Iivesi zeBhayibhile ezithandwayo ezisuka Matthew 1

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“And she sal bring forth a son, and ye shall caʼ his name JESUS; for he sal save his folk frae their sins.”

“Tak tent! a maiden sal be wiʼ bairn, and sal bring forth a son; and they wull caʼ his name Emmanuel,” whilk is, translatit, “God wiʼ us.”

But as he had thir things in his mind, see! an Angel oʼ the Lord appearit till him by a dream, sayin, “Joseph, son oʼ Dauvid, binna feared to tak till ye yere wife, Mary; for that whilk is begotten in her is by the Holie Spirit.

Noo the nativitie oʼ Jesus Christ was thisgate: whan his mither Mary was mairryʼt till Joseph, ʼor they cam thegither, she was fund wiʼ bairn oʼ the Holie Spirit. Than her guidman, Joseph, bein an upricht man, and no desirin her name soud be iʼthe mooth oʼ the public, was ettlin to pit her awaʼ hidlins.