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A47589	The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. To which is prefixed, the life of Mahomet, the prophet of the Turks, and author of the Alcoran. With A needful caveat, or admonition, for them who desire to know what use may be made of, or if there be danger in reading the Alcoran.; Koran. English. 1649.	Du Ryer, André, ca. 1580-ca. 1660.; Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. aut	1688 (1688)	Wing K748; ESTC R213797	330,837	588

nor Children and have a Brother or Sister each of them shall have a sixth part of the succession if they be more they shall share the third after payment of Legacies and debts without fraud following what God hath ordained he knoweth all your actions and is prudent in what he ordaineth it is so ordained by his Divine Majesty He that shall obey him and his Prophet shall enter into Paradise where many Rivers flow and shall dwell in eternal felicity he that shall disobey God and his Prophet shall be cast headlong into the fire of Hell where he shall suffer ignominious torments If your Wives commit adultery take four witnesses of their fault that be of your Religion if they bear witness keep them prisoners in your Houses until death or until God shall otherwise ordain punish Whoremongers Concubines and Adulterers if they repent of their fault do them no harm God is gracious and merciful to them that repent Conversion dependeth on God he is merciful to them that commit sin ignorantly and speedily repent he is Omniscient and most Wise. Pardon is not for them that do wickedly to the very hour of their death we have prepared great torments for them that shall die impious O ye that believe in God! it is not lawful for you to inherit what is your Wives by force take not violently away what you have given them unless they be surprized in manifest adultery see them with civility if you have an aversion from them it may chance that you hate a thing wherein God hath placed much good but if they desire to repudiate your Wives to take others and that you have given them any thing take not any thing that appertaineth to them Will you take their wealth with a lie and a manifest sin How shall you take it since you have approached each other and that you have promised to use them civilly Marry not the Wives of your Fathers what is past was incest abomination and a wicked way Your Mothers are forbidden you your Daughters Sisters Aunts Nieces your Nurses and your foster-Foster-sisters the Mothers of your Wives the Daughters that your Wives have had by other Husbands of whom you shall have a particular care The Daughters of Women that you shall have known are also forbidden you if you have not known them it will be no sin the Wives of your Sons are likewise prohibited and two Sisters for what is past God is gracious and merciful Married Wives are likewise forbidden you except the women Slaves that you shall have acquired God hath so commanded you except what is above forbidden it is lawful for you to marry at your Pleasure If you desire women for money and neither commit Concubinage nor Adultery give them their Salary for which you shall agree so you shall not offend God he is Omniscient and most Wife He that shall not be able to espouse women of Free-condition shall marry such women or maids that are Slaves as shall please him God knoweth the Faith of the one and other Marry your Wives with the permission of their Parents and give them their Dowry with honesty If women of Free-condition that have committed neither Concubinage nor Adultery secretly nor publickly flie into second Nuptials and come to commit Adultery they shall be doubly punished more than the Daughters of Love. The Marriage of Slaves is for them that fear Whoredom If you abstain from Marrying them you shall not do amiss God is gracious and merciful he is willing to teach you his Law and direct you in the way of them that preceded you he is gracious and merciful to his people Such as follow the Appetite of the wicked decline extreamly from the Truth God willeth that his Law be Light unto you for that man was created weak O you that believe in God devour not your substance among you with Usury but if you Traffick be peaceable in your Affairs slay not one another God is merciful to them that obey him He that disobeyeth through malice and injustice shall burn in the fire of Hell it is an easie thing to God to punish them If you depart from mortal sins I will cover your Faults and cause you to enter into Paradise covet not through Envy what God hath given to your Neighbour men and women shall have the wealth they have gained beg Grace of God he knoweth all things Give to your Associates what appertaineth to them We have ordained a Portion prefixt to the one and the other in the succession of your Father Mother and Kindred God seeth all The men shall have Authority over the women they shall have them in their keeping they shall have in their power the wealth that God shall give them and shall have care of what shall be convenient to be expended for them Discreet and obedient Wives observe in the absence of their Husbands the Commandments of God make Remonstrances to them that shall be disobedient and remove them from your Bed chastise them If they obey you seek not occasion to abuse them unjustly God is most high and most mighty If you fear there may happen some difference between a Man and his Wife send to them some of their Kindred to put an end to their Quarrel and reconcile them God