Genesis · Chapter 33

[ edit] Jacob forſoþe heuynge vp þe eyen ſawȝ Eſau comynge, and wiþ hym foure hundrid men; and he departide þe ſones of Lya, and of Rachel, and of boþ his ſeruauntis. And he putte eiþer handmayden, and þe fre children of hem, in þe bigynnynge; Lya forſoþe in þe ſecounde place, and þe ſones of hyr; Rachel and Joſeph laſte. And he bifore goynge anouride bowide into þe erþe ſeuenſiþes, to þe tyme þat þe broþer of hym ſhulde neiȝ. And ſo Eſau rennynge to meete wiþ his broþer, cleppide hym, and ſtreynynge hys necke and kiſſynge wepte. And þe eyen heued vp, ſawȝ wymmen, and þe children of hem, and ſeiþ, What to hem wiln þes? and if þei perteynen to þee?

He anſweride, Litil children þei ben, whom God haþ ȝouun to me, þi ſeruaunt. And neiȝynge þe handmaydens and þe ſones of hem, ben doun bowid. And Lya wiþ hir children com nerre; and whanne þe ſame maner þei hadden anowrned, þe laſte Joſeph and Rachel anowryden. And Eſau ſeide, What forſoþe ben þes companyes þat Y mette? He anſwerde, Þat I ſhulde fynde grace bifore my lord. And he ſeiþ, Y haue many þingis, broþer myne, ben þi þingis to þee.

Jacob ſeide, Nyl þow ſo, Y preye, but if Y haue foundun grace in þin eyen, taak a litil ȝift of myn hoondis; ſo forſoþe Y haue ſeyn þi face as Y ſe þe chere of God; be þow to me benygne, and taak þe bliſſyng þat Y haue brouȝt to þee, and þat God delyuerynge alle þingis haþ ȝouun to me. Vnneþ, þe broþer compellynge, takynge ſeiþ, Goo we togideres, and Y ſhal be felowe of þi weye.

And Jacob ſeyde, My lord, þow haſt knowun þat Y haue tender litil children, and ſheep, and oxen ful wombe wiþ ynne, þe whiche if more yn goynge Y do to traueyl, þei ſhulen o day alle þe flockis dyen; my lord go bifore his ſeruaunt, and Y ſhal folwe litil mele þe ſteppis of hym, as Y ſe my litil children to mowen, to þe tyme þat Y come to my lord, in Seyr. Eſau anſweride, Y preye þee, þat of þe puple þat is wiþ me, algatis felawis dwellen of þi weye. It is not, he ſeiþ, nede; þis oon oonlich Y nede, þat Y fynde grace in þi ſiȝt, lord myne. And ſo Eſau is turned aȝen þat day in þe weye þat he come, into Seyr.

And Jacob com into Sachot, where a hows bild, and þe tentis fycchid, he clepide þe name of þat place Sachot, þat is, tabernaclis. And he paſſide forþ into Salem, þe cite of Sychymor, þat is in þe loond of Chanaan, aftir þat he was turned aȝen fro Meſopotany of Syrye, and dwellide biſydis þe wallid town; and bouȝt a parti of þe feeld, in þe which he ficchide tabernaclis, of þe ſones of Emor, þe fader of Sichym, wiþ an hundrid lombis. And þere, an auter reryd, he inwardly clepide vpon þe mooſt ſtrong God of Iſrael.