“because” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word because appears 1,644 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 2:3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Genesis 2:23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
- Genesis 3:10 And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
- Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
- Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
- Genesis 3:20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
- Genesis 5:24 And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.
- Genesis 6:3 And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
- Genesis 7:7 And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 10:25 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name Jectan.
- Genesis 11:9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
- Genesis 16:11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
- Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
- Genesis 17:14 The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.
- Genesis 19:8 I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
- Genesis 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.
- Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
- Genesis 19:16 And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
- Genesis 19:19 Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.
- Genesis 19:22 Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
- Genesis 21:13 But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.
- Genesis 21:31 Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.
- Genesis 22:16 By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:
- Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
- Genesis 24:56 Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.
- Genesis 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
- Genesis 25:28 Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
- Genesis 26:5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.
- Genesis 26:7 And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty.
- Genesis 27:23 And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him,
- Genesis 27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
- Genesis 29:15 He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.
- Genesis 29:20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
- Genesis 29:33 And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.
- Genesis 29:34 And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.
- Genesis 30:16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son’s mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.
- Genesis 30:18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
- Genesis 30:20 And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.
- Genesis 31:35 She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.
- Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob’s thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.
- Genesis 34:7 Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob’s daughter.
- Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
- Genesis 38:10 And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing:
- Genesis 38:14 And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.
- Genesis 38:26 But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more.
- Genesis 42:21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
- Genesis 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.
- Genesis 43:16 And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at noon.
- Genesis 43:18 And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses.
- Genesis 43:30 And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.