will give his Peace to them he is Omniscient Worship God and say not that he hath a Companion equal to him do good to your Father and Mother your Kindred Orphans the Poor your Neighbours Pilgrims your Friends and your Slaves God loveth not the Proud. We have prepared rigorous torments for them that are avaricious that recommend Avarice to the people that conceal the Graces that God hath bestowed on them and that are impious Such as dispend their wealth with Hypocrisie believe neither in God nor the Day of Judgment and those that shall have the Devil for their Companion will be in exceeding bad Company he shall not approach them if they believe in God and the Day of Judgment and give in Alms some part of the Riches God hath given them God knoweth them and doth no injustice to any one of the weight of a small Ant. If the righteous do good of the quantity of a Pismire God shall multiply it and give them a great reward In what condition will Infidels be at the Day of Judgment for that we have Witnesses of all Nations against their impiety and that we will call thee for a Witness against them of their Deportments That day the Infidels that have disobeyed the Prophet shall desire to be consumed like to the Earth and not to have concealed or altered through their Discourse the Commandments of God. O you that believe make not your Prayers being drunk until you know what you speak neither likewise being polluted unless in passing on the way until you be cleansed if you be in a journey or sick or go to discharge your Belly or have known your Wives and find no water to wash you you

Seest thou not how he assembleth the clouds how he placeth them one upon another Considerest thou not how the rain falleth through their pores and that God causeth fresh water to descend from the mountains He hath given it to whom seemeth good to him he causeth the brightness of lightning to approach men which blindeth their sight and over whelmeth the day with night These things are signs of his omnipotency to them that consider them He created of a little water all sorts of living Creatures some creep upon the Earth others walk upon two feet and others upon four he created what pleased him he is omnipotent Certainly he hath sen●… a Law clear and intelligible to conduct into the right way whom it shall seem good to him The Infidels say We believe in God and his Prophet nevertheless a party among them abandon his Law and believe not in his divine Majesty When they are called before God and before the Prophet to judge their differences many among them refuse to come if they come it is with contempt They are greatly afflicted at heart do they fear that God and his Prophet will do them injustice On the contrary they themselves are unjust When the True believers are called before God and the Prophet to be judged they say We have heard and obeyed they are not ignorant Those that shall obey God and his Prophet shall be blessed Many swear to fight gallantly for the Faith when they shall be commanded to march against the enemy say unto them Swear not your obedience to the Prophet shall be preferred to your oaths God knoweth whatsoever ye do say unto them Obey God and his Prophet if they be disobedient they shall bear their burden and ye shall bear your own if ye obey ye shall follow the right way The Prophet is obliged onely to preach intelligibly God promiseth to the True believers that shall do good works that they shall live long upon Earth as he promised to them that were before them that they might establish the Law that he gave them he shall change their fear into assurance he shall deliver them from terror that they may adore him alone without Companion He that is wicked will depart from the obedience which he oweth to God Make your prayers at the time appointed pay Tithes and obey the Prophet God shall give you his mercy Believe not that the Infidels are more powerful on Earth than we they shall be precipitated into the fire of Hell. O ye that are True believers your Slaves and your Servants of free-condition shall require leave of you to enter where ye shall be thrice viz. Before the Prayer at break of Day after Noon and after Supper they shall not offend in entring without leave where ye shall be at another time they enter there to serve you In this manner doth God teach you his Commandments he knoweth the humor of his Creatures and is most prudent in all that he ordaineth It is ordained to your Children when they shall be at age of discretion to demand of you permission to do what they shall desire as did your Predecessors Thus doth God teach you his Commandments he is gracious and merciful The old and decrepit Women shall not offend God to quit their vails and discover their faces provided it be without vanity and design to shew their Ornaments If they abstain they shall do well God heareth whatsoever ye say and knoweth all that is in your hearts The Blind the Lame the Sick and you also shall not sin to eat in the House of your Children at the House of your Father and Mother Brothers Sisters Uncles Aunts Friends and in the House of your Servants ye shall not offend God if ye eat together or apart When ye shall enter into any House salute each other from God with blessing and affection Thus doth God teach you his Commandments peradventure you will learn them When those that believed in God and his Prophet repaired to the Prophet they retired not without his permission Such as required leave to depart believe in God and his Prophet if they require leave of