to be made 25. and holie oile of vnction THOV shalt make also an Altar to burne incense of the wood setim † hauing a cubite of length and an other of bredth that is foure square and two cubites in height The hornes shal procede out of the same † And thou shalt plate it with the purest gold as wel the grate therof as the walles round about and the hornes And thou shalt make to it a crowne of gold round about † and two golden ringes vnder the crowne on either side that the barres may be put into them and the Altar may be caried † The barres also them selues thou shalt make of the wood setim and shalt plate them with gold † And thou shalt set the Altar against the veile that hangeth before the arke of testimonie before the propitiatorie wherwith the testimonie is couered where I wil speake to thee † And Aaron shal burne incense vpon it swetely fragrant in the morning When he shal dresse the lampes he shal burne it † and when he shal place them at euen he shal burne incense euerlasting before the Lord through your generations † You shal not offer vpon it incense of an other composition nor oblation and victime neitheir shal you offer libamentes † And Aaron shal pray vpon the hornes therof once a yeare with the bloud of that which was offered for sinne and shal pacifie vpon it in your generations It shal be most Holie to the Lord. † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † When thou shalt take the summe of the children of Israel according to their number euerie one of them shal giue a price for their soules to the Lord and there shal be no scourge among them when they shal be reckened † And this shal euerie one giue
might be your God CHAP. XVI Core and his complices making schisme against Moyses and Aaron 31. some are swalowed in the earth with their families and substance 35. other two hundred and fiftie offering incense 41. and fourtene thousand seuen hundred of the common people murmuring in behalfe of the sedicious are consumed with fire from heauen AND behold Core the sonne of Isaar the sonne of Caath the sonne of Leui and Dathan and Abiron the sonnes of Eliab Hon also the sonne of Pheleth of the children of Ruben † “ rose against Moyses and other of the children of Israel two hundred fiftie men princes of the synagogue and which in the time of assemblie were called by name † And when they had stoode vp against Moyses and Aaron they said Let it suffice you that al the multitude consisteth of holie ones and our Lord is among them Why lift you vp your selues aboue the people of our Lord † Which when Moyses had heard he fel flatte on his face † and speaking to Core and al the multitude he said In the morning our Lord wil make it knowne who pertaine to him and the holie the wil ioyne to him selfe and whom he shal choose they shal approch to him † This do therfore Take euerie man their censars thou Core and al thy councel † and taking fire in them to morrow put vpon it incense before our Lord and whom soeuer he shal choose the same shal be holie you do much exalt your selues ye sonnes of Leui. † And he said againe to Core Heare ye sonnes of Leui † Is it a smal thing vnto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from al the people and ioyned you to him selfe that you should serue him in the seruice of the tabernacle and should stand before the ful assemblie of the people and should minister to him † did he therfore make thee and al thy brethren the sonnes of Leui to approch vnto him that you should chalenge vnto you the priesthood also † and al thy companie should stand against our Lord for what is Aaron that you murmur against him † Moyses therfore sent to cal Dathan and Abiron the sonnes of Eliab Who answered We come not † Why is it a smal matter to thee that thou hast brought vs out of a land that folowed with milke and honie to kil vs in the desert vnles thou rule also like a lord ouer vs † In deede hast thou brought vs into a land that floweth with riuers of milke and honie hast thou geuen vs possessions of fieldes vineyardes What wilt thou plucke out our eies also We come not † Moyses therfore being very wrath said to our Lord Respect not their sacrifices thou knowest that I haue not taken of them so much as a little asse at anie time neither haue afflicted anie of them † And he said to Core Thou and al thy congregation stand ye apart before our Lord and Aaron to morrow apart † Take euerie one your censars and put incense vpon them offering to our Lord two hundred fiftie censars Let Aaron also hold his censar † Which when they had done Moyses and Aaron standing † and had heaped together al the multitude against them to the dore of the tabernacle the glorie of our Lord appeared to them al. † And our Lord speaking to Moyses and Aaron said † Separate your selues from the middes of this congregation that I may sodenly destroy them † Who felilatte on their face and said Most mightie God of the spirites of al flesh when one sinneth shal thy wrath rage against al † And our Lord said to Moyses † Command the whole people that they separate them selues from the tabernacles of Core and Dathan and Abiron † And Moyses arose and went to Dathan and Abiron and the ancientes of Israel folowing him † he said to the multitude Depart from the tabernacles of the impious men and touch not the thinges that pertaine to them lest you be wrapped in their sinnes † And when they were departed from their tentes round about Dathan and Abiron coming forth stood in the entrie of their pauilions with their wiues and children and al the multitude † And Moyses said In this you shal know that our Lord hath sent me to do al thinges that you see and that I haue not forged them of my owne mind † If they die the accustomed death of men and if the plague wherwith others also are wont to be visited do visite them out Lord did not send me † but if our Lord do a new thing that the earth opening her mouth swallow them downe al thinges that pertaine to them and they descend quicke into hel you shal know that they haue blasphemed our Lord. † Immediatly therfore as he ceased to speake the earth brake insunder vnder their feete † and opening her mouth deuoured them with their tabernacles al their substance † and they went downe into hel quicke couered with the ground and perished out of the middes of the multitude † But al Israel that stoode round about fled at the cric of them that perished saying Lest perhappes the earth swallow vs also † But a fire also coming forth from our Lord slew the two hundred fiftie men that offered the incense † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Command El●zar the sonne of Aaron the priest that he take vp the censars that lie in the burning fire and that he sprinkle the fire hither and thither because they be sanctified † in the deathes of the sinners and let him beate them into plates and fasten them to the altar because there hath bene offered incense in them to the Lord and they are sanctified that the children of Israel may see them for a signe and a monument † Eleazar therfore the priest tooke the brasen censars wherin they had offered whom the burning fire deuoured and bette them into plates fastening them to the altar † that the children of Israel afterward might haue wherwith to be admonished that no stranger approch and he that is not of the seede of Aaron to offer incense to our Lord lest he suffer as Core hath suffered and al his congregation according as our Lord spake to Moyses † And al the multitude of the children of Israel murmured the day folowing against Moyses and Aaron saying You haue killed the people of our Lord. † And when there rose a sedition and the tumult grew farder † Moyses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of couenant Which after they were entred the cloude couered it and the glorie of our Lord appeared † And our Lord said to Moyses † Depart from the middes of this multitude euen now wil I destroy them And as they lay vpon the ground † Moyses said to Aaron Take the censar and drawing fire from the altar put incense vpon it going quickly to the people to pray for them for euen now is the wrath come forth
the ceremonies therof A stranger shal not ioyne with you † Watch in the custodie of the Sanctuarie and in the ministerie of the altar lest indignation rise vpon the children of Israel † I haue geuen you your brethren the Leuites out of the middes of the children of Israel and haue deliuered them a gifte to the Lord to serue in the ministeries of his tabernacle † And thou and thy sonnes looke to your priesthood and al thinges that perteyne to the seruice of the altar and that are within the vele shal be executed by the priestes if anie stranger approch he shal be slaine † And our Lord spake to Aaron behold I haue geuen thee the custodie of my first fruites Al thinges that are sanctified of the children of Israel haue I deliuered to thee and to thy sonnes for the priestlie office as euerlasting ordinances † These thinges therfore shalt thou take of those that are sanctified and are offered to the Lord. Al oblation and sacrifice and whatsoeuer is rendred to me for sinne and offence becometh Holie of holies shal be thine and thy sonnes † In the Sanctuarie shalt thou eate it males onlie shal eate therof because it is to thee a cōsecrated thing † But the first fruites which the children of Israel shal vow and offer I haue geuen thee and thy sonnes and thy daughters for a perpetual right he that is cleane in thy house shal eate them † Al the best of oile and wine and corne whatsoeuer first fruites they offer to the Lord I haue geuen them to thee † Of fruites al the first that the ground bringeth forth and are brought to the Lord shal turne to thy vses he that is cleane in thy house shal eate them † Euerie thing that the children of Israel render by vow shal be thine † Whatsoeuer first breaketh forth from the matrice of al flesh which they offer to the Lord whether it be of men or of beastes shal be thy right yet so that for the first borne of man thou take a price and euerie beast that is vncleane thou cause to be redemed † whose redemption shal be after one moneth for fiue sicles of siluer by the weight of the Sanctuarie A sicle hath twentie oboles † But the first borne of beefe and sheepe and goate thou shalt not cause to be redemed because they are sanctified to the Lord. onlie the bloud of them thou shalt powre vpon the altar and the fatte thou shalt burne for a most sweete odour to the Lord. † But the flesh shal turne to thy vse as the consecrated brest and the right shoulder shal be thine † Al the first fruites of the Sanctuarie which the children of Israel offer to the Lord haue I geuen thee and thy sonnes and daughters for a perpetual right A couenant of salt is it for euer before the Lord to thee and to thy sonnes † And our Lord said to Aaron In their land you shal possesse nothing neither shal you haue a portion among them I am thy portion and inheritance in the middes of the children of Israel † And to the sonnes of Leui I haue geuen al the tithes of Israel in possession for the ministerie wherwith they serue me in the tabernacle of couenant † that the children of Israel approch not any more to the tabernacle nor committe deadlie sinne † onlie the sonnes of Leui seruing me in the tabernacle and bearing the sinnes of the people it shal be an euerlasting ordinance in your generations No other thing shal they possesse † being content with the oblation of tithes which I haue separated for their vses and necessaries † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Command the Leuites and denounce vnto them When you shal receiue of the children of Israel the tithes which I haue geuen you offer first fruites of them to the Lord that is to say the tenth part of the tenth † that it may be reputed to you for an oblation of first fruites as wel of the barne floores as of the presses † and of al thinges wherof you receiue tithes the first fruites offer to the Lord and geue them to Aaron the priest † Al thinges that you shal offer of the tithes and shal separate for the giftes of the Lord they shal be the best and chosen thinges † And thou shalt say to them If you offer al the goodlie and the better thinges of the tithes it shal be reputed to you as if you had geuen first fruites of the barne floore and the presse † and you shal eate them in al your places as wel you as your families because it is the reward for the ministerie wherwith you serue in the tabernacle of testimonie † And you shal not sinne in this point reseruing the principal and fatte thinges to your selues lest you pollute the oblations of the children of Israel and die CHAP. XIX A redde cow is offered in burnt victime for sinne 9. whose ashes are mingled in water for expiation of diuers legal vncleanes 11. as by touching the dead 14. by entring into the tent of the dead also the vessel that is therin and the vessel that lacketh a couer 22. and whatsoeuer the vncleane toucheth AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † This is the religion of the victime which the Lord hath appointed Command the children of Israel that they bring vnto thee a redde cow of ful age wherin is no blemish and that hath not caried yoke † and you shal deliuer her to Eleazar the priest who bringing her forth without the campe shal immolate her in the sight of al † and dipping his finger in her bloud shal sprinkle it against the doores of the tabernacle seuen times † and shal burne her in the sight of al committing aswel her skinne and the flesh as the bloud and the dong to the fire † Wood also of the cedar and hyssope and scarlet twise died shal the priest cast into the flame that wasteth the cow † And then at length washing his garmentes and his bodie he shal enter into the campe and shal be polluted vntil euen † But he also that burneth her shal wash his garmentes and his bodie and shal be vncleane vntil euen † And a man that is cleane shal gather the ashes of the cow and shal powre them out without the campe in a most cleane place that they may be reserued for the multitude of the children of Israel and for water of aspersion because the cowe was burnt for sinne † And when he that caried the ashes of the cow hath washed his garmentes he shal be vncleane vntil euen The children of Israel and the strangers that dwel among them shal haue this for a holie thing by a perpetual ordinance † He that toucheth the dead corps of a man and is vncleane therfore seuen daies † shal be sprinkled of
shalt geue mercie before them that shal haue them captiues that they may haue compassion on them † For they are thy people and thine inheritance whom thou hast brought out of the Land of Aegypt from the middes of the yron fornace † That thy eies be open to the petition of thy seruant and of thy people Israel thou heare them in al thinges for which they shal inuocate thee † For thou hast separated them to thee for an inheritance from al the peoples of the earth as thou hast spoken by Moyses thy seruant when thou didst bring our fathers out of Aegypt Lord God † And it came to passe when Salomon had accomplished praying to our Lord al this prayer and petition he rose from the sight of the altar of our Lord for he had fastened both knees on the ground and had spred his handes toward heauen † He stood therfore and blessed al the assemblie of Israel with a lowde voyce saying † Blessed be our Lord which hath geuen rest to his people Israel according to al thinges that he hath spoken there hath not fayled so much as one word of al the good thinges that he spake by Moyses this seruant † Be our Lord God with vs as he hath beene with our fathers not forsaking nor reiecting vs. † But incline he our hartes to him that we may walke in al his waies and keepe his commandementes and his ceremonies and iudgementes whatsoeuer he commanded our fathers † And be these my wordes wherewith I haue prayed before our Lord approching to our Lord God day and night that he may doe iudgement for his seruant and for his people Israel day by day † that al the peoples of the earth may knowe that our Lord he is God and there is none other besides him † Let our hart also be perfect with our Lord God that we walke in his decrees and keepe his cōmandementes as also this day † Therfore the king and al Israel with him did immolate victimes besore our Lord. † And Salomon killed pacis●que hostes which he immolated to our Lord of oxen two and twentie thousand and of sheepe an hundred twentie thousand and they dedicated the temple of our Lord the king and the children of Israel † In that day the king sanctified the middes of the court that was before the house of our Lord for he made the holocaust there and sacrifice and fatte of the pacifiques because the brasen altar that was before our Lord was too litle and could not take the holocaust and sacrifice and fatte of the pacifiques † Salomon therfore made in that time a solemne festiuitie and al Israel with him a great multitude from the entrance of Emath vnto the Ryuer of Aegypt before our Lord God seuen daies and seuen daies that is fourtene daies † And in the eight day he dismissed the people Who blessing the king went into their tabernacles reioysing and with a ioysul hart for al the good thinges that our Lord had done to Dauid his seruant and to Israel his people CHAP. IX Our Lord appearing againe to Salomon 4. admonisheth him and his people to keepe the precepts 6. threatning punishment if they do not 10. The king of Tyre receiueth tvventie cities of Salomon but liketh them not 14. Salomon buildeth more cities and tovvnes 20. Maketh diuers nations tributarie 24. The Quene repayreth to her house 25. The king offereth victimes thrise euerie yeare 26. and fetcheth gold from Ophir AND it came to passe when Salomon had perfected the building of the house of our Lord the kinges house and al that he wished and would haue done † our Lord appeared to him the second time as he had appeared to him in Gabaon † And our Lord said to him I haue heard thy prayer thy petition which thou hast prayed before me I haue sanctified this house which thou hast built that I might put my name there for euer and myne eies and my hart shal be there alwaies † Thou also if thou wilt walke before me as thy father walked in simplicitie of hart and in equitie and wilt doe al thinges which I haue commanded thee and wilt keepe my ordinances and my iudgementes † I wil sette the throne of thy kingdom ouer Israel for euer as I haue spoken to Dauid thy father saying There shal not be taken away a man of thy stocke from the throne of Israel † But if by reuolting you and your children shal turne away not folowing me nor keeping my commandementes and my ceremonies which I haue proposed to you but shal goe and worshippe strange goddes and adore them † I wil take away Israel from the face of the land which I haue geuen them and the temple which I haue sanctified to my name I wil cast away from my sight and Israel shal be for a prouerbe and for a fable to al peoples † And this house shal be for an example euerie one that shal passe by it shal wonder and hisse and say Why hath the Lord done thus to this land and to this house † And they shal answere Because they haue forsaken the Lord their God which brought their fathers out of the Land of Aegypt and haue folowed strange goddes adored them and worshipped them therfore hath the Lord brought vpon them al this euil † And twentie yeares being complete after that Salomon had built the two houses that is the house of our Lord and the house of the king † Hiram the king of Tyre ministring to Salomon ceder trees firre trees and gold according to al that he had neede then Salomon gaue to Hiram twentie townes in the Land of Galilee † And Hiram went from Tyre to see the townes which Salomon had geuen him and they pleased him not † and he sayd Are these the cities which thou hast geuen me brother And he called them the land Chabul vntil this day † Hiram also sent to king Salomon an hundred and twentie talentes of gold † This is the summe of the expences which king Salomon offered to build the house of our Lord and his owne house and Mello and the wal of Ierusalem and Heser and Mageddo and Gazer † Pharao the king of Aegypt came vp and rooke Gazer and burnt it with fire And the Chananite that dwelt in the citie he slewe and gaue it for a dowrie to his daughter the wife of Salomon † Salomon therfore built Gazer and Bethhoron the lower † and Baalath and Palmi●a in the Land of the wildernes † And al the villages that perteyned to him and were without wal he fensed and the cities of the chariotes and the cities of the horsemen and whatsoeuer pleased him to build in Ierusalem and in Libanus and in al the land of his dominion † Al the people that was remayning of the Amorrheites and Hetheites and Pherezeites and Heueites and Iebuseites that are not of the children of Israel † their children that were remayning in the
other things in the first age were figures of Christs Sacraments the Spirite of God geuing powre to the waters as Tertullian S. Hierom and others expound it and the floud of Noe by S. Peters testimonie were figures of Baptisme Mariage instituted in Paradise is the very paterne of holie Matrimonie a Sacrament in the Church of Christ where one man and one wife are on lie lawful and not more at once in anie wise Christ reforming that which in Moyses law was tolerated for hardnes of mens hartes and for auoyding murther to put away one wife and take an other to this first institution as it was in the beginning two in one flesh not three nor more The repentance of Adam and Eue was a perfect and examplare figure of the Sacrament of Penance First they were ashamed couering their nakednes and hiding them selues which shewed their griefe and sorow for the sinne committed Secondly they confessed their fault and by what meanes it happened For God examining Adam he answered truly and simply saing The woman which thou gauest me to be my companion gaue me of the tree and I did eate Likwise Eue confessed sincerly saying The serpent deceiued me and I did eate Thirdly God gaue them penance besides death before threatned and other penalties annexed that Eue should in paine and trauel bring forth her children and Adam should eate his bread in the sweate of his face And withal cast them forth of Paradise But not forth of his fauoure as appeared by his making them garments of skinnes granting them and their posteritie the rest of the earth to liue and labour in especially to serue him and do penance with admonition to remember that of duct man was made and into dust he shal returne Al which were signes of loue and that finally he would bring them and manie more to eternal saluation The first borne and heades of families were Priests al the time of the law of nature vntil the law being changed God tooke Priests only of the stock of Aaron and the rest of the Leuites to assist them in that function Aaron his sonnes thou shalt appoint saith our Lord ouer the seruice of Priesthood for I haue taken the Leuites of the children of Israel for euerie first borne And ● Paul teacheth that changing of Priesthood and changing of the law goe alwayes together shewing euidently that euerie lawful communitie or commonwealth vnder God hath external Priesthood So that if there had benne no distinct order of external Priesthood in the law of nature or now were none in the law of grace as Protestantes say there is not there were no law at al. See more of this point in the Annotations chap. 7. ad Hebre. Here we only obserue that Abel Seth Enos and other Patriarches were Priestes and exercised priestlie functions yea Cain also was a Priest though a bad one and offered Sacrifice But external offices or ministerie without a wel disposed mind and sincere vertues producing Good workes did neuer iustifie anie man And therfore Cains Sacrifice offered with a peruerse mind was not respected by God as Abels was wherupon he becoming worse and more malicious God sharply reproued his anger and enuie conceiued without iust cause saying If thou doest wel shalt thou not receiue againe but if thou doest il shal not thy sinne forwith be present at the dore clerly shewing that euerie one shal receiue according to his workes This place also euidently sheweth Freewil yea in a wicked man For this expostulation had neuer benne vttered by our most reasonable Lord and Maister if Cain had benne depriued of freewil For he might haue excused himselfe and must needes haue benne holden excused if he had benne forced to do as he did But God charged him as inexcusable and as one that knew or ought to know that he had freewil And doth further inculcate that he had and should haue powre and freewil ouer his concupiscence to correct the same if he would saying The lust therof shal be vnder thee and thou shalt haue domion ouer it So that no sinner be he neuer so wicked much lesse a iust man lacketh freewil yet Luther abhorreth the very word and Caluin wisheth it out of the world Temporal punishment is proued to be due for sinne remitted by that both death and other penalties are inflicted by Gods iustice vpon men after iustification and by the particular punishments laid vpon Adam and Eue confessing their faultes Purgatorie is also proued by the same iustice of God For when anie dieth penitent and yet haue not madeful satisfaction they must suffer for that remaineth after death and be purged before they can enter into rest which remnant of debt our B. Sauiour calleth The last farthing and saith it must be payed The lewes also at this day hold the doctrin of Purgatorie by tradition And consequently they Pray for soules departed not only to God but also to the ancient Patriarches which likewise sheweth Inuocation of Saincts in these wordes Yee fathers which sleepe in Hebron open to him the gates of Eden that is of Paradise which was planted in Eden And Hebron is the place where Adam was buried and his sepulcher religiously conserued in the time of Iosue aboue 1500 yeares after his death The same is the place which Abraham bought and there buried Sara where also him selfe and Isaac and Iacob were buried and to which finally the bodies of the twelue sonnes of Iacob were translated from Sichem As Iosephus writeth And sichem also was specially honored because such persons had benne buried there as S. Hierom witnesseth of his owne knowledge in his time Againe by religious care of burying the dead in this first age Enoch was more certainly knowen to be Translated aliue and not to be dead For the seuentie Interpreters and S. Paul say He was not found which importeth that they sought diligently for him and that his bodie could not be found for God translated him By al which we see mutual offices and communion of good workes amongst good men aliue and dead which is called Cōmunion of Saincts And herein Angels lacked not their offices For God set Cherubins to kepe the gate of Paradise that neither man should enter being iustly expelled for sinne nor diuels as S. Augustin noteth left they should take fruite of the tree of life and geuing it to men allure them to more sinne And now Saincts being exalted to Angels glorie haue like honorable offices towards other men as Angels haue Yea the bloud of Abel vniustly shed by Cain and iustly to be reuenged by God sheweth the peculiar honour which God bestoweth vpon his Saints for their vertues and merites in this life especially in their death For Precious in the sight of our Lord is the
Hierom. li. 3. comment in Mat. 18. 14. I am vvhich am Al other things besides God once were not and being are limited in nature neither could persist vnles God conserued them mame things also haue lost or shal lose their propet essence and being and whiles they remaine haue continual alterations Onlie God eternally is without beginning ending limitation dependence or mutation cōsisting only of himselfe and al other things ar● of him Therfore this name QVI EST HE WHICH IS is most proper to God not determining anie maner but indeterminatly signifying al maners of being for so it importeth the very infinite immensitie of Gods substance S. Damascen li. 1. c. 12. Orthodoxae sidei S. Tho. p. 1. q. 13. a. 11. CHAP. IIII. Moyses receiuing power to vvorke miracles in confirmation of his mission 14. and his brother Aaron being designed to assist him 20. goeth vvith vvife and children towards Aegypt 25. is in danger to be slaine for not sooner circumcising his sonne 27. Aaron meeteth him 29. so they goe together and declare to the people that God wil deliuer them MOYSES answering said “ They wil not beleue me nor heare my voice but they wil say Our Lord hath not appeared to thee † Therfore he sayd to him What is that thou holdest in thy hand He answered A rodde † And our Lord sayd Cast it vpon the ground He did cast it and it was turned into a serpent so that Moyses fled † And our Lord sayd Sretch thy hand and catch the tayle therof He stretched it forth tooke hold of it and it was turned into a rodde † That they may beleue quoth he that the Lord God of their fathers hath appeared to thee the God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Iacob † And our Lord sayd agayne Put thy hand into thy bosome Which when he had put into his bosome he brought it forth ful of leprosie like snow † Draw backe quoth he thy hand into thy bosome He drew it backe and brought it forth agayne it was like the other flesh † If they wil not beleue thee quoth he nor heare the word of the former signe they wil beleue the word of the signe folowing † And if so be they wil beleue neither of these two signes nor heare thy voice take water of the riuer powre it out vpon the drie land and whatsoeuer thou drawest of the riuer shal be turned into bloud † Moyses sayd I beseech thee Lord I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before and since thou hast spoken to thy seruant I haue more impediment slownes of tongue † Our Lord sayd to him Who made the mouth of man or who framed the dumme and deafe the seeing and the blinde did not I † Goe on therfore and I wil be in thy mouth wil teach thee what thou shalt speake † But he sayd I besech thee Lord send whom thou wilt send † Our Lord being angrie at Moyses sayd Aaron thy brother the leuite I know that he is eloquēt behold he cometh forth to meete thee seeing thee shal be glad at the hart † Speake to him and put my wordes in his mouth I wil be in thy mouth and in his mouth and wil shew you what yee must doe † He shal speake in thy steed to the people and shal be thy mouth but thou shalt be to him in those thinges that perteine to God † This rodde also take in thy hand wherwith thou shalt doe the signes † Moyses went his way returned to Iethro his father in law and sayd to him I wil goe and returne to my brethren into Aegypt that I may see if they be yet aliue To whom Iethro sayd Goe in peace † Therfore our Lord sayd to Moyses in Madian Goe and returne into Aegypt for they are al dead that sought thy life † Moyses therfore tooke his wife his children and set them vpon an asse and returned into Aegypt carying the rodde of God in his hand † And our Lord said to him returning into Aegypt See that thou doe al the wonders which I haue put in thy hand before Pharao I wil indurate his hart and he wil not dismisse the people † And thou shalt say to him This sayth the Lord My first begotten sonne is Israel † I sayd to thee dismisse my sonne that he may serue me thou wouldest not dismisse him behold I wil kil thy first-begotten-sonne † And when he was in his iourney in the Inne our Lord mette him and would haue killed him † Sephora by by tooke a very sharp stone and circuncided the prepuce of her sonne touched his feete and sayd A blouddie spouse thou art to me † And he let him goe after she had said A blouddie spouse thou art to me because of the circumcision † And our Lord said to Aaron Goe to Moyses into the desert Who went forth to mete him vnto the Mountaine of God and kissed him † And Moyses told Aaron al the wordes of our Lord by which he had sent him the signes that he had commanded † And they came together and gathered together al the ancientes of the children of Israel † And Aaron spake al the wordes which our Lord had said to Moyses and he wrought the signes before the people † and the people beleued And they heard that our Lord had visited the children of Israel and that he had looked vpon their affliction they adored prostrate ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IIII. ● They vvil not beleue me Moyses wisely considering that the children of Israel much lesse Pharao would hardly beleue his bare woord affirming that he was sent to them by God proposed this difficultie before he tooke the Embacie vpon him For without good proofe both the Israelites and Aegyptians might haue reiected him as seming to come of his owne priuate spirite being no ordinarie superior neither of the whole people nor of his owne tribe nor first of his familie for Aaron was his elder brother Therfore God gaue him powre of working miracles to proue his extraordinarie mission true and lawful VVhich sufficed to make euen Pharao him selfe to know that he was sent from God almightie though it mollified not his stubborne hart to obey Gods commandement and it fully satisfied the children of Israel touching al things which he denounced beleuing him that God mercifully looked vpon their affliction would deliuer them VVherupon they adored prostrate as the last wordes of this chapter testifie VVhere we see both the necessitie and sufficiencie of miracles to proue the extraordinarie vocation of such as preach otherwise then was taught before For this cause our Sauio●● himselfe confirming his doctrin by miracles saied to the Iewes If you vvil not beleue me beleue by vvorkes Againe he said of them If I had not done among them vvorkes that no other man hath done they should not haue sinne And cōformably sending
his Apostles to preach the Gospel gaue them powre to worke miracles in his name So did S. Peter and S. Iohn heale the lame Act. 3. And S. Paul auouched miracles for the signes of his Apostleship 2. Cor. 12. CHAP. V. Moyses and Aaron require of Pharao in the behalfe of God to let his people the Hebrewes goe and sacrifice in the desert VVhich he contemning 5. oppresseth them more denying them stravv and yet exacting the accustomed number of brickes 20. The people oppressed impute their miserie to Moyses and Aaron 12. But Moyses prayeth to God for them AFTER these things Moyses and Aaron went in and said to Pharao This saith the Lord God of Israel dismisse my people that they may sacrifice to me in the desert † But he answered Who is the Lord that I should heare his voice and dismisse Israel I know not the Lord and Israel I wil not dismisse † And they said The God of the Hebrewes hath called vs to goe three daies iourney into the wildernesse and to sacrifice to the Lord our God lest perhappes there chance to vs pestilence or sword † The king of Aegypt said to them Why do you Moyses and Aaron solicite the people from their workes Goe you to your burdens † And Pharao said The people of the land is much you see that the multitude is secretly increased how much more if you geue them rest from their workes † Therefore he commanded in that day the ouerseers of the workes and the exactores of the people saying † You shal no more geue straw to the people for to make brickes as before but let them selues goe and geather straw † And the taske of brickes which they did before you shal put vpon them neither shal you diminish any thing for they are idle and therfore they crie saying Let vs goe and sacrifice to our God † Let them be oppressed with workes and let them accomplish them that they hearken not to lying wordes † Therefore the ouerseers of the workes and the exactors going forth said vnto the people Thus saith Pharao I allow you no straw † goe and geather if you can find any where neither shal anie thing of your worke be diminished † And the people was dispersed through al the Land of Aegypt to geather straw † And the ouerseers of the workes were instant saying Finish your worke euerie day as before you were wont to doe when straw was geuen vnto you † And the ouerseers of the workes of the children of Israel were scourged of Pharaos exactors saying Why do you not make vp the taske of brickes as before neither yesterday nor to day † And the ouerseers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharao saying Why dealest thou so against thy seruantes † Straw is not geuen vs and brickes are commanded vs in like sorte behold we thy seruantes are beaten with whippes and thy people is vniustly dealt withal † Who said You are idle and therefore you say Let vs goe and sacrifice to our Lord. † Goe therfore and worke straw shal not be geuen you and you shal geue vp the accustomed number of brickes † And the ouerseers of the children of Israel saw them selues in hard case because it was said vnto them There shal not a whitte be diminished of the brickes for euerie day † And they mette Moyses and Aaron who stood ouer against them coming forth from Pharao † and they said to them Our Lord see and iudge because you haue made our sauour to stinke before Pharao and his seruantes and you haue geuen him a sword for to kil vs. † And Moyses returned to our Lord and said Lord why hast thou afflicted this people wherfore hast thou sent me † For since the time that I entered in to Pharao to speake in thy name he hath afflicted thy people and thou hast not deliuered them CHAP. VI. God reueling himselfe more to Moyses then he had done to former Patriarches 6. commandeth him to tel the children of Israel that he seeing their miseries wil deliuer them from Aegypt and geue them possession of Chanaan 14. The genealogies of Ruben Simeon and especially of Leui are recited 26. to shew the origin of Moyses and Aaron AND our Lord said to Moyses Now thou shalt see what thinges I wil doe to Pharao for by a mightie hand shal he dismisse them and in a strong hand shal he cast them out of his land † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying I am the Lord † that appeared to Abraham to Isaac and to Iacob as God almightie and “ my name ADONAI I did not shew them † And I made a couenant with them to geue them the Land of Chanaan the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers † And I haue heard the groning of the children of Israel wherwith the Aegyptians haue oppressed them and I haue remembred my couenant † Therfore say to the children of Israel I the Lord who wil bring you forth out of the worke-prison of the Aegyptians wil deliuer you from seruitude and redeme you in a high arme and great iudgements † And I wil take you to me for my people and I wil be your God and you shal know that I am the Lord your God that brought you forth out of the worke-prison of the Aegyptians † and brought you into the land ouer which I lifted vp my hand to geue it to Abraham Isaac and Iacob and I wil geue it you to possesse I the Lord. † Moyses then told al to the children of Israel who did not hearken vnto him for anguish of spirit and most painful worke † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Goe in and speake to Pharao the king of Aegypt that he dismisse the children of Israel out of his land † And Moyses answered before our Lord Behold the children of Israel heare me not and how wil Pharao heare especially wheras I am of vncircumcised lippes † And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron and he gaue them commandement vnto the children of Israel vnto Pharao the king of Aegypt that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Aegypt † These are Princes of their houses by their families The sonnes of Ruben the first begotten of Israel Henoch and Phallu Hesron and Charmi. † These are the kinreds of Ruben The sonnes of Simeon Iamuel and Iamin and Ahod and Iachin and Soar and Saul the sonnes of the Chananitesse these are the progenies of Simeon † And these are the names of the sonnes of Leui by their kinreds Gerson and Caath and Merari And the yeares of the life of Leui were an hundred thirtie seuen † The sonnes of Gerson Lobni and Semi by their kinreds † The sonnes of Caath Amram and Isaar and Hebron and Oziel the yeares also of Caaths life were an hundred thirtie three † The sonnes of Merari Moholi and Musi these be the kinreds of Leui by
their families † And Amram tooke to wife locabed his aunt by the fathers side who bare him Aaron and Moyses And the yeares of Amrams life were an hundred thirtie seuen † The sonnes also of Isaar Coree and Nepheg and Zechri † The sonnes also of Oziel Mizael and Elizaphan and Sethi † And Aaron tooke to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab sister of Nahason who bare him Nadab and Abiu and Eleazar and Ithamar † The sonnes also of Core Aser and Elcana Abiasaph these be the kinreds of the Corites † But Eleazar the sonne of Aaron tooke a wife of the daughters of Phutiel who bare him Phinees these are the heads of the Leuitical families by their kinreds † This is Aaron and Moyses whom our Lord commanded that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Aegypt by their troupes † These are they that spake to Pharao the king of Aegypt that they might bring forth the children of Israel out of Aegypt this is Moyses and Aaron † in the day when our Lord spake to Moyses in the land of Aegypt † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying I the Lord speake to Pharao the king of Aegypt al thinges which I speake to thee † And Moyses said before our Lord Loe I am of vncircumcised lippes how wil Pharao heare me ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VI. 3. My name Adonai Here and in manie other places of holie Scripture in the Hebrew text is that name of God of foure letters which the Iewes say is ineffable Yet sure it is that Moyses heard it pronounced and afterwards writte it as he did the rest in Hebrew letters which are al consonants without vowels But the Rabbins that long after put points or vowels to al other words put none to this For al then redde Adonai in place therof And so the Latin and al vulgar Catholique versions keepe the same word vntranslated The Septuagint in Greke translate KYPIO● which in Latin is Dominus in English Lord. So also al ancient Fathers and which is most of al our Sauiour and his Apostles alleaging sentences of the old Testament where this name is contained stil expresse it by wordes that signifie Lord. Only certaine late writers haue framed a new word by putting the points of Adonai to the proper letters of this vnknowen name which are Iod He Vau He and so sound it Iehouah which was scarse heard of before an hundred yeares As Bishop Genebrard Cardinal Bellarmin and F. Pererius proue for that neither ancient Fathers writing whole Treatises de Diuinis nominibus nor the elder Rabbins nor later most learned Hebricians as Rabbi Moyses Aben Ezram Lira Paulus Burgensis and others neuer mention Iehouah amongst the Names or titles of God CHAP. VII Moyses being constituted as God of Pharao and Aaron as the prophet of Moyses they declare Gods commandment to Pharao 10. turne the rodde into a serpent 17. the water into bloud which is the first plague 22. The magicians doe the like by inchantments and Pharaos hart is indurate AND our Lord said to Moyses Behold I haue appointed thee “ the God of Pharao and Aaron thy brother shal be thy prophet † Thou shalt speake to him al thinges that I command thee and he shal speake to Pharao that he dismisse the children of Israel out of his land † But “ I wil indurate his hart and wil multiplie my signes and wonders in the Land of Aegypt † and he wil not heare you and I wil put in my hand vpon Aegypt and wil bring forth my armie and people the children of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt by very great iudgements † And the Aegyptians shal know that I am the Lord which haue stretched forth my hand vpon Aegypt and haue brought forth the children of Israel out of the middes of them † Therfore Moyses and Aaron did as our Lord had commanded so did they † And Moyses was eightie yeares old and Aaron eightie three when they spake to Pharao † And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron † When Pharao shal say vnto you Shew signes thou shalt say to Aaron Take thy rodde and cast it before Pharao and it shal be turned into a serpent † Therfore Moyses and Aaron going in vnto Pharao did as our Lord had commanded And Aaron tooke the rodde before Pharao and his seruantes the which was turned into a serpent † And Pharao called the wise men and the enchanters and “ they also by Aegyptian enchantments and certaine secrecies did in like maner † And euery one did cast forth their roddes the which were turned into dragons but Aarons rodde deuoured their roddes † And Pharaos hart was indurate and he heard them not as our Lord had commanded † And our Lord said to Moyses Pharaoes hart is aggrauated he wil not dismisse the people † Goe to him in the morning behold he wil goe forth to the waters and thou shalt stand to meete him vpon the banke of the riuer and the rodde that was turned into a dragon thou shalt take in thy hand † And thou shalt say to him The Lord God of the Hebrewes sent me to thee saying Dismisse my people to sacrifice vnto me in the desert and vntil this present thou wouldest not heare † This therfore saith our Lord In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord behold I wil strike with the rodde that is in my hand the water of the riuer and it shal be turned into bloud † The fishes also that are in the riuer shal dye and the waters shal putrifie and the Aegyptians shal be afflicted drinking the water of the riuer † Our Lord also said to Moyses Say vnto Aaron Take thy rodde and stretch forth thy hand vpon the waters of Aegypt and vpon their floudes and riuers and pooles and al the lakes of waters that they may be turned into bloud and be there bloud in al the Land of Aegypt as wel in the vessels of wood as of stone † And Moyses and Aaron did as our Lord had commanded and lifting vp the rodde he stroke the water of the riuer before Pharao and his seruantes which was turned into bloud † And the fishes that were in the riuer died and the riuer putrified and the Aegyptians could not drincke the water of the riuer and there was bloud in the whole Land of Aegypt † And the enchaunters of the Aegyptians with their enchantments did in like maner and Pharaoes hart was indurate neither did he heare them as our Lord had commaunded † And he turned away him selfe and went into his house neither did he yet set his hart to it this time also † And al the Aegyptians digged round about the riuer for water to drinke for they could not drinke of the water of the riuer † And seuen dayes were fully ended after that our Lord stroke the riuer ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VII 1. The God of Pharao The
