The Birth of Esau and Jacob
| Get men seyn164 ðat abraham, ſiðen calde agar ceturam, | Men say that Abraham called Hagar Keturah. |
| And ſge bar him ſiðen ſex ſunen; 1448 Abraham dede hem ſiðen ſundri wunen; fer eſt fro cratonidé, Weren he ſpred to ðe rede se. Yſaac he let al hiſ god, 1452 for he waſ bi-geten of kinde blod. | She bore him seven sons. |
| An hundred ger hold and ſeuenti And.v. he waſ leid ſarram bi. boðen yſaac and yſmael 1456 Him bi-ſtoden wurlike and wel. | Abraham died at the age of 175. |
| On hundred ger and.xxxvij. Liuede yſmael and waſ ðor bi. | Ishmael was 137 years old when he died. |
| Yſaac waſ hold.xl. ger 1460 Quanne rebecca cam him ner; Longe it waſ or ghe him child bar, | [Fol. 29.] Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife. |
| And he bad god, quanne he it wurð war, ðat he ſulde fillen ðat quede 1464 ðat he165 abraham quilum dede. ðo wurð rebecca childre bere, | Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, who was barren. |
| ðat ghe felte ful time in gere; At on burdene ghe under-stod 1468 two ðe weren hire ſibbe blod; Alſe ðhute hire day and nigt, | Rebekah conceived. |
| Alſe he wrogten and figt, Queðer here ſulde birðen bi-foren. | The children struggled together within her. |
| 1472 Oc eſau waſ firmeſt boren, And iacob ſone after, ic wot, for ðat he heldim bi ðe fot. | Esau was the first born, and Jacob was born soon after. |
| Sexti ger yſaac waſ old, 1476 Quan ðiſ tidi[n]g him waſ told; Ghe was abraham liues her, After ðiſ, fiftene ger. | Sixty years was Isaac at this time. |
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Notes
164 seyn is at the side in a later hand.
165 In a later hand at the side.