Exodus 1
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Hæc sunt nomina filiorum Israël qui ingressi sunt in Ægyptum cum Jacob: singuli cum domibus suis introierunt:
1These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household:
2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,
2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
3Issachar, Zabulon et Benjamin,
3Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
4Dan et Nephthali, Gad et Aser.
4Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.
5Erant igitur omnes animæ eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Jacob, septuaginta: Joseph autem in Ægypto erat.
5And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
6Quo mortuo, et universis fratribus ejus, omnique cognatione illa,
6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
7filii Israël creverunt, et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt: ac roborati nimis, impleverunt terram.
7The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
8Surrexit interea rex novus super Ægyptum, qui ignorabat Joseph.
8In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
9Et ait ad populum suum: Ecce, populus filiorum Israël multus, et fortior nobis est.
9And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
10Venite, sapienter opprimamus eum, ne forte multiplicetur: et si ingruerit contra nos bellum, addatur inimicis nostris, expugnatisque nobis egrediatur de terra.
10Come, 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.
11Præposuit itaque eis magistros operum, ut affligerent eos oneribus: ædificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni, Phithom et Ramesses.
11Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.
12Quantoque opprimebant eos, tanto magis multiplicabantur, et crescebant:
12But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:
13oderantque filios Israël Ægyptii, et affligebant illudentes eis,
13And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
14atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terræ operibus premebantur.
14And 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.
15Dixit autem rex Ægypti obstetricibus Hebræorum, quarum una vocabatur Sephora, altera Phua,
15And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
16præcipiens eis: Quando obstetricabitis Hebræas, et partus tempus advenerit: si masculus fuerit, interficite eum: si femina, reservate.
16Commanding 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.
17Timuerunt autem obstetrices Deum, et non fecerunt juxta præceptum regis Ægypti, sed conservabant mares.
17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
18Quibus ad se accersitis, rex ait: Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis, ut pueros servaretis?
18And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
19Quæ responderunt: Non sunt Hebreæ sicut ægyptiæ mulieres: ipsæ enim obstetricandi habent scientiam, et priusquam veniamus ad eas, pariunt.
19They 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.
20Bene ergo fecit Deus obstetricibus: et crevit populus, confortatusque est nimis.
20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
21Et quia timuerunt obstetrices Deum, ædificavit eis domos.
21And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
22Præcepit ergo Pharao omni populo suo, dicens: Quidquid masculini sexus natum fuerit, in flumen projicite: quidquid feminini, reservate.
22Pharao 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.
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