thee for any business licence whom shall seem good to thee and pray to God for them he is gracious and merciful Call not the Prophet as ye call one another among you God knoweth such as shamefully depart out of the Temple and the Trench Such as disobey his Commandments ought to take heed lest some mischief befal them and that they suffer not great torments Whatsoever is in the Heavens or on Earth is Gods he knoweth if ye are zealous in your faith or be hypocrites he knoweth the Day wherein all the World shall be assembled before him to be judged In that day shall men see what they have done he knoweth all things CHAP. XXV The Chapter of the Alcoran containing Seventy and seven Verses written at Mecca IN the Name of God gracious and merciful Praised be he that sent the Alcoran to his Servant to instruct the World he is King of the Heavens and Earth he hath no Son nor Companion in his Reign he created and ordained every thing The Infidels worship Gods that can create nothing and are things created they can neither do them good nor evil they can give neither Life nor Death neither cause them to rise again They say that the Alcoran is but a fable of thine invention invented with the assistance of some other Person but they lye and blaspheme They say that it is but an old Song and a fable of the Ancients that thou writest and that thou studiest Morning and Evening Say unto them It was sent by him that knoweth all things in Heaven and Earth altogether gracious and merciful They said Who is this Prophet He eateth Bread and Meat and walketh through the streets we will not believe him unless that an Angel descend from Heaven to preach to us with him unless that Angel enrich him and that he have a Garden full of good and savory fruits he is but a Wizard or one possessed of the Devil Consider to what they compare thee certainly they are in error and cannot find the right way Praise and bless him that is able to bestow on thee a greater good when it shall seem good to thee to wit Gardens wherein flow many Rivers and Houses of pleasure They have denyed the certainty of Universal Judgment and we have prepared the Fire of Hell to punish them wrath shall carry them away with terrible crys when they shall behold the place of the assembly of Judgment when they shall there appear they shall be desperate and shall cry O misery Cry not O misery cry O miseries in the Plural Ask of them which is better and more advantageous that or Paradise which is prepared for the recompence of the righteous where they shall dwell eternally with all manner of felicity this is it that God hath promised and that which was impetrated of

History containing Fourscore and Eight Verses written at Mecca IN the Name of God gracious and merciful God is most Pure he understandeth all things and is most Wise. These mysteries are the mysteries of the Book that distinguisheth the Truth from a Lye. I relate to thee the history of Moses and of Pharoah with Truth for the contentment of True believers Pharoah was powerful on Earth he entreated his Subjects as seemed good to him he tormented one party and murthered their Children he abused their Wives and was of them that defiled the Earth I gave my Grace to them that were afflicted on Earth I made them successors of Pharoah's Kingdom I established them in his Dominions I made Pharoah Haman and their Army to see what they most feared we said to the Mother of Moses give suck to thy Child if thou fearest that they will mischief him cast him upon Nile fear not neither afflict thy self I will restore him to thee between thine Arms and place him in the number of Prophets The domestiques of Pharoah found him upon the Water and saved him to be one day their enemy and to torment them because Pharoah Haman and their People were Infidels Pharoah's wife said unto him I entreat thee not to suffer this Infant to be slain mine eyes rejoyce to see him he shall one day be profitable for our service as our Son but they were ignorant of what should befal them the Heart of his Mother was freed from fear when she behold him in the hands of Pharorh's wife and scarce could she refrain to let them know that she was his Mother we caused her to have patience and she had faith in our promises she spake to his sister to follow him step by step she followed afar off without intimation that she was his sister or that she regarded him We had before prohibited Moses to suck the milk of any other nurse than that of his mother his sister said to Pharoah's servant will ye that I provide you a nurse and people that shall carefully nourish him We caused him to be restored to his mother to nurse him she ceased from her sadness when she knew and saw that God was sincere in what he had promised but the greatest part of the people know it not When Moses was aged about thirty three years we gave him knowledg and wisdom thus do I reward the righteous Moses entring one day into the City met two men that fought the one was of the Children of Israel and the other was an Egyptian and of his enemies whom he assaulted and slew after this he said the Devil tempted me he is the open enemy of men Lord I have offended thee pardon me he pardoned him he is gracious and merciful Lord since thou hast been so gracious to me I will never give aid or succour to Infidels He contined in the City with fear and kept himself upon his guard on the morrow he again met him whom the day before he had defended who fought likewise with another Egyptian and required his assistance Moses said unto him Thou