And his brethern came ãd fell before him and sayde: beholde we be thy servauntes. And Ioseph sayde vnto them: feare not/ for am not I vnder god? Ye thoughte euell vnto me: but God turned it vnto good to bringe to passe/ as it is this daye/ euen to saue moch people a lyue Feare not therfore/ for I will care for you and for youre childern/ and he spake kyndly vnto them.
Ioseph dwelt in Egipte and his fathers house also/ ãd lyved an hundred & .x. yere. And Ioseph sawe Ephraims childern/ eu[~e] vnto the thyrde generation. And vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses were childern borne/ & satt on Iosephs knees.
And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: I die And God will suerlie vysett you and bringe you out of this lande/ vnto the lande which he sware vnto Abraham/ Isaac and Iacob. And Ioseph toke an ooth of the childern of Israel ãd sayde: God will not fayle but vysett you/ se therfore that ye carye my boones hence. And so Ioseph dyed/ when he was an hundred and .x. yere olde. And they enbawmed him and put him in a chest in Egipte.
Abrech/ tender father/ or as some will/ bowe the knee.
Areke/ a shippe made flatte as it were a chest or cofer.
Bisse: fyne whyte/ whether it be silke or linen.
Blesse: godes blessinges are his giftes/ as in the firste chaptre he blessed them saynge: growe & multiplye & haue dominion &c. And in the .ix. chaptre he blessed Noe & his sonnes & gaue th[~e] dominiõ over all beestes & authoryte to care th[~e] And God blessed Abrahã with catell ãd other ryches. And Iacob desyred Esau to receaue y^e blessinge which he brought him/ y^t is the preasent & gifte. God blessed the .vij. daye/ y^t is/ gaue it a prehemynence y^t men shuld rest therein from bodely laboure & lerne to know the will of god & his lawes & how to worke their workes godly all the weke after. God also blesseth all nations in Abrahams seed/ that is/ he turneth his loue & favoure vnto th[~e] and geveth th[~e] his spirite and knowledge of the true waye/ ãd lust and power to walke therin/ and all for christes sake Abrahams sonne.
Cain/ so is it writen in Hebrue. Notwithstõdinge whether we coll him Cain or caim it maketh no matter/ so we vnderstand the meaninge. Euery lande hath his maner/ that we call Ihon the welchemen call Evan: the douch hãce. Soch differ[~e]ce is betwene the Ebrue/ greke and laten: and that maketh them that translate out of the ebrue varye in names from them that translate out of laten or greke.