on ēastdǣle, and wē cōmon ūs him tō geēadmēdenne.[1]
3. Ðā Herodes þæt gehȳrde, ðā wearð hē gedrēfed and eal Hierosolimwaru mid him.[2]
4. And þā gegaderode Herodes ealle ealdras þǣra sācerda and folces wrīteras, and āxode hwǣr Crīst ācenned wǣre.[3]
5. Đā sǣdon hī him. On Iudeiscere Bethlem; witodlīce þus ys āwriten þurh þone wītegan,[4]
6. And þū Bethleem, Iudea land, witodlīce ne eart þū lǣst on Iuda ealdrum; of ðē forð gǣð sē heretoga sē þe recð mīn folc Israhel.[5]
7. Herodes þā clypode on sundersprǣce ðā tungelwītegan, and befrān hī georne hwænne sē steorra him ætēowde.[6]
8. And hē āsende hī tō Bethlem, and ðus cwæð, Farað and āxiað geornlīce be þām cilde; and þonne gē hyt gemētað, cȳþað eft mē, þæt ic cume and mē tō him gebidde.[7]
9. Đā hī þæt gebod gehȳrdon, þā fērdon hī; and sōþlīce sē steorra þe hī on ēastdǣle gesāwon him beforan fērde, oð hē stōd ofer þǣr þæt cild wæs.[8]