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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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728. That “in yet seven days” here signifies the beginning of temptation, is evident from the internal sense of all things mentioned in this verse, in that the temptation of the man called “Noah” is treated of. It treats in general both of his temptation and of the total vastation of those who were of the Most Ancient Church and had become such as has been described. Therefore “in yet seven days” signifies not only the beginning of temptation, but also the end of vastation. The reason why these things are signified by “in yet seven days” is that “seven” is a holy number, as was said and shown before in Genesis 7:2 and in Genesis 4:15-24; and at n. 84-87. “In seven days” signifies the Lord’s coming into the world, also His coming into glory, and every coming of the Lord in particular. It is an attendant feature of every coming of the Lord that it is a beginning to those who are being regenerated, and is the end of those who are being vastated. Thus to the man of this church the Lord’s coming was the beginning of temptation; for when man is tempted he begins to become a new man and to be regenerated. And at the same time it was the end of those of the Most Ancient Church who had become such that they could not but perish. Just so when the Lord came into the world-the church at that time was in its last state of vastation, and was then made new.

[2] That these things are signified by “in yet seven days” is evident in Daniel:

Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people, and upon the city of thy holiness, to consummate the transgression, to seal up sins, and to purge away iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. Know therefore and perceive, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks (Daniel 9:24-25).

Here “seventy weeks” and “seven weeks” signify the same as “seven days” namely, the coming of the Lord. But as here there is a manifest prophecy, the times are still more sacredly and certainly designated by septenary numbers. It is evident then not only that “seven” thus applied to times signifies the coming of the Lord, but that the beginning also of a new church at that time is signified by the “anointing of the holy of holies” and by Jerusalem being “restored and built.” And at the same time the last vastation is signified by the words, “Seventy weeks are decreed upon the city of holiness, to consummate the transgression, and to seal up sins.”

[3] So in other places in the Word, as in Ezekiel, where he says of himself:

I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that sat by the river Chebar, and I sat there astonished among them seven days; and it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of Jehovah came unto me (Ezekiel 3:15-16).

Here also “seven days” denote the beginning of visitation; for after seven days, while he sat among those who were in captivity, the word of Jehovah came unto him. Again:

They shall bury Gog, that they may cleanse the land, seven months; at the end of seven months they shall search (Ezekiel 39:12, 14).

Here likewise “seven” denotes the last limit of vastation, and the first of visitation.

In Daniel:

The heart of Nebuchadnezzar shall they change from man, and the heart of a beast shall be given unto him, and seven times shall pass over him (Daniel 4:16, 25, 32),

denoting in like manner the end of vastation, and the beginning of a new man.

[4] The “seventy years” of Babylonish captivity represented the same. Whether the number is “seventy” or “seven” it involves the same, be it seven days or seven years, or seven ages which make seventy years. Vastation was represented by the years of captivity; the beginning of a new church by the liberation and the rebuilding of the temple. Similar things were also represented by the service of Jacob with Laban, where these words occur:

I will serve thee seven years for Rachel; and Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and Laban said, Fulfill this week, and I will give thee her also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years; and Jacob did so, and fulfilled this week (Genesis 29:18, 20, 27-28).

Here the “seven years” of service involve the same, and also that after the days of seven years came the marriage and freedom. This period of seven years was called a “week” as also in Daniel.

[5] The same was represented too in the command that they should compass the city of Jericho “seven times” and the wall would then fall down; and it is said that:

On the seventh day they rose with the dawn and compassed the city after the same manner seven times, and it came to pass at the seventh time the seven priests blew the seven trumpets and the wall fell down (Joshua 6:10-20).If these things had not likewise had such a signification, the command that they should compass the city seven times, and that there should be seven priests and seven trumpets would never have been given. From these and many other passages (as Job 2:13; Revelation 15:1, 6-7; 21:9), it is evident that “in seven days” signifies the beginning of a new church, and the end of the old. In the passage before us, as it treats both of the man of the church called “Noah” and his temptation, and of the last posterity of the Most Ancient Church, which destroyed itself, “in yet seven days” can have no other signification than the beginning of Noah’s temptation and the end or final devastation and expiration of the Most Ancient Church.

  
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Joshua 6:10-20

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10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."

11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.

13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they went.

14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."

20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.