Who can tell the dust of Iacob and the numbre of the fourth parte of Israell. I pray God that my soul may dye the death of the rightuous and that my laste ende may be lyke his.
And I heard a voice from heauen, sayinge vnto me: wryte. Blessed are the dead, whyche here after dye in the Lorde euen so sayth the spyryte, that they may reste from their laboures, but their workes shal folowe them.
We knowe surelye yf oure earthy mansyon wherin we nowe dwell were destroyed, that we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God an habitacyon not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.
So that the hole numbre of all that pertayned vnto the hoste of Dan, was an hundred thousande .lvij. thousande & .vi. hundred. And they shal be the last in that iourney with theyr standertes.
Al the numbre that pertayned to the host of Ephraim, were an hundred thousand .viij. thousand and an hundred in their hostes: & they shalbe the thyrd in the iourney.
So that all they that pertayne vnto the hoste of Iuda are an hundred thousand .lxxxvi. thousand and .iiij. hundred, in theyr companyes: and these shall go into the forefronte, when they iourney.
And thy sede shal be as the dust of the earth: and thou shalt spreade abrode: weste, easte, north, and south. And thorowe the and thy sede shal al the kynreds of the earth be blessed.
that I wyll blesse the & multiplie thy seed as the starres of heauen and as the sande vpon the sea syde. And thy seed shall possesse the gates of hys enymies.
Soo that all the numbre that pertayne vnto the hoste of Ruben, are an hundred thousande .li. thousande .iiij. hundred and fyfte wt theyr companyes, and they shall be the seconde in the iourney.
And they slewe the kynges of Madian amonge other that were slayne: Eui, Rehem, zur, Hur & Reba: fyue kynges of Madian. And they slew Balaam the sonne of Beor with the swerde.