I wil enter into Aegypt † and euerie first-begotten in the Land of the Aegyptians shal dye from the first begotten of Pharao who sitteth in his throne euen to the first-begotten of the handmaid that is at the mil al the first-begotten of beastes † And there shal be a great crie in the whole Land of Aegypt such as neither hath bene before nor shal be afterward † But with al the children of Israel there shal not a dogge mutter from man euen to beast that you may know with how great a miracle our Lord doth diuide the Aegyptians Israel † And al these thy seruantes shal come downe to me and shal adore me saying Goe forth thou al the people that is vnder thee after this we shal goe forth † And he departed from Pharao exceeding angrie And our Lord said to Moyses Pharao wil not heare you that manie signes may be done in the Land of Aegypt † And Moyses and Aaron did al the wonders that are written before Pharao And our Lord hardned Pharaoes hart neither did he dismisse the children of Israel out of his Land CHAP. XII The maner of preparing and eating the Paschal lambe sprinckling the dore-postes with bloud therof 15. eating no leuened bread seuen dayes together 29. The first borne of men and beastes among the Aegyptians are slaine 35. The Israelites goe away spoyling Aegypt 43. Incircumcised me● may not eate the Phase AND our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron in the Land of Aegypt † This moneth shal be to you the beginning of monethes it shal be the first in the monethes of the yeare † Speake yee to the whole assemblie of the children of Israel say to them “ The tenth day of this moneth let euerie man take a lambe by their families and houses † But if the number be lesse then may suffice to eate the lambe he shal take vnto him his neighbour that ioyneth to his house according to the number of soules which may suffice to the eating of the lambe † And it shal be alambe without spotte a male of a yeare old according also to which rite you shal take a kidde † And you shal kepe him vntil the fourtenth day of this moneth and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shal sacrifice him at euen † And they shal take of the bloud therof and put vpon both the postes and on the vpper-dore-postes of the houses wherin they shal eate him † And they shal eate the flesh that night rosted at the fire and vnleauened bread with wilde lettice † You shal not eate therof any thing raw nor boyled in water but only rosted at the fire the head with the feete and entralles therof you shal deuoure † Neither shal there remaine any thing of him vntil morning If there be any thing left you shal burne it with fire † And thus you shal eate him you shal gird your reynes and you shal haue shoes on your feete holding staues in your handes and you shal eate speedely for it is the Phase that is the Passage of the Lord. † And I wil passe through the Land of Aegypt that night and wil strike euery first begotten in the Land of Aegypt from man euen vnto beast and in al the goddes of Aegypt I wil doe iudgements I the Lord. † And the bloud shal be vnto you for a signe in the houses where you shal be and I shal see the bloud and shal passe ouer you neither shal there be among you a destroying plague when I shal strike the Land of Aegypt † And you shal haue this day for a moniment and you shal celebrate it solemne to the Lord in your generations with an euerlasting obseruation † Seuen dayes shal you eate azimes in the first day there shal be noe leauen in your houses whosoeuer shal eate leauen that soule shal perish out of Israel from the first day vntil the seuenth day † The first day shal be holie and solemne and the seuenth day with the like festiuitie shal be venerable no worke shal you doe in them except those thinges that pertaine to eating † And you shal obserue the azymes for in the selfe same day I wil bring forth your armie out of the Land of Aegypt and you shal keepe this day vnto your generations with a perpetual rite † The first moneth the fourtenth day of the moneth at euen you shal eate azymes vntil the one and twentith day of the same moneth at euen † Seuen dayes there shal not be found leauened in your houses he that shal eate leauened his soule shal perish out of the assemblie of Israel as wel of strangers as of them that are borne in the land † Nothing leauened shal you eate in al your habitations you shal eate azymes † And Moyses called al the Ancients of the children of Isael and said to them Goe take a lambe by your families and sacrifice the Phase † And dippe a bunche of hyssope in the blould that is at the doore and sprinkle the vppertransome of the doore therwith and both the doore cheekes let none of you goe out of the doore of his house til morning † For our Lord wil passe striking the Aegyptians and when he shal see the bloud on the vppersil and on both the postes he wil passe ouer the doore of the house and not suffer the striker to enter your houses and to hurt † Keepe this thing as a law to thee and thy children for euer † And when you are entred into the Land which our Lord wil geue you as he hath promised you shal obserue these ceremonies † And when your children shal say to you What is this religion † you shal say to them It is the victime of our Lords passage when he passed ouer the houses of the chidlren of Israel in Aegypt striking the Aegyptians and deliuering our houses And the people bowing them selues adored † And the children of Israel going forth did as our Lord had commanded Moyses and Aaron † And it came to passe at midnight our Lord stroke euerie first-begotten in the Land of Aegypt from the first-begotten of Pharao who sate in his throne vnto the first-begotten of the captiue woman that was in the prison and euerie first begotten of beastes † And Pharao arose in the night and al his seruantes and al Aegypt and there arose a great crie in Aegypt for neither was there a house wherin there lay not a dead one † And Pharao calling Moyses and Aaron in the night said Arise and goe forth from my people you and the children of Israel goe sacrifice to the Lord as you say † Your sheepe and heardes take you as you demanded and departing blesse me † And the Aegyptians vrged the people to goe forth out of the land quickly saying We shal al die † The people therfore tooke dough before it was leauened and tying it in their clokes
put it vpon their shoulders † And the children of Israel did as Moyses had commanded and they asked of the Aegyptians vessels of siluer and gold and very much rayment † And our Lord gaue grace to the people before the Aegyptians that they did lend them and they spoyled the Aegyptians † And the children of Israel sette forward from Ramesse into Socoth almost six hundred thousand of foote men beside litle ones † But also the common people of al sortes innumerable went vp with them sheepe and heardes and beastes of diuerse kindes exceding manie † And they baked the meale which a litle before they had taken out of Aegypt tempered and made hearth cakes vnleauened for it could not be leauened the Aegyptians vrging them to depart not suffering them to make any tarriance neither did they thinke vpon preparing any meate † And the dwelling of the children of Israel that they abode in Aegypt was foure hundred thirty yeares † The which being expired the same day al the armie of our Lord went forth out of the Land of Aegypt † This is the obseruable night of our Lord when he brought them forth out of the Land of Aegypt this night al the children of Israel must obserue in their generations † And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron This is the religion of the Phase No aliene shal eate of it † And euerie bought seruant shal be circumcised and so shal eate † The stranger and the hireling shal not eate therof † In one house shal it be eaten neither shal you carrie forth of the flesh therof out of the house neither shal you breake a bone therof † Al the assemblie of the children of Israel shal make it † And if any of the soiourners be willing to dwel among you and make the Phase of the Lord first al the male that he hath shal be circumcised and then shal he celebrate it according to the rite he shal be as he that is borne in the land but if there be any man vncircumcised he shal not eate therof † Al one law shal be to him that is borne in the land and to the prose lyte that soiourneth with you † And al the children of Israel did as our Lord had commanded Moyses and Aaron † And the same day our Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the Land of Aegypt by their troupes ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XII 3. The tenth day Our Sauiour Christ instituting the Sacrament of the Eucharist after the celebration of the Paschal lambe whiles they were at supper the night before his death therby sufficiently declared that this old Pasch was a figure not only of his Passion and Sacrifice on the Crosse but also of that he then did so solemnly with his Apostles whom also in that action he made Priests commanding them and their successors to do the same in commemo●ation of him til the end of the world Other circumstances likewise and conference of the one with the other make it more clere that as in some respectes it more resembled Christs Passion and Sacrifice on the Crosse so in others it more expressed the Eucharist and mystical commemoration of his death though also in manie it profigured Christ in both places For example The preparing of the lambe the tenth day signified our Sauiours coming into Hierusalem the same tenth day of the first moone now represented in the Church on Palmesunday Also the choise qualities of the lambe vvithout spotte a male of the first yeare foreshewed in general the puritie fortitude meeknes and al perfection of the true Lambe of God that ta●eth avvay the sinne of the vvorlde More particularly the killing and bereuing the Paschal Lambe of natural life the sprinkling of his bloud on the dore-postes the ●●st●●● at t●e ●ire and not breaking anie b●ne therof most specially expressed Christs death on the Crosse But the fourtenth day the euining agree only with the Eucharist instituted the night before our Lords Passion which he suffered the fiftenth being the ful moore and at midday as ancient S. Dionyse of Ariopagite in two Episties to Polic●rpus and to Appollophanes testifieth admiring the miracle of the sunnes Eclip●e that hapned the same time Neither did the ●ating of the Lambe directly prefigurate the oblation on the Crosse for Christ was not crucified to be eaten but the Sacrament in formes and bread and vvine was expresly figured by eating the lambe with vnleauened bread and drinking the cuppe therto idioyned Luc. 2● v 17. In like sorte the Lambe immolated in commemoration of the deliuerie of Israel from death and from seruitude when the-first-borne of Aegypt were slaine most aptly prefigured the Eucharist which is a perpetuat commemoration of mans redemption and deliuerie from eternal death and from bondage of the diuel and sinne by Christes death on the Crosse which death in dede was the very redemption and deliuerie of mankind and not a commemoration therof Finally the immolating of the Lambe vvithin the house with precise commandment to carie nothing therof forth perteined particularly to the Eucharist which our Lord celebrated vvithin the house wherby S. Cyprian lib. de vnit Eccles proueth that the B. Sacrament must not be giuen to anie ou● of the Catholique Church though Christs Passion be extended to al the world as wel to bring such as are without into the Church as to saue those that are already entred in In this sorte the most ancient and best expositors of holie Scripture explicate this special figure of the Paschal Lambe As we shalhere produce some witnesses in confirmation of this truth Tertulian lib. 4. contra Marcionem expounding our Sauiours wordes VVith desire I haue desired to eate this Pasch vvith you before I suffer saieth Christ coueted not veruecinam Iudaeorum the mutton of the Iewes but professing that with desire he desired to eate the Pasch as his owne for it was vnmete that God should couete anie thing not his owne the bread which he toooke and gaue to his disciples he made his owne bodie saying This is my bodie that is a figure of my bodie Figura autem nonsuisset nisi veritatis esset corpus But it had not bene a figure saith he onles it vv●re a bodies of veritie or a verie bodie to wit not phantastical as the heretike Marcion imagined because the figures in the old Testament were not figures except a true bodie answered vnto them So the Sacramentaries sense that Tertullian should cal the Eucharist a figure is quite against his meaning and maketh him conclude nothing against Marcion wheras his whole drift is by the figures of the old Testament to proue that in the Eucharist is the true real bodie of Christ and that consequently Christ hath a true and real bodie Origen in 26. Mat. teacheth that in the great parlar where Christ did ea●e the Paschal Lambe he also made his new Pasch S. Cyprian
of the children of promise such as the Romane Christians and others Ievves and Gentiles So S. Iohn saw in a vision as a certaine number of twelue thousand signed of euerie tribe of Israel but after these a great multitude which no man could number of al nations tribes peoples and tongues To say therfore as some old and nevv heretikes doe that the Church of Christ some times consisteth of fevv or inuisible persons vvere to say God kept not promise vvith Abraham Gen. 17. and to make the bodie and thing figured more obscure then the shadovv and figure seeing in the whole time of the Lavv of nature that is in these three first ages of the vvorld the Church being but a figure of that vvhich is novv yet vvas alvvayes visible and notorious as hath benne declared And that vvith perpetual succession of supreme heades rulers and gouerners As is before noted in the first age from Adam to Noe in the second from Noe to Abraham so in this third by the right line of Abraham Isaac Iacob Leui Caath and Amram to Aaron and Moyses Exo. 6. the Holie Ghost not there reciting more genealogies being come to the origin of the Pristlie Tribe that is to these tvvo vvhom his diuine goodnes selected and ordained as vvel to speake to Pharao in behalf of the children of Israel and to bring them out of the Land of Aegypt as aftervvards by one of them to giue his people a vvritten Lavv and in the other a perpetual prouision of spiritual pastors For in Aaron the elder brother God established an ordinarie succession of Priesthood from that time to Christ vvhich before pertained to the firstborne in euerie familie ●dioyning the rest of Leuites tribe to assist them in administration of sacred things But Moyses the younger brother vvas extraordinarily called which God therfore shewed and confirmed by special miracles not onlie to Priesthood but also to be as the God of Pharao Superior of Aaron chiefe mediator betwen God and his people as wel in deliuering them from the seruitude of Aegypt and in receiuing the Law and deliuering it to them as in al other supreme gouernment spiritual and temporal during his life CHAP. XVI The people murmuring for meate and that they had left the flesh pottes of Aegypt 4 God geueth them quailes and Manna 16. VVherof they are commanded to gather for euerie day 22. but the sixt day duble for the Sabbaoth 32. and to kepe a measure of it in the tabernacle for a memorie AND they sette forward from Elim and al the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert Sin which is betwene Elim Sinay the fiftenth day of the second moneth after they came forth out of the Land of Aegypt † And al the assemblie of the children of Israel murmured against Moyses and Aaron in the wildernesse † And the children of Israel said to them Would to God we had died by the hand of our Lord in the Land of Aegypt when we sate ouer the flesh pottes and did eate bread our fill why haue you brought vs into this desert that you might kil al the multitude with famine † And our Lord said to Moyses Behold I wil raine you bread from heauen let the people goe forth and gather that sufficeth for euerie day that I may proue them whether they wil walke in my law or no. † But the sixt day let them prouide for to bring in and let it be duble to that they were wont to gather euerie daie † And Moyses and Aaron said to al the children of Israel At euen you shal know that our Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Aegypt † and in the morning you shal see the glorie of our Lord for he hath heard your murmuring against our Lord but as for vs what are we that you mutter against vs † And Moyses said At euen our Lord wil geue you flesh to eate and in the morning bread your fill for he hath heard your murmuringes which you haue murmured against him for what are we neither is your murmuring against vs but against our Lord. † Moyses also said to Aaron Say to the whole assemblie of the children of Israel Approch you before our Lord for he hath heard your murmuring † And when Aaron spake to al the assemblie of the children of Israel they looked toward the wildernesse and behold the glorie of our Lord appeared in a cloud † And our Lord spake to Moyses saving † I haue heard the murmuringes of the children of Israel say to them At euen you shal eate flesh and in the morning you shal haue your fil of bread and you shal know that I am the Lord your God † Therfore it came to passe at euen and the quaile rose and couered the campe in the morning also a dew lay round about the campe † And when it had couered the face of the earth it appeared in the wildernesse smal and as it were beaten with a pestil like vnto the hoare frost on the ground † Which when the children of Israel had seene they said one to an other Man-hu which signifieth What is this for they knew not what it was To whom Moyses said This is the bread which our Lord hath geuen you to eate † This is the word that our Lord hath commanded Let euerie one gather of it so much as sufficeth to eate a gomor euerie man according to the number of your soules that dwel in a tent so shal you take vp † And the children of Israel did so and they gathered one more an other lesse † And they measured by the measure of a gomor neither he that gathered more had aboue nor he that prouided lesse found vnder but euerie one gathered according to that which they were able to eate † And Moyses said to them Let no man leaue therof til the morning † Who heard him not but certaine of them left vntil the morning and it beganne to be ful of wormes and it putrified and Moyses was angrie against them † And euerie one of them gathered in the morning so much as might suffice to eate and after the sunne waxed hotte it melted † But in the sixt day they gathered duble portions that is two gomors euerie man and al the princes of the multitude came and told Moyses † Who said to them This is it which our Lord hath spoken The Sabbathes rest is sanctified vnto our Lord to morow Whatsoeuer is to be wrought doe it and the meates that are to be made readie make them readie and whatsoeuer shal remaine lay it vp vntil the morning † And they did so as Moyses had commanded and it putrified not neither● was there worme found in it † And Moyses said Eate it to day because it is the Sabbath of our Lord to day it shal not be found in the field † Gather it six dayes but in the seuenth day
is the Sabbath of our Lord therfore it shal not be found † And the seuenth day came and some of the people going forth to gather found not † And our Lord said to Moyses How long wil you not keepe my commandementes and my law † See that our Lord hath geuen you a Sabbath and for this cause on the sixt day he geueth you duble portions let each man tarie with himselfe and let none goe forth out of his place the seuenth day † And the people kept the Sabbath on the seuenth day † And the house of Israel called the name therof Manna which was as it were coriander seede white and the taist therof like to flowre with honie † And Moyses sayd This is the word which our Lord hath commanded Fil a gomor of it and let it be kept vnto the generations to come hereafter that they may know the bread wherwith I fed you in the wildernes when you were brought forth out of the Land of Aehypt † And Moyses sayd to Aaron Take one vessel and put Manna into it so much as a gomor can hold and lay it vp before our Lord to keepe vnto your generations † as our Lord commanded Moyses And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be reserued † And the children of Israel did ●a●e Manna fourtie yeares til they came into the habitable land with this meate were they fed vntil they touched the borders of the land of Chanaan † And a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVI 15. Man hu vvhat is this VVhen the people of Israel in the desert had spent their prouision of meate brought from Aegypt and according to Gods promise had receiued store of quailes going forth in the morning they sawe a strange thing lye vpon the ground like to hoare frost wherat merueling they said one to an other VVhat is this in their language Man hu VVherupon saith Theodoret q. 30. in Exod their demand vvas turned into the name and it vvas called Manna VVhich as the same and other ancient Doctors gather by the holie Scriptures was a wonderful and miraculous meate and withal a figure of a more excellent thing long after promised and geuen by our B. Sauiour in the holie Sacrament of the Eucharist As witnesse S. Gregorie Nys●en ●nar vit● Moysi ●ir●a m●dium S. Ambrose li. de ijs qui Myst. in●●●ant cap. 8. S. Cyril Alexandrinus S Chry●ostom S. Augustin Theophilact and others vpon the sixt of S. Iohn VVhere also the text of our Sauiours long discourse with the Capharnaites sheweth euidently that he promised to geue a farre better meate then Manna to those that beleued in him Iam saieth our Lord the bread of life vvhich desended from heauen your fathers did eate Manna in the desert and died The bread vvhich I vvil geue is my flesh for the life of the vvorld My flesh 〈◊〉 meate in deede and my bloud is drinck● indeede c. S. Paul likewise teacheth 1. Cor 10 that this Manna and the vvater issuing out of the rocke were figures of the same B Sacrament as is noted in those places Here only we commend to the Christian readers remēbrance that the thing figured doth euer excede the figure according to S Pauls doctrin Collos 2. wishing him therfore to consider that in Manna were at least twelue clere miracles Fir●● it was made by Angels wherof it is called the bread of Angels Secondly it was not produced from the earth nor water as ordinarie meates are but came from the ayre Thirdly how fast or slowly soeuer anie man did gather it in the end ech one had the same measure ful called a gomor and no more nor lesse Fourthly the sixth day which was next before the Sabbath that which they gathered was found to be duble portions to other dayes that is two gomors for euerie one Fiftly there fel none at al on the Sabbath day Sixtly if in the rest of the weke anie part was left al night it putrified and was corrupt in the morning but the night before the Sabbath day it remained sound and good Seuently notwithstanding diuersitie of stomakes in so great a multitude the same measure was sufficient and no more to euerie one young and old and of middle age Eightly the heate of the sunne melted and consumed that which remained in the field though otherwise it indu●ed heate of the fire seething in water grinding in milles and beating in motters Ninthly it tasted to euerie one what they desired Tenthly it seemed neuerthelesse to the euil minded loathsome and light meate but pleasant to the good Eleuently part of it was kept in the Arke by Gods commandment and was not corrupted in manie hundreth peares Twelftly this strange and extraordinarie prouision continued fourtie yeares that is til the children of Israel came to the promised land and then ceased You see then so miraculous a figure farre excelled Zuinglius or Caluins communion bread which containeth no miracle at al only signifying Christs bodie But as our Sauiours owne wordes importe and ancient fathers teach vs by Manna was prefigured Christs verie bodie and bloud with his soule and Diuinitie vnder the forme of bread For this indeede infinitly excelleth Manna containing al the foresaid or rather much more eminent miracles For first it was consecrated by the maruelous power of Christs word and euer since the same is done by the like power communicated to Priests 2 in his Church militant 3 one and the verie same and not manie in innumerable places and in euerie les●e or greater forme yea in the least particle of the accidents that may be Christ is whole and entire 4 It geueth abundance of grace in this life signified by the day before the Sabbath for the glorie of the next li●e in eternal ●est 5 where is no more vse of Sacraments but euerlasting fruition of glorie 6 VVhoso euer therfore would make temporal commoditie of this heauenlie foode as it were reseruing Manna for other dayes of the weke it perisheth to him and turneth to his ignominie but being reserued in the faithful soule for the life to come which is the true Sabbath it remaineth an heauenlie treasure 7 And so it auaileth to euerie one as their soule which is the spiritual stomake of supernatural meate is lesse or more disposed 8 Though heate of persecution and other aduerse power take away this Sacrament and Sacrifice abrode in the field of this world yet no power extinguisheth it within the Church where it is in due maner prepared and ministred to the children of God 9 where it yeldeth al comfort strength and contentment to good spiritual desires 10 but to the incredulous Capharnaitessemeth vnpossible and to carnal conceipts loathsome 11 Being worthely receiued into our mortal bodies our arke or temporal tabernacle it remaineth in incorruptible effect wherby the bodie
thyne enemies wil afflict them that afflict thee † And myne Angel shal goe before thee and shal bring thee in vnto the Amorrheite and Hetheite and Pherezeite and Chananeite and Heueite and ●ebuzeite whom I wil destroy † Thou shalt not adore their goddes nor serue them Thou shalt not doe their workes but shalt destroy them and breake their statues † And you shal setue the Lord your God that I may blesse your bread waters and may take away infirmitie from the middes of thee † There shal not be a fruitlesse nor barren bodie in thy land I wil fil the number of thy dayes † I wil send my terrour to runne before thee and wil kil al people to whom thou shalt enter and wil turne the backes of al thyne enemies before thee † sending forth hornets before that shal chase away the Herueite and Chananeite and Hetheite before thou enter † I wil not cast them out from thy face in one yeare lest the land be brought into a wildernesse and beastes encrease against thee † By litle and litle I wil expel them from thy sight til thou be increased and dost possesse the Land † And I wil sette thy boundes from the Redde sea vnto the sea of the Palestines and from the desert vnto the riuer I wil deliuer the inhabitantes of the Land in your handes and wil cast them out from your sight † Thou shalt not enter league with them nor with their goddes † Let them not dwel in thy land lest perhapes they make thee to sinne against me if thou serue their goddes which vndoubtedly wil be a scandal to thee CHAP. XXIIII Moyses with others are commanded to ascend he to the Lord the rest a farre of 4. They offer Sacrifice 8. Moyses sprinckleth the bloud of the Testament vpon the people 15. Then ascending to the mountaine God couereth it with a firie cloude TO Moyses also he said Goe vp to the Lord thou and Aaron Nadab and Abiu and seuentie Ancientes of Israel and you shal adore a farre of † And Moyses onlie shalascend to the Lord and they shal not approach neither shal the people ascend with him † Moyses therfore came and told the people al the wordes of our Lord and the iudgementes and al the people answered with one voice Al the wordes of our Lord which he hath spoken we wil doe † And Moyses wrote al the wordes of our Lord and rising in the morning he builded an Altar at the foote of the mount twelue titles according the twelue tribes of Israel † And he sent young men of the children of Israel and they offered holocaustes and sacrificed pacifique victimes to our Lord calues † Moyses therfore tooke the halfe part of the bloud and put it into bowles and the residue he powred vpon the Altar † And taking the volume of the couenant he reade the people hearing it Who said Al thinges that our Lord hath spoken we wil doe and we wil be obedient † And he tooke the bloud and sprinkled it vpon the people and said This is the bloud of the Couenant which our Lord hath made with you vpon al these wordes † And there went vp Moyses and Aaron Nadab and Abiu and seuentie of the ancientes of Israel † and they saw the God of Israel and vnder his feete as it were a worke of sapphirstone and as the heauen when it is clere † Neither did he set his hand vpon those of the children of Israel that retired farre of and they saw God and did eate and drinke † And our Lord said to Moyses Come vp to me into the mount and be there and I wil geue thee tables of stone and the law and the commandementes which I haue written that thou maist teach them † Moyses rose vp and his minister Iosue and Moyses ascending into the mount of God † said to the Ancientes Expect here til we returne to you you haue Aaron and Hur with you If anie question shal rise you shal referre it to them † And when Moyses was ascended a cloud couered the mount † and the glorie of our Lord dwelt vpon Sinai couering it with a cloud six dayes and the seuenth day he called him out of the middes of the darkenesse † And the forme of the glorie of our Lord was as it were fire burning vpon the toppe of the mount in the sight of the children of Israel † And Moyses entring into the middes of the cloude ascended into the mount and he was there fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXIIII 8. This is the bloud of the couenant Our Sauiour in the institution of the Eucharist by vsing the same wordes applying them to him selfe This is my bloud of the new Testament signifieth that be fulfilled this figure at his last supper VVhich proueth both a Sacrifice of bloud then offered by him as this bloud of the old Testament was already shed when Moyses pronounced those wordes and the real presence of Christs bloud For els if it were but wine it were not better in substance then the figure which was real bloud Isychius li. 1. c 4. in Leuit. CHAP. XXV Oblations of first fruictes and freegiftes for making the Tabernacle and things perteyning th●r●o 10. The Arck. 17. The Propitiatorie and Cherubims 23. A table and theron the Lo●ues ef proposition 31. A candlestick 37. and seuen lampes with snuffers of gold AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel that they take first fruites for me of euerie man that offereth of his owne accord you shal take them † And these are the thinges which you must take Gold and siluer and brasse † hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and silke and the haire of goates † and rammes skinnes died redde and ianthin skinnes and the wood setim † oyle to make lightes spices for oyntement and for incense of good sauour † Onyx stones and pretious stones to adorne the ephod and rationale † And they shal make me a sanctuarie and I wil dwel in the middes of them † according to al the similitude of the tabernacle which I wil shew thee of al the vessel to the seruice therof thus you shal make it † frame an arke of the wood setim the length wherof shal haue two cubites an halfe the bredth a cubite and an halfe the height likewise a cubite and an halfe † And thou shalt plate it with most pure gold within and without and ou●r it thou shalt make a golden crowne round about † and foure golden ringes which thou shalt put at the foure corners of the arke let two ringes be on the one side and two on the other † Thou shalt make barres also of the wood setim and shalt couer them with gold † And thou shalt put them in through the ringes that are in the sides of the arke that it may be caried on them † the which shal be
one side of the tabernacle † and fiue others on the other side and as manie at the west side † which shal be put along by the middes of the bordes from one end to the other † The bordes also them selues thou shalt plate with gold and shalt castringes of gold to be sette vpon them through which the barres may hold together the bordeworke the which thou shalt couer with plates of gold † And thou shalt erect the tabernacle according to the paterne that was shewed thee in the Mount † Thou shal● make also a veile of hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke wrought with imbrodered worke and goodhe varietie † which thou shalt hang before foure pillers of the wood setim the which themselues also shal be plated with gold and shal haue foure heades of gold but ●●ete of siluer † And the veile shal be hanged on with ringes within the which thou shalt put the arke of testimonie with the which also the Sanctuarie and the sanctuaries of the Sanctuarie shal be diuided † Thou shalt set also the Propitiatorie vpon the arke of testimonie in the Sancta sanctorum † and the table without the veile and ouer against the table the candlesticke in the south side of the tabernacle for the table shal stand in the north side † Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entring of the tabernacle of hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke with imbrodered worke † And fiue pillers of the wood setim thou shalt plate with gold before the which the hanging shal be drawen whose heades shal be of golde and feete of brasse CHAP. XXVII An Altar must be made vvith things belonging therto 9. Also the court of the tabernacle vvith hangings and pillers 20. And prouision of oyle for lampes THOV shalt make also an Altar of the wood setim which shal haue fiue cubites in length and as manie in bredth that is foure square and three cubites in height † And there shal be at the foure corners hornes of the same and thou shalt couer it with brasse † And thou shalt make for the vses therof pannes for to take the ashes and tongues and fleshhookes and fire pannes al the vessel thou shalt make of brasse † And a grate in maner of a nette of brasse at the foure corners wherof shal be foure ringes of brasse † which thou shalt put vnder the hearth of the Altar and the grate shal be vnto the middes of the Altar † Thou shalt make also two barres for the Altar of the wood setim which thou shalt couer with plates of brasse † and thou shalt drawe them through ringes and they shal be on both sides of the Altar to carrie it † Not massie but emptie and hollow in the inside shalt thou make it as it was shewed thee in the Mount † Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle in the south part wherof against the south there shal be hanginges of twisted silke one side shal hold in length an hundred cubites † And twentie pillers with as manie feete of brasse which shal haue heades with their engrauinges of siluer † In like maner also on the north side there shal be in length hanginges of an hundred cubites twentie pillers and feete of brasse as manie and their heades with their engrauinges of siluer † But in the bredth of the court that looketh to the west there shal be hanginges of fiftie cubites and ten pillers and as manie feete † In that bredth also of the court which looketh to the east there shal be fiftie cubites † in the which there shal be deputed to one side hanginges of fiftene cubites and three pillers and as manie feete † and in the other side there shal be hanginges conteyning fiftene cubites three pillers and as manie feete † And in the entring of the court there shal be made an hanging of twentie cubites of hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke with embrodered worke it shal haue foure pillers with as manie feete † Al the pillers of the court round about shal be garnished with plates of siluer siluer heades and feete of brasse † In length the court shal occupie an hundred cubites in bredth fiftie the height shal be of fiue cubites and it shal be made of twisted silke and shal haue feete of brasse † Al the vessel of the tabernacle for al vses and ceremonies the pinnes as wel of it as of the court thou shalt make of brasse † Command the children of Israel that they bring thee oyle of the oliuetrees the purest and beaten with a pestil that a lampe may burne alwayes † in the tabernacle of the testimonie without the veile that is drawen before the testimonie And Aaron and his sonnes shal place it that it may geue light before the Lord vntil the morning † It shal be a perpetual obseruance through out their succcessions before the children of Israel CHAP. XXVIII God commandeth Moyses to make diuers sortes of vestures for Aaron and his sonnes prescribing the matter maner and ornaments therof TAKE vnto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sonnes from among the children of Israel that they may doe the function of priesthoode vnto me Aaron Nadab and Abiu Eleazar and Ithamar † And thou shalt make an holie vesture to Aaron thy brother for glorie and bewtie † And thou shalt speake to al the wise of hart whom I haue replenished with the spirit of wisdome that they make Aarons vestures wherin he being sanctified may minister to me † And these shal be the vestments that they shal make Rationale and an Ephod a tunike and a straite linnen garment a mitre and a girdle They shal make the holie vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sonnes that they may doe the function of priesthood vnto me † And they shal take gold and hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and silke † And they shal make the Ephod of gold and hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke embrodered with diuers colours † It shal ●●u● two edges ioyned in the toppe on both sides that they ●a● be closed together † The verie Workemanship also and al the varietie of the worke shal be of gold and hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke † And thou shalt take two Onyx stones and shalt graue in them the names of the children of Israel † six names in one stone and the other six in the other according to the order of their natiuitie † After the worke of a grauer and the grauing of a lapidarie thou shalt graue them with the names of the children of Israel sette in gold and compassed about † and thou shalt put them in both sides of the Ephod a memorial for the children of Israel And Aaron shal beare their names before the Lord vpon both shoulders for a remembrance † Thou shalt make also hookes of gold †
