Comparison
Genesis 15
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. | His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem dicens: Noli timere, Abram: ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis. |
| 2 | And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer. | Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis, et filius procuratoris domus meae iste Damascus Eliezer. |
| 3 | And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir. | Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, haeres meus erit. |
| 4 | And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir. | Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic haeres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis haeredem. |
| 5 | And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be. | Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suspice caelum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum. |
| 6 | Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. | Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam. |
| 7 | And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it. | Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldaeorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam. |
| 8 | But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? | At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam? |
| 9 | And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon. | Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam. |
| 10 | And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not. | Qui tollens universa haec, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit; aves autem non divisit. |
| 11 | And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. | Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram. |
| 12 | And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him. | Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum. |
| 13 | And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years. | Dictumque est ad eum: Scito praenoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subiicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis. |
| 14 | But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance. | Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia. |
| 15 | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. | Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona. |
| 16 | But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time. | Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum usque ad praesens tempus. |
| 17 | And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions. | Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas. |
| 18 | That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates. | In illo die pepigit Dominus foedus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Aegypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten, |
| 19 | The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites, | Cinaeos, et Cenezaeos, Cedmonaeos, |
| 20 | And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also, | et Hethaeos, et Pherezaeos, Raphaim quoque, |
| 21 | And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites. | et Amorrhaeos, et Chananaeos, et Gergesaeos, et Iebusaeos. |
