if thou dost evell/ by & by thy synne lyeth open in the dore. Not withstondyng let it be subdued vnto the/ ãd see thou rule it. And Cain talked wyth Abell his brother.
And as soone as they were in the feldes/ Cain fell vppon Abell his brother and slewe hym And ye LORde sayd vnto Cain: where is Abell thy brother? And he sayd: I can not tell/ am I my brothers keper? And he sayd: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth vnto me out of the erth. And now cursed be thou as pertaynyng to the erth/ which opened hyr mouth to receaue thy brothers bloud of thyne hande. For when thou tyllest the grounde she shall hẽceforth not geve hyr power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the erth.
* Of this place no doute ye pope which in all thinges maketh hĩ self equal with God toke an occasion to marke all his creatures: and to forbid vnder payne of excõmunicatiõ yt no mã (whether he were kĩge or emperowre) be so hardy to punishe them for what so euer myschef they doo. The crowne is to thẽ a licence to do what they wyste a protectiõ & a sure sentuarye.
And Cain sayd vnto the LORde: my synne is greater/ then that it may be forgeven. Beholde thou castest me out thys day from of the face of the erth/ and frõ thy syghte must I hyde my selfe ãd I must be wandrynge and a vagabunde vpon the erth: Morover whosoever fyndeth me/ wyll kyll me. And the LORde sayd vnto hĩ Not so/ but whosoever sleyth Cain shalbe punyshed .vij. folde. And ye LORde put * a marke vpõ Cain that no mã yt founde hym shulde kyll hym. And Cain went out frõ the face of the LORde and dwelt in the lande Nod/ on the east syde of Eden.
And Cain laye wyth hys wyfe/ which conceaved and bare Henoch. And he was buyldinge a cyte and called the name of it after the name of hys sonne/ Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad. And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat Lamech.
And Lamech toke hym two wyves: the one was called Ada/ and the other Zilla. And Ada bare Iabal/ of whome came they that dwell in tentes ãd possesse catell. And hys brothers name was Iubal: of hym came all that excercyse them selves on the harpe and on the organs And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker in metall and a father of all that grave in brasse and yeron. And Tubalcains syster was called Naema.
Then sayd Lamech vnto hys wyves Ada ãd Zilla: heare my voyce ye wyves of Lamech and herken vnto my wordes/ for I haue slayne a man and wounded myselfe/ and haue slayn a yongman/ and gotte my selfe strypes: For Cain shall be avenged sevenfolde: but Lamech seventie tymes sevenfolde.
¶ Adam also laye with hys wyfe yet agayne/ and she bare a sonne ãd called hys name Seth For god (sayd she) hath geven me a nother sonne For Abell whom Cain slewe. And Seth begat a sonne and called hys name Enos. And in that tyme began men to call on the name of the LORde.
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THys is the boke of the generacion of man/ In the daye when God created man and made hym after the symilytude of god Male and female made he thẽ and called their names man/ in the daye when they were created. And when Adam was an hundred and thyrty yere old/ he begat a sonne after hys lycknesse and symilytude: and called hys name Seth. And the dayes of Adam after he begat Seth/ were eyght hundred yere/ and begat sonnes and doughters. and all the dayes of Adam which he lyved/ were .ix. hundred and .xxx. yere/ and then he dyed.
And Seth lyved an hundred and .v. yeres/ and begat Enos. And after he had begot Enos he lyved .viij. hundred and .vij. yere/ and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Seth were .ix. hundred and .xij. yere/ and dyed.
And Enos lyved .lxxxx. yere and begat kenan. And Enos after he begat kenan/ lyved viij. hundred and .xv. yere/ and begat sonnes and doughters: and all the dayes of Enos were .ix hundred and .v. yere/ and than he dyed.
And kenan lyued .lxx. yere and begat Mahalaliel. And kenan after he had begot Mahalaliel/ lyved .viij. hundred and .xl. yere and begat sonnes and doughters: and al the dayes of kenan were .ix. hundred and .x. yere/ and than he dyed.
And Mahalaliel lyued .lxv. yere/ and begat Iared. And Mahalaliel after he had begot Iared lyved .viij. hundred and .xxx. yere and begat sonnes and doughters: and all the dayes of Mahalalyell were .viij. hundred nynetye and .v. yeare/ and than he dyed
And Iared lyved an hundred and .lxij. yere and begat Henoch: and Iared lyved after he begat Henoch .viij. hundred yere and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Iared were .ix. hundred and .lxij. yere/ and than he dyed.
And Henoch lyved .lxv. yere ãd begat Mathusala. And Henoch walked wyth god after he had begot Mathusala .iij. hundred yere/ and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Henoch were .iij. hundred and .lxv. yere. and than Henoch lyved a godly lyfe/ and was nomore sene/ for God toke hym away.
And Mathusala lyved an hundred and lxxxvij. yere and begat Lamech: and Mathusala after he had begot Lamech/ lyved .vij. hundred and .lxxxij. yere/ ãd begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Methusala were .ix. hundred .lxix yere/ and than he dyed.
And Lamech lyved an hundred .lxxxij. yere & begat a sonne and called hym Noe sayng. This same shall comforte vs: as concernynge oure worke and sorowe of oure handes which we haue aboute the erthe that the LORde hath cursed. And Lamech lyved after he had begot Noe v. hundred/ nynetie and .v. yere/ and begat sonnes and doughters. And all the dayes of Lamech were .vij. hundred .lxxvij. yere/ and than he dyed. And when Noe was .v. hundred yere olde/ he begat Sem/ Ham and Iaphet.
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ANd it came to passe/ whã men begã to multiplye apõ the erth ãd had begot them doughters/ the sonnes of God sawe the doughters of men that they were fayre/ and toke vnto them wyves/ which they best liked amõge thẽ all. And the LORd sayd: My spirite shall not all waye stryve withe man/ for they are flesh. Nevertheles I wyll geue them yet space/ and hundred and .xx. yeres
There were tirantes in the world in thos dayes. For after that the children of God had gone in vnto the doughters of men and had begotten them childern/ the same childern were the mightiest of the world and men of renowne And whan the LORde sawe yt the wekednesse of man was encreased apon the erth/ and that all the ymaginacion and toughtes of his hert was only evell continually/ he repented that he had made man apon the erth and sorowed in his hert. And sayd: I wyll destroy mankynde which I haue made/ frõ of the face of the erth: both man/ beast/ worme and foule of the ayre/ for it repẽteth me that I haue made them. But yet Noe found grace in the syghte of the LORde.
These are the generatiõs of Noe. Noe was a righteous man and vncorrupte in his tyme/ & walked wyth god. And Noe begat .iij. sonnes: Sem/ Ham and Iapheth And the erth was corrupte in the syghte of god and was full of mischefe. And God loked vpon the erth/ ãd loo it was corrupte: for all flesh had corrupte his way vppon the erth.
Than sayd God to Noe: the end of all flesh is come before me/ for the erth is full of there myschefe. And loo/ I wyll destroy them with the erth. Make the an arcke of pyne tree/ and make chaumbers in the arcke/ and pytch it wythin and wythout wyth pytch. And of this facion shalt thou make it.
The lenth of the arcke shall be .iij. hundred cubytes/ ãd the bredth of it .l. cubytes/
