Genesis A, B

forð oferforan folcmæro land

eastan mid æhtum, æfæste men

weallsteapan hleoðu, and him þa wic curon

þær him wlitebeorhte wongas geþuhton.

Abraham þa oðere siðe

wibed worhte. He þær wordum god

torhtum cigde, tiber onsægde

his liffrean, (him þæs lean ageaf

nalles hneawlice þurh his hand metend),

on þam gledstyde gumcystum til.

ðær ræsbora þrage siððan

wicum wunode and wilna breac,

beorn mid bryde, oðþæt brohþrea

Cananea wearð cynne getenge,

hunger se hearda, hamsittendum,

wælgrim werum. Him þa wishydig

Abraham gewat on Egypte,

drihtne gecoren, drohtað secan,

fleah wærfæst wean; wæs þæt wite to strang.

Abraham maðelode, geseah Egypta

hornsele hwite and hea byrig

beorhte blican; ongan þa his bryd frea,

wishydig wer, wordum læran:

"Siððan Egypte eagum moton

on þinne wlite wlitan wlance monige,

þonne æðelinga eorlas wenað,

mæg ælfscieno, þæt þu min sie

beorht gebedda, þe wile beorna sum

him geagnian. Ic me onegan mæg

þæt me wraðra sum wæpnes ecge

for freondmynde feore beneote.

Saga þu, Sarra, þæt þu sie sweostor min,

lices mæge, þonne þe leodweras

fremde fricgen hwæt sie freondlufu

ellðeodigra uncer twega,

feorren cumenra. þu him fæste hel

soðan spræce; swa þu minum scealt

feore gebeorgan, gif me freoðo drihten

on woruldrice, waldend usser,

an ælmihtig, swa he ær dyde,

lengran lifes. Se us þas lade sceop,

þæt we on Egiptum are sceolde

fremena friclan and us fremu secan."

þa com ellenrof eorl siðian,

Abraham mid æhtum on Egypte,

þær him folcweras fremde wæron,

wine uncuðe. Wordum spræcon

ymb þæs wifes wlite wlonce monige,

dugeðum dealle; him drihtlicu mæg,

on wlite modgum mænegum ðuhte,

cyninges þegnum. Hie þæt cuð dydon

heora folcfrean þæt fægerro lyt

for æðelinge idesa sunnon,

ac hie Sarran swiðor micle,

wynsumne wlite wordum heredon,

oðþæt he lædan heht leoflic wif to

his selfes sele. Sinces brytta,

æðelinga helm heht Abrahame

duguðum stepan. Hwæðere drihten wearð,

frea Faraone fah and yrre

for wifmyne; þæs wraðe ongeald

hearde mid hiwum hægstealdra wyn.

Ongæt hwæðere gumena aldor

hwæt him waldend wræc witeswingum;

heht him Abraham to egesum geðreadne

brego Egipto, and his bryd ageaf,

wif to gewealde; heht him wine ceosan,

ellor æðelingas, oðre dugeðe.

Abead þa þeodcyning þegnum sinum,

ombihtscealcum, þæt hie hine arlice

ealles onsundne eft gebrohten

of þære folcsceare, þæt he on friðe wære.

ða Abraham æhte lædde

of Egypta eðelmearce;

hie ellenrofe idese feredon,

bryd and begas, þæt hie to Bethlem

on cuðe wic ceapas læddon,

eadge eorðwelan oðre siðe,

wif on willan and heora woruldgestreon.

Ongunnon him þa bytlian and heora burh ræran,

and sele settan, salo niwian.

Weras on wonge wibed setton

neah þam þe Abraham æror rærde

his waldende þa westan com.

þær se eadga eft ecan drihtnes

niwan stefne noman weorðade;

tilmodig eorl tiber onsægde

þeodne engla, þancode swiðe

lifes leohtfruman lisse and ara.

Wunedon on þam wicum, hæfdon wilna geniht

Abraham and Loth. Ead bryttedon,

oðþæt hie on þam lande ne meahton leng somed

blædes brucan and heora begra þær

æhte habban, ac sceoldon arfæste,

þa rincas þy rumor secan

ellor eðelseld. Oft wæron teonan

wærfæstra wera weredum gemæne,

heardum hearmplega. þa se halga ongan

ara gemyndig Abraham sprecan

fægre to Lothe: "Ic eom fædera þin