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Peshitta 4

Syriac

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Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

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About Peshitta

The Bible of the Syriac tradition, in late Aramaic, still in use by the churches of the East. It preserves readings missing from the Greek manuscripts. Selection read in the King James Version text of Matthew (1611, public domain); Portuguese and Spanish are Lux Veritas translations from it. It is not a transcription of the manuscript.

Source: King James Version (London: Robert Barker, 1611), excerpts from Matthew, King James Version translators (1611) · public domain