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===The Bible in Gullah=== This passage is from the [[Gospel of Matthew]] in Gullah: <blockquote>{{lang|gul|ΒΉ Now Jedus been bon een Betlem town, een Judea, jurin de same time wen Herod been king. Atta Jedus been bon, some wise man dem dat study bout de staa dem come ta Jerusalem fom weh dey been een de east. Β² An dey aks say, "Weh de chile da, wa bon fa be de Jew people king? We beena see de staa wa tell bout um een de east, an we come fa woshup um op." Β³ Wen King Herod yeh dat, e been opsot fa true. An ebrybody een Jerusalem been opsot too. He call togeda all de leada dem ob de Jew priest dem an de Jew Law teacha dem. E aks um say. "Weh de Messiah gwine be bon at?" Dey tell King Herod say, "E gwine be bon een Betlem town een Judea. Cause de prophet write say [...]}}<ref>{{cite web |website=The Gullah New Teastament |url=http://www.gullahbible.com/e-GullahNT/Conc/41MATGUL.htm#3 |title=Matthew 2:1-3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910014822/http://www.gullahbible.com/e-GullahNT/Conc/41MATGUL.htm#3 |archive-date=September 10, 2019 |publisher=Wycliffe Bible Translators |year=2005}}</ref></blockquote> <blockquote>Therefore when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of king Herod, lo! astronomers, came from the east to Jerusalem, and said, Where is he, that is born [the] king of Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and we have come to worship him. But king Herod heard, and was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And he gathered together all the princes of priests, and scribes of the people, and inquired of them, where Christ should be born. And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by a prophet [...]</blockquote>
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