[Fol. 80.]
Joshua is appointed
to succeed
him.
God hem andſwerede, "ioſue
Ic wile ben loder-man aft_er_ ðe;
Tac him bi-foren eleazar,
ðat al ðin folc wurð war, 4112
And ðine hondes ley him on,
Sey him on ðin ſtede to gon."
Alſ it is boden, alſo he dede,
Ioſue wurð ſet on hiſe ſtede. 4116
When Moses was
on Abarim, God
showed him the
promised land.
Ðo moyſes was on abarim,
ðat lond hoten god tawned him.
ðor q_u_iles him leſten liue dages,
Hiſ he tagte leue lages, 4120
Moses' song, setting
forth God's
vengeance
And writen hem, haueð[391] iſ hem bitagt,
Bute-if he iſ loken he_m_ beð agt,[392]
Erðe and heuene he wittneſſe tooc,
And wrot an canticle on ðat booc, 4124
upon those who
would not serve
Him truly.
ðat ðreated ðo men bitter-like
ðe god ne ſeruen luue-like.
ðo .xii. twelue kinderedes, on and on,
The blessings of
the twelve tribes.
He gaf bliſcing bi-leue gon; 4128
At munt nemboc on ðat knol faſga,
Wane he was ſtigen ðeðen ðoa,
Sag ðe lond of p_ro_miſſion,
ðurg god[393] hi_m_ was ſiðen ðat on. 4132
Moses dies in
Moab, and is
buried by angels'
hands.
ðer he ſtarf i_n_ne. ðe moab lond,
His bodi was biried wið angeles hond,
[Fol. 80b.]
No man ever
found his body.
ðer non man ſiðen it ne fond,
In to lef reſte hiſ ſowle wond. 4136
Ebrius ſeigen, ðuſ waſ bi-tid,
It was thus hid,
ðat moyſes waſ hem ðuſ hid,
for, migten he finden ðe ſtede,
that the people
might not afterwards
worship it.
Q_u_or engel-wird hiſ liche dede, 4140
fele ſulden him leuen on,
And leten god; ðat were miſ-don.
[391] MS. haued.
[392] MS. beð beð agt.
[393] MS. goð.