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Genesi 30

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1 E Rachele, veggendo che non faceva figliuoli a Giacobbe, portò invidia alla sua sorella; e disse a Giacobbe: Dammi de’ figliuoli; altrimenti io son morta.

2 E Giacobbe s’accesse in ira contro a Rachele, e disse: Sono io in luogo di Dio, il qual t’ha dinegato il frutto del ventre?

3 Ed ella disse: Ecco Bilha, mia serva; entra da lei ed ella partorirà sopra le mie ginocchia, ed io ancora avrò progenie da lei.

4 Ed ella diede a Giacobbe Bilha, sua serva, per moglie, ed egli entrò da lei.

5 E Bilha concepette, e partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.

6 E Rachele disse: Iddio mi ha fatto ragione, ed ha eziandio ascoltata la mia voce, e mi ha dato un figliuolo; perciò ella gli pose nome Dan.

7 E Bilha, serva di Rachele, concepette ancora, e partorì un secondo figliuolo a Giacobbe.

8 E Rachele disse: Io ho lottate le lotte di Dio con la mia sorella; ed anche ho vinto; perciò pose nome a quel figliuolo Neftali.

9 E Lea, veggendo ch’era restata di partorire, prese Zilpa, sua serva, e la diede a Giacobbe per moglie.

10 E Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.

11 E Lea disse: Buona ventura è giunta; e pose nome a quel figliuolo Gad.

12 Poi Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì un secondo figliuolo a Giacobbe.

13 E Lea disse: Quest’è per farmi beata; conciossiachè le donne mi chiameranno beata; perciò ella pose nome a quel figliuolo Aser.

14 Or Ruben andò fuori al tempo della ricolta de’ grani, e trovò delle mandragole per i campi, e le portò a Lea, sua madre. E Rachele disse a Lea: Deh! dammi delle mandragole del tuo figliuolo.

15 Ed ella le disse: È egli poco che tu mi abbi tolto il mio marito, che tu mi vuoi ancora togliere le mandragole del mio figliuolo? E Rachele disse: Or su, giacciasi egli questa notte teco per le mandragole del tuo figliuolo.

16 E come Giacobbe se ne veniva in su la sera da’ campi, Lea gli uscì incontro, e gli disse: Entra da me; perciocchè io ti ho tolto a prezzo per le mandragole del mio figliuolo. Egli adunque si giacque con lei quella notte.

17 E Iddio esaudì Lea, talchè ella concepette, e partorì il quinto figliuolo a Giacobbe.

18 Ed ella disse: Iddio mi ha dato il mio premio, di ciò che io diedi la mia serva al mio marito; e pose nome a quel figliuolo Issacar.

19 E Lea concepette ancora, e partorì il sesto figliuolo a Giacobbe.

20 E Lea disse: Iddio mi ha dotata d’una buona dote; questa volta il mio marito abiterà meco, poichè io gli ho partoriti sei figliuoli; e pose nome a quel figliuolo Zabulon.

21 Poi partorì una figliuola, e le pose nome Dina.

22 E Iddio si ricordò di Rachele, e l’esaudì, e le aperse la matrice.

23 Ed ella concepette, e partorì un figliuolo; e disse: Iddio ha tolto via il mio obbrobrio.

24 E pose nome a quel figliuolo Giuseppe, dicendo: Il Signore mi aggiunga un altro figliuolo.

25 E, dopo che Rachele ebbe partorito Giuseppe, Giacobbe disse a Labano: Dammi licenza, acciocchè io me ne vada al mio luogo, ed al mio paese.

26 Dammi le mie mogli, per le quali io ti ho servito, ed i miei figliuoli; acciocchè io me ne vada; perciocchè tu sai il servigio che io t’ho renduto.

27 E Labano gli disse: Deh! se pure ho trovato grazia appo te: Io ho veduto che il Signore mi ha benedetto per cagion tua.

