The family of
Shem.
Noe, ſem, arfaxath, ſale,
Heber, phaleth, ðe ſexte iſ he,
Reu, ſaruch, nacor, thare,
ðiſ iſ ðe tende fro noe. 704
[Fol. 14b.]
Ðis oðer werldes elde iſ ſo,
A ðhuſent ger ſeuenti and two.
The third age of
the world began
when Terah begat
Abram.
ðe ðridde werldeſ elde cam,
Quanne thare bi-gat abram; 708
for he bi-gat a ſune aram,
Nachor midleſt, laſt ab_ra_m;
Haran begat Lot
and Sarai and
Milcah.
Aram bi-gat loth, and ſarray,
And melcham, and waſ ſort leui 712
They dwelt in Ur
of the Chaldees.
In lond caldea, hur hicte ðe tun,
Q_u_or deades ſtrenge warp him dun;
Much strife was
there between
father and brother,
children
and wife.
ðor fader, and breðere, and childre, and wif,
Him bi-ſtoden wið ſorwes ſtrif; 716
ðo ðogte thare on hiſ mod,
Terah did not
care to remain
long in this town.
long bigging iſ here nogt god.
Nachor he gaf wif melcam,
And trewe ſarray abram. 720
Abram having no
children adopted
Lot as his son.
Q_ua_nne abram wurð wiſ and war
ðat ſarray non childre ne bar,
He toc him loth on ſunes ſtede;
He waſ hiſe neve, wol wel he dede. 724
Terah left Ur and
came to Haran in
Mesopotamia.
Thare let hur, and ðeðen he nam,
And wulde to lond canahan,
Cam i_n_to a burgt[121] ðat het aram,
In londe meſopothaniam. 728
With him he took
his sons and
daughters.
Wið him ledde he nachor, melcam,
Sarray, loth, and abram.
[Fol. 15.]
Tho[122] hundred ger and fifue mo,
Terah died when
he was two hundred
and five
years old.
Thare waſ old, ſtarf he ðo. 732
Tereſ gliden for herteſ ſor
fro loth, and abram, and nachor;
He lies buried in
Haran.
Thare lið biried in aram.
[121] _read_ burg
[122] _read_ two