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

“ Đā cwæþ hē, Hwylce? Đā cwæð sē Hǣlend, Ne dō þū mannslyht; Ne dō þū unrihthǣmed; Ne stel þū; Ne sege þū lēase gewittnysse; [18]
19. Wurða þīnne fæder and mōdor; and, Lufa þīnne nēhstan swā þē sylfne. [19]
20. Þā cwæð sē geonga, Eall þiss ic gehēold; hwæt ys mē gȳt wana? [20]
21. Đā cwæð sē Hǣlend, Gyf þū wylt bēon fullfremed, gā and becȳp eall þæt þū āhst, and syle hyt þearfum, and þonne hæfst þū goldhord on heofone; and cum and folga mē.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

“ Witodlīce sē Hǣlend cwæð tō hys leorningcnihtum, Sōþlīce ic ēow secge, Þæt earfoðlīce sē welega gǣð on Godes rīce.
24. And eft ic ēow secge, Þæt eaðelīcre byð þām olfende tō gānne þurh nǣdle ēage, þonne sē welega on heofona rīce gā. [23]
25. Đā hys leorningcnihtas þis gehȳrdon, hig wundrodun and cwǣdon, Hwā mæg þis gehealdan? [24]
26. Þā cwæð sē Hǣlend, Unēaþelīc þæt ys mid mannum; ac ealle þing synt mid Gode ēaþelīce.
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