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therfore let they saye vnto him: Thy father commaunded before his death, and sayde:

And his brethren wente, and fell downe before him, and sayde: Beholde, here are we thy seruauntes.

Thus dwelt Ioseph in Egipte with his fathers house, and lyued an hudreth and ten yeare,

And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren: I dye, and God wyl vyset you, and brynge you out of this lande, to the lande that he sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

These are ye names of the childre of Israel, that came with Iacob into Egipte: euery one came in wt his house,

Now wha Ioseph was deed, and all his brethren, and all they that lyued at that tyme,

and sayde vnto his people: Beholde, the people of the children of Israel are many, & mightier then we:

Then Pharao commauded all his people and sayde: All the sonnes that are borne, cast in to the water, but let all the doughters lyue.

But his sister stode a farre of, to wete what wolde come of him.

Then sayde his syster vnto Pharaos doughter: Shal I go, and call the a nurse of the Hebrues wemen, to nurse ye the childe?

Vpon a tyme whan Moses was greate, he wente forth vnto his brethren, and loked vpon their burthens, and sawe, that an Egipcia smote one of his brethren ye Hebrues.

He sayde vnto his doughters. Where is he? Wherfore let ye the man go, that ye called him not to eate with vs?

And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gaue Moses his doughter Zipora,

And their crye ouer their labor, came before God. And God herde their coplaynte, & remebred his couenaunt with Abraham Isaac and Iacob.

Moses kepte the shepe of Iethro his father in lawe prest of Madian, & droue the shepe on the backsyde of the wyldernes, and came to the mountayne of God, Horeb.

Whan the LORDE sawe, that he wente his waye to se, God called vnto him out of the bush, and sayde: Moses, Moses. He answered: Here am I.

And he sayde morouer: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, ye God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. And Moses couered his face, for he was afrayed to loke vpon God.

Moses sayde vnto God: Beholde, whan I come to the childre of Israel, and saye vnto them: The God of youre fathers hath sent me vnto you, & they saye vnto me: What is his name? what shal I saye vnto them?

But ye LORDE saide vnto him: Stretch forth thine hande, & take it by the tayle. Then stretched he forth his hande, and toke it, and it became a staff agayne in his hande.

And the LORDE sayde furthermore vnto him: Thrust thine hade in to yi bosome. And he thrust it in to his bosome, & toke it out: beholde, the was it leper like snowe.