Genesis 24:25
And she said moreover to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et addidit, dicens : Palearum quoque et fœni plurimum est apud nos, et locus spatiosus ad manendum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν ⸂⸆⸃ αὐτῷ Καὶ ἄχυρα καὶ χόρτασμα πολὺ παρ᾽ ἡμῖν, καὶ τόπος τοῦ καταλῦσαι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו גַּם תֶּ֥בֶן גַּם מִסְפּ֖וֹא רַ֣ב עִמָּ֑נוּ גַּם מָק֖וֹם לָלֽוּן
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book I, Chapter XVIII. Passages from Moses,
3. Further, they declare that the arrangement made with respect to the ark in the Deluge, by means of which eight persons were saved, most clearly indicates the Ogdoad which brings salvation. David also shows forth the same, as holding the eighth place in point of age among his brethren. Moreover, that circumcision which took place on the eighth day, represented the circumcision of the Ogdoad above. In a word, whatever they find in the Scriptures capable of being referred to the number eight , they declare to fulfil the mystery of the Ogdoad. With respect, again, to the Decad, they maintain that it is indicated by those ten nations which God promised to Abraham for a possession. The arrangement also made by Sarah when, after ten years, she gave her handmaid Hagar to him, that by her he might have a son, showed the same thing. …