28 Poi disse: Significami appunto qual salario mi ti converrà dare, ed io te lo darò.

29 Ed egli gli disse: Tu sai come io ti ho servito, e quale è divenuto il tuo bestiame meco.

30 Perciocchè poco era quello che tu avevi, avanti che io venissi; ma ora egli è cresciuto sommamente; e il Signore ti ha benedetto per lo mio governo; ed ora quando mi adopererò io ancora per la mia famiglia?

31 Ed egli disse: Che ti darò io? E Giacobbe disse: Non darmi nulla; se tu mi fai questo, io tornerò a pasturare, ed a guardar le tue pecore.

32 Io passerò oggi per mezzo tutte le tue gregge, levandone, d’infra le pecore, ogni agnello macchiato e vaiolato; e ogni agnello di color fosco; e, d’infra le capre, le vaiolate e le macchiate; e tal sarà da ora innanzi il mio salario.

33 Così da questo dì innanzi, quando tu mi contenderai il mio salario, la mia giustizia risponderà per me nel tuo cospetto; tutto ciò che non sarà macchiato o vaiolato fra le capre, e di color fosco fra le pecore, e sarà trovato appo me, sarà furto.

34 E Labano disse: Ecco, sia come tu hai detto.

35 Ed in quel dì mise da parte i becchi, e i montoni macchiati e vaiolati; e tutte le capre macchiate e vaiolate; e tutte quelle in cui era alcuna macchia bianca; e, d’infra le pecore, tutte quelle ch’erano di color fosco; e le mise tra le mani de’ suoi figliuoli.

36 E frappose il cammino di tre giornate fra sè e Giacobbe. E Giacobbe pasturava il rimanente delle gregge di Labano.

37 E Giacobbe prese delle verghe verdi di pioppo, di nocciuolo, e di castagno; e vi fece delle scorzature bianche, scoprendo il bianco ch’era nelle verghe.

38 Poi piantò le verghe ch’egli avea scorzate, dinanzi alle gregge, ne’ canali dell’acqua, e negli abbeveratoi, ove le pecore venivano a bere; e le pecore entravano in calore quando venivano a bere.

39 Le pecore adunque e le capre entravano in calore, vedendo quelle verghe; onde figliavano parti vergati, macchiati, e viaolati.

40 Poi, come Giacobbe avea spartiti gli agnelli, faceva volger gli occhi alle pecore delle gregge di Labano, verso le vaiolate, e verso tutte quelle ch’erano di color fosco; e metteva le sue gregge da parte, e non le metteva di rincontro alle pecore di Labano.

41 E ogni volta che le pecore primaiuole entravano in calore, Giacobbe metteva quelle verghe ne’ canali, alla vista delle pecore e delle capre; acciocchè entrassero in calore, alla vista di quelle verghe.

42 Ma, quando le pecore erano serotine, egli non ve le poneva; e così le pecore serotine erano di Labano, e le primaiuole di Giacobbe.

43 E quell’uomo crebbe sommamente in facoltà, ed ebbe molte gregge, e servi, e serve, e cammelli, ed asini.

   


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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3857. 'And Rachel was barren' means that interior truths were not received. This is clear from the representation of 'Rachel' as the affection for interior truth, dealt with already, and from the meaning of 'barren' as not giving rise to doctrines, nor thus Churches. This statement expresses the opposite of what is said in reference to Leah, that is, that 'Jehovah opened her womb', meaning that the affection represented by her gave rise to the doctrines taught by the Churches. The reason interior truths were not received is that interior truths are such as go above the range of man's belief, that is to say, they do not fall into ideas he has and are not conditioned by the outward appearances or the illusions of the senses by which everyone allows himself to be led. He does not believe interior truths unless in some way they coincide with those appearances or illusions.

[2] For example, it is an interior truth that intervals of time and of space do not exist in the next life, but states instead. Man who is within time and space while he lives in the world forms all his ideas from these, so much so that he cannot have any thought without them, 3404. Consequently unless the states which exist in the next life were described by means of the intervals of time and space which man experiences, that is, by means of the kind of things that are moulded by time and space, he would perceive nothing and so believe nothing, and as a consequence would receive nothing. Doctrine would in that case be barren and no Church would arise from it.

