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 3508 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, 3512 Ne reflac, ne ðefte, for-hele.324 | [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, 3516 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, 3520 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. |
| 3524 “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. |
| 3528 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, 3532 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, 3536 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.] |
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two?
Notes
324 MS. for for hele.