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

Ēadige synt þā þe ēhtnysse þoliað for rihtwīsnysse, for þām þe hyra ys heofonan rīce. [8]
11. Ēadige synt gē þonne hī wyriað ēow, and ēhtað ēow, and secgeað ǣlc yfel ongēn ēow, lēogende for mē. [9]
12. Geblissiað and gefægniað, for þām þe ēower mēd ys mycel on heofonum; swā hī ēhton þā wītegan þe beforan ēow wǣron. [10]
13. Gē synt eorþan sealt; gyf þæt sealt āwyrð on þām þe hit [gesylt bið, hit] ne mæg syððan tō nāhte, būton þæt hit sȳ ūt āworpen, and sȳ fram mannum fortreden. [11]
14. Gē synt middaneardes lēoht. Ne mæg sēo ceaster bēon behȳd þe byð uppan munt āset.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Nē hī ne ǣlað hyra [13] lēohtfæt, and hit under cȳfe settað, ac ofer candelstæf þæt hit onlīhte eallum þe on þām hūse synt. [14]
16. Swā onlīhte ēower lēoht beforan mannum þæt hī gesēon ēowre gōdan weorc, and wuldrian ēowerne Fæder þe on heofenum ys. [15]
Ðys godspel sceal on þone ōðerne wōdnesdæg ofer pentecosten. 17. Nelle gē wēnan þæt ic cōme tōwurpan þā ǣ, oððe þā wītegan; ne cōm ic nā tōwurpan, ac gefyllan. [16]
18. Sōþes on eornost ic secge ēow, Ǣr þām gewīte heofon and eorðe, ān i oððe ān prica ne gewīt fram þǣre ǣ, ǣr þām ealle þing gewurðan.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Gē gehȳrdon þæt on ealdum cwydum gecweden wæs, Ne unrihthǣme ðū; [26]
28. sōðlīce ic secge ēow þæt ǣlc þǣra þe wīf gesyhð and hyre gewylnað eallunga, þæt sē gesyngað on hys heortan. [27]
29. Gyf þīn swȳðre ēage þē ǣswicie, āhola hit ūt, and āwurp hyt fram þē; sōðlīce þē ys betere þæt ān þīnra lima forwurþe, þonne eal þīn līchama sī on helle āsend. [28]
30. And gyf þīn swīðre hand þē āswīce, āceorf hī of, and āwurp hī fram þē; witodlīce þē ys betere þæt ān þīnra lima forwurðe, þonne eal þīn līchama fare tō helle. [29]
Ðis [godspel] sceal on wōdnesdæg on þǣre xvi. wucan ofer pentecosten. 31.
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