art seditious he replyed oh Moses wilt thou slay me as thou didst slay him yesterday Wilt thou be a murtherer of all men or a just man Not long after a man came in hast to him from the utmost part of the City who said unto him oh Moses the Officers of Pharoah have conspired against thee they desire to put thee to death save thy self and follow my counsel He departed from the City with fear keeping himself upon his guard beseeching his Lord to deliver him from the hands of Infidels he went towards Madian and said Lord suffer me not to follow an evil way He met a great number of persons that made their flocks to drink he with them found two maids that could not water their Cattel he said unto them what do ye two do here We have not strength to draw water to give our beasts to drink we tarry for the Shepherd our father is too old to draw it He drew water out of the well to water their Cattel and withdrew to a shade because of the heat of the Sun saying Lord I am deprived of all the graces which heretofore thou didst confer on me I am now poor and necessitous One of those maidens came to seek him and bashfully said unto him My father calleth thee to recompence thee for the pains thou hast taken in watering our cattel When he was in the old mans presence he related what had befaln him The old man said Fear nothing I will deliver thee from the hands of the wicked one of his daughters said to her sister Give to this man to eat and reward his pains he assisted us with affection their Father said unto him I will marry thee to one of my two daughters on condition that thou wilt have a care of my flocks the space of eight years ten years if it please thee said Moses I will not forsake thee thou shalt find me an honest man I will serve thee the two terms either eight or ten years as shall seem good to thee God is witness of what I say After the term expired Moses forsook the house of his father in law withdrawing with his wife he beheld afar off a great fire on the side of the mountain and said to his wife tarry here I see the fire of the Omnipotent I will speedily return I will bring you a spark peradventure you shall be warmed when he drew near to this fire they cried unto him from the right side of the valley from an eminent place and from a bush Oh Moses I am God Lord of the Universe cast thy staff on the ground when he beheld his staff to move as it had been alive he fled for fear and returned no more O Moses draw near and fear not thou art in a place of safety put thine hand into thy pocket it shall come out white and shining without harm draw back thine arm into thy sleeve it shall return to its former condition thy staff and thine hand shall be two signs of my Omnipotency to Pharoah and his Ministers who disobey my Commandments Moses said Lord I have slain an Egyptian I am afraid they will take away my life command Aaron who is eloquent to go with me to aid me and to confirm what I shall say I fear they will traduce me I will give thee thy brother for thine assistant I will give to you both strength to defend your selves from their malice go do what is commanded you ye shall be victorious and all those that shall follow you when Moses came to Pharoah he made him to see my miracles and preached my Commandments to his Ministers they said this is but magick and witchcraft we have not heard these things to have been spoken to our predecessors Moses said the Lord knoweth him that teacheth the right way and him that ought to have part in Paradise Infidels shall be

impetuous Wind against those wicked people that destroyed them Temod is an example of our Omnipotency with his Nation they waxed proud and resisted the Commandments of their Lord when it was said to them that the punishment of the wicked was deferred to another time but Thunder surprised them they saw it they had not the power to stand on their feet and were deprived of protection The People of Noah's time are an example of our Omnipotency we destroyed them because they were impious We built Heaven with strength and virtue I am he that giveth power and strength we extended the Earth and created of every thing Male and Female perhaps ye will consider it Say unto them Turn ye to God I am sent from him to preach to you the pains of Hell Believe not that God hath another God with him the wicked said heretofore that the Prophets and Apostles whom he sent were Magicians and possessed of the Devil Have they recommended to their Posterity to do the like Certainly they are in a great error Separate thy self far from their company and be not troubled at what they say preach the Alcoran it is profitable to the Righteous I did not create the Devils and men but to worship me Say unto them I require nothing of unbelievers for instructing them I require not that they nourish me God enricheth whom he pleaseth he is omnipotent the wicked shall be chastised as heretofore have been their predecessors in their malice their time shall come and misery shall befal them at the day of Judgment CHAP. LII The Chapter of the Mountain containing thirty nine Verses written at Mecca IN the name of God gracious and merciful I swear by the Mountain upon which God spake to Moses by what is contained in the book written in parchment by the first Temple of Mecca by the arches of the heavens and by the sea full of water that God is one sole God and the punishment promised to unbelievers is infallible they shall not be able to escape it in the day when the heaven shall tremble and the mountains shall walk that day