and two litle cheynes of most pure gold linked one to an other which thou shalt put into the hookes † The Rationale of iudgement also thou shalt make with embrodered worke of diuers colours according to the workmanship of the Ephod of gold hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke † It shal be foure square and duble it shal haue the measure of a palme aswel in length as in bredth † And thou shalt set in it foure rewes of stones In the first rew shal be the stone sardius and topazius and the emeraud † in the second the carbuncle the sapphire and the iasper † in the third a ligurius an achates an amethyst † in the fourth a chrysolith an onyx and beryllus they shal be set in gold by their rewes † And they shal haue the names of the children of Israel with twelue names shal they be grauen euerie stone with the names of euerie one according to the twelue tribes † Thou shalt make in the Rationale cheynes linked one to an other of the purest gold † and two ringes of gold which thou shalt put in both the toppes of the Rationale † and the golden cheynes thou shalt ioyne to the ringes that are in the edges therof † and the endes of the cheynes them selues thou shalt couple with two hookes on both sides of the Ephod which is toward the Rationale † Thou shalt make also two ringes of gold which thou shalt put in the toppes of the Rationale in the brimmes that are ouer against the Ephod looke toward the backe partes therof † Moreouer also other two ringes of gold which are to be set on both sides of the Ephod beneth that looketh toward the nether ioyning that the Rationale may be fitted with the Ephod † and may be fastened by the ringes therof vnto the ringes of the Ephod with a lace of hyacinth that the ioyning artificially wrought may continew and the Rationale and Ephod may not be separated one from the other † And Aaron shal beare the names of the children of Israel in the Rationale of iudgement vpon his brest when he shal enter into the Sanctuarie a memorial before the Lord for euer † And thou shalt put in the Rationale of iudgement Doctrine and Veritie which shal be on Aarons brest when he shal goe in before the Lord and he shal beare the iudgement of the children of Israel on his brest in the sight of the Lord alwayes † And thou shalt make the tunike of the Ephod al of hyacinth † in the middes wherof aboue shal be a hole for the head and a border round about it wo●en as is wont to be made in the vtmost partes of garments that it may not easely be broken † And beneth at the feete of the same tunike round about thou shalt make as it were pomegranates of hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died litle belles interposed betwen † so that there be a bel of gold and a pomegranate and againe an other bel of gold and a pomegranate † And Aaron shal be vested with it in the office of his ministerie that the sound may be heard when he goeth in and cometh out of the Sanctuarie in the sight of the Lord and that he die not † Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold wherin thou shalt graue after the worke of a grauer Holie to the Lord. † And thou shalt tie it with a lace of hyacinth and it shal be vpon the mitre † hanging ouer the forehead of the high Priest And Aaron shal carie the iniquities of those thinges which the children of Israel haue offered and sanctified in al their giftes and donaries And the plate shal be alwayes in his forehead that the Lord may be wel pleased with them † And thou shalt gird the tunike with silke and thou shalt make a silken mitre and a bawdrike of embrodered worke † Moreouer for the sonnes of Aaron thou shalt prepare linnen tunikes and bawdrikes and mitres for glorie and bewtie † And with al these thinges thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother and his sonnes with him And thou shalt consecrate the handes of them al and shalt sanctifie them that they may doe the function of priesthood vnto me † Thou shalt make also linnen breches to couer the flesh of their turpitude from the reynes vnto the thighes † and Aaron and his sonnes shal vse them when they shal enter into the tarberbernacle of testimonie or when they approch to the Altar to minister in the Sanctuarie lest guiltie of iniquitie they die It shal be a law for euer to Aaron and to his seede after him CHAP. XXIX The maner of consecrating Aaron and other Priests vvith burnt offerings 26. and pacifiques wherof Aaron and his sonnes shal participate 38. The institution of the daylie sacrifice of tvvo lambes one in the morning the other at euen BVT this also shalt thou doe that they may be consecrated to me in priesthood Take a calfe from the heard and two rammes without spotte † and vnleuened bread and a cake without leuen tempered with oile wafers also vnleauened anoynted with oile of wheaten flowre thou shalt make al. † And being put in a basket thou shalt offer them and the calfe and the two rammes † And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sonnes to the doore of the tabernacle of testimonie And when thou hast washed the father with his sonnes in water † thou shalt vest Aaron with his vestments that is with the linnen garment and the tunicke and the Ephod and the Rationale which thou shalt gird with the baudrike † And thou shalt put the mitre vpon his head and the holie plate vpon the mitre † and thou shalt powre the oile of vnction vpon his head and by this rite shal he be consecrated † His sonnes also thou shalt bring and shalt inuest them with the linnen tunickes and gird them with a bawdrike † to witte Aaron and his children and thou shalt put mitres vpon them and they shal be priestes to me by a perpetual religion After that thou shalt haue consecrated their handes † thou shalt present also the calfe before the tabernacle of testimonie And Aaron and his sonnes shal lay their handes vpon his head † and thou shalt kil him in the sight of the Lord beside the doore of the tabernacle of testimonie † And that which thou takest of the bloud of the calfe thou shalt put vpon the hornes of the Altar with thy finger and the reit of the bloud thou shalt powre at the botome therof † Thou shalt take also the whole fatte that couereth the entralles and the caule of the liuer and the two kidneys and the fatte that is vpon them and shalt offer a burnt sacrifice vpon the Altar † but the flesh of the cal●e and the hide and the dung thou shalt burne abrode without the campe because it is for sinne † Thou shalt take also one ramme
that passeth to the naming halfe a sicle according to the measure of the temple A sicle hath twentee aboles The halfe part of a sicle shal be offered to the Lord. † He that is accounted in the number for twentie yeares and vpward shal giue price † The rich man shal not adde to halfe a sicle and the poore man shal diminish nothing † And the money being receiued which was contributed of the children of Israel thou shalt deliuer vnto the vses of the tabernacle of testimonie that it may be a monument of them before the Lord and he may be propitious to their soules † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Thou shalt make also a lauer with his foote of brasse to wash in and thou shalt set it betwen the tabernacle of the testimonie and the Altar And water being put into it † Aaron and his sonnes shal wash therin their handes and feete † when they are going into the tabernacle of testimonie and when they are to come vnto the Altar to offer on it incense to the Lord † lest perhappes they die it shal be an euerlasting law to him and to his seede by successions † And our Lord spake to Moyses † saying Take spices of principal and chosen myrrh fiue hundred sicles and of cinnamon halfe so much that is two hundred fiftie sicles of calamus in like maner two hundred fiftie † and of casia fiue hundred sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie of oile of oliues the measure hin † and thou shalt make the holie oile of vnction an ointment compounded by the art of an vnguentarie † and therof thou shalt anoynt the tabernacle of testimonie and the arke of the testament † and the table with the vessel therof the candlesticke and the furniture therof the Altars of incense † and of holocauste and al the furniture that perteyneth to the seruice of them † And thou shalt sanctifie al and they shal be most Holie he that shal touch them shal be sanctified † Thou shalt anoynt Aaron and his sonnes and shalt sanctifie them that they may doe the function of priesthood vnto me † To the children of Israel also thou shalt say This oile of vnction shal be holie vnto me through your generations † The flesh of man shal not be anoynted therewith and you shal make none other after the composition of it because it is sanctified and shal be holie vnto you † What man soeuer shal compound such and shal giue therof to a stranger shal be abandoned out of his people † And our Lord said to Moyses Take vnto thee spices stactee and onycha galbanum of swete sauour and the clearest frankincense al shal be of equal weight † and thou shalt make incense compounded by the worke of an vnguentarie exactly tempered and pure and most worthie of sanctification † And when thou hast beaten al into verie smal pouder thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of testimonie in the place where I wil appeare to thee Most Holie shal the incense be vnto you † Such confection you shal not make vnto your owne vses because it is holie to the Lord. † What man soeuer shal make the like to enioy the smel therof shal perish out of his people CHAP. XXXI Beseleel and Ooliab are deputed by our Lord to make the Tabernacle and the things belonging thereto 12. The obseruation of the sabbath day is againe commanded 18 And our Lord deliuereth to Moyses tvvo tables vvritten with the singer of God AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Behold I haue called by name Beseleel the sonne of Vri the sonne of Hur of the tribe of Iuda † and I haue replenished him with the spirit of God with wisdome vnderstanding and knowledge in al worke † to deuise whatsoeuer may be artificially made of gold and siluer and brasse † of marble and precious stones and diuersitie of wood † And I haue geuen him for his felow Ooliab the sonne of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan. And in the hart of euerie skilful man haue I put wisdome that they may make al things which I haue commanded thee † the tabernacle of couenant and the arke of testimonie and the propitiatorie that is ouer it and al the vessel of the tabernacle † and the table and the vessel therof the candlesticke most pure with the vessel therof and the Altares of incense † and of holocauste and al their vessel the lauer with his foote † the holie vestments in the ministerie for Aaron the priest and for his sonnes that they may execute their office about the sacred things † the oile of vnction and the incense of spices in the Sanctuarie al thinges which I haue commanded thee shal they make † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them See that you keepe my sabbath because it is a signe betwen me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord which sanctifie you † Keepe you my sabbath for it is holie vnto you he that shal pollute it dying shal die he that shal doe worke in it his soule shal perish out of the middes of his people † Six dayes shal you doe worke in the seuenth day is the sabbath the holie rest to the Lord. Euerie one that shal doe any worke in this day shal die † Let the children of Israel keepe the Sabbath and celebrate it in their generations It is an euerlasting couenant † betwen me and the children of Israel and a signe perpetual for in six dayes the Lord made heauen and earth and in the seuenth he ceased from worke † And our Lord when he had ended such speaches in mount Sinai gaue vnto Moyses two stone tables of testimonie written with the finger of God CHAP. XXXII The people Aaron consenting make adore the image of a calfe 7. which God reue●ling to Moyses 11. be praieth our Lord for Abraham Isaac and Iacobs sake to spare the people and performe his promise 14. VVherwith God is pacified 15. Yet Moyses coming from the Mount and seeing the calfe and idolatrie throweth downe the tables and breaketh them 20. destroyeth the idol 21. blameth Aaron 27. causeth manie Idolaters to be slaine 31. and againe prayeth for the people AND the people seeing that Moyses made tariance ere he came downe from the mount being assembled against Aaron they sayd Arise make vs goddes that may goe before vs for what hath chanced to this Moyses the man that brought vs out of the Land of Aegypt we know not † And Aaron sayd to them Take the golden earlettes from the eares of your wiues and sonnes and daughters bring them to me † And the people did that he had cōmanded bringing the earlettes to Aaron † Which when he had receiued he formed them by founders worke and made of them “ a molten calfe And they sayd These are thy
their goddes and haue adored their idols some man cal thee to eate of the thinges immolated † Neither shalt thou take a wife for thy sonnes of their daughters lest after them selues haue fornicated they make thy sonnes also to fornicate with their goddes † Molten goddes thou shalt not make to thee † Thou shalt keepe the solemnitie of the azymes Seuen dayes shalt thou eate azymes as I haue commanded thee in the time of the moneth of new corne for in the moneth of spring time thou didst goe out of Aegypt † Al of the male kind that openeth the matrice shal be mine Of al beastes as wel oxen as of sheepe it shal be mine † The firstborne of an asse thou shalt redeeme with a sheepe but if thou wilt not giue a price for it it shal be slaine The firstborne of thy sonnes thou shalt redeeme neither shalt thou appeare emptie in my sight † Six dayes shalt thou worke the seuenth day thou shalt cease to eare and reape † The solemnitie of weekes thou shalt make to thee in the first fruites of corne of thy wheate haruest and the solemnitie when the time of the yeare returneth that al thinges are laid vp † Three tymes of the yeare al thy male shal appeare in the sight of the omnipotent Lord God of Israel † For when I shal haue taken away the nations from thy face and shal haue dilated thy borders no man shal lie in wayte against thy land when thou doest goe vp and appeare in the sight of the Lord thy God thrise in a yeare † Thou shalt not immolate the bloud of my hoste vpon leauen neither shal there remaine in the morning of the victime of the solemnitie of the Phase † The first of the fruites of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God Thou shalt not boile a kidde in the milke of his damme † And our Lord said to Moyses Write thee these wordes in which I haue made a couenant both with thee and with Israel † Therfore he was there with our Lord fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes he did not eate bread and he dronke no water and he wrote in the tables the wordes of the couenant tenne † And when Moyses came downe from the mount Sinai he held the two tables of testimonie and he knew not that his face was horned by the conuersation of the talke of our Lord. † And Aaron and the children of Israel seing the face of Moyses horned they were afraid to come neere † And being called of him they returned as wel Aaron as the princes of the synagogue And after that he spake to them † al the children of Israel also came to him whom he commanded al thinges that he had heard of our Lord in mount Sinai † And hauing ended his talke he put a veile vpon his face † Which going in to our Lord and speaking with him he toke away vntil he went forth and then he spake to the children of Israel al thinges that had bene commanded him † Who saw that the face of Moyses coming forth was horned but he couered his face againe if at anie time he spake to them CHAP. XXXV The precept of the Sabbath is yet renewed 4. First fruites and other giftes are required and duly offered for the making of the tabernacle and other thinges therto belonging which are here recited 30. Beseleel and Oo. iab are appointed workmen for this purpose THERFORE al the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together he said to them These are the thinges which our Lord hath commanded to be done † Six dayes you shal do worke the seuenth day shal be holie vnto you the sabbath and rest of our Lord he that shal do anie worke in it shal be slaine † You shal not kindle site in al your habitations on the sabbath day † And Moyses said to al the assemblie of the children of Israel This is the word that our Lord hath commanded saying † Separate with you first fruites to the Lord. Let euerie one that is willing and hath a readie hart offer them to the Lord gold and siluer and brasse † hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and silke the haire of goates † and rammes skinnes died redde and ianthin skinnes the wood setim † and oile to maintaine lightes and to make ointment and most sweete incense † Onyx stones and pretious stones for the adorning of the Ephod and the Rationale † Whosoeuer of you is wise let him come and make that which our Lord hath commanded † to wit the Tabernacle and the roofe therof and the couer the ringes and the bordeworke with the barres the pinnes and the feete † the Arke and the staues the propitiatorie and the veile that is drawen before it † the Table with the barres and the vessel and the loaues of proposition † the Candlesticke to beare vp the lightes the vessel therof and the lampes and the oile to the nourishing of fires † the Altar of incense and the barres and the oile of vnction and the incense of spices the Hanging at the doore of the tabernacle † the Altar of holocauste and his grate of brasse with the barres and vessel therof the Lauer and his feete † the Curtines of the court with the pillers and the feete the hanging in the doores of the entrie † the pinnes of the tabernacle and of the court with their litle cordes † the Vestimentes that are to be vsed in the ministerie of the sanctuarie the vesture of Aaron the high Priest and of his sonnes to do the function of Priesthood vnto me † And al the multitude of the children of Israel going forth from the sight of Moyses † offered first fruites to our Lord with a most prompt and deuoute minde to make the worke of the tabernacle of the testimonie Whatsoeuer was necessarie to the seruice therof and to the holie vestiments † both men and wemen did giue tablettes and earlettes ringes and bracelettes euerie vessel of gold was separated for the donaries of our Lord. † If anie man had hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died redde and ianthin skinnes † metal of siluer and brasse they offered to our Lord and the wood setim for diuers vses † But the skilful wemen also gaue such thinges as they had sponne hyacinth purple and scarlet and silke † and goates haire geuing al of their owne accord † But the princes offered onyx stones and pretious stones for the Ephod and the Rationale † and spices and oile to maintaine the lightes and for the preparing of ointment and to make the incense of most sweete sauour † Al men and wemen with deuoute mind offered donaries that the workes might be made which our Lord had comanded by the hand of Moyses Al the children of Israel did dedicate voluntarie thinges to our Lord. † And Moyses said to the children of Israel Behold our Lord hath called by name Beseleel
round about CHAP. XXXIX Al the ornamentes of Aaron and his sonnes are made 31. and the whole vvorke of the Tabernacle is perfited MOREOVER of hyacinth and purple scarlet and silke he made the vestures that Aaron should weare when he ministred in the holie places as our lord commanded Moyses † He made therfore an Ephod of gold hyacinth and purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke † with embrodered worke and he did cut thinne plates of gold and drew them smal into threedes that they might be twisted with the woufe of the former colours † and two edges coupled one to the other in the toppe on either side † and a bawdrike of the same colours as our Lord had commanded Moyses † He prepared also two Onyx stones fast sette and closed in gold and grauen by the art of a lapidarie with the names of the children of Israel † and he set them in the sides of the Ephod for a moniment of the children of Israel as our Lord had commanded Moyses † He made also a Rationale with embrodered worke according to the worke of the Ephod of gold hyacinth purple and scarlet twise died and twisted silke † foure square duble of the measure of a palme † And he set foure rewes of precious stones In the first rewe was sardius topazius an emeraud † In the second a carbuncle a saphire and a iasper † In the third a ligurius an achates and an amethist † In the fourth a chrysolith an onyx and beryllus compassed and enclosed in gold by their rewes † And the twelue stones them selues were grauen with the names of the twelue tribes of Israel euerie one with his seueral name † They made also in the rationale litle cheynes linked one to an other of the purest gold † and two hookes and as manie ringes of gold Moreouer the ringes they set on either side of the Rationale † on the which the two golden cheynes should hang which they put into the hookes that stoode out in the corners of the Ephod † These both before and behind did so agree with them selues that the Ephod and the Rationale might be knit one to the other † tyed to the bawdrike and with ringes strongly coupled which a lace of hyacinth ioyned lest they should flagge loosely and be moued one from the other as our Lord commanded Moyses † They made also the tunike of the Ephod al of hyacinth † and a hole for the head in the vpper part against the middes and the border of the hole round about wouen † and beneth at the feete pomegranates of hyacinth purple scarlet and twisted silke † and litle belles of the purest gold which they did put betwen the pomegranates in the vtmost part of the tunike round about † to witte a bel of gold and a pomegranate wherwith the high priest went adorned when he executed his ministerie as our Lord had commanded Moyses † They made also silken tunikes with wouen worke for Aaron and his sonnes † and mitres with their litle crownes of silke † linnen breeches also of fine line † and a girdle of twisted silke hyacinth purple scarlet twise died with the art of embrodering as our Lord had commanded Moyses † They made also the plate of sacred veneration of most pure gold and they wrote in it with the worke of a lapidarie The Holie of our Lord † and they tyed it to the mitre with a lace of hyacinth as our Lord had commanded Moyses † Therfore al the worke of the tabernacle of the roofe of testimonie was perfited and the children of Israel did al thinges which our Lord had commanded Moyses † And they offered the tabernacle and the roofe and the whole furniture ringes bordes barres pillers and their feete † the couer of rammes skinnes died redde and the other couer of ianthin skinnes † the veile the arke the barres the propitiatorie † the table with the vessel therof and the loaues of proposition † the candlesticke the lampes and the furniture of them with the oyle † the altar of gold and the ointment and the incense of spices † and the hanging in the entrie of the tabernacle † the altar of brasse the grate the barres and al the vessel therof the lauer with the foote therof the hanginges of the court and the pillers with their feete † the hanging in the entrie of the court and the litle cordes and the pinnes therof Nothing wanted of the vessel that was commanded to be made for the ministerie of the tabernacle and for the roofe of couenant † The vestimentes also which the priestes vse in the Sanctuarie to witte Aaron and his sonnes † the children of Israel offered as our Lord had commanded † Which thinges after that Moyses saw al finished he blessed them CHAP. XL. According to Gods commandment Moyses erecteth the Tabernacle vvith al thinges appertayning the first day of the second yeare after their deliuerie from Aegypt 32. God replenisheth the same vvith his Maiestie a cloude remayning ouer it by day and a piller of fire by night but vvhen they shal march the same passeth before them AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † The first moneth the first day of the moneth thou shalt erect the tabernacle of the testimonie † and shalt put in it the arke and shalt let downe before it the veile † and bringing in the table thou shalt set vpon it the thinges that are commanded after the rite The candlesticke shal stand with the lampes therof † and the altar of gold whereon the incense is burned before the arke of testimonie Thou shalt put the hangging in the entrie of the tabernacle † and before it the altar of holocauste † the lauer betwen the altar and the tabernacle which thou shalt fil with water † And thou shalt compasse about the court with hanginges and the entrie therof † And taking the oile of vnction thou shalt anoynte the tabernacle with the vessel therof that they may be sanctified † the altar of holocauste and al the vessel therof † the lauer with the foote therof al shalt thou consecrate with the oile of vnction that they may be most Holie † And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sonnes to the doore of the tabernacle of testimonie and hauing washed them with water † thou shalt reuest them with the sacred vestimentes that they may minister to me and the vnction of them may prosper to an euerlasting priesthood † And Moyses did al thinges which our Lord had commanded † Therfore the first moneth of the second yeare the first day of the moneth the tabernacle was placed † And Moyses erected it and put the bordes and feete and barres and reared the pillers † and spred the roofe ouer the tabernacle putting ouer it a couer as our Lord had commanded † He put also the testimonie in the arke thrusting barres vnderneth and the oracle aboue † And when he had brought the arke into
shal burne the fatte vpon the altar but the breast shal be Aarons and his sonnes † The right shoulder also of the pacifique hostes shal fal for first fruites of the priest † He of the sonnes of Aaron that offereth the bloud and the fatte him selfe shal haue the right shoulder also for his portion † For the brest of eleuation and the shoulder of seperation I haue taken of the children of Israel from their pacifique hostes and haue geuen them to Aaron the priest and to his sonnes by a lawe for euer of al the people of Israel † This is the anoynting of Aaron and his sonnes in the ceremonies of our Lord in the day when Moyses offered them that they might doe the function of priesthood † and the thinges that our Lord commanded to be geuen them of the children of Israel by a perpetual religion in their generations † This is the lawe of holocauste and of the sacrifice for sinne and for an offence and for consecration and the victimes of pacifiques † Which our Lord apointed to Moyses in mount Synai when he commanded the children of Israel that they should offer their oblations to our Lord in the desert of Synai CHAP. VIII Moyses consecrateth Aaron high Priest 13. and his sonnes Priests 33. continuing in the tabernacle seuen dayes and nights AND Our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Take Aaron with his sonnes their vestimentes and the oyle of vnction a calfe for sinne two Rammes a basket with azymes † and thou shalt gather al the assemblie to the dore of the tabernacle † And Moyses did as our Lord had commaunded And al the multitude being gathered before the dore of the tabernacle † he said This is the word that our Lord hath commanded to be done † And immediatly he “ offered Aaron his sonnes and when he had washed them † “ he reuested the high priest with the sttait linnen garment girding him with a bawdrike and reuesting him with the tunike of hyacinth and ouer it he put the Ephod † which he straitening with the girdle fitted it to the Rationale wherin was Doctrine and Veritie † with the mitre also he couered his head and vpon it against the forehead he put the plate of gold consecrated in sanctification as our Lord had commanded him † He “ tooke also the oyle of vnction wherwith he anoynted the tabernacle with al the furniture therof † And sanctifying them and hauing sprinckled the altar seuen times he anoynted it and al the vessel therof and the lauer with the foote therof he sanctified with the oyle † The which pouring vpon Aarons head he anoynted and consecrated him † his sonnes also after he had offered them he reuested with linnen tunikes and girded them with bawdrikes and put mitres on them as our Lord had commanded † He “ offered also the calfe for sinne and when Aaron and his sonnes had put their handes vpon the head therof † he did immolate it drawing the bloud and dipping his finger touched the hornes of the altar round about Which being expiated and sanctified he poured the rest of the bloud at the botome therof † But the fatte that was vpon the entralles and the caule of the liuer and the two little kidneys with their little tallow he burnt vpon the altar † the calfe with the skinne and the flesh and the dung he burnt without the campe as our Lord had commanded † He offered also a ramme for an holocaust vpon the head wherof when Aaron and his sonnes had put their handes † he did immolate it and poured the bloud therof in the circuite of the altar † And cutting the ramme it selfe into peeces the head therof and the ioyntes and the fatte he burnt with fire † hauing first washed the entralles and the feete and the whole ramme together he burnt vpon the altar because it was an holocaust of most swete odour to our Lord as he had commanded him † He offered also the second ramme for the consecration of priests and Aaron and his sonnes did putte their handes vpon the head therof † which when Moyses had immolated taking of the bloud therof he touched the tippe of Aarons right eare and the thumbe of his right hand in like maner also of his foote † He offered also the sonnes of Aaron and when of the bloud of the ramme being immolated he had touched the tippe of the right eare of euerie one and the thumbes of the right hand and foote the rest he poured on the altar round about † but the fatte and the rump and al the fatte that couereth the entralles and the caule of the liuer and the two kidneies with their fatte with the right shoulder he seperated † And taking out of the basket of azymes which was before our Lord a loafe without leauen and a manchet tempered with oile and a wafer he put them vpon the fatte and the right shoulder † deliuering al to Aaron and to his sonnes Who hauing lifted them vp before our Lord † he tooke them againe of their handes and burnt them vpon the altar of holocaust because it was the oblation of consecration for a swete odoure of the sacrifice to our Lord. † And he tooke of the ramme of consecration the brest for his portion eleuating it before our Lord as our Lord had commanded him † And taking the oyntment and the bloud that was vpon the altar he sprinckled it vpon Aaron and his vestiments vpon his sonnes and their vestiments † And when he had sanctified them in their vestiments he commanded them saying Boile the flesh before the dore of the tabernacle and there eate it Eate ye also the loaues of consecration that are laid in the basket as our Lord commanded me saying Aaron and his sonnes shal eate them † and whatsoeuer shal be left of the flesh and the loaues fire shal consume † Out of the dore also of the tabernacle you shal not goe forth seuen daies vntil the day wherein the time of your consecration shal be expired for in seuen dayes the consecration is finished † as at this present it hath bene done that the rite of the sacrifice might be accomplished † Day night shal you tarie in the tabernacle obseruing the watches of our Lord lest you die for so it hath bene commanded me † And Aaron and his sonnes dld al thinges which our Lord spake by the hand of Moyses ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VIII 6. Offered Aaron By this maner of taking offering and consecrating Aaron Hiegh Priest S. Paul sheweth that none may chalenge to them selues nor presume to exercise priestlie offices or anie authoritie in spiritual causes but such as be orderly called therto Yea that Christ him self would not haue exercised this function but that he was also called of God vnto it saying Euerie Hiegh Priest taken from among men is appointed for men in those thinges that pertaine to God Neither doth anie man
take the honour to himself but he that is called of God as Aaron So Christ also did not glorifie himself that he might be made a Hiegh Priest but he that spake to him Thou art a Priest for euer according to the order of Melchisedech Aarons sonnes were also called but to lower offices dignitie and authoritie And both he and they were ordained and consecrated by a peculiar Sacrament to wit by certaine determinate external ceremonies and rites signifying grace geuen them by God for the due performing of their function For first they were taken from the common state of men wherby is designed their ordinarie vocation then purified by certaine washings and sacrifice for sinne signifying special puritie required in them afterwardes inuested with holie and precious garmentes which signified their sacred function and great dignitie excelling al temporal dominion and principalitie finally consecrated in solemne maner with holie ointment and bloud of pacifique sacrifice offered for this purpose other sacrifice of holocaust also offered in the same solemnitie 7. Reuested The hiegh Priest had seuen special ornaments in his vesture First a straict linnen vvhite garment signifying puritie of life most specially required in Priestes Secondly a girdle or Bavvdrike of twisted silke and gold embrodered worke in coloures yelow blew purple and scarlet signifying discrete moderation of his actes to the spiritual profite of al sortes of people Thirdly a Tunike or long robe downe to the foote of hyacinth or blew silke at the skirt therof like pomegranates wrought of twisted silke blew purple and scarlet and litle belles of purest yelow gold interposed one by the other rownd about of ech sorte seuentie two signifying heauenlie conuersation vpon earth also vnion and concord in faith and maners with edification by good workes Fourthly an ornament vpon his shoulders called an Ephod of gold and twisted silke embrodered of the former coloures reaching before to the girdle with two precious Onyx stones closed in gold one hauing engrauen six names of the tribes of Israel set on one shoulder the other hauing the other six names on the other shoulder for a remembrance that he must supporte and meekly beare the infirmities of the people Fiftly a breast plate called Rationale of the same precious matter the measure of a palme foure square embrodered with the same foure coloures with foure rewes of twelue precious stones and therin engrauen the names of the twelue tribes Besides which were engrauen also VRIM and THVMMIM Illuminations and Perfections or Doctrin and Veritie because the hiegh Priest must haue knowledge of the truth and sincere intention Likwise in the Ephod and Rationale were ringes hookes and chaines of purest gold to ioyne them fast together Al signifying the perpetual solicitude and care which he ought to haue in his hart to know and teach the truth that the people may truly serue God to his honour and their owne saluation Sixtly a Mitre of twisted silke with little crownes embrodered worke set on his head to signifie that he must direct al his actions to Gods glorie that sitteth aboue al. Seuenthly A plate of sacred veneration made of the finest gold with the most holie name of God engrauen set on his forhead to put him stil in remembrance to contemplate God and his workes 13. His sonnes The other Priests had three special ornaments a linnen vvhite garment a Bavvdrike and a Mitre for glorie and bewtie to signifie the qualities aboue mentioned puritie discretion and direct intention also required in them 10. Tooke oile A third thing that Moyses was bid to take besides the men and vestiments was the holie oile of vnction which he poured only vpon the hiegh Priests head not on other Priests to signifie that powre descended from him to the rest But both he and they and their holie vestiments were sprinkled with this oile and with bloud taken from the altar their right eares also were touched with the bloud of a ramme sacrificed and their right thumbes and great toes of their right handes and feete to signifie prompt obedience and right intention in offering sacrifice according to Gods ordinance and not after the maner of infidels or humane inuention nor to anie sinister intent or purpose 14. He offered the calfe Other thinges which Moyses was here commanded to take at the consecration of Priests were a calfe to be offered in sacrifice for sinne two rammes the one in holocaust the other in pacifique sacrifice for the consecration of Priests and a basket of vnleuened bread to be offered with the two rammes Al for the greater solemnitie of this Sacrament of Orders By which Aaron and his sonnes were made the lawful and ordinarie Priests of the law newly deliuered by Moyses And so Priesthood was changed from the first borne of euerie familie and established only in Aaron and his sonnes and their issue male to be in like sorte consecrated And the rest of the Leuites to assist them By this also was prefigured the Sacrament of holie Orders in the Church of Christ with an other change of Priesthood from the familie order of Aaron to Priestes of the new Testament of what familie or nation soeuer And withal an other change of the law For the Priesthood being translated it is necessarie saith S. Paul that a translation of the Lavv be also made And this Sacrament in dede geueth grace as by the other it was only signified to those that are rightly ordered As the same Apostle testifieth willing Timothie to resuscitate the grace geuen him by imposition of handes 2. Timot. 1. S Ambrose in 1. Timot. 4. S. August lib. de bono coniugals c. 24. lib 2. contra Epsti Parmen Theodoret. q. 48. in lib. Num. CHAP. IX Sacrifices for sinne 12. and of holocauste 18. and pacifiques are offered 22. and Aaron stretching forth his hand blesseth the people AND when the eight day was come Moyses called Aaron and his sonnes and the ancients of Israel and said to Aaron † Take of the heard a calfe for sinne and a ramme for an holoucast both without spot and offer them before our Lord. † And to the children of Israel thou shalt speake Takeye a bucke goate for sinne and a calfe and a lambe of a yeare old without spot for an holoucast † an oxe and a ramme for pacifiques and immolate them before our Lord offering in the sacrifice of euerie one flowre tempered with oile for to day our Lord wil appeare to you † They tooke therfore al thinges that Moyses had cōmanded before the dore of the tabernacle where when al the multitude stood † Moyses said This is the word which our Lord hath commanded doe it and his glorie wil appeare to you † And he said to Aaron Approch to the altar immolate for thy sinne offer the holocaust and pray for thy self and for the people and when thou hast
slaine the peoples hoste pray for them as our Lord hath cōmanded † And forthwith Aaron approching to the altar immolated the calfe for his sinne † the bloud wherof his sonnes brought to him wherin dipping his finger he touched the hotnes of the altar and poured the rest at the foote therof † And the fatte and the litle kidneis and the caule of the liuer which are for sinne he burnt vpon the altar as our Lord had commanded Moyses † but the flesh and skinne therof he burnt with fire without the campe † He immolated also the victime of holocaust and his sonnes brought him the bloud therof which he poured in the circuite of the altar † The hoste also it selfe being cut into peeces they brought with the head and euerie member Al which he burnt with fire vpon the altar † hauing first washed the entralles and the feete with water † And offering for the sinne of the people he slew the bucke goat and exp●ating the altar † he made the holocaust † adding in the sacrifice the libaments which are offered withal and burning them vpon the altar be side the ceremonies of the morning holocaust † He immolated also the oxe and the ramme the pacifique hostes of the people and his sonnes brought him the bloud which he poured vpon the altar round about † The fatte also of the oxe and the rump of the ramme and the two little kindneis with their fatte and the caule of the liuer † they put vpon the brests and after the fatte was burnt vpon the altar † their brests and the right shoulders Aaron did seperate eleuating them before our Lord as Moyses had commanded † And stretching forth his hand to the people he blessed them And so the hostes for sinne and the holocaustes and the pacifiques being finished he descended † And Moyses and Aaron going into the tabernacle of testimonie and afterward comming forth blessed the people And the glorie of our Lord appeared to al the multitude † and behold a fire coming forth from our Lord deuoured the holocaust and the fatte that was vpon the altar Which thing when the multitude had senne they praised our Lord falling on their faces CHAP. X. Nadab and Abiu the sonnes of Aaron for offering strange fire are burnt to death and cast out of the campe 6. for whom the people mourne but not the Priests 8. Priests are forbid to drinke wine when they enter into the tabernacle 12. and are commanded to eate the residew of oblations in the holie place 16. which this timein part they omitted and are excused being sorowful for that vvhich happened to Nadab and Abiu AND Nadab and Abiu the sonnes of Aaron catching censors did put in fire and incense therupon offering before our Lord strange fire which was not commanded them † And fire comming forth from our Lord deuoured them and they dyed before our Lord. † And Moyses said to Aaron This is it which our Lord hath spoken I wil be sanctified in them that approch to me and in tbe sight of al the people I wil be glorified Which Aaron hearing held his peace † And Moyses calling Misael and Elisaphan the sonnes of Oziel the vncle of Aaron said to them Goe and take away your bretheren from the sight of the Sanctuarie and carie them without the campe † And going forthwith they tooke them as they lay reuested with linnen tunikes did cast them forth as it had bene commanded them † And Moyses spake to Aaron to Eleazar and Ithamar his sonnes Vncouer not your heades and rent not your vestiments lest perhaps you die and indignation come vpon al the assemblie Let your brethren and al the house of Israel lament the burning that our Lord hath raised † and your selues shal not goe out of the dore of the tabernacle otherwise you shal perish for the oyle of holie vnction is vpon you Who did al thinges according to the precept of Moyses † Our Lord also said to Aaron † Wine and anie thing that may make drunke you shal not drinke thou and thy sonnes when you enter into the tabernacle of testimonie lest you die because it is an euerlasting precept through your generations † And that you may haue knowledge to discerne betwen the holie and prophane betwen the polluted and cleane † and may teach the children of Israel al my ordinances which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moyses † And Moyses spake to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sonnes that were left Take the sacrifice that is remayning of the oblation of our Lord and eate it without leauen beside the altar because it is Holie of holies † And you shal eate it in a holie place which is giuen to thee and thy sonnes of the oblations of our Lord as it hath bene commanded me † The brest also that is offered and the shoulder that is seperated you shal eate in a most cleane place thou and thy sonnes and thy daughters with thee For they are laid apart for thee and thy children of the healthful hostes of the children of Israel † because the shoulder and the the brest and the fatte that is burnt on the altar they haue eleuated before our Lord and they pertaine to thee and to thy sonues by a perpetual lawe as our Lord hath commanded † Among these thinges when Moyses sought for the bucke goate that had bene offered for sinne he found it burnt and being angrie against Eleazar and Ithamar the sonnes of Aaron that remained he said † Why did you not eate the hoste for sinne in a holie place which is most Holie and geuen to you that you may beare the iniquitie of the multitude and may pray for it in the sight of our Lord † especially wheras of the bloud therof there hath not bene caried within the holie places and you ought to haue eaten it in the Sanctuarie as it was commanded me † Aaron answered This day hath bene offered the victime for sinne and the holocaust before our Lord and to me that is chanced which thou seest how could I eate it or please our Lord in ceremonies hauing a sorowful hart † Which when Moyses had heard he was satisfied with his answere CHAP. XI The distinction of cleane and vncleane in beastes fish birdes and other things 43. With commandment to be holie and impolluted AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † Say to the children of Israel These are the beasts which you ought to eate of al the liuing things of the earth † Euerie one that hath the hoofe diuided and cheweth the cudde among the cattel you shal eate † But whatsoeuer in dede cheweth the cudde and hath an hoofe but diuideth it not as the camel and others that you shal not eate and among the vncleane you shal repute it † Cherogril which cheweth the cudde and diuideth not the hoofe is vncleane † The hare also for that also cheweth
