Genesis 16:14
Therefore she called that well, The well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propterea appellavit puteum illum Puteum viventis et videntis me. Ipse est inter Cades et Barad.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἕνεκεν τούτου ἐκάλεσεν τὸ φρέαρ Φρέαρ οὗ ἐνώπιον ἴδον· ἰδοὺ ἀνὰ μέσον Καδὴς καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Βάραδ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל כֵּן֙ קָרָ֣א לַבְּאֵ֔ר בְּאֵ֥ר לַחַ֖י רֹאִ֑י הִנֵּ֥ה בֵין קָדֵ֖שׁ וּבֵ֥ין בָּֽרֶד
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book V, Chapter II
2. Let the restless and the unjust depart and flee from Thee. Thou both seest them and distinguishest the shadows. And lo! all things with them are fair, yet are they themselves foul. And how have they injured Thee? Or in what have they disgraced Thy government, which is just and perfect from heaven even to the lowest parts of the earth. For whither fled they when they fled from Thy presence? Or where dost Thou not find them? But they fled that they might not see Thee seeing them, and blinded might stumble against Thee; since Thou forsakest nothing that Thou hast made, that the unjust might stumble against Thee, and justly be hurt, withdrawing themselves from Thy gentleness, and stumbling against Thine uprightness, and falling upon their own roughness. …