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The i. boke of Mo& The xiij. Chap. ⁊ &#383;ayde: This londe wil I geue vnto yi &#383;ede. And there he buylded an aulter vnto ye LORDE, which appeared vnto him. The&#772; brake he vp fro&#772; thēce, vnto a mountayne yt laye on ye ea&#383;t &#383;yde of the cite of Bethel, ⁊ pitched his tent: &#383;o yt he had Bethel on the we&#383;t ſide, and Ay on ye ea&#383;t &#383;yde: ⁊ there buylded he an altare alſo vnto the LORDE, ⁊ called vpon the name of the LORDE. Afterwarde departed Abram farther, ⁊ toke his iourneye &#383;outhwarde. But there came a derth in the londe. undefined Then wente Abram downe in to Egipte to kepe himſelf there as a &#383;traunger, for the derth was &#383;ore in the londe. And whan he was come nye for to entre in to Egipte, he &#383;ayde vnto Sarai his wife: Beholde, I knowe yt thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon. Now whan the Egipcians &#383;e the, they wil &#383;aye: She is his wife, and &#383;o &#383;hal they &#383;laye me, and &#383;aue the alyue. Therfore(I pray ye) &#383;aye thou art my &#383;i&#383;ter, that I maye fare the better by reaſon of the, and that my &#383;oule maye lyue for thy &#383;ake. undefined Now whan he came in to Egipte, ye Egipcians &#383;awe ye woman, yt &#383;he was very faire: &#x204a; Pharaos prynces &#383;awe her alſo, &#x204a; pray&#383;ed her before him. Then was &#383;he brought in to Pharaos houſe, and Abram was well intreated for hir &#383;ake: and he had ſhepe, oxe&#772;, and he A&#383;&#383;es, &#383;eruauntes, mayde&#772;s, &#383;he A&#383;&#383;es and Camels.

But ye LORDE plaged Pharao &#x204a; his hou&#383;e wt greate plages, becau&#383;e of Sarai Abra&#772;s wife. Then Pharao called Abra&#772; vnto him, and &#383;ayde: Why ha&#383;t thou dealt thus wt me? Wherfore tolde&#383;t thou not me at the fir&#383;t, yt &#383;he was thy wife? Why &#383;ayde&#383;t thou then, that ſhe was yi ſi&#383;ter? Wherfore I toke her to my wife. And now lo, there is yi wife, take her, and go thy waye. He gaue his officers al&#383;o a charge ouer him, to conveye him out, and his wife, and all that he had. undefined undefined O Abra&#772; departed out of Egipte, wt his wife, &#x204a; with all yt he had, &#x204a; Lot wt him al&#383;o, towarde ye &#383;outh. Abram was very rich in catell, ſiluer &#x204a; golde. And he wente on forth from the &#383;outh vnto Bethel, vnto the place where his tent was at ye fir&#383;t, betwene Bethel and Ay: euen vnto ye place where he had made the altare before, &#x204a; where he called vpon the name of the LORDE. Lot al&#383;o which wente with him, had ſhepe, greate catell &#x204a; tentes: &#383;o yt the londe was not able to receaue them, that they might dwell together: for the ſub&#383;taunce of their riches was &#383;o greate, that they coude not dwell together. And there fell a &#383;trife betwene the hirdmen of Abrams catell, and the hirdmen of Lots catell. The Cananites al&#383;o and the Phere&#383;ites dwelt at that tyme in the londe. undefined Then &#383;ayde Abram vnto Lot: O let there be no &#383;trife betwene me and the, and betwene my hyrdmen and thine, for we are brethre&#772;. Is not all the whole londe open before the? Departe fro me, I praye the. Yf thou wilt go to the left hande, I wil take the right: Or yf thou wilt go to the right hande, I wil take the left. Then Lot lift vp his eyes, and behelde all the countre rounde aboute Jorda&#772;, that it was a plenteous countre of water. For before the LORDE de&#383;troyed Sodoma and Gomorra, it was rounde aboute Zoar, euen as the pleaſaunt garden of the LORDE, and as the londe of Egipte. undefined Then Lot choſe all the coa&#383;tes of Jorda&#772;, and toke his iourney towarde ye Ea&#383;t. And &#383;o the one brother departed from the other. Abram dwelt in the lande of Canaan, and Lot in the cities of the &#383;ame coa&#383;tes, and pitched his tent towarde Sodome. But ye men of Sodome were wicked, and &#383;ynned exceadingly agayn&#383;t the LORDE.

Now whan Lot was departed from Abram, the LORDE &#383;aide vnto Abram: Lift vp thine eyes, and loke from the place where thou dwelleſt, northwarde, ſouthwarde, ea&#383;twarde, and we&#383;twarde: for all the londe that thou &#383;ei&#383;t, wyll I geue vnto the and to thy &#383;ede for euer, and wyll make thy &#383;ede as the du&#383;t of the earth: ſo that yf a man can nombre the du&#383;t of the earth, he &#383;hall nombre thy &#383;ede al&#383;o. Ari&#383;e, and go thorow the londe, in the length and bredth, for I wyl geue it vnto the.

So Abram remoued his tent, and wente and dwelt in ye Okegroue of Mamre, which is in Ebron, and buylded there an altare vnto the LORDE. undefined undefined Nd it chaun&#383;ed in the tyme of Amraphel the kynge of Synear, Arioch