THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 
 GIFT OF 
 
 Charles Fenn
 
 THE HISTORY 
 
 OF PSYCHE 
 
 FROM RAPHAEL'S DRAWINGS, 
 
 ETCHED ON STEEL 
 
 BY REVEIL; 
 
 BY M. LEMOLT PHAXARY. 
 
 LONDON. 
 CHARLES TILT, 86, FLEET STREET. 
 
 1832.
 
 PARIS. PRIMED BY FAIN
 
 LES AMOURS 
 
 DE PSYCHE 
 
 D'APRES RAPHAEL. 
 
 X GRAVURES SUR ACIER, 
 
 PAR REVE1L; 
 
 A TEC UKK NOUVEI. I. B HISTOIHE DE PSYC 
 
 PAR M. LEMOLT PHALARY, 
 
 PARIS. 
 AUUOT, ED1TEUR, 
 
 RUE DU PAOH, K. 8, ECOLE DE MEDEC1HE. 
 1832.
 
 
 I'AKIS. _ IMPRIMKUIK ET FONDERJE DE FAH , 
 
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 PREFACE. MC 4'rrS 
 
 RAPHAEL, THE HISTORIAN or PSYCHE , that elegant mother 
 of voluptuousness the delight of Gods and Men * pos- 
 sessed the fortunate or rare talent of being able to exchange 
 his Holy Families , and Chaste Virgins, his subjects of Catho- 
 licism, and serious poetry, for the style of that of a relater 
 of sensual tales. 
 
 In undertaking to complete and ornament the Apuleum 
 the painter of Urban has chosen a path where it becomes de- 
 lightful to follow him, aiid it is to point out the way, that 
 the text of this publication particularly directs the attention. 
 
 * La Fontaine. 
 
 
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 AVANT-PROPOS. 
 
 RAPHAEL, HtsTOKiEN BE PSYCHE, cctte gracicuse mere de la 
 voluple charme de* dieux eldes hommes * ; "Raphael passant 
 de ses Saintes Families et de ses Vierges pudiques , du catho- 
 licisme et de sa severe poesie , aux voluptueuses imaginations 
 d'un gai conteur : c'est la une vraie Lonne fortune. En se 
 chargeant de comple'ter et d'enrichir Apulee, le peintre 
 d'Urbin s'est place sur un terrain , ou il devient piquant 
 de le suivre, et c'est a preparer les voies que s'attache 
 uniquement le teste joint a cette publication. 
 
 * La Fontaine.
 
 We have already announced that the Museum of Painting 
 and Sculpture, would terminate at the i68'h. number, excep- 
 ting the addition of the boxes of the Vatican, and the history 
 of Psyche after. Raphael, as also the loves of the Gods, after 
 Titian, and Guilio Romano, which had not been treated of, 
 in the course of the publication. 
 
 As we still wait for designs of foreign Museums, to com- 
 plete the numbers from 168 to 168 we shall substitute (as 
 they are engraved ) the collections of Raphael, Titian, and 
 Guilio Romano, which are in a much more forward state. 
 
 These three collections ( which will form namely, the 
 Vatican , nine numbers, the history of Psyche, six num- 
 bers , and the loves of the Gods, three numbers ) , will each 
 compose a particular series.
 
 Nous avons annonce dans notre dernier avis que le Musee 
 de peinlure et de sculpture serait termine a la i68 e . livrai- 
 son , plus les Loges du Vatican et les amours de Psjche 
 d'apres Raphael , ainsi que les amours des Dieux d'apres 
 Titien et Jules Romain qui n'avaient pas etc disse'mines dans 
 le cours des livraisons. 
 
 Comme nous attendons encore des dessins de muse'es 
 etrangers pour completer les livraisons iG3 a 168, nous 
 allons faire alterner avec ces livraisons a mesure qu'elles se- 
 ront gravees, les collections de Raphael, Titien et Jules Ro- 
 main dont la gravure est plus avancee. 
 
 Ces trois collections qui formeront , savoir : les Loges 
 neuf livraisons, les amours de Psjche, six livraisons; et 
 les amours des Dieux, trois livraisons porteront chacune 
 une se'rie particuliere de numero.
 
 From the time of the regeneration of the arts , painters 
 Lave uniformly selected their subjects from the old or new 
 Testament, or in the chronicles of the Saints. Raphael at 
 first followed the same plan , in! painting pious subjects, iu 
 addition to which, a particular feeling which he entertained 
 of devotion to the Virgin , induced him as they say, so often 
 to represent the subject of the Holy Family, which his talent 
 knew how to vary continually, and always in the most de- 
 lightful manner. 
 
 Raphael was but 25 years of age when he was called to 
 Rome , by Pope Julius the second, and ordered to paint the 
 chamber of signature. 
 
 His first work was the dispute of the Holy Sacrament, in 
 which is found in a great degree the same simplicity as in 
 the works of the artists his predecessors , a cold composition, 
 heads full of ingenuousness , the greater part of which are 
 portraits without expression. 
 
 The costumes however, do not resemble altogether those 
 worn by ecclesiastics and magistrates of that time; the pain- 
 ter has given them an air of too much grandeur^ and has 
 made them resemble too much in their drapery the antique 
 figures which were discovered daily, and which were un- 
 ceasingly studied. 
 
 It appears that the ideas, and talent of the painter were 
 ennobled, when he made the beautiful fresco, so well known 
 under the name of the School of Athens. His genius in 
 this vast composition, knew how to present with justness 
 and truth those illustrious philosophers , in attitudes as noble 
 as expressive, persons whom Greece honoured so greatly. 
 
 The strict intimacy which Raphael had afterwards the 
 opportunity of forming with illustrious learned characters, 
 
 Psyche. i .
 
 
 such as Bibienna and Bembo, as also, wilh (he amiable 
 and willy Count Ballbasar Castiglione enabled bim to feel 
 the advantage that migbt be derived from painling subjects 
 from the tales of tbe ancient poets. He tberefore began to 
 trace wilh bis pencil some of those scenes tbe conversa- 
 tions of his learned friends had suggested and wbicb he duly 
 appreciated. One of these, Augustin Chigi , considered as the 
 richest merchant of that period, employed part of bis im- 
 mense fortune in tfultiv.it ing tbe arts 
 
 There was not at this time says, M. Quatremere-de-Quincy in 
 his history of Raphael, any chief of a noble family, who was 
 rich, but bad the ambition to bequeath to future ages a du- 
 rable monument of his fleeting existence. This was a dwel- 
 Jiug, in the architecture of which, sums were expended that 
 elsewhere and since, are devoted by the rich, to trifling su- 
 perfluities. To engrave one's name on the door of one's 
 bouse, with the dale of it's construction , was an equivalent 
 for those forms which assure the possession of wealth in a 
 family. It is owing to this custom that we are now able to 
 visit in many of the towns of Italy, dwellings more or less 
 costly, distinguished many ages ago, by the residence of 
 persons who were celebrated in different ways. 
 
 Auguslin Cbigi had then the desire of ihus perpetuating 
 bis remembrance , in a palace worthy of bim, and of bis 
 name , as also ihe renown that posterity gives him of being 
 a man of taste. 
 
 Having purchased a desirable spot in the quarter of Trans- 
 Tevere, he made choice of tbe celebrated Balthasar Peruzzi 
 of Sienna, to erect for him on this ground a building more 
 remarkable for the elegance of it's architecture, than for its 
 size. To speak of BalthasarPeruzzi itistorecal ihe idea of lhat 
 charming slyle of building, after the antique, a taste for 
 which, as we have already stated, Raphael had imbibed. 
 But Ballhasar ought to be considered as the Raphael of
 
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 architecture , no one better than he, knew how to avail him- 
 self of the style and traditions relating to the architecture of 
 the ancients, or Letter to suit it to the period in which he 
 flourished , as to the introduction of it in private dwellings. 
 The style of these edifices carries one back, twenty ages in 
 antiquity, and we imagine that if an inhabitant of ancient 
 Rome should revisit the modern one, he would only find 
 himself at home, in entering one of the houses built by this 
 architect, and especially in the palace of Augustin Chigi. 
 But he would perhaps be surprised at sight of the delightful 
 entrance hall , which would receive him ! It is doubtful if 
 formerly painting lavished such beauty on the simple atrium 
 of a palace. 
 
 It is in a vestibule of this species of construction, which 
 now bears the name of Farnesine, that Raphael painted in 
 fresco probably in i5i4, the history of Cupid and Psyche. 
 Probably, whilst the architect was engaged in the building, 
 the painter was preparing his compositions, and perhaps 
 also, in order to be acquainted with all the details of the 
 latin poet's invention , he had recourse to some celebrated 
 literary character of his time, in all probability to Balthazar 
 Casliglione, at least, this is what we may infgjj-from a letter 
 written by Raphael to this Count , in which he says I have 
 done the outline of the subjects you pointed out, in more 
 than one way, and if I am not flattered, they will meet with 
 general approbation. For my part, I carefully abstain from 
 relying on my own judgment, I am also afraid of not obtain- 
 ing your approbation. I send them to you , select some of 
 them, if any deserve your choice. It is thus at least that 
 we must explain , how it happens that Raphael has composed 
 the same subject differently, in order to choose the scenes 
 and compositions the most suitable, (o ornament the Farne- 
 sine Palace; with this view he prepared the interesting 
 outlines engraved with such great care, under the eyes of
 
 Marc-Antoine, by his pupils Augustin Venitien, B. Dado 
 and others. These compositions offered such charms that the 
 original engravings are now become so scarce, we have 
 thought it a-propos to offer a copy of them on a small scale. 
 This publication will be agreable to amateurs , and useful 
 to young artists, it will offer to them at a small expense the 
 most delightful compositions of the prince of artists. 
 
 The designs after which Marc Antoine engraved the history 
 of Psyche, in 82 plates, are now dispersed, and it would be 
 difficult even to say what is become of them. We publish 
 them entire, and think we should also join to them four 
 compositions after the fresco paintaings of the Farnesine. 
 
 We should also add, that in the paintings, the subjects 
 are placed on a blue ground, surrounted bj garlands of 
 leaves and fruits which border the extremities of the arched 
 vault, and thus take a triangular form. 
 
 With respect to the ceiling, the painter wishing to avoid 
 the appearance of having painted on it, has made it ap- 
 pear, that the painting is tapestry, (as the border seems to 
 indicate ), the nails making it look like a stuff stretched ho- 
 rizonlallj, and fastened to the ceiling.
 
 Depuis la renaissance des arts, les peinlres avaient 
 habituellement puise leurs sujets dans la Bible, dans 1'Evan- 
 gile , ou dans les chroniques des Saints. Raphael suivit d'a- 
 bord la route habituelle en retracant des sujets pieux. Un. 
 sentiment particulier 1'entrainait d'ailleurs, dit-on, a avoir 
 line grande devotion pour la Vierge, et c'est ce qui 
 1'engagea a trailer si souvent le sujet de la Sainte Famille, 
 que son talent sut varier a 1'infini et toujours de la maniere 
 la plus gracieuse. 
 
 Raphael n'avait encore que vingt-cinq ans lorsqu'il fut ap- 
 pele a Rome , par le pape Jules II , et charge de peindre au 
 Vatican la chambre de la signature. Sou premier ouvrage fut 
 la dispute du Saint-Sacrement , dans lequel on retrouve en 
 grande partie la meme simplicite que dans les travaux des 
 artistes ses predecesseurs : une composition froide , des tetes 
 pleines de naivete , dont la plupart sont des portraits sans 
 expression. Les costumes pourtant ne sont plus tout-a-fait 
 semblables a ceux que portaient alors les ecclesiasliques et les 
 magtetrats ; le peintre leur a doune plus de grandiose, et les a 
 mis en rapport avec les draperies des figurejS3n"liques, que 
 Ton decouvrait tous les jours et qu'il etudiait sans cesse. II 
 semble que les idees et le talent du peintre se soient encore 
 ennoblies lorsqu'il fit la belle freeque si connue sous le nom 
 de I'Ecole d'Athknes, Son genie, danscettevaste composition, 
 sut reproduire avec autant de justesse que de ve'rite , et dans 
 des attitudes aussi nobles qu'expressives , ces illustres philo- 
 sophes qui honorerent tant la Grece. 
 
 Les liaisons intimes que Raphael cut ensuite 1'occasion de 
 former avec des savans illustres , tels que les cardinaux Bi- 
 bienna et Bembo , ainsi qu'avec 1'aimable et spirituel comic 
 Balthasar Castiglione, le mirent dans le cas de senlir 1'avan- 
 
 Psyche. j
 
 (age que 1'on pourrait avoir a exploiler les poetes anciens. II 
 se mil done a retracer avec ses crayons quelques-unes des 
 scenes qu'il avail eu lieu d'apprecier dans ses conversations 
 avec ses savans amis. L'un d'eux , Auguslia Chigi , regarde 
 comme le plus riche negociant de cette e'poque , employa une 
 partie de son immense fortune a fairefleurir les arts. 
 
 II n'j avait point a celte epoque, dit M. Quatremere-de- 
 Quincy , dans son histoire de Raphael , de cbef de famille 
 noble, riche ou enrichie , qui n'eut 1'ambition de leguer aux 
 ages futurs un monument durable de son existence passagere. 
 Ce monument, c'e'tait uue habitation , a 1'archileclure de la- 
 quelle OQ consacrait des sommes qu'ailleurs, et depuis, les 
 riches consacrent eu superfluites ephemeres. Graver son nom 
 sur la porte de sa maison , avec la date de sa construction , 
 etait 1'e'quivalent de ces substitutions qui assurent la perpe- 
 tuile desbiens dans une famille. Aussi doit-on a cet usage de 
 pouvoir visiter encore dans les diverses villes d'ltalie des de- 
 meures plus ou moins somptueuses , qu'illustrerent , il y a 
 plusieurs siecles, toutes sortes de personnages qui se rendi- 
 rent diversement celebres. 
 
 Augustin Ghigi eul done ledesir de perpetuer ainsi,dans 
 un palais digne de lui , et son nom, et le renom d'homme de 
 gout que la poslerile lui a conserve. 
 
 Avant acquis un bel emplacement dans le quarlier de 
 Tran s- Tevere , il fit choix du celebre Balthasar Peruzzi , de 
 Sienne, pour lui clever sur ce terrain une demeure, plus re- 
 marquable par 1'e'legance de son architeclure que par 1'eten- 
 due de sa demeure. Nommer Balthazar Peruzzi , c'est donner 
 ou rappeler 1'ide'e de ce charmant style d'habitations, dont 
 nous avons deja dit que 1'etude de 1'antique avait aussi ins- 
 pire le gout a Raphael , et Balthazar doit passer pour avoir 
 etc le Raphael de 1'architecture. Nul n'a mieux su mettre a 
 contribution , mieux assortir au besoin de son temps , dans 
 les demeures particulieres , le style el les traditions de Far-
 
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 chitecture des anciens. Le caractere de ses edifices vou& fait 
 remonler de vingt siecles dans 1'antiquite. On se figure que 
 si un habitant de 1'ancienne Rome revenait dans la moderne, 
 il ne se relrouverait chez lui, qu'en entrant dans quelques- 
 unesdesmaisons baties par cet architecte et surtout au palais 
 d'Augustin Gbigi. Mais peut elre serait-il surpris a la vue du 
 charmant vestibule qui le recevrait. II est douteux que jadis 
 la peinlure ait prodigue autanl et detelles beautes au simple 
 atrium d'un palais. 
 
 C'est dans le vestibule de cette construction , qui porte 
 maintenant le nom de Farnesine, que Raphael peignit a fres- 
 que , vraisemblablement en i5i4, 1'histoire de 1'Amour et 
 Psjche. Probablement, tandis que l'architecle faisait sa batisse 
 le peintre preparait ses compositions, et probablement aus&i, 
 pour connailre avec tant de details les inventions du poete 
 latin, ilaura eu recours a quelque litterateur celebre de son 
 temps , peut-ef re bien meme a Bathalzar Castiglione , du 
 moins c'est ce que Ton pourrait inferer d'une lettre de Ra- 
 phael a ce comte , dans laquelle il lui ecrit : J'ai fait de 
 plus d'une maniere les dessius des sujets que vous avez ima- 
 gines, lls ont 1'approbation generale si Ton ne me flatte point. 
 Pour moi , je me garde bien de rn'en rappojjgr a mon juge- 
 nient ; je crains trop de ne pas contenteruT volre. Je vous 
 les adresse; choisissez-en quelques-uns , s'il y en a qui me- 
 rilent votre choix. C'est ainsi du moins que Ton peut expli- 
 quer comment il se fait que Raphael ait compose le meme sujet 
 difieremment , afin de pouvoir choisir les scenes et les com- 
 positions les plus tonvenables dout il voulait orner la Far- 
 nesine. II a fait cette suite inleressaule de dessins, graves 
 avec tant de soin, sous les yeux de Marc - Antoine, par ses 
 e'leves Augustin-Venitien , B. Dado et autres. Ces composi- 
 tions offrent tant de charmes, les estampes originales sont si 
 rares maintenant, que nous avons cru bien faire d'en offrir 
 une copie de petite dimension. Gette publication seraagreable
 
 ffux amateurs et utile aux jeunes artistes, puisqu'elle leur 
 offrira a peu de frais les compositions les plus gracieuses du 
 prince des artistes. 
 
 Les dessins d'apres lesquels Marc-Antoine a fait graver 
 1'bistoire de Psyche en 82 planches, sont maintenant disper- 
 ses, et il serait meme difficile de dire ce qu'iUsout devenus. 
 Nous publions cette suite en entier , et nous avons cru devoir 
 joiudre aussi quatre compositions prises d'apres les peinlures 
 a fresque de la Farnesine. 
 
 Nous devons encore ajouter que,dans les peintures.les sujels 
 sontplaces surun fondbleu, entoure'sdeguirlandesdefeuillages 
 et de fruits, qui bordent lespendenlifsdela voute etont par con- 
 sequent une forme triangulaire. Quant au plafond, le peintre, 
 voulant e'viter de faire plafonner ses figures, il a suppose que 
 ces peintures e'taient des tapisseries , ainsi que les bordures 
 sembleat 1'indiquer , et les clous font croire que le lout est 
 une e'loffe tendue horizontalement et attacb.ee au plafond.
 
 

 
 HISTORY 
 OF PSYCHE 
 
 Robbers desolated Thessalj , long before the reign of lie 
 Emperor Adrian ! A ravine losing itself between mountains , 
 or woods, or a few stones hewed, and fitted in by the hand 
 of man, or a hollow rock, crowned with a little verdure , 
 with its sides split, in irregular and broken arches, and the 
 entrance covered with moss! Such was their den, and they 
 had only for attendants , and messmates a dog , an ass, and 
 an old woman who bore, with respect to her years and her 
 distaff, which she quitted but rarely , some resemblance to 
 one of the fates, she who in the Inferna^flegions holds the 
 fatal spindle. Her furrowed cheeks and forehead, her ema- 
 ciated hand, her coarse clothing, seemed to be in accordance 
 with the uncivilised roughness of the places we have just 
 described, and with the character and habits of the masters 
 she had to serve. Besides , she was very skilful amongst other 
 matters, in shortening the hours and beguiling weariness, by 
 reciting what happened formerly, in telling tales of the 
 good old time, again if on any day she had to divert a 
 young and beautiful lady, who had been carried off the 
 evening before, from her parents in the hope of receiving a 
 rich ransom , and by whose dress it was easy to know that 
 she was of high birth , the old woman then selected the best
 
 tale her collection afforded. Seated on the ground, without 
 more ceremony, at the entrance of the rock, the ass, the dog, 
 and the young lady, with a small broken table not far from 
 her, she begins to relate the tale of Psyche. 
 
 And fortunately, it happens lhat this tale instead of the dull 
 insipid nonsense of mother Goose , and other story books , is 
 found to be the most pleasing fable, and of the most elegant 
 description that ever was, or that ever can be, at least so 
 says Georges de la Boulhiere, Autunois, who wrote in i553. 
 
 So that from the time of the old woman, it is who can 
 reproduce her tale, or be inspired with it , both painters, 
 poets, sculptors, romances, the stage, anliquily, old and 
 new times, do not cease to report to us, as if vying with each 
 other, this same subject, of which, Raphael and his pencil 
 afford us some brief recollections. 
 
 m
 
 HISTOIRE 
 
 DE PSYCHE. 
 
 Long-temps avant le regne de 1'empereur Adrien , des 
 brigands de'solaient la Thessalie. 
 
 Un ravin perdu entre des monts, des bois et quelques 
 pierres taille'es et ajustees de main d'homme ; une roche 
 creuse, couronne'e d'un peu de verdure, aux flancs le'zar- 
 de's, aux cinlres irre'guliers et comme roinpus, aux abords 
 tapisse's de mousse , iel e'tait leur repaire, et ils avaient pour 
 tous serviteurs et coaimensaux un chien , un ane et une vieille 
 femme , qui devait, elle, aux aus et a sa quenouille, qu'elle 
 ne quittait que rarement, quelque ressemblance avec celle des 
 Irois soeurs qui tient aux enfers le pre'ciej|**fuseau. Son front 
 et ses joues sillonne's, ses mains amaigries , ses grossiers ve- 
 temens, lui pretaient je ne sais quelle harmonic et avec la 
 sauvage aprele des localites qu'on vient de de'crire et avec 
 le caraclere et les habitudes des maitres qu'elle avait a 
 servir. Du reste, elle etait habile entre toutes a rendre 
 les heures plus courtes et a tromper 1' ennui , au moyen de 
 re'cits d'aulrefois, de contes du bon vieux temps. 
 
 Or , un jour'qu'il s'agissait de distraire de ses douleurs une 
 
 jeune et belle personne enleve'e de la veille a ses parens dans 
 
 1'espoir d'une riche rancon , et qu'a son costume aisement 
 
 eussiez-vous reconnue pour elre de haul lieu, la vieille fit 
 
 i A.
 
 choix de ce que son repertoire offrait de mieux. Assise par 
 terre, sans plus de cere'monie, a I'entree de Ja roche , 1'aue, 
 le chien, la jeune fille, une petite et boiteuse table non loin 
 d'elle, elle se prit a dire I'histoire de Psyche. 
 
 Et de fortune il advint que ce recit, au lieu de la plate ou 
 pre'lentieuse niaiserie de nos Mere VOie et de nos Bibliothe- 
 ques bleues , se trouva etre une fable la plus plaisante et 
 de la meilleure grace que aye jama is etc , soil , et sera. 
 C'est du moins ce que dit Georges de La Boulhiere , Autu- 
 nois , qui e'crivait en i553. 
 
 Si bien que , depuis la vieille , c'est a qui reproduira son 
 conte ou s'eu inspirera ; et peinties, etpoetes, et sculpteurs, 
 le roman et le theatre, 1'antiquile , la renaissance et les temps 
 modernes, ne cessent de nous reporter, comme a 1'envi , 
 a ce theme, dont voici , a 1'occasion de Raphael et de ses 
 crayons, quelques brefs ressouvenirs.
 
 There was once a City, a King, and a Queen ! The City was 
 made extremely beautiful by Architects, very strong, and 
 adorned with pedestals, entablatures, elegant rooms , bold 
 porticos, and long galleries admitting the light. As to the 
 King and Queen, they had three daughters of their marriage. 
 The youngest .who was called Psyche , was so beautiful , that 
 if followed by liter sisters, she shewed herself ever so little in 
 public, there was seen, to the great vexation of the elder 
 daughters, to run from the different squares and streets and 
 to place themselves in groups around her, as if in ecstasy , 
 Loth men women , children, and old men. Here, under her 
 feet they strewed flowers , there , they made an offering of 
 perfumes. Some of them even, kneeling, adored her. Fools! 
 to forget that there is in Olympus a Goddess of beauty , 
 whose jealous susceptibility is able one day to make poor 
 mortals repent dearly for that worship which is alone the 
 peculiar right of the allars of Cytherea. Ever irritated at this 
 neglect, the mother of Cupid plots with her son, and above 
 from the celestial dwellings, she points out the rival whom 
 she hates and whom it is necessary to punish and sacrifice 
 to her. 
 
 You know in>tiie modern world, in courts, in politics, how 
 they act when it happens that it is necessary to protect some 
 person of consequence, rather too susceptible of love, against 
 the dangerous charms of some young beauty of mean birth. 
 They make choice of a foreigner, the first who comes to hand, 
 a poor creature without friends, fortune, neither possessed 
 of manners nor merit, a good and solid marriage unites them 
 and that ends it what the goddess desires, almost resembles 
 that sort of proceeding, she must have Psyche violently in 
 love, and against the will of her family, with a man whose 
 patrimony is misery, disease, and misfortune in the extreme. 
 Cupid promised complete satisfaclion to the offended one , 
 and Venus triumphant gains the sea-shore.
 
 II etait une fois une ville, un roi et une reine. 
 
 La ville, les archifectes 1'avaient faite belle, a grand 
 renfort de futs , de piedestaux, d'entablemens, d'e'le'gans 
 attiques , de portiques hardis et de longues galeries a jour. 
 Quant au roi et a la reine , ils avaient de leur mariage trois 
 filles. Si belle e'lait la cadette, qui se nommait Psyche, que, 
 pour peu qu'elle se montrat en public suivie de ses saurs , 
 on voyait, au grand depit des ainees, accourir par les places 
 et les rues, et se grouper aulour d'elle comme en extase , 
 homines, femmes, enfans, vieillards ; ici, et sous ses pas, on 
 jonchait le chemin de fleurs ; la , on lui faisait offrande de 
 parfums. Quelques-uns meme, s'agenouillant , 1'adoraient. 
 Insenses ! qui oublienl qu'il est dans 1'Olympe une deesse de 
 la beaute , dout les jalouses susceplibililes peuvent cruelle- 
 ment faire payer un jour a une pauvre morlelle ces bom- 
 mages et ce culte auquel ont droit les seuls autels de Cy- 
 theree. Toujours esl-il qu'irrite'e de ce qu'on la neglige , la 
 mere de 1'Amour se concerte avec son fils. Du haul des ce- 
 lestes demeures , elle lui designe du doigt la rivale qu'elle 
 bait, qu'il faut punir et lui sacrifier. 
 
 Vous savez, de par notre monde moderne , de par le 
 monde des cours, comment en use la diplomatic, alors 
 qu'il lui arrive d'avoir a pre'munir centre les dangereux al- 
 l rails d'une jeune beaute sans consequence quelque notabi- 
 lite un peu trop prompte a s'enflammer. On prend un 
 e'tranger, le premier venu, un pauvre here sans entourage, 
 sans fortune , sans dehors ni merite ; un bon et solide ma- 
 riage se cimente, et tout est dit. Ce que veut la deesse 
 ne ressemble pas mal a cette tactique ; il lui faut Psyche 
 amoureuse a 1'exces , et centre le gre de sa famille , d'un 
 homme ayant pour tout patrimoine la misere , la maladie , 
 et le malheur porte a son comble. L' Amour a promis com- 
 plete satisfaction a I'offenseejet, triomphante, Venus a gagne 
 le rivage de la mer.
 
 

 
 Of all the hours this is one of the most delightful, one 
 in which the sun only shewing above the horizon the half of 
 his disk, both the bottom of the clouds, the tops of moun- 
 tains and of forests, glitler as if fringed with fire. 
 