before the Lord seuen times † and the residue of the oile in his left hand he shal poure vpon the tippe of the right eare of him that is cleansed and vpon the thumbes of his right hand and foote and vpon the bloud that was shed for offence † and vpon his head † And he shal pray for him before the Lord and shal make the sacrifice for sinne then shal he immolate the holocaust † and put it on the altar with the libaments therof and the man shal orderly be cleansed † But if he be poore and his hand can not finde the thinges aforesaid for offence he shal take a lambe for an oblation that the priest may pray for him and a tenth part of floure tempered with oile for a sacrifice and of oile a sextarie † and two turtles or two young pigeons of the which let one be for sinne and the other for an holocaust † and he shal offer them the eight day of his purification to the priest at the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie before the Lord † who receiuing the lambe for offence and the sextarie of oile shal eleuate them together † and the lambe being immolated of the bloud therof he shal put vpon the tippe of the right eare of him that is cleansed and vpon the thumbes of his right hand and foote † but part of the oile he shal poure into his owne left hand † wherin dipping the finger of his right hand he shal sprinckle it seuen times before the Lord † and he shal touch the tippe of the right eare of him that is cleansed and the thumbes of his right hand foote in the place of the bloud that was shed for offence † and the other part of the oyle that is in his left hand he shal poure vpon the head of the purified person that he may propitiate the Lord for him † and a turtle or yong pigeon he shal offer † one for offence and the other for an holocaust with their libaments † This is the sacrifice of a lepre that is not able to haue al thinges for the cleansing of him self † And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † When you shal be entred into the Land of Chanaan which I wil geue you in possession if there be the plague of leprosie in a house † he whose house it is shal goe tel the priest saying It semeth to me that there is as it were the plague of leprosie in my house † But he shal command that they carie forth al thinges out of the house before he goe into it and see whether it haue the leprosie lest al thinges become vncleane that are in the house And afterward he shal goe in to consider the leprosie of the house † if he see in the walles therof as it were litle dintes disfigured with palenesse or rednesse and lower then al the rest † he shal goe out of the dore of the house and forthwith shut it seuen daies † And returning the seuenth day he shal consider it If he finde that the leprosie is growne † he shal command the stones wherein the leprosie is to be plucked out and to be throwen without the citie into an vncleane place † the house it self to be scraped on the inside round about and the dust of the scraping to be dispersed without the citie into an vncleane place † and other stones to be laid in their places that were taken away and the house to be playstered with other morter † But if after the stones be plucked out the dust scraped of and it playstered with other earth † the priest going in perceiue that the leprosie is returned and the walles ful of spottes it is a lasting leprosie and the house vncleane † the which forthwith they shal destroy and the stones and timber therof and al the dust they shal cast without the towne into an vncleane place † He that entreth into the house when it is shut shal be vncleane vntil euen † and he that sleepeth in it and eateth anything shal wash his clothes † But if the priest going in perceiue that the leprosie is not growne farder in the house after it was playstred againe he shal purifie it being made whole againe † and for the purification therof he shal take two sparowes and cedrewood and scarlet and hyssope † and when one sparow is immolated in an earthen vessel ouer liuing waters † he shal take the ceder wood and the hyssope and the scarlet and the liue sparowe and shal dippe al in the bloud of the sparowe that is immolated and in the liuing water and he shal sprinckle the house seuen times † and shal purifie it as wel with the bloud of the sparow as with the liuing water and with the liue sparow and with the cedrewoode and the hyssope and the scarlet † And when he hath let goe the sparow to flie freely away into the field he shal pray for the house and it shal be rightly cleansed † This is the law of al leprosie and percussion † of the leprosie of garments and houses † of a scarre and of blisters breaking forth of a shining spotte and when the colours are changed into diuers kindes † that it may be knowen at what time anie thing is cleane or vncleane CHAP. XV. The law of vncleane issues in men 19. and in wemen AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † Speake to the children of Israel and say to them The man that hath a fluxe of sede shal be vncleane † And then he shal be iudged subiect to this fault when the filthie humour at euerie moment cleaueth to his flesh and is congealed † Euerie bedde wheron he sleepeth shal be vncleane and where soeuer he sitteth † If anie man touch his bedde he shal wash his clothes and him self being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen † If he sitte where that man had sitten he also shal wash his clothes and being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen † he that toucheth his flesh shal wash his clothes and him self being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen † If such a man cast his spittle vpon him that is cleane he shal wash his clothes and being washed with water he shal be vncleane vntil euen † The padde wherupon he sitteth shal be vncleane † and whatsoeuer hath bene vnder him that hath the fluxe of seede shal be polluted vntil euen He that carieth any of these thinges shal wash his clothes and him self being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen † Euerie one whom he toucheth that is such an one hauing not washed his handes before shal wash his clothes and being washed with water shal be vncleane vntil euen † The earthen vessel that he toucheth shal be broken but the wodden vessel shal be washed with water † If he be healed that hath such a disease he shal number seuen daies after his
Sanctuarie and leauing them there † he shal wash his flesh in a holie place and shal be clothed with his owne garments And after that he hath gone forth and offered his owne holocaust and the peoples he shal pray as wel for him self as for the people † and the fatte that is offered for sinnes he shal burne vpon the altar † but he that hath let goe the goate of dismission shal wash his clothes and bodie with water and so shal enter into the campe † But the calfe the bucke goate that were immolated for sinne and whose bloud was caried into the Sanctuarie to accomplish the expiation they shal carie forth without the campe and shal burne with fire aswel the skinnes as their flesh and the dung † and whosoeuer burneth them shal wash his clothes and his flesh with water and so shal enter into the campe † And this shal be to you an euerlasting ordinance The seuenth moneth the tenth day of the moneth you shal afflict your soules and no worke shal you doe whether he be of the same countrie or a stranger that soiourneth among you † Vpon this day shal be the expiation of you and clensing from al your sinnes before the Lord you shal be clensen † for it is a sabath of rest and you shal afflict your soules by a perpetual religion And the priest shal expiate that is annoynted and whose handes are consecrated to do the function of priesthood for his father and he shal be reuested with the linnen stole and the holie vestments † and he shal expiate the Sanctuarie and the tabernecle of testimonie and the altar the priestes also and al the people † And this shal be an ordinance for euer that you pray for the children of Israel and for al their sinnes once in a yeare He did therfore as our Lord had commanded Moyses CHAP. XVII Al Sacrifices must be offered at the doore of the Tabernacle 7. with special prohibitiō of Idolatrie 10. None must eate bloud 15 whosoeuer eateth caraine flesh is contaminate and must be washed AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to Aaron and his sonnes and to al the children of Israel saying to them This is the word which our Lord hath cōmanded saying † Anie man whosoeuer of the house of Israel if he kil an oxe or a sheepe or a goate in the campe or without the campe and offer it not at the dore of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord shal be guiltie of bloud as if he had shed bloud so shal he perish out of the middes of his people † Therfore shal the children of Israel bring to the priest their hostes which they kil in the filde that they may be sanctified to our Lord before the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie they may immolate them pacifique hostes to our Lord. † And the priest shal poure the bloud vpon the altar of our Lord at the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie and shal burne the fatte for a swete odour to our Lord † and they shal no more immolate their hostes to diuels with whom they haue committed fornication It shal be an ordinance for euer to them and to their posteritie † And to them thou shalt say The man of the house of Israel and of the strangers which seiourne with you that offereth an holocaust or victime † and bringeth it not to the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie that it may be offered to our Lord shal perish out of his people † Anie man whosoeuer of the house of Israel and of the strangers that seiourne among them if he eate bloud I wil sette my face against his life and wil destroy it out of his people † because the life of the flesh is in the bloud and I haue geuen it to you that vpon the altar you may make expiation with it for your soules and the bloud may be for an expiation of the soule † Therfore haue I faid to the children of Israel No soule of you shal eate bloud nor of the strangers that seiourne with you † Anie man whosoeuer of the children of Israel and of the strangers that seiourne with you if by hunting or fowling he take wild beast or foule which it is lawful to eate let him poure our the bloud therof and couer it with earth † For the life of al flesh is in the bloud wherupon I said to the children of Israel The bloud of no flesh shal you eate because the life of the flesh is in the bloud and whosoeuer eateth it f●al die † The soule that eateth carraine or that which is taken of a beast aswel of them of the same countrie as of strangers shal wash his clothes and him self with water and shal be contaminated vntil euen and in this order he shal be made cleane † And if he doe not wash his clothes and his bodie he shal beare his iniquitie CHAP. XVIII Mariage prohibited in certaine d●grees of consanguinitie and affinitie 18. And diuers carnal and execrable sinnes committed in other nations are strictly forbidden AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them I the Lord your God † according to the custome of the Land of Aegypt wherin you haue dwelt you shal not doe and according to the maner of the Countrie of Chanaan into the which I wil bring you you shal not doe nor walke in their ordināces † You shal doe my iudgements and shal obserue my precepts and shal walke in them I the Lord your God † Keepe my lawes and iudgmentes which a man doing shal liue in them I the Lord. † No man shal approch to her that is “ next of his bloud to reueale her turpitude I the Lord. † The turpitude of thy father and the turpitude of thy mother thou shalt not discouer she is thy mother thou shalt not reueale her turpitude † The turpitude of thy fathers wife thou shalt not discouer for it is the turpitude of thy father † The turpitude of thy sister by father or by mother which was borne at home or abroad thou shalt not reueale † The turpitude of thy sonnes daughter or of thy neece by thy daughter thou shalt not reueale because it is thy turpitude † The turpitude of thy fathers wiues daughter which she bare to thy father and is thy sister thou shal not reueale † The turpitude of thy fathers sister thou shalt not discouer because she is the flesh of thy father † The turpitude of thy mothers sister thou shalt not reueale because she is of the flesh of thy mother † The turpitude of thy fathers brother thou shalt not reueale neither shalt thou approch to his wife who is ioyned to thee by affinitie † The turpitude of thy daughter in law thou shalt not reueale because she is thy sonnes wife neither shalt thou discouer her ignominie † The turpitude of thy brothers
wife and commit aduontrie with his neighbours wife dying let them die both the adulterer and the aduoutresse † He that lieth with his stepmother and reuealeth the ignominie of his father dying let both die their bloud be vpon them † If anie man lie with his daughter in law let both die because they haue done an heinous fact their bloud be vpon them † He that lieth with man as if he should companie with woman both haue committed abomination dying let them die their bloud be vpon them † He that besides his wife the daughter marieth her mother hath done wickednes he shal burne aliue with them neither shal there so great abomination remaine in the middes of you † He that shal companie with beast and cattel dying let him die the beast also doe ye kil † The woman that shal lie vnder anie beast shal be killed together with the same their bloud be vpon them † He that taketh his sister the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother and seeth her turpitude and she beholdeth her brothers ignominie they haue committed a shameful thing they shal be slaine in the sight of their people because they haue reuealed one an others turpitude and they shal beare their iniquitie † He rhat compaineth with a woman in her menstrual fluxe and reuealeth her turpitude and she openeth the fountaine of her bloud both shal be destroyed out of the middes of their people † The turpitude of thy aunt by thy mother and of thy aunt by thy father thou shalt not discouer he that doeth this hath disclosed the ignominie of his flesh both shal beare their iniquitie † He that compaineth with the wife of his vncle by the father or of his vncle by the mother and reuealeth the ignominie of his kinted both shal beare their sinne without children they shal die † He that marieth his brothers wife doth an vnlawful thing he hath reuealed his brothers turpitude they shal be without children † Keepe my lawes and iudgementes and doe them lest the land which you shal enter into and inhabite vomite out you also † Walke not in the ordinances of the nations which I wil expel before you For al these thinges haue they done and I haue abhorred them † But to you I speake Possesse their land which I wil geue you for an inheritance a land flowing with milke and honie I the Lord your God that haue seperated you from other peoples † Therfore doe you also seperate the cleane beast from the vncleane and the cleane foule from the vncleane pollute not your soules in beastes and birdes and al thinges that moue on the earth and which I haue shewed vnto you to be polluted † You shal be holie vnto me because I the Lord am holie and I haue separated you from other peoples that you should be mine † Man or woman in whom is a pithonical or diuining spirite dying let them die they shal stone them their bloud be vpon them CHAP. XXI At what funerals Priests may not be present 7. VVhat wemen they may not marie 9. a priests daughter committing fornication must be burned 10. The high Priest shal not vncouer his head nor rent his garment nor be present at anie funeral nor at al goe forth of the holie place 13. when he marieth he must take a virgin 16. None that hath a blemish in his bodie though he be of Aarons stock shal minister in the Sanctuarie nor approch to the Altar OVR Lord said also to Moyses Speake to the priestes the sonnes of Aaron and thou shalt say to them Let not a priest be contaminated in the deathes of his citizens † but onlie in his kinne and nigh of bloud that is to say vpon his father and mother and sonne and daughter brother also † and sister being a virgin which hath not bene maried to a husband † but neither in the prince of his people shal he be contaminated † Neither shal they shaue their head nor beard nor make incisions in their flesh † They shal be holie to their God and shal not pollute his name for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord and breades of their God doe they offer and therfore they shal be holie † A whore and a vile strumpette he shal not take to wife nor her that is put away from her husband because they are cōsecrated to their God † and offer the breades of proposition Be they holie therfore because I also am holie the Lord that sanctifie them † The daughter of a priest if she be taken in whordome dishonour the name of hir father shal be burnt with fire † The grand bishoppe that is to say the priest that is greatest among his brethren vpon whose head hath bene poured the oyle of vnction and whose handes were consecrated in priesthood and who was reuested with the holie vestimentes shal not vncouer his head he shal not rent his garments † and to no dead person shal he enter in at al. vpon his father also and mother shal he not be contaninated † Neither shal he goe forth out of the holie places lest he pollute the Sāctuarie of the Lord because the oyle of the holie vnction of his God is vpon him I the Lord. † He shal take a virgin vnto his wife † but a widow and her that is put away and a filth and a whore he shal not take but a maide of his owne people † that he mingle not the stocke of his kinred with the common people of his nation because I am the Lord that sanctifie him † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to Aaron The man of thy seede throughout their families that hath a blemish shal not offer breades to his God † neither shal he approch to his ministerie If he be blinde if lame if he haue a litle or a great or a crooked nose † if his foote be broken if his hand † if he be crooke backed or blere eyed or haue a pearle in his eye or a continual scabbe or drie scurffe in his bodie or be burnt † Euerie one that hath a blemish of the seede of Aaron the priest shal not approch to offer the hostes to the Lord nor the breades to his God † He shal eate notwithstanding of the breades that are offered in the Sanctuarie † yet so that he enter not within the v●ilen or approch to the altar because he hath a blemish and he must not contaninate my Sanctuarie I the Lord that sanctifie them † Moyses therfore spake to Aaron and to his sonnes and to al Israel al thinges that had bene commanded him CHAP. XXII VVho may eate of sanctified things 17. And what things may be offered OVR Lord also spake to Moyses saying † Speake to Aaron and to his sonnes that they beware of those that are the consecrated thinges of the children of Israel and contaninate not the name of the thinges sanctified to me which
they offer I the Lord. † Say to them and to their posteritie Euerie man of your stocke that approcheth to those thinges that are consecrated and which the children of Israel haue offered to the Lord in whom there is vncleanesse shal perish before the Lord. I am the Lord. † The man of the ●eede of Aaron that is a leper or hath a fluxe of seede shal not eate of those thinges that are sanctified to me vntil he be healed He that toucheth a thing vncleane by occasion of that is dead and he from whom issueth seede as it were of copulation † and he that toucheth a creeping beast and whatsoeuer vncleane thing the touching wherof is filthie † shal be vncleane vntil euen and shal not eate those thinges that are sanctified but when he hath washed his flesh with water † and the sunne is downe then being cleansed he shal eate of the sanctified thinges because it is his meate † Carrien and that which was taken of a beast they shal not eate nor be polluted in them I am the Lord. † Let them keepe my preceptes that they be not subiect to sinne and die in the Sanctuarie when they shal haue polluted it I the Lord that sanctifie them † No stranger shal eate of the sanctified thinges the priestes guest and hireling shal not eate of them † But whom the priest hath bought and he that is his seruant borne in his house these shal eate of them † If the daughter of a priest be maried to anie of the people of those thinges that are sanctified and of the first fruites she shal not eate † But if she be a widow or put away and without children returne to her fathers house as she was wont being a maide she shal be fedde with her fathers meates No stranger hath power to eate of them † He that eateth of the sanctified thinges by ignorance shal adde the fifth part with that which he did eate and shal geue it to the priest into the Sanctuarie † Neither shal they contaminate the sanctified thinges of the children of Israel which they offer to the Lord † lest perhappes they sustaine the iniquitie of their offence when they shal haue eaten the sanctified thinges I the Lord that sanctifie them † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to Aaron and to his sonnes and to al the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them The man of the house of Israel and of the strangers which dwel with you that offereth his oblation either paying his vowes or offering of his owne accord whatsoeuer that be which he presenteth for an holocaust of the Lord † to be offered by you it shal be a male without spotte of beefes and muttons of goates † If it haue a blemish you shal not offer it neither shal it be acceptable † The man that offereth a victime of pacifiques to the Lord either paying his vowes or offering of his owne accorde aswel of beefes as of muttons shal offer it without blemish that it may be acceptable there shal be no blemish in it † If it be blind if it be broken if it haue a scarre if blisters or a scabbe or a drie scurfe you shal not offer them to the Lord nor burne of them vpon the Lordes altar † An oxe and a sheepe hauing the eare and the taile cut of thou maiest offer voluntarily but a vow can not be paied of them † No beast that hath the stones bruised or crushed or cut and taken away shal you offer to the Lord and in your land make not this at al. † Of the hand of a stranger you shal not offer breades to your God and what other thing soeuer he would geue because they are al corrupted and blemished you shal not receiue them † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † An oxe a sheepe and a goate when they are brought forth shal be seuen daies vnder the vdder of their damme but the eighr day and so forward they may be offered to the Lord. † Whether it be a beefe or a sheepe they shal not be immolated in one day with their young ones † If you immolate an hoste for thankes giuing to the Lord that he may be placable † the same day you shal eate it there shal not ought remaine vntil the morning of the next day I the Lord. † Keepe my commandementes and doe them I the Lord. † Pollute not my holie name that I may be sanctified in the middes of the children of Israel I the Lord that sanctifie you † and brought you out of the Land of Aegypt that I might be your God I the Lord. CHAP. XXIII The solemnities of the Sabbath 5. of Pasch and first fruites 15. of Pentecost 23. of Trumpettes 26. of Expiations 33. of Tabernacles and with what rites the same shal be celebrated AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them These are “ the festiuities of our Lord which you shal cal holie † Six daies ye shal doe worke the seuenth day because it is the rest of the sabbath shal be called holie No worke shal you doe in it it is the Sabbath of the Lord in al your habitations † These therfore are the holie festiuities of the Lord which you must celebrate in their times † The first moneth the fourtenth day of the moneth at euen is the Phase of the Lord † and the fiftenth day of this moneth is the solemnitie of the Azymes of the Lord. Seuen daies shal you eate azymes † The first day shal be most solemne vnto you and holie no seruile worke shal you doe in it † but you shal offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seuen daies but the seuenth day shal be more solemne and more holie and you shal doe no seruile worke in it † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them When you shal be entred into the land which I wil geue you and shal reape your corne you shal bring sheaues of eares the first fruites of your haruest to the priest † who shal eleuate the bundle before the Lord the next day after the Sabbath that it may be acceptable for you and shal sanctifie it † And in the self same day that the sheafe is consecrated shal be killed a lambe without spotte of a yeare old for an holocaust of the Lord. † And the libaments shal be offered with it two tenthes of floure tempered with oile for a burnt sacrifice of the Lord and a most sweete odour libaments also of wine the fourth part of an hin † Bread and fried barlie and frumentie you shal not eate of the corne vntil the day that you offer therof to your God It is a precept for euer in your generations and al your habitations † You shal number therfore from the morow after the Sabbath
Lord spake to Moyses saying † Command the children of Israel that they bring vnto thee oyle of oliues most pure and cleare to furnish the lampes continually † without the veile of the testimonie in the tabernacle of couenant And Aaron shal sette them from euen vntil morning before the Lord by a perpetual seruice and rite in your generations † Vpon the candlesticke most cleane shal they be putte alwaies in the sight of the Lord. † Thou shalt take also floure and shalt bake therof twelue breades which shal haue euerie one two tenthes † which thou shalt sette six one against an other vpon the most cleane table before the Lord † and thou shalt put vpon them the clearest franckincense that the bread may be for a moniment of the oblation of the Lord. † Euerie sabbath they shal be changed before the Lord receiued of the children of Israel by an euerlasting couenant † and they shal be Aarons and his sonnes that they may eate them in a holie place because it is most Holie of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual righr † And behold there went forth the Ionne of a woman of Israel whom she had borne of an Aegyptian among the children of Israel and fel at wordes in the campe with a man of Israel † And when he had blasphemed the name and had cursed it he was brought to Moyses And his mother was called Salumith the daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan. † And they did cast him into prison til they might know what our Lord would command † Who spake to Moyses † saying Bring forth the blasphemer without the campe and let al that heard him put their handes vpon his head and let al the people stone him † And to the children of Israel thou shalt speake The man that curseth his God shal beare his sinne † and he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord dying let him dye al the multitude of the people shal stone him whether he be a natural or stranger He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord dying let him dye † He that striketh and killeth a man dying let him dye † He that striketh a beast shal render one for it that is to say soule for soule † He that giueth anie of his neighbours a blemish as he did so shal it be done to him † fracture for fracture eye for eye tooth for tooth he shal restore What blemish he gaue the like shal he be compelled to sustaine † He that striketh a beast shal render an other He that striketh a man shal be punished † Let there be equal iudgement among you whether a stranger or a natural sinne because I am the Lord your God † And Moyses spake to the children of Israel and they brought him forth that had blasphemed without the campe and they stoned him And the children of Israel did as our Lord had commanded Moyses CHAP. XXV The law of the seuenth yeare 8. and fiftith yeare which is the Iubilie 13. when al enheritance sold returneth to the former owner 24. as also it may in the meane time be redeemed 35. Vsurie prohibited 39. and seruitude among the Israelites only they may be hyred til the Iubilie yeare 47. and may be redeemed from seruitude of strangers 54. at least they shal be free in the yeare of Iubilie AND our Lord spake to Moyses in the mount Sinai saying † Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them When you shal be entred to the land which I wil geue you thou shalt sabbatize the sabbath to the Lord. † Six yeares thou shalt sowe thy field and six yeares thou shalt cut thy vineyard and shalt gather the fruites therof † but in the seuenth yeare a sabbath shal be to the earth of the resting of the Lord the field thou shalt not sowe and the vineyard thou shalt not cut † The thinges that the ground shal bring forth of it self thou shalt not reape and the grapes of thy first fruites thou shalt not gather as a vintage for it is a yeare of the resting of the earth † but they shal be vnto you for meate to thee and thy manseruant to thy woman seruant and hyreling and to the stranger that seiourneth with thee † to thy beastes and cattel al thinges that grow shal giue meate † Thou shalt number thee also seuen weekes of yeares that is to say seuen times seuen which together make fourtie nine yeares † and thou shalt sound with the trumpet the seuenth moneth the tenth day of the moneth in the time of propitiation in al your land † Thou shalt sanctifie the fifteth yeare and shalt proclaime remission to al the inhabitantes of thy land for it is the yeare of Iubilie Euerie man shal returne to his possession and euerie one shal goe backe to his old familie † because it is the Iubilie and the fifteth yeare You shal not sowe nor teape the thinges that growe in the field of their owne accord and the first fruites of vintage you shal not gather † because of the sanctification of the Iubilie but forth with as they grow you shal eate them † In the yeare of Iubilie al shal returne to their possessions † When thou shalt sel anie thing to thy neighbour or shalt buy of him presse not thy brother but according to the number of the yeares of Iubilie thou shalt buy of him † and according to the supputation of the fruites he shal sel to thee † The moe yeares remaine after the Iubilie so much more shal the price increase and the lesse time that thou shal account so much the lesse shal the purchase be valued for the time of the fruites he shal sel to thee † Doe not afflict your contrimen but let euerie one feare his God because I the Lord your God † Do my preceptes and keepe my iudgementes and fulfil them that you may dwel in the land without anie feare † and the ground may yeld you her fruites which you may eate vnto your fil fearing no mans inuasion † But if you say What shal we eate the seuenth yeare if we sowe not nor gather our fruites † I wil geue you my benediction the sixt yeare and it shal yeld the fruites of three yeares † and the eight yeare you shal sowe and shal eate of the old fruites vntil the ninth yeare til new be growne you shal eate the old † The land also shal not be sould for euer because it is mine and you are my strangers and seiourners † For the which cause al the countrie of your possession shal be sould vnder the condition of redemption † If thy brother impouerished sel his litle possession and his kinseman wil he may redeme that which he had sould † but if he haue no kinseman and him self can finde the price to redeme it † the fruites shal be accounted from that time when he sould it and the residue he shal restore to
their troupes thou and Aaron † And there shal be with you the princes of the tribes and of the houses in their kinredes † whose names are these Of Ruben Elizur the sonne of Sedeur † Of Simeon Salamiel the sonne of Surisaddai † Of Iuda Nahasson the sonne of Aminadab † Of Issachar Nathanael the sonne of Suar. † Of Zabulon Eliab the sonne of Helon † And of the sonnes of Ioseph of Ephraim Elisama the sonne of Ammiud of Manasses Gamaliel the sonne of Phadassur † of Beniamin Abidan the sonne of Gedeon † of Dan Ahiezer the sonne of Ammisaddai † of Aser Phegiel the sonne of Ochran † Of Gad Eliazaph the sonne of Duel † Of Nephthali Ahira the sonne of Enan † These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kinredes and the heades of the hoste of Israel † whom Moyses and Aaron tooke with al the multitude of the common people † and assembled them the first day of the second moneth reckening them by the kinredes and houses and families and heades and names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpwarde † as our Lord had comanded Moyses And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai † Of Ruben the first begotten of Israel by their generations and families and houses and names of euerie heade al that is of the male sexe from twentith yeare and vpwarde of them that goe forth to warre † fourtie six thousand fiue hundred † Of the sonnes of Simeon by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by the names and heades of euerie one al that is of the male sexe from twentith yeare and vpward of them that goe forth to warre † fiftie nine thousand three hundred † Of the sonnes of Gad by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckned by the names of euerie one from twentie yeares and vpwarde al that went forth to warre † fourtie fiue thousand six hundred fiftie † Of the sonnes to Iuda by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes by the names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † were reckned seuentie foure thousand six hundred † Of the sonnes of Issachar by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes by the names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that went forth to warre † were reckened fiftie foure thousand foure hūdred † Of the sonnes of Zabulon by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † fiftie seuen thousand foure hundred † Of the sonnes of Ioseph namely of the sonnes of Ephraim by the generations families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by the names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † fourtie thousand fiue hundred † Moreouer of the sonnes of Manasses by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by the names of euerie one from twentie yeares and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † thirtie two thousand two hundred † Of the sonnes of Beniamin by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † thirtie fiue thousand foure hundred † Of the sonnes of Dan by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by the names of euerie one from twentie yeares and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † sixtie two thousand seuen hundred † Of the sonnes of Aser by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by the names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † fourtie thousand and a thousand fiue hundred † Of the sonnes of Nephthali by the generations and families and houses of their kinredes were reckened by the names of euerie one from the twentith yeare and vpward al that could goe forth to warre † fiftie three thousand foure hundred † These are they whom Moyses and Aaron numbered and the twelue princes of Israel euerie one by the houses of their kinredes † And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families from the twentith yeare and vpward that could goe to warre † Were six hundred three thousand men fiue hundred fiftie † But the Leuites in the tribe of their families were not numbered with them † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Number not the tribe of Leui neither shalt thou put the summe of them with the children of Israel † but appoint them ouer the tabernacle of testimonie and al the vessel therof and whatsoeuer pertaineth to the ceremonies They shal carie the tabernacle and al the furniture therof and they shal be in the ministerie and shal pitch round about the tabernacle † When you are to goe forward the Leuites shal take downe the tabernacle when you are to campe they shal set it vp what stranger soeuer cometh to it he shal be slaine † And the children of Israel shal campe euerie man by his troupes and bands and hoste † Moreouer the Leuites shal pitch their tents round about the tabernacle lest there come indignation vpon the multitude of the children of Israel and they shal watch in the custodies of the tabernacle of testimonie † The children of Israel therfore did according to al thinges which our Lord had commanded Moyses CHAP. II. At the east side of the Tabernacle the tribe of Iuda as chiefe with Issachar and Zabulon do pitch their tents and march first 10. on the south Ruben with Simeon and Gad 17. the Tabernacle is caried and erected by the Leuites who lodge and march round about it 18. on the weast side Ephraim with Manasses and Beniamin 25. on the north Dan with Aser and Nephthali AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † Euerie one of the children of Israel by the troupes ensignes and standerts and houses of their kinredes shal campe round about the tabernacle of couenant † On the east Iudas shal pitche his tents by the troupes of his bande and the prince of his sonnes shal be Nahasson the sonne of Aminadab † And the whole summe of the warriers of his stocke seuentie foure thousand six hundred † Beside him camped they of the tribe of Issachar whose prince was Nathanael the sonne of Suar. † and al the number of his warriers fiftie foure thousand foure hundred † In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the sonne of Helon † and al the hoste of warriers of his stocke fiftie seuen thousand foure hundred † Al that were numbered in the campe of Iudas were an hundred eightie six thousand foure hundred and they by their troupes shal march first † In the campe of the sonnes of Ruben
on the south side the prince shal be Elisur the sonne of Sedeur † and the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbred fourtie six thousand fiue hundred † Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon whose prince was Salamiel the sonne of Surisaddai † and the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbred fiftie nine thousand three hundred † In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the sonne of Duel † and the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbred fourtie fiue thousand six hundred fiftie † Al that were reckened in the campe of Ruben an hundred fiftie thousand and a thousand foure hundred fiftie by their troupes they shal march in the second place † But the tabernacle of testimonie shal be lifted vp by the offices of the Leuites and their troupes As it shal be sette vp so shal it be taken downe Euetie one shal march by their places and orders † On the west side shal be the campe of the sonnes of Ephraim whose prince was Elisama the sonne of Ammiud † the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbered fourtie thousand fiue hundred † And with them the tribes of the sonnes of Manasses whose prince was Gamaliel the sonne of Phadassur † and the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbered thirtie two thousand two hundred † In the tribe of the sonnes of Beniamin the prince was Abidan the sonne of Gedeon † and the whole host of his warriers that were reckened thirtie fiue thousand foure hundred † Al that were numbered in the campe of Ephraim an hundred eight thousand one hundred by their troupes they shal march the third † On the north part camped the sonnes of Dan whose prince was Ahiezar the sonne of Ammisaddai † the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbered sixtie two thousand seuen hundred † Besides him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents whose prince was Phegiel the sonne of Ochran † the whole hoste of his warriers that were numbered fourtie thousand and a thousand fiue hundred † Of the tribe of the sonnes of Nephthali the prince was Ahira the sonne of Enan † the whole hoste of his warriers fiftie three thousand foure hundred † Al that were numbered in the campe of Dan were an hundred fiftie seuen thousand six hundred and they shal march last † This is the number of the children of Israel by the houses of their kinredes and troupes of the hoste being diuided six hundred three thousand fiue hundred fiftie † And the Leuites were not numbered among the children of Israel for so our Lord had commanded Moyses † And the children of Israel did according to al thinges that our Lord had commanded They camped by their troupes and marched by their families and houses of their fathers CHAP. III. The Leuites are assumed to the seruice of the Tabernacle 14. numbered by their seueral families and their offices distinguished 45. They are taken to God in place of the first borne of the children of Israel The residue of the first borne aboue the number of Leuites are redemed with price THESE are the generations of Aaron and Moyses in the day that our Lord spake to Moyses in Mount Sinai † And these be the names of the sonnes of Aaron his first begotten Nadab then Abiu and Eleazar and Ithamar † These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the priests that were anointed and whose handes were filled and cōsecrated to doe the function of priesthood † For Nadab and Abiu died when they offered the strange fire in the sight of our Lord in the desert of Sinai without children and Eleazar and Ithamar did the function of priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father † And our Lord spake to moyses saying † Bring the tribe of Leui and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to minister vnto him and let them watch † and obserue whatsoeuer pertaineth to the seruice of the multitude before the tabernacle of testimonie † and let them keepe the vessel of the tabernacle seruing in the ministerie therof † And thou shalt geue the Leuites for a gift † to Aaron and to his sonnes to whom they are deliuered of the children of Israel But Aaron and his sonnes thou shalt appoint ouer the seruice of priesthood The stranger that approcheth to minister shal die † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † I haue taken the Leuites from the children of Israel for euerie first borne that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel and the Leuites shal be mine † For the first borne is mine since I stroke the first borne in the Land of Aegypt I haue sanctified to me whatsoeuer is first borne in Israel from man vnto beast they are mine I the Lord. † And our Lord spake to moyses in the desert of Sinai saying † Number the sonnes of Leui by the houses of their fathers and their families euerie male from one moneth and vpward † Moyses numbered as our Lord had commanded † and there were found the sonnes of Leui by their names Gerson and Caath and Merari † The sonnes of Gerson Lebni and Semei † The sonnes of Caath Amram and Iesaar Hebron and Oziel † The sonnes of Merari Moholi and Musi † Of Gerson were two families the Lebnitical and Semeitical † of whom were numbered the people of male sexe from one moneth and vpward seuen thousand fiue hundred † These shal pitch behind the taberna cle on the West † vnder their prince Heliasaph the sonne of Lael † And their charge shal be in the tabernacle of couenāt † the tabernacle it selfe and the couer therof the hanging that is drawne before the dores of the roofe of couenant and the curtines of the court the hanging also that is hanged in the entrie of the court of the tabernacle and whatsoeuer pertaineth to the rite of the altar the cordes of the tabernacle and al the furniture therof † The kinred of Caath shal haue the peoples of the Amramites and Iesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites These are the families of the Caithites reckened by their names † al of the male sexe from one moneth and vpward eight thousand six hundred they shal haue the gard of the Sanctuarie † and shal campe on the south side † And their prince shal be Elizaphan the sonne of Oziel † and they shal keepe the arke and table and the candlesticke the altars and the vessel of the Sanctuarie wherin the ministration is and the veile and al such kind of implementes † And the prince of the princes of the Leuites Eliazar the sonne of Aaron the priest shal be ouer them that watch for the custodie of the Sanctuarie † But of Merari shal be the peoples of the Moholites and Musites reckened by their names † al of the male kind from one moneth and vpward six thousand two hundred † Their prince Suriel the sonne of Abihaiel they shal campe on the north side † Vnder their custodie
