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Genesi 10

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1 OR queste sono le generazioni dei figliuoli di Noè: Sem, Cam e Iafet; e ad essi nacquero figliuoli dopo il diluvio.

2 I figliuoli di Iafet furono Gomer, e Magog, e Madai, e Iavan, e Tubal, e Mesec, e Tiras.

3 E i figliuoli di Gomer furono Aschenaz, e Rifat, e Togarma.

4 E i figliuoli di Iavan furono Elisa e Tarsis, Chittim e Dodanim.

5 Da costoro, per le lor famiglie, nelle lor nazioni, è venuto lo spartimento dell’Isole delle genti, nei loro paesi, secondo la lingua di ciascun di essi.

6 E i figliuoli di Cam furono Cus, Misraim, e Put, e Canaan.

7 E i figliuoli di Cus furono Seba, ed Havila, e Sabta, e Rama, e Sabteca; ed i figliuoli di Rama furono Seba e Dedan.

8 E Cus generò Nimrod. Esso cominciò ad esser possente sulla terra.

9 Egli fu un potente cacciatore nel cospetto del Signore; perciò si dice: Come Nimrod, potente cacciatore nel cospetto del Signore.

10 E il principio del suo regno fu Babilonia, ed Erec, ed Accad, e Calne, nel paese di Sinear.

11 Di quel paese uscì Assur, ed edificò Ninive, e la città di Rehobot, a Cala;

12 e, fra Ninive e Cala, Resen, la gran città.

13 E Misraim generò Ludim, ed Anamim, e Lehabim, e Naftuhim,

14 e Patrusim, e Casluhim onde sono usciti i Filistei, e Caftorim.

15 E Canaan generò Sidon suo primogenito, ed Het;

16 e il Gebuseo, e l’Amorreo, e il Ghirgaseo;

17 e l’Hivveo, e l’Archeo, e il Sineo;

18 e l’Arvadeo, e il Semareo, e l’Hamateo. E poi le famiglie de’ Cananei si sparsero.

19 Ed i confini de’ Cananei furono da Sidon, traendo verso Gherar, fino a Gaza; e traendo verso Sodoma, e Gomorra, ed Adma, e Seboim, fino a Lesa.

20 Questi sono i figliuoli di Cam, secondo le lor famiglie e lingue, ne’ lor paesi e nazioni.

21 A Sem ancora, padre di tutti i figliuoli di Eber, e fratel maggiore di Iafet, nacquero figliuoli.

22 I figliuoli di Sem furono Elam, ed Assur, ed Arfacsad, e Lud, ed Aram.

23 E i figliuoli di Aram furono Us, Hul, Gheter, e Mas.

24 Ed Arfacsad generò Sela, e Sela generò Eber.

25 E ad Eber nacquero due figliuoli, il nome dell’uno fu Peleg, perciocchè al suo tempo la terra fu divisa; e il nome dell’altro suo fratello fu Ioctan.

26 E Ioctan generò Almodad, e Selef, ed Asarmavet, e Iera;

27 e Hadoram, ed Huzal, e Dicla;

28 ed Obal, ed Abimael, e Seba;

29 ed Ofir, ed Havila, e Iobab. Tutti costoro furono figliuoli di Ioctan.

30 E le loro abitazioni furono da Mesa, traendo verso Sefar, fino al monte Orientale.

31 Costoro furono i figliuoli di Sem, secondo le lor famiglie e lingue, ne’ lor paesi, per le lor nazioni.

32 Queste son le famiglie de’ figliuoli di Noè secondo le loro generazioni, nelle lor nazioni; e da costoro sono discese le genti divise per la terra, dopo il diluvio.

   


To many Protestant and Evangelical Italians, the Bibles translated by Giovanni Diodati are an important part of their history. Diodati’s first Italian Bible edition was printed in 1607, and his second in 1641. He died in 1649. Throughout the 1800s two editions of Diodati’s text were printed by the British Foreign Bible Society. This is the more recent 1894 edition, translated by Claudiana.

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1201. That “Zidon” signifies exterior knowledges of spiritual things, is evident from the fact that it is called the “first-born of Canaan;” for the firstborn of every church, in the internal sense, is faith n. 352, 367 as at here, where there is no faith, because no internal things, there are nothing but exterior knowledges of spiritual things which are in the place of faith; thus knowledges such as existed among the Jews, which are knowledges not only of the rites of external worship, but also of many things, such as doctrinals, which belong to that worship. That this is the signification of “Zidon” is also evident from the fact that Tyre and Zidon were extreme borders of Philistia, and were moreover by the sea; and therefore by “Tyre” interior knowledges are signified, and by “Zidon” exterior knowledges, that is, of spiritual things-which is also evident from the Word.

In Jeremiah:

On the day that cometh to lay waste all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remaineth; for Jehovah will lay waste the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor (Jeremiah 47:4).

Here “the Philistines” denote the mere memory-knowledge of the knowledges of faith and charity; “Tyre” denotes the interior knowledges, and “Zidon” the exterior knowledges, of spiritual things.

[2] In Joel:

What are ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the borders of Philistia? Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and gold, and have carried into your temples My desirable good things (Joel 3:4-5).

Here “Tyre and Zidon” evidently denote knowledges, and are called “the borders of Philistia;” “silver and gold,” and “desirable good things,” are knowledges.

In Ezekiel:

The princes of the north, all of them, and every Zidonian who has gone down with the slain into the pit. When he has been made to lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain with the sword; Pharaoh and all his crowd (Ezekiel 32:30, 32).

“The Zidonians” here denote exterior knowledges, which without internal things are nothing but memory-knowledges and therefore they are named in connection with Pharaoh, or Egypt, by whom memory-knowledges are signified.

In Zechariah:

Hamath also shall be bordered thereon; Tyre and Zidon, because she was very wise (Zechariah 9:2).

The subject here is Damascus; “Tyre and Zidon” denote knowledges.

[3] In Ezekiel:

The inhabitants of Zidon and of Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots (Ezekiel 27:8).

Here “Tyre” denotes interior knowledges; wherefore her wise men are called “pilots;” and “Zidon” denotes exterior knowledges, and therefore her inhabitants are called “rowers;” for such is the relation of interior knowledges to exterior.

In Isaiah:

Let the inhabitants of the isle be silent, the merchant of Zidon, that passes over the sea, they have replenished thee. And in great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river was her revenue, and she was the mart of nations. Be ashamed, O Zidon, for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor caused virgins to grow up (Isaiah 23:2-4).

“Zidon” here denotes exterior knowledges, which, because there is nothing internal in them, are called “the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river her revenue, the mart of the nations,” and also “the sea,” and “the stronghold of the sea;” and it is said that she doth not “travail and bring forth”—which could not be comprehended in the literal sense, but is all perfectly clear in the internal sense; as is the case with other passages in the Prophets. Because “Zidon” signifies exterior knowledges, it is said to be “a circuit about Israel,” that is, around the spiritual church (Ezekiel 28:24, 26); for exterior knowledges are like a circuit round about.

  
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