 Then , on the liquid plains , at the surface of waves scar- 
 cely ruffled, the soft breeze blowing and half bending the 
 sea-weed of the shore, fleets by, light and voluptuous, one 
 knows not what ravishing figure of a woman , of beauty su- 
 perhuman , such as to defy the chisel of the sculptor , the 
 pallet of the painter, and the pen of the Poet. What most 
 chaste, and agreeable contours! See '.floating and scattered, 
 the light sports of the wind, her fine luxuriant locks, which 
 the white sea-gull touches whith his beak and as for the im- 
 mortal which Gnidus and Paphos cherishes, the dolphins 
 with eyes prominent, and round, whith their huge backs and 
 broad fins accustom themselves to the yoke. Delighted are 
 the marine Deities in pressing around her, and forming her 
 train! The one proud of his sonorous shell, the oilier atten- 
 tive to oppose to the ardour of the sun a light silken sail , 
 this, armed with a trident, the other preparing relays of 
 dolphins, impatient to bear away the sweet burthen. Thus 
 old Ocean delights in welcoming, aided by all his court, the 
 presfleCe of bis beloved daughter.
 
 11 est une lieure delicieuse entre toutes , une heure oil le 
 soleil ne laissant voir a 1'horizon qu'une moilie de son dis- 
 que , le dessous des nuages , le sommet des moots et la cime 
 des forets flamLloient comme franges de feu. Alors, et sur les 
 liquides plaines , a la surface des flots a peine ride's , au 
 souffle d'une molle brise courbant a demi les algues de la 
 rive , glisse , legere et voluptueuse , on ne sail quelle ravis- 
 sante figure de femme, de beaulc surhumaine , a de'sesperer 
 le ciseau du sculpleur , la palette du peintre et la plume du 
 poele. Quels plus purs et plus suaves contours ? "Voyez comme 
 flottent et s'epandent , jouets le'gers des vents , ses cheveux 
 fins et soyeux que becquele la blanche mouelle , et comme, 
 pour 1'immortelle qui che'rit Gnide et Paphos, les dauphins 
 aux j'eux ronds et saillans, aux vastes dos et aux larges na- 
 geoires, se faconnent au joug. Heureuses Jes de'ile's marines 
 de se presser aulour d'elle et de lui faire cortege ! 1'une fiere 
 de sa conque sonore , 1'autre attentive a opposer aux ardeurs 
 du soleil un le'ger voile de soie , celle-ci armee du trident , 
 celle-la preparant des relais de dauphins impatiens de leur 
 doux fardeau. Ainsi le vieil Ocean se complait-il a feter, 
 aide de toute sa cour , la presence de sa fille cherie.
 
 But let us return to Psyche. Wbo is there unacquainted 
 with Apollo, whose lyre knows, and speaks of the future? 
 Apollo whose altar, all emblem and poetry, seems the ca- 
 pital of a column reversed, round which, the whim of an 
 arlist, has thrown the heads of rams, a figure of a woman 
 and symbolic [sphynxes? At the foot of his statue fire is 
 lighted, the direction of which, and its colour are carefully 
 considered, and here in the enclosure of the temple, they 
 lead to the sacrificing priests the victims that the sacred 
 knife threatens. Armed with their slick, and hand up, the 
 heralds have driven back the crowd, and commanded si- 
 lence. Of whom does the pontiff speak to the oracle , that 
 old man whose forehead is bound withacrown?.. Of Psyche! 
 
 Poor maiden ! the crowd still continue their imprudent 
 homage to her, its mad anticipations of consecration , but 
 as to demand in marriage, not a word. And Venus also 
 begins to insult these pains of the heart, and to relish 
 these beginnings of vengeance.
 
 Mais revenons a Psyche. Qui ne connait Apollon dont la 
 tyre sail et dit 1'avenir , Apollon dont 1'autel, tout embleme 
 et poesie, semble nn chapiteau de colonne renverse , autour 
 dequel un caprice d'artisle aurait jele des tetes de belier, 
 une figure de femme et des sphynx symboliques? Aux pieds 
 de sa statue s'allumeDt des feux donl on inlerrogera soigneu- 
 sement la direction et la couleur; et voici qu'en 1'enceinte 
 du temple on amene aux sacrificateurs les vicLimes que me- 
 nace le couteau sacre. Armes de leur baton et le doigt leve , 
 Jes he'rauts ont fait reculer la foule et ont commande le si- 
 lence. De 'qui parlent a 1'oracle ce pontife, ce vieillard dont 
 le front ceiut la couronne ? de Psyche. 
 
 Pauvre jeune fille! la foule lui continue toujours ses im- 
 prudens hommages, ses folles anticipalions d'apotbeose ; 
 mais de demande en mariage , pas un mot. Et Venus d'in- 
 sulter a ces peines de cceur, a ces douleurs de famille dont 
 elle est cause, et de savourer ces commencemens de ven- 
 geance.
 
 
 

 
 As to the elder sisters, and there is still a project on the 
 part of the Goddess, every thing seems favourable, twenty 
 offers of marriage present themselves, they are only embar- 
 rassed as to the choice. People of quality, sons of Kings, 
 princes at least, suitors whom they would have been willing 
 to accept for husbands had they been younger, and more 
 agreeable in their persons, but the gold of their indented 
 crowns was of the finest sort . the fashion of their tunics and 
 cloacks, the embroidery of their buskins and sandals, defied 
 criticism in every respect. They had also given sufficient proof 
 of their distinguished manners, meanwile from a lofty 
 canopy supporting the throne, and covered with purple, a 
 father and mother , occupied in their thoughts , even at ihis 
 very time, about the fate of their youngest daughter, had 
 given their royal assent to the happiness of two couple. 
 
 So many charms, and such a complete state of rest!.... 
 Apollo, instead of accounting for the cause of such an extra- 
 ordinary circumstance , as on their knees they entreated him, 
 replied in verses rather unfeelingly. 
 
 Let Phyche be conducted to the highest part of a rock y 
 In funeral array , becoming to such a hymen, 
 And for husband to her, expect no one of human lineage 
 But a savage monster, untameable, inhuman, 
 
 Bearing a light wing 
 
 More to be (eared than a viper 
 
 Making war against all. 
 
 He embroils all , armed with fire and sword ; 
 Jupin fears him , thus ordain the Heavens , the Waters , the Infernal regions. 
 
 Is what Venus desires right? that which she asks of her 
 son , that which he has promished to her jealous fury? It rests 
 with time alone to inform us.
 
 Quant aux aine'es, et c'est encore un calcul de la part de 
 la deesse, tout leur sourit ; vingl partis se sont presente's , 
 elles ii'ont eu que 1'embarras du choix. Gens de Jjon lieu , 
 fils derois, princes pour le moins , les soupirans qu'elles 
 ont Lien voulu tinir par accepter pour maris eussent pu elre 
 plus jeunes et mieux pris de leur personne , mais 1'or de 
 leurs couronnes dentele'es etait du meilleur aloi ; la coupe de 
 leurs tuniques et manteaux , les broderies de leurs brode- 
 quins et cothurnes defiaient de lout point la critique. Us 
 avaient d'ailleurs fait preuve de Leaucoup de savoir-vivre , 
 alors que, du haul de 1'estrade qui supporte le trone et que 
 recouvrela pourpre, unpere et une mere, pre'occupes, meme 
 en cet instant, du sort de leur cadette, avaient prononce des 
 paroles de rojal assentiment au bonheur de deux couples. 
 
 Tant d'altraits, elun si complet delaissement !... Apollon, 
 au lieu de faire connaitre, ainsi qu'on le demandail a ge- 
 noux , les causes de ce prodige, repondit eu vers lant soil peu 
 barbares : 
 
 Au plus haul d'un rocher que Psyche soil menee 
 En funebre arroy propre a eel hyraeuee ; 
 Et pour gendre n'attends nul du lignage humain , 
 Mais un monstre i'aroucbe, indumptable , inhumain , 
 
 Porlant aile legere , 
 Plus a redouter que vipere , 
 A tous faisant la guerre ; 
 It brouille tout , arme de feu . de fer ; 
 .lupin le craint , si font les cieui , les eaux, I'enfer. 
 
 Est-ce bien la ce que Venus attend , ce qu'elle a demandc 
 a son fils, ce qui a ele promis a ses jalouses fureurs? Au temps 
 seul il appartient de nous 1'apprendre. 
 
 Psvche. B. 5.
 
 The God bad more than prophesied as to what would 
 happen , he had inlimaled orders, which it would have been 
 monstrous impiety to have disregarded. After Jong contests, 
 after cruel reluctances over come, that which the oracle 
 foretels is executed, and they put themselves in march 
 
 towards the place designed. In the first ranks , players of 
 mournful music, and children bearing torches, careless as at 
 their age, seeing nothing beyond a ceremony in it, then a 
 chair hung with mourning , borne by four strong arms was 
 seen, supporting the poor bride, and who resembled no 
 other person. Her forehead bent down languishingly, absor- 
 bed in grief, she wished (little hurried as she was to perceive 
 the fatal rock ), to lurn her back to the head of the procession, 
 to salute again with her hand, and with one more look of 
 adieu a .falher whose heart is torn, a mother distracted , the 
 crowd which follows in tears, at length , the trees, the mou- 
 ntains, the city which witnessed her birth, she who is re- 
 served so young, to so extraordinary and so little encouraging 
 a destiny.
 
 Le dieu avail fait plus que propheliser 1'avenir; il avail 
 intime des ordres qu'il y aurait eu nionslrucuse impiele a 
 ne pas suirre. Apres de longs combats , apres de cruelles 
 repugnances vaincues, ce qu'a dil 1'oracle s'execufe, et 
 Ton se mel en marche vers le lieu designe. Aux premiers 
 rangs, de lugubres instrumentistes et de jeunes enfans por- 
 leurs de torches, insoucians comme leur age, ne vojant la 
 qu'une ce'remonie; puis, sur une chaise drape'e , portee par 
 quatre bras vigoureux, venait, ne ressemblant a nulle autre, 
 la pauvre fiancee. Le front languissamment penche , absorbee 
 par la douleur , elle avail voulu , peu empressee qu'elle e'lail 
 d'apercevoir le fatal rocher , tourner le dos a la tele du cor- 
 tege, et cela encore pour saluer plus long-temps de la main 
 el d'un regard d'adieu un pere dont le coeur est dechire , 
 une mere eperdue , la foule qui suit eplore'e , enfin les ar- 
 bres, les monts, la ville qui 1'a vue naitre, elle re'servee si 
 jeune a de si elranges, de si peu rassuranles destinees. 
 

 
 Once only Psyche began to tremble in every limb, and 
 lo weep. We may easily conjecture what were the thoughts 
 which agitated her. Suddenly she felt upon her cheek still 
 wet with tears, a balmy breath, it was that of Zephyr, in- 
 tervening in person. Also generally very heedless, the hus- 
 band of Flora behaved here courteously, and acting like a 
 demi-god well instructed said softly to the beauty : Fear 
 not! hope! Then without further words, and at the risk of 
 rudely disordering her dress, he lifts her up, and bears her 
 thro, the aerial space. No carriage more soft, or more rapid. 
 The turn of the mountain is already passed, and Psyche de- 
 posed at a considerable distance from where she set out , 
 upon an enamelled flowery bank. High and thick is found 
 the grass, soft and perfumed the bed, so that soon prepared, 
 they do not delay causing her to sleep. Psyche, was she not 
 surprised to see at her awaking, three young girls advance 
 towards her, offering her water, according to the usages and 
 traditions of the time, and inviting her to enter. 
 
 In the interior of the building every thing announces 
 wealth, the delightful residence of a god. Wherever the 
 eye is carried, nothing but gold, silver and precious stones 
 present themselves, the mosaic rivals painting, the ceilings 
 of ivory, and of lemon-wood, of the most delicate finish. 
 The insignificance of feeble mortals can scarce even conceive 
 such works. Psyche can scarce sufficiently express her unaf- 
 fected admiration , but when they told her that this rich 
 dwelling would be thence forth her own , that these trea- 
 sures, this sumptuous furniture, was prepared with no 
 other design than to delight her, that she had only to 
 command, to wish even, to be served. Oh! it was then 
 she began to doubt the reality of all that surrounded her, 
 and it was only to be convinced that she was not decei- 
 ved by an idle dream , and its illusions , that she wished 
 for, (recollecting that she was a traveller) the bath that 
 lakes off fatigue, and the couch that invites sweet repose. 
 7-
 
 Uuefois seule , Psyche se prit a trembler de tous ses mem- 
 bres, a pleurer; et Ton comprend quelles pre'occupalions 
 1'agilaient. Tout-a-coup elle sentitsur sa joue humide encore 
 de larmes une caressante baleine;c'e'tait celle de Zephyre in- 
 lervenant en personne. Bien que tres-e'lourdi d' ordinaire, 
 1'epoux de Flore usa ici de precedes , et agissant en demi- 
 dieu bien appris : N'ayez peur ! espe'rez ! dil-il tout bas 
 a la belle de'sole'e. Puis, sans plus de precautions oratoires, 
 et aux.risques de quelques indiscretions, il la souleve et 
 Temporle a travers 1'espace. Nulle voiture plus douce et plus 
 rapide. De'ja le versant de la montagne est franchi , et Psy- 
 che mollement de'pose'e a une assez grande distance du point 
 de depart, sur un gazon des mieux e'mailles. Haute et bien 
 fournie se trouva 1'herbe , douillelte et parfutne'e la couche , 
 a tel point que, bientot remise, la voyageuse ne tarda pas 
 a s'assoupir. Non loin de la, s'e'levaient, accouple'es deux a 
 deux comme soeurs jumelles , les svelles colonnes d'un im- 
 posant peristyle. Qui fut surprise? ce fut Psyche, de voir a 
 son re'veil trois jeunes filles s'avaucer , lui donner a laver les 
 mains, suivant les usages et traditions d'alors , et 1'iuviter 
 a enlrer. 
 
 A 1'inlerieur tout annoncait le noble , le delicieux se'jour 
 d'un dieu. Quelque part que se portassent les yeux, ils ne 
 rencontraient qu'or, argent, pierreries , mosa'iques defiant 
 la peinture , lambris d'ivoire et de citronnier du travail le 
 plus de'lical. Arriere les faibles mortelsl leur impuissance ne 
 saurait oser ou meme concevoir de telles oeuvres. Psyche ne 
 pouvait suffire a exprimer sa na'ive admiration ; mais quand 
 on lui cut dit que cette riche demeure serait de'sormais la 
 sienne; que ces tresors , ce somptueux ameublement n'avaient 
 d'autre destination quo de lui agre'er ; qu'elfe n'avait plus 
 qu'a commander , qu'a souhaiter meme pour etre servie ; oh ! 
 alors elle vint a douter de la realite de tout ce qui 1'environ- 
 nai! , et ne ful-ce que pour se convaincre qu'un vain songe 
 el ses illusions ne 1'abusaieut pas, elle voulut et le bain qui 
 de'lasse et le lit de repos qui provoque a un doux sommeil.
 
 To the boudoir joined the hall of the bath, simple and 
 commodious above allothers, and receiving light only from 
 two narrow windows. Art had not tried to add any thing to 
 the rich ornaments of the ground, of the ceiling, or of the 
 walls, or to the white partitions of the bath of marble. Psy- 
 che timid even io fear, not choosing to bathe alone, and it 
 was, we may easily imagine, a picture worthy of the elegant 
 Albane, that of seeing these three young girls beslowing 
 their attentions on their charming mistress, compelled by 
 her to amuse themselves, playful and laughing for their 
 own pleasure, at these details of the toilette. 
 
 As to Raphael there he is, it seems to us, far from being 
 occupied with hismadonas with their eyes bent downewards, 
 the forehead veiled , forms scarcely apparent, and carefully 
 hid under ample clothes, and high shapes, Raphael, and all 
 that is voluptuous, forms perfectly naked! Many times again 
 in the course of this work, we shall see re-produced a similar 
 anomaly.
 
 Au boudoir altenait la salle de bain, celle-ci simple et 
 commode avant tout, et ne recevant de jour que de deux 
 e'troitesfenetres. L'arl n' avail essave de rien ajouter auxriches 
 revetemens du sol , du plafond el des murs , non plus qu'aux 
 blanches parois de la baignoire de marbre. Ps_yche, timide 
 jusqu'a la peur , ne voulut pas se baigner seule , et ce fut , 
 on le comprendra , un tableau digne du gracieux Albane , 
 que ces trois jeunes filles prodiguant leurs soins a Jeur char- 
 manle maitresse , forcees par elle de s'associer, folalres et 
 rieuses et pour leur compte , a ces details de toilette. Quant 
 a Raphael, le voila, ce noussemble, loin de ses madones 
 aux veux baisses, au front voile, aux formes a peine indi- 
 que'es, et soigneusement dissimulees par d'amples vetemens 
 et de montans corsages ; Raphael ! et de voluptueuses, de 
 completes nuditesl... Maintefois encore , au cours de celte 
 O3iivre, verrons-nous se reproduire ne telle anomaiie.

 
 The repast succeeded , more delicate than sumptuous , and 
 served dish after dish by two attendants. But as to eat alone, 
 however finely carved the legs of a table be, however rich 
 may be the drapery of the couch, is not very agreeable; there 
 was care taken to remedy that. A chorus of men accompa- 
 nying a corded instrument, of a form altogether different 
 from any other, executed delightful airs. It was, says an old 
 translator of Apuleum. The honeyed sweets of music. It 
 appeared even to Psyche, that whilst she was at table, some 
 one unperceived by all, invisible even to herself, placed 
 himself at her side, murmuring sweet words, and as if 
 happy in busying himself, that she should be in want of 
 nothing. 

 
 Succeda le repas, plus delicat que somptueux, et servi 
 mels a mets par deux des suivantes. Mais comme man- 
 ger seule , quelque Lien sculple's que soient les pieds de 
 la table , quelque riches que soient les draperies du lit , 
 n'a rien de tres-agreable , on cut soin de reme'dier a cela. 
 Un chceur d'hommes , s'accompagnant d'un instrument a 
 cordes d'une forme tout a part, exe'cuta de delicieux trios : 
 c'etait, dit un vieux traducteur d'Apulee (i), emmiellee dou- 
 ceur que celte musique. II sembla meme a Psyche que , pen- 
 dant qu'elle etait a table, quelqu'un d'inapergu pour tous , 
 d'iuvisible pour elle-meme, se placait a ses cotes, lui murmu- 
 rant de douces paroles, soigneux et comme heureux de s'oc- 
 cuper que rien ne lui manquat. 
 
 (i) De Montlyard, 1616.
 
 The evening at length came, it's obscurity it's silence, and 
 it's solitude, which recal to Psyche for the first time, the 
 thought of the dreadful oracle , which she had some what lost 
 light of. That the night would pass in every respect like the 
 last, as under the paternal roof, her feelings as a woman 
 seemed to say was impossible, but that a day which had only 
 been a continuation of enchantments and pleasures , would 
 finish by the appearance of a frightful husband, by an inter- 
 view with the monster which the sacred tripod had threatened, 
 was a circumstance she could not suppose possible. For a long 
 time she scarce dared to breathe, tired at length of listening 
 and waiting, she yielded to sleep. She slept as a young girl , 
 that is to say profoundly , carelessly bent over her pillow , 
 one arm under her head , the other hanging over the side of 
 the bed , when by^ stealth , the mysterious and unknown 
 Being, passed by her, whose presence she suspected in the 
 morning. There was nothing like a profane touch ! Here un- 
 der the disordered bed-clothes , was seen the delicate form 
 of a child with wings, slightly touching, softly, and vo- 
 luptuously, the elegant form of a female whom no veil 
 concealed! Two arms were here interlaced! Two mouths 
 touched each other. You , at least can comprehend such 
 mysteries, you , who have felt and are acquainted with the 
 soft delights of life, you, between whose arms a beloved and 
 timid lover has passed by insensible degrees of fear to con- 
 fidence, to pleasure , to a delirium of joy. 
 s For our part, the accoutrements of an archer, abandoned 
 and thrown carelessly on the flag stones of the floor, suffi- 
 ciently inform us, that Cupid is there, and of what monster, 
 the dread of Gods and men , has the oracle spoken of ? 
 
 Whoever it be, this husband takes his departure at the 
 break of day , he makes a point more than he himself can 
 express, of not being seen by any one. If we may believe 
 him, at the moment when it would no longer be necessary 
 for him to preserve his incognito , even to his mild Psyche , 
 it would become necessary for him to disappear for ever, 
 and from that event, what dreadful misfortunes would arise.
 
 Vinrent enfin le soir, son obscurite, son silence, sa soli- 
 tude, qui rappelerent a Psyche , pour la premiere fois , 1'ide'e 
 un peu perdue de vue du redoutable oracle. Que la nuit diit 
 se passer semLlable de tout point a celles qui 1'avaient pre- 
 ce'de'e, comme une nuit sous le toit paternel son instinct 
 de femme lui disait le contraire ; ma is qu'une journee qui 
 n'avait ele qu'une suite d'enchantemens et de plaisirs, diit 
 finir par un bideux mari , par un tete-a-lele avec le monslre 
 dont I'avait menace le trepied sacre , elle ne pouvait se re- 
 soudre a ie supposer. Long-lemps osa-t-elle a peine respirer ; 
 lasse enfin d'ecouter et d'atteudre, elle ce'da au sommeil. 
 Elle dormait a la maniere d'une jeune fille , c'est-a-dire pro- 
 fonde'ment, pencb.ee noncbalamment sur un oreiller , un 
 bras sur sa tete , 1'autre bras tombant sur les bords du lit , 
 lorsque furtivement se glissa pres d'elle 1'e'tre myste'rieux et 
 inconnu dout elle avail le matin soupconne la presence. 
 
 Loin, bien loin tout profane! Ici, et sous les rideaux froisse's 
 d'une coucbe en de'sordre , un corps de'licat d'enfanl aile , ef- 
 fleurant, voluptueux et doux, un gracieux corps tie feinme que 
 ne prote'gent plus aucuns voiles ; ici des brasenlrelace's, deux 
 bouches toutes voisiues... . A vous , sinon de trabir, au moins 
 de comprendre de lels mvsteres, vous qui avez appris et 
 savez les plus douces choses de la vie , vous entre les bras de 
 qui ua elre aimant et timide passa, par d'insensibles nuances, 
 de I'effroi a la confiance , a 1'abandon , au plaisir. 
 
 Quant a nous, tout un e'quipement d'arcber delaisse et 
 jete au basard sur la large dalle du plancher nous dit assez 
 qu'Amour est la , et de quel monstre , effroi des hommes et 
 des dieux, a entendu parler 1'oracle. 
 
 Quelqu'il soit, ce mari s'eloigne au point du jour. II tient, 
 plus que lui-meme ne saurait 1'exprimer , a n'etre vu de per- 
 sonnc. S'il faut Ten croire , au moment oil cesserait son in- 
 cognito , meme pour sa douce Psyche, il y aurail necessite 
 pour lui de disparaitre a toujours ; et de la d 'eflroyables mal- 
 heurs.
 
 A litlle confused at her rising, to encounter the smile on 
 the lips of her ladies of honour, Psyche failed in no point 
 whatever , to repair what I should call the wrongs of the night. 
 
 Already had two skilful hands taken possession of her fair 
 long hair, when all at once, a strange noise commanded 
 attention. The voices of women were heard in the distance, 
 and with them were mingled groans and sobs, all which 
 seemed to proceed from a rock well known to Psyche. It was 
 the heldest sisters come expressly from beyond the seas and 
 mountains; it was the compulsory ostensible tribute, and 
 noisy grief, which they considered becoming to pay to the 
 fate of their youngest sister. The heart of Psyche was affected 
 by these demonstrations, and at once to thank and console 
 her sisters, to hear again friendly voices, perhaps also to 
 know to whom she should shew such prodigious treasures, 
 she mentally demended of her invisible husband permission 
 to dispose of Zephyr.
 
 Un peu confuse , a son lever , de rencontrer le sourire stir 
 les levres de ses dames d'atour , Psyche ne manqua de rien 
 pour rcparer ce que j'appellerai les torts de lanuit. Dejadeux 
 mains adroiles s'e'taient empare'es de ses blonds et longs che- 
 veux , quand tout-a-coup un bruit e'trange commanda 1'atten- 
 lion. On entendit au loin des voix de femmes , et a ces voix 
 se melaient des ge'missemeus et des sanglots; le tout partait 
 d'un roc bien connu de Psyche. C'etaient les sceurs aine'es, 
 venues tout expres de par-dela les mers et les mouts; c'e'tait 
 1'oblige tribul d'oslensible et bruyante douleiir qu'elles regar- 
 daient comme de biense'ance de payer au sort de leur ca- 
 dette. Le cceur de Psyche s'e'mut a ces demonstrations, 
 et tout a la fois , pour remercier et consoler ses sceurs , 
 pour ouir encore des voix amies , peut-etre aussi pour 
 avoir a qui montrer tant et de si prodigieux tresors, elle 
 demanda mentalemeut a son invisible mari la permission 
 de disposer de Ze'phyre. 
 
 m t 

 
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 A single word lo the docile messenger, and behold the two 
 sisters softlj Lome away, as Psyche had been, but bolder than 
 she , although not knowing what issue so novel and extra- 
 ordinary an adventure would have, during the voyage, they 
 continually gave themselves the airs of goddesses. The sisters 
 once united, we may imagine the kind reception, the tears 
 and mutual embraces, sincere on the one part, hypocritical 
 on the other. There was nothing remarkable in architecture, 
 not a terrace commending tine gardens, and a vast horizon, 
 that Psyche did not shew with the eagerness of a child, and 
 which the elder sisters did not explore, as if with a longing 
 and envious eye. At length , after a number of questions about 
 the husband of Psyche , about the master and lord of so many 
 wonders, about his age, his sort of figure . and his turn of 
 character, they departed bearing with them more than one 
 token of munificence.
 
 tin mot dit au docile messager , et voila les deux soeurs 
 doucement enlevees comme 1'avait etc Psyche; mais, plus 
 intrepides bien que ne sachant quelle issue devait avoir 
 une si nouvelle el si peu ordinaire aventure, elles ne cessent 
 de se donner, pendant le trajet, des airs de deesses. Une 
 fois les sceurs reunies, je laisse a penser le doux accueil, 
 les larmes et les mutuels embrassemens , sinceres d'une part, 
 hypocrites de 1'autre. II n'y cut pas un detail d'architec- 
 ture, pas une terrasse commandant de beaux jardins et un 
 vaste horizon , que Psyche ne montrat avec une insistance 
 d'enfant, et que les sceurs ainees n'explorassent comme 
 a regret et d'un ail d'envie. Enfin , apres nombre de 
 questions sur le mari de Psyche , sur le maitre et seigneur 
 de tant de merveilles, sur son age, son genre de figure, de 
 tournure, son caraclere, questions auxquelles on ne repondit 
 pas avec une grande precision, elles partirent, emportant 
 avec elles plus d'un gage de munificence.
 
 What Psyche again , and for ever talking of your sisters ! 
 Has Zephyr nothing else to do but to shorten the distance 
 which separates you from them? Again and continually your 
 sisters? And this time, invested with your dwelling, almost 
 asif mistresses , sitting in the seat of honour, and you standing 
 behind like a servant, they proud, and triumphing, and you 
 abased, and oppressed! Oh! let them depart, and without 
 delay. But they already are in possession of your secret. This 
 husband whom you declare never to have seen , full of the 
 ambiguity inseparable from an Oracle , they transform him 
 into a serpent. What do I say ? into a frightful dragon , 
 waiting only a moment of lassitude , or satiety , to leave you 
 for ever, after having rendered you a mother. Fascinated, 
 subdued you have promised not to pay any attention to his 
 entreaties and prayers , you would fain try to deceive his 
 vigilance , to satisfy at every hasard a dangerous curiosity. 
 A lamp, a poniard have been placed in your feebles hands. 
 And to what end? Oh ! may the waves swallow up the perfi- 
 dious ones who deceive you , those whom your happiness dis- 
 pleases. May the winds break against the rocks the ships which 
 brought them , all in sight of that dwelling, to them so hos- 
 pitable !
 
