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title: "Genesis 16 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Abram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael. Genesis 16 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Genesis 16

Genesis 16 is chapter 16 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 16 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Abram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 16 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar,
2. she said to her husband: “Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least.” And when he agreed to her supplication,
3. she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.
4. And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.
5. And Sarai said to Abram: “You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”
6. Abram responded to her by saying, “Behold, your handmaid is in your hand to treat as it pleases you.” And so, when Sarai afflicted her, she took flight.
7. And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert,
8. he said to her: “Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?” And she answered, “I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.”
9. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.”
10. And again he said, “I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude.”
11. But thereafter he said: “Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.
12. He will be a wild man. His hand will be against all, and all hands will be against him. And he will pitch his tents away from the region of all his brothers.”
13. Then she called upon the name of the Lord who had spoken to her: “You are the God who has seen me.” For she said, “Certainly, here I have seen the back of the one who sees me.”
14. Because of this, she called that well: ‘The well of the one who lives and who sees me.’ The same is between Kadesh and Bered.
15. And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, who called his name Ishmael.
16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him.

## Genesis 16 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Igitur Sarai, uxor Abram, non genuerat liberos: sed habens ancillam ægyptiam nomine Agar,
2. dixit marito suo: Ecce, conclusit me Dominus, ne parerem. Ingredere ad ancillam meam, si forte saltem ex illa suscipiam filios. Cumque ille acquiesceret deprecanti,
3. tulit Agar ægyptiam ancillam suam post annos decem quam habitare cœperant in terra Chanaan: et dedit eam viro suo uxorem.
4. Qui ingressus est ad eam. At illa concepisse se videns, despexit dominam suam.
5. Dixitque Sarai ad Abram: Inique agis contra me: ego dedi ancillam meam in sinum tuum, quæ videns quod conceperit, despectui me habet: judicet Dominus inter me et te.
6. Cui respondens Abram: Ecce, ait, ancilla tua in manu tua est, utere ea ut libet. Affligente igitur eam Sarai, fugam iniit.
7. Cumque invenisset eam angelus Domini juxta fontem aquæ in solitudine, qui est in via Sur in deserto,
8. dixit ad illam: Agar ancilla Sarai, unde venis? et quo vadis? Quæ respondit: A facie Sarai dominæ meæ ego fugio.
9. Dixitque ei angelus Domini: Revertere ad dominam tuam, et humiliare sub manu illius.
10. Et rursum: Multiplicans, inquit, multiplicabo semen tuum, et non numerabitur præ multitudine.
11. Ac deinceps: Ecce, ait, concepisti, et paries filium: vocabisque nomen ejus Ismaël, eo quod audierit Dominus afflictionem tuam.
12. Hic erit ferus homo: manus ejus contra omnes, et manus omnium contra eum: et e regione universorum fratrum suorum figet tabernacula.
13. Vocavit autem nomen Domini qui loquebatur ad eam: Tu Deus qui vidisti me. Dixit enim: Profecto hic vidi posteriora videntis me.
14. Propterea appellavit puteum illum Puteum viventis et videntis me. Ipse est inter Cades et Barad.
15. Peperitque Agar Abræ filium: qui vocavit nomen ejus Ismaël.
16. Octoginta et sex annorum erat Abram quando peperit ei Agar Ismaëlem.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: Plurality of wives, though contrary to the primitive institution of marriage, Gen. 2. 24, was by divine dispensation allowed to the patriarchs: which allowance seems to have continued during the time of the law of Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced marriage to its primitive institution. Matt. 19.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).