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SiteBasic Anglo-Saxon English
LanguageBasic Anglo-Saxon English
Language SubtitleBASE
Year1995
TranslatorJeffrey Henning
IntroductionBasic Anglo-Saxon English is a simplification of Ogden's Basic English, but with a vocabulary limited only to Modern English words derived from Anglo-Saxon terms. Think of it as English purged of the Romance: Unromantic English. Italicized text has been changed from the Basic English translation.
Verse 1And all the earth had one speech and one tongue.
Verse 2And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat land in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
Verse 3And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Verse 4And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the side of the earth.
Verse 5And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
Verse 6And the Lord said, See, they are all one folk and have all one speech; and this is only the start of what they may do; and now anything they try to do will not be kept from them.
Verse 7Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their speech, so that they will not be able to make themselves understood to one another.
Verse 8So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth; and they gave up building their town.
Verse 9So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the meaning of all tongues; and from there the Lord sent them away over all the side of the earth.
Notes 1Adapted by Jeffrey Henning, on October 9th, 1995, from the Basic English translation in The Bible In Basic English, first published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press (London and New York) in 1949.
Submitted ByJeffrey Henning
Updated ByJeffrey Henning
Date EditedFriday, January 09, 2004
Description Of UpdateChanged link and copied text inline from older page.
Date To HeadlineFriday, January 09, 2004

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