 Eh quo! , Psyche ! encore et toujours vos soeurs ! Zephyre 
 n'a-t-il plus d'autre mission que d'abre'ger la distance qui 
 vous separe d'elles? Encore et toujours vos soeurs ! Et celte 
 fois, installe'es chez vous, presque com'nae 'xhai tresses , assises 
 sur vos .sieges d'honneur , et vous debout derriere comme une 
 servanle; elles triomphantes et fieres, et vous abattue et 
 oppressed Oh! qu'elles partent.et sans retard. Mais deja 
 votre secret leur appartient. Ge mari que vous leur avouez 
 11 'avoir jamais vu, fortes des ambiguites inseparables d'un. 
 oracle, elles vous le transforment en serpent , que sais-je ? 
 en dragon aux hideux embrassemens , n'attendant , pour en 
 finir avec vous qu'il a reudue mere, qu'un instant de lassi- 
 tude ou de satie'te. Fascinee, subjugue'e, vous avez promis 
 de ne tenir comple de ses recommandalions et prieres; vous 
 allez essayer de tromper sa vigilance, de contenter a tout 
 prix une dangereuse curiosite. Une lampe, un poignard, ont 
 
 etc rerais en vos faibles mains et a quelles fins? Oh ! que 
 
 puisseiit les flots engloutir les perfides qui vous trompent , a. 
 qui votre bonheur pese ! Puissent les vents briser contre les 
 rocs les nefs qui les ont amenees, le tout en vue des hauls 
 combles de cetle demeure pour elles si hospitaliere 1
 
 It is night, and every one sleeps except Psyche ! Her hair 
 fastened on the top of her head so that the ligth rubbing of 
 it on her white shoulders, cannot be heard, unincumbered 
 by any dress , that no noise about her person might lead to 
 her discovery, a lamp, and a weapon in her hand, ready to 
 strike, if before her should appear the monster of whom her 
 young imagination has been so long beset; she advances with 
 trembling steps and hesitatingly; searching about, finds 
 sleeping so sweetly thai nothing can equal it whom? the 
 celebrated son of Venus, the God of love! the most perfect 
 and finished in beauty, and polished manners that can be 
 desired; such indeed, that the beautiful Venus was unable to 
 find the smallest cause of being sorry for having begotten 
 him. On the ground lay a bow , a quiver, and arrows, and 
 Psyche curious to try, on her knees the steeled point of the 
 darts, to give herself a slight wound thus inoculating herself 
 slrongly with love from Cupid himself. At length , she comes 
 to the couch where Cupid reposes, and half bending over the 
 beautiful infant, at this ravishing sight, forgetful of her 
 poniard, she covers with light the beautiful body that she 
 admires. But from the lamp lamp of misfortune ! spouts a 
 drop of oil, which falls scalding on the shoulder of the God. 
 He awakes. Psyche, the lamp, the poniard, at the same 
 moment strike his view, faithful to his promise, he escapes 
 from the arms of the unfortunate one , whatever efforts she 
 makes to restrain him, or to stop him, or even to attach her- 
 self to him. 

 
 11 est nuit et lout dort... lout, excepte Psyche. Les cheveux 
 releves sur le sommet de la tele , pour qu'on n'en puisse ouir 
 Je le'ger froissemeut sur ses blanches e'paules ; de'barrassee de 
 toul vetemenl, pour que nul bruil aulour d'elle nela de'cele; 
 une lampe , une arme a la main , prele a frapper si a ses 
 yeux s'offre le monstre dont sa jeune imagination esl depuis 
 long-lemps obse'de'e ; elle avance a pas Iremblans et suspen- 
 dus, regarde et Irouve (*) dormant tant doucement que rien 
 plus, qui? I' excellent fils de Venus , le dieu d' amour , le plus 
 parfait et accompli en beaute et bonne grace qu'on pourrait 
 souhaiter, tel enfin que la belle Venus n'eut su trouper en lui la 
 moindre occasion du monde de se repentir de I'avoir engendre. 
 A terre sonl un arc, un carquois , des fleches , et toujours cu- 
 rieuse d'essayer, a genoux , la poinle ace're'e des traits, Psyche 
 de se faire merne au doigt le'gere blessure , s'inoculanl ainsi 
 a haule dose de 1'amour pour 1'Amour meme. Enfin, revient- 
 elle a la couche oil Cupidon repose , et demi-peuchee sur le 
 bel enfant, loul a ce ravissant spectacle, oublieuse de son 
 poignard , elle inonde de lumiere ce corps gracieux qu'elle 
 admire. Mais de la lampe, lampe de malheur, jaillit une 
 goulte d'huile qui relombe bouillante sur 1'e'paule du dieu. II 
 s'e'veille : Psyche, la lampe, le poignard, frappenl en meme 
 lemps sa vue; et, fidele a sa parole, il s'e'chappe des bras de 
 la malheureuse , quelques efforts qu'elle fasse pour 1'arreler , 
 le retenir, ou tout au moins s'attacher a lui. 
 
 (*) Traduction de Georges de la Bouthiere , i553. 
 
 Psycht. C. 14-

 
 Light as the fugitive cloud, or (he bird, Cupid swiftly 
 divides the air, Lis bow in his hand ! So rapid is his flight , 
 that the long tresses of his hair are thrown back behind. 
 Woody hills, smiling valies, rivers with limpid course, are 
 spread in panoramic view beneath him , without obtaining 
 a single glance , any more than Psyche , who without taking 
 time to throw on any clothing, has not ceased to follow him. 
 In vain kneeling down, with upraised arms, and tearing 
 her hair in despair, does she exhaust herself in supplica- 
 tions and entreaties ; (he fugitive is already even out of 
 sight, and Psyche casls herself in the river head foremost, 
 to put an end to her anguish. But the tide rejecting the life 
 of the young girl, deposes her in safely, upon the bank. There, 
 the goat-footed God, Pan, with hairy body, with forehead 
 armed with horns, and beard thick and bushy , invites her 
 lo sit near him ; he even forgot for some moments both 
 his seven reeded pipe , and his skipping flock , which con- 
 stitute his riches, and his joy, to say , byway of consolation 
 to the unfortunate one, that between Cupid, and a pretty 
 woman like her, mailers could only finish by being arran- 
 ged. Besides the little God had already done so much ; and 
 now, for the first time Psyche learnt, what were the orders 
 Venus had intimated to her son, and the manner in which 
 he had transgressed them.
 
 Yet more deeply enamoured , if it were only through grati- 
 tude, and not losing all hope , she travelled so hard day and 
 night , that at length she arrived on the lop of a rock, whose 
 situation and almost form , reminded her of that on which 
 she had been exposed. On its top was an irregular platform 
 hovering over the country, and over a city which was not 
 deficient in towns, triumphal arches, and narrow obelisks. 
 It chanced to happen, that having descended in the city, 
 and standing near a building not yet finished, Psyche meets 
 with her sisters , and it was with great difficulty that she was 
 recognized by them. She was in a manner obliged to make 
 herself known , and when she had related her adventure, 
 what loud exclamations there were, what endless complaints. 
 The event had slighted both them, their fears, and their coun- 
 sels; but who is there that does not deceive? Besides, they 
 had placed such entire confidence, and. again ; all might not 
 be lost perhaps. Cupid having been once smitten with the 
 charms of a mortal, could he answer for himself in future? 
 His favour offered, Psyche had hastened to possess herself of 
 it ; she related so artlessly a little fable quite extempore , 
 that each of the sisters retired, with the conviction that 
 Cupid disatisfied with their youngest sister, and repudiating 
 her, would return to one of them. So far these foolish pre- 
 tentions of theirs were only ridiculous; but the following 
 day , the eldest sisters were found dead at the foot of a rock. 
 As soon as night was come, each sister had taken advantage of 
 it, to visit the platform. There believing themselves already in 
 the arms of the god of love, deceiving themselves on account 
 of the vague resemblance of the siluations, mistaking for 
 the officious Zephyr a light breeze , which blowed of adven- 
 ture, and flattering themselves with being sustained, and 
 transported as formerly, they abandoned themselves to this 
 deceitful breath ; an instant had sufficed to pass from life iu 
 death. Thus was Psyche revenged. 
 16.
 
 Le'ger comme 1'oiseau , comme le nuage vagabond, Cupidon 
 fend 1'air a lire-d'ailes , son arc a la main. Si rapide est son 
 vol , que les longues boucles de ses cheveux en sont rejetees 
 en arriere. Col lines boise'es, vallees rianles, fleuves au limpide 
 cours, se deploient en panorama au-dessous de lui sans oble- 
 nir un regard, non plus que Psyche, qui , sans prendre le 
 lemps de revetir quelques habits, n'a cesse de le suivre. En 
 vain, agenouillee, les brasleves, et s'arrachant les cheveux 
 de de'sespoir, s'epuise-l-elle en supplications, en prieres ; le 
 fugitif est dc'ja hors de la porle'e meme de la vue ; et Psvche 
 de se lancer dans le fleuve, la tele !a premiere, pour meltre 
 un terme a ses angoisses. Mais Jes llols, comme ne voulant 
 pas d'elle et de sa vie de jeune fille, la deposerenl saine et 
 sauve sur le rivage. La, le dieu Pan, aux pieds de chevre, 
 au corps velu, au front arme de comes , et a la barbe melee 
 et touffue , la fit asseoir pres de lui ; il oublia meme quelques 
 instans et Jes sept luyaux de sa flute , et ses bondissans 
 troupeaux , sa richesse et sa joie , pour dire , a litre de con- 
 solation, a I'infortunee, qu'enlre 1'amour et une jolie femme 
 ainsi qu'elle les choses ne pouvaient que finirpar s'arranger. 
 D'ailleurs, le petit dieu avail tant fait deja ; et ici, pour la 
 premiere fois, Psvche apprit quels ordres Venus avail intimes 
 a son fils , el commenl il les avail transgresses.

 
 Plus eprise encore , ne fut-ce que par reconnaissance , et 
 ne perdant pas lout espoir, tant elle chemina de jour et de 
 nuit, qu'enfin elle arriva sur un haul rocher dont la situa- 
 tion et presque la forme lui rappelerent celui oil on 1'avait. 
 exposee- De son sommet , irregulier plateau , on planait 
 sur la campagne et sur une cite qui ne manquait non 
 plus de lours , d'arcs de triompbe , ni d'obelisques elances. Le 
 hasard voulul que, descendue en la ville et pres d'un monu- 
 ment encore en construction , Psyche fit rencontre de ses 
 sceurs : a grand' peine en ful-elle reconnue. Force lui fut de 
 senommer; et quand elle cut raconleson avenlure, cefurent 
 de grandes exclamations, d'inlinies doleances. L'evenement 
 leur avail donne tort, a elles, a leurs craintes , a leurs con- 
 seils; mais qui ne se trompe ? Elles etaient d'ailleurs de si 
 bonne foi ; el puis lout n'etait peut-etre pas perdu. L' Amour, 
 apres s'etre laisse prendre une fois aux charmes d'une mor- 
 lelle, pouvail-il bien repondre de lui pour I'avenir? Getle 
 derniere donnee , Psyche se hala de s'en emparer ; elle dc'bila 
 si naturellemenl uue petite fable loul improvisee , que cba- 
 que sojur se retira , emportanl cette conviction que 1'Amour, 
 mecontenl de leur cadelle, et la repudiant, allait revenir a 
 1'une d'elles. Jusque-la il n'y avail qu'a rire de ces folles 
 prelenlions ; mais le lendemain on Irouva les deux ainees 
 sans vieau pied du roc. Silol la nuit venue, chaque sceur en 
 avail profile pour se rendre sur le plateau. La, se crojant 
 deja dans les bras du dieu d'amour, s'abusanl elles-memes en 
 raison de la vague ressernblauce des localite's, prenaul pour 
 rofllcieux Zephyr une legere brise qui soufflail d' avenlure , et 
 se flaltant d'etre comme autrefois soutenues el Iransporlees , 
 elles s'elaienl abandonnees a ce souffle Irompeur ; un inslant 
 avail suffi pour qu'elles dussenl passer de vie a trepas. 
 Ainsi fut vengee Psyche.

 
 As for Cupid, a solemn edict confines him to his bed. Do 
 vou see him not knowing what position to remain iu, throw- 
 ing about curtains, and blankets, with the impatience of a 
 child more indisposed from weariness, than from his burn, 
 At liberty to break, if he should take a fancy to it, his bow, 
 which they left him for a plaything ; he will equally suffer 
 confinement, and no less submit to receive from his mother, 
 all those reproaches which a feeling of dignity as goddess 
 and of mother disobeyed, suggest to Venus; and for the cer- 
 tain fact known to her , and to every one, of the pregnancy 
 of Psyche. What a fine father of a family you will make 
 truly, cried she to him. And as for me, am I not of an 
 age and shape to hear myself called grandmother? She 
 would have continued to rail on , if Juno and Ceres had not 
 entered to pay a visit, Divinities very talkative, and rather 
 gossips , they exacted twenty times a repetition of the fact, 
 and all particulars , not sparing either to the son or the 
 mother their compliments of condolence , so nearly border- 
 ing on raillery, any more than malignant allusions and kind 
 suppositions. Venus in accompanying them to the door, 
 asked them to assist her in the active search she was about 
 to make. She added that she must have the insolent Psyche 
 dead or alive ; then they separated.
 
 Quant a 1' Amour, une grave ordonnance le retient au lif. 
 Le voyez-vous, ne sachant quelle position garder, rejeter 
 loin de lui rideaux et couverlures avec 1'impalience d'un 
 enfant plus malade d'ennui que de sa LrulureTLibre a lui de 
 briser, s'il lui en prend fantaisie, son arc qu'on lui a laisse 
 comme jouet ; il n'en sera pas moins garde a vue , il ne lui 
 en faudra pas moins subir, de la part de sa mere, toute la 
 serie de reproches que suggerent a Venus le sentiment de sa 
 dignite de de'esse et de mere meconnue, et le fait, constant 
 aujourd'hui pourelle comme pour tous, de la grossesse de 
 Psyche. Que vous ferez vraiment un beau pere de famille! 
 lui repelait-elle. Ne guis-je pas, moi , pour ma part, d'age 
 et de tournure a m'entendre appeler grand'mere? Elle 
 parlerait encore , si Junon et Geres ne fussent venues en 
 visile. Divinilcs fort causeuses et un peu coinmeres, elles se 
 iirent vingt fois repeter le fait et les details , n'epargnant ni 
 au fils ni a la mere les complimens de condoleance, si voi- 
 sinsde la raillerie, non plus que les allusions malignes et les 
 ohligeantes suppositions. Venus, en les reconduisant jusqu'a 
 la porte , leur demanda de 1'aider dans les actives recherches 
 qu'elle allait faire. Elle ajoula qu'il lui fallait 1'insolente 
 Psyche morte on vive ; puis on se separa.

 
 Too muck royally fatigues; it is the same with respect 
 to divinity. Happy sometimes the immortals to forsake Olym- 
 pus, and lo exchange stately dwellings , for modest residen- 
 ces; altogether those of friendship, where, as ease , we lead 
 the private and retired life of citizens. Ceres and Juno pos- 
 sessed not far from each other, their villa, their Trianon , 
 their Country seat as the English term it. Ceres made 
 choice of a corner possessing a smiling landscape; it was an 
 estate of middling extent , inclosed by delightful hills, and 
 interspersed with wood, with fields, meadows, and rustic 
 habitations Less moderate in her taste , Juno fixed upon the 
 centre of a stately and umbrageous wood. She delighted in 
 solemn trees , only admitting under their vaulted foliage, 
 a sombre light, and whose strong branches might sustain 
 perhaps , offerings from devotees of rich hangings, bearing 
 the name embroidered in gold of the suppliant lo the god- 
 dess, and an indication of the sort of benefit, that was soli- 
 cited as well from her kindness , as from her immense power. 
 Besides which , she chose to have a temple of noble and bold 
 proportions, where all should appear dignified and worthy 
 of the wife , and sister of Jupiter. 
 
 That of Ceres , on the contrary, was remarkable for its 
 simplicity, for its slender columns , and for the smallnessof 
 ils extent. At the entrance lay heaped up, and in confusion, 
 sheaves of barley and of wheat, flexible ears of corn, plai- 
 sed into crowns, with sickles and rakes, the first fruits of 
 harvest, and implements of agriculture, offered by the hus- 
 bandmen to the good goddess. 
 
 Psyche prostrate, after calling lo mind her intercourse 
 with Cupid, her curiosity, and is fatal consequences; also 
 the anger of Venus, and what she had lo dread from it, 
 asked the favour alone of being permitted to conceal her- 
 self, if it were merely for a day or two; under the sheaves, 
 and to subsist upon the grain that might fall from them; 
 ,8,-, 9 . 

 
 but whatever good-will Ceres owed llie suppliant, on ac- 
 count of the wild red poppies , corn flowers , and others , 
 which grow in the fields, with which she had taken care to 
 refresken and lo ornament her emblematic Cornucopia; she 
 only answered by a refusal , and begged her to begone. 
 
 Juno, whom Psyche flattered herself to conciliate, by in- 
 voking her under the name of Jugalis and that of Lucina; 
 Juno, whom she stopt even on the threshold of her temple , 
 did not condescend to listen , and passed on , delighted ho- 
 wever, by not detaining the fugitive, to have occasion 
 without its appearing loo palpable , to disoblige Venus ; 
 who impatient to gain her ends , was going to have recourse 
 to strong measures.
 
 Trop de royaule fatigue; ainsi en serait-il de trop de divi- 
 nile ? Heureux parfois les immortels de deserter 1'OIympe et 
 d'en echanger les magnifiques lambris contre de modestes 
 residences, toules d'affection, oil Ton peut a 1'aise faire de la 
 vie prive'e et humaine , de la bourgeoisie ! Ceres et Junon 
 avaient , non loin 1'une de 1'aulre , leur Villa, leur Trianon, 
 leur relraite orne'e , comme disent les Anglais. Ceres s'elait 
 choisi le coin d'un rianl paysage : c'elail un terrain de me- 
 diocre elendue, ceint d'agreables coleaux, et mele de bois, 
 de champs , de prairies et d'habilations rusliques. Moins mo- 
 desle dans ses gouts, Junon se plaisait au centre d'une clai- 
 riere d'un bois epais. Elle aimait les arbres seculaires, ne 
 laissanl peuelrer sous leurs voules de feuillage qu'un jour 
 religieux, el donl les branches vigoureuses pussenl recevoir 
 en guise d'ejc-voto de riches tentures , portant en broderies 
 d'or le nom du suppliant de la deesse, et 1'indicalion du 
 genre de bienfait qu'on allendail de sa bonle comme de sa 
 toule-puissance. Elle avail de plus voulu un lemple de pro- 
 porlions nobles el hardies , oil lout fut grandiose el digne de 
 la femme et de la soeur de Jupiter. Celui de Ceres , au con- 
 traire, elail remarquable par sa simplicile , par ses greles 
 colonnes el par le peu d'e'lendue de son pourlour. A 1'entree 
 gisaient, enlasses et pele-mele , des gerbes d'orge et deble, 
 de flexibles epis tresses en couronnes , des faucilles et des 
 raleaux, pre'mices de recolles el inslrumens araloires offerls 
 par les laboureurs a la bonne deesse. 
 
 Psyche proslernee , apres avoir rappele en deux mots ses 
 rapports avec 1'Amour , sa curiosite el ses falales suiles , la 
 colere de Venus el ce qu'elle avail a en redouter, demanda 
 pour toule grace qu'il lui fut permis de se cacher , ne ful-ce 
 qu'un jour un oudeux, sous les javelles , el de vivredu grain 
 qui en lomberail; mais, quelque gre que Ceres sut a la sup- 
 plianle, des coquelicots , bleuels el aulres fleurs qui croissent 
 daus les champs, dont elle avail pris soin de rajeunir et 
 ,8. - , 3 .
 
 d'orner son emble'matique corne d'aboudance , elle ne repon- 
 dif que par utt refus , et 1'invita a s'e'loigner. 
 
 Junon , que Ps_yche se flattait de se concilier en 1'invo- 
 quant sous ses noms de Jugalis et de Lucina ; Junon qu'elle 
 arreta au seuil meme de son temple , ne daigna pas 1'e'couter 
 et passa outre , encbante'e toutefois , en ne retenant pas la 
 fugitive , d'avoir 1'occasion , sans qu'il y parut trop , de 
 desobliger Venus , qui , impatiente d'en venir a ses fins , va 
 recourir aux grands mojens.
 
 * 
 

 
 After due attention paid to her head-dress, Venus attires 
 herself with care and coquetry , orders forth her golden car , 
 the workmanship of Vulcan, her chariot with carved wheels. 
 At her voice four young and delicate pigeons, white like the 
 plumage of the swan , present of their own accord , their 
 necks of divers hues, to the yoke of pearl which the goddess 
 attache to them. A double silken thread in her hand, Venus 
 seats herself, and quitting the earth, guides the charming 
 team towards the skies, and the regions of air grow serene, 
 the clouds disperse, and dissipate at her approach. It was a 
 day of Far niente, of holiday, in Empireum , Jupiter 
 having Mercury at his side, on his knees was the thunder 
 quiescent, at his feet his eagle with his usual air of fierce- 
 ness, he was discoursing of amorous adventures with the 
 son of Maia, of great repute in matters of that kind. The 
 new comes was received with a smiling look. The dreadful 
 brow which Apuleus qualiile by the word cceruleus that 
 brow, a single movement of which, shakes all Olympus, 
 wore no frown; the goddess was left at liberty lo order the 
 celestial crier the Deus vocalis, as Apuleus calls him (*), Mer- 
 cury, charged from time immemorial with the employment, 
 as every one knows, after having learnt by heart four 
 written lines that Gytherea had given him, takes his speaking 
 trumpet; and for greater agility he neither invests himself 
 in tunic nor cloak. He went forth to publish in all the roads 
 and cross-roads. 
 
 it is made known to every one, both high and low , 
 Venus having lost a certain fair slave 
 
 ng herself the wife of her son, 
 
 who is now gadding about the world ; 
 
 ever will make known her retreat to Venus 
 
 is a matter which very nearly concerns her, 
 Shall receive two kisses of her mouth , 
 And whoever .hall deliver her up , .hall have someting btvond ("). 
 
 I, 3o. 
 (") La Font.in.,
 
 Thus described , Psyche could not escape ! Tired of wand- 
 ering through roads and fields, she prefered surrendering 
 herself up , and to declare to the attendants of Venus 
 B<jhold, her whom ye seek Again, it is difficult to im- 
 agine what kind of attendants Apuleus attributes to Venus. 
 
 They are personifications of abstract beings, of whom we 
 hear so much, about the middle age of the french lilterature, 
 Venus has for acolites ( attributes ) pantomimic affected 
 manners , invariably in scrupulous exactness even to the 
 folds of her robe ; disquietude in her actions fickle looks 
 ear fine and attentive, sometimes sadness with a brow of 
 care , and long garments of mourning.
 
 Apres quelques soins donne's a sa coiffure, Venus se drape 
 avec recherche el coquetterie, fait avancer son char d'or, 
 ouvrage de Vulcain , son char aux roues de'coupe'es. A sa voix, 
 quatre jeunes et de'licates colombelles, blanches comme le 
 plumage ducygne, viennent d'elles-me'mes offrir leur cou de 
 nuances changeanles au joug de perles que leur impose ia 
 de'esse. Un double fil de soie a la main , Venus se place, el, 
 quillant la terre, dirige le charmant altelage vers les cieux; 
 et les plaines de 1'air de se rasserener sur son passage , et les 
 nuages de s'e'carler,de se dissiper (levant elle. G'e'tait a 1'Em- 
 pyre'e jour de Far niente , de vacances. Jupiter ayant a 
 ses cote's Mercure , sur ses genoux sa foudre assoupie , 
 a ses pieds son aigle , 1'air aussi farouche que de coutume, 
 devisait d'aventures galanles avec le fils de Maia , maitre 
 passe en ce genre. On fit gracieuse figure a la survenanle. 
 Le terrible sourcil , qu'Apule'e (*) qualifie de cceruleus, et 
 son traducteur Montlyard (1616) de cerddtre, le sourcil 
 dont un seul mouvement e'branle 1'Olympe, ne se fronga 
 point ; on laissa la de'esse maitresse de disposer du crieur 
 celeste, del vocalis , dit Apule'e. Mercure , charge de temps 
 immemorial de 1'emploi , comme chacun sail, apres avoir 
 appris par cceur quatre lignes d'e'criture que lui remit 
 Cythe're'e, s'arma de son porte-voix; pour plus de le'gerete, 
 il ne prit nitunique, ni manteau. II s'en alia publier par les 
 chemins et carrefours : 
 
 On fait savoir a tous , grands et petitt , 
 Que Venus a perdu certaine esclave blonde, 
 
 Se tlisant femme dc son fils , 
 
 Et qtii court a present le monde; 
 Quiconque enseignera sa retraite A Venus , 
 
 Comme c'est chose qui la louche, 
 
 Aura deux baisers de sa bouche, 
 Et qui la livrera , quelque chose de plus (**). 
 
 Signale'e ainsi, Psyche ne pouvait e'chapper. Lasse d'errcr 
 
 (*) Lusus Asini, II, 3o. 
 
 (**) La Fontaine, Amours d Psyche, II, 98.
 
 par Jes chemins et les champs , elle prefera se livrer elle- 
 meme, et venirdire aux suivantes de Venus : Celle que vous 
 cherchez, la voici. Du reste , on n'imaginerait que difficile- 
 ment quelles suivantes Apulee donne a Venus. Ce sont des 
 personnifications d'etres abslraits, comtne on en retrouve 
 tant au moyen age de notre litterature francaise; et Venus 
 a pour acolytes 1'Habitude a la pantomime compasse'e, aux 
 plis de robe invariablement symetriques ; 1'Iuquielude aux 
 gestes incertains et brefs, aux regards mobiles, a 1'oreille fine 
 et attentive; la Trislesse enfm au front soucieux , aux longs 
 vetemens de deuil.
 
 But here what a spectacle 1 Psyche bare shouldered , drag- 
 ged by the hair to the feet of Venus , and scourged with rods ! 
 No compassion for her state of pregnancy , she pay no at- 
 tention to her tears I a Still harder, my faithful slaves! 
 continues to cry the mother of Cupid, delighting more in 
 the pleasures of vengeance , in as much as they have been 
 delayed, let that skin be coloured with glowing red , 
 which pretends to be fair, and is merely wan ; then after you 
 have well chastised her , we shall compare the two Venus. 
 Thus saying, she threw back the scarf with which she was 
 attired, intoxicated with her own divine charms, and, says 
 Apuleus again, pinching her left ear with her finger and 
 thumb, in sign of bitter raillery. However the cries of Psy- 
 che , affected deeply her lover , separated as he was from 
 her, only by a slight drapery. 

 
 Mais ici quel tableau I Psyche, les e'paules nues, trainee 
 par les cheveux jusqu'aux pieds de Venus , et battue de verges ! 
 Nulle pilie de son e'tat de grossessel on ne tient compte de 
 ses larmes ! Plus fort , mes fideles ! ne cesse de crier la 
 mere de 1' Amour, savourant d'autant mieux les plaisirs de la 
 vengeance qu'ils se sont fait plus long-temps attendre ; que 
 sous vos coups se colore d'un vigoureux carmin cette peau 
 qui vondrait e'tre blanche et n'est que blafarde ; puis, quand 
 vous 1'aurez convenablement diapre'e , nous verrons a com- 
 parer les deux Venus. Et ce disant, elle rejetait en arriere 
 1'e'charpe dont elle e'tait drapee , s'enivrant elle-meme de 
 ses charmes divins, et, dit encore Apule'e , se pincant 
 1'oreille gauche du pouce et de 1' index, en signe d'amere 
 raillerie. Cependant les cris de Psyche retentissaient au 
 coeur de son amant , se'pare qu'il e'tait d'elle par une gimple 
 draperie.

