And Israell sayde: wherfore delt ye so cruelly with me/ as to tell the
man that ye had yet another brother? And they sayde: The man asked vs
of oure kynred saynge: is youre father yet alyue? haue ye not another
brother? And we tolde him acordynge to these wordes. How cowd we knowe
that he wolde byd vs brynge oure brother downe with vs? Than sayde
Iuda vnto Israell his father: Send the lad with me/ and we wyll ryse
and goo/ that we maye lyue and not dye: both we/ thou and also oure
childern. I wilbe suertie for him/ and of my handes requyre him. Yf I
brynge him not to the and sett him before thine eyes/ than let me bere
the blame for euer. For except we had made this tariẽg: by this we had
bene there twyse and come agayne.
Than their father Israel sayde vnto thẽ: Yf it must nedes be so now:
than do thus/ take of the best frutes of the lande in youre vesselles/
and brynge the man a present/ a curtesie bawlme/ and a curtesie of
hony/ spyces and myrre/ dates and almondes. And take as moch money
more with you. And the money that was brought agayne in youre sackes/
take it agayne with you in youre handes/ peraduenture it was some
ouersyghte.
Take also youre brother with you/ and aryse and goo agayne to the man.
And God almightie geue you mercie in the sighte of the man and send
you youre other brother and also Bẽ Iamin/ and I wilbe as a mã robbed
of his childern.
Thus toke they the present and twise so moch more money with them/ and
Ben Iamim. And rose vp/ went downe to Egipte/ and presented them selfe
to Ioseph. When Ioseph sawe Ben Iamin with them/ he sayde to the
ruelar of his house: brynge these men home/ and sley and make redie:
for they shall dyne with me at none. And the man dyd as Ioseph bad/
and brought them in to Iosephs house.
When they were brought to Iosephs house/ they were afrayde ãd sayde:
be cause of the money y^t came in oure sackes mouthes at the first
tyme/ are we brought/ to pyke a quarell with vs & to laye some thinge
to oure charge: to brynge us in bondage and oure asses also. Therfore
came they to the man that was the ruelar ouer Iosephs house/ and
comened with him at the doore and sayde:
Sir/ we came hither at the first tyme to bye foode/ and as we came to
an Inne and opened oure sackes: beholde/ euery mannes money was in his
sacke with full weghte: But we haue broght it agene with us/ & other
mony haue we brought also in oure handes/ to bye foode/ but we can not
tell who put oure money in oure sackes.
And he sayde: be of good chere/ feare not: Youre God and the God of
youre fathers hath put you that treasure in youre sackes/ for I had
youre money. And he brought Simeon out to them ãd led thẽ in to
Iosephs house/ and gaue thẽ water to washe their fete/ and gaue their
asses prauender: And they made redie their present agaynst Ioseph came
at none/ for they herde saye that they shulde dyne there.
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