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Genesi 28

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1 Allora Isacco chiamò Giacobbe, lo benedisse e gli diede quest’ordine: "Non prender moglie tra le figliuole di Canaan.

2 Lèvati, vattene in Paddan-Aram, alla casa di Bethuel, padre di tua madre, e prenditi moglie di là, tra le figliuole di Labano, fratello di tua madre.

3 E l’Iddio onnipotente ti benedica, ti renda fecondo e ti moltiplichi, in guisa che tu diventi un’assemblea di popoli,

4 e ti dia la benedizione d’Abrahamo: a te, e alla tua progenie con te; affinché tu possegga il paese dove sei andato peregrinando, e che Dio donò ad Abrahamo".

5 E Isacco fece partire Giacobbe, il quale se n’andò in Paddan-Aram da Labano, figliuolo di Bethuel, l’Arameo, fratello di Rebecca, madre di Giacobbe e di Esaù.

6 Or Esaù vide che Isacco avea benedetto Giacobbe e l’avea mandato in Paddan-Aram perché vi prendesse moglie; e che, benedicendolo, gli avea dato quest’ordine: "Non prender moglie tra le figliuole di Canaan",

7 e che Giacobbe aveva ubbidito a suo padre e a sua madre, e se n’era andato in Paddan-Aram.

8 Ed Esaù s’accorse che le figliuole di Canaan dispiacevano ad Isacco suo padre;

9 e andò da Ismaele, e prese per moglie, oltre quelle che aveva già, Mahalath, figliuola d’Ismaele, figliuolo d’Abrahamo, sorella di Nebaioth.

10 Or Giacobbe partì da Beer-Sceba e se n’andò verso Charan.

11 Capitò in un certo luogo, e vi passò la notte, perché il sole era già tramontato. Prese una delle pietre del luogo, la pose come suo capezzale e si coricò quivi.

12 E sognò; ed ecco una scala appoggiata sulla terra, la cui cima toccava il cielo; ed ecco gli angeli di Dio, che salivano e scendevano per la scala.

13 E l’Eterno stava al disopra d’essa, e gli disse: "Io sono l’Eterno, l’Iddio d’Abrahamo tuo padre e l’Iddio d’Isacco; la terra sulla quale tu stai coricato, io la darò a te e alla tua progenie;

14 e la tua progenie sarà come la polvere della terra, e tu ti estenderai ad occidente e ad oriente, a settentrione e a mezzodì; e tutte le famiglie della terra saranno benedette in te e nella tua progenie.

15 Ed ecco, io son teco, e ti guarderò dovunque tu andrai, e ti ricondurrò in questo paese; poiché io non ti abbandonerò prima d’aver fatto quello che t’ho detto".

16 E come Giacobbe si fu svegliato dal suo sonno, disse: "Certo, l’Eterno è in questo luogo ed io non lo sapevo!"

17 Ed ebbe paura, e disse: "Com’è tremendo questo luogo! Questa non è altro che la casa di Dio, e questa è la porta del cielo!"

18 E Giacobbe si levò la mattina di buon’ora, prese la pietra che avea posta come suo capezzale, la eresse in monumento, e versò dell’olio sulla sommità d’essa.

19 E pose nome a quel luogo Bethel; ma, prima, il nome della città era Luz.

20 E Giacobbe fece un voto, dicendo: "Se Dio è meco, se mi guarda durante questo viaggio che fo, se mi pane da mangiare e vesti da coprirmi,

21 e se ritorno sano e salvo alla casa del padre mio, l’Eterno sarà il mio Dio;

22 e questa pietra che ho eretta in monumento, sarà la casa di Dio; e di tutto quello che tu darai a me, io, certamente, darò a te la decima".

   

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3656. Genesis 28

1. And Isaac called to Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

2. Rise up, go to Paddan Aram, to the home of Bethuel your mother's father, and take for yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

3. And God Shaddai will bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you; and you will be an assembly of peoples.

4. And He will give you the blessing of Abraham, you and your seed with you, to inherit the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.

5. And Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

6. And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Paddan Aram to take a wife for himself from there, and in blessing him had commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

7. And that Jacob had listened to his father and to his mother, and had gone to Paddan Aram.

8. And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father.

9. And Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, as a wife (mulier) in addition to the wives (femina) he had.

10. And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went to Haran.

11. And he came upon a place, and spent the night there because the sun had gone down. And he took one of the stones of the place and placed it as his headrest, and lay down in that place.

12. And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway set up on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God going up and coming down on it.

13. And behold, Jehovah was standing above it, and He said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your seed.

14. And your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will break forth towards the sea, and towards the east, and towards the north, and towards the south; and in you will all the families of the ground be blessed - and in your seed.

15. And behold, I am with you, and will guard you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this ground; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken about to you.

16. And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place and I did not know it.

17. And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is nothing other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

18. And in the morning Jacob rose up early, and took the stone which he had placed as his headrest, and placed it as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

19. And he called the name of that place Bethel, though Luz was the name of the city previously.

20. And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and guard me on this road on which I am walking, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

21. And I come back in peace to my father's house, then Jehovah will be my God.

22. And this stone which I have placed as a pillar will be God's house; and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.

CONTENTS

The subject here in the highest sense is the way in which the Lord began to make Divine both the truth and the good of His Natural, a general description being given of the means by which He accomplished this. But in the representative sense the subject is the way in which the Lord regenerates or makes new both the truth and the good of the natural man, a general description likewise being given of the process by which He accomplishes it, verses 1-9.

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