Peshitta New Testament — Murdock — Section 12
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Work: Peshitta New Testament
Permanent passage identifier
hsu_e4d6fe49-338e-4bf9-860d-63fcd8d681c4This identity belongs to this edition’s reading. Cross-witness correspondence awaits review.
Murdock 1851 English translation of Syriac Peshitta — retained OCR sections
Excerpt · the full reading remains in Scripture Library.
" or, superior lo. ° or, the wild lilies. P Sy, clothed. ' Sy. Y'n^ny • Sy. ]^r)\s of men to fast. Verily I say to you, tliey have gotten their reward. (17) But, when thou fastest, 17 wash thou thy face, and anoint thy head : (18) that 18 thou mayest not be seen by men as a faster, but by thy Fatlier who is in secret : and thy Father who seeth in secret, will recompense thee. Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, 19 where moth and rust spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal. (20) But lay up for yourselves 20 treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust can…
- Source
- The New Testament : or, The book of the holy gospel of our Lord and our God, Jesus the Messiah a literal translation from the Syriac Peschito version
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
- Completeness
- Existing approved legacy passages only; completeness against full historical work UNVERIFIED
- Review
- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
Recorded provenance: Byte-for-byte projection of approved legacy passage text into separate native OCR edition; original legacy passages and raw upstream source unchanged.
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