 
 Had it not been that she reckoned on seeing Cupid again , 
 and being able to soften him , ( even were it necessary to 
 exchange the litleof wife, for that of servant) Psyche would 
 have desired death. But lhat was not what Venus wished; 
 cruel lo excess, she reserved a long series of reviving lor- 
 lures, for her slave. She purposed ensnaring her in a circle 
 of difficult and dangerous enterprises, from which, she 
 hoped she would not extricate herself. Thence , what pre- 
 tences for new persecutions ! She began by ordering lo be 
 brought into one of the courts of her domain, both wheat, 
 barley, millet, poppy seeds, peas, and lentils, all mixed and 
 confounded with each other. Then Psyche was called, and 
 Venus commanded her lo pick out, and separate each sort, 
 A little patience only is wanting, said she, and this 
 \vork will be finished before night. So saying, she sets out 
 for a wedding feast, thinking it quite certain lhat she could 
 not be obeyed; but she did not reckon on a little country 
 ant, which took pity on so much youth, candour and 
 charms, so cruelly tormented. She gave notice to the ant ' 
 tribe, and the heap was instantly attacked; very soon, had 
 you but seen it, the whole surface was in a ferment at all 
 points, changes its form, diminishes, disappears six feet 
 deep, under the efforts of Ihousands of workmen . who carry 
 it off piece-meal. When Venus entered, wilh an insulting 
 seslure, with rony on her tongue, we mny judge bolh of 
 her surprise, as also, that of Psyche. They have found 
 means, says the immortal, and lo Ihe misfortune of the 
 protector and the protected , to come to thy aid, but I will 
 set that to rights. Then Psyche kneeling received by way 
 of favour, a morsel of black bread for supper, which she 
 wetted with her tears. They say, that before she retired, 
 Cytherea wailed a quarler of an hour in the anti-chamber, 
 not willing to lose any of the sobs and sighs , more agreeable 
 to her ear , lhan the sweetesl melody.
 
 N'eut etc 1' Amour qu'elle esperail revoir et flechir, fallul- 
 il echanger le litre de sa femme centre celui de sa servanle, 
 Psyche eulde'sire mourir.Mais Venus , inge'nieusemenl cruelle, 
 reservait a son esclave une longue serie de renaissanles 
 tortures, ayant a 1'enserrer dans un cercle de difficiles et 
 perilleuses entreprises, dont elle complait ne la point voir 
 sortir. Alors , que de prelexles pour de nouvelles persecu- 
 tions! Elle commence par faire apporter, en 1'une des cours 
 de son domaine, du ble , de 1'orge, du millet, de la graine 
 de pavots, des pois et des len lilies; toul fut mele, con- 
 fondu ensemble, puis Psyche appelee , Venus lui donna 
 1'ordre de trier et metlre a part cbaque nature de grains. It 
 ne faut pour cela, dit-elle , qu'un peude patience; ce travail 
 devra elre fini avant la nuit. Apres ces mots la deesse part 
 pour un j-epas de noces , se croyaal bien sure de n'e'lre pas 
 obeie ; maisil se rencontra de parlle mondeune petite fourmi 
 campagoarde, qui prit en pilie tant de jeunesse , de candeur 
 et de charmes, si cruellement tourmenles. Avis fut par elle 
 domic a la gent fourmiliere, el, en moins d'un instant, le 
 monceau ful allaque. Bienlol 1'eussiez-vous vu , comme bouil- 
 lonnant a lous les points de sa surface, changer de forme, 
 decroilre, s'abimer sous les efforts de milliers de travailleuses 
 a six pelils pieds, et se inobiliser par parties. Quand Venus 
 rentra, le geste insullant, 1'ironie a la bouche , on peut 
 juger de sa surprise, a On a trouve mojen, dit 1'immorlelle, 
 et cepour le malheur du protecteur etde la protegee, de venir 
 a ton aide, mais j'y metlrai bon ordre. Alors Psyche s'age- 
 nouilla et recut par grace , pour souper , un morceau de 
 pain noir qu'elle mouilla de larmes. On dil qu'avant de se 
 relirer Cythere'e s'arreta un instant pour ecouler aux porles, 
 jalouse de ne rien perdre de soupirs el de sanglols plus doux 
 a son oreille que la plus suave me'lodie. 
 
 Psyche. D.
 
 The following day fresh toill From the foot of a broad 
 rising ground, whence issue tall trees, vagrant and noisy 
 waters spouting out , wind round an island of a savage and 
 wild aspect. In the island wandered at liberty, and without 
 shepherds, sheep whose wool has all the lustre of gold, (la- 
 nosum aurum} as Apuleus says beautifully, but it is terri- 
 ble to approach these animals, and a blow from them is 
 mortal. They are the sheep of the sun! Thou seest , Psy- 
 che , says the mother of Cupid to hor drudge , whom she 
 exceeded by a whole head in stature , Thou seest on the 
 other side of the torrent, those sheep so resplendent, that 
 the eye can scarcely support the sight of them, I have a 
 certain fancy fora little of their fleece, and my daughter 
 in law , will without doubt have sufficient complaisance. 
 A disdainful gesture , an upraised arm, an indication of the 
 finger, completed by way of finish, what her words had 
 imported. Psyche sets out, of what value is life to her? But 
 all nature seems to favour her. Already the torrent leaving 
 bare some parts of the rock, thrown into its bed, had opened 
 a passage for her. Scarcely does she touch the opposite side , 
 when a reed that Zephyr agitates finds a voice to reveal to 
 her, all the danger of her entreprise, and the means of 
 escaping it. In obedience to these friendly hints, she suffers 
 the declining day to allay the ardour of the sun's rays. She 
 wails concealed under a large plane tree, until a more ad- 
 vanced hour might again cause the sheep with fleeces of 
 gold, to require an atmosphere more charged with humidity, 
 a fresher pasture, and repose. As soon as she sees them 
 collect together in little groups, from one side of the island 
 to the other , she traverses without disquietude the portion 
 of land, which they left free. On the brambles, and on the 
 branches of the lowest trees of the tricket , were suspended 
 numerous locks that the sheep had left there in their passage. 
 She returns, and without having encountered any danger, 
 possessed of this rich booty.
 
 Le lendemain , nouvelle tache. Du pied d'un large tertre 
 d'oii s'elevent de hauls arbres qu'on y dirait encaisse's, de 
 bruyanles, de vagabondes eaux jaillisseut pour serpenter au- 
 tour d'une ile d'un aspect triste et sauvage. Dans 1'ile, errent, 
 Jibres et sans pasteurs , des moutons dont la laine a lout 
 1'e'clat de 1'or, lanosum aurum, dit ingeuieusement Apule'e ; 
 mais 1'approche de ces animaux est terrible , leur alteinle 
 mortelle. Ce sont les moulons du soleil. Tu vois , Psyche, dit 
 la mere de 1'Amour a son souffre-douleur, qu'elle de'passait 
 de toute la lete , tu vois , de 1'autre cole du torrent, ces 
 moutons si respleudissans que 1'ceil en peut a peine supporter 
 la yue; j'aurais quelque fantaisie d'un peu de ces toisons, 
 
 ma bru aura sans doute assez de complaisance Un 
 
 gesle dedaigneux, un bras leve, une indication du doigt, 
 comple'terent , comme par grace , ce que la parole avail 
 commence. Psyche part ; avec elle la nature entiere semble 
 d'intelligence. De'ja le torrent, laissant a de'couvert quelques 
 quartiers de rocs jete's en son lit, lui a livre passage. A peine 
 a-t-elle louche le bord oppose, qu'un roseau , que le zephyr 
 agile, trouve une voix pour lui reveler tout le danger de son 
 enlreprise et les moyens d'y e'chapper. Docile a ces bons 
 conseiis, elle attend, cache'e sous un large platane, que le 
 jour sur son de'clin lempere 1'ardeur des feux du soleil ; 
 qu'une heure plus avance'e ait ramene pour les moutons a 
 laine d'or le besoin de palir plus frais de sommeil el d'un 
 atmosphere plus charge'e d'humidite. Des qu'elle les voit, 
 s'agglome'rer enpelits groupes, d'un cole de l'ile a 1'aulre, 
 elle parcourt, sans elre inquie'le'e, la portion de terrain 
 devenue libre. Aux ronces, aux branches les moins hautes 
 des]arbresdu bocage, e'taient suspendus de nombreux flocons 
 de laine , riche proie dont elle revient uaotie.

 
 Will Venus consider herself as conquered? Far from thai ! 
 Her anger suggest another trial. If the whole earth con- 
 jointly with Cupid refuse to second her vengeance, she will 
 have recourse to the infernal Regions ; she will neglect no 
 means even those of Psyche herself, againts her own proper 
 person. The bearer of a box the lid of which was carefully 
 lilted in, the poor girl was ordered lo penelrate even as far 
 as the gloomy shores ; Plulo expects her visit , and Ihe mother 
 of Cupid her relurn. They were parlicles of beauly which she 
 was sent lo borrow of Proserpine ; there was lo be an assem- 
 bly on the following day at Olympus and Venus chose lo 
 shine there, in all her splendour. Again , the path is marked 
 out, in the winding of a wood, an old tower in ruins; far, 
 very far off, a city of Achaia ; then , at some distance, rocks 
 without verdure, all nature sad, at length, in an isolated 
 situation , and difficull of access , was Tenarus lhat vast air 
 hole of the infernal Regions, in whose depth, is a road 
 unknown to mortals. Living to descend among llie dead! 
 Idea alone sufficient to cause any olher to die with fright , 
 but Psyche began lo be accustomed to trials. Add lo that, 
 the old tower, the foundations of which descend very deep 
 in the earth, informs us of more than Venus imagines, lhat 
 she has spoken , and lhat lhanks lo her very particular and 
 discreet counsel Psyche has only lo mistrust a curiosily 
 which was once so falal lo her. 
 
 f A 

 
 Venus se tiendraH-elle pour vaincue? loin ele la, sa colert; 
 lente une derniere epreuve. Si (oute la terre, d'accord avec 
 1'Amour, se refuse a seconder sa vengeance, elle essaiera 
 des enfers ; il n'y aura pas jusqu'a Psyche dont elle ne veuille 
 se servir contre Psyche meme. Porteur d'une boile au cou- 
 vercle soigneusement ajusle, la pauvre fille doit pene'trer 
 jusqu'aux sombres Lords; Plulon attend sa visile, et la 
 mere de 1'Amour son retour. Ce sont parcelles de beaute 
 qu'on 1'envoie empruuter a Proserpine; il y a cercle le len- 
 demain a 1'Olympe ; Venus y veut briller de tout son 
 eclat. Du resle, le chemin est tout (race; au detour d'un 
 Lois, une vieille lour en ruines ; loin, Lien loin, une ville 
 d'Acha'ie ; a quelque distance de la , des rochers sans ver- 
 dure, une nature triste ; puis enfin , en un lieu e'carle et 
 de difficile acces, le Tenare, vaste soupirail des enfers, dont 
 la profondeur laisse apercevoir une route ignoree des mor- 
 tels. Vivanle, descendre chez les morts ! cetle idee seule cut 
 suffi pour faire mourir toute autre de frayeur ; mais Psyche com- 
 mencait as'aguerrir. Ajoutez que la vieille tour dont les fon- 
 demens descendent bien avant dans le sol , en sail plus que 
 Venus ne le suppose; qu'elle a parle, et que, grace a ses 
 minulieux et saijes avis, Psyche n'a presque plus qu'a se dc- 
 fier d'uue curioshe qi lui fut une fois deja si fatale.
 
 
 
 * *t 
 


 
 Do you see her, standing up motionless with stupor? 
 Only the weak plank of a wherry between her, and the 
 river of death; for company, only old Charon with a grey 
 beard, skilful in handling the heavy oar, and in gathering 
 the obolus for toll. Behind her on the shore which she quits, 
 is seen the ghost of an old man half naked and in rags, 
 assisting himself with difficulty by a slick , who beseeches 
 her, one knee on the ground, to help him to place himself 
 by her side. On the other shore, she meets with an ass 
 loaded with wood, and its conductor both lame: vain and 
 dangerous illusions all that. Snares laid for good faith, for 
 the simplicity of the traveller, and at which she laughs. 
 
 
 

 
 La voyez-vous , debout , immobile de stupeur ? entre elle 
 et le fleuve des morts, la frele planche d'une nacelle; pour 
 toute compagnie , le vieux Caron a la barbe grisonnante , 
 habile a manier le lourd aviron et a gagner 1'obole de peage. 
 Derriere,sur larivequ'elle abandonne, un vieillard demi-nu, 
 en liaillons, s'aidant avec peine d'un baton , la supplie, un 
 genou en lerre , de 1'aider a prendre place en la barque a 
 ses cole's. A 1'autre bord, elle fait rencontre d'un ane charge 
 de bois, et de son conducteur , boiteux 1'un et 1'aulre. 
 Yaines - et dangereuses illusions que tout cela! pieges ten- 
 dus a la konne foi , a la simplkile de la voyageuse , et dont 
 elle se rit !

 
 Further off, here three old women preparing hemp pre- 
 sent themselves almost at the same time to her view , the 
 Orst of them more ugly, and more wrinkled than the two 
 others; in another place, the 1 orrible and three headed dog 
 Cerberus , the workwomen seated under a kind of shed , and 
 near trees without shade , although busbj : the three heads 
 of the dog erect, fierce, and threatening under the elevated 
 porch of a vestibule , from whence is already perceptible 
 the glare of the immense furnace. A respectful salutation , 
 and a cake of barley meal , kneaded with honey , is all that 
 the obsequious invitations of the old women , and the furious 
 barkings ol the dog obtain of Psyche.
 
 At length the messenger of Venus, is admitted to prostrate 
 herself at the feet of Proserpine , she finds her seated at the 
 entrance of her palace , the only place where to re resh the 
 eyes of the daughter of Ceres, the arid and burning earth, 
 sends forth from its bosom a few vegetables , of an undeter- 
 mined and pale colour. An artist would have admired the 
 masonry, those arches, those columns of white stone, pre- 
 senting themselves in bright array on a ground of flame > 
 scarlet and purple, or of grey and blackened smoke colour. 
 As for Psyche , occupied with her mission she presents on 
 her knees her humble request to the Queen of the infernal 
 Regions. Proserpine goes out an instant, returns with the 
 box filled, and well closed , then she dismisses the messenger. 
 Hell and its details pass with the rapidity of a dream be 
 fore Psyche, and behold her restored lo air, to light and to 
 life. 

 
 Plus loin s'offrent a sa vue et presque en incmc temps, ici 
 Irois vieilles appr^leuses de chanvre, la premiere plus laide, 
 ]>lus ridee tjue les deux autres ; la, 1'horrible et triple gueule 
 du chien Cerbere ; le trio de Ira vail leuses assis sous unesorle 
 de hangar, et dans le voisinage d'arbres sansombrage quoique 
 touffus; Je trio de teles canines se dressant, fier et menacant, 
 sous le porcbe eleve d'un vestibule, d'ou s'apercoivent deja 
 Jes Jueurs de 1'immense fournaise. Un salut respeclueux, un 
 gafenn de farine d'orge pelrie avec du miel , c'est tout ce 
 qu'obtiendront de Psyche' les obst ; quieuses invitations des. 
 vieilles , le chien et ses furieux aboiemens.
 
 Enfin la messagere de Venus est admise a se proslerncr 
 aux pieds de Proserpine ; elle Ja Irouve assise a 1'entree de 
 son palais, le seul endroit oil, pour recreer les yeux de la 
 fille de Ceres, la terre aride et brulante laisse echapper 
 de son sein quelques vege'taux d'une indecise verdure. Un 
 artiste cut admire ces massifs, ces ciutres, ces colonnes 
 de pierre blanche, se detachant en vifs rebauls sur un fond 
 de flamme ecarlale et pourpre, ou de grise et noiratre fumee. 
 Pour Psyche , loute a sa mission , elle presente a genoux son 
 humble requele a la reine des enfers. Proserpine sort un in- 
 stant, revient avec la boile remplie et bien ferme'e ; puis 
 congedie 1'envojee. Devant Psjche repassent avec la rapidite 
 d'un songe 1'enfer et ses details , et la voila rendue a 1'air, a 
 la lumiere, a la vie.
 

 
 It was there that curiosity, waited to whisper in her ear. 
 A Lox of beauty Psyche ! What an extraordinary wonder! 
 A cover to raise, and you will know how this beauty is 
 formed, which presents itself to you so pointedly. No wit- 
 nesses here, no unlucky lamp to burn the shoulder of a 
 God, or sleeper to awake, and if you conceal from your 
 odious tyrant a very small portion of this precious treasure, 
 in order to regain the heart of your husband, where would 
 be the harm ? 
 
 Prudence opposes certain answers to these insinuations, 
 and to this logic; but silence is imposed on her, The hand is 
 passed a huudred times over the glossy compartments of the 
 box, the solidity of the hinge his tried, in short the box was 
 opened, and there escaped from it, instead of beauly, a 
 nauseous and somniferous vapour, Psyche as though struck 
 with lethargy falls with her face towards the earth. This 
 lime she had been for ever lost, had not Cupid himself 
 unexpectedly come to her aid. Her wound healed, her 
 recovery complete, she suffers only now for the absence of 
 her well beloved. Venus imagined indeed that she had 
 placed guards at the door, but there remained a narrow 
 window and the malicious God escapes. His wing as though 
 renovated by such long inactivity , he makes but one flight 
 to her whom he is impatient to see again. What a spectacle! 
 Psyche extended on the earth as if dead! He begins by 
 collecting from around, the iutoxicating vapour, and the 
 whole is replaced in the box as before, then slightly tou- 
 ching Psyche with the point of one of his arrows, he awakes 
 her : There then , poor little creature said he to her, how- 
 well you take warning by former lessons, now that all is 
 repaired, it is for you to rejoin my mother, and for me to 
 act.
 
 {Detail la que la Curiosite 1'altendait, pour lui dire a I'o- 
 reille : Une boite de beaule, Psyche! quelle singularity 
 -merveilleuse ! un couvercle a soulever, et lu saurais com- 
 ment esl faite cetle beaule' , qui le viendrait a loi-rueme si 
 bien a point. Nuls le'moins ici; pas de lampe maleucon- 
 treuse, d'e'paule de dieu a bruler, de dormeur a e veiller ; 
 et quand lu de'roberais a ton odieux lyran une toule petile 
 porlion de ce pre'eieux Ire'sor pour parvenir a reconquerir 
 le coeur de ton mari , oil serait le rnal ? 
 
 La Prudence opposa bien quelques repliques a ces insinua- 
 tions el a cetle logique ; mais on lui imposa siience. On 
 passa la main cent fois sur les lisses parois de la boile; on 
 voulut essajer la solidile de la charniere ; bref , la boite fut 
 ouveile; il s'en e'chappa, au lieu de beauie , une vapeur 
 nauseabonde el somnifere ; et Psyche de tomber le visage 
 conlre lerie; vous la diriez frappe'e de le'lhargie. Gette fois 
 e'en e'lait fail d'elle a loujours , ne fut survenu I'Amour 
 lui-meme. Sa blessure est cicatrisee, sa convalescence com- 
 plete; il ue souffrc plus quede 1'absence de sa mieujcaime'e("). 
 Ye'iius a bien pense a mellre gardiens aux portes ; mais reste 
 une elroile fenelre; le malin dieu s'e'cliappe. L'aile couime 
 rajeunie par une aussi longue inaclion, il ne fait qu'un vol 
 jusqn'a celle qu'il a impalience de revoir. Quel spectacle! 
 Psvche e'lendue a terre comme morte ! II commence par en- 
 lever d'aulour d'elle I'enivranle vapeur, el le lout relrouve 
 place en la boite comme devant; puis, effleurant Psyche de 
 la pointe d'une de ses fleches, il la reveille. Voila done , 
 pauvrelle , lui dit-il, comme les leyons vous profilenl t 
 main tenant que lout esl repare , a vous de icjoindre ma 
 mere, a moi d'agir. 
 
 (")Jned'or, 1616.
 

 

 
 Lors il tenle un tour tie son metier. Faisant force d'ailes, 
 il monle jusqu'au plus haul descieux, va trouver Jupiter , 
 el tant et si Lien plaitlc qu'on lui donne gain de cause. 
 I'our miepx embrasser le gentil Cupidon , le bon Jupia s'en 
 remet du soin de lenir ses carreaux au bee de son aigle; 
 il emploie meme, ainsi qu'on peut le voir au texle d'ApuIe'e, 
 trenle lignes environ d'allocution a declarer que, bien que 
 1'Amour en use quelquefois le plus leslement du monde avec 
 son Omnipotence, lui imposant mille exlravaganles passions 
 ou travestissemens ridicules, il n'a , divinite sans rancune, 
 rien a refuser a 1'eufant dout il est en quelque sorte le pere 
 nourricier. II y met toutefois uiie condition : si par aveuture 
 se rencontre quelque mortelle , jeune et de rare beaute , clout 
 veuille s'occuper le dieu par excellence, Gupidon fera en 
 sorte d'amenei* les choses a bien; ainsi, service pour ser- 
 vice. 
 
 L' Amour epousera done Psjche. Resle toutefois a y fa ire 
 consentir Venus, et, pour qu'il n'y ait pas trop choquanfe 
 mesalliance a obtenir de 1'Olympe en corps un brevet d'itn- 
 mortalile pour la future. Point de temps a perdre. Mercure 
 revet de la tele aux pieds la giande tenue de messager ce- 
 leste : ailes au chef, ailes aux talons, en main le caducee , 
 aulour des reins une scuple et llottante e'charpe , leger , ele- 
 gant a ravir , il glissea travers les nuages , aussi prompt que 
 la pensee, de libre allure comme elle. Point d'immortcls 
 iuscrilsen V Album des Muses, qu'il ne convoque a peine de 
 iix mille ecus d'amende (*). Sa lournee faite , il servira d'in- 
 troducteur a la nouvelle venue. 
 
 (*) Apulec, torn, II , pag. 3g
 
 Then he has recourse to a trick of his trade , with great 
 exertion of flying , he mounts even to the highest heavens , 
 presents himself to Jupiter, and pleads so long, and so well, 
 that his request is granted. The better to embrace the pretty 
 Cupid, good Jupin remist his care of supplying thunder 
 bolts to the beak of hif eagle. He employs even ( as may 
 be seen by the text of Apuleus) about 3o lines of harangue 
 to declare , that although Cupid acts sometimes most scur- 
 vily with his Godhead , imposing on him a thousand extra- 
 vagant passions, or ridiculous disguises, he can refuse noth- 
 ing to the child of -whom he is in some degree the. 
 
 He however annexes condition to it ; if by chance some 
 mortal should be met with, young, and of rare beauty, 
 about whom the G0d should occupy himself by way of emi- 
 nence, Cupid will act so as to bring matters to a happy 
 conclusion , thus service for service : Cupid will then espouse 
 Psyche. There remains however to obtain the consent of 
 Venus , and that there may not appear a disparity of rank 
 too shocking, there must be no time lost in obtaining a 
 grant of immortality for the bride, from the assembly at 
 Olympus. 
 
 Mercury invests himself from head to foot in ihe full dress 
 of the celestial messenger, wings on head, and on heel?, 
 caduceus in hand around his loins, a pliant and waving 
 scarf. Light, elegant even to admiration , he shoots across 
 the clouds as quick , and with step as free as thought itself. 
 No immortals inscribed in the Album of the muses whom 
 he does not summon under a tine of 10000 crowns*. 
 
 His circuit finished, he will perferm the office of usher- 
 ing in the new corner. 
 
 Apuleius, V. 3. 
 
 . 3o.

 
 Chose rare ! onse trouva au grand complet. QueJle plus im- 
 posante reunion ! En avant de lous, Jupiter et Junon ; Jupiter, 
 un globe sous les pieds, tient d'uue main sur ses genoux son 
 lonnerre tout pacifique pour 1'instant, et de 1'autre flalte et 
 apaise son- aiijle , qui , la serre en avant, les ailes demi- 
 ouverles , menace de 1'ceil et du bee le paon de la reine des 
 dieux. Ranges en cercle , les aulres dieux et de'esses sont re- 
 connaissaLles a leurs altributs : Hercule , a sa peau de lion , 
 a sa massue; Apollon, a sa lyre ; Neptune , a sou trident ; 
 Mars, a son casque; Janus, a son double visage ; Diane, a son 
 croissant; Minerve , a sa lance a sa cuirasse ; aux derniers 
 rangs se voieut 1'Hjmen et autres divinite's de moindr* im- 
 portance. La mesure est mise aux voix et adoptee a 1'unani- 
 mite. Mercure, en execution du vo?u general, gratifie Psyche 
 d'une ample tasse d'ambroisie, et 1'Amour j>re'sente a tout 
 le cercle sa douce inoitie , lout fier d'avoir, avanl la noce, 
 de'forme une jolie taiile. 
 
 
 3*. - 33-
 
 They pass on to the bankelting hall ; Juno does the honours 
 of the table, and places all the guests with suitable elegance 
 of manner. Jupiter was gallant with the ladies ; Pluto chaced 
 every sombre idea; Hercule did not spare the nectar, and 
 Vulcan always ready with pun , and jest, excited more than 
 once Homeric laughter. From the first course to the last, 
 Cupid did not cease to pass from the knees of Psyche to 
 those of Venus; the mother in law, and daughter in law, 
 being on the best possible terms. As for the Hours , whose 
 short wings are decorated or not with those eyes seen on 
 the wings of butterflies, according as they are hours of day 
 or of night, they strewed with flowers, both the table and 
 the floor. 
 
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 3 4 . _35.
 
 On passe en la salle du banquet ; Junon fait les honneur?, 
 et place avec tact et convenance ses convives. Jupiter 
 fut galant avec les dames ; Pluton chassa toule idee noire ; 
 Hercule ne s'e'pargna pas le nectar ; toujours fort sur Ie 
 quolibet et le bon mot , Vulcaia provoqua plus d'une fois Ie 
 rire home'rique. Du premier service au dernier , 1'Amour ne 
 cessa d'aller des genoux de sa Psyche aux genoux de Yeinis, 
 la belle-mere et la bru s'entendant le mieux du monde. Pour 
 les Heures, dont les courtes ailes sont de'corees ou non de ces 
 veux qu'on voit aux ailes des papillons , selon qu'elles sont 
 heures de jour ou beures de nuit , elles joncherent de fleurs 
 la table et le plancher.
 
 Every history must have a conclusion , how will this end? 
 A single glance cast on the last and all significant sheet of 
 our author , will shew more even lo (he least experienced 
 than long phrase woul do. View turn by turn , this vast and 
 isolated chamber, those ample curtains, which the boldness 
 of painlaing has raised for a moment, that downy pillow 
 upon which two heads repose, that couch, which is pressed 
 both by a stripling and a young woman, over whom 
 he watches; the one with a sly and commanding air, the 
 other all submission joy and voluptuousness. This whole 
 does it not answer (o Psyche, lo the pretty playful son 
 of Venus to Cupid and to his mild and well belowed 
 Tsyche ? 
 
 Thus said the old Tbessalian woman whom Apuleus does 
 not scruple lo style dolard but merely in order that we 
 may protest against it : And now 
 
 Go , little book , God send thee good passage , 
 And specially let ihis be thy prayer , 
 Unto them all that thee will read or hear, 
 Where thou art wrong , after their help to call , 
 Thee to correct in any part or all. 
 
