535. #rad#: comp. ‘And iacob was of weie rad,’ GE 1783.

536. #abuten#, making a detour: ‘timentes bella deuiauerunt a recto

itinere veneruntque ad aream azad,’ C. #adad#: ‘atad,’ Vulgate and LXX;

not in Codex Amiatinus.

539. #numen#, proceeded: comp. 13/28, 178/78, 179/113, 187/369; ‘And

ðeðen he nam to mirie dale,’ GE 745, and often. There is an ellipsis of

wei; comp. 206/305. So ‘his weige ðeðen ches,’ GE 2736, compared with

‘Anon of lond he ches,’ Sir Tristrem 2221.

541. #ouer pharan#: not in Comestor or the Vulgate; comp. GE 1248. The

desert of Paran on the west side of the Dead Sea is meant.