1 Chronicles · Chapter 25

[ edit] Dauiþ þan, and þe mayſterhed of þe hooſt, deſeuereden in to þe ſeruyce þe ſonys of Aſaph, and Eman, and Yditym, þe whiche ſchulden prophecien in harpis, and ſawtrees, and cymbalis, aftir þeir noumbre, ſeruynge to þe office halowed to hem. Of þe ſonis of Aſaph; Zacur, and Joſeph, and Naþanye, and Azarela; þe ſonis of Aſaph vndir þe hond of Azaph prophecyinge beſide þe kyng. Forſoþe of Yditym þe ſonis; Yditym, Godolias, Soori, Jeſias, and Sabaias, and Maþatias, ſixe; vndir þe hond of his fadir Yditym, þe whiche propheciede in harpe vpon men knowlechyng and preyſynge þe Lord.

Of Heman alſo þe ſonys; Heman, Buccian, Maþania, Ezihel, Subuel, and Geriymoþ, and Ananya, Anam, Eliaþa, Gaeldoþi, and Romenþi, Ezer, and Jeſbachaſi, Meloþiaþir, Mazioþ; alle þes þe ſonys of Heman, þe ſeeris of þe kyng in þe wordis of God, þat þe horne he enhaunce. And God ȝaf to Eman ſonis fouretene, and douȝtirs þre. Alle vndir þe hond of þeir fadir, to ſyngyn in þe temple of þe Lord þei weren aſſygned, in cymbalis, and ſawtrees, and harpis, in to þe ſeruyces of þe hous of þe Lord beſyde þe kyng, Aſaph þat is, and Yditym, and Eman. Forſoþe þe noumbre of hem wiþ þeir breþeren, þat tauȝten þe ſong of þe Lord, alle doctours, was two hundriþ and foure ſcore and eiȝt.

And þei leyden lottis by þeir whilis euenly, as wele more as laſſe, þe tauȝt and vntauȝt to gyder.

And þe firſt lott of Joſeph is gone out, þat was of Aſaph; þe ſecounde of Godolie, to hym, and to his ſonis and to his briþeren twelue; þe þridde of Zaccus, to his ſonys and to his briþeren twelue; þe ferþe of Yſan, to his ſonis and to his breþeren twelue; þe fyfte of Naþanye, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe ſixte of Beccian, to þe ſonys and his breþeren, twelue; þe ſeuenþe of Yſraela, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe eiȝþe of Yſaye, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe nynþe of Maþanye, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe tenþe of Semeie, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe elleuenþe of Eſrael, to þe ſonis and his breþeren twelue; þe twelfþe of Aſabie, to þe ſonis and his breþeren twelue; þe þrittenþe of Subahul, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe fouretenþe of Maþatie, to þe ſonis and his breþeren twelue; þe fyftenþe of Jerymoþ, to þe ſonis and his breþeren twelue; þe ſextenþe of Ananye, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe ſeuentenþe of Jeſbocaſe, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe eyȝtenþe of Amyham, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe nyntenþe of Mellochu, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe twentiþe of Eliaþa, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe oon and twentiþe of Oþer, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe two and twentiþe of Godoliaþi, to þe ſonis and his breþeren twelue; þe þre and twentiþe of Maſuyþ, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue; þe foure and twentiþe of Romanaþiezer, to þe ſonys and his breþeren twelue.