See schep in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "And [he] said, \"Which one of you, who has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, won't leave [the other] ninety-nine in the back country and hunt for the one that disappeared until they find it?\"",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Luke 15:4, folio 36, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "⁊ ſeide / what man of ȝou þᵗ haþ an hundꝛid ſcheep · ⁊ if he haþ looſt oon of hem .· Wher he leeueþ not nynti and nyne in deſert ⁊ goiþ to it þat periſchide til he fynde it?",
"translation": "And [he] said, \"Which one of you, who has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, won't leave [the other] ninety-nine in the back country and hunt for the one that disappeared until they find it?\"",
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"text": "Hıs loꝛdes sheep[e] / hıs neet / hıs daẏerẏe / Hıs swẏn / hıs hoꝛs / hıs stooꝛ / and hıs pultrẏe / Was hoollẏ / ın thıs Reues gou[er]nẏnge […]",
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"text": "⁊ ſeide / what man of ȝou þᵗ haþ an hundꝛid ſcheep · ⁊ if he haþ looſt oon of hem .· Wher he leeueþ not nynti and nyne in deſert ⁊ goiþ to it þat periſchide til he fynde it?",
"translation": "And [he] said, \"Which one of you, who has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, won't leave [the other] ninety-nine in the back country and hunt for the one that disappeared until they find it?\"",
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