Noe

Noe wæs, be Biblioþēce, an æftercyn of Adames, þæs forma menn. His spell stent on þǣre bōc þe hātte Genesis, and is ānra þāra mǣst gecūþra saga on crīstenum ġelēafan. Þēos saga is oft ġetald swā sōþre ġedōn, ac hēo hæfþ ġelīcnesse myþa and folcġedwimores.

Sēo saga be þǣm flōde

Be þǣre bibliscan lār God sæde Noe þæt hē sceolde timbran micel scip, þæt arc ġehāten, tō gehealdanne hine sylfne, his wīf, and his þrēo bearn, Sem, Ham, and Japheth, mid heora wīfum, and ēac ælc cyn landes deora and fugela. Folc Noe bysmrode, ac hē ġehyrsumode þǣre bebode.

On Noes six hund wintra līfe, on ðǣm oðrum mōnþe and on ðone seofonteoðan dæġ, asprungon, be þǣre saga, ealle wyllspringas ðǣre miclan nywelnysse, and hit rinde feowertig daga and feowertig nihta ofer eorðan. Æfter langre tīde geswac se ren, þā wæteru ætglidon, and þæt arc landode on Ararat muntum. Noe and his mǣgðe þā ut ēodon, and hi gesāwon renboga, þone þe se God, be lār, set tō behāte.

Æfter þǣm flōde

Be þǣre ilcan saga Noes mǣgð and ealle nytenu eft eorðan gefyldon. Þæt mihte nānre wīsan ġelimpan būtan þurh sibbe mid sibbe, þæt is þurh ġehæftnesse nāhġenġra mǣga.

Biblisc cita

Biblisc cita (Genesis):^[1]

7. 1. And God cwæð to him: Gang in to ðam arce ⁊ eal ðin hiwræden, ðe ic geseah soðlice rihtwisne ætforan me on þisre mægðe. 2. Nim in to ðe of eallum clænum nytenum seofan ⁊ seofau aegðres gecyndes ⁊ of unclænum twam ⁊ twam. 3. ⁊ of fugelcynne seofan ⁊ seofan ægðres gecyndes, ⁊ sæd si gehealden ofer ealre eorðan bradnysse! 4. Ic soðlice sende ren nu enbe seofan niht ofer eorðan feowertig daga ⁊ feowertig nihta togædere ⁊ ic adylegie ealle ða edwiste, ðe ic worhte ofer eorðan bradnysse. 5. Noe ða dyde ealle ða ðinge ðe him God bebead.
8. 1 ⁊ God ða gemunde Noes fare ⁊ ðæra nytena ðe him mid wæron, ⁊ asende wind ofer eorðan, ⁊ ða wæteru wurdon gewanode. 2. ⁊ ða wylspringa ðært miclan nywelnysse wurdon fordytte ⁊ ðære heofonan wæterðeotan, ⁊ se ren wearð forboden. 18. Noe ða ut eode of ðan arce, ⁊ hi ealle ofer eorðan.

Sōþfæstnes

Þēos saga is folces fantasiġ and myþ, nā sōþ ġedōn. Noes līf, þæt hē sīe six hund wintra lange, ne ġelīcþ nānre ġesēon ne ġecyndelīcum cræfte. Swelċra aldordōmes and swelċes flōdes is nān andġitlic ġetācnung on þǣre worulde, ac mānað tō ġelēafan, nā tō wīsdōme.

Fruman

↑ The Old English Version of The Heptateuch, Aelfric’s Treatise on the Old and New Testament, and his Preface to Genesis

[1] The Old English Version of The Heptateuch, Aelfric’s Treatise on the Old and New Testament, and his Preface to Genesis

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