Periods, commas and punctuation in Latin biblical text

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I am having a prayer kneeler made as a wedding gift for my fiancee next month and I’d like Mark 10:6-9 inscribed in latin. When I look at the vulgate online there are no periods or commas.
Is this normal? Would it be incorrect to insert periods and/or commas into the text?

Any advice on this would be appreciated.
 
Which edition of the Vulgate are you reading? The Stuttgart Vulgate, a modern critical edition which was never used liturgically in the Catholic Church, considers it a feature rather than a bug to use line breaks (in medieval practice) rather than punctuation to indicate sentence structure. This edition is also very available all over the internets.

You might consider instead either the *Nova Vulgata *(the current Catholic Latin edition) or the Clementine Vulgate (the previous Catholic translation). Both generally use modern punctuation, save that the Clementine uses Latin sign-words and/or Capitalization instead of “inverted commas” to indicate “direct speech” (which hardly enters into this passage).

Among these translations, this passage is identical save for punctuation and the Nova’s omission of a single word (*Deus *in verse 6). Among other places, you can read the Clementine and *Nova *editions at the Unbound Bible site. The Stuttgart is lots of places – Here is one.

The CA Forum can also produce Clementine excerpts, a different edition from the one above, with even a couple more commas present:
[BIBLELVB]Mark 10:6-9[/BIBLELVB]

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