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to have been written originally in other Old English dialects, but later translated into the standard Late West Saxon literary language when they were copied by scribes.

In the Wessex Gospels from around 990, the text of Matthew 6 , the Lord's Prayer, is as follows:

::Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum,
::si þin nama gehalgod.
::To becume þin rice,
::gewurþe ðin willa,
::on eorðan swa

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