[3] Take another example. Unless celestial and spiritual affections were described by means of such things as constitute worldly and bodily affections man would not perceive anything, for these are the affections he experiences, and it is from them that he is able to have notions about celestial and spiritual affections. Yet the two types of affections are as different from each other, or as far apart, as heaven from earth. Take for example the glory of heaven, that is, of the angels in heaven, 3839. Unless man modelled his idea of the glory of heaven on the idea of the glory which exists in the world he would not grasp it at all and so would not acknowledge it. The same applies to all other interior or heavenly things.

[4] For this reason the Lord has spoken in the Word in accordance with man's own ability to grasp things and with the appearances that go with that grasp of them. The literal sense of the Word is such, yet at the same time is of such a nature that it holds within it the internal sense which contains interior truths. This then explains why it is said in reference to Leah that 'Jehovah opened her womb', and that 'Rachel was barren'; for as has been stated, 'Leah' represents the affection for exterior truth, 'Rachel' the affection for interior truth. But because exterior truths are the first truths which a person learns, the Lord has provided that by means of them he can be introduced into interior truths. This provision is meant by the statement in Genesis 30:22 that God at last remembered Rachel, hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

[5] The truth of all this may be seen from the Churches which existed in ancient times, and from their doctrinal teachings, namely that their teachings were formed from external truths. With the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood their doctrinal teachings were for the most part external representatives and meaningful signs which had internal truths stored within them. For the majority of its members holy worship consisted in those external representatives and signs. If anyone had told them that the essential ingredients of Divine worship were not those representatives and meaningful signs but the spiritual and celestial realities represented and meant by these, they would have rejected them altogether, and so the Church would have ceased to exist. This applied even more to the Jewish Church. If anyone had told them that their religious observances received their holiness from the Divine things that were the Lord's within them they would not have acknowledged them at all.

[6] Such also was mankind when the Lord came into the world. They had grown even more bodily-minded, especially so those who were members of the Church. This is quite evident even from the disciples who, though with the Lord constantly and hearing so many things about His kingdom, were as yet unable to perceive interior truths. They were still unable to have any other concept of the Lord than such as exists with the Jews at the present day about the Messiah whom they are still awaiting. They imagined that He would promote that people to a position of dominion and glory over all nations throughout the world. And after hearing so many things from the Lord about the heavenly kingdom the disciples were still unable to think anything else than that the heavenly kingdom would be like an earthly kingdom, where God the Father would be supreme, after Him the Son, and then themselves the twelve, and so would reign in this order. For the same reasons also James and John asked to sit one on His right and the other on the left, Mark 10:35-37; and the rest of the disciples were angry at these two wishing to be greater than the rest, Mark 10:41; Matthew 20:24. For the same reason also, after teaching them what it was to be greatest in heaven, Matthew 20:25-28; Mark 10:42-45, the Lord still spoke in the way that they themselves thought. That is to say, He spoke of them sitting on twelve thrones and judging the twelve tribes of Israel, Luke 22:24, 30; Matthew 19:28.

[7] If they had been told that the word 'disciples' was not used to mean themselves but all people in whom the good of love and faith dwells, 3354, 3488, and also that in the Lord's kingdom there are no thrones, nor positions of government and dominion, as in the world, and that they would not be able to pass judgement on even the smallest aspect of any one person, 2129, 2553, they would have rejected that saying, and each would have left the Lord and gone back to his own employment. The reason why the Lord spoke in the way He did was so that they would receive those things and through them be introduced into internal truths. For within the external truths which the Lord spoke internal truths lay stored away which in course of time are laid bare. And when these are laid bare those external truths are dispelled and serve solely as the objects or the means for thought about internal ones. From these considerations one may recognize what is meant by the fact that Jehovah opened Leah's womb first and she bore sons to Jacob, and that Rachel did so subsequently.

  
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