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Ocelot II

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12. There are many versions. I vote for the Wycliffe Bible. It's in Middle English
Thu Jun 27, 2024, 01:47 PM
Jun 2024

and would be almost completely unintelligible to the average Oklahoma schoolchild.

1 In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe. 2 Forsothe the erthe was idel and voide, and derknessis weren on the face of depthe; and the Spiryt of the Lord was borun on the watris. 3 And God seide, Liyt be maad, and liyt was maad. 4 And God seiy the liyt, that it was good, and he departide the liyt fro derknessis, 5 and he clepide the liyt, dai, and the derknessis, nyyt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie. 6 And God seide, The firmament be maad in the myddis of watris, and departe watris fro watris. 7 And God made the firmament, and departide the watris that weren vndur the firmament fro these watris that weren on the firmament; and it was don so. 8 And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Wycliffe)/Genesis

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