24 Sae Joseph, comin oot oʼ his sleep, did as the Angel had bidden him, and took till him his wife.
“Tak tent! a maiden sal be wiʼ bairn, and sal bring forth a son; and they wull caʼ his name Emmanuel,” whilk is, translatit, “God wiʼ us.”
And leevʼd in continence wiʼ her till she had brocht forth her first‐born son; and caʼd his name JESUS.
“Noo ye are my freends, gin ye do my commauns.
And see! an Angel oʼ the Lord stude by him, and a licht glintit iʼ the dungeon; and giean Peter a dunt on the side, he raised him up, sayin, “Rise up! Haste!” and the chains slypit aff frae his hauns.
But the Angel oʼ the Lord, by nicht, cam and unsteekit the doors oʼ the toʼbooth, and feshʼt them oot, and said,