The Aussie Bible

Well, it was bound to happen, wasn't it? A translation of the Bible into good'n'proper "Strine" (as that particularly unique brand of Australian English is affectionately known). Here's a sample...

Message for Mary (Luke 1:26-38)
When Libby was six months gone, God sent the same angel—this Gabriel bloke—to a backblocks town called Nazareth, in the Galilee shire, to a nice young girl who was engaged to the local carpenter, Joe Davidson. Her name was Mary.

The angel said to her, “G’day Mary. You are a pretty special sheila. God has his eye on you.”

Mary went weak at the knees, and wondered what was going on.

But the angel said to her, “Don’t panic, don’t chuck a wobbly. God thinks you’re okay. You’re about to become pregnant, and you’ll have a son, and you’re to call him Jesus. He will be a very big wheel, and will be called the Son of God Most High. God will give him the throne of his father—your ancestor—King David, and he will be in charge of the whole show forever.”

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