The People Are Afraid

Ne ſlo ðu nogt wið hond ne wil,
Ne rend, ne beat nogt wið vn-ſkil;
Help de nedful, ðat he ne be dead

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for truke of ðin helpe an[d] read.
Sixth Commandment.

Oc horedom ðat ðu ne do,
Ne wend no lecherie to.
Seventh Commandment.

Loke ðe wel ðat ðu ne ſtele,

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Ne reflac, ne ðefte, for-hele.
[Fol. 68b.]
Eighth Commandment.

Falſe witneſſe ðat ðu ne bere,
Ne wið ðe leſe non ma[n] ne dere.
Ninth Commandment.

Ne giſce ðu nog[t] ðin neſtes ðing,

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Huſ, ne agte, ne wif, in ðin giſcing;
For if ðu it gernes and giſſe,
ðu tines vn-ended bliſce."
Tenth Commandment.

Ðiſ for-frigted folc figeren ſtod,

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dredful, and bleð, and ſori mod;
Herden ðat dredful beames blaſt,
Sogen ðat figer, dred held hem faſt.
ðo ſeiden he to moyſen,
The Israelites at the foot of the mount are in great dread and fear.

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"Be ðu nu god and us bi-twen,
Her nu quat god ſal more queðen,
And tellet uſ ſiðen her bi-neðen."
And moyſes ſteg up a-non,
They intreat Moses to stand between them and God.

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God hem bad bodes manige on
And lages; and hu he ſulen maken
ðe tabernacle, and wor-of taken
God gave to Moses many commandments and laws,

ðe gold, and ſiluer, and ðe bras,

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ðe ſyðen don ðor-on was,
And nemeld it beſeel,
instructed him concerning the making of the Tabernacle,

And two oðere to maken it wel;
And gaf to tabeles of ſton,

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And .x. bodeword writen ðor-on.
and gave him two tables of stone upon which were written the Ten Commandments.

Ðor quiles moyſes was up wið gode,
And liſtenede al ðat leue bode,
[Fol. 69.]

MS. for for hele.

MS. dat.

MS. ma.

MS. dor-on.

two?