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3 & he com into eall Iordanes riche bodiende. deadbote fulluht & synne for-gyfenesse
4 swa hit awriten ys on ysaias bech þas witegan. Clepiende stefn on westene. ge-garewiað drihtenes weig dod his siðas rihte.
5 Ælch dane beoð ge-feld. & ælch munt & beorh beoð ge-niðered. & þwuru beoð on ge-rihte. & ungerydu on smeðe weges.
6 & ælc flæsc ge-sihð godes hæle.
7 Soðlice he cwæð to þam mægen þe ferden þæt hyo wæren fullode fram hym. Eale næddrene kyn hwa atewedo (sic) eow þæt ge fleon fram þam towearde eorre.
8 Doð eornestlice deadbote wæstmes. & ne on-ginnen ge cweðen. we hæbbed us to fader abraham. Ich segge eow þæt god is swa mihtig þæt he maig of þisen stanen abrahames bearn aweccan.
9 Nu ys syo æx asett. to þas treowas wirtrumen. Witodlice ælch treow þe ne brincd godne wæstme beoð for-corfan & on fyr aworpen.
10 Ða axoden hine þa manige & cwæðen; hwæt do we.
11 Þa cwæð he to heom. se þe hafð twege tunekan. sylle þam þe næfð. & þam ge-lice do se þe metes hæfð
12 Ða comen þa manfulle þæt hy aþwegene wæren. & cwæðen to hym lareow hwæt do we.
13 Þa cwæð he ne do ge naht mare þanne þæt eow ge-sett ys.
14 Ða axoseden (sic) hine þa cempan & cwæðen. & hwæt do we. Þa sæde he heom. ne sla ge nanne man. Ne täle ne doð. & beoð eð-healde on eowren andlyfenum.
15 Soðlice þam folce wenenden & eallen on heore heorten þencenden be Iohanne hwæder he crist wære.
16 Ða andswerede Iohannes heom eallen seggenden. Witodlice ic eow an watere fullige. Soðlice kymð strengre þanne ich; þas ich nem wurðe þæt ich hys scoþwang un-cnytte. Heo eow fulled on halgen gaste. & on fyre.
17 & his fann is on his handa. & he fermed hys bernes flore. & gadered hys hwæte in-to hys berne. þæt chæf he for-bernð on un-acwenctelice fyre.