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The Ten Commandments in Scotch

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 4.

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The Ten Commandments in Scotch.

A BROTHER has handed us a slip containing the ten commandments in the Scottish dialect as follows:—

THE TEN HAIL-BIDDENS.

Dr. Waddell, of Glasgow, is translating the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek into the Scottish dialect. A specimen page from the twentieth chapter of Exodus will entertain the reader:—

EXODUS, OR THE OUT GATE.—CHAP. 20.

God’s bidden maun be dune or waur. The Ten Hail-Biddens, or Commauns.
Syne spake God ilk word o’ thir, sayan:
2. Mylane am the Lord your God, wha reddy yo frae the lan’ o’ Egyp, an’ out frae the house o’ haud.
3. Ye sal hae nane ither godds fornenst me.
4. Ye sal schupe nae eidol till yersel, nor dracht o’ what’s heigh i’ the lift, or what’s laigh on the yird, or what’s intil the watters whilk are aneth the yird.
5. Ye sa’na lout yersel till them, nor ser’ them; for mylane am the Lord your God: a God fu’ sikker o’ his ain, fetchin hame the misdoens o’ the forebears on the bairns, aye, till the third an’ till the fourth o’ their bluid wha ill will me;
6. But warkin nieborlie wi’ thousans o’ them that lo’e me, and bide my bidden.
7. Ye maunna even the name o’ the Lord your God wi’ nocht; for the Lord himsel canna redd the man wha evens his name wi’ nocht.
8. Mind ay weel the quattin-day, till haud it sikker.
9. Sax days ye may paingle an’ do a’ yer wark:
10. But the seven day is quat till the Lord your God. Ye sal nae wark intil bit; yersel, nor yer son, nor yer dochter; yer loon, nor yer lass, nor yer beiss; nor the frem frieen’ who taigles in yer yetts.
11. For intil sax days the Lord wrought the lift, an’ the laigh, an’ the bouk o’ watter, an’ ilka haet in them; an’ rested him ontil the seven day: whar-thro’ the Lord blythebad the seven day, an’ set it by the lave.
12. Be cannie ye o’ yer faither an’ o’ yer mithter; that yer ain days may be lang on tha lan’ whilk the Lord your God foresettles on yo.
13. Ye sal tine nae life.
14. Ye sal loup nae fauld.
15. Ye sal fash nae gear.
16. Ye sal skaithe nane yer neibor’s name.
17. Ye sal grein nane yer neibor’s ain o’ his biggin; ye sal grein nane yer neibor’s ain o’ his wife; or his loon, or his lass; or his knowte; or his naig; or ought that is aught o’ yer neibor’s.