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

Ðū sōþlīce, þonne þū ðē gebidde, gang intō þīnum hēdclyfan, and þīnre dura belocenre, bide þīnne Fæder on dīhlum; and þīn Fæder þe gesyhð on dīhlum hyt āgylt þē. [7]
7. Sōðlīce þonne gē ēow gebiddon, nelle gē sprecan fela, swā swā hǣðene; hig wēnað þæt hī sīn gehȳrede on hyra menigfealdan spǣce. [8]
8. Nellen gē eornostlīce him geefenlǣcan; sōðlīce ēower Fæder wāt hwæt ēow þearf ys ǣr þām þe gē hyne biddað. [9]
9. Eornustlīce gebiddað ēow ðus: Fæder ūre þū þe eart on heofonum, Sī þīn nama gehālgod. [10]
10. Tōbecume þīn rīce. Gewurþe ðīn willa on eorðan swā swā on heofonum.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Eornustlīce þonne þū þīne ælmessan sylle, ne blāwe man bȳman beforan þē, swā līceteras dōð on gesomnungum and on wīcum þæt hī sīn geārwurþode fram mannum. Sōð ic secge ēow, Hī onfēngon hyra mēde. [2]
3. Sōþlīce þonne þū þīne ælmessan dō, nyte þīn wynstre hwæt dō þīn swȳþre; [3]
4. þæt þīn ælmesse sȳ on dīglum, and þīn Fæder hit āgylt þē sē þe gesyhþ on dīglum. [4]
5. And þonne gē ēow gebiddon, ne bēo gē swylce līceteras; þā lufiað þæt hig gebiddon hī, standende on gesomnungum and [on] [5] strǣta hyrnum þæt men hig gesēon. Sōþ ic secge ēow, Hig onfēngon hyra mēde.
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