 CHAUCER'S , Belle Jam* , 

 
 II faut a toute Listoire une conclusion : comment prendra 
 fincelle-ci? Un seul coup-d'oeil, jele sur le dernier et lout 
 significatif carton de notre auteur, en apprendra plus , meme 
 au moins experimente, que ne le feraient de longues phrases . 
 Tnlerrogez lour a tour cette chambre vaste et isolee , ces am- 
 ples rideaux qu'une hardiesse de peintre a releves pour un 
 instant, ce moelleux oreiller sur qui reposent deux tetes, 
 cetle couche que foulent a la fois un jouvenceau qui veille 
 et une jeune femme endormie ; 1'un , Fair malin et conque- 
 rant ; Fautre, tout repos, abandon et volupte. Get ensemble 
 ne repond-il pas : A Psyche , le gentil , le folatre fils de Ve- 
 nus ; a F Amour , sa douce, sa mieux aimee Psyche. 
 
 Ainsi disait la vieille Thessalienne qu'Apulee ne se geue 
 pas de qualifier de Radoteuse , mais uniquement pour qu'on 
 proteste. Veuille le lecteur , meme en depit de ces Ireote 
 pages ecrites apres tant d'autres pages , consentir a rayer 
 Fe'pithete! 
 
 Et maintenant ! . . . . 
 
 Va , petit lirre, que Diu t'envoie un heureux passage , 
 
 Et surtout que te soil permise la priere 
 
 A tous ceux qui te liront ou t'entendront lire , 
 
 Pour qu'ils veuillent , ou tu seras faible , te preter leur f'oree , 
 
 Oil tu pecherat , te corriger en tout ou en partie. 
 
 CHADGIK'S, Belle Dame sans mcrci.
 
 
 La Notice en tete de la premiere livraison des Loges de 
 Raphael est de M. Duchesne. Le texte en regard de chaque 
 planche est extrait litteralement de la Bible de Sacy. 
 
 La Notice sur les dessins de Psyche est de M. Duchesne. 
 Le texte explicatif des sujets est de M. Lemolt Phalary. 
 
 MM. les Souscripteurs recevront des litres pour ces deux 
 Collections.
 
 The palace of the Vatican , like that of most sovereigns is 
 composed of several parts constructed and decorated at diffe, 
 rent periods. Amongst the artisls who were ordered (o em- 
 bellish it', Raphael may be considered as the principal, as 
 well for the number of his paintings, as for (heir variety 
 aud richness. 
 
 In three of the rooms he executed large historical or alle- 
 gorical subjects, Ihe merit of which is well known; he also 
 adorned the arched roofs in the same manner; and in a 
 building of three stories in heigth , called ( Les Loges) he 
 also painted fancy ornaments in fresco altogether remarka- 
 ble for their elegance , their richness , and for the variety of 
 their colours. 
 
 These ornaments done in imitation of those which were 
 just discovered in the baths of Titus, and of Livy, were 
 composed and drawn by Raphael; the execution in fresco, 
 is by Jean de Udine , and some of his fellow students, ac- 
 customed to work after the style of their master. The pil- 
 lars also, and surface of the Pier Glasses, as well as the cor- 
 responding part on the wall at the bottom , are covered with 
 these elegant paintings ; the vault of each arch presents 
 four subjects, in which this great master has represented 
 many scenes from sacred history, from the book of Genesis, 
 down to the last supper of our Saviour with his Apostles. 
 The figures are two feet high , and the pictures about 6 fact 
 4 inches, by 4 feet 3 inches. 
 
 It is in the first of these compositions that we have an 
 opportunity of judging of the talent of Raphael, as compared 
 with that of Machael Angelo, for it could not be olher 
 than intentionally thai the young Roman painter represented 
 subjects already selected by the old Florentine artist. There 
 
 Loges.
 
 is no reason however to suppose Ibat be did it from a 
 motive of jealousy , and lo shew himself superior to his 
 predecessor. We must however allow , that he has given a 
 proof of a sublime genius when he represensed the Deity 
 clearing away Chaos, then creating light, and placing in 
 the Heavens the two planets which illumine the earth , as 
 well as, the moment in which Adam in presented with a 
 wife formed from himself, and who is ever to remain his 
 own half. Most of these figures are admirably conceived , 
 that of God dispersing Chaos has something about it so 
 unutterably grand, as (o render the beholder dumb with 
 awe, and strikes the imagination so forcibly, that one may 
 imagine this figure as large as Ihe -word itself. 
 
 This collection of 82 paintings has often been designated 
 the Bible of Raphael, it was published, in 1607, by 
 Sixle Badolochi and Jean Lanfranc, and in 1688 by Ni- 
 colas Chapron. Montagnari engaged different engravers to 
 make a continuation of it, and published the same at Rome, 
 in 1790. At length M. de Meulemester, an eminent engraver 
 (pupil of Bervic) passed twelve years in Rome in making 
 with all the care possible, and at a great expense , very 
 exact drawing, which he afterwards engraved himself, with 
 remarkable accuracy. Three numbers only have as yet ap- 
 peared , but we must hope , that the encouragement which 
 he will receive from the friends and protectors of the arts, 
 will enable him to surmount the obstacles which the revolu- 
 tions of France and Belgium have produced in the publica- 
 tion of all works on the arts and sciences. 
 
 N. B. We should only make extracts from the holy scrip- 
 tures of such parts as relate to the compositions of Raphael, 
 without paying attention to Ihe continuity of any certain 
 history.
 
 Le palais du Valican, ainsi qne ceux de la plupart des 
 souverains, est compose de plusieurs parties construites et 
 decorees a dese'poques differentes. Parmi lesarlistesquifurent 
 charge's d'embellir ce palais, Raphael peut elre regarde 
 comme le principal , tant a cause du nombre de ses peintures 
 qu'a cause de leur variete el de leur richesse. 
 
 II fit dans trois salles de grandes compositions hisloriques 
 on allegoriques dont le me'rite esl bien connu, il en decora 
 aussi les voutes et dans une construction a trois e'lages, dite 
 les Loges, il peignit des ornemens arabesques lout-a-fait re- 
 marquables par leur elegance, leur richesse et la variete de 
 leurscouleurs. 
 
 Ces ornemens fails a 1'imilation de ceux qui venaient d'etre 
 decouverts dans les bains de Titus et dans ceux de Livie , 
 furent composes et dessiries par Raphael ; quant a 1'exe'culion 
 a fresque, elle est de Jean de Udine et de quelques-uns de 
 ses condisciples habitue's a travailler en commun d'apres les 
 ide'es de Jeur maitre.L'e'paisseur des piliers, aiusi que la sur- 
 face des trumeaux et la parlie correspondante sur le mur du 
 fond, sont couverls par ces elegantes peintures; la voiite de 
 chaque trave'e offre quatre tableaux, dans lesquels cet habile 
 mailre a represente plusieurs sujets del'hisloiresainte, depuis 
 les premiers temps de la Genese, jusqu'a la Gene de Jesus- 
 Christ uvec ses apotres. Les figures ont deux pieds de propor- 
 tion , et les tableaux environ six pieds sur quatre. 
 
 G'est dans les premieres de ces compositions, que Ton peut 
 trouver des motifs pour juger le talent de Raphael compara- 
 livement a celui de Michel-Ange, car ce ne peut etre sans 
 intention que le jeune peinlre romain ait represente des sujels 
 deja trailes par le vieil artiste florentin. Mais il n'est pas ne'~ 
 
 Loges. i.
 
 II 
 
 cessaire de croire qu'il 1'ait fait par un motif de jalousie , et 
 pour se montrer supe'rieur a son devancier. Gependaul on ne 
 peut se dissimuler qu'il ait fait preuve d'un genie sublime 
 lorsqu'il a peint Dieu de'brouillanl le chaos , puis cre'ant la 
 lumiere, et placant dans le ciel les deux astres qui e'clairenl 
 la lerre; aiusi que le moment oil il donne a Adam une femuie 
 tiree de lui , et qui doit toujours rester la moitie de lui-meine. 
 Plusieurs de ces figures sont d'une pose admirable, celle de 
 Dieu de'brouillant le chaos a quelque chose de grandiose qui 
 rend muet de stupefaction, et frappe tellemeut 1'imaginalion 
 que Ton pourrait croire celle figure aussi immense que le 
 monde. 
 
 Cette suile de 5 tableaux a souvent etc designe'e sous la 
 denomination de Bible de Raphael, elle a e'te publiee en 1607; 
 par Sixte Badolochi et Jean Lanfranc, en i638 par Nicolas 
 Chapron. Monfagnanien fit faire une suite par divers graveurs 
 et la publia a Rome en 1790. Enfin M. de Meulemester, ha- 
 bile graveur, e'leve de Bervic, a passe douze anne'es a Rome, 
 pour faire avec tout le soin possible et une grande de'pense 
 des dessins exacts qu'il a ensuile grave's lui-meme avec un 
 talent remarquable. Trois livraisons seulement de cette der- 
 niere publication ont paru jusqu'a present; esperons que les 
 encouragemens que 1'auleur recevra des amis et des protecteurs 
 des arts lui donneront la possibilite de surmonler les obstacles 
 que les revolutions de France et de Belgique sont venus ap- 
 porler a toutes les publications d'ouvrages sur les arls et 
 les sciences. 
 
 Nola. Nous n'avons du extraire de la Bible que ce qui se 
 rapporte aux compositions de Raphael, sans cherchera con- 
 server une histoire suivie.
 
 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. 
 
 And the earth was without form and void ; and darkness 
 was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved 
 upon the face of the waters. 
 
 And God said; Let there be light : and there was light. 
 
 And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided 
 the light from the darkness. 
 
 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called 
 Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 
 
 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the 
 waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 
 
 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which 
 were under the firmament from the waters which were above 
 the firmament, and it was so. 
 
 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening 
 and the morning were the second day. 
 
 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered 
 together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it 
 was so. , 
 
 And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering to- 
 gether of the waters called the Seas : and God saw that it wa$ 
 good. 
 
 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb 
 yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, 
 whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so. 
 
 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed 
 after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in 
 itself, after his kind : and God saw that it was good. 
 
 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 
 
 (GENESIS j.)
 
 Au commencement Dieu cre'a le Ciel et laTerre. 
 
 La lerre elait informe et toule nue ; les le'nebres couvraient 
 Ja face de 1'abime ; et 1'Espritde Dieu elait porle sur les eaux. 
 
 Or Dieu dit: Que Ja lumiere soil faile : et la Jurniere fut 
 faite. 
 
 Dieu vit que la lumiere e'tait bonne , et se'para la lumiere 
 d'avec les tenebres. 
 
 II donna a la lumiere le iiom de Jour, et aux le'nebres le 
 nom de Nuit ; et du soir et du matin se fit le premier jour. 
 
 Dieu dit aussi : Que le firmament soil ,fait au milieu des 
 eaux, et qu'il separe les eaux d'avec les eaux. 
 
 Et Dieu fit le firmament : et il se'para les eaux qui e'taient 
 sous le firmament d'avec celles qui e'laient au-dessus du fir- 
 mament. Et cela se fit ainsi. 
 
 Et Dieu donna au firmament le nom de Ciel ; et du soir et 
 du matin se fit le second jour. 
 
 Dieu dit encore : Que les eaux qui sont sous le ciel se ras- 
 semblent en un seul lieu , et que I 'element aride paraisse. Et 
 cela se fit ainsi. 
 
 Dieu donna a I' dement aride le nom de Terre , et il appela 
 Mers toutes les eaux rassemblees. Et il vit que cela e'tait bon. 
 
 Dieu dit encore : Que la terre produise de 1'herbe verte qui 
 porte de la graine , et des arbres fruiliers qui portent du fruit 
 chacun selon son espece, et qui renferment leur semence en 
 eux-memes pour se reproduire sur la terre. Et cela se fit ainsi. 
 
 La terre produisit done de 1'herbe verte qui porlait de la 
 graine selon son espece, el des arbres fruitiers qui rcnfer- 
 maient leur semence en eux-memes , chacun selon son espece. 
 Et Dieu vit que cela elait bon. 
 
 Et du soir et du matin se fit Je troisieme jour.

 
 HI. - IV. 
 
 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the 
 heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be 
 for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years : 
 
 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven 
 to give light upon the earth : and it was so. 
 
 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule 
 the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the 
 stars also, 
 
 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven tc give 
 light upon the earth. 
 
 And to rule over the day and over the nighf, and to divide 
 the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. 
 
 And. the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 
 
 And Good said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly 
 the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly 
 above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 
 
 And God created great-whales, and every living creature 
 that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, 
 after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and 
 God saw that it was good. 
 
 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, 
 and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the 
 earth. 
 
 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 
 
 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature 
 after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the 
 earth'after his hind : and it was so. 
 
 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and 
 cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepech upon 
 the eartb after his kind : and God saw that it was good. 
 
 (GENESIS i.)
 
 111. IV. 
 
 Dieu dit aussi : Que des corps de lumiere soient fails 
 dans le firmament du ciel , afin qu'ils se'parent le jour d'avec 
 la nuit, et qu'ils servant de signes pour marquer les temps 
 el les saisons , les jours et les anne'es. 
 
 Qu'ils luisent dans le firmament du ciel, et qu'ils eclairent 
 la terre. Et cela se fit ainsi. 
 
 Dieu fit done deux grands corps lumineux, 1'un plus 
 grand pour pre'sider au jour, et 1'autre moindre pour pre- 
 sider a la nuit : il Jit aussi les e'toiles. 
 
 Et il les rait dans le firmament du ciel pour luire sur la 
 terre , 
 
 Pour pre'sider au jour et a la nuit, et pour se'parer la lu- 
 miere d'avec les tenebres. Et Dieu vit que cela etait bon. 
 Et du soir et du ma I in se fit le quatrieme jour. 
 Dieu dit encore : Que les eaux produisent des animaux 
 vivans qui nagent dans I can , el des oiseaux qui voleul sur 
 la terre sous le firmament du ciel. 
 
 Dieu cre'a done les grands poissons, et tous les animaux 
 qui ont la vie et le mouvement, que les eaux produisirent 
 chacun selon son espece , et il cre'a aussi tous les oiseaux selon 
 leur espece. 11 vit que cela etait bon. 
 
 Et il lesbe'nit, en disant : Groissez et multipliez-vous, et 
 remplissez les eaux de la mer; et que les oiseaux se inul- 
 liplient sur la terre. 
 
 Et du soir et du matin se fit le cinquieme jour. 
 Dieu dit aussi : Que la terre produise des animaux vivans 
 chacun selon son espeee, les animaux domestiques , les rep- 
 tiles et les betes sauvages de la lerre selon leurs differentes 
 especes. Et cela se fit ainsi. 
 
 Dieu fit done les betes sauvages de la terre selon leurs es- 
 peces, les animaux domestiques et lous les reptiles chacun 
 selon son espece. Et Dieu vit que cela etait bon. 
 
 (GENESE i.)
 
 ~
 
 V. 
 
 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after Our 
 likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the 
 sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and 
 over all the earth, andover every creeping thing that creepeth 
 upon the earth. 
 
 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God 
 created he him; male and female created he them. 
 
 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruit- 
 ful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it : 
 and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth 
 upon the earth. 
 
 And the lord God said, It is not good that the man should 
 be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him. 
 
 And out the ground thejLord God formed every beast of 
 the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto 
 Adam to see what he would call them : and what-soever Adam 
 called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 
 
 And Adam gave names of all cattle, and to the fowl of the 
 air, and to every beast of the field ; but for Adam there was 
 not found an help meet for him. 
 
 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, 
 and he slept : and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the 
 flesh instead thereof; 
 
 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, 
 made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 
 
 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh 
 of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was 
 taken out of Man. 
 
 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and 
 shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh. 
 
 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and 
 were not ashamed. 
 
 ( GENESIS i , 2 . )
 
 V. 
 
 11 tlit ensuile : Faisons 1'homme a notre image et a notre 
 ressemblauce, et qu'il commande aux poissons de la mer , aux. 
 oiseaux du ciel , aux beles , a toute la lerre, et a lous les 
 reptiles qui se meuvent sur la terre. 
 
 Dieu crea done 1'homme a son image, il le crea a 1'image 
 de Dieu , et il les crea male et femelle. 
 
 Dieu les benil, et il leur dit : Croissez el mullipliez-vous ; 
 remplissez la terre, et vous 1'assujetlissez , et dominez sur les 
 poissons dela mer , sur les oiseaux du ciel, et sur lous les ani~ 
 maux qui se meuvent sur la terre. 
 
 Le Seigneur Dieu dit aussi : II n'est pas bon que I'homme 
 soil seul ; faisons-lui un aide semblable a lui. 
 
 Le Seigneur Dieu ayant done forme de la terre tous les ani- 
 maux terrestres, et tous les oiseaux du ciel, il les amena de- 
 vanl Adam, afin qu'il vit comment il les appellerait. Et le 
 nom qu'Adam donna a chacun des animaux esl son nom 
 veritable. 
 
 Adam appela done lous les animaux d'un nom qui leur 
 efail propre , lant les oiseaux du ciel que les betes de la terre. 
 Mais il ne se trouvait point d'aide pour Adam, qui lui fiit 
 semblable, et 1'amena a Adam. 
 
 Le Seigneur Dieu envoja done a Adam un profond som- 
 meil; et lorsqu'il elait endormi il lira une de ses coles , el 
 mil de la chair a la place. 
 
 El le Seigneur Dieu forma la femme de la cote qu'il avail 
 liree d'Adam, 
 
 Alors Adam dil : Voila mainlenanl 1'os de mesos, el la 
 chair de ma chair. Celle-ci s'appellera d'un nom qui marque 
 I'homme , parce qu'elle a ele prise de I'homme. 
 
 G'esl pourquoi 1'homme quitlera son pere el sa mere , et 
 s'altachera a sa femme, et ils seront deux dans une seule 
 chair. 
 
 Or Adam el sa femme elaienl alors lous deux nus, el ils 
 u en rougissaienl point. 
 
 (GENESE i , j.)
 
 VI. 
 
 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the 
 field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the 
 woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of 
 the garden ? 
 
 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the 
 fruit of every tree of the garden : 
 
 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the 
 garden, God hath said , Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall 
 ye touch it, lest ye die. 
 
 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely 
 die: 
 
 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then 
 your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing 
 good and evil. 
 
 And when the woman saw that the freew<7,f good for food, 
 and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired 
 to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, 
 and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 
 
 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew 
 that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, 
 and made themselves aprons. 
 
 (GENESIS 3. )
 
 
 Or le serpent etait Ic plus fin de tous les animaux que le 
 Seigneur Dieu avail formes sur la terre. Et il dit a la femme : 
 Pourquoi Dieu vous-a-t-il commande de ne pas manger du 
 fruit de tous les arbres qui sont dans le paradis? 
 
 La femme lui repondit : Nous mangeons du fruit de tous 
 les arbres qui sont dans le paradis; 
 
 Mais pour ce qui est du fruit de 1'arbre qui est au milieu 
 du paradis, Dieu nous a commande de u'en point manger, 
 et de n'y point toucher, de peur que nous ne fussions en 
 danger de mourir. 
 
 Le serpent reparlit a la femme : Assurement vous ne 
 mourrez point. 
 
 Mais c'est que Dieu sail qu'aussitot que vous aurez mange 
 de ce fruit, vos yeux seront ouverts, el vous serez comme des 
 dieux, connaissant le bien el le mal. 
 
 La femme consideranldonc que lefruit de ret arbre etait bon 
 a manger; qu'il etait beau et agreable a la vue ; et en ayant 
 pris , elle en mangea , et en donna a son mari , qui en mangea 
 aussi. 
 
 En meme temps leurs yeux furent ouverts a (ous deux; ils 
 reconnurent qu'ils elaienl nus ; el ils entrelacerent des feuilles 
 de figuier, et s'en firent de quoi se couvrir. 
 
 
 
 ( GENESE 3.)
 
 

 
 VII. 
 
 Et Dieu dit : Voila Adam devenu comme nous , sachant 
 le bien el le mal. Empechons done maintenant qu'il ne porle 
 sa main a 1'arbre de vie, qu'il ne prenne aussi de son fruit, 
 et que mangeant de ce fruit il ne vive e'lernellement. 
 
 Le Seigneur Dieu le fit sortir ensuite du jardin de delices ; 
 afin qu'il allal Iravailler a la culture de la terre dont il avail 
 etc tire. 
 
 Et 1'en ayant chasse, il mit des cherubins devant le jardin 
 de delices , qui faisaient e'tinceler une epe'e de feu , pour garder 
 le chemin qui conduisait a 1'arbre de vie. 
 
 (GENKSE 3.)

 
 V11I. 
 
 And Adam knew Eve his wife ; arid she conceived, and 
 bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 
 
 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper 
 of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 
 
 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brough 
 of the fruit of the ground an offering unlo the Lord. 
 
 (GENESIS 4-)
 
 VIII. 
 
 Or Adam connut Eve sa femme, et elle confut et enfanta 
 Cain , en disant : Je possede un homme par la grace de 
 Dieu. 
 
 Elle enfanta de nouveau, et mit au monde son frere Abel. 
 Or Abel fut pasleur de brebis, et Ca'in s'appliqua a 1'agri- 
 culture. 
 
 
 
 (GEKESE 4.) 



 
 IX. 
 
 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was 
 filled with violence. 
 
 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was cor- 
 rupt ; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 
 
 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come be- 
 fore me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; 
 and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth, 
 
 Make thee an ark of gopher wood ; rooms shalt thou make 
 in the ark, and shalt pilch it within and without with pitch. 
 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of .- The 
 length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth 
 of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 
 , A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt 
 thou finish it above ; and the door of the ark shalt thou set 
 in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories 
 shalt thou make it. 
 
 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon 
 the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, 
 from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall 
 die. 
 
 But with thee will I establish my covenant ; and thou shall 
 come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and 
 thy sons' wives with thee. 
 
 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort 
 shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee ; 
 they shall be male and female. 
 
 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of 
 every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every 
 sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 
 
 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and 
 thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, 
 and for them. 
 
 Thus did Noah ; according to all that God commanded 
 him so did he. 
 
 (GENESIS 6.)
 
 IX. 
 
 Or la terre etait corrompue devanl Dieu, et remplie 
 d'iniquite. 
 
 Dieu voyant done cetle corruption de la lerre ( car la vie 
 que tous les hommes y menaieut etait toute corrompue), 
 
 il dit a Noe : J'ai resolu de faire perir tous les hommes. Us 
 ont rempli toute la terre d'iniquite, et je les exterminerai 
 avec la terre. 
 
 Failes-vous une arche de pieces de bois aplanies. Vous y 
 ferez de petites charnbres, et vous 1'enduirez de bitume de- 
 dans et dehors. 
 
 Voici la forme que vous lui donnerez : Sa longueur sera 
 de trois cents coudees ; sa largeur de cinquante; et sa hauteur 
 de trente. 
 
 Vous ferez a 1'arche une fenetre. Le comble qui la cou- 
 Trira sera haut d'une coudee ; et TOUS mettrez la porte de 
 1'arche au cote : vous ferez un elage tout en bas, un au milieu, 
 et un troisieme. 
 
 Je vais re'pandre les eaux du deluge sur la terre pour faire 
 mourir toute chair qui respire, et qui est vivante sous le ciel. 
 Toutce qui est sur la terre sera consume. 
 
 J'etablirai mon alliance avec vous ; et vous entrerez dans 
 1'arche, vous et vos fils, votre femme et les femmes de vos 
 fils avec vous. 
 
 Voii ferez entrer aussi dans 1'arche deux de chaque espece 
 de tous les animaux, male et femelle, afm qu'ils vivent 
 avec vous. 
 
 De chaque espece des oiseaux vous en prendrez deux; de 
 chaque espece des animaux terrestres deux; de chaque espece 
 de ce qui rampe sur la terre deux. Deux de toute espece 
 entreront avec vous dans 1'arche, afm qu'ils puissent vivre. 
 
 Vous prendrez aussi avec vous de tout ce qui se peut manger, 
 et vous le porterez dans 1'arohe, pour servir a votre nour- 
 riture , el a celle de lous Jes animaux. 
 
 Noe accomplit done tout ce que Dieu lui avail commande- 
 
 (GENESE 6.)
 
 X. 
 
 And the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 
 
 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second 
 month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were 
 all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the win- 
 dows of heaven were opened. 
 
 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty 
 nights. 
 
 lu the selfsame day enlered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, 
 and Japheth, the sons of Noah , and Noah's wife, and the 
 three wives of his sons with them, into the ark ; 
 
 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after 
 their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
 earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird 
 of every sort. 
 
 And the went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of 
 all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 
 
 And they that went in, went in male and female of all 
 flesh, as God had commanded him : and the Lord shut 
 him in. 
 
 And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and the wa- 
 ters increased, and bare up the ark, and it vas lift up above 
 the earth. 
 
 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the 
 mountains were covered. 
 
 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of 
 fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing 
 that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : 
 
 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was 
 in the dry land, died. 
 
 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon 
 the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping 
 things, and fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed 
 from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that 
 were with him in the ark. 
 
 (GENESIS 7.)
 
 X. 
 
 Les eaux du deluge se repandirenl sur toute la lerre. 
 
 L'annee six cent de la vie de Noe, le dix-seplieme jour 
 du second mois de la meme annee, toutes les sources du grand 
 abime des eaux furent rompues, et les cataractes du ciel 
 furent ouverles ; 
 
 Et la pluie tomba sur la terre pendant quaranle jours et 
 quaranle nuits. 
 
 Aussilot que ce jour parut , Noe entra dans 1'arche avec 
 ses fils Sem , Cham et Japhelh , sa femme , et les trois 
 femmes de ses fils. 
 
 Tous les animaux sauvages selon leur espece y enlrerenl 
 aussi avec eux, lous les animaux domesliques selon leur espece; 
 tout ce qui se meut sur la (erre selon son espece ; tout ce 
 "qui vole chacun selon son espece, tous les oiseaux, et lout ce 
 qui s'eleve dans 1'air ; 
 
 tous ces animaux entrerent avec Noe dans 1'arche deux a 
 deux, male et femelle, de toule chair vivante et animee. 
 
 Ceux qui y entrerent elaienl done males et femelles de 
 toute espece, selon que Dieu 1'avait commande a Noe; et le 
 Seigneur 1'y enferma par dehors. 
 
 Le deluge se re'paudit sur la terre pendant quarante jours; 
 et les eaux s'e'tant accrues, eleverent 1'arche en haul au-dessus 
 de la terre. 
 
 L'eau ayant gagne le sommet des montagnes, s'e'leva encore 
 de quinze coude'es plus haut. 
 
 Toute chair qui se meut sur la lerre en fut consumee , tous 
 les oiseaux, lous les animaux, toutes les betes, et loul ce qui 
 rampe sur la lerre. 
 
 Tous les hommes moururenl, el ge'neralemenl loul ce qui 
 a vie el qui respire sur la ierre. 
 
 Toulesles'crealures qui elaienl sur la lerre, depuisl'liomme 
 jusqu'aux beles, lanl celles qui rampenlque celles qui volenl 
 dans 1'air, loul peril de dessus la lerre : il ne demeura que 
 Noe scul, et ceux qui elaienl avec lui dans 1'arche. 
 
 Loges b. (GENESE 7.')
 
 XI, 
 
 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and 
 all the cattle that was with him the ark : and God made a 
 wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged. 
 
 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven 
 were stopped, and the rain from heareri was restrained. 
 
 And the waters returned from off the earth continually : 
 and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters 
 were abated. 
 
