Comparison
Exodus 1
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household: | Haec sunt nomina filiorum Israël qui ingressi sunt in Aegyptum cum Iacob: singuli cum domibus suis introierunt: |
| 2 | Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, | Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Iudas, |
| 3 | Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, | Issachar, Zabulon et Beniamin, |
| 4 | Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser. | Dan et Nephthali, Gad et Aser. |
| 5 | And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt. | Erant igitur omnes animae eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Iacob, septuaginta: Ioseph autem in Aegypto erat. |
| 6 | After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation, | Quo mortuo, et universis fratribus eius, omnique cognatione illa, |
| 7 | The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land. | filii Israël creverunt, et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt: ac roborati nimis, impleverunt terram. |
| 8 | In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph: | Surrexit interea rex novus super Aegyptum, qui ignorabat Ioseph. |
| 9 | And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. | Et ait ad populum suum: Ecce, populus filiorum Israël multus, et fortior nobis est. |
| 10 | Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land. | Venite, sapienter opprimamus eum, ne forte multiplicetur: et si ingruerit contra nos bellum, addatur inimicis nostris, expugnatisque nobis egrediatur de terra. |
| 11 | Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses. | Praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum, ut affligerent eos oneribus: aedificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni, Phithom et Ramesses. |
| 12 | But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased: | Quantoque opprimebant eos, tanto magis multiplicabantur, et crescebant: |
| 13 | And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them: | oderantque filios Israël Aegyptii, et affligebant illudentes eis, |
| 14 | And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth. | atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terrae operibus premebantur. |
| 15 | And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua, | Dixit autem rex Aegypti obstetricibus Hebraeorum, quarum una vocabatur Sephora, altera Phua, |
| 16 | Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive. | praecipiens eis: Quando obstetricabitis Hebraeas, et partus tempus advenerit: si masculus fuerit, interficite eum: si femina, reservate. |
| 17 | But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children. | Timuerunt autem obstetrices Deum, et non fecerunt iuxta praeceptum regis Aegypti, sed conservabant mares. |
| 18 | And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children? | Quibus ad se accersitis, rex ait: Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis, ut pueros servaretis? |
| 19 | They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them. | Quae responderunt: Non sunt Hebreae sicut aegyptiae mulieres: ipsae enim obstetricandi habent scientiam, et priusquam veniamus ad eas, pariunt. |
| 20 | Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong. | Bene ergo fecit Deus obstetricibus: et crevit populus, confortatusque est nimis. |
| 21 | And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses. | Et quia timuerunt obstetrices Deum, aedificavit eis domos. |
| 22 | Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive. | Praecepit ergo Pharao omni populo suo, dicens: Quidquid masculini sexus natum fuerit, in flumen proiicite: quidquid feminini, reservate. |
