Comparison
Genesis 26
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
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| 1 | And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara. | Orta autem fame super terram post eam sterilitatem, quae acciderat in diebus Abraham, abiit Isaac ad Abimelech regem Palaestinorum in Gerara. |
| 2 | And the Lord appeared to him and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee. | Apparuitque ei Dominus, et ait: Ne descendas in Aegyptum, sed quiesce in terra quam dixero tibi, |
| 3 | And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father. | et peregrinare in ea: eroque tecum, et benedicam tibi: tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has, complens iuramentum quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo. |
| 4 | And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. | Et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli: daboque posteris tuis universas regiones has: et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae, |
| 5 | Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws. | eo quod obedierit Abraham voci meae, et custodierit praecepta et mandata mea, et caeremonias legesque servaverit. |
| 6 | So Isaac abode in Gerara. | Mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris. |
| 7 | And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty. | Qui cum interrogaretur a viris loci illius super uxore sua, respondit: Soror mea est: timuerat enim confiteri quod sibi esset sociata coniugio, reputans ne forte interficerent eum propter illius pulchritudinem. |
| 8 | And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech king of the Palestines looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca his wife. | Cumque pertransissent dies plurimi, et ibidem moraretur, prospiciens Abimelech rex Palaestinorum per fenestram, vidit eum iocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua. |
| 9 | And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake. | Et accersito eo, ait: Perspicuum est quod uxor tua sit: cur mentitus es eam sororem tuam esse? Respondit: Timui ne morerer propter eam. |
| 10 | And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying: | Dixitque Abimelech: Quare imposuisti nobis? potuit coire quispiam de populo cum uxore tua, et induxeras super nos grande peccatum. Praecepitque omni populo, dicens: |
| 11 | He that shall touch this man’s wife, shall surely be put to death. | Qui tetigerit hominis huius uxorem, morte morietur. |
| 12 | And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. | Sevit autem Isaac in terra illa, et invenit in ipso anno centuplum: benedixitque ei Dominus. |
| 13 | And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great: | Et locupletatus est homo, et ibat proficiens atque succrescens, donec magnus vehementer effectus est: |
| 14 | And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him, | habuit quoque possessiones ovium et armentorum, et familiae plurimum. Ob hoc invidentes ei Palaestini, |
| 15 | Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth: | omnes puteos, quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham, illo tempore obstruxerunt, implentes humo: |
| 16 | Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we. | in tantum, ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac: Recede a nobis, quoniam potentior nobis factus es valde. |
| 17 | So he departed and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there: | Et ille discedens, ut veniret ad torrentem Gerarae, habitaretque ibi, |
| 18 | And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which, after his death, the Palestines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names by which his father before had called them. | rursum fodit alios puteos, quos foderant servi patris sui Abraham, et quos, illo mortuo, olim obstruxerant Philisthiim: appellavitque eos eisdem nominibus quibus ante pater vocaverat. |
| 19 | And they digged in the torrent, and found living water. | Foderuntque in torrente, et repererunt aquam vivam. |
| 20 | But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny. | Sed et ibi iurgium fuit pastorum Gerarae adversus pastores Isaac, dicentium: Nostra est aqua, quam ob rem nomen putei ex eo, quod acciderat, vocavit Calumniam. |
| 21 | And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity. | Foderunt autem et alium: et pro illo quoque rixati sunt, appellavitque eum Inimicitias. |
| 22 | Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not: therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth. | Profectus inde fodit alium puteum, pro quo non contenderunt: itaque vocavit nomen eius Latitudo, dicens: Nunc dilatavit nos Dominus, et fecit crescere super terram. |
| 23 | And he went up from that place to Bersabee, | Ascendit autem ex illo loco in Bersabee, |
| 24 | Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father; do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake. | ubi apparuit ei Dominus in ipsa nocte, dicens: Ego sum Deus Abraham patris tui: noli timere, quia ego tecum sum: benedicam tibi, et multiplicabo semen tuum propter servum meum Abraham. |
| 25 | And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent: and commanded his servants to dig a well. | Itaque aedificavit ibi altare: et invocato nomine Domini, extendit tabernaculum, praecepitque servis suis ut foderent puteum. |
| 26 | To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers came from Gerara, | Ad quem locum cum venissent de Geraris Abimelech, et Ochozath amicus illius, et Phicol dux militum, |
| 27 | Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you? | locutus est eis Isaac: Quid venistis ad me, hominem quem odistis, et expulistis a vobis? |
| 28 | And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant, | Qui responderunt: Vidimus tecum esse Dominum, et idcirco nos diximus: Sit iuramentum inter nos, et ineamus foedus, |
| 29 | That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee: but with peace have sent thee away increased with the blessing of the Lord. | ut non facias nobis quidquam mali, sicut et nos nihil tuorum attigimus, nec fecimus quod te laederet: sed cum pace dimisimus auctum benedictione Domini. |
| 30 | And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk: | Fecit ergo eis convivium, et post cibum et potum |
| 31 | Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home. | surgentes mane, iuraverunt sibi mutuo: dimisitque eos Isaac pacifice in locum suum. |
| 32 | And behold the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water. | Ecce autem venerunt in ipso die servi Isaac annuntiantes ei de puteo, quem foderant, atque dicentes: Invenimus aquam. |
| 33 | Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day. | Unde appellavit eum Abundantiam: et nomen urbi impositum est Bersabee, usque in praesentem diem. |
| 34 | And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon of the same place. | Esau vero quadragenarius duxit uxores, Iudith filiam Beeri Hethaei, et Basemath filiam Elon eiusdem loci: |
| 35 | And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca. | quae ambae offenderant animum Isaac et Rebeccae. |
