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Genesi 23

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1 OR la vita di Sara fu di cenventisette anni. Questi furono gli anni della vita di Sara.

2 E Sara morì in Chiriat-Arba, ch’è Hebron, nel paese di Canaan, ed Abrahamo entrò, per far duolo di Sara, e per piangerla.

3 Poi Abrahamo si levò d’appresso al suo morto, e parlò a’ figliuoli di Het, dicendo:

4 Io sono straniere ed avveniticcio appresso di voi; datemi la possessione di una sepoltura appo voi; acciocchè io seppellisca il mio morto, e mel levi d’innanzi.

5 E i figliuoli di Het risposero ad Abrahamo, dicendogli:

6 Signor mio, ascoltaci: Tu sei per mezzo noi un principe divino; seppellisci il tuo morto nella più scelta delle nostre sepolture; niuno di noi ti rifiuterà la sua sepoltura, che tu non vi seppellisca il tuo morto.

7 Ed Abrahamo si levò, e s’inchinò al popolo del paese, a’ figliuoli di Het; e parlò con loro, dicendo:

8 Se voi avete nell’animo che io seppellisca il mio morto, e mel levi d’innanzi, ascoltatemi: Intercedete per me appo Efron, figliuolo di Sohar;

9 che mi dia la spelonca di Macpela, che è sua, la quale è nell’estremità del suo campo; che me la dia per lo suo prezzo intiero, per possession di sepoltura fra voi.

10 Or Efron sedeva per mezzo i figliuoli di Het. Ed Efron Hitteo rispose ad Abrahamo, in presenza de’ figliuoli di Het, di tutti coloro ch’entravano nella porta della sua città, dicendo:

11 No, signor mio; ascoltami: Io ti dono il campo; ti dono ancora la spelonca ch’è in esso; io te ne fo un dono, in presenza de’ figliuoli del mio popolo; seppelliscivi il tuo morto.

12 Ed Abrahamo s’inchinò al popolo del paese;

13 e parlò ad Efron, in presenza del popolo del paese, dicendo: Anzi se così ti piace, ascoltami, ti prego: Io darò i danari del campo; prendili da me, ed io vi seppellirò il mio morto.

14 Ed Efron rispose ad Abrahamo, dicendogli:

15 Signor mio, ascoltami: Fra me e te che cosa è una terra di quattrocento sicli d’argento? seppelliscivi pure il tuo morto.

16 Ed Abrahamo acconsentì ad Efron, e gli pagò i danari ch’egli gli avea detto, in presenza de’ figliuoli di Het; cioè quattrocento sicli d’argento, correnti fra’ mercatanti.

17 Così l’acquisto del campo di Efron, il quale è in Macpela, ch’è dirimpetto a Mamre, insieme con la spelonca che è in esso, e con tutti gli alberi ch’erano in esso campo, in tutti i suoi confini attorno attorno,

18 fu fermato ad Abrahamo, in presenza de’ figliuoli di Het, fra tutti coloro ch’entravano nella porta della città di esso.

19 E dopo ciò, Abrahamo seppellì Sara, sua moglie, nella spelonca del campo di Macpela, ch’è dirimpetto a Mamre, ch’è Hebron, nel paese di Canaan.

20 Così l’acquisto di quel campo, e della spelonca ch’è in esso, fu fermato ad Abrahamo, per possession di sepoltura, dai figliuoli di Het.

   


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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2901. Genesis 23

1. And the life 1 of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years - the years of the life 1 of Sarah.

2. And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

3. And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

4. I am a stranger and an inhabitant among you; give me possession of a grave among you, and I will bury my dead from before me.

5. And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

6. Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God in the midst of us; in the choicest of our graves bury your dead; none of us will withhold his grave from you, from burying your dead.

7. And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth.

8. And he spoke to them, saying, If you are willing 2 to let me bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron the son of Zohar.

9. And let him give me the cave of Machpelah which is his, which is at the end of his field; for the full price 3 let him give it to me in the midst of you, as a possession for a grave.

10. And Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham, in the ears of the sons of Heth, to all entering into the gate of his city, saying,

11. No, my lord, hear me; the field I give to you, and the cave that is in it I give to you; before the eyes of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.

12. And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

13. And he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Even so, please hear me; I will give the price 4 of the field; accept it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

14. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

15. My lord, hear me; the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.

16. And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.

17. And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah - which was before Mamre - the field and the cave which was in it, and every tree which was in the field, which was in all its borders round about, was made over

18. To Abraham as an acquisition, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, in [the presence] of all entering the gate of his city.

19. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

20. And the field and the cave which was in it were made over to Abraham as a possession for a grave, from the sons of Heth.

CONTENTS

The subject here in the internal sense is the new spiritual Church which was raised up by the Lord after the previous one had altogether breathed its last, and also the reception of faith among those who belonged to the Church. 'Sarah' here is Divine truth that breathed its last; 'burial' is a raising up again; 'Ephron' and 'the sons of Heth' are those people among whom the good and truth of the Church was received; 'Machpelah, which was before Mamre' is regeneration; 'Hebron in the land of Canaan' is a new Church.

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1. literally, lives

2. literally, If it is with your soul

3. literally, in full silver or money

4. literally, the silver or the money

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.