Dan shall iudge his people/ as one of the trybes of Israel. Dan shalbe
a serpent in the waye/ and an edder in the path/ and byte the horse
heles/ so y^t his ryder shall fall backwarde. After thy sauynge loke I
LORde.
Gad/ men of warre shall invade him. And he shall turne them to flyght.
Off Asser cometh fatt breed/ and he shall geue pleasures for a kynge.
Nepthali is a swyft hynde/ ãd geueth goodly wordes.
That floryshynge childe Ioseph/ that florishing childe and goodly vn
to the eye: the doughters come forth to bere ruele. The shoters haue
envyed him and chyde with him ãd hated him/ and yet his bowe bode
fast/ & his armes and his handes were stronge/ by the handes of the
myghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde mã a stone in
Israel. Thi fathers God shall helpe the/ & the almightie shall blesse
the with blessinges from heaven aboue/ and with blessinges of the
water that lieth vnder/ & with blessinges of the brestes & of the
wombe. The blessinges of thy father were stronge: euen as the
blessinges of my elders/ after the desyre of the hiest in the worlde/
and these blessinges shall fall on the head of Ioseph/ and on the
toppe of the head of him y^t was separat from his brethern.
Ben Iamin is a raueshynge wolfe. In the mornynge he shall deuoure his
praye/ ãd at nyghte he shall deuyde his spoyle.
All these are the .xij. tribes of Israel/ & this is that which their
father spake vnto them whẽ he blessed them/ euery man with a severall
blessinge. And he charged them and sayde vnto them. I shall be put
vnto my people: se that ye burye me with my fathers/ in the caue that
is in the felde of Ephron the Hethyte/ in the double caue that is in
the felde before Mamre in the lande of Canaan. Which felde Abraham
boughte of Ephron the Hethite for a possessiõ to burye in. There they
buryed Abrahã and Sara his wyfe/ there they buryed Isaac & Rebecca his
wyfe. And there I buried Lea: which felde & the caue that is therin/
was bought of the childern of Heth.
When Iacob had commaunded all that he wold vnto his sonnes/ he plucked
vp his fete apon the bedd and dyed/ and was put vnto his people. And
Ioseph fell apon his fathers face/ and wepte apon him/ and kyssed him.
The .l. Chapter.
And Ioseph commaunded his seruauntes that were Phisicions/ to embawme
his father/ and the Physiciõs ẽbawmed Israel .xl. dayes lõge/ for so
lõge doth y^e embawminge last/ & the Egiptians bewepte him .lxx. dayes.
And when the dayes of wepynge were ended/ Ioseph spake vnto y^e house
of Pharao saynge: Yf I haue founde fauoure in youre eyes/ speake vnto
Pharao and tell him/ how that my father made me swere and sayde: loo/
I dye/ se that thou burye me in my graue which I haue made me in the
lande of Canaan. Now therfore let me goo and burye my father/ ãd thã
will I come agayne. And Pharao sayde/ goo and burye thy father/
acordynge as he made the swere.
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