shal be the bordes of the tabernacle and the barres and the pillers and their feete and al thinges that pertaine to this kind of seruice † and the pillers of the court round about with their feete and the pinnes with the cordes † Before the tabernacle of couenant that is to say on the east side shal Moyses and Aaron campe with their sonnes hauing the custodie of the Sanctuarie in the middes of the children of Israel what stranger soeuer cometh therto shal die † Al the Leuites that Moyses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of our Lord by their families in the male kinde from one moneth and vpward were twentie two thousand † And our Lord said to Moyses Number the first borne of the male sex of the children of Israel from one moneth and vpward and thou shalt haue the summe of them † And thou shalt take the Leuites vnto me for al the first borne of the children of Israel I am the Lord and their cattel for al the first borne of the cattel of the children of Israel † Moyses reckened as our Lord had commanded the first borne of the children of Israel † and the males by their names from one moneth and vpward were twentie two thousand two hundred seuentie three † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Take the Leuites for the first borne of the children of Israel and the cattel of the Leuites for their cattel and the Leuites shal be mine I am the Lord. † But for the price of two hundred seuentie three of the first borne of the children of Israel that exceede the number of the Leuites † thou shalt take fiue sicles for euerie head after the measure of the Sāctuarie A sicle hath twentie oboles † And thou shalt giue the money to Aaron and to his sonnes the price of them that are aboue † Moyses therfore tooke their money that were aboue and whom he redemed of the Leuites † for the first-borne of the children of Israel a thousand three hundred sixtie fiue sicles according to the weight of the Sanctuarie † and gaue it to Aaron and his sonnes according to the word that our Lord had commanded him ANNOTATIONS CHAP. III. 39. Tvventie tvvo thousand Immediatly before were numbered of Gersonites v. 22. 7500. of Caathites v. 28. 8600 and of Merarites v. 34. 6200. which make in al 22300. VVhy then are 300. left out of the total summe especially seing by and by v. 43. a smaler and other odde numbers of 273. are expressed and therupon inferred v. 46. that the first borne of the Israelites did so much exceede the Leuites VVheras if the whole number of Leuites had bene also expressed in the general summe as it is contained in the three particular summes the Leuites should exceede the first borne of Israelites by the number of 27. For answere to this difficultie some suppose that the first borne of the Leuites were iust 300. and therfore so manie supplying only their owne places there remained iust twentie two thousand to supplie the places of the first borne of other Israelites and so the Leuites were sewer then those for whom they were taken vnto Gods seruice by the number of 273. But that the first borne of Leuites were neither more nor sewer then 300. is not euident by the text Howsoeuer therfore this doubt be solued sure it is by S. Hieroms iudgement cited in the argument that these numbers are mystical And the iust number of 22. thousand Leuites may signifie 〈…〉 Or●●n homil 4. in Num. perfection required in those that are designed to the particular seruice of God as there be also iust 22. Hebrew letters and 22. Patriarches from Adam to Iacob from whom the Israelites descended CHAP. IIII. Distinct offices are assigned to the families of Aaron 15. of the other sonnes of Caath 21. of Gerson 29. and of Merari 34. who are al numbred from the age of thirtie yeares to fiftie and so imployed to their offices and burdens AND our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † Take the summe of the sonnes of Caath out of the middes of the Leuites by their houses and families † from the thirtith yeare vpward vnto the fiftith yeare of al that goe in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of couenant † This is the seruice of the sonnes of Caath † when the campe is to remoue Aaron and his sonnes shal enter into the tabernacle of couenant and Sanctum sanctorum and shal take downe the veile that hangeth before the dore and shal wrappe in it the arke of testimonie † and shal couer it agayne with a couer of Ianthine skinnes and shal spread ouer it a cloth al of hyacinth and shal draw in the barres † The tabel also of proposition they shal wrappe in a cloth of hiacinth and shal put with it the censers and litle morters the goblettes and cuppes to powre the libaments the breades shal be alwayes on it † and they shal spread ouer it a cloth of scarlet which againe they shal couer with a veile of ianthine skinnes and shal put in the barres † They shal take also a cloth of hiacinth wherwith they shal couer the candlestick with the lampes and tongs therof and snuffers and al the vessels of oyle which are necessarie for the dressing of the lampes † and ouer al they shal put a couer of ianthine skinnes and put in the barres † Moreouer the golden altar also they shal wrappe in a cloth of hyacinth and shal spreade ouer it a couer of ianthine skinnes and put in the barres † Al the vessel wherwith the ministration is done in the Sanctuarie they shal wrappe in a cloth of hiacinth and shal spread ouer it a couer of ianthine skinnes and put in barres † But the altar also they shal make cleane from the ashes and shal wrappe it in a purple cloth † and shal put with it al the vessel that they vse in the ministerie therof that is to say fire pannes fleshhookes and forkes pothookes and shouels Al the vessel of the altar together they shal couer with a veile of ianthine skinnes and shal put in the barres † And when Aaron his sonnes haue wrapped vp the Sanctuarie and the vessel therof in the remouing of the campe then shal the sonnes of Caath enter in to carie the thinges wrapped vp and they shal not touch the vessel of the Sanctuarie lest they die These are the burdens of the sonnes of Caath in the tabernacle of couenant † ouer whom shal be Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest to whose charge perteyneth the oyle to dresse the lampes and the incense of composition and the sacrifice that is alwayes offered and the oyle of vnction and whatsoeuer perteyneth to the seruice of the tabernacle and of al the vessel that are in the Sanctuarie † And our Lord spake vnto Moyses and Aaron saying † Destroy not the people of Caath out of the
thy husband art polluted and hast lien with an other man † thou shalt be subiect to these maledictions Our Lord geue thee for a malediction and an example of al among his people make he thy thigh to rotte and bellie swelling burst asunder † the cursed water enter into thy bellie and thy wombe being swolne let thy thigh rotte And the woman shal answer Amen amen † And the priest shal write these curses in a booke and shal wash them out with the most bitter waters wherupon he heaped the curses † and he shal geue them her to drinke Which when she hath drunke vp † the priest shal take of her hand the sacrifice of ielousie and shal eleuate it before the Lord and shal put it vpon the altar yet so notwithstanding that first † he take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered burne it vpon the altar and so geue the most bitter waters to the woman to drinke † Which when she hath drunke if she be polluted and by contempt of her husband guiltie of adulterie the waters of malediction shal goe through her and her bellie being puft vp her thigh shal totte withal and the woman shal be for a malediction and an example to al the people † But if she be not polluted she shal be blamelesse and shal beare children † This is the law of ielousie If the woman decline from her husband and if she be polluted † and the husband stirred with the spirit of ielousie brought her in the sight of the Lord and the priest haue done to her according to al thinges that are written † the husband shal be without fault and she shal beare her iniquitie ANNOTATIONS CHAP. V. 7. Shal confesse their sinne General confession such as Protestantes make sufficed not here for purging sinnes but whosoeuer transgressed anie of Gods commandments were bound by this diuine positiue law to confesse expresly and distinctly their sinne which in particular they had committed Also to make restitution if wrong were donne to anie other with a fifth part aboue the principal And for further satisfaction to God they must offer sacrifice Al which did plainly prefigure foreshew the necessitie of particular confession of sinnes and satifaction in the Sacrament of Penance instituted by Christ Ioan. 20. CHAP. VI. Consecration 14. and oblation of Nazareites 22. Asette forme how the Priest shal blesse the people AND our Lord spake vnto Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel and thou shal say to them Man or woman when they shal make a vow to be sanctified and “ wil consecrate them selues to the Lord † they shal absteine from wine euerie thing that can make one drunke vineger of wine and of any other potion and whatsoeuer is pressed out of the grape they shal not drinke new grapes and drie they shal not eate † al the daies wherin they are by vow cōsecrated to the Lord whatsoeuer may be of the vineyard from the reisen to the kernel they shal not eate † Al the time of his separation a rasour shal not passe ouer his head vntil the day be expired that he is consecrated to the Lord. He shal be holie whiles the bush of haire on his head doth grow † Al the time of his consecration he shal not enter in to the dead † neither shal he be contaminated no not on his fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters corps because the consecration of his God is vpon his head † Al the daies of his separation he shal be holie to the Lord. † But if anie man die sodenly before him the head of his consecration shal be polluted which he shal shaue forthwith in the same day of his purgation and againe the seuenth day † and in the eight day he shal bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest in the entrie of the couenant of testimonie † and the priest shal offer one for sinne and the other for an holocaust and shal pray for him because he hath sinned by occasion of the dead and he shal sanctifie his head that day † and shal consecrate to the Lord the daies of his separation offering a lambe of a yeare old for sinne yet so that the former daies be made frustrate because his sanctification was polluted † This is the law of consecration When the daies that by vow he had determined shal be expired he shal bring him to the doore of the tabernacle of couenant † and shal offer his oblation to the Lord a male lambe of a yeare old without spotte for an holocaust and an ewe lambe of a yeare old without spotte for sinne and a ramme without spotte for a pacifique hoste † a basket also of vnleuened breades that are tempered with oile and wafers without leuen anointed with oile and the libamentes of euerie one † which the priest shal offer before the Lord and shal offer as wel for sinne as for an holocaust † But the ●amme he shal immolate for a pacifique hoste to the Lord offering withal the baskette of azymes and the libamentes that by custome are dew † Then shal the Nazareite be shauen before the dore of the tabernacle of couenant from the bush of the haire of his consecration and he shal take his haires and lay them vpon the fire that is put vnder the sacrifice of pacifiques † And a shoulder of the ramme boyled and one cake without leuen out of the baskette and one wafer vnleuened and he shal deliuer them into the handes of the Nazareite after that his head be shauen † And receiuing them againe from him he shal eleuate them in the sight of the Lord and being sanctified they shal be the priestes as the breast which was commanded to be separated and the shoulder after these thinges the Nazareite may drinke wine † This is the law of the Nazareite when he shal vow his oblation to the Lord in the time of his consecration besides those thinges which his hand shal find according to that which he had vowed in his minde so shal he do to the fulfilling of his sanctification † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to Aaron and his sonnes Thus shal you blesse the children of Israel and you shal say to them † Our Lord blesse thee and keepe thee † Our Lord shew his face to thee and haue mercie vpon thee † Our Lord turne his countenance vnto thee and geue thee peace † And they shal inuocate my name vpon the children of Israel and I wil blesse them ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VI. 2. VVil consecrate themselues To such as of their owne accord would bind themselues by vow to certaine thinges not cōmanded God prescribeth a Rule containing three special obseruations not to drincke wine or anie thing that may make drunck not to cut their haire and not to touch a dead corps He appointeth likewise rites in making this profession and calleth the
siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice † a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense † an oxe out of the heard and a ramme and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust † and a bucke goate for sinne † and for pacifique hostes two oxen fiue rammes fiue bucke goates fiue lambes of a yeare old this was the oblation of Gamaliel the sonne of Phadassur † The ninth day the prince of the sonnes of Beniamin Abidan the sonne of Gedeon † offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the sanctuarie both ful of flower tempered with oile for a sacrifice † a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense † an oxe out of the heard and a ramme and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust † and a bucke goate for sinne † and for pacifique hostes two oxen fiue rames fiue bucke goates fiue lambes of a yeare old this was the oblation of Abidan the sonne of Gedeon † The tenth day the prince of the sonnes of Dan Ahiezer the sonne of Ammisaddai † offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice † a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense † an oxe out of the heard and a ramme and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust † and a bucke goate for sinne † and for pacifique hostes two oxen fiue rammes fiue bucke goates fiue lambes of a yeare old this was the oblation of Ahiezer the sonne of Ammisaddai † The eleuenth day the prince of the sonnes of Aser Phegiel the sonne of Ochran † offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice † a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense † an oxe out of the heard and a ramme and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust † and a bucke goate for sinne † and for pacifique hostes two oxen fiue rammes fiue bucke goates fiue lambes of a yeare old this was the oblation of Phegiel the sonne of Ochran † The twelfth day the prince of the sonnes of Nephthali Ahira the sonne of Enan † offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice † a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense † an oxe out of the heard and a ramme and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust † and a bucke goate for sinne † and for pacifique hostes two oxen fiue rammes fiue bucke goates fiue lambes of a yeare old this was the oblation of Ahira the sonne of Enan † These thinges were offered of the princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar in the day wherin it was consecrated plates of siluer twelue phials of siluer twelue litle morters of gold twelue † so that one plate had an hundred and thirtie sicles of siluer and one phial had seuentie sicles that is in the whole of al the vessel of siluer two thousand foure hundred sicles by the weight of the Sanctuarie † litle morters of gold twelue ful of incense weighing ten sicles a peece by the weight of the Sanctuarie that is in the whole an hundred twentie sicles of gold † oxen out of the heard for an holocaust twelue rammes twelue lambes of a yeare old twelue and their libamentes twelue bucke goates for sinne † For pacifique hostes oxen twentie sowre rammes fixtie bucke goates sixtie lambes of a yeare old sixtie These thinges were offered in the dedication of the altar when it was anointed † And when Moyses entred into the tabernacle of couenant to consult the oracle he heard the voice of him that spake to him from the propitiatorie that was ouer the arke betwen the two Cherubs from whence also he spake to him CHAP. VIII Seuen lampes are so placed on the golden candlestucke that they may shine towardes the breades of proposition 5. the ordination of the Leuites 24. And at what age they shal serue in the tabernacle AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to Aaron and thou shalt say to him When thou shalt place the seuen lampes let the candlesticke be sette vp in the south part ouer against the north toward the table of the breades of proposition ouer against that part toward which the candlesticke looketh shal they shine † And Aaron did so and he put the lampes vpon the candlesticke as our Lord had cōmanded Moyses † this was the making of the candlesticke of beaten gold as wel the middle shaft as al thinges that arose of both sides of the branches according to the example which our Lord shewed to Moyses so wrought he the candlesticke † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Take the Leuites out of the middes of the children of Israel and thou shalt purifie them † according to this rite Let them be sprinkled with the water of lustration shaue al the haires of their flesh And when they haue washed their garmentes and are cleansed † they shal take an oxe out of the heardes and his libament flowre tempered with oyle and an other oxe out of the heard thou shalt take for sinne † and thou shalt bring the Leuites before the tabernacle of couenant calling together al the multitude of the children of Israel † And when the Leuites are before the Lord the children of Israel shal put their handes vpon them † and Aaron shal offer the Leuites a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel that they may serue in his ministerie † The Leuites also shal put their handes vpon the heades of the oxen of the which thou shalt make one for sinne and the other for holocauste of the Lord to pray for them † And thou shalt sette the Leuites in the sight of Aaron and of his sonnes and being offered shal consecrate them to the Lord † and shal separate them from the middes of the children of Israel to be mine † And afterward they shal enter into the tabernacle of couenant to serue me And thou shalt so purifie and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord because they were geuen me for a gift of the children of Israel † For the first borne that open euerie matrice in Israel I haue taken them † For mine are al the first borne of the children of Israel as wel of men as of beastes From the day that I smote euerie first borne in the Land of Aegypt haue I sanctified them to me † and I haue taken the Leuites for al the first
borne of the children of Israel † and haue deliuered them for a gift to Aaron and his sonnes out of the middes of the people to serue me for Israel in the tabernacle of couenant and to pray for them that there be no plague among the people if they should presume to approch vnto my Sanctuarie † And Moyses and Aaron and al the multitude of the children of Israel did concerning the Leuites the thinges that our Lord had commanded Moyses † and they were purified and washed their garmentes And Aaron eleuated them in the sight of our Lord and prayed for them † that being purified they might enter to their offices into the tabernacle of couenant before Aaron his sonnes Fuen as our Lord had cōmanded Moyses touching the Leuites so was it done † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † This is the law of the Leuites From twentie fiue yeares and vpward they shal enter in to minister in the tabernacle of couenant † And when they shal haue accomplisheth the fiftith yeare of their age they shal cease to serue † and shal be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of couenant to keepe the thinges that are cōmended to them but not to do the verie workes Thus shalt thou dispose to the Leuites in their custodies CHAP. IX The percept of Pasch to be made the fourtenth day of the first moone is renewed 6. But the vncleane and trauelers in a iorney the fourtenth day of the second moneth 15. The campe must rest or march as the cloud or piller of fire remaineth ouer the tabernacle or departeth AND our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai the second yeare after they went out of the land of Aegypt the first moneth saying † Let the children of Israel make the Phase in his time † the fourtenth day of this moneth at euen according to al the ceremonies and iustifications therof † And Moyses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the Phase † Who made it in his time the fourtenth day of the moneth at euen in mount Sinai According to al thinges that our Lord had commanded Moyses the children of Israel did † But behold certaine vncleane vpon the soule of man which could not make the Phase on that day coming to Moyses and Aaron † said to them We are vncleane vpon the soule of man why are we defrauded that we can not offer the oblation to our Lord in the dew time among the children of Israel † To whom Moyses answered Stand that I may aske counseil what our Lord wil command concerning you † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel The man that shal be vncleane vpon a soule or in his iourney farre of in your nation let him make the Phase to the Lord † in the second moneth the fourtenth day of the moneth at euen with azymes and wilde lettise shal they eate it † they shal not leaue anie thing therof vntil morning and a bone therof they shal not breake al the rite of the Phase they shal obserue † But if anie man both be cleane and was not in his iourney and yet did not make the Phase that soule shal be destroyed out from among his peoples because he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in his dew time he shal beare his sinne † The seiourner also and stranger if they be with you shal make the Phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and iustifications therof The selfe same precept shal be among you aswel to the stranger as to him that is borne in the countrie † Therfore the day that the tabernacle was erected a cloude couered it And from euening ouer the tabernacle there was as it were the likenesse of fire vntil morning † So was it done alwaies by day the cloude couered it and by night as it were the likenesse of fire † And when the cloude that protected the tabernacle had bene taken away then the children of Israel marched and in the place where the cloude had stoode there they camped † At the commandment of our Lord they marched and at his commandment they pitched the tabernacle Al the daies that the cloude stoode ouer the tabernacle they remained in the same place † and if it chanced that it did continew ouer it a long time the children of Israel were in the wa●●●●s of our Lord and marched not † for as manie daies sooner as the cloude had bene ouer the tabernacle At the commandment of our Lord they pitched their tentes and at his commandement they tooke them downe † If the cloude had bene from euen vntil morning and immediatly at day breake had forsaken the tabernacle they marched and if it had departed after a day and a night they tooke down their tentes † But if for two daies or one moneth or a longer time it had bene ouer the tabernacle the children of Israel remained in the same place and marched not but immediatly as it had departed they remoued the campe † By the word of the Lord they pitched their tentes and by his word they marched and were in the watches of our Lord according to his commandment by the hand of Moyses CHAP. X. Trumpets are sounded by the priestes diue●sly for diuerse purposes 11. The campe marcheth from the desert of Sinai 29. Moyses intreateth Hobab the Madianite to remaine with them 35. His prayer when the arke is taken vp and sette downe AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Make thee two trumpettes of beaten siluer wherwith thou maiest cal togeather the multitude when the campe is to be remoued † And when thou shalt sound with the trumpettes al the multitude shal gather vnto thee to the doore of the tabernacle of couenant † If thou sound but once the princes shal come to thee and the heades of the multitude of Israel † But if the trumpeting sound in length and with a broken tune they shal moue their campe first that are on the east side † And at the second sound and the like noyse of the trumpet they shal take vp their tentes that dwel toward the south and after this maner shal the rest doe when the trumpettes shal sound to the marching † But when the people is to be gathered together the sound of the trumpet shal be plaine and they shal not make a broken sound † And the sonnes of Aaron the priestes shal sound with the trumpettes and this shal be an ordinance for euer in your generations † If you goe forth to warre out of your land against the enimies that fight against you you shal sound with trumpettes in l●ngth and there shal be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God that you may be deliuered out of the handes of your enemies † If at anie time you shal haue a banket and festiual daies and Calendes you shal sound with trumpettes ouer the holocaustes and
the time when now the first ripe grapes are to be eaten † And when they were gone vp they viewed the Land from the desert of Sin vnto Rohob as you enter to Emath † And they went vp at the south side and came to Hebron where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sonnes of Enac for Hebron was built seuen yeares before Tanis the citie of Aegypt † And going forward as farre as the Torrent of cluster they cutte of a branch with the grapes therof which two men carried vpon a leauer They tooke of the pomegranates also and of the figges of that place † which was called Nehelescol that is to say the Torrent of cluster for that thence the children of Israel had caried a cluster † And the discouerers of the Land returning after fourtie daies hauing circuted al the countrie † came to Moyses Aaron and to al the assemblie of the children of Israel into the desert of Pharan which is in Cades And speaking to them to al the multitude they shewed the fruites of the Land † and reported saying We came into the Land to which thou didst send vs which in very deede floweth with milke and honie as by these fruites may be knowen † but it hath very strong inhabitantes and cities great and walled The stocke of Enac we saw there † Amalec dwelleth in the south the Hetheite and the Iebuseite and the Amorrheite in the mountaines but the Chananeite abideth beside the sea and about the streames of Iordan † Among these thinges Caleb appeasing the murmuring of the people that rose against Moyses said Let vs goe vp and possesse the Land because we may obtaine it † But the others that had bene with him said No we are not able to goe vp to this people because it is stronger then we † And they detracted from the Land which they had viewed before the children of Israel saying The Land which we haue viewed deuoureth her inhabitantes the people that we beheld is of a tall stature † There we saw certaine monsters of the sonnes of Enac of the gyantes kind to whom being compared we seemed as it were locustes CHAP. XIIII The mutinous murmuring people being vnplacable 11. God expostulateth their ingratitude threatneth to destroy them 13. Yet Moyses pacifieth his wrath 22. but so that al which were numbered coming from Aegypt except C●leb and Iosue shal die in the wildernes 31. and their children shal possesse the promised land 40. Then fighting contrarie to Moyses admonition are beaten and manie slaine by their enimies THERFORE al the multitude crying out wept that night † and al the children of Israel murmured against Moyses and Aaron saying † Would God we had died in Aegypt and in this vaste wildernesse would God we might die and that our Lord would not bring vs into this Land lest we fal by the sword and our wiues and children be ledde captiue Is it not better to returne into Aegypt † And one said to an other Let vs appoint a captaine and let vs returne into Aegypt † Which Moyses and Aaron hearing fel flatte vpon the ground before al the multitude of the children o● Israel † But Iosue the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephone who them selues also had viewed the land rent their garmentes † and spake to al the multitude of the children of Israel The Land which we haue circuted is very good † If our Lord be propitious he shal bring vs into it and deliuer vs a ground flowing with milke and honie † Be not rebellious against our Lord neither feare ye the people of this land for euen as bread so we may deuoure them al aide is gone from them our Lord is with vs feare ye not † And when al the multitude cried and would haue stoned them the glorie of our Lord appeared ouer the roofe of couenant in the sight of al the children of Israel † And our Lord said to Moyses How long wil this people detract me How long wil they not beleue me in al the signes that I haue done before them † I wil strike them therfore with pestilence and wil consume them but thee I wil make prince ouer a great nation and a stronger then this is † And Moyses said to our Lord That the Aegyptians from the middes of whom thou hast brought forth this people † and the inhabitantes of this Land which haue heard that thou Lord art among this people and art sene face to face and thy cloude protecteth them and in a piller of a cloude thou goest before them by day and in a piller of fire by night † may heare that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say † He could not bring in the people into the Land for which he had sworne therfore did he kil them in the wildernesse † Let therfore the strength of our Lord be magnified as thou hast sworne saying † The Lord is patient and ful of mercie taking away iniquitie and wicked deedes leauing no man innocent which visitest the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation † Forgeue I besech thee the sinne of this thy people according to the greatnes of thy mercie as thou hast bene propitious to them since their going out of Aegypt vnto this place † And our Lord said I haue forgeuen it according to thy word † Liue I and the whole earth shal be replenished with the glorie of the Lord. † But yet al the men that haue sene my maiestie and the signes that I haue done in Aegypt and in the wildernesse and haue tempred me now ten times neither haue obeied my voice † they shal not see the Land for the which I sware to their fathers neither shal any of them that hath detracted me behold it † My seruant Caleb who being ful of an other spirit hath folowed me wil I bring in vnto this Land which he hath circuted and his seede shal possesse it † Because the Amalecite and the Cananeite dwel in the valleis To morrow remoue the campe and returne into the wildernesse by the way of the Redde sea † And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron saying † How long doth this vngratious multitude murmur against me I haue heard the complaintes of the children of Israel † Say therfore to them liue I sayeth our Lord According as you haue spoken I hearing it so wil I do to you † In this wildernesse shal your carcasses lie Al you that are numbered from twentie yeares vpward and haue murmured against me † you shal not enter into the Land ouer the which I haue lifted vp my hand to make you inhabite it except Caleb the sonne of Iephone and Iosue the sonne of Nun. † But your litle ones of whom you said that they should be a pray to the enemies wil I bring in that they may see the Land that hath misliked you †
from our Lord and the plague rageth † Which when Aaron had done and had runne to the middes of the multitude which now the burning fire did waste he offered the incense † and standing betwen the deade and the liuing he prayed for the people and the plague ceased † And there were that were strooken fourtene thousand and seuen hundred men beside them that had perished in the sedition of Core † And Aaron returned to Moyses vnto the doore of the tabernacle of couenant after that the destruction was ceased ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVI 2. Rose against Moyses By this most famous Schisme and terrible punishment therof al are warned to kepe order vnitie and peace within the Church of God and in nowise to communicate with heretikes or schismatikes in the act of heresie or schisme A necessarie admonition especially in such times and places as we liue in and see greater breaches made from ordinarie and lawful Pastors then this was For as S. Ignatius wel noteth Epist 3. ad Magnatianos Core Dathan and Abiron impugned not directly the law but resisted Moyses and Aaron Yet were they and manie thousandes with them seuerly punished for their conspiracie S. Cyprian lib. 1. Epist 6. obserueth the same saying Core Dathan and Abiron acknowledged the same God with Aaron and Moyses liuing vnder the same law and religion and inuocated one true God yet because passing the appointed ministerie of their owne place opposite to Aaron who by Gods fauour and ordinance had receiued lawful Priesthood they tooke vpon them to sacrifice they were forthwith punished by God for their vnlawful attempts neither could their sacrifices irreligiously and vnlawfully offered against Gods ordinance be ratified nor profite them at al. thus teacheth S. Cyprian the glorious Martyr And the text is clere that they were neither Idolaters nor Heretikes but the chiefe of them being Leuites of the familie of Caath who were nerestin kinred and in office to the priests and other principal men of diuets tribes enuying the superioritie of Moyses and Aaron and that priesthood was established only in Aarons progenie arrogated to themselues the office of priests and offered incense further pretending for vpholding their schisme that there should be no Superior at al aboue the holie people of God which albeit they did not beleue yet therby they drew the multitude to fauour and folow them But God deciding this debate to take away the contradiction made the earth to open and swallow vp those that first refused to obey Moyses with their tabernacles and substance and fire from heauen to consume two hundred and fiftie which offered incense and fourtene thousand seuen hundred of the common people for imputing to their Superiors the destruction of the sedicious were also consumed with fire raging amongst the whole multitude til Aaron sent by Moyses and offering incense appeased Gods wrath and saued the rest And wil anie Christians that know they haue immoital soules and that God is a iust Iudge thincke to escape with lesse damnation who for anie worldlie game fauour or feare yeld their bodilie and personal presence at seruice or sermon of heretikes oranic way communicate with heretikes in practise of heresie CHAP. XVII Moyses taking of the princes of twelue tribes twelue roddes and one of Aaron for the tribe of Leui layeth them al in the tabernacle al night 8. where Aarons rodde and none of the rest buddeth bloometh and bringeth forth fruite 9. And al being shewed to the people Aarons is caried back and kept for a monument in the tabernacle AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Speake to the children of Israel and take a rodde of euerie one of their kinredes of al the princes of their tribes twelue roddes and the name of euerie one thou shalt write vpon his rodde † and the name of Aaron shal be in the tribe of Leui and one rodde shal conteine al their families † and thou shalt lay them in the tabernacle of couenant before the testimonie where I wil speake to thee † Whomsoeuer of these I shal choose his rodde shal blossome and I shal stay from me the grudginges of the children of Israel wherwith they murmur against you † And Moyses spake to the children of Israel and al the princes gaue him roddes by euerie tribe and they were twelue roddes besides Aarons rodde † Which when Moyses had laid before our Lord in the tabernacle of testimonie † returning the day folowing he found that “ Aarons rodde in the house of Leui was budded and the buddes therof swelling the blossomes were shotte forth which spredding the leaues were fashioned into almondes † Moyses therfore brought forth al the roddes from the sight of our Lord to al the children of Israel and they saw and euerie one receiued their roddes † And our Lord said to Moyses Carie backe Aarons rodde into the tabernacle of testimonie that it may be kept there for a signe of the rebellious children of Israel and let their complaintes cease from me lest they die † And Moyses did as our Lord had commanded † And the children of Israel said to Moyses Behold we are consumed we are al perished † Whosoeuer approcheth to the tabernacle of our Lord he dieth Are we al to be destroyed vnto vtter consumption ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVII 8. Aarons rodde This rodde without roote neither it self planted nor anie liue branch ingraffed therin al drie without iuyce or moisture bringing forth buddes flowers and fruite was a figure that our B. Ladie should beare a sonne and remaine a Virgin And this example euidently demonstrateth that she could so do it being no more contrarie to nature that a virgin should conceiue and beare a child without losse of virginitie then that the drie rodde should bud and beare fruite without ordinarie concourse of nature S. Aug. ser 3. de temp S. Greg. Nisse● de natiuit Dom. S. Bernard ho. 2. in Euang. Missus est CHAP. XVIII The charge and burden of Priestes within the tabernacle and of Leuites about the same 8. First fruites and oblations are due to the Priestes 21. the tithes to the Leuites 26. who of the same pay tithes to the Priestes AND our Lord said to Aaron Thou and thy sonnes and the house of thy father with thee shal beare the iniquitie of the Sanctuarie both thou thy sonnes together shal beare the sinnes of your priesthood † but thy brethren also of the tribe of Leui and the scepter of thy father take with thee and let them be readie at hand and minister to thee but thou and thy sonnes shal minister in the tabernacle of testimonie † And the Leuites shal watch vpon thy preceptes and vpon al the workes of the tabernacle so not withstanding that they approch not to the vessel of the Sanctuarie and to the altar lest both they die and you perish withal † but let them be with thee and watch in the custodies of the tabernacle and in al
this water the third day and the seuenth and so shal be cleansed If he were not sprinkled the third day the seuenth day he can not be clensed † Euerie one that toucheth the dead corps of mans soule and is not sprinkled with this commistion shal pollute the tabernacle of the Lord and shal perish out of Israel because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation he shal be vncleane and his filthinesse shal remaine vpon him † This is the law of the man that dieth in a tabernacle Al that enter into his tent and al the vessel that are there shal be polluted seuen daies † The vessel that hath no couer nor bynding ouer it shal be vncleane † If any man in the field touch the corps of a man that was slaine or that died of himself or his bone or graue he shal be vncleane seuen daies † And they shal take of the ashes of combustion and of sinne and shal powre liuing water vpon them into a vessel † in the which when a man that is cleane hath dipped hyssope he shal sprinkle therwith al the tent and al the implementes and the men polluted with such contagion † and in this maner he that is cleane shal purge the vncleane the third and seuenth day And being expiated the senenth day he shal wash both himself and his garmentes and be vncleane vntil euening † If anie man be not expiated after this rite his soule shal perish out of the middes of the Church because he hath polluted the Lordes Sanctuarie and is not sprinkled with water of lustration † This precept shal be an ordinance for euer He also that sprinkleth the waters shal wash his garmentes Euerie one that toucheth the waters of expiation shal be vncleane vntil euen † Whatsoeuer he toucheth that is vncleane he shal make it vncleane and the soule that toucheth anie of these thinges shal be vncleane vntil euen CHAP. XX. ari● the sister of Moyses dieth 2. The people murmure for lack of water 7. Moys●s and Aaron being commanded to draw some out of a rock do it doutfully 12. and for the same are foretold that they shal die in the desert 14. Not obtaining licence to passe through Edom 22. they come into Mount Hor where Eleazar is ordained hiegh Priest Aaron dieth and is mourned by the people thirtie daie AND the children of Israel and al the multitude came into the desert Sin the first moneth and the people abode in Cades And Marie died there and was buried in the same place † And when the people lacked water they came together against Moyses and Aaron † and being turned into sedition said Would God we had perished among our brethren before our Lord. † Why haue you brought forth the Church of our Lord into the wildernesse that both we and our cattel should die † Why did you make vs ascend out of Aegypt and haue brought vs into this exceding naughtie place which can not be sowed which bringeth forth neither figge nor vines nor pomegranates moreouer also hath no water for to drinke † And Moyses and Aaron the multitude being dismissed entring into the tabernacle of couenant fel flatte vpon the ground and cried to our Lord and said Lord God heare the crie of this people and open vnto them thy treasure the fountaine of liuing water that being satisfied their murmuring may cease And the glorie of our Lord appeared ouer them † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Take the rodde and assemble the people together thou and Aaron thy brother and speake to the rocke before them and it shal geue waters And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rocke al the multitude shal drinke and their cattel † Moyses therfore tooke the rodde which was in the sight of our Lord as he commanded him † the multitude being assembled before the rocke and he said to them Heare ye rebellious and incredulous Can we out of this rocke bring you forth water † And when Moyses had lifted vp his hand stricking the rocke twise with the rodde there came forth great plentie of water so that the people drunke and their cattel † And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron Because you haue not beleued me to sanctifie me before the children of Israel you shal not bring in these peoples into the land which I wil geue them † This is the water of contradiction where the children of Israel quarelled against our Lord and he was sanctified in them † In the meane time Moyses sent messengers from Cades to the King of Edom which should say Thus thy brother Israel biddeth vs to say Thou knowest al the labour that hath taken vs † in what maner our fathers went downe into Aegypt and there we dwelt a great time and the Aegyptians afflicted vs and our fathers † and in what maner we cried to our Lord and he heard vs and sent an Angel that hath brought vs out of Aegypt Loe being presently in the citie of Cades which is in thy vttermost borders † we besech thee that we may haue licence to passe through thy countrie We wil not goe through the fieldes not through the vineyardes we wil not drinke the waters of thy welles but we wil goe the common high way declining neither to the right hand nor to the left til we be past thy borders † To whom Edom answered Thou shalt not passe by me otherwise I wil come armed against thee † And the children of Israel said We wil goe by the beaten way and if we and the cattel drinke thy waters we wil geue thee that which is iust there shal be no difficultie in the price only let vs passe speedely † But he answered Thou shalt not passe And immediatly he came forth to meete them with an infinitie multitude and a strong hand † neither would he condescend to them desiring to grant them passage through his borders For the which cause Israel turned an other way from him † And when they had remoued the campe from Cades they came into the mountaine Hor which is in the borders of the land of Edom † Where our Lord spake to Moyses † Let Aaron sayeth he goe to his people for he shal not enter to the Land which I haue geuen the children of Israel for that he was incredulous to my mouth at the Waters of contradiction † Take Aaron and his sonne with him and thou shalt bring them into the mountaine Hor. † And when thou hast vnuested the father of his vesture thou shalt reuest therewith Eleazar his sonne Aaron shal be gathered and die there † Moyses did as our Lord had commanded and they went vp into the mountaine Hor before al the multitude † And when he had spoyled Aaron of his vestimentes be reuested Eleazar his sonne with them † After that he was dead in the toppe of the mountaine he went downe with Eleazar † And al the multitude seeing that Aaron