 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, 
 in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were 
 dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the cover- 
 ing of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the 
 ground was dry- 
 
 And God spake unto Noah, saving. 
 
 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and 
 thy sons's wives with thee, 
 
 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, 
 of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creep- 
 ing thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may bVeed 
 abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon 
 the earth. 
 
 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his 
 son's wiwes with him : 
 
 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and 
 whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their hinds, went 
 forth out of the ark. 
 
 (GENESIS 8.)
 
 XI. 
 
 Mais Dieu s'etant souvenu de Noe, de toutes les betes sau- 
 eaget, et de tous les animaux domestiques qui elaientavec lui 
 dans I'arcbe , fit soufflerun vent sur la terre, et les eaux com- 
 mencerent a diminuer. 
 
 Les sources de 1'abime furent fermees, aussi-Lien que les 
 cataracles du ciel, et les pluies qui tombaient du ciel furent 
 arretees. 
 
 Les eaux etant agitees de cote et d'autre se retirerent , et 
 commencerent a diminuer apres cent cinquanle jours. 
 
 Ainsi 1'an de 7Vb</six cent un , le premier jour du premier 
 mois, les eaux qui~etaient sur la terre se relirerent enli'erement. 
 Et Noe ouvrant le toil de 1'arche, et regardant de la, il vit 
 que la surface de la terre s'etak seche'e. 
 
 Alors Dieu park a Noe, et lui dit : 
 
 Sorlez de 1'arche , vous et votre femme , vos fils et les femmes 
 de vos fils. 
 
 Failes-en sortir aussi tous les animaux qui y sontavec vous, 
 de toutes sortes d'especes, tant des oiseaux que des betes, et 
 de lout ce qui rampe sur la terre : et entrez sur la terre : 
 croissez-y , et vous y multipliez. 
 
 Noe sorlit done de 1'arche avec ses fils, sa femme, et les 
 femmes de ses fils. 
 
 Toules les betes sauvages en sortirent aussi , les animaux 
 domestiques, et tout ce qui rampe sur la terre , chacun selon 
 son espece. 
 
 (GfiNESK 8.)

 
 XII. 
 
 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord ; and took of 
 very clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt 
 offerings on the altar. 
 
 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord said 
 in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more 
 for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is 
 evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more 
 every thing living, as I have done. 
 
 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold 
 and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall 
 not cease. 
 
 (GENESIS 8.)
 
 XII. 
 
 Or Nde dressa un autel au 6eigneur ; et prenant de tous 
 les animaux et de tous les oiseaux purs , il les lui offrit en 
 holocauste sur cet autel. 
 
 Le Seigneur recut ce sacrifice comme on recoil une odeur 
 tres-agre'able, et il dit ; Je ne repandrai plus ma malediction 
 sur la terre a cause des hommes , parce que 1'esprit de 1'homme 
 et toutes les pensees de son co3ur sont porlees au mal des sa 
 jeunesse. Je ne frapperai done plus de mort , comme j'ai fait, 
 tout ce qui est -vivaut et anime. 
 
 Tan t que la terre durera, la semence et la moisson , le 
 froid et le chaud, 1'ete et 1'hiver, la uuit et le jour ne ces 
 seront point de s'entre-suivre. 
 
 (GEBESE 8.)

 
 XIII. 
 
 And whem Abram heard that his brother was taken cap- 
 tive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, 
 three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unlo Dan. 
 
 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, 
 by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, 
 which is on the left hand of Damascus. 
 
 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again 
 his brother Lot, aud his goods, and the women also, and 
 the people. 
 
 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his 
 return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings 
 that were with him, at the valley of Sba.veh, which is the 
 king's dale; 
 
 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and 
 wine : and he was the priest of the most high God. 
 
 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the 
 most high God, possessor of heaven and earth : 
 
 And blessed be the most high God, which bath delivered 
 thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 
 
 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the 
 persons, and take the goods to thyself. 
 
 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine 
 hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of 
 heaven and earth. 
 
 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelalchct 
 and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou 
 shouldest say, I have made Abram rich : 
 
 Save only that which the young men nave eaten, and tlic 
 portion of the men which went with me, Aner , Esheol, and 
 Mamre ; let them take their portion. 
 
 (GENESIS 14. )
 
 X1I1. 
 
 Abram ajant su que Lot son frere avail etc pris choisit les 
 plus Graves de ses serviteurs, au nombre de Irois cent dix- 
 huit, et poursuivit ces rois jusqu'a Dan. 
 
 II forma deux corps de ses gens et de ses allies, et venant 
 fondre sur les ennemis durant la uuit il les de'fit , et les 
 poursuivit jusqu'a Hoba qui est a la gauche de Damas. 
 
 11 ramenaavec lui tout le bulin qu'ils avaientpris, Lot son 
 frere avec ce qui e'tait a lui, les femmes et tout le peuple. 
 
 Et le roi de Sodome sorlit au-devant delui, locsqu'il re- 
 venait apres la de'faite de Chodorlahomor , et des autres rois 
 qui e'taient avec lui , dans la vallee de Save appele'e aussi la 
 valle'e du Roi. 
 
 Mais Melchisedech, roi de Salem, offrant du pain et du vin, 
 parce qu'il e'tait pretre du Dieu Ires-haut, 
 
 be'nit Abram, en disant : Qu' Abram soit be'ni du Dieu tres- 
 baut , qui a cre'e le ciel et la terre : 
 
 et que le Dieu tres-haut soit be'ni , lui qui par sa protection 
 vous a mis vos ennemis entre les mains. Alors Abram lui 
 donna la dime de tout ce qu'il avail pris. 
 
 Or le roi de Sodome dit a Abram : Donnez-moi les per- 
 sonnes , et prenez le reste pour vous. 
 
 Abram lui re'pondit : Je leve la main et je jure par le 
 Seigneur le Dieu tres-haut, possesseur du ciel et de la terre, 
 
 que je ne recevrai rien de ce qui est a vous, depuis le 
 moindre fil jusqu'a un cordon de soulier; afin que vous ne 
 puissiez pas dire que vous avez enrichi Abram. 
 
 J'acceple seulement ce que mes gens ont pris pour leur 
 nourriture, el ce qui est du a ceux qui sont venus avec moi, 
 Aner , Escol el Mambre , qui pourront prendre leur part du 
 bufin. 
 
 (GKNESE 14.)
 

 
 XIV. 
 
 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram 
 in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and 
 thy exceeding great reward. 
 
 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeinsr 
 I'go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of 
 Damascus ? 
 
 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed : 
 and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 
 
 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 
 This shall not be thine heir ; but he that shall come forth out 
 of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 
 
 And he brought him forlh abroad , and said, Look now 
 toward heaven, and tell the stars; if thou be able to number 
 them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 
 
 (GENESIS i5.)
 
 XIV. 
 
 Apres cela le Seigneur parla a Abram dans une vision , et 
 lui dit : Ne craignez point, Abram; je suis votre prolecteur, 
 et votre recompense infiniment grande. 
 
 Abram Jui repondit : Seigneur mon Dieu , que me donnerez- 
 vous? Je mourrai sans enfans : et ce Damascus est le flls 
 d'Eliezer intendant de ma maisou. 
 
 Pour moi, ajoula-t-il , votis ne m'avez point donne d'en- 
 faus ; ainsi le fils de mon serviteur sera mon he'ritier. 
 
 Le Seigneur lui re'pondil aussit6t : Celui-la ne sera point 
 volre he'ritier; mais vous aurez pour herilier celui qui naitra 
 de vous. 
 
 El apres 1'avoir fait sortir, il lui dit : Levez les yeux an 
 ciel : et complez les e'loiles , si vous le pouvez. G'est ainsi. 
 ajouta-t-il , que se multipliera votre race. 


 
 XV. 
 
 And the Lord appeared uuto him in the plains of Mamre : 
 and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; 
 
 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men 
 stood by him : and when he saw them, he ran lo meet them 
 from the teut door, and bowed himself toward the ground. 
 . And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy 
 sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant : 
 
 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your 
 feet, and rest yourselves under the tree : 
 
 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and 
 said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead 
 it, and make cakes upon the earth. 
 
 And Abraham ran unlo the herd, and felcht a calf tender 
 and good, and gave it unto a young man ; and he hasted to 
 dress it. 
 
 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had 
 dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under 
 the tree, and they did eat. 
 
 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife ? And he 
 said, Behold, in the tent. 
 
 And he said, I will certainly return unto ihee according 
 to the time of life ; and, lo, Sarah (hy wife shall have a son. 
 And Sarah heard it in ihe tent door, which was behind him. 
 
 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in 
 age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of 
 women. 
 
 (GENESIS 18.)
 
 XV. 
 
 Le Seigneur apparut an jour a Abraham en la valle'e de 
 Mambre, lorsqu'il elail assis a Ja porte de sa lenle dans la plus 
 graude chaleur du jour. 
 
 Abraham ayanl leve les jeux, trois homines lui parurent 
 pres de lui. Aussilol qu'il les eul apercus, il courut de la 
 porte de sa tente au-devant d'eux, else prosterna en lerre. 
 
 Et il dit : Seigneur, si j'ai trouve grace devant vos yeux, 
 ne passez pas la maison de votre serviteur sans v ous y arreler. 
 
 Je vous apporterai un peu d'eau pour laver vos pieds; et 
 cependant vous vous reposerez sous cet arbre. 
 
 Abraham enlra promptemenl dans sa lenle , el dil a Sara : 
 Pelrissez vite Irois mesures de farine, et failes cuire des pains 
 sous la cendre. 
 
 II courut en meme lemps a s n troupeau , et il y prit un 
 veau Ires-tendre et fort excellent qu'il donna a un serviteur, 
 qui se bata de le faire cuire. 
 
 Ajant pris ensuite du beurre et du lait avec le veau qu'il 
 avail fail cuire, il le servil devant eux, et lui cependanl se 
 tenait debout aupres d'eux sous 1'arbre oit Us etaient, 
 
 Apres qu'ils eurenl mange , ils lui direnl : Oil esl Sara 
 volre femme ? II leur repondit : Elle est dans la lenle. 
 
 L'un d'eux dil a Abraham : Je vous reviendrai voir dans 
 un an, en ce meme lemps :je vous Irouverai tous deux en vie, 
 el Sara volre femme aura uu fils. Ce que Sara ayanl enlendu, 
 elle se mil a rire derriere la porle de la lenle. 
 
 Car ils etaient tous deux vieux et fort avances en age , 
 et ce qui arrive d' ordinaire aux femmes avail cesse a Sara. 
 
 ( GENES E 18.)
 


 
 XVI. 
 
 And there came two angels to Sodom at even ; and Lot 
 Sat in the gat of Sodom : and Lot seeing them rose up to 
 meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the 
 gtound ; 
 
 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray 
 you, into _your servant's house. 
 
 But before they lay down , the men of the city, even the 
 men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and 
 young, all the people from every quarter : 
 
 And they called unto Lot , and said unto im , Where are 
 the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out 
 unto us, that we may know them. 
 
 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the 
 door after him, 
 
 Behold now , I have two daughters which have not known 
 man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and 
 do ye to them as is good in your eyes : only unto these men 
 do nothing ; for therefore came they under the'^shadovv of 
 my roof. 
 
 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot] into 
 the house to them, and shut to the door. 
 
 And they smote the men that were at the door of the 
 house with blindness, both small and great : 
 
 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides ? 
 son in law, and thy sous, and thy daughters, and whatsoever 
 thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place : 
 
 And when the morning arose , then the angels hastened 
 Lot , saying , Arise , take thy wife , and thy two daughters , 
 which are here ; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the 
 city. 
 
 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into 
 Zoar. 
 
 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became 
 a pillar of salt. 
 
 (GENESIS 19.)
 
 .* XVI - 
 
 Sur le soir deux auges vinrent a Sodome , lorsque Lot e'tait 
 assis a Ja porte de la ville. Les ayant vus , il se leva , alia au- 
 devantd'eux, et s'abaissm jusqu'en terre. 
 
 Puis il leur dit : Venez je vous prie , mes seigneurs , dans 
 la maison de votre servileur, et demeurez-y. 
 
 Mais, avant qu'ils se fussent retire's pour se coucher, la 
 maison fut assie'gee par les habitans de cette ville; depuis les 
 enl'ans jusqu'aux vieillards , tout le peuple s'y trouva. 
 
 Alors ayant appele Lot, ils lui dirent : Oil sont ces homines 
 qui sont enfre's ce soir chez vous? Faites-les sortir, afin que 
 nous les connaissions. 
 
 Lot sortit de sa maison; et ayant ferme la porle derriere 
 lui , il leur dit : 
 
 J'ai deux fillesqui sont encore vierges, je vous lesamenerai : 
 usez-en comme il vous plaira, pourvu que vous ne fassiez 
 point de mal a ces hommes-la , parce qu'ils sont enlres dans 
 ma maison comme dans un lieu de surete. 
 
 Ces deux homines qui etaient au dedans, prirenl Lot par 
 la main, et 1'ayant fait re nlrer dans la maison , ils en fer- 
 merent la porte , 
 
 et frapperent d'aveuglement tous ceux qui e'laient au de- 
 hors. 
 
 Ils dirent ensuite a Lot : Avez-vous ici quelqu'un de vos 
 proches, un gendre, ou des fils, ou des filles? Faites sortir 
 de cette ville tous ceux qui vous apparliennent. 
 
 A la poinle du jour les anges pressaient fort Lot de sortir , 
 en lui disant : Levez-vous, et emmenez votre femme, et vos 
 deux filles , de peur que vous ne perissiez aussi vous-meme 
 dans la mine de cette ville. 
 
 Lesoleil se levait sur la terre au meme temps que Lot entra 
 dans Segor. 
 
 Alors le Seigneur fit descendre du ciel sur Sodome et sur 
 Gomorrhe une pluie de soufre et de feu. 
 
 La femme de Lot regarda derriere elle, et elle fut changi'e 
 en une statue de sel. 
 
 (GEISESE 19.) 

 

 
 XVII. 
 
 And there was a famine in the land , beside the first famine 
 that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abi- 
 melech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 
 
 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not 
 down into Egypt ; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of : 
 
 Sojourn in this laud , and I wil be with thee , and will 
 bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give 
 all these countries , and I will perform the oath which I sware 
 unto Abraham thy father; 
 
 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, 
 and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy 
 seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 
 
 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my 
 charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 
 
 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar : 
 
 (GENESIS 26.)
 
 XVII. 
 
 Cependant il arriva une famine en ce pays-la, comme il 
 en e'fait arrive une au temps, d' Abraham ; et Isaac s'en alia a 
 Gerara vers Abimelech , roi des Philistins. 
 
 Car le Seigneur lui avail apparu , et lui avail dil : N'allez 
 point en Egypte, mais demeurez dans le pays que je vous 
 monlrerai. 
 
 Passez-y quelque temps comme e'tranger, etje serai avec 
 vous, et vous benirai ; car je vous donnerai , a vous et a votre 
 race, tous ces pajs-ci, pour accomplir le serment que j'ai 
 fait a Abraham votre pere. 
 
 Je multiplierai vos enfans comme les etoiles du ciel, je 
 donnerai a votre posterite tous ces pays que vous voyez , ET 
 
 TODTES LES NATIONS DE Li TERRE 6EBONT BENIES DANS CELUI Ql'I 
 ^ORTIRA. DE VOCS ; 
 
 parce qu' Abraham a obei a ma .voix, qu'il a garde mes 
 pre'ceptes et mes commandemens; et qu'il a observe les cere- 
 monies et les lois que je lui ai donne'es. 
 
 Isaac demeura done a Gerara. 
 
 (GENESE 26.)

 
 XVIII. 
 
 ' And the men of (he place asked him of his wife; and he 
 said, She is my sister : for he feared to say, She is my 
 wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for 
 Rebekah ; because she was fair to look upon. 
 
 And it came to pass , when he had been there a long time, 
 that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, 
 and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah 
 his wife. 
 
 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a 
 surety she is thy wife : and how saidst thou , She is my sister? 
 And Isaac said unto him , Because I said, Lest 1 die for her. 
 
 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? 
 one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, 
 and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 
 
 And Abimelech charged all his people , saying, He that 
 toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put lo death. 
 
 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same 
 year an hundredfold : and the Lord blessed him : 
 
 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew 
 until he became very great. 
 
 (GENESIS 26.)
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Et les habitans de ce pays-la lui demandant qui e'tait Re- 
 becca , il leur repondit : G'est ma sceur. Car il avail craint de 
 leur avouer qu'elle etait sa femnie , de peur qu'e'lant frappes 
 de sa beaute ils ne resolussent de le tuer. 
 
 II se passa ensuite beaucoup de temps, et comme il demeu- 
 rait toujours dans le meme lieu il arriva qu'Abimelech, roi 
 des Philistins, regardant par une fenetre, vit Isaac qtiise jouait 
 avec Rebecca sa femme. 
 
 Et 1'ayant fait venir , il iui dit : II est visible que c'est votre 
 femme; pourquoi avez-vous fait un mensonge, en disant 
 qu'elle etait votre sceur? II lui repondit : J'ai eu peur qu'ou 
 ne me fit mourir a cause d'elle. 
 
 Abimelech ajouta : Pourquoi nous avez-vous ainsi impose ? 
 quelqu'un de nous aurait pu abuser de votre femme, et vous 
 nous auriez fait tomber dans un grand peche. II fit ensuite 
 cette defense a lout son peuple : 
 
 Quiconque touchera la femme de cet Lomme-la sera punt 
 de mort. 
 
 Isaac sema ensuite en ce pays-la, et il recueillit 1'annee 
 meme le centuple; et le Seigneur le benit. 
 
 Ainsi son bien s'augmenta beaucoup, et lout lui profitant 
 il s'enrichissait de plus en plus, jusqu'a ce qu'il devint extre- 
 mement puissant. 
 
 (GENHSE
 
 XIX. 
 
 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father, and he felt 
 him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice , but the hands are 
 the hands of Esau. 
 
 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, 
 as his brother Esau's hands : so he blessed him. 
 
 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau ? And he said , 
 I am. 
 
 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my 
 son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.. And he brought 
 it near to him, and he did eat : and he brought him wine, 
 and he drank. 
 
 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and 
 kiss me, my son. 
 
 And he came near, and kissed him : and he smelled the 
 smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the 
 smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord 
 bath blessed : 
 
 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the 
 fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine : 
 
 Let people serve the , and nations bow down to thee : be 
 lord over thy brethren , and let thy mother's sons bow down 
 to thee : cursed lie every on that curseth thee , and blessed 
 be he that blesseth thee.
 
 XIX. 
 
 Jacob s'approcha de son pere ; et Isaac 1'avant late, dit : 
 Pour la voix, c'est la voix de Jacob ; mais les mains sont les 
 mains d'Esaii. 
 
 Et il ne le reconnut point, parce que ses mains e'taut cou- 
 vertes de poil parurent toutes semblables a celles deson aine. 
 Isaac le benissant done , 
 
 lui dit : Eles-vous mon fils Esaii? Je le suis, repondit 
 Jacob. 
 
 Mon fils, ajoula Isaac, apportez-moi a manger de votre 
 chasse, afin que je vous benisse. Jacob lui en presenta; et 
 apres qu'il en cut mange, il lui pre^enta aussi du vin qu'il but. 
 
 Isaac lui dit ensuite : Approchez-vous de moi , inou fils, et 
 venez me baiser. 
 
 II s'approcha done de lui, et le baisa. Et Isaac aussitot qu'il 
 cut senli la bonne odeur qui sortait de ses habits, lui dit en. 
 le benissant : L'odeur qui sort de mon fils est semblable a 
 celle d'un champ plein de Jleurs que le Seigneur a comble de 
 ses benedictions. 
 
 Qae Dieu vous donne une abondance de ble et de vin , de 
 la rose du ciel , et de la graisse de la terre. 
 
 Que les peuples voussoient assujettis , et que les tribus vous 
 adorent. Sojez le seigneur de vos freres ; et que les enfans 
 de votre meres'abaissentpro/b/iJe'/nenfdevant vous. Que celui 
 qui vous maudira soil maudit lui-meme , et que celui qui vous 
 be'nira soil comble de benedictions. 
 
 (GENESE 20.)
 
 And it came lo pass , as soon as Isaac had made an end of 
 blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from tbe 
 presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in 
 from his hunting. 
 
 And he also had made savoury meat , and brought it unto 
 
 his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, 
 
 and eat of his son's venison , that thy soul may bless me. 
 
 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And 
 
 he said, I am thy son, thy first born Esau. 
 
 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? 
 where is he that hath taken venison ,_ and brought it me, 
 and 1 have eaten of all before thou earnest and have blessed 
 him? yea, and he shall be blessed. 
 
 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried 
 with a great and exceeding bitter cry , and said unto his 
 father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 
 
 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath 
 taken away thy blesssing. And he said. Is not he rightly 
 named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times : 
 he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath 
 taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not re- 
 served a blessing for me ? 
 
 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau , Behold , I have 
 made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to 
 him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained 
 him : and what shall I do now unto thee , my son ? 
 
 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing 
 my father ? bless me , even me also , O my father. And Esau 
 lifted up his voice , and wept. 
 
 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, 
 thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the 
 dew of heaven from above ; 
 
 And by thy sword shall thou live, and shall serve thy 
 brother ; and it shall come lo pass when thou shall have the 
 dominion , that thou shall break is yoke from of ihy neck. 
 
 ( GENESIS 27, )
 
 Isaac ne faisait que d'achever ces paroles, et Jacob e'tait a 
 peine sorti , lorsqu'Esaii entra , 
 
 et que presentant a son pere ce qu'il avait apprete de sa 
 chasse , il lui dit : Levez-vous mon pere ; et mangez de la 
 chassede votrefils,afinque vousme donniezvotrebene'diction. 
 
 Isaac lui dit : Qui etes-vous done ? Esau lui repondit : je 
 suis Esaii votre fils aine. 
 
 Isaac fut frappe d'un profond etonnement, et adtnirant au 
 dela de tout ce qu'on pent croire ce qui etait arrive, il lui dit : 
 Qui est done celui qui m'a deja apporle de ce qu'il avait pris 
 a la chasse, et qui ui'a fait manger de tout avant que vous 
 vinssiez ? et je lui ai donne ma be'ue'dicliou, et il sera be'ni. 
 
 Esau a ces paroles de son pere jeta un cri furieux : et e'tant 
 dans une extreme consternation, il lui dit : Donnez-moi 
 aussi Totre benediction, mon pere. 
 
 Isaac lui repondit : Volre frere est venu me surprendre , et 
 il a recu la benediction qui vons etait due. 
 
 C'est avec raison , dit Esau , qu'il a etc appele Jacob , cest- 
 a-dire, supplanteur; car Toici la secoude fois qu'il m'a sup- 
 planle. II m'a enleve auparavant mon droit d'ainesse ; et 
 presentement il vient encore de me derober la benediction qui 
 m'e'tait due. Mais, mon pere, ajouta Esaii, ne m'avez-vous 
 done point reserve aussi une benediction. 
 
 Isaac lui repondit : Je I'ai e'labli votre seigneur, et j'ai 
 assujelti a sa domination tous ses freres; je I'ai affermi dans 
 la possession du ble et du vin ; et apres cela, mon fils, que 
 me reste-t-il que je puisse faire pour vous ? 
 
 Esau lui repartit : N'avez-vous done, mon pere, qu'une 
 seule benediction ? Je vous conjure de me benir aussi. 11 jela 
 ensuite de grands cris mele's de larmes. 
 
 Et Isaac en etant louche, lui dit : Volre benediction sera 
 dans la graisse de la terre et dans la rosee du ciel qui vient 
 d'en haul : 
 
 vous vivrez de 1'epee, vous servirez votre frere, et le 
 temps viendra que vous secouerez son joug, et que vous vous 
 en delivrerez. 
 
 (GENESE 27.)
 
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 XXI. 
 
 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward 
 Haran. 
 
 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there 
 all night, because the sun was set; and he look of the 
 stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and 
 lay down in that place to sleep. 
 
 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the 
 earth, and the lop of it reached to heaven : and behold 
 the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 
 
 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am 
 the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and ihe God of 
 Isaac : ihe land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, 
 and to thy seed; 
 
 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou 
 shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to 
 the north, and to the south : and in thee and in thy seed 
 shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 
 
 And, behold, 1 am with thee, and will keep thee in all 
 places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into 
 this land ; for I will not leave thee , until I have done that 
 which I have spoken to thee of. 
 
 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, Surely the 
 Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. 
 
 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place ! 
 this is none other but the house of God, and this if the gat 
 of heaven. 
 
 (GENESIS j8.)
 
 XXI. 
 
 Jacob etant done sorti de Bersabee allait a Haran ; 
 
 et etant venu en un certain lieu, comme il voulait s'v 
 reposer apres le coucher du soleil , il prit une des pierres qui 
 etaient la , et la mil sous sa tele , et s'endormit dans ce meme 
 lieu. 
 
 Alors il vit en songe une echelle, dout le pied e'tait appuye 
 sur la terre , et le haut touchait au ciel ; et des anges de Dieu 
 monlaient et descendaient le long de 1'echelle. 
 
 II vit aussi le seigneur appuve sur le Laut de 1'echelle, qui 
 lui dit : Je suis le Seigneur , le Dieu d'Abram votre pere et 
 le Dieu d'Isaac. Je vous donnerai et a votre race la lerre ou 
 vous dormez. 
 
 Votre posterity sera nombreuse comme la poussiere de la 
 terre : vous vous e'lendrez a 1'orient et a 1'occident , au sep- 
 tentrion et au midi ; ET TOUTES LES NATIONS DE LA. TERRE SERONT 
 BENIFS EM vous , et dans celui qui sortira de vous. 
 
 Je serai vot.-e prolecteur partout ou vous irez, je vous ra- 
 menerai dans ce pavs , et je ne vous quitlerai point que je 
 n'aie accompli tout ce que je vous ai dit. 
 
 Jacob s'etanl eveille apres son sommeil, dit ces paroles : 
 Le Seigneur est vraiment en ce lieu-ci, et je ne le savais pas. 
 
 Et dans la frajeur dout il se trouva saisi, il ajouta : Que 
 ce lieu est terrible ! G'est veritablement la maison de Dieu et 
 la porte du ciel. . ^ , 
 
 (GENESE jg.)
 
 XXII. 
 
 And Laban had two daughters : the name of the elder was 
 Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 
 
 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well 
 favoured. 
 
 And Jacob loved Rachel ; and said , I will save thee seven 
 years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 
 
 And Laban said , It is better thai I give her to thee, than 
 that I should give her to another man : abide with me. 
 
 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed 
 unto him but a few days , for the love he had to her. 
 
 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my 
 days are fulfilled, thai I may go in unto her. 
 
 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, 
 and made a feast. 
 
 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah 
 his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in 
 unto her. 
 
 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid 
 for an handmaid. 
 
 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it 
 was Leah : and he said to Laban , What is this thou hast 
 done unlo me? did not 1 serve with thee for Rachel? where- 
 fore then hast thou beguiled me ? 
 
 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, 
 to give the younger before the firstborn. 
 
 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the 
 service which thou shall serve with me yel seven other years. 
 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week : and he gave 
 him Rachel his daughter to wife also. 
 
 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his hand- 
 maid to be her maid. 
 
 And he went in also unlo Rachel , and he loved also Ra- 
 chel more than Leah , and served with him yel seven other 
 years. 
 
 (Crisis 39.)
 
 XXII. 
 
 Or Laban avail deux filles, dont 1'aine'e s'appelait Lia , et 
 la plus jeune Rachel. 
 
