3 And Pharisees cam to him, way?-?layin him, and sayin, “Isʼt lawfuʼ for a man to pit awa his wife, for ony cause ava?”
And the Pharisees and the Sadducees cam, and in a twafauld way speirʼt at him, “Gin he wadna schaw them a token frae Heeven?”
And ane frae mang them speirʼt at him a quaisten, testin him, and sayin,
And the Pharisees cam nar till him, and they wad ken, “Is it lawfuʼ for a man to pit awa a wife?” tempin him.
And they send to him oʼ the Pharisees, and they oʼ Herod, that they micht snare him in his talk.
“Sal we gie, or sal we refuse?” But he, seein their fauseness, said to them, “Why‐for are ye tempin me? Schaw me a siller‐penny that I may see.”
This said they for temptation, to hae something to wyte him wiʼ. But Jesus loutit doon, and gaed on writin in the yird wiʼ his fingʼer.
To the mairryʼt hoobeit, I gie chairge — yet no I, but the Lord — that a wife gang‐na awa frae her husband.
“Whan yere forbears tempit me wiʼ a test; and saw my warks forty year.