Kil euerie man his neighbours that are professed to Beelphegor † And behold one of the children of Israel entred in before the face of his brethren to a whore a Madianite in the sight of Moyses and of al the multitude of the children of Israel who wept before the doores of the tabernacle † Which thing when Phinees had sene the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest he arose out of the middes of the multitude and catching a dagger † went in after the man of Israel into the brothel house and thrust them through both together to witte the man and the woman in the genitalles And the plague ceased from the children of Israel † and there were slaine fowre and twentie thowsand men † And our Lord said to Moyses † Phinees the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest hath auerted my wrath from the children of Israel because he was moued with my zele against them that my self might not destroy the children of Israel in mine owne zele † Therfore speake to him Behold I geue him the peace of my couenant † and there shal be as wel to him as to his seede the couenant of priesthood for euer because he hath bene zelous for his God and hath expiated the wicked fact of the children of Israel † And the name of the man of Israel that was slaine with the woman of Madian was Zambri the sonne of Salu a prince of the kinred and tribe of Simeon † Moreouer the Madianesse that was slaine with him was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur a most noble prince of the Madianites † And our Lord spake to Moyses saying † Let the Madianites finde you their enemies and strike you them † Because they also haue done like enemies against you and haue guilfully deceiued you by the Idol Phogor and Cozbi the daughter of the duke of Madian their sister who was strooken in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor CHAP. XXVI Al the men of twelue tribes being againe numbered from the age of twentie yeares and vpward are found to be six hundred one thousand seuen hundred and thirtie 57. Of the tribe of Leui also numbered of the male sex from the age of one moneth and vpward are found twentie three thousand 64. al being dead in the desert which were numbered before except Caleb and Iosue AFTER the bloud of the offenders was shed our Lord said to Moyses and Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest † Number the whole summe of the children of Israel from twentie yeares and vpward by their houses and kinredes al that can goe forth to warres † Moyses therfore and Eleazar the priest spake in the champion countrie of Moab vpon Iordan against Iericho to them that were † from twentie yeares and vpward as our Lord had commanded of whom this is the number † Ruben the first borne of Israel his sonne Henoch of whom is the familie of the Henochites and Phallu of whom is the familie of the Phalluites † and Hesron of whom is the familie of the Hesronites and Charmi of whom is the familie of the Charmites † These are the families of the stocke of Ruben whose number was found fourtie three thousand and seuen hundred thirtie † The sonne of Phallu Eliab † his sonnes Namuel and Dathan and Abiron These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people that rose against Moyses and Aaron in the sedition of Core when they rebelled against our Lord † and the earth opening her mouth deuoured Core verie manie dying when the fire burnt two hundred fiftie men And there was a great miracle done † that Core perishing his sonnes perished not † The sonnes of Simeon by their kinredes Namuel of him is the familie of the Namuelites Iamin of him is the familie of the Iaminites Iachin of him is the familie of Iachinites † Zare of him is the familie of the Zareites Saul of him is the familie of the Saulites † these are the families of the stocke of Simeon of which the whole number was two and twentie thousand two hundred † The sonnes of Gad by their kinredes Sephon of him is the familie of the Sephonites Aggi of him is the familie of the Aggites Suni of him is the familie of the Sunites † Ozni of him is the famile of the Oznites Her of him is the familie of the Herites † Arod of him is the familie of the Arodites Ariel of him is the familie of the Arielites † these are the families of Gad of which the whole number was fourtie thousand fiue hundred † The sonnes of Iudas Her and Onan who died both in the land of Chanaan † And the sonnes of Iudas by their kinredes were Sela of whom is the familie of the Selaites Phares of whom is the familie of the Pharesites Zare of whom is the familie of the Zareites † Moreouer the sonnes of Phares Hesron of whom is the familie of the Hesronites and hamul of whom is the familie of the Hamulites † these are the families of Iudas of which the whole number was seuentie six thousand fiue hundred † The sonnes of Issachar by their kinredes Thola of whom is the familie of the Tholaites Phua of whom is the familie of the Phuaites † Iasub of whom is the familie of the Iasubites Semran of whom is the familie of the Semranites † these are the kinredes of Issachar whose number sixtie fowre thousand three hundred † The sonnes of Zabulon by their kinredes Sared of whom is the familie of the Saredites Elon of whom is the familie of the Elonites Ialel of whom is the familie of Ialelites † These are the kinredes of Zabulon whose number was sixtie thousand fiue hundred † The sonnes of Ioseph by their kinredes Manasses and Ephraim † Of Manasses was borne Machir of whom is the familie of the Machirites Machir begat Galaad of whom is the familie of the Galaadites † Galaad had sonnes Iezer of whom is the familie of the Iezerites and Helec of whom is the familie of the Helecites † and Asriel of whom is the familie of the Asrielites and Sechem of whom is the familie of the Sechemites † and Semida of whom is the familie of the Semidaites and Hepher of whom is the familie of the Hepherites † And Hepher was the father of Salphaad who had no sonnes but onlie daughters whose names are these Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Tersa † these are the families of Manasses and the number of them is fiftie two thousand seuen hundred † And the sonnes of Ephraim by their kinredes were these Suthala of whom is the familie of the Suthalaites Becher of whom is the familie of the Becherites Thehen of whom is the familie of the Thehenites † Moreouer the sonne of Suthala was Heran of whom is the familie of the Heranites † these are the kinredes of the sonnes of Ephraim whose number was thirtie two thousand fiue hundred † These are the
seruantes the same in possession and make vs not passe ouer Iordan † To whom Moyses answered Why shal your brethren goe to sight and wil you sitte here † Why subuert you the mindes of the children of Israel that they may not be bold to passe into the place which our Lord wil geue them † Did not your fathers so when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the Land † And when they were come as farre as the Valley of cluster hauing viewed al the countrie they subuerted the hart of the children of Israel that they should not enter the coastes which our Lord gaue them † Who being wrath sware saying † If these men that came vp out of Aegypt from twentie yeares and vpward shal see the land which vnder othe I promised to Abraham Isaac and Iacob and they would not folow me † except Caleb the sonne of Iephone the Cenezeite and Iosue the sonne of Nun these haue fulfilled my wil. † And our Lord being wrath agaynst Israel led him about through the desert fourtie yeares vntil the whole generation was consumed that had done euil in his sight † And behold quoth he you are risen vp in steed of your fathers the ofspring and disciples of sinful men to augment the furie of our Lord agaynst Israel † But if you wil not folow him he wil leaue the people in the wildernesse and you shal be the cause of the death of al. † But they coming nere said We wil make shepcottes and stalles for our cattel for our litle ones also fensed cities † and we our selues armed and girded wil march on to battle before the children of Israel vntil we bring them in vnto their places Our litle ones and whatsoeuer we can haue shal be in walled cities because of the lying of wayte of the inhabitantes † We wil not returne into our houses vntil the children of Israel possesse their inheritance † neither wil we seeke any thing beyound Iordan because already we haue our possession on the east side therof † To whom Moyses said If you doe that you promisse march on wel appointed before our Lord to fight † and let euerie man of warre passe ouer Iordan vntil our Lord subuert his enemies † and al the Land be subdued to him then shal you be blamelesse before our Lord and before Israel and you shal obteyne the countries that you would in the sight of our Lord. † But if you doe not that which you say no man can doubt but you sinne against God and know ye that your sinne shal apprehend you † Build therfore cities for your litle ones and sheepecotes and stalles for your sheepe and cattel and accomplish that which you haue promised † And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moyses We are thy seruantes we wil do that which our lord commandeth † We wil leaue our litle ones and our wiues and sheepe and cattel in the cities of Galaad † and we thy seruantes al wel appoynted wil march on to the warre as thou my lord speakest † Moyses therfore commanded Eleazar the priest and Iosue the sonne of Nun and the princes of the families by the tribes of Israel and he said to them † If the children of Gad and the children of Ruben passe with you ouer Iordan al armed to the warre before our Lord and the Land be subdued to you geue them Galaad in possession † But if they wil not passe armed with you into the Land of Chanaan let them take places to dwel in among you † And the children of Gad and the children of Ruben answered As our lord hath spoken to his seruantes so Wil we doe † our selues atmed wil march before our Lord into the Land of Chanaan and we confesse that we haue already receiued our possession beyond Iordan † Moyses therfore gaue to the children of Gad and Ruben and to the halfe tribe of Manasses the sonne of Ioseph the kingdome of Sehon king of the Amorrheite and the kingdome of Og king of Basan and their land and the cities therof round about † Therfore the sonnes of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer † and Etroth and Sophan and Iazar and Iegbaa † and Bethnemra and Betharan cities fensed aud sheepecotes for their sheepe † But the children of Ruben builded Hesebon and Eleale and Cariathaim † and Nabo and Baalmeon changing their names Sabama also geuing names to the cities which they had built † Moreouer the children of Machir the sonne of Manasses went into Galaad and wasted it killing the Amorrheite the inhabiter therof † Moyses therfore gaue the land of Galaad to Machir the sonne of Manasses who dwelt in it † And Iair the sonne of Manasses went and tooke the villages therof which he called Hauoth Iair that is tho say the Villages of Iair † Nobe also went and tooke Canath with the villages therof and he called it by his owne name Nobe CHAP. XXXIII The 42. mansions of The children of Israel betwen Aegype and the Land of promise are recited 50. they are commanded to kil al the inhabitents to purge the land of idolatrie and diuide it among them THESE are the mansions of the children of Israel that went out of Aegypt by their troupes in the hand of “ Moyses and Aaron † which Moyses described according to the places of the campe which by our Lords commandement they changed † They children of Israel therfore departing from Ramesses the first moneth the fiftenth day of the first moneth the morow after they made the Phase in a mightie hand al the Aegyptians seeing them † and burying their first borne which our Lord had strooken yea and on their goddes also he had exercised vengeance † they camped in Soccoth † And from Soccoth they came into Etham which is in the vttermost borders of the wildernesse † Departing thence they came ouer against Phihahiroth which looketh toward Beelsephon and camped before Magdal † And departing from Phihahiroth they passed through the middes of the sea into the wildernesse and walking three dayes through the deserr Etham they camped in Mara † And departing from Mara they came into Elim where there were the twelue fountaines of waters and the seuentie palme trees and there they camped † But departing thence also they pitched their tentes vpon the Redde sea And departing from the Redde sea † they camped in the defert Sin † From whence departing they came into Daphca † And departing from Daphca they camped in Alus † And departing from Alus they pitched their tentes in Raphidim where the people wanted water to drinke † And departing from Raphidim they camped in the desert of Sinai † But departing also from the desert Sinai they came to the Sepulchres of concupiscence † And departing from the Sepulchres of concupiscence they camped in Haseroth † And from Haseroth they came into Rethma † And departing from Rethma they camped in Remmonphares † Whence departing they came into Lebna †
Lord is not as their goddes our enemies also are iudges † Of the vineyard of Sodom is their vineyard and of the suburbes of Gomorrha their grape the grape of gall and the clusters most bitter † The gall of dragons their wine and the venime of Aspes vncurable Are not these thinges laid vp with me and signed in my treasures † Reuenge is myne and I wil repay them in time that their foote may slide the day of perdition is at hand and the times make hast to be present † Our Lord wil iudge his people and wil haue mercie on his seruantes he shal see that their hand is weakened and the shut vp also haue fayled and the residew be consumed † And he shal say Where are their goddes in whom they had confidence † Of whose victimes they did eate fatte and dranke the wine of their libamentes Let them arise and help you and protect you in necessitie † See ye that I am onlie and there is no other God besides me I wil kil and I wil make to liue I wil strike and I wil heale and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand † I wil lift vp my hand to heauen and wil say I liue for euer † If I shal whette my sword as the lightening and my hand take iudgement I wil repay vengeance to myne enemies and them that hate me wil I requite † I wil embrew my arrowes with bloud and my sword shal deuoure flesh of the bloud of the slaine and of captiuitie of the bare head of the enemies † You gentiles “ prayse his people because he wil reuenge the bloud of his seruantes and wil repay vengeance vpon their enemies and wil be propitious to the land of his people † Moyses therfore came and spake al the wordes of this canticle in the eares of the people he and Iosue the sonne of Nun. † And he finished al these wordes speaking to the children of Israel † and he said to them Sette your hartes on al the wordes which I testifie to you this day that you command them to your children to keepe and to doe and to fulfil al thinges of this law that are written † for not in vaine are they commanded you but that euerie one should liue in them which doing you may continew a long time in the Land which passing ouer Iordan you enter to possesse † And our Lord spake to Moyses in the same day saying † Goe vp into this mount Abarim that is to say of passages into mount Nebo which is in the Land of Moab against Iericho and see the Land of Chanaan which I wil deliuer to the children of Israel to obteyne and die thou in the mount † Which going vp vnto thou shalt be ioyned to thy peoples as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor and was layd to his people † because you did preuaricate against me in the middes of the children of Israel at the Waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin and you did not sanctifie me among the children of Israel † Ouer against shalt thou see the Land and shalt not enter into it which I wil geue to the children of Israel ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXXII 18. Forgotten our Lord. Caluin li. 1. Instit c. 11. parag 9. contending that it is idolatrie to worship Christ in his picture saieth the idolatrie committed about the molten calfe Exod. 32. consisted in worshipping the true God in that image of a calfe affirming that the Ievves vvere not so inconsiderate as not to remember that it vvas God vvhich had brought them out of the Land of Aegypt Quite contrarie to this text which saieth God that begate thee thou hast forsaken and hast forgotten our Lord thy creator Caluin therfore was either ignorant or forgetful that the Holie Ghost here chargeth them to haue forsaken and forgotten God the Creator or els which is worse Knowing and remembring it he was most impudent in auouching the contrarie 43. Praise his people In the people of the Iewes were alwayes some good worthie of praise that serued God and sometimes suffered persecution for iustice whose bloud God promised here to reuenge and for their sakes to be merciful to others Al which we see was performed in that God reduced them from captiuitie and conserued them after in their countrie til Christs time for so he was propitious to the land of his people CHAP. XXXIII Moyses blessing the tribes of Israel Simeon omitted prophecyeth particularly of euerie one 26. Againe exhorteth them that as God hath chosen them his peculiar people so they loue and honour him their onlie God THIS is the blessing wherwith Moyses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death † And he said Our Lord “ came from Sinai and from Seir is he risen to vs he hath appeared from mount Pharan and with him thousādes of Sainctes In his right hand a fyrie law † He hath loued the peoples al the saintes are in his hand and they that approch to his feere shal receiue of his doctrine Moyses commanded vs a law the inheritance of the multitude of Iacob † He shal be king with the most right the princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel † Liue Ruben and die he not and be he litle in number † This is the blessing of Iudas Heare Lord the voice of Iudas and bring him in vnto his people his handes shal fight for him and he shal be his helper against his aduersaties † To Leui also he said Thy perfection and thy doctrine be to thy holie man whom thou hast proued in tentation and iudged at the Waters of contradiction † He that said to his father and to his mother I know you not and to his brethren I know you not they knew not their children These kept thy word and obserued thy couenant † thy iudgementes o Iacob and thy law o Israel they shal put incense in thy furie and holocaust vpon thyne altar † Blesse Lord his strength and receiue the workes of his handes Strike the backes of his enemies and they that hate him let them not rise vp † And to Beniamin he said The best beloued of our Lord shal dwel confidently in him as in a bride chamber al the day shal he abide and betwen his shoulders shal he rest † To Ioseph also he said Of the blessing of our Lord be his land of the fruites of heauen and the dew the depth lying vnderneth † Of the pomes of the fruites of the sunne and moone † of the toppes of the old mountaynes of the pomes of the eternal hilles † and of the fruites of the earth and of the fulnes therof The blessing of him that appeared in the bush come vpon the head of Ioseph and vpon the crowne of the nazarite among his brethren † His beautie as of the first borne of an oxe his hornes the hornes
made an end of diuiding the Land by lotte to euerie one by their tribes the children of Israel gaue possession to Iosue the sonne of Nun in the middes of them † according to the commandement of our Lord the citie which he requested Thamnath Saraa in mount Ephraim and he built the citie and dwelt in it † These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest and Iosue the sonne of Nun and the princes of the families and of the tribes of the children of Israel diuided by lotte in Silo before our Lord at the doore of the tabernacle of testimonie and they parted the Land CHAP. XX. Six cities of refuge for such as commit casual manslaughter are named 6 in which remayning til the death of the high priest they may then returne to their proper dwelling place and be safe AND our Lord spake to Iosue saying Speake to the children of Israel and say to them † Separate the cities of the fugitiues of the which I spake to you by the hand of Moyses † that he may flee to them whosoeuer shal strike a soule vnwitting and may escape the wrath of the nigh kinseman which is the reuenger of bloud † when he shal be fled to one of these cities he shal stand before the gate of the citie and shal speake to the ancientes of that citie those thinges that may proue him selfe innocent and so they shal receiue him and geue him place to inhabite † And when the reuenger of the bloud shal pursew him they shal not deliuer him into his handes because he stroke his neighbour by ignorance neitheir is he proued to be his enemie two or three dayes before † And he shal dwel in that citie til he stand before iudgement rendring a cause of his fact and the high priest die which shal be at that time then shal the manslaer returne and enter into the citie and his house out of the which he had fled † And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of the mount of Nepthali and Sichem in the mount of Ephraim and Cariatharbee the same is Hebron in the mount of Iuda † And beyond Iordan against the East quarter of Iericho they appointed Bosor which is situated in the champaine wildernes of the tribe of Ruben and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad and Gaulon in Basan of the tribe of Manasses † These cities were appointed to al the children of Israel and to the strangesrs that dwelt among them that he might flee to them which vnwittingly had striken a soule and might not die in the hand of the kinseman coue●ing to reuenge the bloud shed vntil he might stand before the people to declare his cause CHAP. XXI Cities with suburbes are assigned to the tribe of Leui. 4. To the sonnes of Caath by the line of Aaron being priestes thirtenne 5. to the rest of Caaths progenie being Leuites tenne 6. To the sonnes of Gerson Leuites thirte●ne 7. To the sonnes of Merari Leuites 34. of a lower degree twelue 9. with the names of al the cities 39. in al fourtie eight 41. So Gods promise is fully performed hauing geuen the whole Land to Israel in peaceable possession AND the princes of the families of the Leui came to Eleazar the priest and Iosue the sonne of Nun and to the chief of the kinredes in euerie tribe of the children of Israel † and they spake to them in Silo of the Land of Chanaan and said Our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses that cities should be geuen vs to inhabite and their suburbes to feede cattel † And the children of Israel gaue of their possessions according to the commandement of our Lord cities and their suburbes † And the lotte came forth vnto the familie of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribe of Iudas and Simeon and Beniamin thirtene cities † And to the rest of the children of Caath that is to the Leuites which remayned out of the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the halfe tribe of Manasses ten cities † Moreouer to the children of Gerson came forth a lotte that they should take of the tribes of Issachar and Aser and Nephthali and the halfe tribe of Manasses in Basan cities in number thirtene † And to the sonnes of Merari by their kinredes of the tribe of Ruben and Gad and Zabulon twelue cities † and the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities and their suburbes as our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses geuing to euerie one by lotte † Of the tribes of the children of Iudas and Simeon Iosue gaue cities whose names be these † to the children of Aaron by the families of Caath of the Leuitical stocke for the first lotte came forth to them † Cariatharbe the father of Enac which is called Hebron in the mountaine of Iudas and the suburbes therof round about † But the fieldes and the townes therof he had geuen to Caleb the sonne of Iephone to possesse † He gaue therfore to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron a citie of refuge and the suburbes therof Lobna with the suburbes therof † and Iether and Estemo † and Holon and Dabir † and Ain and Ieta and Bethsames with the suburbes therof nine cities of two tribes as hath bene said † And of the tribe of the children of Beniamin Gabaon and Gabae † and Anathoth and Almon with their suburbes foure cities † Al the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest thirtene with their suburbes † But to the rest by the families of the children of Caath of the Leuitical stocke was geuen this possession † Of the tribe of Ephraim the cities of refuge Sichem with the suburbes therof in the mountayne of Ephraim and Gazer † and Cibsaim and Beth horon with the suburbes therof foure cities † Of the tribe of Dan also Eltheco and Gabathon † and Aialon and Gethremmon with the suburbes therof foure cities † Moreouer of the half tribe of Manasses Thanac and Gethremmon with their suburbes two cities † Al the cities ten and their suburbes were geuen to the children of Caath of the inferiour degree † To the children of Gerson also of the Leuitical stocke he gaue of the half tribe of Manasses the cities of refuge Gaulon in Basan and Bosram with their suburbes two cities † Moreouer of the tribe of Issachar Cesion and Dabereth † and Iaramoth and Engannim with their suburbes foure cities † And of the tribe of Aser Masal and Abdon † and Helcath and Rohob with their suburbes foure cities † Of the tribe also of Nephthali the cities of refuge Cedes in Galilee and Hammoth Dor and Carthan with their suburbes three cities † Al the cities of the families of Gerson thirtene with their suburbes † And to the children of Merari Leuites of the inferiour degree by their families was geuen of the tribe of Zabulon Iecnam and Cartha † and Damna and Naalol foure cities with their suburbes † Of the tribe
which is erected before his tabernacle † Which thinges being heard Phinees the priest and the princes of the legacie which were with him were pacified and they admitted most willingly the wordes of the children of Ruben Gad and of the halfe tribe of Manasses † And Phinees the priest the sonne of Eleazar said to them Now we know that our Lord is with vs because you are not culpable of this preuarication and haue deliuered the children of Israel from the hand of our Lord. † And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and Gad out of the Land of Galaad into the Land of Chanaan to the children of Israel and reported to them † And the saying pleased al that heard it And the children of Israel praysed God and they did no more say that they would goe vp against them and fight and destroy the Land of their possession † And the children of Ruben the children of Gad called the altar which they had built Our testimonie that our Lord he is God CHAP. XXIII Iosue being old admonisheth the people to keepe Gods commandementes 12. and to auoide mariages and al societie with gentiles lest falling to idolatrie God as certainly punish them as he hath benne benificial and bountiful to them AND when much time was passed after that our Lord had geuen peace to Israel al the nations being subdewed round about and Iosue now verie ancient and of a great age † Iosue called al Israel and the elders and the princes and the iudges and the maisters and said to them I am old and farre gone in age † and you see al thinges that our Lord your God hath done to al the nations round about how him selfe hath fought for you † and now because he hath by lotte diuided to you al the Land from the East part of Iordan vnto the great sea and manie nations yet remaine † Our Lord your God wil destroy them and take them away from your face and you shal possesse the Land as he hath promised you † Onlie take courage and be careful that you keepe al thinges which be written in the volume of the law of Moyses and decline not from them neither to the right hand nor to the left † lest after that you are entred in to the Gentiles which shal be among you you sweare in the name of their goddes and serue them and adore them † but cleaue to our Lord your God which you haue done vntil this day † And then our Lord God wil take away in your sight the great nations and very strong and no man shal be able to resist you † One of you shal pursew a thousand men of the enemies because our Lord your God him self wil fight for you as he hath promised † This onlie beware very diligently before hand that you loue our Lord your God † But if you wil cleaue to the errour of these nations that dwel among you and make mariages with them and ioyne amitie † euen now know ye that our Lord your God wil not destroy them before your face but they shal be a pitte and a snare for you and a stumbling blocke at your side and stakes in your eies til he take you away and destroy you from this excellent Land which he hath deliuered to you † Behold I this day enter into the way of al flesh and you shal know with al your minde that al the wordes which our Lord promised that he would performe to you one is not escaped without effect † Therfore as he hath fulfilled in deede that which he promised and al thinges prosperous haue come so wil he bring vpon you what euils soeuer he hath threatened til he take you away and destroy you from this excellent Land which he hath deliuered to you † because you haue transgressed the couenant of our Lord your God which he hath made with you and haue serued strange goddes and adored them quickly and in hast shal the furie of our Lord ryse against you and you shal be taken away from this excellent Land which he hath deliuered to you CHAP. XXIIII In consideration of diuers principal benefites here recited 14. Iosue exorteth the people to serue God sincerly seing it is in their choise to do wel or euil 16. they promise al true seruice and obedience to God 25. VVherupon he reneweth the pact betwen God and them writing it in the volume of the law and erecting a great stone in testimonie 29. He dieth and is buried in mount Ephraim 32. Iosephs bones are buried in Sichem 33. Eleazar the high priest also dieth and is buried in Ephraim AND Iosue gathered together al the tribes of Israel into Sichem and called the ancientes and princes and iudges and maisters and they stoode in the sight of our Lord † and to the people he spake in this maner Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel Beyond the riuer did your fathers dwel from the beginning Thare the father of Abraham and of Nachor and “ they serued strange goddes † I tooke therfore your father Abraham from the coastes of Mesopotamia and brought him into the Land of Chanaan and multiplied his seede † and gaue him Isaac and againe to him I gaue Iacob and Esau Of whom to Esau I gaue mount Seir to possesse but Iacob and his children went downe into Aegypt † And I sent Moyses and Aaron and stroke Aegypt with many signes and wonders † And I brought you and your fathers out of Aegypt and you came to the sea and the Aegyptians pursewed your fathers with chariotes and horsemen as farre as the Read sea † And the children of Israel cried to the Lord who did put darkenes betwen you and the Aegyptians and brought the sea vpon them ouerwhelmed them Your eies saw al thinges that I did in Aegypt and you dwelt in the wildernes a great time † and I brought you into the Land of the Amorrheite which dwelt beyond Iordan And when they fought against you I deliuered them into your handes and you possessed their Land and slew them † And there rose Balac the sonne of Sephor king of Moab and fought against Israel And he sent and called Balaam the sonne of Beor that he might curse you † and I would not heare him but contrariwise by him I blessed you and deliuered you out of his hand † And you passed Iordan and came to Iericho And the men of that citie fought against you the Amorrheite and Pherezeite and Chananeite and the Hetheite and Gergeseite and the Heueite and Iebuseite and I deliuered them into your handes † And I sent before you hornettes and I cast them forth out of their places the two Kinges of the Amorrheites not in thy sword and bow † And I gaue you the Land wherein you laboured not and the cities which you built not to dwel in them vineyardes and oliue trees which you planted not † Now therfore feare our Lord
Gabaa of Beniamin with my wife and there I tooke my lodging † and behold the men of that citie by night besette the house wherein I taried meaning to kil me and vexing my wife with incredible furie of lust finally she died † Whom being taken I did cutte into peeces and sent the partes into al the borders of your possession because neuer was there so heinous an offense and so greate an abomination done in Israel † You are al present the children of Israel determine what you ought to doe † And al the people standing answered as it were by the word of one man we wil not depart into our tabernacles neither shal any man enter into his house † but this wil we doe in common against Gabaa † Let ten men be chosen of an hundred out of al the tribes of Israel and an hundred of a thousand and a thousand of ten thousand to bring victuals for the armie and that we may fight against Gabaa of Beniamin render to it for the wicked fact which it deserueth † And al Israel assembled to the citie as it were one man with one minde and one counsel † and they sent messengers to al the tribe of Beniamin which should say Why is there soe great abomination found in you † Deliuer the men of Gabaa that haue committed this heinous fact that they may die and the euil may be taken away out of Israel Who would not heare the commandment of their brethren the children of Israel † but o●● of al cities which were of their lotte they assem 〈…〉 Gabaa to avde them and to fight against a● the 〈…〉 † ●nd there were found fiue and twentie thousand of Beniamin of them that drew sword beside the inhabitantes of Gabaa † which were seuen hundred most valiant men so fighting with the left hand as with the right and so directly casting stones with ●●inges that they could strike a heare also and the stroke of the stone should not be caried awry on either part † Of the men of Israel also beside the children of Beniamin were found foure hundred thousande of them that drew swordes were prepared to fight † Who rising came into the house of God that is into Silo and they consulted God and said Who shal be in our armie general of the battel against the children of Beniamin To whom our Lord answered Let Iudas be your captayne † And forth with the children of Israel arysing in the morning camped beside Gabaa † and thence proceeding to fight against Beniamin beganne to assault the citie † And the children of Beniamin issuing out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twentie thousand men † Agayne Israel hauing confidence in their strength and number sette the armie in aray in the same place wherein they had fought before † yet so that they did first goe vp and weepe before our Lord vntil night and consulted him and said Shal I procede any more to fight against the children of Beniamin my brethren or not To whom he answered Goe vp to them and enter battel † And when the children of Israel the next day had proceded against the children of Beniamin to battel † the children of Beniamin brake forth out of the gates of Gabaa and meeting them they raged with so great a slaughter against them that they ouerthrew eightene thousand men that drew swotd † For the which thing al the children of Israel came into the house of God and sitting wept before our Lord and they fasted that day vntil euening and offered to him holocaustes and pacifique victimes † and asked him concerning their state At that time the arke of the couenant of our Lord was there † and Phinees the sonne of Eleazarus the sonne of Aaron prouost of the house They therfore consulted our Lord and said Shal we goe forth any more to fight against the children of Beniamin our brethren or rest To whom our Lord said Goe vp for to morrow I wil deliuer them into your handes † And the children of Israel sette ambushmentes round about the citie of Gabaa † and the third time as once and twise they brought forth their armie against Beniamin † But the children of Beniamin also issued forth boldly out of the citie and pursewed a long way the aduersaries fleeing so that they wounded of them as the first day and the second and slew them turning their backes by two wayes wherof the one went into Bethel and the other into Gabaa and ouerthrew about thirtie men † for they thought to kil them after their accustomed maner Who feyning artificially as though they fled tooke aduise to draw them away from the citie as it were fleing to bring them to the pathes aforesayd † Therfore al the children of Israel rysing out of their seates sette their armie in battel aray in the place which is called Baalthamar The ambushmentes also which were about the citie began by litle and litle to open them selues † and to proceede from the West part of the citie Yea and other ten thousand men of al Israel prouoked the inhabitantes of the citie to skit mishes And the battel grew sore against the children of Beniamin and they vnderstoode not that on euerie side destruction hong ouer them † And our Lord stroke them in the sight of the children of Israel and they slew of them in that day fiue and twentie thousand and an hundred men al warryers and that drew sword † But the children of Beniamin when they saw them selues to be inferiour beganne to flee Which the children of Israel seing gaue them place to flee that they might come to the ambushmentes prepared which they had sette neere the citie † Who when they had sodenly risen out of their dennes and Beniamin turned their backes to the sleaers they entred the citie and stroke it in the edge of the sword † And the children of Israel had geuen a signe to them whom they had laid in the ambushementes that after they had taken the citie they should kindle a fire that the smoke ascending on high they might shew that the citie was taken † Which when the children of Israel saw being in the verie fight for the children of Beniamin thought that they fled and pursewed more instantly hauing slaine thirtie men of their armie † and they saw as it were a piller of smoke to rise vp from the citie Beniamin also looking backe when he saw the citie taken and the flames caried on high † they that before had feyned as if they fled turning their face resisted more manfully Which when the children of Beniamin had sene they were turned into flight † and beganne to goe the way of the desert the aduersaries pursewing them thither also But they also that had fyred the citie mette them † And so it came to passe that on both sides they were slaine of the enemies neither was there any rest of
al the Prophetes and Seers saying Returne from your most wicked wayes and keepe my precepts and ceremonies according to al the law which I commanded your fathers and as I haue sent to you in the hand of my seruantes the Prophetes † Who heard not but hardened their necke according to the necke of their fathers who would not obey our Lord their God † And they cast away his ordinances and the couenant that he made with their fathers and the testifications wherwith he contested them and they folowed vanities and did vaynly and they folowed the Gentiles that were round about them concerning which our Lord had commanded them that they should not doe as they did † And they forsooke al the preceptes of our Lord their God and made to them selues two molten calues and groues and adored al the hoste of heauen and they serued Baal † and consecrated their sonnes and their daughters through fyre and they gaue themselues to deuinations and soothsayings and they deliuered vp themselues to doe euil before our Lord that they might prouoke him † And our Lord was wrath with Israel vehemently and tooke them away from his sight and there remayned but the tribe of Iuda onlie † But neither Iuda it self kept the commandementes of our Lord their God but walked in the errours of Israel which it had wrought † And our Lord reiected al the seede of Israel and afflicted them deliuered them into the hand of the spoylers til he threwe them away from his face † euen now from that time when Israel was rent from the house of Dauid and made Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat their king for Ieroboam seperated Israel from our Lord and made them sinne a great sinne † And the children of Israel walked in al the sinnes of Ieroboam which he had done and they departed not from them † vntil our Lord tooke away Israel from his face as he had spoken in the hand of al his seruantes the Prophetes and Israel was transported out of their land vnto the Assyrians vntil this day † And the king of the Assyrians brought from Babylon and from Cutha and from Auah and from Emath and from Sepharuaim and placed them in the cities of Samaria for the children of Israel who possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities therof † And when they began to dwel there they feared not our Lord and our Lord sent lions vpon them which killed them † And it was told the king of the Assyrians and sayd The nations which thou hast transferred and made to dwel in the cities of Samaria know not the ordinances of the God of the land and the Lord hath sent lions vpon them and behold they kil them for that they know not the rite of the God of the land † And the king of the Assyrians commanded saying Bring thither one of the priestes which you brought thence captiue and let him goe and dwel with them and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land † Therfore when one of those priests which were led captiue from Samaria was come he dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should worship our Lord. † And euerie Nation framed their owne god and put them in the highe temples which the Samaritanes had made Nation and Nation in their cities where they dwelt † For the men of Babylon made Socoth benoth and the Cutheites made Nergel and the men of Emath made Asima † Moreouer the Heueites made Nebahaz Tharthac And they that were of Sepharuaim burnt their children in fyre to Adramelech and Anamelech the goddes of Sepharuaim † and neuetheles they worshipped our Lord. And they made to themselues of the vilest persones priestes of the excelses and they placed them in the highe temples † And when they worshipped our Lord they serued also their owne goddes according to the custome of the Nations out of the which they were transported to Samaria † vntil this present day they folow the old maner they feare not our Lord neither keepe they his ceremonies and iudgements and law and the commandemet which our Lord commanded the children of Iacob whom he surnamed Israel † and he had made a couenant with them had commanded them saying Feare not strange goddes and adore them not neither worship them and immolate not to them † But the Lord your God which brought you out of the Land of Aegypt in great strength and a stretched out arme him feare ye and him adore and to him doe ye immolate † The ceremonies also and iudgementes and law and the commandment that he wrote you kepe ye that you may doe them alwaies and feare not strange goddes † And the couenant that he made with you forget not neither doe ye worship strange goddes † but feare our Lord your God and he wil deliuer you out of the hand of al your enemies † But they heard not but did according to their old custome † These Nations therfore were fearing of our Lord but neuerthelesse seruing their idols also for both their children and nephewes as their fathers did soe doe they vntil this present day CHAP. XVIII Ezechias destroyeth al places of idolatrie in Iuda breaking also the brasen serpent made by Moyses because the people offered incense to it 9. The captiuitie of the ten tribes is repeted 13. Ezechias not able to resist the Assyrians payeth much money to them 17. They neuertheles send forces against Ierusalem reproch the king blaspheme God and terrifie the people IN the third yeare of Osee the sonne of Ela king of Israel reigned Ezechias the sonne of Achaz king of Iuda † Fiue and twentie yeares old was he when he began to reigne and he reigned nine and twentie yeares in Ierusalem the name of his mother was Abi the daughter of Zacharias † And he did that which was good before our Lord according to al thinges which Dauid his father had done † He destroyed the excelses and brake the statuees in peeces and cut downe the groues and brake the brasen serpent which Moyses had made for vntil that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it and he called the name therof Nohestan † He trusted in our Lord the God of Israel therfore after him there was not the like to him in al the kings of Iuda yea neither among them that were before him † and he cleaued to our Lord and departed not from his steppes and he did his commandmentes which our Lord commanded Moyses † Wherfore our Lord also was with him and in al things to the which he proceded he behaued himselfe wisely He rebelled also agaynst the king of the Assyrians and serued him not † He stroke the Philisthians as farre as Gaza al the borders from the Towre of watchmen vnto the fensed citie † In the fourth yeare of king Ezechias which was the seuenth yeare of Osee the sonne of Ela the king of Israel came vp Salmanasar the king
