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Genesis is the first book of the Bible and of the Pentateuch traditionally ascribed to Moses. Its fifty chapters run from the creation of the world in six days, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood and the tower of Babel, to the histories of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the story of Joseph in Egypt. The Latin text is the Vulgate, which Jerome translated directly from the Hebrew at Bethlehem around the turn of the fifth century.

Genesis supplied the West with its account of creation, of the origin of sin and of the descent of nations, and few books have been more often commented on. Augustine wrote on it repeatedly, and its opening words, ‘In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram’, are among the best known in Latin. Jerome’s version, preferring the Hebrew to the Septuagint, became the standard Latin text and left phrases throughout medieval and later literature.

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
Genesis
Vulgate · Chapter 2 · every word parsed
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igitur perfecti sunt caeli et terra et omnis ornatus eorum
conpleuitque Deus die septimo opus suum quod fecerat et requieuit die septimo ab uniuerso opere quod patrarat
et benedixit diei septimo et sanctificauit illum quia in ipso cessauerat ab omni opere suo quod creauit Deus ut faceret
istae generationes caeli et terrae quando creatae sunt in die quo fecit Dominus Deus caelum et terram
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et omne uirgultum agri antequam oreretur in terra omnemque herbam regionis priusquam germinaret non enim pluerat Dominus Deus super terram et homo non erat qui operaretur terram
sed fons ascendebat e terra inrigans uniuersam superficiem terrae
formauit igitur Dominus Deus hominem de limo terrae et inspirauit in faciem eius spiraculum uitae et factus est homo in animam uiuentem
plantauerat autem Dominus Deus paradisum uoluptatis a principio in quo posuit hominem quem formauerat
produxitque Dominus Deus de humo omne lignum pulchrum uisu et ad uescendum suaue lignum etiam uitae in medio paradisi lignumque scientiae boni et mali
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et fluuius egrediebatur de loco uoluptatis ad inrigandum paradisum qui inde diuiditur in quattuor capita
nomen uni Phison ipse est qui circuit omnem terram Euilat ubi nascitur aurum
et aurum terrae illius optimum est ibique inuenitur bdellium et lapis onychinus
et nomen fluuio secundo Geon ipse est qui circuit omnem terram Aethiopiae
nomen uero fluminis tertii Tigris ipse uadit contra Assyrios fluuius autem quartus ipse est Eufrates
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tulit ergo Dominus Deus hominem et posuit eum in paradiso uoluptatis ut operaretur et custodiret illum
praecepitque ei dicens ex omni ligno paradisi comede
de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali ne comedas in quocumque enim die comederis ex eo morte morieris
dixit quoque Dominus Deus non est bonum esse hominem solum faciamus ei adiutorium similem sui
formatis igitur Dominus Deus de humo cunctis animantibus terrae et uniuersis uolatilibus caeli adduxit ea ad Adam ut uideret quid uocaret ea omne enim quod uocauit Adam animae uiuentis ipsum est nomen eius
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appellauitque Adam nominibus suis cuncta animantia et uniuersa uolatilia caeli et omnes bestias terrae Adam uero non inueniebatur adiutor similis eius
inmisit ergo Dominus Deus soporem in Adam cumque obdormisset tulit unam de costis eius et repleuit carnem pro ea
et aedificauit Dominus Deus costam quam tulerat de Adam in mulierem et adduxit eam ad Adam
dixitque Adam hoc nunc os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea haec uocabitur uirago quoniam de uiro sumpta est
quam ob rem relinquet homo patrem suum et matrem et adherebit uxori suae et erunt duo in carne una
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erant autem uterque nudi Adam scilicet et uxor eius et non erubescebant
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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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