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

Đys [godspel] sceal tō hāligra fǣmnena mæssedæge. 1. Þonne byþ heofena rīce gelīc þām tȳn fǣmnum þe ðā lēohtfatu nāmon, and fērdon ongēn þone brȳdguman and þā brȳde. [1]
2. Hyra fīf wǣron dysige, and fīf glēawe. [2]
3. Ac þā fīf dysegan nāmon lēohtfatu, and ne nāmon nānne ele mid hym; [3]
4. ðā glēawan nāmon ele on hyra fatum mid þām lēohtfatum.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Ānymaþ þæt pund æt hym, and syllað þām þe mē ðā tȳn pund brōhte.
29. Witodlīce [27] ǣlcon þǣra þe hæfð man sylþ, and hē hæfð genōh; ðām þe næfð, þæt hym þincð þæt hē hæbbe, þæt hym byð ætbrōdyn. [28]
30. And wurpað þone unnyttan þēowan on þā ūttran þȳstru; þǣr byð wōp and tōþa grīstbitung. [29]
Đys [godspel] sceal on mōnandæg on forman fæstendæg. 31. Witudlīce þonne mannes Sunu cymð on hys mægenþrymme, and ealle englas mid him, þonne sitt hē ofer hys mægenþrymmes setl.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

And ealle þēoda bēoþ tōforan hym gegaderude; and hē āsyndrað hī hym betwȳnan, swā swā sē hyrde āsyndraþ ðā scēp fram tyccenum; [31]
33. and hē gesett þā scēp on hys swīðran healfe, and þā tyccenu on hys wynsteran healfe. [32]
34. [Đonne cwið sē Cyning tō ðām þe on his swīðran healfe bēoð,] Cumað gē geblētsode mīnes Fæder, and onfōð þæt rīce þæt ēow gegearwod ys of middaneardes frymþe. [33]
35. Mē hingrode, and gē mē sealdon etan; mē þyrste, and gē mē sealdun drincan; ic wæs cuma, and gē mē in laþodon
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