Genesis A, B
- 500
and þin modsefa mara wurde,
- 501
and þin lichoma leohtra micle,
- 502
þin gesceapu scenran, cwæð þæt þe æniges sceattes ðearf
- 503
ne wurde on worulde. Nu þu willan hæfst,
- 504
hyldo geworhte heofoncyninges,
- 505
to þance geþenod þinum hearran,
- 506
hæfst þe wið drihten dyrne geworhtne. Ic gehyrde hine þine dæd and word
- 507
lofian on his leohte and ymb þin lif sprecan.
- 508
Swa þu læstan scealt þæt on þis land hider
- 509
his bodan bringað. Brade synd on worulde
- 510
grene geardas, and god siteð
- 511
on þam hehstan heofna rice,
- 512
ufan alwalda. Nele þa earfeðu
- 513
sylfa habban þæt he on þysne sið fare,
- 514
gumena drihten, ac he his gingran sent
- 515
to þinre spræce. Nu he þe mid spellum het
- 516
listas læran. Læste þu georne
- 517
his ambyhto, nim þe þis ofæt on hand,
- 518
bit his and byrige. þe weorð on þinum breostum rum,
- 519
wæstm þy wlitegra. þe sende waldend god,
- 520
þin hearra þas helpe of heofonrice."
- 521
Adam maðelode þær he on eorðan stod,
- 522
selfsceafte guma: "þonne ic sigedrihten,
- 523
mihtigne god, mæðlan gehyrde
- 524
strangre stemne, and me her stondan het,
- 525
his bebodu healdan, and me þas bryd forgeaf,
- 526
wlitesciene wif, and me warnian het
- 527
þæt ic on þone deaðes beam bedroren ne wurde,
- 528
beswicen to swiðe, he cwæð þæt þa sweartan helle
- 529
healdan sceolde se ðe bi his heortan wuht
- 530
laðes gelæde. Nat þeah þu mid ligenum fare
- 531
þurh dyrne geþanc þe þu drihtnes eart
- 532
boda of heofnum. Hwæt, ic þinra bysna ne mæg,
- 533
worda ne wisna wuht oncnawan,
- 534
siðes ne sagona. Ic wat hwæt he me self bebead,
- 535
nergend user, þa ic hine nehst geseah;
- 536
he het me his word weorðian and wel healdan,
- 537
læstan his lare. þu gelic ne bist
- 538
ænegum his engla þe ic ær geseah,
- 539
ne þu me oðiewdest ænig tacen
- 540
þe he me þurh treowe to onsende,
- 541
min hearra þurh hyldo. þy ic þe hyran ne cann,
- 542
ac þu meaht þe forð faran. Ic hæbbe me fæstne geleafan
- 543
up to þam ælmihtegan gode þe me mid his earmum worhte,
- 544
her mid handum sinum. He mæg me of his hean rice
- 545
geofian mid goda gehwilcum, þeah he his gingran ne sende."
- 546
Wende hine wraðmod þær he þæt wif geseah
- 547
on eorðrice Euan stondan,
- 548
sceone gesceapene, cwæð þæt sceaðena mæst
- 549
eallum heora eaforum æfter siððan
- 550
wurde on worulde: "Ic wat, inc waldend god
- 551
abolgen wyrð, swa ic him þisne bodscipe
- 552
selfa secge, þonne ic of þys siðe cume
- 553
ofer langne weg, þæt git ne læstan wel
- 554
hwilc ærende swa he easten hider
- 555
on þysne sið sendeð. Nu sceal he sylf faran
- 556
to incre andsware; ne mæg his ærende
- 557
his boda beodan; þy ic wat þæt he inc abolgen wyrð,
- 558
mihtig on mode. Gif þu þeah minum wilt,
- 559
wif willende, wordum hyran,
- 560
þu meaht his þonne rume ræd geþencan.
- 561
Gehyge on þinum breostum þæt þu inc bam twam meaht
- 562
wite bewarigan, swa ic þe wisie.
- 563
æt þisses ofetes! þonne wurðað þin eagan swa leoht
- 564
þæt þu meaht swa wide ofer woruld ealle
- 565
geseon siððan, and selfes stol
- 566
herran þines, and habban his hyldo forð.
- 567
Meaht þu Adame eft gestyran,
- 568
gif þu his willan hæfst and he þinum wordum getrywð.
- 569
Gif þu him to soðe sægst hwylce þu selfa hæfst
- 570
bisne on breostum, þæs þu gebod godes
- 571
lare læstes, he þone laðan strið,
- 572
yfel andwyrde an forlæteð
- 573
on breostcofan, swa wit him bu tu
- 574
an sped sprecað. Span þu hine georne
- 575
þæt he þine lare læste, þy læs gyt lað gode,
- 576
incrum waldende, weorðan þyrfen.
- 577
Gif þu þæt angin fremest, idesa seo betste,
- 578
forhele ic incrum herran þæt me hearmes swa fela
- 579
Adam gespræc, eargra worda.
- 580
Tyhð me untryowða, cwyð þæt ic seo teonum georn,
- 581
gramum ambyhtsecg, nales godes engel.
- 582
Ac ic cann ealle swa geare engla gebyrdo,
- 583
heah heofona gehlidu; wæs seo hwil þæs lang
- 584
þæt ic geornlice gode þegnode
- 585
þurh holdne hyge, herran minum,
- 586
drihtne selfum; ne eom ic deofle gelic."
- 587
Lædde hie swa mid ligenum and mid listum speon
- 588
idese on þæt unriht, oðþæt hire on innan ongan
- 589
weallan wyrmes geþeaht, (hæfde hire wacran hige
- 590
metod gemearcod), þæt heo hire mod ongan
- 591
lætan æfter þam larum; forþon heo æt þam laðan onfeng
- 592
ofer drihtnes word deaðes beames
- 593
weorcsumne wæstm. Ne wearð wyrse dæd
- 594
monnum gemearcod! þæt is micel wundor
- 595
þæt hit ece god æfre wolde
- 596
þeoden þolian, þæt wurde þegn swa monig
- 597
forlædd be þam lygenum þe for þam larum com.
- 598
Heo þa þæs ofætes æt, alwaldan bræc
- 599
word and willan. þa meahte heo wide geseon
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