 Mais Lia avail les yeux chassieux ; au lieu que Rachel e'lait 
 belle et tres-agreable. 
 
 Jacob ayant done concu de 1'affeclion pour elle, dit a La- 
 bau : Je vous servirai sept ans pour Rachel votre seconde 
 fille. 
 
 Laban lui re'pondit : II vaut mieux que je vous la donne 
 qu'a uu autre; demeurez avec moi. 
 
 Jacob le servit done sept ans pour Rachel : et ce temps ne 
 lui paraissait que peu de jours, tant 1* affection qu'il avail 
 pour elle e'tait grande. 
 
 Apres cela il dit a Laban : Donnez-moi ma femme , puisque 
 le temps auqucl je dois 1'epouser est accompli. 
 
 Alors Laban fit les iioces, ayant invite au festin ses amis 
 qui etaient en fort grand nombre. 
 
 Et le soir il fit entrer Lia sa fille dans la chambre de Jacob , 
 et lui donna une servanle pour la servir, qui s'appelait 
 Zelpha. Jacob 1' ay ant prise pour sa femme , recounut le matin 
 que c'e'tait Lia ; 
 
 et il dit a son beau-pere : D'oii vient que vous m'avez traite 
 de cette sorle ? ne vous ai-je pas servi pour Rachel? pourquoi 
 m'avez-vous trompe? 
 
 Laban repondit : Ce n'est pas la coutume de ce pays-ci de 
 marier les filles les plus jeunes avant les ainees. 
 
 Passez la semaine avec celle-ci ; et je vous donnerai 1'autre 
 ensuile , pour le temps de sept annees que vons me servirez 
 de nouveau. 
 
 Jacob consentit a ce qu'il voulnit : et au bout de sept jours 
 il epousa Rachel , 
 
 a qui son pere avail donne une servanle nomme'eBala. 
 Jacob ayant eu enfin celle qu'il avail souhaite d'e'pouser, 
 jl prefe'ra la seconde a 1'aine'e dans 1'affeclion qu'il lui porlail, 
 et servit encore Laban pour elle sept ans. 
 
 (GENESE 29.)
 
 XXIII. 
 
 And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened 
 her womb : but Rachel was barren. 
 
 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his 
 name Reuben : for she said, Surely the Lord halh looked 
 npon my affliction ; now therefore my husband will love me. 
 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, 
 Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath 
 therefore given me this son also : and she called his name 
 Simeon. 
 
 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, 
 Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me chil- 
 dren, or else 1 die. 
 
 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel : and he 
 said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the 
 fruit of the womb ? 
 
 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; 
 and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have 
 children by her. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to 
 wife : and Jacob went in unto her. 
 And Bilbah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 
 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah 
 her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. And Zilpah Leah's 
 maid bare Jacob a son. 
 
 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found 
 mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother 
 Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of 
 thy son's mandrakes. 
 
 And she said uuto her. Is it a small matter that thou hast 
 taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's 
 mandrakes also? and Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with 
 the to nigth for thy son's mandrakes. 
 
 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah 
 went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto 
 me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. 
 And he lay with her that night. 
 
 And God hearkened unto Leah , and she conceived , and 
 bare Jacob the fifth son. 
 
 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, 
 and opened her womb. 
 
 ENESIS 29. .So)
 
 XX11I. 
 
 Mais le Seigneur voyant que Jacob avait du mepris pour 
 Lia, la rendit feconde , pendant que sa sceur demeurait 
 sterile. 
 
 Elle consul done ; et enfanta un fils qu'elle nomma Ruben , 
 c est-a-dire Jils de la vision, en disant : Le Seigneur a vu mon 
 humiliation ; mon mari m'aimera maintenant. 
 
 Rachel, voyant qu'elle e'tait sterile, porta envie a sa soaur, 
 
 et elle dit a son mari : Donnez-moi des enfans, ou je mourrai. 
 
 Jacob lui re'pondit en colere : Suis-je moi comme Dieu? 
 
 et n'esl-ce pas lui qui empeche que votre sein ne porte son 
 
 fruit? 
 
 Rachel ajouta : J'ai Bala ma servanle ; allez a elle, afin 
 que je receive entremes bras ce qu'elle enfantera,et que j'aie 
 des enfans d'elle. 
 
 Elle lui donna done Bala pour femme. 
 Jacob 1'ajant prise, elle concut , et elle accoucha d'un fils. 
 Lia vojant qu'elle avait cesse d'avoir des enfans, donna a 
 son mari Zelpha sa servante , 
 qui concut et accoucha d'un fils. 
 
 Or Ruben etant sorti a la campagne, lorsque Ton sciait 
 le froment , trouva des mandragores qu'il apporta a Lia , sa 
 mere, a laquelle Rachel dit : Donnez-moi des mandragores 
 de votre fils. 
 
 Mais elle lui repondit : N'est-ce pas assez que vous m'ayez 
 enleve mon mari, sans vouloir encore avoir les mandragores 
 de mon fils? Rachel ajoula : Je consens a ce qu'il dorme avec 
 vous celte nuit, pourvu que vous me donniez des mandragores 
 de volre fils. 
 
 Lors done que Jacob sur le soir revenait des champs , Lia 
 alia au-devant de lui, et lui dit : Vous viendrez avec moi, 
 parce que j'ai achele cette grace , en donnant a ma sceur les 
 mandragores de mon fils. Ainsi Jacob dormit avec elle cetle 
 nuit-la. 
 
 Et Dieu exauca ses prieres : elle concut, et elle accoucha 
 d'un cinquiemefils. 
 
 Le Seigneur se souvint aussi de Rachel; il 1'exauga, et lui 
 6la sa ste'rilite. 
 
 (GENESE 29. So.)
 

 
 XXIV. 
 
 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon 
 camels ; 
 
 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods 
 which he had gotten , the cattle of getting , which he had 
 gotten in Padan-aram , for to go to Isaac his father in the 
 land of Canaan. 
 
 (GENESIS 3i.)
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Jacob fit done monter aussilot ses femmes et ses enfans sur 
 des chameaux. 
 
 Et emmenant avec lui tout ce qu'il avail, ses troupeaux , 
 et ge'ne'ralement tout ce qu'il avail acquis en Me'sopotamie , 
 il se mil en chemin pour s'en aller retrouver Isaac son pere 
 au pavs de Chanaan.

 
 XXV. 
 
 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stran- 
 ger, in the land of Canaan. 
 
 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seven- 
 teen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and 
 the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of 
 Zilpah, his father's wives : and Joseph brought unto his 
 father their evil report. 
 
 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, be- 
 cause he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat 
 of many colours. 
 
 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him 
 more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not 
 speak peaceably unto him. 
 
 And Joseph dreamed a dream , and he told it his brethren : 
 and they hated him yet the more. 
 
 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream 
 which I have dreamed : 
 
 For. behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, 
 lo, my sheat arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, 
 your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my 
 sheaf. 
 
 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over 
 us? or shall thou indeed have dominion over us? And they 
 hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 
 
 And he dreamed yet another dream, and/ told it his bre- 
 thren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; 
 and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars 
 made obeisance to me. 
 
 And he told it to his father , and lo his brethren : and his 
 father rebuked him , and said unto him, What is this dream 
 that thou hast dreamed ? Shall 1 and thy mother and thy 
 brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves so thee to the 
 earth ? 
 
 And his brethren envied him ; but his father observed the 
 saying. 
 
 (GENESIS 87. )
 
 XXV. 
 
 Jacob demeura dans le paysde Chanaan, oil son pere avail 
 ete comme e'tranger. 
 
 Et voici ce qui regarde sa famille. Joseph age de seize ans, 
 et n'e'tant encore qu'enfant , conduisait le troupeau de son 
 pere avec ses freres , et il e'lait avec les enfans de Bala et de 
 Zelpba , femmes de son pere. 11 accusa alors ses freres devant 
 son pere d'un crime e'norme. 
 
 Israel aimait Joseph plus que tous ses autres enfans , parce 
 qu'il 1'avait eu e'taut de'ja vieux, el il lui avail fait faire une 
 robe de plusieurs couleurs. 
 
 Ses freres, voyanl done que leur pere 1'aimait plus que tous 
 ses autres enfans, le haissaient, elnepouvaient lui parler avec 
 douceur. 
 
 11 arriva aussi que Joseph rapporta a ses freres un songe 
 qu'il avail eu , qui fut encore la semence d'une plus grande 
 haine. 
 
 Car il leur dit : Ecoutez le songe que j'ai eu. 
 
 Il me semblait que je liais avec vous des gerbes dans les 
 champs; que ma gerbe se leva el. se tint debout, et que les 
 volres e'tant autour de la mienne, 1'adoraient. 
 
 Ses freres lui re'pondirenl : Est-que vous serez noire roi 
 et que nous serons soumis a votre puissance? Ges songes et 
 ces enlreliens allumerent done encore davantage 1'envie et la 
 haine qu'ils avaient centre lui. 
 
 11 eut encore un autre songe qu'il raconta a ses freres en 
 leuf disant : J'ai cru voir en songe que le soleil et la lune, et 
 onze e'toiles m'adoraienl. 
 
 Lorsqu'il eul rapporle ce songe a son pere et a ses freres, 
 son pere lui en fit re'primande, et lui dit : Que voudrait dire 
 ce songe que vous avez eu? Esl-ce que votre mere, vos freres 
 et moi nous vous adorerons sur la terre? 
 
 Ainsi ses freres e'taient transported d'envie centre lui : mais 
 le pere conside'rail tout ceci avec attention et dans le silence. 
 
 ( GENESE 87.)

 
 XXVI. 
 
 And his brethren went to feed their fater's flock in Shechem. 
 
 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the 
 Jloch in Shechem? come, and I will send the unto them. And 
 he said to him ; Here am I. 
 
 Joseph went after his brethren , and found them in Dothan. 
 
 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near 
 unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. And 
 they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. 
 
 Gome now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him 
 into some pit, and we will say , Some evil beast hath devoured 
 him : .and we shall see what will become of his dreams. 
 
 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their 
 hands; and said, Let us not kill him. And Reuben said unto 
 them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in 
 the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might 
 rid him out of their hands, lo deliver him to his father again. 
 
 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his bre- 
 thren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of 
 many colour that was on him. And they took him , and cast 
 him into a pit : and the pit was empty, there was no water 
 in it. 
 
 And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifled up their 
 eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites 
 came from Gilead with their camels bearing spiceri and balm 
 and myrrh , going to carry it down to Egypt. 
 
 And Judah said unto his brethren , What profit is it if we 
 slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Gome, and let us 
 sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon 
 his; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren 
 were content. 
 
 Then there passed by Medianites merchantmen ; and they 
 drew and lifled up Joseph out of the pit , and sold Joseph lo 
 the Ishmeelites for twenty piece of silver : and they brought 
 Joseph into Egypt. , 
 
 (GENESIS 3;. )
 
 XXVI. 
 
 II arriva alors que les freres de Joseph s'arrelerent a Sichem , 
 oil ils faisaient pailre les Iroupeaux de leur pere. 
 
 Et Israel dit a Joseph : Yos freres font paitre nos brebis 
 dans le pays de Sichem. Venez done et je vous enverrai vers 
 eux. 
 
 Joseph alia done apres ses freres, et il les irouva dans la 
 plaine de Dothain. 
 
 Lorsqu'ils 1'eurent apercu de loin, avant qu'il se fut ap- 
 proche d'eux ils re'solurent de le tuer : et ils se disaient 1'un 
 a 1'autre : Voici noire songeur qui vient. 
 
 Allons, luons-le, et le jetons dans celte vieille citerne : 
 nous dirons qu'une bete sauvage 1'a de'vore; et apres cela on 
 verra a quoi ses songes lui auronl servi. 
 
 Ruben , les ayant entendu parle ainsi , tachait de le tirer 
 d'entre leurs mains, et il leur disait : Ne le luez point, et ne 
 re'pandez point son sang; mais jetez-le dans cette cilerne 
 qui est dans le desert, et conservez vos mains pures. 11 disait 
 ceci dans le dessein de le tirer d'entre leurs mains, et de le 
 rendre a son pere. 
 
 Aussilot done que Joseph fut arrive pres de ses freres, ils 
 lui olerent sa robe , et ils le jeterent dans celte vieille citerne 
 qui etait sans eau. 
 
 S'e'tant ensuite assis pour manger, ils virent des Ismaelites 
 qui passaient, et qui venant de Galaad portaient sur leurs 
 chameaux des parfums , de la re'sine et de la myrrhe , et s'en 
 allaient en Egypte. 
 
 Alors Judas dit a ses freres : Que nous servira d' avoir tue 
 notre frere , et d' avoir cache sa mort? 11 vaut mieux le ven- 
 dre a ces Ismaeliles , et ne point souiller nos mains de son 
 sang car il est notre frere et noire chair. Ses freres consen- 
 tirent a ce qu'il disait. 
 
 L'ayant done tire de la citerne, et , voyant ces marchands 
 madianites qui passaient, ils le vendirent vingt pieces d'ar- 
 genl aux Ismaelites, qui le menerent en Egypte. 
 
 (GENESE 3;.)
 
 XXVII. 
 
 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt ; and Potiphar ; an 
 officier of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought 
 him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him 
 down thither. 
 
 And the LORD was with Joseph , and he was a prosperous 
 man ; and he was in the house of his masler the Egyptian. 
 
 And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured. 
 
 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's 
 wife cast her eyes upon Joseph ; and she said. Lie with me. 
 
 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, 
 my master wolteth not waht is with me in the house , and he 
 hath committed all that he hath to my hand; . 
 
 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath 
 he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art 
 his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin 
 against God ? 
 
 And it came to pass , as she spake to Joseph day by day, 
 that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her; or (o be 
 with her. 
 
 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went 
 into the house lo do his business , and there was none of the 
 men of the house there within. 
 
 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with 
 me : and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got 
 him out. 
 
 ( GENESIS 3g.)
 
 XX VII. 
 
 Joseph ayanl done etc mene en Egypte , Putiphar, Egyptian , 
 eunuque de Pharaon , et general de ses troupes, 1'acheta des 
 Ismae'liles qui I'y avail amene. 
 
 Le Seigneur e'lait avec lui, et lout lui re'ussissait heureu- 
 seuient. II demeurait dans la maison de son maitre. 
 
 Joseph, ayant done Irouve grace devanl son maitre, se donna 
 tout entier a son service; et ayant recu de lui I'aulorite' sur 
 toule sa maison, il la gouvernait et prenait soin de tout ce 
 qui lui avail e'le mis enlre les mains. 
 
 Or Joseph elail beau de visage, el Ires-agre'able. 
 
 Long-temps apres sa maitresse jela les yeux sur iui, el lui 
 dit : Dormez avec moi. 
 
 Mais Joseph , ayanl horreur de cousenlir a une action si 
 criminelle, lui dit: Vous voyez que mon maitre m'a couGe 
 toutes choses, qu'il ne sail meme pas ce qu'il a dans sa maisoti: 
 qu'il n'y a rien qui ne soil en mon pouvoir, el que m'ayant 
 mis loul enlre les mains , il ne s'est reserve que vous seule 
 qui eles sa femme : comment done pourrais-je cotiimellreuu 
 si grand crime, el pe'cher conlre mon Dieu. 
 
 Celte femuie continua duranl plusieurs jours a solliciler 
 Joseph par de semblables paroles, el lui a re'sister a son in- 
 fame de'sir. 
 
 Or il arriva un jour que Joseph e'tant enlre dans la rnai- 
 
 son, ety faisanl quelque chose sans que persoane ful pre'senl, 
 
 Sa maitresse le prit par son mauteau, et lui dit encore .- 
 
 Dormez avec moi. Alors Joseph, lui laissanl le muiiteau, s'en- 
 
 fuit, et sortil hors du logis.
 
 XX VIII. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph , In my dream , behold ,. I 
 slood upon the bank of the river : 
 
 And, behold, ihere came up out of the river seven kine, 
 fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow. 
 
 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor 
 and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in 
 all the land of Egypt for badness : 
 
 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first 
 seven fat kine -. 
 
 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known 
 that they had ealen them; but they were still ill favoured, 
 as at the beginning. So I awoke. 
 
 And I saw in my dream , and, behold, seven ears came up 
 in one slalk, full and good : 
 
 And, behold, seven ears, withered thin , and blasted with 
 the east wind, sprung up after them : 
 
 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears : And 1 
 told this un'.o the magicians; but there was none that could 
 declare it to me. 
 
 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is 
 one : God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. 
 
 The seven good kine are seven years ; and (he seven good 
 ears are seven years : the dream is one. 
 
 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after 
 them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with 
 the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 
 
 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh : What 
 God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. 
 
 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout 
 all the land of Egypt : 
 
 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine ; and 
 all Ihe plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and 
 the famine shall consume the land. 
 
 " (GENESIS /ji.)
 
 xxvin. 
 
 Pbaraon lui raconla ce qu'il avail vu. 11 me semblait, 
 Jil-il, que j'etais sur le bord du fleuve, 
 
 d'oiisortaientseptvachcs fort belles et extremement grasses, 
 qui paissaient 1'herbe dans des marecages ; 
 
 et qu'ensuite ilea sorlit sept autres si defigure'es et si pro- 
 digieusemeal maigres, que je n'en ai jamais vu de telles en 
 Egypte. 
 
 Ces dernieres devorerent et consumerent les premieres, 
 
 sans qu'elles parussent en aucune sorte en etre rassasiees ; 
 mais au conlraire elles demeurerent aussi maigres et aussi 
 afireuses qu'elles etaient auparavant. M'etant eveille apres ce 
 songe, je me rendormis, 
 
 et j'en eus un second. Je vis sept epis pleins de grains 
 et Ires-beaux, qui sortaient d'une meme lige. 
 
 11 en parut en meme temps sept aulres fort maigres , qu'un 
 vent brulant avail desseches, 
 
 etcesderuiers devorerent les premiers qui etaient si beaux. 
 J'ai dit mon songe a lous les devins, et je n'en irouve point 
 qui me 1'explique. 
 
 Joseph repondit : Les deux songesdu roi signifient la meme 
 chose : Dieu a montre a Pharaon ce qu'il fera dans la suite. 
 
 Les sept vacbessi belles, et les sept epis si pleins de grain, 
 que le roi a vus en songe, marqueut la meme chose, et signi- 
 fieut sept annees d'abondance. 
 
 Les sept vaches maigres et defaites, qui sont sorties du 
 fleuve apres ces premieres , et les sept epis maigres et frappes 
 d'un vent brulant marquent sept annees d'une famine qui 
 doit arriver. 
 
 Et ceci s'accomplira de cette sorle. 
 
 11 viendra premieremenl sept annees d'une fertilile extra- 
 ordinaire dans toule 1'Egypte, 
 
 qui seront suivies de sept autres d'une si grande sterilite , 
 qu'elle fera oublier loille I'abondance qui 1'aura precc'dee (car 
 la famine consumera toule la terre ). 
 
 Loges d. (GENESE 41. )

 
 XX1X\ 
 
 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every BOO 
 Ihat bis born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter 
 ye shall save alive. 
 
 And Ihere went a man of the house of Levi, and took to 
 wife a daughter of Levi. 
 
 And the woman conceived, and bare a son : and when 
 she saw him that he was a goodly child , she hid him three 
 months. . "if 
 
 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for 
 him an aik of bulrushes, and daubed it wilh slime and wilh 
 pilch , and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flatjs 
 by the river's brink, 
 
 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done 
 to him. 
 
 And ihe daughter of Pharaoh came clown to wash herself 
 at (he river; and her maidens walked along by the river's 
 side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her 
 maid to fetch it. 
 
 And when she had opened it, she saw the child : and, 
 behold , the babe wept. And she had compassion on him , 
 and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 
 
 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and 
 call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women , that she may nurse 
 the child for thee? 
 
 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid 
 went and called the child's mother. 
 
 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child 
 away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. 
 And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 
 
 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's 
 daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name . 
 Moses : and she said, Because 1 drew him out of the water. 
 
 ( EXODUS i-.)
 
 XXIX. 
 
 Alors Pharaon fiL ce cominandement a lout son peuple : 
 Jeiez dans le fleuve lous les enfans males qui naitrontparmi 
 les flebreux , et ne re'servez que les filles. 
 
 Quelque temps apres un homme de la maison de Levi ayant 
 e'pouse une femme de sa tribu, 
 
 sa femme concut et enfanta un fils ; et voyant qu'il etait 
 beau, elle le cacha pendant trois mois. 
 
 Mais comme elle vit qu'elle ne pouvait plus tenir la chose 
 secrete , elle prit un panier de jonc ; et 1'ayant enduit de 
 Litume et de poix, elle mit dedans le petit enfant, 1'exposa 
 parmi des roseaux sur le Lord du fleuve, 
 
 et fit tenir sa sceur loin de la, pour voir ce qui en arriverait. 
 
 En ce meme temps la fille de Pharaon vint au fleuve pour 
 se baigner, accompagnee de ses filles , qui marchaienl le long 
 du Lord del'eau.Et ayant apercu ce panier parmi les roseaux, 
 elle envoya une de ses filles qui le lui apporta. 
 
 Elle 1'ouvrit ; et trouvant dedans ce petit enfant qui criait, 
 elle fut louchee de compassion , et elle dit : G'est un des 
 enfans des Hebreux. 
 
 La sceur de 1'enfant selant npproche'e, lui dil : Vous plait-il 
 que j'aille que'rir une femme des He'breux qui puisse nourrir 
 ce petit enfant? 
 
 Elle lui re'pondit: Allez. La fille s'en alia done, et fit venir 
 sa mere. 
 
 La fille de Pharaon lui dit : Prenez eel enfant et me le 
 nourrissez, et je vous en re'compenserai. La mere prit 1'en- 
 fant et le noun-it; et lorsqu'il fut assez fort, elle le donna 
 a la fille de Pharaon, 
 
 qui 1'adopta pour sou fils, et le nomma Mo'ise, cest-a-dire, 
 lire de Veau , parce que, disait-elle, je 1'ai tire de 1'eau. 
 
 (EXODE 1-2. )

 
 XXX. 
 
 Now Moses kept the (lock of Jetrho his father in law, the 
 priest of Midian : and he laid the Hock (o the backside oi 
 the desert, aud came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 
 
 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a llame 
 of lire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, and, 
 behold, the bush burned wilh fire, and the bush was not 
 consumed. 
 
 Aud Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great 
 sight; why the bush is not burnt. 
 
 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God 
 called uulo him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, 
 Moses. And he said , Here am I. 
 
 And he said, Dra<v not nigh hilher : put off thy shoes from 
 off thy feet , for the place whereon thou standest /* holy 
 ground. 
 
 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of 
 Abraham , the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Aud Moses 
 hid his face ; for he was afraid to look upon God. 
 
 And the Lord saiJ, 1 have surely seen the affliction of my 
 people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by 
 reason of tlteir taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows; 
 
 And 1 am come down (o deliver them out of the hand of 
 the Egyptians, aud to bring them up out of lhat land unto a 
 good land aud a large , unlo a. land flowing wilh milk and 
 honey; unlo the place of Ihe Canaaniles, and the liiltiles , 
 arid the Amoriles, and the Perizziles, and the liivitcs, and 
 the Jebusiles. 
 
 (lixODL'S O.)
 
 XXX. 
 
 Cependanl Moise conduisait les brebis de Je'thro son beau- 
 pere, prelre de Madian : et ayant mene sou troupeau nu fond 
 du desert , il vint a Ja montagne de Dieu, nomme'e Horeb. 
 
 Alors le Seigneur lui apparut dans une flamme de feu qui 
 sorlait du milieu d'un buisson; et il voyait bruler le buisson 
 sans qu'il se consumat. 
 
 Moise dil done : II faut que j'aille reconnaitre quelle est 
 cette merveille que je vois , et pourquoi ce buissou ne se con- 
 sume point. 
 
 Mais le Seigneur le voyant venir pour considerer ce qu'il 
 voyait, 1'appela du milieu du buisson, et lui dit : Moise, 
 Moise. II lui re'pondit : Me voici. 
 
 Et Dieu ajouta : Wapprochez pas d'ici : otez les souliers de 
 vos pieds , parce que le lieu oil vous eles est tine lerre sain (e. 
 
 Il dit encore : Je suis le Dieu de votre pere, le Dieu d'A- 
 braham , le Dieu d'Isaac, et le Dieu de Jacob. Moise se cacha 
 le visage, parce qu'il n'osait regarder Dieu. 
 
 Le Seigneur lui dit : J'ai vu I'affliction de mon peuple qui 
 est en Egypte : J'ai entendu le cri qu'il jelle a cause de la 
 durele de ceux qui ont 1'intendance des travaux. 
 
 Et sachant quelle est sa douleur, je suis descendu pour le 
 de'livrer des mains des Egyptiens, et pour le faire passer de 
 celte terre en tine terre bonne et spacieuse, en une lerre oil 
 coulent des ruisseaux de lait et de miel, au pays des Ghana- 
 neens, des Helbe'ens, des Amorrheens , des Phereze'ens, de? 
 <rgse'ens , des Heveens et des Je'buse'ens. 
 
 (EXODE 3.)

 
 XXXI. 
 
 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the 
 Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that 
 night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were 
 divided. 
 
 And the children, of Israel went into the midst of the sea 
 upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto 
 them on their right hand, and on their left. 
 
 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to 
 the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, 
 and his horsemen. 
 
 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord 
 looked unto the host of the Egyptians trough the pillar of fire 
 and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians. 
 
 And took off their chariots wheels , that they drave them 
 heavily : so that the Egyptians said, let us flee from the 
 face of Israel ; for the Lord fightelh for them against the 
 Egyptians. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over 
 the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, 
 upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 
 
 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea , and the 
 sea returned to his strength when Ihe morning appeared; 
 and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew 
 the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 
 
 ( EXODUS i 4-)
 
 XXXI, 
 
 Le Seigneur endurcit le coeur da Pharaon , roi d'Egyple, 
 et il se mil a poursuivre les enfans d'Israel. Mais ils etaient 
 sorlis sous la conduite d'une main puissante. 
 
 Moise ayant etendu sa main sur la mer, le Seigneur 1'en- 
 tr'ouvrit, en faisant souffler un vent violent et briilant pen- 
 dant loute la nuit; et il en dessecha le fond , et 1'eau fut di- 
 visee en deux. 
 
 Les eufans d'Israel marcherent a sec au milieu de la mer, 
 ayant 1'eau a droite et a gauche, qui leur servait comme d'un 
 mur. 
 
 Et les Egyptiens, marchant apres eux, se mirent a les pour- 
 suivre au milieu de la mer avec toule la cavalerie de Pha- 
 raon , ses chariots et ses chevaux. 
 
 Mais, lorsque la veille du matin fut venue, le Seigneur, 
 ayant regarde le camp des Egypliens au travers de la colonne 
 de feu et de la nuee , fit perir toute leur arme'e ; 
 
 il renversa les roues des chariots , et ils furent enlraines 
 dans le fond de la mer. Alors Jes Egyptiens s'enlre-dirent : 
 Fuyons les Israelites, parce que le Seigneur combat pour eux 
 centre nous. 
 
 En meme temps le Seigneur dit a Moise : Etendez votre 
 main sur la mer, afin que les eaux retournent sur les Egyp- 
 liens , sur leurs chariots et sur leur cavalerie. 
 
 Mo'ise e'tendit done la main sur la mer; et des la pointe du 
 jour elle retourna au meme lieu oil elle elait auparavant. 
 Ainsi lorsque les Egypliens s'enfuyaient les eaux vinrent au- 
 devant d'eux, et le Seigneur les enveloppa au milieu des flols. 
 
 (EXODE

 
 XXXII. 
 
