But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
But aftir þat oure fadris stiryden God of heuene and of erþe to wrathfulnesse, boþe he bitook hem in þe hond of Nabugodonosor, Caldey, kyng of Babiloyne; and he distriede this hows, and translatide þe puple þerof in to Babiloyne.