Genesis A, B

samod samworht on Sennar stod.

Weox þa under wolcnum and wriðade

mægburh Semes, oðþæt mon awoc

on þære cneorisse, cynebearna rim,

þancolmod wer, þeawum hydig.

Wurdon þam æðelinge eaforan acende,

in Babilone bearn afeded

freolicu tu, and þa frumgaran,

hæleð higerofe, hatene wæron

Abraham and Aaron; þam eorlum wæs

frea engla bam freond and aldor.

ða wearð Aarone eafora feded,

leoflic on life, ðam wæs Loth noma.

ða magorincas metode geþungon,

Abraham and Loth, unforcuðlice,

swa him from yldrum æðelu wæron

on woruldrice; forðon hie wide nu

dugeðum demað drihtfolca bearn.

þa þæs mæles wæs mearc agongen

þæt him Abraham idese brohte,

wif to hame, þær he wic ahte,

fæger and freolic. Seo fæmne wæs

Sarra haten, þæs þe us secgeað bec.

Hie þa wintra fela woruld bryttedon,

sinc ætsomne, sibbe heoldon

geara mengeo. Nohwæðre gifeðe wearð

Abrahame þa gyt þæt him yrfeweard

wlitebeorht ides on woruld brohte,

Sarra Abrahame, suna and dohtra.

Gewat him þa mid cnosle ofer Caldea folc

feran mid feorme fæder Abrahames;

snotor mid gesibbum secean wolde

Cananea land. Hine cneowmægas,

metode gecorene mid siðedon

of þære eðeltyrf, Abraham and Loth.

Him þa cynegode on Carran

æðelinga bearn eard genamon,

weras mid wifum. On þam wicum his

fæder Abrahames feorh gesealde,

wærfæst hæle; wintra hæfde

twa hundteontig, geteled rime,

and fife eac, þa he forð gewat

misserum frod metodsceaft seon.

ða se halga spræc, heofonrices weard,

to Abrahame, ece drihten:

"Gewit þu nu feran and þine fare lædan,

ceapas to cnosle. Carran ofgif,

fæder eðelstol. Far, swa ic þe hate,

monna leofost, and þu minum wel

larum hyre, and þæt land gesec

þe ic þe ælgrene ywan wille,

brade foldan. þu gebletsad scealt

on mundbyrde minre lifigan.

Gif ðe ænig eorðbuendra

mid wean greteð, ic hine wergðo on

mine sette and modhete,

longsumne nið; lisse selle,

wilna wæstme þam þe wurðiað.

þurh þe eorðbuende ealle onfoð,

folcbearn freoðo and freondscipe,

blisse minre and bletsunge

on woruldrice. Wriðende sceal

mægðe þinre monrim wesan

swiðe under swegle sunum and dohtrum,

oðþæt fromcyme folde weorðeð,

þeodlond monig þine gefylled."

Him þa Abraham gewat æhte lædan

of Egipta eðelmearce,

gumcystum god, golde and seolfre

swiðfeorm and gesælig, swa him sigora weard,

waldend usser þurh his word abead,

ceapas from Carran; sohton Cananea

lond and leodgeard. þa com leof gode

on þa eðelturf idesa lædan,

swæse gebeddan and his suhtrian

wif on willan. Wintra hæfde

fif and hundseofontig ða he faran sceolde,

Carran ofgifan and cneowmagas.

Him þa feran gewat fæder ælmihtiges

lare gemyndig land sceawian

geond þa folcsceare be frean hæse

Abraham wide, oðþæt ellenrof

to Sicem com siðe spedig,

cynne Cananeis. þa hine cyning engla

Abrahame iewde selfa,

domfæst wereda and drihten cwæð:

"þis is seo eorðe þe ic ælgrene

tudre þinum torhte wille

wæstmum gewlo on geweald don,

rume rice." þa se rinc gode

wibed worhte and þa waldende

lifes leohtfruman lac onsægde

gasta helme. Him þa gyt gewat

Abraham eastan eagum wlitan

on landa cyst, (lisse gemunde

heofonweardes gehat, þa him þurh halig word

sigora selfcyning soð gecyðde),

oðþæt drihtweras duguþum geforan

þær is botlwela Bethlem haten.

Beorn bliðemod and his broðor sunu