This reading is from a translation of the first several books of the Old Testament by two writers--one anonymous, the other Ælfric, pupil of St. Æthelwold, monk of Cerne, and later abbot of Eynsham. The present extract is from Ælfric's section of the work. For a facsimile of the magnificently illustrated manuscript, see C. R. Dodwell and P. A. M. Clemoes, ed., The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch (Copenhagen, 1974), and for a complete text see Samuel J. Crawford, ed., The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, Ælfric's Treatise on the Old and New Testament, and His Preface to Genesis (1922; repr. London, 1969).

If your class is using the Guide to Old English, compare the text in that book (printed from a different manuscript) with this one. Can you spot the substantive differences?