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17 Gernestlice ealle cneornyssa fram abrahame oððe dauid synd feowertene cneornyssa. & fram dauiðe oððe babilonis geleorednysse feortene cneornysse. & fram babilonis leorednysse. oð crist feortene cneornysse.
18 [Note: Cum esset desponsata mater iesu maria ioseph. H. R. ] Soðlice þus wæs cristes cneores. Ða þas hælendes moder Marie wæs iosepe beweddeð. ær hyo to-somne coman hyo wæs gemet on innoðe hæbbende of þam halge gaste.
19 Soðlice Ioseph hire wer. þa he wæs rihtwis. & nolde hyo mærsian. he wolde hye dygeliche forlæten.
20 Him þa soðliche þas þing þenchendum. drihtnes ængel on swefnum ateowede. & hym to cwæð. Ioseph dauiðes suna. nyle þu ondræden. marian þine gemæcchen to onfonne. þæt on hyre gekenned ys. hyt is of þan halgen gaste.
21 Witodliche hyo kenð sunu. & þu nemnest his name hælend. he soðlice his folc hal gedeð. fram heora synnen.
22 Soðlice eall þis wæs geworðan. þæt gefylled wære þæt fram drihtne gecwæðen wæs. þurh þanne witegan.
23 Soðlice. syo femne hæfð on innoþe. & hyo kend (sic) suna. & hyo nemneð hys name emmanuel. þæt ys gereht on ure þeode god mid üs.
24 Þa aras ioseph of swefne. & dyde swa drihtnes ængel him bebead & he on-feng hys mæcchen.
25 & he ne grette hye. Heo kende. hire frum-kennede sune & nemde his name hælend.