shall be unhappy to the incredulous they shall be precipitated in the fire of hell it shall be said to them behold the flames that ye despised is this Magick See ye it not enter have patience or ye will despair ye shall be chastised after your demerits They that shall have the fear of God before their eyes shall be in delicious gardens which God hath prepared for them and shall be delivered from the pains of hell It shall be said unto them Drink and eat at your pleasure for recompence of your good works they shall repose upon beds well ordered we will marry them to wives that shall have fair eyes they shall be attended of their family and be largely rewarded for their good works every good action shall be to them a degree of happiness We will give them such fruits and Vines as they shall desire they shall present to each other the cup to drink they shall not speak an evil word and shall not sin they shall have Pages about them for their service beautiful as polished pearls they shall discourse among them concerning what they did before on Earth and say We were in the world we and our families with a great apprehension of the pains of hell but God hath gratified us he hath delivered us from eternal flames They shall say moreover we worshipped in the world but one God most just and most merciful Remember thou to preach the Alcoran thou art not ingrateful for the grace of God thou art not possessed of the Devil will they say that thou art a Poet a Rimer that nothing must be expected from thee but fables of past Ages Say unto them ye expect the time of my destruction but I with you expect the time of your ruine Do their Superiors command them to speak in this manner Will they be obstinate in their errors Will they say that Mahomet hath invented the Alcoran Certainly they are incredulous let them bring any discourse like to this book in Doctrine and Eloquence if what they affirm be true Were they created of any thing have they created any thing have they created themselves have they created the Heavens and the Earth Certainly they are incredulous Have they in their power the treasures of thy Lord are they Giants Have they a ladder that may raise them to hear what is spoken in Heaven let them produce some reason of their opinion Believe ye that God hath daughters and that ye have sons Will ye require of him a Salary for obeying his Law Is he your debtor The wicked are lyars do they know what shall be do they write it Desire they to conspire against thee The wicked often conspire against the righteous that worship but one God Praised be God he hath no companion If the Infidels should see a piece of the heaven to fall they would say It is a cloud driven by the winds leave them in their obstinacy until they come to the day of their death that day shall their conspiracy be vain and they deprived of protection They likewise shall be punished before their death but the greatest part know it not Have patience and expect the Judgment of God thou shalt soon see it I will protect thee and thou shalt not want help Praise thy Lord exalt his glory when thou shalt rise praise him in the night and before the Stars disappear CHAP. LIII The Chapter of the Star containing sixty Verses written at Mecca IN the name of God gracious and merciful I sweat by the Star that disappeareth that your friend Mahomet erreth not he speaketh nothing of his own he speaketh but what hath been inspired into him by the omnipotent and most bountiful God. The Angel approached him in the highest place of Heaven within the length of two bowes and somewhat nearer God hath inspired into him what he hath inspired into his servant who altered nothing of what hath been inspired into him He hath spoken what he hath seen and in what form the Angel was Dispute not against him concerning what he saw he another time saw the Angel in heaven near to the Tree that is at the right side of Gods throne and although that tree was covered with that which covered him his sight was not dazled and he is not in error Certainly he hath seen the great wonders of his Lord Have ye considered Alat Az and Menat those three Idols Will ye swear that God hath daughters and that ye have sons Ye will make a false oath and shall be in a manifest error Those Idols have nothing but the names which your fathers and you have given them God hath not commanded you to worship them Ye follow only your passions remote from the truth God teacheth you the way of Salvation by the mouth of his Prophet doth man obtain from Idols what he required of them God is

Hell fire which you have deserved God doth not lead into darkness them that worship him There be that say God hath commanded us not to believe the Prophets until their Sacrifice be consumed by fire Say to them there came to you Prophets heretofore with Miracles that you demanded you had not slain them had you been righteous if they belye thee know they belyed the Prophets that were before thee that came with Miracles the Psalter and the Book of Light. Every man shall taste of death and your reward shall be payed at the Day of Judgment he that shall depart from the fire of Hell and enter into Paradise shall be happy The wealth of this World is but matter of Pride that you may be tryed in your Riches and Persons Hearken not to the Iews and Christians that have known the written Law before you neither to them that believe in many Gods they offend God through their blasphemies if you have patience and fear God you shall make a very good resolution God hath accepted the Speech