“may” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word may appears 1,538 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 1:11 And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
- Genesis 1:20 God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.
- Genesis 1:30 And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.
- Genesis 4:13 And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.
- Genesis 6:19 And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.
- Genesis 6:20 Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
- Genesis 6:21 Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
- Genesis 7:3 But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 9:27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.
- Genesis 11:4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
- Genesis 11:7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 12:13 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.
- Genesis 15:8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
- Genesis 16:2 She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,
- Genesis 17:11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.
- Genesis 17:18 And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.
- Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham’s sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
- Genesis 18:21 I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
- Genesis 19:5 And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:
- Genesis 19:20 There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
- Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- Genesis 19:34 And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.
- Genesis 21:30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.
- Genesis 23:4 I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.
- Genesis 23:9 That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.
- Genesis 24:3 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
- Genesis 24:14 Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.
- Genesis 24:49 Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.
- Genesis 24:54 And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.
- 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 24:60 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.
- Genesis 27:4 Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.
- Genesis 27:7 Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.
- Genesis 27:9 And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.
- Genesis 27:10 Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.
- Genesis 27:19 And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
- Genesis 27:21 And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.
- Genesis 27:25 Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,
- Genesis 27:31 And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son’s venison; that thy soul may bless me.
- Genesis 29:8 They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together, and we remove the stone from the well’s mouth, that we may water the flocks.
- Genesis 29:21 And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
- Genesis 30:3 But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
- Genesis 30:25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.
- Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.
- Genesis 31:44 Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
- Genesis 32:5 I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.
- Genesis 33:14 May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
- Genesis 33:15 Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my lord, in thy sight.
- Genesis 34:15 But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:
- Genesis 35:3 Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.