Comparison
Exodus 4
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
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| 1 | Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. | Respondens Moyses ait: Non credent mihi, neque audient vocem meam, sed dicent: Non apparuit tibi Dominus. |
| 2 | Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod. | Dixit ergo ad eum: Quid est quod tenes in manu tua? Respondit: Virga. |
| 3 | And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent: so that Moses fled from it. | Dixitque Dominus: Proiice eam in terram. Proiecit, et versa est in colubrum, ita ut fugeret Moyses. |
| 4 | And the Lord said: Put out thy hand and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod. | Dixitque Dominus: Extende manum tuam, et apprehende caudam eius. Extendit, et tenuit, versaque est in virgam. |
| 5 | That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee. | Ut credant, inquit, quod apparuerit tibi Dominus Deus patrum suorum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac et Deus Iacob. |
| 6 | And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow. | Dixitque Dominus rursum: Mitte manum tuam in sinum tuum. Quam cum misisset in sinum, protulit leprosam instar nivis. |
| 7 | And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh. | Retrahe, ait, manum tuam in sinum tuum. Retraxit, et protulit iterum, et erat similis carni reliquae. |
| 8 | If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign. | Si non crediderint, inquit, tibi, neque audierint sermonem signi prioris, credent verbo signi sequentis. |
| 9 | But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river shall be turned into blood. | Quod si nec duobus quidem his signis crediderint, neque audierint vocem tuam: sume aquam fluminis, et effunde eam super aridam, et quidquid hauseris de fluvio, vertetur in sanguinem. |
| 10 | Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord. I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. | Ait Moyses: Obsecro, Domine, non sum eloquens ab heri et nudiustertius: et ex quo locutus es ad servum tuum, impeditioris et tardioris linguae sum. |
| 11 | The Lord said to him: Who made man’s mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I? | Dixit Dominus ad eum: Quis fecit os hominis? aut quis fabricatus est mutum et surdum, videntem et caecum? nonne ego? |
| 12 | Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak. | Perge, igitur, et ego ero in ore tuo: doceboque te quid loquaris. |
| 13 | But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send. | At ille: Obsecro, inquit, Domine, mitte quem missurus es. |
| 14 | The Lord being angry at Moses, said Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, and seeing thee shall be glad at heart. | Iratus Dominus in Moysen, ait: Aaron frater tuus Levites, scio quod eloquens sit: ecce ipse egreditur in occursum tuum, vidensque te laetabitur corde. |
| 15 | Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must do. | Loquere ad eum, et pone verba mea in ore eius: et ego ero in ore tuo, et in ore illius, et ostendam vobis quid agere debeatis. |
| 16 | He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God. | Ipse loquetur pro te ad populum, et erit os tuum: tu autem eris ei in his quae ad Deum pertinent. |
| 17 | And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs. | Virgam quoque hanc sume in manu tua, in qua facturus es signa. |
| 18 | Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace. | Abiit Moyses, et reversus est ad Iethro socerum suum, dixitque ei: Vadam et revertar ad fratres meos in Aegyptum, ut videam si adhuc vivant. Cui ait Iethro: Vade in pace. |
| 19 | And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life. | Dixit ergo Dominus ad Moysen in Madian: Vade, et revertere in Aegyptum, mortui sunt enim omnes qui quaerebant animam tuam. |
| 20 | Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand. | Tulit ergo Moyses uxorem suam, et filios suos, et imposuit eos super asinum: reversusque est in Aegyptum, portans virgam Dei in manu sua. |
| 21 | And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. | Dixitque ei Dominus revertenti in Aegyptum: Vide ut omnia ostenta quae posui in manu tua, facias coram Pharaone: ego indurabo cor eius, et non dimittet populum. |
| 22 | And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn. | Dicesque ad eum: Haec dicit Dominus: Filius meus primogenitus Israël. |
| 23 | I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. | Dixi tibi: Dimitte filium meum ut serviat mihi; et noluisti dimittere eum: ecce ego interficiam filium tuum primogenitum. |
| 24 | And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him. | Cumque esset in itinere, in diversorio occurrit ei Dominus, et volebat occidere eum. |
| 25 | Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me. | Tulit idcirco Sephora acutissimam petram, et circumcidit praeputium filii sui, tetigitque pedes eius, et ait: Sponsus sanguinum tu mihi es. |
| 26 | And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision. | Et dimisit eum postquam dixerat: Sponsus sanguinum ob circumcisionem. |
| 27 | And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. | Dixit autem Dominus ad Aaron: Vade in occursum Moysi in desertum. Qui perrexit obviam ei in montem Dei, et osculatus est eum. |
| 28 | And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded. | Narravitque Moyses Aaron omnia verba Domini quibus miserat eum, et signa quae mandaverat. |
| 29 | And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel. | Veneruntque simul, et congregaverunt cunctos seniores filiorum Israël. |
| 30 | And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people, | Locutusque est Aaron omnia verba quae dixerat Dominus ad Moysen: et fecit signa coram populo, |
| 31 | And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel: and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored. | et credidit populus. Audieruntque quod visitasset Dominus filios Israël, et respexisset afflictionem illorum: et proni adoraverunt. |