 Then came the children of Israel, even ihe whole congre- 
 gation , into the desert of Zin in the first month : and the 
 people abode in Kadesb. 
 
 And Ihere was no water for Ihe congregation : and they 
 gathered fhemsel ves together against Moses and against Aaron. 
 
 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying , 
 Would God that we had died when our brethren died before 
 the Lord ! 
 
 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out Egypt , 
 to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, 
 or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there 
 any water to drink. 
 
 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of Ihe 
 assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation , 
 and they fell upon their faces : and the glory of the Lord 
 appeared unto them. 
 
 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying", 
 
 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together; 
 thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock 
 before their eyes; and it shall give forth his waler, and 
 thou shall bring forth to them waler out of the rock : so thou 
 shall give the congregation and iheir beasts drink. 
 
 And Moses look the rod from before the Lord , as he com 
 manded him. 
 
 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together 
 before the rock , and he said unto them , Hear now, ye rebels ; 
 must we fetch, you waler out of this rock ? 
 
 And Moses lifted up his hand , and with his rod he smote 
 the rock Iwice : and the waler came out abundantly, and the 
 congregation drank, and their beasts also. 
 
 (NUMBERS '20.) 
 

 
 XXXII. 
 
 Au premier mois de la quarantieme annee , toute la multitude 
 des enfans d'Israe'l vintau desert de Sin: etle peuple demeura 
 a Cades. 
 
 Et comme le peuple manquait d'eau , ils s'assemblerent 
 contre Moise et Aaron ; 
 
 et ajant excite une sedition, ils leur dirent : Plut a Dieu 
 que nous fussions peris avec DOS freres devant le Seigneur ! 
 
 Pourquoi nous avez-vous fait sortir de 1'Egypte, et nous 
 avez-vous amends en ce lieu malheureux, ou Ton ne peut 
 semer ; oil ni les figuiers , ni les vignes, ni les grenadiers ne 
 peuvent venir, et ou Ton ne trouve pas meme d'eau pour 
 boire? 
 
 Moi'se et Aaron ajant quitte le peuple , enlrerent dans le 
 tabernacle de 1'alliance, et s'elaut jetes le visage contre terre 
 ils crierent au Seigneur , et lui dirent : Seigneur Dieu ecoutez 
 le cri de ce peuple, et ouvrez-leur votre tresor , donnez-leur 
 une Fontaine d'eau vive , afin qu'etant desaHeres ils cessent 
 de murmurer. Alors la gloire du Seigneur parut au-dessus 
 d'eux. 
 
 Et le Seigneur parla a Mo'ise, et Jui dit : 
 Prenez votre verge, et assemblez le peuple , vous et votre 
 frere Aaron ; parlez a la pierre devant eux , et elle vous don- 
 nera des caux. Et lorsque vous aurez fait sortir 1'eau de ia 
 pierre , tout le peuple boira , et ioutes ses betes. 
 
 Moi'se prit done sa verge qui etait devant le Seigneur, 
 selon qu'il le lui avail ordonne, 
 
 et avant assemble le peuple devant la pierre, il leur dit : 
 Ecoutez , rebelles et incre'dules. Pourrons-nous vous faire 
 sorlir de I'eau de cette pierre ? 
 
 Moise leva ensuite la main, et ayant frappe deux fois la 
 pierre avec sa verge, il en sortit une grande abondance 
 d'eau ; en sorte que le peuple cut a boire , et ioutes les betes 
 autsi. 
 
 ( NOMBRES Jo )

 
 XXXIV. 
 
 And when the people saw thai Moses delated lo come 
 down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves 
 together unto Aaron , and said unto him , Up , make us gods, 
 which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man 
 that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not 
 what is become of him. 
 
 And Aaron said unto them , Break off the golden earrings, 
 which are in the ears of your wives , of your sons , and of 
 your daughters, and bring them unto me. 
 
 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which 
 where in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 
 
 And he received them at their hand , and fashioned it with 
 a graving tool , after he had made it a molten calf : and they 
 said , These be thy gods , O Israel , which brought thee up out 
 of the land of Egypt. 
 
 And when Aaron saw it, he built an allar before it; and 
 Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast 
 lo the Lord. 
 
 And they rose up early on the morrow , and offered burnt 
 offerings , and brought peace offerings ; and the people sat 
 down lo eat and lo drink , and rose up to play. 
 
 And Moses came to pass , as soon as he came nigh unto the 
 camp, lhat he saw Ihe calf, and (he dancing : and Moses' 
 anger waxed hot , and he cast the tables out of his hands , 
 and brake them beneath the mount. 
 
 And when Moses saw lhat Ihe people were naked; (for 
 Aaron had made Ihem naked unlo their shame among their 
 enemies : ) 
 
 Then Moses stood in the gale of the camp , and said , Who 
 is on the Lord's side ? lei him come unlo me. And all Ihe sons 
 of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 
 
 And he said unto them, Thus saith Ihe Lord God of Israel, 
 Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from 
 gate 1o gale throughout the camp, and slay every man his 
 brolher , and every man his companion , and every man his 
 neighbour. 
 
 And Ihe children of Levi did according lo the word of 
 Moses : and there fell of the people lhat day about three 
 thousand men. 
 
 ( EXODUS 3).
 
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 XXXIII. 
 
 And the Lord spake unto Moses , saying : 
 
 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel , saying, Verily 
 my sabbaths ye shall keep : -for it is a sign between me and 
 you throughout your generations ; that j-e may know that I 
 am the Lord that doth sanctify you. 
 
 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto 
 you : every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death : 
 for whosoever doelh any work therein, that soul shall be cut 
 off from among his people. 
 
 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh if the 
 sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord : whosoever doelh any 
 work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 
 
 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, 
 to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a 
 perpetual covenant. 
 
 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever : 
 for In six days the Lord made heaven and earth , and on the 
 seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. 
 
 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of 
 communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testi- 
 mony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. 
 
 ( EXODUS 3 1.)
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 Mais le peuple, vojant que Mo'ise diffe'rait long-lemps a 
 desccndre de la monlagne, s'assembla en s'elevant contre 
 Aaron , el lui dit : Venez, failes-nous des dieux qui marchent 
 devant nous : car pour ce qui est de Mo'ise, cet homme qui 
 nous a tire's de 1'Egvple , nous ne savons ce qui lui est arrive. 
 Aaron leur re'pondit : Olez les pendans d'oreilles de vos 
 femmes, de vos fils et de vos filles, et apporlez-les-moi. 
 
 Le peuple fit ce que Aaron lui avail commande , et lui 
 apporta les pendans d'oreilles. 
 
 Aaron les ayant pris les jela en fonle, el il en forma un 
 veau. Alors les Israelites dirent : Voici vos dieux, 6 Israel, 
 qui vous ont tire de 1'Egvpte, 
 
 Ce qu' Aaron a van I vu , il dressa un autel devant le veau , 
 el il fit crier par un lieraut : Demainseralafelesolennelle du 
 Seigneur. 
 
 S'e'lant leve's du matin, ils offrirent des liolocaustes et des 
 hoslies pacifiques. Tout le peiiple s'assit pour manger et pour 
 Loire, et ils se teverenl ensuite pour jouer. 
 
 Et Moise s'e'lant approche du camp, il vit le veau et 
 les danses. Alors il eulra dansune grande colere : il jela les 
 tables qu'il tenait a la main, el les Lrisa au pied de la man- 
 tagne. 
 
 Mo'ise vojant done que le peuple e'lait demeure lout nu 
 (car Aaron 1'avait depouille par celle abomination houleuse 
 el 1'avait mis tout nu au milieu de sesennemis), 
 
 se tint a la porte du camp , et dil : Si quelqu'un est au 
 Seigneur , qu'il se joigne a moi. Et les enfans de Le'vi s'etant 
 tous assembles autour de lui, 
 
 il leur dit : Voici ce que dit le Seigneur le Dieu d'Israel : 
 Que chaque Jiomme mclle SOQ e'pe'e a son cole. Passez et re- 
 passez au travers du camp d'une porle a 1'aulre, et que cha- 
 cun tue son frcre , son ami, et celui qui lui esl plus proche. 
 
 Les enfans de Le'vi firent ce que Moise avail ordonne; el il 
 y eut environ vingl-lrois mille hommestues ce jour-la. 
 
 ~ (EXODE 02.)
 
 XXXV. 
 
 The Lord said unto Moses , Say unlo the children o 
 srael , Ye are a stiffnecked people : I .will come up into 
 the midst of the in a moment, and consume thee : therefore 
 now put off thy ornaments from thee , that I may know what 
 to do unto thee. 
 
 And the- children of Israel stripped themselves of their 
 ornaments by the mount Horeb. 
 
 And Moses took the tabernacle , and pitched it without the 
 camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle 
 of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one 
 which sought the Lord went out unlo the tabernacle of the 
 congregation , which was without the camp. 
 
 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unlo the ta- 
 bernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at 
 his tent door, and looked after Moses until he was gone into 
 the tabernacle. 
 
 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, 
 the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the 
 tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. 
 
 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the taber- 
 nacle door : and all the people rose up and worshipped, 
 every man in is tent door. 
 
 
 ' 
 
 (Exotcs 33.)
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 v 
 
 And the Lord said unlo Moses , Hew thee two tables of 
 stone like unto the first : and I will write upon these tables 
 the words that were in the first tables , which thou brakest. 
 
 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morn- 
 ing unto mount Sinui, and present thjself there to me in the 
 lop of the mount. 
 
 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man 
 be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor 
 herds feed before that mount. 
 
 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and 
 Moses rose up early in the morning , and went up unto mount 
 Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his 
 hand the two tables of stone. 
 
 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with 
 him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 
 
 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty 
 nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he 
 wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten com- 
 mandments. 
 
 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount 
 Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when 
 he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the 
 skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 
 
 
 ( EXODUS 34.)
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 And Joshua said un(o the children of Israel, Come hither, 
 and hear the words of the Lord jour God. 
 
 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living 
 God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out 
 from before jou the Canaaniles, and the Hittites, and the 
 Hiviles, and the Perizziles, and the Girgashites, and (he 
 Amoriles, and ihe Jebusites. 
 
 Behold, the ark of the covenant of Ihe Lord of all the 
 earth passelh over before you into Jordan. 
 
 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of 
 Israel, out of every (ribe a man. 
 
 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet 
 of the priests that bear the' ark of (he Lord, the Lord of all 
 the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters 
 of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down 
 from above, and they shall stand upon an heap. 
 
 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their 
 tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark 
 of the covenant before the people. 
 
 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and 
 the feel of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the 
 brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all 
 the time of harvest. ) 
 
 That the waters which came down from above stood and 
 rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is 
 beside Zarelan : and those that came down toward the sea 
 of the plain , even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: 
 and the people passed over right against Jericho. 
 
 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the 
 Lord stood firm on dry ground in (he midst of Jordan , and 
 all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the 
 people were passed clean over Jordan. 
 
 ( JOSHUA 3.)
 
 XXXVli. 
 
 Alors Josue dit aux enfans d'Israel : Approchez-vous, ct 
 e'coutez la parole du seigneur volre Dieu. 
 
 Puis il ajoula : Vous reconnaitrez a ceci quo le Seigneur, 
 le Dieu vivant, est au milieu de vous, et qu'il exterminera 
 a vos jeux les Chananeens, les Hethe'ens, les He'veens , les 
 Phe'reze'ens , les Gergeseens, les Jebuse'ens et les Amorrhe'eris. 
 
 L'arche de 1'alliance du Seigneur de loute la terre mai - 
 chera devant vous an travers du Jourdain. 
 
 Teuez prets douze bommes des douze trihus d'Israel , un 
 de chaque tribu. 
 
 Et lorsque les pretres qui porlent 1'arche du Seigneur, le 
 Dieu de loule la terre, auronl mis Jes pieds dans les eaux du 
 Jourdain , les eaux d'en bas s'ecouleront et laisseront le 
 fleuve a sec; mais celles qui vienneut d'en haul s'arreleront 
 et demeureront suspendues. 
 
 Le peup ; e sorlit done de ses (enles pour passer le Jour- 
 dain; et les pretres qui poiiaient 1'arche de 1'alliance mar- 
 chaient devant lui. 
 
 Et aussilot que ces pretres furent eutre's dans le Jourdain ; 
 et que 1'eau commenca a mouiller leurs pieds ( c'e'tait au 
 temps de la moisson, oil le Jourdain regorgeait par-dessus 
 ses bords ) , 
 
 les eaux qui venaient d'en haut s'arreterent en un meme 
 lieu, et s'e'levant comme une monlagne elies paraissaient 
 de bien loin, depuis la \ille qui s'appelle Adorn jusqu'au lien 
 appele Sartban : mais les eaux d'en bas s'e'coulerenl dans la 
 mer du desert, qui est appele'e maintenant la mer Morte , 
 jusqu'a ce qu'il n'en restat point du tout. 
 
 Cepeudant le peuple marcbait vis-a-vis de Jericho ; et les 
 pretres qui portaient 1'arcbe de 1'alliance du Seigneur, se 
 tenaient toujours au meme e'tat sur la terre seche au milieu 
 <!u Jourdain , et lout le peuple passait au travers du canal 
 jiii e'lait a sec. 
 
 Loges. ( JOSUE 3.)
 
 XXX VI II. 
 
 Now Jericho was strailly shut up because of Hie children 
 of Israel : none went out, and none came in. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given inlo 
 thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty 
 men of valour. 
 
 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and 
 go round about the city once. Thus shall thou do six days. ' 
 
 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets 
 of rams' horns. 
 
 And the armed men went before the priesls that blew 
 with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, 
 the priests going on , and blowing with (he trumpets. 
 
 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests 
 blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; 
 for the Lord hath given you the city, 
 
 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the 
 trumpets : and it came to pass, when the people heard the 
 sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great 
 shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went 
 up into the city , every man straight before him, and they 
 took the city. 
 
 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both 
 man and woman, young and old, and ox , and sheep , and 
 ass, with the edge of the sword. 
 
 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's 
 houshold, and all that she had; and she dwellelh in Israel 
 even unto this day; because sbe hid the messengers, which 
 Joshua sent to spy, out Jericho. 
 
 And Joshua adjured them at that time , saying , Cursed be 
 the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city 
 Jericho. 
 
 (JOSHUA 6. )
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 Cependant Jericho elait fermee et bien mimic- claus- !a 
 cr;unte oil 1'on y elait des enfans d' Israel; et nul n'osait y 
 enlrer, ni en sorlir. 
 
 Alors le Seigneur dit a Josue : Je vous ai livre entre les 
 mains Jericho et son roi , el Ions les vaillans homines qui j 
 so'nl. 
 
 Failes le lour de la ville , tous lant que vous etes gens 
 de guerre, une ibis par jour. Vous ferez la mrme chose pen- 
 dant six jours : 
 
 mais qu'au seplieme jour les prelres prennent les sept 
 trompelles donl on doit se servir dans 1'annee du jubile, et 
 qu'ils marchent devant 1'arche de 1'alliance. 
 
 Toule Tarmee marcha devant 1'arche, et le reste dupeuple 
 la suivit; et le Lruit des trompettes retenlit de toules parts. 
 
 El pendant que les prelres sonnaient de la Irompetle, le 
 septieme jour , Josue dit a tout Israel : Jeiez un grand cri ; 
 car le Seigneur vons a livre Jericho. 
 
 Tout le peuple ayaut done jele un grand cri , et les trom- 
 pettes sonnant , la- voix et le son n'eurent pas plus lot frappe 
 les oreilles de la multitude, que les murailles tomberent, 
 et que chacun inonta par 1'endroil qui elait vis-a-vis de lui. 
 lls prirent ainsi la ville, 
 
 el ils luerent lout ce qui s'y rencontra, depuis les homines 
 jusqu'aux femmes, et depuis les enfans jusqu'aux vieillards. 
 Ils firent passer an fil de I'epee les bceufs, les brebis et lesanes. 
 
 Mais Josue sauva Rahab courlisane, et la maison de son 
 pere avec tout ce qu'elle avail ; et ils demeurerenl au milieu 
 du peuple d'Israel, comme ils y sont encore aujourd'hui ; 
 parce qu'elle avail cache les deux homines qu'il avail en voyes 
 pour reconnaitre Jericho . Alors Josue fit cette imprecation : 
 
 Mauditsoit devanl le Seigneur 1'hommequi relevera et re- 
 balira la ville de Jericho. 
 
 ( JOSUE 6.

 
 XXXIX. 
 
 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua lo (lie camp lo 
 Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come 
 up to us quickly, and save us, and help us : for all the 
 kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathe- 
 red together against us, 
 
 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people 
 of war with him , and all the mighty men of valour. 
 
 And the Lord said unlo Joshua, Fear them not : for 1 
 have delivered them into thine hand, there shall not a man 
 of them stand before thee. 
 
 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up 
 from Gilgal all night. 
 
 And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew 
 them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them 
 along the way that goeth up to Belh-horon, and smote them 
 to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. 
 
 And it came (o pass, as they fled from before Israel, and 
 were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast 
 down great sloues from heaven upon them unto Azekah , 
 and they died : they were more which died with hailstones 
 than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 
 
 Then spake Joshua lo the Lord in the day when the Lord 
 delivered up the Amoriles before the children of Israel, 
 aud he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still 
 upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the walley of Ajalon. 
 
 And the sun stood still , and the moon stayed, until the 
 people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not 
 this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still 
 in^ the midst of heaven , and hasted not to go down about 
 a whole day . 
 
 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at 
 Makkedah in peace : none moved his tongue against any ot 
 the children of Israel. 
 
 (Josut'A 10.)
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 Or les habilans de Gabaon, vojanl leur ville assie'gee, en- 
 vojerent a Josue, qui e'tait alors dans le camp pres de Gal- 
 gala , et lui direnl : Ne refusez pas votre secours a vos servi- 
 teurs ; venez vile, et delivrez-nous par 1'assistance que vous 
 nous donnerez : car tous les rois des Amorrhe'ens qui habi- 
 tcnt dans les montagnes se sont unis con I re nous. 
 
 Josue partil done de Galgala, el avec lui tous les gens de 
 guerre de son armee, qui e'laienl tres-vaillans. 
 
 Et le Seigneur dit a Josue: Ne les craiguez point; car je 
 les ai livre's entre vos mains, et nul d'eux ne pourra vous 
 resister. 
 
 Josue e'tant done venu, toule la unit de Galgala, se jeta 
 tout d'un coup sur eux : 
 
 Et le Seigneur les e'pouvanta et les mit tous en de'sordre a la 
 vue d'Israel; et Israel en fitun grand carnage pres de Gabaon. 
 11 les poursuivit par le cbemin qui rnonte vers Beth-boron , 
 el les lailla en piece jusqu'a Azeca et Maceda. 
 
 Et lorsqu'ils fuyaient devant les enfans d'Israel, et qu'ils 
 e'taient dans la descente de Beth-boron , le Seigneur fit lomber 
 du ciel de grosses pierres sur eux jusqu'a Azeca ; et cette 
 grele de pierres, qui tomba sur eux , en tua beaucoup plus 
 que les enfans d'Israel n'en avaient passe au fil de I'e'pe'e. 
 
 Alors Josue parla au Seigneur, en ce jour auquel il avail 
 Jivre les Amorrheens entre les mains des enfans d'Israel, el il 
 dit en leur presence : Soleil, arrete-loi sur Gabaon ; lune , 
 n'avance point sur la valle'e d'Aialon. 
 
 El le soleil et la lune s'arrelerenl jusqu'a ce que le peuple 
 se fut venge de ses enuemis. N'esl-ce pas ce qui esl e'cril au 
 livre des Justes? Lc soleil s'arreta done au milieu du ciel , el 
 ne se ba(a point de se coucher durant 1'espace d'un jour. 
 
 Et loule 1'arme'e revinl sans aucune perte et en meme 
 nombre vers Josue a Maceda, oil le camp de ce corps d'armce 
 <Uait alors ; et nul u'osa seulement ouvrir la boucbe cootre les 
 enfans d'Israel. 
 
 ( JOSUE 10. )
 
 And these are the countries which the children of Israel 
 inherited in the land of Canaan , which Eleazard the priest, 
 and Joshua the son of Nun , and the heads of (he fathers of 
 the Iribes of the children of Israel , distributed for inheritance 
 to them. By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord comman- 
 ded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribe, and^br the 
 half tribe. 
 
 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an 
 half tribe on the other side Jordan : but unto the Levites he 
 gave none inheritance among them. 
 
 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and 
 Ephraim : therefore they gave no part unto the Leviles in 
 the land, save cities to dwell in , with their suburbs for their 
 cattle and for their substance. 
 
 As the Lord commanded Moses , so the children of Israel 
 did, and they divided the land. 
 
 
 
 { JOSHUA.
 
 XL. 
 
 .Voici ce que les enfans d'Israel cul possede dans la Icrro 
 ile Chanaan, qu'Eleazar grand-prelre , Josue fiis de Nun , el 
 Jes princes des families de chaque tribu d'Israel distribuerent 
 aux neuf iribus et a la moitie de la tribu de Manatse , en 
 faisant tout le partnge au soi 1 ! , comme le Seigneur 1'avait 
 ordonne a Mo'ise. 
 
 Car Moise avait donne aux deux autres Iribus et a une 
 moilie de la Iribu de Manasse des lerres au-dela du Jourdain 
 sans comp'.er les leviles qui ne recurent point de terre comme 
 tous leurs freres. 
 
 Mais les enfans de Joseph, Manasse et Ephraim, divises 
 en deux tribus , succederent en leurs places ; et les Jevites 
 ii'eurent point d'aulre part dans la lerre de Cbanaan , rjue 
 des vilies pour y babiler , avec leurs faubourgs , pour nourrir 
 leurs beles et leurs troupeaux. 
 
 Les enfans d'Israel executerent ce que le Seigneur avait 
 ordonne a Moise, el ils narlagerent la ierre. 
 
 
 (Josri
 

 
 xu. 
 
 ; And Samuel did that which the Lord spake , and came (o 
 Belh-lehem. And the elders of the (own IremLIed at his 
 coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? 
 
 And he said, Peaceably : I am come to sacrifice unto the 
 Lord : sanctify yourselves , and come with me to the sacri- 
 fice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them 
 to the sacrifice. 
 
 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he look- 
 ed on Eliab, and said , Surely the Lord's anointed is before 
 him. 
 
 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his counte- 
 nance , or on the height of his stature ; because I have refused 
 him : for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh 
 on the outward appearance , but the Lord looketh on the heart. 
 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before 
 Samuel. And he said , Neither hath the Lord chosen this. 
 
 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said , Neither 
 hath the Lord chosen this. 
 
 Again , Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. 
 And Samuel said unto Jesse , The Lord hath not chosen these. 
 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all f/y children? 
 And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, 
 he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse , Send and 
 fetch him : for we will not sit down till he come hither. 
 
 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, 
 and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look 
 to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him : for this is he. 
 
 Then Samuel took the horn of oil , and anointed him 
 in the midst of his brethren : anil the Spirit of the Lord came 
 upon David from that day forward. 
 
 ( I KINGS i(i. )
 
 Samuel fit done ee que le Seigneur lui avail dit. II vint a 
 Beth-lehem, et Jes anciens de la ville en furent tout surpris : 
 i!s allcrent au-devant de lui , et lui dirent : Nous apporlez- 
 vous la paix ? 
 
 Et il leur repondit : Je vous apporte la paix : je suis venu 
 pour sacrifier au Seigneur. Purifiez-vous et venez avec moi, 
 afin que j'oflre la viclime. Samuel purifia done Isa'i et ses 
 fils, et les appela a son sacrifice. 
 
 El lorsqu'ils furent entres , Samuel dit en voyanTEIiab : 
 Est-ce la celui que le Seigneur a ehoisi pour elre son christ? 
 
 Le Seigneur dit a Samuel : N'ayez egard ni a sa Lonne 
 mine, ni a sa laille avantageuse par ce que je i'ai rejete, et 
 que je ne jiige pas des choses par ce qui en parait aux yeux 
 des hommes : car 1'homme ne voil que ce qui parail au de- 
 hors; mais le Seigneur regarde lefond du coeur. 
 
 Isa'i appela ensuite Abinadab , et le presenta a Samuel. Et 
 Samuel lui dit : Ce n'est point non plus celui-la que le Sei- 
 gneur a choisi. 
 
 11 lui presenta Samma ; et Samuel lui dit : Le Seigneur n'a 
 j>oint encore ehoisi celui-la. 
 
 Isa'i fit done venir ses sept fils devant Samuel ; Et Samuel 
 lut dit : Le seigneur n'en a ehoisi aucun de ceux-ei. 
 
 Alors Samuel dit ;i Isa'i : sont-ce la tous vos enfans ? Isai 
 Jui repondit : II en resle encore uu pelitqui garde Jes brebis. 
 Envoyez-le querir, dit Samuel : car nous ne nous mettrons 
 pas a table qu'il ne soil venu. 
 
 Isai 1'envoja done querir, el le present a a Samuel. Or il 
 etait roux , d'une mine avantageuse , el il avail le visage fort 
 beau. Le Seigneur lui dit : Sacrez-le presenlemeut, ear 
 c'esl celui-la. 
 
 Samuel prit done la corne pleine d'hiiilc , et il Je sacra au 
 milieu de ses freres : depnis ce (emps Kespril. du Seigneur fill 
 (oujours en David. 
 
 (1. Rois 1 6.)

 
 XLII. 
 
 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came 
 and drew nigh to meet David , lhal David hasted, and ran 
 toward the army to meet the Philistine. 
 
 And David put his hand in his bag, and look thence a 
 stone, and slang it , and smole the Philistine in his forehead, 
 that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his 
 face to the earth. 
 
 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and 
 with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but 
 there was no sword in the hand of David. 
 
 Therefore David ran , and stood upon the Philistine , and 
 look his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and 
 slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the 
 Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. 
 
 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, 
 and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the walley, 
 and to the gales of Ekron. And the wounded of the Phili- 
 stines, fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath , 
 and unto Ekron. 
 
 And Ihe children of Israel returned from chasing after the 
 Philistines, and they spoiled their tents. 
 
 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought 
 il to Jerusalem, but he put his armour in his tent.
 
 XL1I. 
 
 Le Philistin s'avanca done , et marcba conlre David. Et 
 lorsqu'il en fut proche , David se liala , et courut conlre lui 
 pour le combattre. 
 
 II mil la main dans sa panetiere, il en pril nne pierre , la 
 lancaavec sa fronde , et etf frappa le Pbilistin dans le front. 
 La pierre s'enfonca dans le front du Philistin , et il loniLa le 
 visage centre terre. 
 
 Ainsi David remporta la victoire sur le Pbilistin avec une. 
 fronde et une pierre seule .- il Je renversa par lerre et le lua. 
 Et comme il n'avait point d'epee a la main , il courut , et se 
 jela sur le Philislin : il prit son epe'e , la tira du fourreau , 
 et aclieva de lui oler la vie en lui coupant la tele. Les Philis- 
 tins, vojantque le plus vaillant d'entre eux e'lait mort , s'en- 
 fuirent. 
 
 Et les Israe'liles et ceux de Juda, s'elevant avec un grand 
 cri , les poursuivirent jusqu'a la valle'e et aux portes d'Acca- 
 jon. Et plusieurs des Pliilislins lomberenl perce's de coups 
 dans le chemin de Sara'im jusqu'a Gelh et Accaron. 
 
 Les enfans d'Israel, e'tant revenus apres avoir poursuivi 
 Jes Pliilislins, pillerent leur camp. 
 
 Et David pril la tete du Philislin, la poria a Jerusalem, 
 et niit sesarmes dans son lo<iement.
 
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