Genesis A, B

gleaw to þam gielde, and þa gode selfum

torhtmod hæle tiber onsægde,

cyninge engla. Huru cuð dyde

nergend usser, þa he Noe

gebletsade and his bearn somed,

þæt he þæt gyld on þanc agifen hæfde

and on geogoðhade godum dædum

ær geearnod þæt him ealra wæs

ara este ælmihtig god,

domfæst dugeþa. þa gyt drihten cwæð,

wuldris aldor word to Noe:

"Tymað nu and tiedrað, tires brucað,

mid gefean fryðo; fyllað eorðan,

eall geiceað. Eow is eðelstol

and holmes hlæst and heofonfuglas

and wildu deor on geweald geseald,

eorðe ælgrene and eacen feoh.

Næfre ge mid blode beodgereordu

unarlice eowre þicgeað,

besmiten mid synne sawldreore.

ælc hine selfa ærest begrindeð

gastes dugeðum þæra þe mid gares orde

oðrum aldor oðþringeð. Ne ðearf he þy edleane gefeon

modgeþance, ac ic monnes feorh

to slagan sece swiðor micle,

and to broðor banan, þæs þe blodgyte,

wællfyll weres wæpnum gespedeð,

morð mid mundum. Monn wæs to godes

anlicnesse ærest gesceapen.

ælc hafað magwlite metodes and engla

þara þe healdan wile halige þeawas.

Weaxað and wridað, wilna brucað,

ara on eorðan; æðelum fyllað

eowre fromcynne foldan sceatas,

teamum and tudre. Ic eow treowa þæs

mine selle, þæt ic on middangeard

næfre egorhere eft gelæde,

wæter ofer widland. Ge on wolcnum þæs

oft and gelome andgiettacen

magon sceawigan, þonne ic scurbogan

minne iewe, þæt ic monnum þas

wære gelæste, þenden woruld standeð."

ða wæs se snotra sunu Lamehes

of fere acumen flode on laste

mid his eaforum þrim, yrfes hyrde

(and heora feower wif;

nemde wæron Percoba, Olla,

Olliua, Olliuani),

wærfæst metode, wætra lafe.

Hæleð hygerofe hatene wæron,

suna Noes Sem and Cham,

Iafeð þridda. From þam gumrincum

folc geludon and gefylled wearð

eall þes middangeard monna bearnum.

ða Noe ongan niwan stefne

mid hleomagum ham staðelian

and to eorðan him ætes tilian;

won and worhte, wingeard sette,

seow sæda fela, sohte georne

þa him wlitebeorhte wæstmas brohte,

geartorhte gife, grene folde.

ða þæt geeode, þæt se eadega wer

on his wicum wearð wine druncen,

swæf symbelwerig, and him selfa sceaf

reaf of lice. Swa gerysne ne wæs,

læg þa limnacod. He lyt ongeat

þæt him on his inne swa earme gelamp,

þa him on hreðre heafodswima

on þæs halgan hofe heortan clypte.

Swiðe on slæpe sefa nearwode

þæt he ne mihte on gemynd drepen

hine handum self mid hrægle wryon

and sceome þeccan, swa gesceapu wæron

werum and wifum, siððan wuldres þegn

ussum fæder and meder fyrene sweorde

on laste beleac lifes eðel.

þa com ærest Cam in siðian,

eafora Noes, þær his aldor læg,

ferhðe forstolen. þær he freondlice

on his agenum fæder are ne wolde

gesceawian, ne þa sceonde huru

hleomagum helan, ac he hlihende

broðrum sægde, hu se beorn hine

reste on recede. Hie þa raðe stopon,

heora andwlitan in bewrigenum

under loðum listum, þæt hie leofum men

geoce gefremede; gode wæron begen,

Sem and Iafeð. ða of slæpe onbrægd

sunu Lamehes, and þa sona ongeat

þæt him cynegodum Cham ne wolde,

þa him wæs are þearf, ænige cyðan

hyldo and treowa. þæt þam halgan wæs

sar on mode, ongan þa his selfes bearn

wordum wyrgean, cwæð, he wesan sceolde

hean under heofnum, hleomaga þeow,

Cham on eorþan; him þa cwyde syððan

and his fromcynne frecne scodon.

þa nyttade Noe siððan

mid sunum sinum sidan rices

ðreohund wintra þisses lifes,