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Exodus, the second book of the Pentateuch, tells how the Israelites, enslaved in Egypt, were led out by Moses. Its forty chapters cover the birth and calling of Moses at the burning bush, the ten plagues and the Passover, the crossing of the Red Sea, the journey to Sinai, the giving of the Ten Commandments and the covenant law, the golden calf, and detailed instructions for building the tabernacle. The Latin text is the Vulgate, translated by Jerome from the Hebrew.

Exodus is the founding narrative of Israel’s deliverance and covenant, and Christians read its Passover and crossing of the sea as figures of Easter and baptism. Its law and its account of the divine name ‘ego sum qui sum’ fed centuries of theology and philosophy. Jerome’s version also produced one famous misreading: the ‘horned’ face of Moses descending from Sinai, which gave rise to the horned Moses of medieval and Renaissance art.

About this edition. The Latin text comes from the Lasciva Roma collection of additional Latin texts (edition: Jerome's 405 a.d., Latin Vulgate These files were produced following modern scholarship of the available Vulgate mss. The apocryphal books are prefixed with…), licensed CC BY-NC-SA. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.

Latin · Early Christian Writings
Exodus
Vulgate · Chapter 1 · every word parsed
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haec sunt nomina filiorum Israhel qui ingressi sunt Aegyptum cum Iacob singuli cum domibus suis introierunt
Ruben Symeon Leui Iuda
Isachar Zabulon et Beniamin
Dan et Nepthalim Gad et Aser
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erant igitur omnes animae eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Iacob septuaginta Ioseph autem in Aegypto erat
quo mortuo et uniuersis fratribus eius omnique cognatione illa
filii Israhel creuerunt et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt ac roborati nimis impleuerunt terram
surrexit interea rex nouus super Aegyptum qui ignorabat Ioseph
et ait ad populum suum ecce populus filiorum Israhel multus et fortior nobis
10
uenite sapienter opprimamus eum ne forte multiplicetur et si ingruerit contra nos bellum addatur inimicis nostris expugnatisque nobis egrediatur e terra
praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum ut adfligerent eos oneribus aedificaueruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni Phiton et Ramesses
quantoque opprimebant eos tanto magis multiplicabantur et crescebant
oderantque filios Israhel Aegyptii et adfligebant inludentes eis
atque ad amaritudinem perducebant uitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris omnique famulatu quo in terrae operibus premebantur
15
dixit autem rex Aegypti obsetricibus Hebraeorum quarum una uocabatur Sephra altera Phua
praecipiens eis quando obsetricabitis Hebraeas et partus tempus aduenerit si masculus fuerit interficite illum si femina reseruate
timuerunt autem obsetrices Deum et non fecerunt iuxta praeceptum regis Aegypti sed conseruabant mares
quibus ad se accersitis rex ait quidnam est hoc quod facere uoluistis ut pueros seruaretis
quae responderunt non sunt hebraeae sicut aegyptiae mulieres ipsae enim obsetricandi habent scientiam et priusquam ueniamus ad eas pariunt
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bene ergo fecit Deus obsetricibus et creuit populus confortatusque est nimis
et quia timuerant obsetrices Deum aedificauit illis domos
praecepit autem Pharao omni populo suo dicens quicquid masculini sexus natum fuerit in flumen proicite quicquid feminei reseruate
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Text: Perseus Digital Library, licensed CC BY-SA. Dictionary: Lewis & Short (Perseus, CC BY-SA). Morphology: LatinCy — machine parsing, corrected against the AGDT & PROIEL treebanks and Morpheus.
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