of them that know his written Law when they promised him to preach to the people his Commandments and not conceal them nevertheless they have contemned them and changed them for profit of little value and have gained nothing but misery think not that such as rejoyce of the evil they have done and affect to be commended for what they have not done have escaped the punishment of their Crimes they shall certainly suffer great torments The Kingdom of Heaven and of the Earth is Gods he is Omnipotent the Creation of Heaven and Earth the difference of day and night are evident signs of his Omnipotency to such as have judgment Such as have remember God standing sitting or lying down and considered the Creation of Heaven and Earth have said Lord thou hast not created these things in vain blessed be thy Name deliver us from the torments of Hell fire thou wilt render miserable him that thou shalt thither precipitate and the wicked shall be deprived of protection at the Day of Judgment Lord we have heard them that say Believe in your Lord we believe in thy unity pardon our faults blot out our sins and give us grace to die in the number of the just bestow on us what thou hast promised by the Prophets and suffer us not to be miserable at the Day of Judgment thou dost not contradict what thou dost promise The Lord heard them and said to them I will not suffer your works to be lost as well of Men as of Women I will blot out the sins of them that went out of Mecca to separate themselves from the wicked I will cover the offences of them that forsook their Houses that assembled to fight for the Faith and were slain I will open to them the Gate of Paradise wherein flow many Rivers to recompence their good works There is with God great reward envy not the Infidels whom thou shalt see possess a little wealth in the Earth Hell is prepared to be their habitation and such as fear God shall dwell eternally in Gardens wherein run many Rivers with all manner of content God is a great rewarder of the just Among them that know the written Law there be that believe in God in what was afore time taught you and in what was preached to them surely they obey God and forsake not his Law They shall receive a great reward from God he is exact in his account O ye that are true believers be patient in your adversities persevere to do well fight for the Faith fear God and you shall be happy CHAP. IV. The Chapter of Women containing one hundred and seventy Verses written at Medina IN the name of God gracious and merciful O ye People fear your Lord that created you of one sole person and created his Wife of his Rib of whom issued many Men and Women Fear God by whom you swear and say the Belly of your Wives God exactly observeth your actions Give unto Orphans what appertaineth to them and render not evil for good devour not their substance it is a very great sin If you fear to do injury to Orphans fear also to do wrong to Women marry those that please you two three or four if you apprehend you shall not be able to entertain them equally marry but one or the slaves that you shall have acquired this is most necessary to the end you offend not God. Give to Women their Dowry with a good will if they give to you any thing that is pleasing to you receive it with affection and civility Bestow not on fools the wealth that God hath given you for subsistence assist Orphans give to them the Garments that shall be necessary for them and entertain them honestly instruct them until they have attained to years of discretion and are capable of marriage if you believe they demean themselves wisely restore to them their faculties and devour them not unjustly before they be of age He that shall be rich shall abstain from their goods and he that is poor shall take with honesty according to the pains he shall undergo for them when you make to them restitution of their goods take witness of your action God loveth good accounts The Children shall have a good part of what their Father and Mother and Parents left after their decease of little or of much there appertaineth to them a portion prefixed and limited When they divide their goods the kindred shall have care of the poor and Orphans do good to them and honestly entertain them Such as fear to leave after them a weak progeny of little Children ought to fear to wrong Orphans they must fear God and courteously entertain them Those that unjustly devour their substance swallow fire into their Bowels and shall burn in a great fire God recommendeth to you your Children the Son shall have as much as two Daughters if there be more than two Daughters they shall have two thirds of the succession of the Dead if there be but one she shall have the moity and her kindred a sixth part of what shall be left by the dead if there be no Children and the kindred be heirs the Mother of the dead shall have a third if there be Brethren the Mother shall have a sixth after satisfaction of the Legacies contained in the Testament and of debts You understand not to whom it is most requisite to do good to your Children or to your Father and Mother give them their Portion ordained of God. The moity of what their Wives shall leave belongeth to you if they have no Children if they have you shall have the fourth part of what they shall leave after payment of the Legacies and debts they shall have the fourth of your succession if you have no Children if you have they shall have the eight portion If a Man or Woman be the heirs of each other and have neither Father nor Mother