of Basan vnto Baal Hermon and Sanir and mount Hermon for the number was great † And these were the princes of the house of their kinred Epher and Iesi and Eliel and Esriel and Ieremia and Odoia and Iediel most valiant men and mightie and renowned princes in their families † But they forsooke the God of their fathers and fornicated after the goddes of the peoples of the land whom God tooke away before them † And the God of Israel raysed vp the spirit of Phul king of the Assyrians and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur and he transported Ruben and Gad and the halfe tribe of Manasses and brought them into Lahela and into Habor and to Ara and to the riuer of Gozan vntil this day CHAP. VI. The genealogies of Leui 4. with the right line of Aaron by Eleazar to Iosadech high priest in the captiuitie of Babylon 16. other progenies of his three sonnes Gerson Caath and Merari 31. with their offices in the temple 49. only Aarons sounes admitted to priesthood 54. Particular possessions of the Leuites dwelling amongst the other tribes THE sonnes of Leui Gerson Caath and Merari † The sonnes of Caath Amram Isaar Hebron and Oziel † The children of Amram Aaron Moyses and Maria. The sonnes of Aaron Nadab and Abiu Eleazar and Ithamar † Eleazar begat Phinees and Phinees begat Abisue † and Abisue begat Bocci Bocci begat Ozi † Ozi begat Zaraias and Zaraias begat Maraioth † Moreouer Meraioth begat aMARIAS and Amarias begat Achitob † Achitob begat Sadoc and Sadoc begat Achimaas † Achimaas begat Azarias Azarias begat Iohanan † Iohanan begat Azarias the same is he that executed the priestlie office in the house which Salomon built in Ierusalem † And Azarias begat Amarias and Amarias begat Achitob † and Achitob begat Sadoc and Sadoc begat Sellum † Sellum begat Helcias and Helcias begat Azarias † Azarias begat Saraias and Saraias begat Iosedec † Moreouer Iosedec went forth when our Lord transported Iuda and Ierusalem by the handes of Nabuchodonosor † The sonne then of Leui Gerson Caath and Merari † And these be the names of the sonnes of Gerson Lobni and Semei † The sonnes of Caath Amram and Isaar and Hebron and Oziel † The sonnes of Merari Moholi and Musi And these are the kinredes of Leui according to their families † Gerson Lobni his sonne Iahath his sonne Zamma his sonne † Ioah his sonne Addo his sonne Zara his sonne Iethrai his sonne † The sonnes of Caath Aminadab his sonne Core his sonne Asir his sonne † Elcana his sonne Abiasaph his sonne Asir his sonne † Thahath his sonne Vriel his sonne Ozias his sonne Saul his sonne † The sonnes of Elcana Amasai and Achimoth † and Elcana The sonnes of Elcana Sophai his sonne Nahath his sonne † Eliab his sonne Ieroham his sonne Elcana his sonne † The sonnes of Samuel the first begotten Vasteni and Abia. † And the sonnes of Merari Moholi Lobni his sonne Semei his sonne Oza his sonne † Sammaa his sonne Haggia his sonne Asaia his sonne † These are they whom Dauid appointed ouer the singing men of the house of our Lord since the Arke was placed † and they ministred before the tabernacle of testimonie singing vntil Salomon built the house of our Lord in Ierusalem and they stood according to their order in the ministerie † And these are they which aslisted with their sonnes of the sonnes of Caath Hemam singing man the sonne of Ioel the sonne of Samuel † the sonne of Elcana the sonne of Ieroham the sonne of Eliel the sonne of Thohu † the sonne of Suph the sonne of Elcana the sonne of Mahath the sonne of Amasai † the sonne of Elcana the sonne of Iohel the sonne of Azaries the sonne of Sophonias † the sonne of Thahath the sonne of Asir the sonne of Abiasaph the sonne of C'ore † the sonne of Isaar the sonne of Caath the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel † And his brother Asaph who stood on his right hand Asaph the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Samaa † the sonne of Michael the sonne of Basaia the sonne of Melchia † the sonne of Athanai the sonne of Zara the sonne of Adaia † the sonne of Ethan the sonne of Zamma the sonne of Semei † the sonne of Ieth the sonne of Gerson the sonne of Leui. † And the children of Merari their brethren on the left hand Ethan the sonne of Cusi the sonne of Abdi the sonne of Maloch † the sonne of Hasabia the sonne of Amasia the sonne of Helcias † the sonne of Amasai the sonne of Boni the sonne of Somer † the sonne of Moholi the sonne of Mosi the sonne of Merari the sonne of Leui † Their brethren also the Leuites which were ordained for al the ministerie of the tabernacle of the house of our Lord. † But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the altar of holocaust and vpon the altar of incense for euerie worke of Sancta Sanctorum and to pray for Israel according to al thinges which Moyses the seruant of God had commanded † And these are the sonnes of Aaron Eleazar his sonne Phinees his sonne Abisue his sonne † Bocci his sonne Ozi his sonne Zarahia his sonne † Meraioth his sonne Amarias his sonne Achitob his sonne † Sadoc his sonne Achimaas his sonne † And these are their habitations by the townes and confines to witte of the sonnes of Aaron according to the kinredes of the Caathites for they were fallen to them by lotte † They gaue therfore to them Hebron in the Land of Iuda and the suburbes therof round about † but the fieldes of the citie and the townes to Caleb the sonne of Iephone † Moreouer to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue cities to flee vnto Hebron and Lobna and the suburbes therof † Iether also and Esthemo with the suburbes therof yea Helon and Dabir with their suburbes † Asan also Bethsemes their suburbes † And of the tribe of Beniamin Gabee and the suburbes therof Almath with the suburbes therof Anothoth also with the suburbes therof al the cities thirtene by their kinredes † And to the children of Caath the residue of their kinred they gaue of the halfe tribe of Manasses in possession ten cities † Moreouer to the children of Gerson by their kinredes of the tribe of Issachar of the tribe of Aser and of the tribe of Nephthali and of the tribe of Manasses in Basan thirtene cities † And to the sonnes of Merari by their kinredes of the tribe of Ruben and of the tribe of Gad and of the tribe of Zabulon they gaue by lot twelue cities † Also the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities and their suburbes † and they gaue by lot of the tribe of the children of Iuda of the tribe of the children of Simeon and of the tribe of the children of Beniamin these cities which they called by their names † and to them that were of
drinke the bloud of these men because in the peril of their liues they haue brought me the water And for this cause he would not drinke These thinges did the three most valiantes † Abisai also the brother of Ioab he was prince of three and he lifted vp his speare agaynst three hundred wounded and he was among three most renowned † and among the second three he the noble one and prince of them but yet vnto the three first he taught not † Banaias the sonne of Ioiada a most valiant man of Cabseel who had done manie factes he stroke the two ariel of Moab and he went downe and slewe the lion in the middes of the cisterne in the time of snow † And he storke the Aegyptian whose stature was of fiue cubites and which had a speare as the weauers beame he therfore went downe to him with a rod and by force tooke away the speare that he held in his hand and slewe him with his owne speare † These thinges did Banaias the sonne of Ioiada who was among the three valiantes most renowned † the first among thirtie but yet the three he raught not and Dauid made him of his counsel † Moreouer the most valiant men in the armie Asahel the brother of Ioab and Elchanan the sonne of his vncle of Bethlehem † Sammoth an Arortie Helles a Phalonite † Ira the the sonne of Acces a Thecaite Abiezer an Anathothite † Sobbochai an Husathite Ilai an Ahohite † Maharai a Netophathite Heled the sonne of Baana a Netophathite † Ethai the sonne of Ribai of Gabaath the children of Beniamin Banaia a Pharatonite † Hurai of the Torrent Gaas Abiel an Arbathite Azmoth a Bauramite Eliaba a Salabonite † The sonnes of Assem a Gezonite Ionathan the sonne of Sage an Ararite † Ahiam the sonne of Sachar an Ararite † Eliphal the sonne of Vr † Hepher a Mecherathi●e Ahia Phelonite † Hesro a Carmelite Naarai the sonne of Azbai † Ioel the brother of Nathan Mibahar the sonne of Agarai † Selet an Ammonite Naharai a Berothite the armour bearer of Ioab the sonne of Saruia † Ira a Iethreite Gareb a Iethreite † Vrias the Hetheite Zabad the sonne of Oholi † Adina the sonne of Sizaa Rubenite the prince of the Rubenites with him thirtie † Hanan the sonne of Maacha and Iosaphat a Mathanite † Ozia an Astarothite Samma and Iehiel the sonnes of Hotham an Arorite † Iedihel the sonne of Zamri and Ioha his brother a Thosaite † Eliel a Mahumite and Ieribai and Iosaia the sonnes of Elnaim and Iethma a Moabite Eliel and Obed and Iasiel of Masobia CHAP. XII VVho folowed dauid when he fled from Saul 23. And who came into Hebron to make him king THESE also came to dauid into Siceleg when as yet he fled from Saul the sonne of Cis the which were most valiant and excellent warriers † drawing the bowe and hurling with both handes stones in slinges and shooting arrowes directly of the brethren of Saul of Beniamin † The prince Ahiezer and Ioas the sonnes of Sammaa a Gabaathite and Iaziel and Phallet the sonnes of Azmoth and Beracha and Iehu an Anothothite † Samaias also a Gabaonite the most valiant amongst the thirtie and aboue the thirtie Ieremias and Ieheziel and Iohanan and Iezabad a Gaderothite † And Eluzai and Ierimuth and Baalia and Samaria and Saphatia an Haruphite † Elcana and Iesia and Azareel and Ioezer Iesbaam of Carehim † Ioela also and Zabadia the sonnes of Ieroham of Gedor † Yea and of Gaddi also there fled to Dauid when he lay hid in the desert most valiant men and the best warriers holding sheild and speare their faces as the faces of a lion nd swift as the roebuck●s on the mountaynes † Ezer the prince Obdias the second Eliab the third † Masmana the fourth Ieremias the fifth † Ethi the sixth Eliel the seuenth † Iohanan the eight Elzebad the ninth † Ieremias the tenth Machbanai the eleuenth † these of the children of Gad were the princes of his armie the meanest was captayne ouer an hundred souldiars and the greatest ouer a thousand † These are they which passed Iordan the first moneth when it vsed to flow ouer his bankes and they chased away al that dwelt in the valleis toward the east quarter and the west † And there came also of Beniamin and of Iuda to the hold wherin Dauid abode † And Dauid went out to mete them and sayd If you be come peaceably to me for to helpe me my hart be ioyned to you but if you lye in wayte against me for my aduersaries whereas I haue no iniquitie in my handes the God of our fathers see and iudge † But the spirit came on Amasai the prince among thirtie and he sayd We are thine ô Dauid and with thee ô sonne of Isai peace peace be to thee peace to thy helpers for thy God helpeth thee Dauid therfore receiued them and appoynted them princes of the band † Moreouer of Manasses there fled to Dauid when he came with the Philisthijms agaynst Saul to fight and he fought not with them because the princes of the Philisthimes taking counsel sent him backe saying with the peril of our head wil he returne to his lord Saul † Therfore when he returned into Siceleg there fled to him of Manasses Ednas and Iozabab and Iedihel and Michael and Ednas Iozabad and Eliu and Salathi the princes of a thousand in Manasses † These did ayde Dauid agaynst the rouers for they were al most valiant men and were made commanders in the armie † Yea and there came euerie day to Dauid to helpe him til it became a great number as it were the armie of God † This also is the number of the commanders of the armie which came to Dauid when he was in Hebron to transferre the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of our Lord. † The children of Iuda bearing shield and speare six thousand eight hundred wel appoynted to battel † Of the children of Simeon valient men to ●ight seuen thousand one hundred † Of the children of Leui foure thousand six hundred † Ioiada also prince of the stocke of Aaron and with him three thousand seuen hundred † Sadoc also a young man of goodlie towardenes and the house of his father princes twentie two † And of the children of Beniamin the brethren of Saul three thousand for a great part of them as yet folowed the house of Saul † Moreouer of the children of Ephraim twentie thousand eight hundred valiant of strength men renowmed in their kinredes † And of the halfe tribe of Manasses eightene thousand euerie one by their names came to make Dauid king † Also of the children of Issachar men of vnderstanding that knewe al times to command what Israel should doe princes two hundred and al the rest of the tribe did folow their counsel † Moreouer of Zabulon such as went forth to battel stood in aray wel
appoynted with armour of warre there came fiftie thousand to ayde not in a duble hart † And of Nepthali commanders a thousand and with them furnished with shield and speare seuen and thirtie thousand † Of Dan also prepared to battel twentie eight thousand six hundred † And of Aser going forth to fight and prouoking in batttel fourtie thousand † And beyond Iordan of the children of Ruben and of Gad and the halfe part of the tribe of Manasses furnished with armour of warre an hundred twentie thousand † Al these men of warre wel appoynted to fight with perfect hart came into Hebron to make Dauid King ouer al Israel yea and al the rest of Israel were of one hart that Dauid should be made king † And they were there with Dauid three daies eating and drinking for their brethren had prepared for them † Yea and they that were neere them as farre as Issachar Zabulon and Nephthali brought loaues on Asses and on camels and on mules and vpon oxen to eate meale figges reysens wine oile beeues muttons in al abundance for there was ioy in Israel CHAP. XIII The Arke is brought from Abinadabs house 8. Dauid and others dancing before it 9. Oza for touching it is strooken dead 13. VVherupon Dauid fearing to bring it to Ierusalem 〈◊〉 remayneth three monethes in the house of Obededom AND Dauid tooke counsel with the tribunes and centurions and al the commanders † and he sayd to al the assemblie of Israel If it please you and if the word which I speake procede from our Lord God let vs send to the rest of our brethren into al the countries of Israel to the Priestes and Leuires that dwel in the suburbes of the cities that they may be gathered together vnto vs † and we may bring agayne vnto vs the Arke of our God for we sought it not in the daies of Saul † And the whole multitude answered that it should be soe done for the word had pleased al the people † Dauid therfore assembled al Israel from Sihor of Aegypt til thou enter into Emath to bring the Arke of God from Caria Thiarim † And Dauid went vp and euerie man of Israel to the hil of Caria Thiarim which is in Iuda to fetch thence the Arke of our Lord God sitting vpon the Cherubim where his name is inuocated † And they layd the Arke of God vpon a new wayne out of the house of Abinadab And Oza and his brother did driue the wayne † Moreouer Dauid and al Israel playd before our Lord with al their might in songues and on harpes and psalteries and timbrels and cymbals and trumpettes † And when they were come to the Floore of Chidon Oza stretched forth his hand to hold vp the Arke for the oxe being wantone had made it leane a litle a side † Our Lord therfore was angrie agaynst Oza and stroke him for that he had touched the Arke and he died there before our Lord. † And Dauid was strooken sad because our Lord had diuided Oza and he called that place the Diuision of Oza vntil this present day † And he feared God at that time saying How may I bring in the Arke of God vnto me † And for this cause he brought it not vnto himselfe that is into the citie of Dauid but turned it away into the house of Obededom the Getheite † Therfore the Arke of God remayned in the house of Obededom three monethes our Lord blessed his house and al thinges that he had CHAP. XIIII King Dauid prouideth timber and workmen to build his owne house 3. marieth more wiues and hath manie children 8. ouerthroweth the Philistians 13. twise HIRAM also the king of Tyre sent messengers to Dauid and cedar trees and artificers for walles and timber to build him a house † And Dauid knew that our Lord had established him to be king ouer Israel and that his kingdom was exalted ouer his people Israel † Dauid also tooke other wiues in Ierusalem and he begat sonnes and daughters † And these be their names that were borne to him in Ierusalem Samua and Sobad Nathan and Salomon † Iebahar and Elisua and Eliphalet † Noga also and Napheg and Iaphia † Elisama and Baalaida and Eliphalet † And the Philisthijms hearing that Dauid was annoynted for king ouer al Israel they went vp al to seeke him which when Dauid had heard he went out to meete them † Moreouer the Philisthijms coming were spred abrode in the Vale Raphaim † And Dauid consulted our Lord saying Shal I goe vp to the Philisteans and wilt thou deliuer them into my hand And our Lord sayd to him Goe vp and I wil deliuer them into thy hand † And when they were come vp into Baalpharasim Dauid stroke them there and sayd God hath diuided myn enemies by my hand as waters are diuided and therfore the name of that place was called Baal Pharasim † And they least there their goddes which Dauid commanded to be burnt † An other time also the Philisthijms invaded and were dispersed in the Vale. † And Dauid consulted God agayne and God sayd to him Goe not vp after them retyre from them and thou shalt come agaynst them ouer agaynst the pearetrees † And when thou shalt heare the sound of one going in the toppe of the pearetrees then shalt thou yssue forth to battel For God is gone forth before thee to strike the campe of the Philisthijms † Dauid therfore did as God had commanded him and stroke the campe of the Philisthianes from Gabaon vnto Gazera † And the name of Dauid was bruited in al countries and our Lord gaue the dreade of him ouer al nations CHAP. XV. VVith sol●nnitie the Arke is brought into Ierusalem caried by the Priestes and Leuites 16. With musick of diuers sortes 26. Sacrifice of thankesgeuing is offered 29. Michel derideth Dauids deuotion HE made also houses for him selfe in the citie of Dauid and built a place for the Arke of God pitcht a tabernacle for it † Then sayd Dauid It is vnlawful that the Arke of God be caried of any man but of the Leuites whom our Lord chose to carie it and to minister vnto himself for euer † And he gathered together al Israel into Ierusalem that the Arke of God might be brought into his place which he had prepared for it † Moreouer also the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites † Of the children of Caath Vriel was the prince and his brethren an hundred twentie † Of the sonnes of Merari Asaia the prince and his brethren two hundred twentie † Of the sonnes of Gersom Ioel the prince and his brethren an hundred thirtie † Of the sonnes of Elisaphan Semeias the prince and his brethren two hundred † Of the sonnes of Hebron Eliel the prince and his brethren eightie † Of the sonnes of Oziel Aminadab the prince and his brethren and hundred twelue † And Dauid called Sadoc and Abiathar the Priestes and the Leuites
God as he hath spoken of thee † Our Lord also giue thee wisdome and vnderstanding that thou mayst be able to rule Israel and to kepe the law of our Lord thy God † For then thou shalt be able to prosper if thou shalt keepe the commandementes and iudgementes which our Lord commanded Moyses to teach Israel take courage and play the man feare not neither be dismayde † Behold I in my pouertie haue prepared the charges of the house of our Lord of gold an hundred thousand talentes and of siluer a thousand thousand talentes but of brasse and of yron there is noe weight for the number is surpassed with the greatnesse timber and stones I haue prepared to al the charges † Thou hast also verie manie artificers hewers of stones and masons carpenters and of al occapations most skilful to make worke † in gold and siluer and brasse and yron wherof there is no number Ryse therfore and do it and our Lord wil be with thee † Dauid also commanded al the princes of Israel that they should help Salomon his sonne † You see quoth he that our Lord your God is with you and hath geuen you rest round about and hath deliuered al your enemies into your handes and the land is subdewed before our Lord and before his people † Geue therfore your hart and your soules to seeke our Lord your God and arise and build a sanctuarie to our Lord God that the Arke of the couenant of our Lord and the vessels consecrated to our Lord may be brought into the house which is built to the name of our Lord. CHAP. XXIII King Dauid being old constituteth Salomon king 3. disposeth the offices of Leuites 7. to wit the families of Gerson 12. of Caath 21. and of Merari 26. ceassing to carrie the tabernacle 27. to serue in the temple DAVID therfore being old ful of daies made Salomon his sonne king ouer Israel † And he gathered al the princes of Israel and the Priestes and Leuites † And the Leuites were numbred from thirtie yeares vpward and there were found thirtie eight thousand men † Of these were chosen and distributed into the ministerie of the house of our Lord foure and twentie thousand and of the ouerseers and iudges six thousand † Moreouer foute thousand porters and as manie singing to our Lord on instrumentes which he had made to sing on † And Dauid distributed them by the courses of the children of Leui to witte of Gerson and Caath and Merari † The sonnes of Gerson Leedan and Semei † The sonnes of Leedan the prince Iahiel Zethan and Ioel three † The sonnes of Semei Salomith and Hosiel and Aram three these be the princes of the familes of Leedan † Moreouer the sonnes of Semei Leheth and Ziza and Iaus and Baria these be the sonnes of Semei foure † And Leheth was the first Ziza the second moreouer Iaus and Baria had not manie children and therfore they were counted in one familie and in one house † The children of Caath Amram and Isaar Hebron and Oziel foure † The sonnes of Amram Aaron and Moyses And Aaron was seperated to minister in Sanctasanctorum he and his sonnes for euer and to burne incense to our Lord according to his rite and to blesse his name for euer † The sonnes of Moyses also the man of God were numbred in the tribe of Leui. † The sonnes of Moyses Gersom and Eliezari the sonnes of Gersom Subuel the first † And the sonnes of Eliezer were Rohobia the first and Eleezer had noe moe sonnes Moreouer the children of Rohobia were multiplied excedingly † The sonnes of Isaar Salomith the first † The sonnes of Hebron Ieriau the first Amarias the second Iahaziel the third Iecmaan the fourth † The son̄nes of Oziel Micha the first Iesia the second † The sonnes of Merari Moholi Musi The sonnes of Moholi Eleazar and Cis. † And Eleazar died and had no sonnes but daughters and the sonnes of Cis their brethren tooke them † The sonnes of Musi Moholi and Eder and Ierimoth three † These be the children of Leui in their kinredes and families princes by courses and number of euerie head that did the workes of ministerie of the house of our Lord from twentie yeares and vpward † For Dauid sayd Our Lord the God of Israel hath geuen rest to his people and the habitation of Ierusalem for euer † Neither shal it be the office of the Leuites to carie any more the tabernacle and al the vessels therof to minister † According to the last preceptes also of Dauid the number of the children of Leui shal be numbred from twentie yeares and vpward † And they shal be vnder the hand of the sonnes of Aaron for the seruice of the house of our Lord in the entrances and in the chambers and in the place of purification and in the Sanctuarie and in al the workes of the ministerie of the temple of our Lord. † And the Priestes ouer the loaues of proposition and for the sacrifice of floure and for cakes and azimes and the frying panne and to rost and ouer al weight and measure † But the Leuites to stand in the morning to confesse and sing to our Lord and in like maner at euening † as wel in the oblation of the holocaustes of our Lord as in the Sabbathes and Calendes and the rest of the solemnities according to the number and ceremonies of euerie thing continually before our Lord. † And let them keepe the obseruations of the tabernacle of couenant and the rite of the Sanctuarie and the obseruance of the children of Aaron their brethren that they minister in the house of our Lord. CHAP. XXIIII King Dauid disposeth sixtene families of Eleazar and eight of Ithamar 7. by lottes 19. to serue in the Temple according to their priestlie function 20. likwise principal Leuites in their offices MOREOVER to the sonnes of Aaron these were the partions The sonnes of Aaron Nadab and Abiu and Eleazar and Ithamar † But Nadab and Abiu died before their father without children and Eleazar and Ithamar did the function of priesthood † And Dauid diuided them that is Sadoo of the sonnes of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their courses and ministerie † And there were found manie more children of Eleazar among the principal men then children of Ithamar And he diuided to them that is to the children of Eleazar princes by their families sixtene and to the children of Ithamar by their families and houses eight † Moreouer he diuided both families betwen themselues by lottes for there were princes of the Sanctuarie and princes of God as wel of the children of Eleazar as of the children of Ithamar † And Semeias wrote them the sonne of Nathanael the Scribe a Leuite before the king and princes and Sadoc the Priest and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar the princes also of the Priestlie and Leuitical families
one house which was ouer the rest Eleazars and an other house which had the rest vnder it Ithamars † And the first lot came forth to Ioiarib the second to Iedei † the third to Harim the fourth to Seorim † the fifth to Melchia the sixt to Maiman † the seuenth to Accos the eight to Abia † the ninth to Iesua the tenth to Sechenia † the eleuenth to Eliasib the twelfth to Iaeim † the thirtenth to Hoppha the fourtenth to Isbaab † the fiftenth to Belga the sixtenth to Emmer † the seuententh to Hezir the eightenth to Aphses † the ninetenth to Pheteia the twenteth to Hezechiel † the one and twenteth to Iachin the two and twenteth to Gamul † the three and twenteth to Dalaiau the foure and twenteth to Maaziau † These be their courses according to their ministeries to enter into the house of our Lord and according to their rite vnder the hand of Aaron their father as our Lord the God of Israel had commanded † Moreouer of the children of Leui which were remayning there was Subael of the children of Amram and of the children of Subael Iehedeia † Also of the children of Rohobia the prince of Iesias † And the sonne of Isaari Salemoth and the sonne of Salemoth Iahath † and his sonne Ieriau the first Amarias the second Iahaziel the third Iecmaan the fourth † The sonne of Oziel Micha the sonne of Micha Samir † The brother of Micha Iesia and the sonne of Iesia Zacharias † The sonnes of Merari Moholi and Musi The sonne of Oziau Benno † The sonne also of Merari Oziau and Soam and Zacchur and Hebri † Moreouer the sonne of Moholi Eleazar who had no children † And the sonne of Cis Ieramael † The sonnes of Musi Moholi Eder and Ierimoth These be the sonnes of of Leui according to the houses of their families † And they also did cast lottes agaynst their brethren the sonnes of Aaron before Dauid the king and Sadoc and Ahimelech and the princes of the Priestlie and Leuitical families as wel the elder as the yonger Lotte diuided al equally CHAP. XXV Foure sonnes of Asaph six of Idithun and fourtene of Heman chiefe musicians 7. with their brethren in ●l●wo hundred and fourscore 8. are distributed by Lottes in foure and twentie companies to serue in the temple THERFORE Dauid and the officers of the hoste seperated for the ministerie the sonnes of Asaph and Heman and Idithun which should prophecie on harpes psalteries cymbals according to their number seruing the office dedicated to them † Of the sonnes of Asaph Zacchur and Ioseph and Nathania Asarela the sonnes of Asaph vnder the hand of Asaph prophecying neere the king † Moreouer Idithun the sonnes of Idithun Godolias Sori Ieseias and Hasabias and Mathathias six vnder the hand of their father Idithun who prophecied on harpe ouer them that confessed and praysed our Lord. † Of Heman also the sonnes of Heman Bocciau Mathania● Oziel Subuel and Ierimoth Hananias Hanani Eliatha Geddelthi and Romemthiezer and Iesbacassa Mellothi Othir Mahazioth † al these the sonnes of Heman the Seer of the king in the wordes of God that he might exalt the horne God gaue to Heman fourtene sonnes and three daughters † Al vnder their fathers were distributed to sing in the temple of our Lord on cymbals and psalteries and harpes for the ministeries of the house of our Lord neere the king to witte Asaph and Idithun and Heman † And the number of them with their brethren that taught the songue of our Lord al the teachers two hundred eightie eight † And they did cast lottes by their courses equally as wel the elder as the yonger the learned and the vnlearned together † And the first lotte came forth to Ioseph which was of Asaph The second to Godolias to him and his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The third to Zachur to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The fourth to Isari to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The fifth to Nathanias to his sonnes his brethren twelue † The sixth to Bocciau to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The seueth to Isreela to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The eight to Iesaia to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The ninth to Mathanias to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The tenth to Semeias to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The eleuenth to Azareel to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The twelfth to Hasabia to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The thirtenth to Subacl to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The fourtenth to Mathathias to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The fiftenth to Ierimoth to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The sixtenth to Hananias to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The seuententh to Iesbacassa to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The eightenth to Hanani to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The ninetenth to Mellothi to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The twenteth to Eliatha to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The one and twenteth to Othir to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The two and twenteth to Geddelthi to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The three and twenteth to Mahazioth to his sonnes and his brethren twelue † The foure and twenteth to Romemthiezer to his sonnes and his brethren twelue CHAP. XXVI Porters are designed by lottes to watch at foure gates of the temple 20. others made kepers of the holie treasure and vissel 30. Officers also appointed in the two tribes and half ouer Iordan for Gods seruice and the kinges AND the diuisions of the porters of the Corites Meselemia the sonnes of Core of the sonnes of Asaph † The sonnes of Meselemia Zacharias the first begotten ladihel the second Zabadias the third Iathanael the fourth † Aelam the fifth Iohanan the sixth Elioenai the seuenth † And the sonnes of Obededom Semeias the first begotten Iozabad the second Ioaha the third Sachar the fourth Nathanael the fiifth † Ammiel the sixth Issachar the seuenth Phollathi the eight because our Lord blessed him † And to Semias his sonne were borne sonnes the chiefe of their families for they were most valiant men † the sonnes then of Semeias O●hni and Raphael and Obed Elizabad and his brethren most valiant men Eliu also and Samachias † Al these of the sonnes of Obededom they and their sonnes and their brethren most able to minister sixtie two of Obed-edom † Moreouer the sonnes of Meselemia and their brethren most strong eightene † And of Hosa that is of the sonnes of Merari Semri the prince for he had not a first-begotten and therfore his father made him chief † Helcias the second Tabelias the third Zacharias the fourth al these the sonnes and brethren to Hosa thirtene † These were diuided into porters that the princes also of the watches euen as their brethren might minister in
therfore tooke away al abominations of al the countries of the children of Israel and made al that were left in Israel to serue our Lord their God Al his daies they reuolted not from our Lord the God of their fathers CHAP. XXXV Iosias celebrateth a most Solemne Pasch 20. Is slaine by the king of Aegypt al Iudalamenting him 25. most specially Ieremias AND Iosias made in Ierusalem a Phase to our Lord which was immolated the fourtenth day of the first moneth † And he appoynted the Priestes in their offices and exhorted them that they would minister in the house of our Lord. † To the Leuites also at whose instruction al Israel was sanctified to our Lord he spake Put the Arke in the Sanctuarie of the temple which Salomon built the sonne of Dauid the king of Israel for you shal carie it no more but now minister to our Lord your God and to his people Israel † And prepare your selues by your houses and kinredes in the diuisions of euerie one as Dauid the king of Israel commanded and Salomon his sonne described † And minister ye in the Sanctuarie by families and Leuitical companies † and being sanctified immolate the Phase prepare also your brethren that they may doe according to the wordes which our Lord spake in the hand of Moyses † Moreouer Iosias gaue to al the people that was found there in the solemnitie of the Phase lambes and kiddes of the flockes and of the rest of the cattel thirtie thousand of oxen also three thousand al these thinges of the kinges substance † His dukes also voluntarily offered that which they vowed as wel to the people as to the Priestes and the Leuites Moreouer Helcias and Zacharias and Iahiel princes of the house of our Lord gaue to the Priestes to make the Phase cattel one with an other two thousand six hundred and oxen three hundred † And Chonenias and Semeias also Nathanael his brethren moreouer Hasabias and Iehiel and Iozabad princes of the Leuites gaue to the rest of the Leuites to celebrate the Phase fiue thousand sheepe and oxen fiue hundred † And the ministerie was prepared and the Priestes stood in their office the Leuites also in companies according to the kinges commandement † And the Phase was immolated and Priestes sprinkled the blood with their hand and the Leuites drew of the skinnes of the holocaustes † and they seperated them to geue them by the houses and families of euerie one and to be offered to our Lord as it is writen in the Booke of Moyses of oxen also they did in like maner † And they rosted the Phase vpon fyre according to that which is writen in the law but the pacifique hostes they b●vled in caudrons and kettles and pottes and in hast they distributed it to al the people † And for themselues and for the Priestes they prepared afterward for in oblation of holocaustes and of fatte the Priestes were occupied vntil night wherfore the Leuites prepared for themselues and for the Priestes the children of Aaron last † Moreouer the singing men the children of Asaph stood in their order according to the precept of Dauid and Asaph and Heman and Idithun the prophetes of the king and the porters watched at euerie gate so that they departed not a moment from the ministerie for the which cause also their brethren the Leuites prepared meates for them † Therfore al the seruice of our Lord was ritely accomplished that day so that they made the Phase and offered holocaustes vpon the altar of our Lord according to the precept of king Iosias † And the children of Israel that were found there made the Phase at that time and the solemnitie of Azymes seuen daies † There was not a Phase like to this in Israel from the daies of Samuel the prophete neither did anie of al the kinges of Israel make a Phase as Iosias to the Priestes and the Leuites and to al Iuda and Israel that was found and to the inhabitantes of Ierusalem † In the eightenth yeare of the kingdom of Iosias was this Phase celebrated † After that Iosias had repayred the temple came vp Nechao the king of Aegypt to fight in Charcamis beside Euphrates and Iosias went forth to meete him † But he sending messengers vnto him sayd What haue I to doe with thee king of Iuda I come not agaynst thee this day but I fight agaynst an other house to the which God hath commanded me to goe in hast leaue to doe agaynst God who is with me lest he kil thee † Iosias would not returne but prepared battel agaynst him neither did he agree to the wordes of Nechao from the mouth of God but went forward to fight in the fielde of Mageddo † And there being wounded of the Archers he sayd to his seruantes Carie me out of the battel because I am sore wounded † Who remoued him from one chariote into an other chariote that folowed him after the maner of kinges and they caried him away into Ierusalem he died and was buried in the monument of his fathers and al Iuda and Ierusalem mourned for him † Ieremie most of al whose lamentations al the singing men and singing wemen repeate vntil this present day vpon Iosias and it is growen as it were a law in Israel Behold it is sayd to be writen in the lamentations † But the rest of the wordes des of Iosias of his mercies which are commanded by the law of our Lord † his workes also the first and the last are writen in the Booke of the kinges of Iuda and Israel CHAP. XXXVI Ioachaz reigneth three monethes 4. His brother Eliakim named loakim eleuen yeares 9. his sonne Ioachin three monethes 11. his vncle Sedecias eleuen yeares 14. Most Priestes and people contemning the admonitions of Prophetes 17. manie are slaine by the Chaldees the Temple and Ierusalem spo led and burnt 20. The sayd kinges successiuely and people are caryed captiue into Babylon 22. After seuentie yeares Cyrus king of Persia releaseth the captiuitie and geueth leaue to reedifie the Temple THE people therfore of the land tooke Ioachaz the sonne of Iosias and made him king for his father in Ierusalem † Taree and twentie yeares old was Ioachaz when he began to reigne and he reigned three monethes in Ierusalem † And the king of Aegypt when he came into Ierusalem deposed him and condemned the land in an hundred talentes of siluer and a talent of gold † And he made Eliakim his brother king for him ouer Iuda and Ierusalem and he turned his name Ioakim but he tooke Ioachaz himself with him and caried him away into Aegypt † Fiue and twentie yeares old was Ioakim when he began to reigne and he reigned eleuen yeares in Ierusalem and he did euil before our Lord his God † Agaynst him came vp Nabuchodonosor the king of the Chaldees and brought him bound in chaynes into Babylon † Whither he transported also the vessels of
