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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Þā ne geandswarode hē hyre. Þā genēalǣhton hys leorningcnihtas, and him tō cwǣdon, Forlǣt hig; for þām hēo clypað æfter ūs.
24. Đā andswarode hē, Ne eom ic āsend, būton tō þām scēapum þe forwurdon of Israhela hūse. [21]
25. Đā cōm hēo, and hig tō him gebæd and þus cwæð, Drihten, gefylst mē. [22]
26. Đā cwæð hē, Nys hit nā gōd þæt man nime bearna hlāf and hundum wurpe. [23]
27. Þā cwæþ hēo, Drihten, þæt ys sōð; witodlīce þā hwelpas etað of þām crumum þe of hyra hlāforda bēodum feallaþ. [24]
28. Þā andswarode Drihten hyre, Ēalā þū wīf, mycel ys þīn gelēafa; gewurþe þē eal swā þū wylle.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Hwī forgȳmað þīne leorningcnihtas ūre yldrena lage? ne þwēað hī hyra handa, þonne hig mete þicgeað. [1]
3. Đā andsworode hē him, And hwī forgȳme gē Godes bebod for ēowre lage? [2]
4. Witodlīce God cwæþ, Wurþa þīnne fæder and mōdor; and, Sē þe wyrgð hys fæder and mōdor, swelte sē dēaþe. [3]
5. Sōþlīce gē cweðaþ, Swā hwylc swā segð hys fæder and mēder, Swā hwylc lāc swā of mē is fremaþ þē
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