Genesis 44:3
And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.
Open Genesis 44:3 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et orto mane, dimissi sunt cum asinis suis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὸ πρωὶ διέφαυσεν καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἀπεστάλησαν, αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ ὄνοι αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַבֹּ֖קֶר א֑וֹר וְהָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים שֻׁלְּח֔וּ הֵ֖מָּה וַחֲמֹרֵיהֶֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Hippolytus The Refutation of All Heresies, Chapter III
For, says he, it is necessary that the magnitudes be declared, and that they thus be declared by all everywhere, “in order that hearing they may not hear, and seeing they may not see.” For if, he says, the magnitudes were not declared, the world could not have obtained consistence. These are the three tumid expressions (of these heretics), Caulacau , Saulasau, Zeesar , i.e., Adam, who is farthest above; Saulasau , that is, the mortal one below; Zeesar , that is, Jordan that flows upwards. This, he says, is the hermaphrodite man (present) in all. But those who are ignorant of him, call him Geryon with the threefold body, Geryon, i.e., as if (in the sense of) flowing from earth, but (whom) the Greeks by common consent (style) “celestial horn of the moon,” because he mixed and blended all things in all. …