returned cried to thee thou heardest from heauen and deliueredst thē in thy mercies manie times † And thou didst admonish them that they should returne to thy law But they did proudly heard not thy cōmandmentes and sinned in thy iudgementes which a man should do and shal liue in them and they gaue the reuolting shoulder and hardned their necke neither did they heare † And thou didst prolong manie yeares ouer them and didst testefie to charge them in thy spirit by the hand of thy Prophetes and they heard not and thou didst deliuer them into the hand of the peoples of the nations † But in thy very many mercies thou madest them not consumption neither didst thou forsake them because a God of compassions and gratious art thou † Now therfore O our God great strong and terrible keeping couenant and mercie turne not away from thy face al the labour which hath found vs our Kinges and our Princes and our Priests and our Prophetes and our fathers and al the people from the daies of the king of A●●ur vntil this day † And thou art iust in al thinges that haue come vpon vs because thou hast done truth but we haue done wickedly † Our Kinges our Princes our Priestes and our fathers haue not done thy law and haue not attended thy commandmentes and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them † And they in their reignes and in thy manifold goodnes which thou gauest them and in the land most large and fatte which thou didst deliuer in their sight serued not thee nor returned from their most wicked deuises † Behold we our selues this day are bondmen and the land which thou gauest our fathers that they should eate the bread therof and the good thinges that are therof and our selues are seruantes in it † And the fruites therof are multiplied to the kinges whom thon hast sette ouer vs for our sinnes and they haue dominion ouer our bodies and ouer our beastes according to their wil and we are in great tribulation † Therfore vpon al these thinges we our selues make a couenant and write and our Princes our Leuites and our Priestes signe it CHAP X. M●nie in name of al subscribe to the couenant made with God 30. Namely not to marrie with strangers 31. to keepe the Sabbath day and the seuenth yeare 32. To pay oblations 35. First fruites 38. and Tithes AND the subscribers were Nehemias Athersatha the sonne of Hachelai and Sedecias † Saraias Azarias Ieremias † Pheshur Amarias Melchias † Hattus Sebenia Melluch † Harem Merimuth Obdias † Daniel Genthon Baruch † Mosollam Abia Miamin † Maazia Belgai Semeia these were Priestes † Moreouer Leuites Iosue the sonne of Azanias Bennui of the children of Henadad Cedmihel † And their bretheren Sebenia Odaia Celita Phalaia Hanan † Micha Rohob Hasebia † Zachur Serebia Sabania † Odaia Bani Baninu † The heades of the people Pharos Phahathmoab Aelam Zethu Bani † Bonni Azgad Bebai † Adonia Begoai Adin † Ater Hezecia Azur † Odaia Hasum Besai † Hareph Anathoth Nebai † Megphias Mosollam Hazir † Mezsibel Sadoc Iedua † Pheltia Hanan Anai † Osee Hanania Hasub † Alohes Phalea Sobec † Rehum Hasebna Maasia † Echaia Hanan Anan † Melluch Haran Baana † And the rest of the people Priestes Leuites Porteres and singing men Nathineites and al that seperated themselues from the peoples of the landes to the law of God their wiues their sonnes and their daughters † Al that could vnderstand promising for their bretheren their princes and they that came to promise and sweare that they would walke in the law of God which he gaue in the hand of Moyses the seruant of God that they would do kepe al the cōmandments of the Lord our God and his iudgementes and his ceremonies † And that we would not geue our daughters to the people of the land and their daughters we would not take to our sōnes † The people 's of the land which bring in things to sel al thinges to be vsed to sel them on the Sabbath day we wil not take it of them in the Sabbath and in the sanctified day And we wil let passe the seuenth yeare and the exaction of euerie hand † And we wil ordayne preceptes vpon ourselues to giue the third part of a sicle euerie yeare to the worke of the house of our God † to the loaues of proposition and to the continual sacrifice and for a continual holocaust in the Sabbathes in the Calendes in the Solemnities and in the sanctified and for sinne that propitiation may be made for Israel and vnto al vse of the house of our God † We therfore did cast lotes concerning the oblation of wood betwen the Priestes and the Leuites and the people that it should be brought into the house of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times from yeare to yeare that it might burne vpon the altar of the Lord our God as it is written in the law of Moyses † And that we would bring the first borne of our land and the first fruites of al the fruite of euerie tree from yeare to yeare in the house of our Lord. † and the first fruites of our sonnes and of our cattel as it is written in the law and the first fruites of our oxen and of our sheepe that they might be offered in the house of our God to the Priestes which minister in the house of our God † And the first fruites of our meates and of our libamentes and the fruites of euerie tree of vintage also and of oyle we wil bring to the Priestes vnto the treasurie of our God and the tenth part of our land to the Leuites The Leuites themselues shal receiue the tithes out of al the cities of our works † And the Priest the sonne of Aaron shal be with the Leuites in the tythes of the Leuites and the Leuites shal offer the tenth part of their tythe in the house of our God to the treasurie in the treasure house † For the children of Israel and the children of Leui shal carie to the treasurie the first fruites of corne of wine and of oyle and the sanctified vessels shal be there and the Priestes and singing men and porters and ministers and we wil not leaue the house of our God CHAP. XI New inhabitantes of Ierusalem are recited 20. likwise who dwelt in other cities of Iuda AND the princes of the people dwelt in Ierusalem but the rest of the people cast lottes to take one part of ten that should dwel in Ierusalem the holie citie and nine partes in the cities † And the people blessed al the men that had voluntarily offered them selues to dwel in Ierusalem † These therfore are the princes of the prouince which dwelt in Ierusalem and in the cities of Iuda And euerie one dwelt in his possession in their cities Israel the Priestes the Leuites the Nathineites and the children of the
and his iustice contineweth for euer and euer † He hath made a memorie of his meruelous workes a merciful and pittiful Lord † he hath geuen meate to them that feare him He wil be mindful for euer of his testament † the force of his workes he wil shewforth to his people † To geue them the inheritance of the gentiles the workes of his handes truth and iudgement † Al his commandmentes are faithful confirmed for euer and euer made in truth and equitie † He sent redemption to his people he commanded his testament for euer Holie and terrible is his name † the feare of our Lord is the beginning of wisedom Vnderstanding is good to al that doe it his prayse remaineth for euer and euer PSALME CXI True happines consisteth in fearing God keping his commandments 5. and in doing workes of mercie 10. The contrarie bringeth to miserie Alleluia Of the returne of Aggeus and Zacharie BLESSED is the man that feareth our Lord he shal haue great delight in his commandmentes † His seede shal be mightie in the earth the generation of the righteous shal be blessed † Glorie and riches in his house and his iustice abideth for euer and euer † Light is risen vp in darkenes to the righteous he is merciful and pitiful and iust † Acceptable is the man that is merciful and lendeth that shal dispose his wordes in iudgement † Because he shal not be moued for euer † The iust shal be in eternal memorie he shal not feare at the hearing of euil † His hart is readie to hope in our Lord his hart is confirmed † he shal not be moued til he looke ouer his enemies † He distributed he gaue to the poore his iustice remaineth for euer and euer his horne shal be exalted in glorie † The sinner shal see and wil be angrie he shal gnash his teeth and pine away the desire of sinners shal perish PSALME CXII God is to be praised who being hiegh regardeth and prouideth for the needie in this world Allelu ia PRAYSE our Lord ye children praise ye the name of our Lord. † Be the name of our Lord blessed from henceforth now and for euer † From the rising of the sunne vnto the going downe the name of our Lord is laudable † Our Lord is high aboue al nations and his glorie aboue the heauens † Who is as the Lord our God that dwelleth on high † and beholdeth the low thinges in heauen and in earth † Raising vp the needie from the earth and lifting vp the poore out of the dung † To place him with princes with the princes of his people † Who maketh the d barren woman to dwel in a house a ioyful mother of children PSALME CXIII For the meruelous passage of I srael out of Aegypt 3. the red sea the riuer Iordan 7. and the hilles geuing them place 8. the rockes yelding them water 9. God not themselues is to be praised 12. Idoles and Idolaters are vaine and shal be confounded 17. the faithful trust in God 20. are blessed and for euer praise God Allelu ia IN the comming forth of Israel out of Aegypt of the house of Iacob from the barbarous people † Iewrie was made his sanctification Israel his dominion † The sea saw and fled Iordan was turned backeward † The mountaines leaped as rammes and the litle hilles as the lambes os sheepe † What ayleth thee ô sea that thou didst flee and thou ô Iordan that thou wast turned backeward † Ye mountaines leaped as rammes and ye litle hilles as the lambes of shepe † At the face of our Lord was the earth moued at the face of the God of Iacob † Who turned the rocke into pooles of waters and stonie hil into fountaines of waters † NOT TO VS O LORD NOT TO VS but to thy name geue the glorie † For thy mercie and thy truth lest at any time the Gentiles say Where is their God † But our God is in heauen he hath done al thinges what soeuer he would † “ The idols of the gentiles are siluer and gold the workes of mens handes † They haue mouth and shal not speake they haue eies and shal not see † They haue eares and shal not heare they haue nosthrels and shal not smel † They haue handes and shal not handle they haue feete and shal not walke they shal not crie in their throte † Let them that make them become like to them and al that haue confidence in them † The house of Israel hath hoped in our Lord he is their helper and their protector † The house of Aaron hath hoped in our Lord he is their helper and their protector † They that feare our Lord haue hoped in our Lord he is their helper and their protector † Our Lord hath beene mindful of vs and hath blessed vs He hath blessed the house of Israel he hath blessed the house of Aaron † He hath blessed al that feare our Lord the litle with the great † Our Lord adde vpon you vpon you vpon your children † Blessed be you of our Lord which made heauen and earth † The heauen of heauen is to our Lord but the earth he hath geuen to the children of men † The dead shal not prayse thee ô Lord nor al they that goe downe into hel But we that liue doe blesse our Lord from this time and for euer ANNOTATIONS PSALME CXIII 12. The Idols of the Gentiles are siluer and gold Al Catholique Diuines agree in this authentical definition of Idolattie that it is diuine honour geuen to anie creature as to a god Of the diuers so t●s also of Idolatrie the ancient lerned Doctors haue vvritten much Namely Iustinus Martyr in his Orations against the Gen iles Tertullian in Apologetico Arnobius Orat. ad Gentes Lactantius li. 2. c 17. Diuinar Instit and manie others But most copiously and profoundly S Augustin especially in his tenne first bookes de C●uitate Dei Into vvhich error crime the Platonistes sel holding that spiritual inuisible createdsubstances to vvitte Angels good and euil vvhom they called Intelligentias separatas had diuine povvre so gaue to them diuine honour O hers honour dead men and some before their death as goddes for their notable actes atchiued in this life as Saturne ●uppiter Hercules and the like Some yeld diuine honour to mere corporal creatures liuing or vvithout life as to beastes and serpentes the sunne the moone fire vvater earth the vvhole machin of the vvo●ld as if it vvere animate and that vvith diuine spirite or soule Againe al these haue bene vvorshipped as gods not only in them selues but also in their imagees But to omite other diuersities the most grosse
† Nabuchodosor the king of Babylon hath eaten me he hath deuoured me he hath made me as an emptie vessel he hath swallowed me vp as a dragon he hath filled his bellie with my tendernes and hath cast me out † Iniquitie against me and my flesh vpon Babylon saith the habitation of Sion and my bloud vpon the inhabitantes of Chaldee saith Ierusalem † Therefore thus saith our Lord Behold I wil iudge thy cause and wil reuenge thy vengeance and I wil make her sea desolate and wil drie vp her vayne † And Babylon shal be into heapes the habitation of dragons astonishment and hissing because there is not an inhabiter † They shal roare together as lions they shal shake the manes as the whelpes of lions † In their heate I wil set their drinke and I wil make them drunke that they may be drousie and sleepe an euerlasting sleepe not arise saith our Lord. † I wil leade them as lambes to be a victime and as rammes with kiddes † How is Sesach taken and the noble one of al the earth apprehended How is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles † The sea is come vp ouer Babylon she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof † Her cities are become an astonishment a land inhabitable and desolate a land wherein none can dwel nor sonne of man may passe by it † And I wil visite vpon Bel in Babylon and I wil cast out of his mouth that which he had swallowed and the Gentiles shal no more runne together vnto him for the wall also of Babylon shal fal † Goe out of the middes of her my people that euerie one may saue his life from the wrath of the furie of our Lord. † And lest perhaps your hartes faint and ye feare the bruite that shal be heard in the land and there shal come a bruite in the yeare and after this yeare a bruite and iniquitie in the land and ruler vpon ruler † Therefore behold the daies come and I wil visite vpon the sculptiles of Babylon and al her land shal be confounded and al her slaine shal fal in the middes of her † And the heauens and the earth shal prayse vpon Babylon and al thinges that are in them because spoylers shal come to her from the North saith our Lord. † And as Babylon caused that there should fal slaine in Israel so of Babylon there shal fal slaine in the whole land † You that haue escaped the sword come stand not remember our Lord a farre of and let Ierusalem ascend vpon your hart † We are confounded because we haue heard reproch ignominie hath couered our faces because strangers are come vpon the sanctification of the house of our Lord. † Therefore behold the daies come saith our Lord and I wil visite vpon her sculptiles and in al her land the wounded shal roare † If Babylon shal ascend vp into heauen and stablish her strength on high from me there shal come wasters of her saith our Lord. † A voice of crving from Babylon and great destruction from the Land of the Chaldees † because our Lord hath wasted Babylon and destroyed out of it the great voice and their waues shal sound as manie waters their voice hath geuen a sound † Because the spoyler is come vpon her that is vpon Babylon and her valiants are apprehended and their bow is weakened because the strong reuenger our Lord rendring wil repay † And I wil inebriate her princes and her wise men and her dukes and her magistrates and her valiants and they shal sleepe an euerlasting sleepe and shal not awake saith the king the Lord of hostes is his name † Thus saith the Lord of hostes That most brode wal of Babylon by vndermyning shal be vndermined and her high gates shal be burnt with fire and the labours of the peoples shal come to nothing and of the nations shal be into the fire and shal perish † The word that Ieremie the prophete commanded Saraias the sonne of Nerias the sonne of Maasias when he went with Sedecias the king into Babylon in the fourth yeare of his kingdome and Saraias was the prince of prophecie † And Ieremie wrote al the euil that was to come vpon Babylon in one booke al these wordes that are written against Babylon † And Ieremie said to Saraias When thou shalt come into Babylon and shalt see and shalt reade al these wordes † thou shalt say Lord thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it that there be none to inhabite it from man euen vnto beast and that it be a perpetual wildernesse † And when thou shalt haue finished reading this booke thou shalt tye a stone to it and shalt throw it into the middes of Euphrates † and thou shalt say So shal Babylon be drowned she shal not rise vp from the face of the affliction that I wil bring vpon her and she shal be dissolued Hitherto the wordes of Ieremie CHAP. LII A Recapitulation of the taking of Ierusalem after two yeares siege 7. king Sedecias taken in flight 10. his children slaine before his eyes with other nobles 11. his eyes put out and so lead into Babylon 12. the Temple the Palace and other houses burnt the people caried into captiuitie 15. few excepted to til the land 17. the two brasen pillars lauatorie and al the treasure taken away 24. Al the captiues at diuers times foure thousand six hundred 31. Finally king Ioachin is exalted in the court A Child of one and twentie yeares was Sedecias when he began to reigne and eleuen yeares he reigned in Ierusalem and the name of his mother was Amital the daughter of Ieremie of Lobna † And he did euil in the eyes of our Lord according to al thinges that Ioakim had done † Because the furie of our Lord was against Ierusalem and against Iuda til he cast them away from his face and Sedecias reuolted from the king of Babylon † And it came to passe in the ninth yeare of his reigne in the tenth moneth the tenth of the moneth came Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon him self and al his armie against Ierusalem and they besieged it and built against it munitions round about † And the citie was besieged vntil the eleuenth yeare of king Sedecias † And in the fourth moneth the ninth of the moneth a famine possessed the citie and there were no victuals for the people of the land † And a breache was made into the citie and al the men of warre fled and went out of the citie in the night by the way of the gate that is betwen the two walles leadeth to the kinges garden the Chaldees besieging the citie round about and they departed by the way that leadeth into the wildernes † But the armie of the Chaldees pursued the king and they apprehended Sedecias in the desert which is beside Iericho and al his trayne fled scattering from him † And when
expedient that one man dye for the people and the whole nation perish not vvhich the holie Euangelist ascribeth to his office being highpriest of that yeare he prophecied that IESVS should dye for the nation and not only for the nation but togather into one the children of God that were dispersed IESVS REDEMER correct in vs our errors gather the dispersed conserue them that are and shal be gathered make al one flocke in one fould vnder one Pastour thy selfe IESVS CHRIST To whom with the Father and the Holie Ghost be al thankes praise honour and glorie now and for euer and euer AMEN The prayer of Manasses vvith the second third Bookes of Esdras extant in most Latin and vulgare Bibles are here placed after al the Canonical bookes of the old Testament because they are not receiued into the Canon of Diuine Scriptures by the Catholique Church THE PRAYER OF MANASSES KING OF IVDA WHEN HE WAS HELD CAPTIVE IN BABYLON LORD omnipotent God of our fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob and of their iust sede which didst make heauen and earth with al the ornamentes of them which hast bound the sea with the word of thy precept which hast shut vp the depth and sealed it with thy terrible and laudable name whom al thinges dread tremble at the countinance of thy powre because the magnificence of thy glorie is importable the wrath of thy threatning vpon sinners is intollerable but the mercie of thy promise is infinite and vnsearchable because thou art our Lord most high benigne long suffering and very merciful and penitent vpon the wickednes of men Thou Lord according to the multitude of thy goodnes hast promised penance and remission to them that haue sinned to thee and by the multitude of thy mercies thou hast decreed penance to sinners vnto saluation Thou therfore Lord God of the iust hast not appointed penance to the iust Abraham Isaac and Iacob them that haue not sinned to thee but hast appointed penance for me a sinner because I haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea Myne iniquities Lord be multiplied mine iniquities be multiplied and I am not worthie to behold looke vpon the height of heauen for the multitude of mine iniquities I am made crooked with manie a band of yron that I can not lift vp my head and I haue not respiration because I haue stirred vp thy wrath and haue done euil before thee I haue not done thy wil and thy commandmentes I haue not kept I haue set vp abominations and multiplied offenses And now I bowe the knee of my hart beseeching goodnes of thee I haue sinned Lord I haue sinned I acknowlege myne iniquities Wherefore I beseech disiring thee forgeue me Lord forgeue me and destroy me not together with myne iniquities neither reserue thou for euer being angrie euils for me neither damme me into the lowest places of the earth because thou art God God I say of the penitent in me thou shalt shew al thy goodnes because thou shalt saue me vnworthie according to thy great mercie and I wil prayse thee alwayes al the dayes of my life because al the power of the heauens prayseth thee and to thee is glorie for euer and euer Amen THE THIRD BOOKE OF ESDRAS For helpe of the readers especially such as haue not leysure to read al vve haue gathered the contentes of the chapters but made no Annotations because the text it self is but as a Commentarie to the Canonical bookes and therfore we haue only added the concordance of other Scriptures in the margin CHAP. I. Iosias king of Iuda maketh a great Pasch 7. geuing manie hostes to such as wanted for sacrifice 14. the Priestes and Leuites performing their functions therin 22. in the eightenth yeare of his reigne 25. He is slayne in battel by the king of Aegypt 32. and much lamented by the Iewes 34. His sonne Ieconias succedeth 37. After him Ioacim 40. who is deposed by the king of Babylon 43. Ioachin reigneth three monethes and is caried into Babylon 46. Sedecias reigneth eleuen yeares wickedly 52. and he with his people is caried captiue into Babylon the citie and temple are destroyed 57. so remayned til the Monarchie of the Persians AND Iosias made a Pasch in Ierusalem to our Lord immolated the Phase the fourtenth moone of the moneth † appointing the Priestes by courses of dayes clothed with stoles in the temple of our Lord. † And he spake to the Leuites the sacred seruantes of Israel that they should sanctifie them selues to our Lord in the placing of the holie arke of our Lord in the house which king Salomon sonne of Dauid built † It shal not be for you to take it vpon your shoulders And now serue your Lord and take the care of that nation Israel in part according to your villages and tribes † according to the writing of Dauid king of Israel and according to the magnificence of Salomon his sonne al in the temple and according to your fathers portion of principalitie among them that stand in the sight of your brethren the children of Israel † Immolate the Pasch and prepare the sacrifices for your bretheren and doe according to the precept of our Lord which was geuen to Moyses † And Iosias gaue vnto the people that was found of sheepe lambes and kiddes and goates thirtie thousand calues three thousand † These thinges were geuen to the people of the kinges goodes according to promisse and to the priestes for the Phase sheepe in number two thousand and calues an hundred † And Iechonias and Semeias and Nathanael bretheren and Hasabias and Oziel and Coraba for the Phase sheepe fiue thousand calues fiue hundred † And when these thinges were done in good order the Priestes and the Leuites stood hauing azymes by tribes † And according to the portions of their fathers principalitie in the sight of the people they did offer to our Lord according to those thinges which were written in the booke of Moyses † and rosted the Phase with fire as it ought and the hostes they boyled in cauldrons and in pottes with beneuolence † and they brought to al that were of the people and afterward they prepared for them selues and the priestes † For the Priestes offered the fatte vntil the houre was ended and the Leuites prepared for them selues and their brethren the children of Aaron † And the sacred singing men the children of Asaph were by order according to the precept of Dauid and Asaph and Zacharias and Ieddimus which was from the king † And the porters at euerie gate so that none transgressed his owne for their brethren prepared for them † And the thinges were consummate that perteyned to the sacrifice of our Lord. † In that day they celebrated the Phase and offered hostes vpon the sacrifice of our Lord according to the precept of king Iosias † And the children of Israel that were found at that time
hand † and on the left Faldeus Misael Malachias Ambusthas Sabus Nabadias and Zacharias † And Esdras tooke the booke before al the multitude for he was chiefe in glorie in the sight of al. † And when he had ended the law they stood al vpright and Esdras blessed our Lord the most high God the God of Sabaoth omnipotent † And al the people answered Amen And lifting vp their handes falling on the ground they adored our Lord. † Iesus and Banaeus and Sarebias and Iaddimus and Accubus and Sabbathaeus and Calithes Azarias and Ioradus and Ananias and Philias Leuites † who taught the law of our Lord and read the same in the multitude euerie one preferred them that vnderstood the lesson † And Atharathes sayd to Esdras the high priest and the reader and to the Leuites that taught the multitude † saying This day is sanctified to our Lord. And they al wept when they had heard the law † And Esdras sayd departing therfore eate ye al the fattest thinges drinke al most swete things and send giftes to them that haue not † For this is the holy day of our Lord be not sad For our Lord wil glorifie you † And the Leuites denounced openly to al saying This day is holie be not sad † And they went al to eate and drinke and make merie and to geue giftes to them that had not that they might make merie for they were excedingly exalted with the wordes that they were taught † And they were al gathered in Ierusalem to celebrate the ioy according to the testament of our Lord the God of Israel THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF ESDRAS CHAP. I. Esdras is sent to expostulate with the vngratful Iewes for neglecting Gods manie great benefites THE second booke of Esdras the prophet the sonne of Sarei the sonne of Azarei the sonne of Helcias the sonne of Sadanias the sonne of Sadoch the sonne of Achitob † the sonne of Achias the sonne of Phinees the sonne of Heli the sonne of Amerias the sonne of Asiel the sonne of Marimoth the sonne of Arna the sonne of Ozias the sonne of Borith the sonne of Abisei the sonne of Phinees the sonne of Eleazar † the sonne of Aaron of the tribe of Leui who was captiue in the countrie of the Medes in the reigne of Artaxerxes king of the Persians † And the word of our Lord came to me saying † Goe and tel my people their wicked deedes and their children the iniquities that they haue done against me that they may tel their childrens children † because the sinnes of their parentes are increased in them for they being forgetful of me haue sacrified to strange goddes † Did not I bring them out of the land of Aegypt from the house of bondange But they haue prouoked me haue despised my counsels † But doe thou shake of the heare of thy head and throw al euils vpon them because they haue not obeyed my law And it is a people without discipline † How long shal I beare with them on whom I haue bestowed so great benefittes † I haue ouerthrowen manie kinges from them I haue stroke Pharao with his seruantes and al his hoste † Al nations did I destroy before their face in the East I dissipated the peoples of two prouinces Tyre and Sidon and I slew al their aduersaries † But speake thou to them saying Thus sayth our Lord † I made you passe through the sea and gaue you fensed streates from the beginning I gaue you Moyses for your gouernour and Aaron for the Priest † I gaue you light by the piller of fire did manie meruelous things among you but you haue forgotten me sayth our Lord. † Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent The quayle was a signe to you I gaue you a campe for defense and there you murmured † And you triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies but yet vntil now you haue murmured † Where are the benefites that I haue geuen you Did you not crie out to me when you were hungrie in the desert † saying Why hast thou brought vs into this desert to kil vs it had bene better for vs to serue the Aegyptians then to dye in this desert † I was sorie for your mournings gaue you manna to eate You did eate bread of Angels † When you thirsted did not I cleaue the rocke waters flowed in abundance for the heates I couered you with the leaues of trees † I deliuered vnto you fatte landes The Chananeites and Pherezeites and Philistheans I threw out from your face what shal I yet doe to you sayth our Lord † Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent In the desert when you were thirstie in the riuer of the Amorrheites and blaspheming my name † I gaue you not fire for blasphemies but casting wood into the water I made the riuer swete † What shal I doe to thee Iacob Thou wouldest not obey ô Iuda I wil transferre my self to other nations and wil geue them my name that they may keepe my ordinances † Because you haue forsaken me I also forsake you when you aske mercie of me I wil not haue mercie † When you shal inuocate me I wil not heare you For you haue defiled your handes with bloud and your fete are quicke to commit murders † Not as though you haue forsaken me but yourselues sayth our Lord. † Thus saith our Lord omnipotent haue not I desired you as a father his sonnes and a mother her daughters and as a nurce her litle ones † that you would be my people and I your God and to me for children and I to you for a father † So haue I gathered you as the henne her chickenes vnder her winges But now what shal I doe to you I wil throw you from my face † When you shal bring me oblation I wil turne away my face from you For I haue refused your festiual dayes new moones and circumcisions † I sent my seruantes the prophetes to you whom being taken you slew and mangled their bodies whose bloud I wil require sayth our Lord. † Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent your house is made desolate I wil throw you away as the winde doth stubble † and your children shal not haue issue because they haue neglected my commandment and haue done that which is euil before me † I wil deliuer your houses to a people comming who not hearing me do beleue to whom I haue not shewed signes they wil do the thinges that I haue commanded † The prophetes they haue not sene and they wil be mindful of their iniquities † I cal to witnes the grace of the people comming whose litle ones reioyce with ioy not seing me with their carnal eyes but in spirit beleuing the thinges that I haue sayd † And now brother behold what glorie and see people comming from the cast † to whom I wil geue the conduction of Abraham
Ser 1. de S. Andrea S. Beda 〈◊〉 4. S. Aug. cont Faust S. Greg. in li. 1. Reg. et in Iob. Inuocation of Patriarches S. Hiere Ep. 12. ad Gauden Obiections answered by holie Scriptu●es Iob. 4● How Sainctes kn●w mens prayers Titles geuen to men in office and to Sainctes lib. de mortalitate Angels ad●●ed Reliqués Images Exequies f●● the dead Purgatorie To. 2. in sept Psal paeuitent Limbus patt● No entrance into heauen before Christ Resurrection Iudgement Eternal paine of the damned and glorie of the blessed 1. Co● ● 〈◊〉 dowries of glorified bodies presigured 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 Cath● c●●s Rom p. 1. c 12. q 9. The Church more knowen to other nations then before The Ecclesiastical and temporal states more distinguished Succession of High Priestes Distinction of offices in Priestes Leuites Succession of temporal princes interrupted Dukes Iudges Kinges M 〈…〉 Church Murmure Idolatrie 〈…〉 e. 〈…〉 〈…〉 * Iudic. 3. Ordinarie meanes of conseruing the Church No participation with infi●els No 〈…〉 But one Tabernacle One Altar 〈◊〉 〈…〉 8. Chris orat 1. aduers Iudeos One supreme Iudge of controuersies Al bound to obey him His sentence infallible The Church of Christ preserued from ●●●ing in Religion Math. 16. 28. Luc. 22. Ioan 14. 16. Eph. 4. ● T●m 3. Not anie temporal but Christs kingdom is in al nations and perpetual S. Aug. li. 17. ●● de ●●uit S. ●●pip●● here 's 2● The Church of Christ vniuersal Act. 4. in hunc Psalm The Iewes wil not see Christ 2. Cor. 3. And Heretikes wil not see the Church which yet is alwayes visible S. Aug. in Psal 30. c●n● 2. Collat. Carthag at cont Donatist Ibidem The beginning of the fifth age * Firmnes * in strength :: A vessel so 〈…〉 for the 〈…〉 being 〈…〉 :: ●atus contayned 〈…〉 :: Had designed and dedicated to holie vses :: There was no more with in the arke Deut. 10. but on the outside was the rodde of Aaron Nu. 17. Heb. 9. the golden potte with Manna Exod 16 Heb 9. and the booke of the law repeted by Moyses Deut. 31. :: Prices blesse their people parentes their children :: Salomon knew wel Gods conditional promise but perseuered not in keping his cōmandments and therfore a great part of the kingdom was takē from his children yet the right of the kingdom of Iuda remayned to his seede euen to Christ our Sauiour :: Reward of good workes :: External workes of penance except they proceede from the hart suffice not for remission of sinne :: External worship is not acceptable to God except it procede from internal sinceritie and d●●odon VVherfore S. Augustin sayth God is worshipped in faith hope and charitie Enchirid c. ● :: Salomon did not ●el these cities for he could not alienate them but let the king of Tyre haue the vse and reuenewes in payment for timber for the gold which he sent * dirtie or disples sing :: a monument :: Part of Arabia is called Saba nere to Iurie but this Saba is beyond Arabia as S. Hierom testifieth in Esaiae 60 li. 17 it semeth to be in Aethiopia for our Sauiour saith Mat. 12. The quene of the South came frō the endes of the earth to heare the vvisdom of Salomon :: As this quene had no spirite when she saw Salomons wisdom so the Church gathered of gentiles knowing Christs grace finding the masters of Euangelical doctrin casting away the spirite of pride and laying of al hautinesse of mind lerned to distrust in her self and to trust in the great mercie of her king S. Greg in Psal 7. pa●●ten to 2. * A wonderful thing that a Quene vpon fame of a mans wisdom traueled so farre to heare him speake and to see his gouernment but it was Gods inspiration to signifie by this figure that the Church of Christ should be gathered of the Gentiles in al nations Kiges Quenes no● potent Princes also submitting themselues to Christ Isaae c. 49. :: Though pluralitie of wiues was then alowed yet it was forbid to multiplie manie Deut. :: The tribe of Iuda :: By Ierusalem is vnderstood the tribe of Beniamin wherin it stood so there remained two tribes to Salomons heyres 2. Reg. ● ●● Reg. 10. :: From the time that Salomon fel to idolatrie he was more impugned by three perpetual aduersaries Adad Razon and Hieroboam mystically signifying the flesh the world and the diuel :: This fact cōfirmed his wordes that he spoke seriously fained not :: VVhether he repented and was saued or no is vncertaine The third part The diuision of the Kingdom Seueral reigues of certaine kinges and preaching of special prophetes :: This pharaise noteth the sequel not the final cause As chap. 14. ● ● :: A diuelish policie to make a religion conformable to the temperal state :: For such a religion such priestes were fittest :: Places on hilles where they sacrificed calues and other thinges to the images of calues :: This foreshewing long before the name of a childe that should be borne importeth that he should do great thinges See 4. Reg. 2● :: This man of Bethel was indeede a prophet of God but in this lied wickedly and so deceiuing the other prophet made him to breake Gods commandment for which he was slaine VVhervpon Hieroboam swhom the wiked prophet sought to please was lesse afeard to procede in idolatrie :: Not only the deceiuer but also he that is deceiued is guiltie and punishable for breakīg Gods cōmandment :: By this it appeareth to be Gods worke and punishment :: Ieroboam did not wittingly and of purpose set vp false goddes to the end he might prouoke God to anger for his intention only was to kepe the people frō going to Ierusalem left by that occasion they should returne to Roboam their Lord king of Iuda ch 12. v. 27. But by settīg vp idols he did prouoke God consequently to anger So here and in other places this phrase that he might prouoke that it might be fulfilled and the like signifieth not the final cause but the sequele of other factes without direct intention :: Dauids postetitie conserued for his sake :: Those altares which Salomon had made for his wiues that were idolaters Asa destroved not but al which Roboā and Abias had made or suffered to be made for their owne people he pulled downe Iosias afterward destroyed also those which Salomon had made 2. ●●●●l 34. :: The a●●●ou● of schisme punished in his posteritie :: Al those that were in the campe chose their general to be their king and preuailed therin though an other half of Israel chose and folowed an other for a time :: Thebni being then dead he reigned peaceably for he began his reigne the 27. yeare of Asa ● 15. 16. and reigned in al 12. yeares :: VVhen Hiel began to build Iericho his eldest sonne died so the rest successiuely that the last died when he finished the building because God by the mouth of
esteme that which their elders teach :: though the same doth not seme reasonable in their owne opinion Mat 5. v. 28. :: It is not lawful to reueale that which we iustly promise to conceale Leuit 19. Deu. 1 16 Prou. 24. Iacob ● :: There is lesse danger in conuersing familiarly with a wicked man then with a freindlie woman In which conuersarion much prudence is required as is before admonished chap. ● :: The excellencie of God which can not be sene with mortal eye Exo. 33. is proposed to our meditation in his workes The like in Iob. 38. 39. 40. 41. and in manie places of holie Scripture :: Of al sensles creatures yea of sensible also that haue not reason the sunne is most excellent Of which al corporal ●reatures receiue their light by whose influence al generation of creatures procedeth wherof is this Maxime in Philosophie that the sunne and man begette a man And Aristotel calleth the sunne the father of men and of goddes li. 2. de anima But the faithful know it is a creature inferior to man in respect of his reasonable soule and in them both in al other creatures acknowlege superexcellent infinite Maiestic in God VVhich also appeareth euen in the least creatures whose natural substances qualities with other accidents the more anie man considereth the more he shal admire God the onlie Creator of al. The 2. part Examples and praises of holie men with praise thankes to God :: Vertuous men are rightly called Lordes and Princes so the children of Heth sayde to Abraham My Lord the●● art a prince of God among v● Gen. 23. :: Enoch shal preach penance in the time of Antichrist Gen 5. Gen. 6. :: Noe was perfect Gen. 9. Gen. 12. :: Abraham father of al the beleuers in Christ Gen. 22. Heb. 11. :: Isaac and Iacob were blessed in Abraham Exo. 3. Num. 12. :: Moyses saw Gods workes more clerely then other Prophets yet saw not his substances as is noted Exo. 33. :: Aarons priesthood continued so long as Moyses law that was til Christ And now the priesthood according to the order of Melchisedech continueth to the end of the world Exo. 28. Leuit. 8. Num. 16. :: The tribe of Leui had not a portion of inheritance separate from the iest but had tithes first fruites and oblations for their temporal prouision Num. 25. :: King Dauid gaue special assistance to the Priestes and greatly aduanced Gods seruice 1. Paral 23. ●●● :: Iosue succeded in the temporal gouernment for the spiritual perteyned to the successors of Aaron Num. 27. Iosu 10. Only Iosue and Caleb remained of those which came out of Aegypt al the rest dyed in the desert and their children entered into Chanaan Num. 14● Iosu 14. :: Though some of the Iudges were sometimes great sinners yet they were finally iust for their good actes much renowmed 1. Reg 17 :: Samuel annointed Saul and Dauid kinges 1. Reg 7. ● Reg. 12 :: If Samuel himself had not appeared but some other spitite it could not haue bene noted in his praises See 1. Reg. 28. 1 Reg. 28 2. Reg 11 1. Reg. 17 Ibidem 1. Reg 18 :: Amongst al the renoumed actes of Dauid his pure and sincere hart most pleased God 1. Par. 25 2. Reg 12 :: For Dauids sake God gaue wisdom to Salomon and peace in his kingdom 3. Reg. 3. :: By Apostrophe the auctor turneth his speach to Salomon 3. Reg 4. 3. Reg. 10 :: Salomons sinnes were punished but Gods mercie continued in conseruing his posteritie Psal 88. 3 Reg. 11 Psal 88. v. 34. 3 Reg. 1● 3. Reg 17 :: Elias procured fire from heauen to burne his sacrifice 3. Reg. 18 and ●w●e more to burne an hundred men which persecuted him 4. Reg. 1. 3. Reg. 19 4. Reg. 2. :: The miracle wrought by his dead bodie shewed that he was an holie prophet 4. Reg. 13. See the miracles of Elias and Eliseus To. 1. pag. 940. 4 Reg 13 4. Reg. 20 4. Reg. 18 :: Prayer preuailed when forces were not sufficient Sec 4. Reg. 19. 4 Reg. 19 Isa 37. 4. Reg 2● Isa 38. Not only this booke but also other holie scriptures witnes that Elias shal returne and preach before the end of the world S. Chrysostom Aretas and other Doctors testifie the same See Annot. Gen. 5. Mal. 4. Mat. 17. In 2. Thes 2. Apoc. 11. 4. Reg. 22 2. Par 34 4. Reg. 23 :: Manie other kinges of Iuda refrained alwayes from committing idolatrie but these three destroyed al places of idolatrie in their kingdom which the others did not 4. Reg. 25 Iere. 1. Ezech. 1. Agge 2. 1. Esd 3. 3. Esd 5. Zach. 3. 2. Esd 2. Gen. 5. Gen. 39. 40. c. :: See the Annotation ch 38 v. 10. :: Ioseph prophecying that the people should depart from Aegypt willed them to carie his bones with them Gen. 50. So by carying his bones they professed that he had truly prophecied :: This Simon called Iustus and Priscus was high priest when this booke was written in the time of Ptolomie the first king of Aegypt a very holie man and dead before it was translated into Greke about the time of Ptolomie the third called Euergetes nere 300. yeares before Christ Iosephus li. 12. Antiqui * Libation● Three nations the Idumeans Philistijmes and Samaritanes did most persecute the Isralites the Samaritanes were not one pure nation but mixt of Assirians and Iewes and so here called no nation Num. 6. v. 23. :: They are also called a foolish people because they knowing true religion mixed idolatrie therwith according to diuers sectes as appeareth 4. Reg. 17. v. 29. :: VVhere we are not able to render recompence to benefactors especially to God we are the more bond to acknowlege his manie great benefites altogether vndeserued by vs. :: VVhen senses are most ripe and the soule most free from great sinnes is the aptest time to serue God to get al vertues and true knowlege Eccle. 12. :: In stead of riches labour to get wisdom for it is much better then al gold siluer :: Merite is in this life and reward in the next Gods special benefite of sending Prophetes to the people The function of Prophetes to exhorte to repentance with hope of Gods mercie by Christ Foure greatter Prophetes and welue lesse● were auctors of the prophetical bookes folowing Baruchs booke being inserted in Ieremies Prophecies are called visions for their certaintie Light of prophecie is next to the light of glorie and more clere then the light of faith Prophecies are hard to be vnderstood for diuers causes 2. Pet. 1 Suddaine transition from one thing to an other S. Ierom. i●c 2. 3 Nahum That which is spoken of certaine persons is ment of others S. Chrys ●o 8. i●●●ath 2. S. Aug. d●catech ●●●ibus c. 3. Prophecies are often vttered in figuratiue speaches Some consist in thinges done others are mixt with histories and temporal thinges with