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the child, and holde his hoond; for Y schal make hym in to a greet folc.

      ¹⁹ And God openyde hir iyen, and sche seiy a pit of watir, and sche yede, and fillide the botel, and sche yaf drynk to the child;

      ²⁰ and was with him, and he encresside, and dwellide in wildernesse, and he was maad a yong man an archer,

      ²¹ and dwellide in the deseert of Faran; and his modir took to him a wijf of the lond of Egipt.

      ²² In the same tyme Abymelech, and Ficol, prince of his oost, seide to Abraham, God is with thee in alle thingis whiche thou doist;

      ²³ therfore swere thou bi God that thou noye not me, and myn eiris, and my kynrede; but bi the mersi whych Y dide to thee, do thou to me, and to the lond in which thou lyuedist a comelyng.

      ²⁴ And Abraham seide, Y schal swere.

      ²⁵ And he blamyde Abymelech for the pit of watir, which hise seruauntis token awey bi violence.

      ²⁶ And Abymelech answerde, I wiste not who dide this thing, but also thou schewidist not to me, and Y herde not outakun to dai.

      ²⁷ And so Abraham took scheep and oxun, and yaf to Abymalech, and bothe smyten a boond of pees.

      ²⁸ And Abraham settide seuene ewe lambren of the flok asidis half.

      ²⁹ And Abymelech seide to hym, What wolen these seuene ewe lambren to hem silf, whiche thou madist stonde asidis half?

      ³⁰ And he seide, Thou schalt take of myn hond seuene ewe lambren, that tho be in to witnessyng to me, for Y diggide this pit.

      ³¹ Therfor thilke place was clepid Bersabee, for euere eithir swore there;

      ³² and thei maden boond of pees for the pit of an ooth.

      ³³ Forsothe Abymelech roos, and Ficol, prince of his chyualrie, and thei turneden ayen in to the lond of Palestyns. Sotheli Abraham plauntide a wode in Bersabee, and inwardli clepide there the name of euerlastinge God;

      ³⁴ and he was an erthetiliere ether a comelynge of the lond of Palestynes in many dayes.

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      ¹ And aftir that these thingis weren don, God assaiede Abraham, and seide to hym, Abraham! Abraham! He answerde, Y am present.

      ² God seide to him, Take thi `sone oon gendrid, whom thou louest, Ysaac; and go into the lond of visioun, and offre thou hym there in to brent sacrifice, on oon of the hillis whiche Y schal schewe to thee.

      ³ Therfor Abraham roos bi niyt, and sadlide his asse, and ledde with hym twey yonge men, and Ysaac his sone; and whanne he hadde hewe trees in to brent sacrifice, he yede to the place which God hadde comaundid to him.

      ⁴ Forsothe in the thridde dai he reiside hise iyen, and seiy a place afer;

      ⁵ and he seide to hise children, Abide ye here with the asse, Y and the child schulen go thidur; and aftir that we han worschipid, we schulen turne ayen to you.

      ⁶ And he took the trees of brent sacrifice, and puttide on Ysaac his sone; forsothe he bar fier, and a swerd in hise hondis. And whanne thei tweyne yeden togidere, Isaac seide to his fadir, My fadir!

      ⁷ And he answerde, What wolt thou, sone? He seide, Lo! fier and trees, where is the beeste of brent sacrifice?

      ⁸ Abraham seide, My sone, God schal puruey to hym the beeste of brent sacrifice.

      ⁹ Therfor thei yeden to gidere, and camen to the place whiche God hadde schewid to hym, in which place Abraham bildide an auter, and dresside trees a boue; and whanne he hadde bounde to gidere Ysaac, his sone, he puttide Ysaac in the auter, on the heep of trees.

      ¹⁰ And he helde forth his hond, and took the swerd to sacrifice his sone.

      ¹¹ And lo! an aungel of the Lord criede fro heuene, and seide, Abraham! Abraham!

      ¹² Which answerde, I am present. And the aungel seide to hym, Holde thou not forth thin honde on the child, nether do thou ony thing to him; now Y haue knowe that thou dredist God, and sparidist not thin oon gendrid sone for me.

      ¹³ Abraham reiside hise iyen, and he seiy `bihynde his bak a ram cleuynge bi hornes among breris, which he took, and offride brent sacrifice for the sone.

      ¹⁴ And he clepide the name of that place, The Lord seeth; wherfore it is seyd, til to dai, The Lord schal see in the hil.

      ¹⁵ Forsothe the aungel of the Lord clepide Abraham the secounde tyme fro heuene,

      ¹⁶ and seide, The Lord seith, Y haue swore bi my silf, for thou hast do this thing, and hast not sparid thin oon gendrid for me,

      ¹⁷ Y schal blesse thee, and Y schal multiplie thi seed as the sterris of heuene, and as grauel which is in the brynk of the see; thi seed schal gete the yatis of hise enemyes;

      ¹⁸ and alle the folkis of erthe schulen be blessid in thi seed, for thou obeiedist to my vois.

      ¹⁹ Abraham turnede ayen to hise children, and thei yeden to Bersabee to gidere, and he dwellide there.

      ²⁰ And so whanne these thingis weren don, it was teld to Abraham that also Melcha hadde bore sones to Nachor his brother;

      ²¹ Hus the firste gendrid, and Buz his brothir, and Chamuhel the fadir of Sireis,

      ²² and Cased, and Asan, and Feldas,

      ²³ and Jedlaf, and Batuhel, of whom Rebecca was borun; Melcha childide these eiyte to Nachor brother of Abraham.

      ²⁴ Forsothe his concubyn, Roma bi name, childide Thabee, and Gaon, and Thaas, and Maacha.

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      ¹ Forsothe Sare lyuede an hundrid and seuene and twenti yeer,

      ² and diede in the citee of Arbee, which is Ebron, in the lond of Chanaan; and Abraham cam to biweyle and biwepe hir.

      ³ And whanne he hadde rise fro the office of the deed bodi, he spak to the sones of Heth, and seide,

      ⁴ Y am a comelyng and a pilgrym anentis you; yyue ye to me riyt of sepulcre with you, that Y birie my deed body.

      ⁵ And the sones of Heth answeriden, and seiden, Lord, here thou vs;

      ⁶ thou art the prince of God anentis vs; birie thou thi deed bodi in oure chosun sepulcris, and no man schal mow forbede thee, that ne thou birie thi deed bodi in the sepulcre of him.

      ⁷ And Abraham roos, and worschipide the puple of the lond, that is, the sones of Heth.

      ⁸ And he seide to hem, If it plesith youre soule that Y birie my deed bodi, here ye me, and preie ye for me to Efron, the sone of Seor,

      ⁹ that he yyue to me the double caue, whiche he hath in the vttirmoste part of his feeld; for sufficiaunt money yyue he it to me bifore you into possessioun of sepulcre.

      ¹⁰ Forsothe Efron dwellide in the myddis of the sones of Heth. And Efron answerde to Abraham, while alle men herden that entriden bi the yate of that citee,

      ¹¹ and seide, My lord, it schal not be doon so, but more herkne thou that that Y seie; Y yyue to thee the feeld, and the denne which is therine, while the sones of my puple

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