Abraham went
home joyful and
glad.
He wente bliðe and fagen agen,
To berſabe he gunne teen, 1344
Sarra waſ fagen in kindes wune,
ðat [hire][155] bilef ðat dere ſune.
While at Beersheba
he heard
good tidings of
Nahor.
Ðor q_u_iles abraham wunede ðor,
Him cam good tiding of nachor, 1348
ðat melca bar him egte ſunen;
Huz was Nahor's
first-born.
Huſ waſ eldeſt, if we rigt munen.
Job came of his
kin.
Rigt-wiſ iob cam of hiſ kin,
Hus lond he waſ riche wid-hin;[156] 1352
Of Buz came the
Buzites, Eliv and
Balaam.
Of[157] buz, hiſ broðeres kin, cam
Buzites, Eliv, Balaam.
[Fol. 27.]
Abraham went
again to Mamre.
Abraham, riche of welðe and wale,
wente a-gen in to manbre dale; 1356
Sarah died being
127 years old.
Sarra ðo ſtarf, an hundred ger old
And ſeuene and .xx. winter told.
Abraham sent
Eliezer to Mesopotamia,
Abraham ſente eliezer
to lond meſopotanie fer, 1360
To caram ðor iſ fader lay,
(Or he cam ðor waſ manie day)
to fetch a wife
for Isaac.
To fechen yſaac hom a wif,
Of hiſ kinde ðe ðor waſ in lif. 1364
Ten camels he
took with him.
Ten kameles ſemeð[158] forð he nam,
Eliezer came to
a well without
the city.
Wið michel ſwinc he ðider cam
At a welle wið-uten ðe tun;
ðor he leide hiſe ſemes dun, 1368
He there prayed
to God to send
him good speed.
ðor he wulde him reſten and ben,
Sum good tiding heren or ſen.
"Lou_er_d god," q_u_að he mildelike,
"min erdne ðu forðe ſelðhelike, 1372
ðiſ dai me lene hire to ſen,
ðat ſal yſaaces leman ben."
He offered his
prayer in a good
time.
He bad hiſe bede on good ſel.
Rebecca, bi-geten of batuel, 1376
[155] MS. hire is written over in the later hand.
[156] _read_ wið-hin
[157] MS. "Ob."
[158] _read_ ſemede?