Genesis A, B

sibgebyrdum, þu min suhterga.

Ne sceolon unc betweonan teonan weaxan,

wroht wriðian-- ne þæt wille god!

Ac wit synt gemagas; unc gemæne ne sceal

elles awiht, nymþe eall tela

lufu langsumu. Nu þu, Loth, geþenc,

þæt unc modige ymb mearce sittað,

þeoda þrymfæste þegnum and gesiððum,

folc Cananea and Feretia,

rofum rincum. Ne willað rumor unc

landriht heora; forðon wit lædan sculon,

teon of þisse stowe, and unc staðolwangas

rumor secan. Ic ræd sprece,

bearn Arones, begra uncer,

soðne secge. Ic þe selfes dom

life, leofa. Leorna þe seolfa

and geþancmeta þine mode

on hwilce healfe þu wille hwyrft don,

cyrran mid ceape, nu ic þe cyst abead."

Him þa Loth gewat land sceawigan

be Iordane, grene eorðan.

Seo wæs wætrum weaht and wæstmum þeaht,

lagostreamum leoht, and gelic godes

neorxnawange, oðþæt nergend god

for wera synnum wylme gesealde

Sodoman and Gomorran, sweartan lige.

Him þa eard geceas and eðelsetl

sunu Arones on Sodoma byrig;

æhte sine ealle lædde,

beagas from Bethlem and botlgestreon,

welan, wunden gold. Wunode siððan

be Iordane geara mænego.

þær folcstede fægre wæron,

men arlease, metode laðe.

Wæron Sodomisc cynn synnum þriste,

dædum gedwolene; drugon heora selfra

ecne unræd. æfre ne wolde

þam leodþeawum Loth onfon,

ac he þære mægðe monwisan fleah,

þeah þe he on þam lande lifian sceolde,

facen and fyrene, and hine fægre heold,

þeawfæst and geþyldig on þam þeodscipe,

emne þon gelicost, lara gemyndig,

þe he ne cuðe hwæt þa cynn dydon.

Abraham wunode eðeleardum

Cananea forð. Hine cyning engla,

metod moncynnes mundbyrde heold,

wilna wæstmum and worulddugeðum,

lufum and lissum; forþon his lof secgað

wide under wolcnum wera cneorisse,

foldwonga bearn. He frean hyrde

estum on eðle, ðenden he eardes breac,

halig and higefrod; næfre hleowlora

æt edwihtan æfre weorðeð

feorhberendra forht and acol,

mon for metode, þe him æfter a

þurh gemynda sped mode and dædum,

worde and gewitte, wise þance,

oð his ealdorgedal oleccan wile.

ða ic aldor gefrægn Elamitarna

fromne folctogan, fyrd gebeodan,

Orlahomar; him Ambrafel

of Sennar side worulde

for on fultum. Gewiton hie feower þa

þeodcyningas þrymme micle

secan suð ðanon Sodoman and Gomorran.

þa wæs guðhergum be Iordane

wera eðelland wide geondsended,

folde feondum. Sceolde forht monig

blachleor ides bifiende gan

on fremdes fæðm; feollon wergend

bryda and beaga, bennum seoce.

Him þa togeanes mid guðþræce

fife foran folccyningas

sweotum suðon, woldon Sodome burh

wraðum werian; þa wintra XII

norðmonnum ær niede sceoldon

gombon gieldan and gafol sellan,

oðþæt þa leode leng ne woldon

Elamitarna aldor swiðan

folcgestreonum, ac him from swicon.

Foron þa tosomne (francan wæron hlude),

wraðe wælherigas. Sang se wanna fugel

under deoreðsceaftum, deawigfeðera,

hræs on wenan. Hæleð onetton

on mægencorðrum, modum þryðge,

oðþæt folcgetrume gefaren hæfdon

sid tosomne suðan and norðan,

helmum þeahte. þær wæs heard plega,

wælgara wrixl, wigcyrm micel,

hlud hildesweg. Handum brugdon

hæleð of scæðum hringmæled sweord,

ecgum dihtig. þær wæs eaðfynde

eorle orlegceap, se ðe ær ne wæs

niðes genihtsum. Norðmen wæron

suðfolcum swice; wurdon Sodomware

and Gomorre, goldes bryttan,

æt þæm lindcrodan leofum bedrorene,

fyrdgesteallum. Gewiton feorh heora

fram þam folcstyde fleame nergan,