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Genesi 32

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1 Giacobbe continuò il suo cammino, e gli si fecero incontro degli angeli di Dio.

2 E come Giacobbe li vide, disse: "Questo è il campo di Dio"; e pose nome a quel luogo Mahanaim.

3 Giacobbe mandò davanti a sé dei messi a Esaù suo fratello, nel paese di Seir, nella campagna di Edom.

4 E dette loro quest’ordine: "Direte così ad Esaù, mio signore: Così dice il tuo servo Giacobbe: Io ho soggiornato presso Labano, e vi sono rimasto fino ad ora;

5 ho buoi, asini, pecore, servi e serve; e lo mando a dire al mio signore, per trovar grazia agli occhi tuoi".

6 E i messi tornarono a Giacobbe, dicendo: "Siamo andati dal tuo fratello Esaù, ed eccolo che ti viene incontro con quattrocento uomini".

7 Allora Giacobbe fu preso da gran paura ed angosciato; divise in due schiere la gente ch’era con lui, i greggi, gli armenti, i cammelli, e disse:

8 "Se Esaù viene contro una delle schiere e la batte, la schiera che rimane potrà salvarsi".

9 Poi Giacobbe disse: "O Dio d’Abrahamo mio padre, Dio di mio padre Isacco! O Eterno, che mi dicesti: Torna al tuo paese e al tuo parentado e ti farò del bene,

10 io son troppo piccolo per esser degno di tutte le benignità che hai usate e di tutta la fedeltà che hai dimostrata al tuo servo; poiché io passai questo Giordano col mio bastone, e ora son divenuto due schiere.

11 Liberami, ti prego, dalle mani di mio fratello, dalle mani di Esaù; perché io ho paura di lui e temo che venga e mi dia addosso, non risparmiando né madrebambini.

12 E tu dicesti: Certo, io ti farò del bene, e farò diventare la tua progenie come la rena del mare, la quale non si può contare da tanta che ce n’è".

13 Ed egli passò quivi quella notte; e di quello che avea sotto mano prese di che fare un dono al suo fratello Esaù:

14 duecento capre e venti capri, duecento pecore e venti montoni,

15 trenta cammelle allattanti coi loro parti, quaranta vacche e dieci tori, venti asine e dieci puledri.

16 E li consegnò ai suoi servi, gregge per gregge separatamente, e disse ai suoi servi: "Passate dinanzi a me, e fate che vi sia qualche intervallo fra gregge e gregge".

17 E dette quest’ordine al primo: "Quando il mio fratello Esaù t’incontrerà e ti chiederà: Di chi sei? dove vai? a chi appartiene questo gregge che va dinanzi a te?

18 tu risponderai: Al tuo servo Giacobbe, è un dono inviato al mio signore Esaù; ed ecco, egli stesso vien dietro a noi".

19 E dette lo stesso ordine al secondo, al terzo, e a tutti quelli che seguivano i greggi, dicendo: "In questo modo parlerete a Esaù, quando lo troverete,

20 e direte: "Ecco il tuo servo Giacobbe, che viene egli stesso dietro a noi". Perché diceva: "Io lo placherò col dono che mi precede, e, dopo, vedrò la sua faccia; forse, mi farà buona accoglienza".

21 Così il dono andò innanzi a lui, ed egli passò la notte nell’accampamento.

22 E si levò, quella notte, prese le sue due mogli, le sue due serve, i suoi undici figliuoli, e passò il guado di Iabbok.

23 Li prese, fece loro passare il torrente, e lo fece passare a tutto quello che possedeva.

24 Giacobbe rimase solo, e un uomo lottò con lui fino all’apparir dell’alba.

25 E quando quest’uomo vide che non lo poteva vincere, gli toccò la commessura dell’anca; e la commessura dell’anca di Giacobbe fu slogata, mentre quello lottava con lui.

26 E l’uomo disse: "Lasciami andare, ché spunta l’alba". E Giacobbe: "Non ti lascerò andare prima che tu m’abbia benedetto!"

27 E l’altro gli disse: Qual è il tuo nome?" Ed egli rispose: "Giacobbe".

28 E quello disse: "Il tuo nome non sarà più Giacobbe, ma Israele, poiché tu hai lottato con Dio e con gli uomini, ed hai vinto".

29 E Giacobbe gli chiese: "Deh, palesami il tuo nome". E quello rispose: "Perché mi chiedi il mio nome?"

30 E lo benedisse quivi. E Giacobbe chiamò quel luogo Peniel, "perché", disse, "ho veduto Iddio a faccia a faccia, e la mia vita è stata risparmiata".

31 Il sole si levava com’egli ebbe passato Peniel; e Giacobbe zoppicava dell’anca.

32 Per questo, fino al dì d’oggi, gl’Israeliti non mangiano il nervo della coscia che passa per la commessura dell’anca, perché quell’uomo avea toccato la commessura dell’anca di Giacobbe, al punto del nervo della coscia.

   

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4283. 'He said, Let me go, for the dawn is coming up' means that the temptation came to an end when the joining together was at hand. This is clear from the meaning of 'letting me go' - that is to say, 'give up wrestling with me' - as the ending of the temptation (for 'wrestling' means temptation, see above in 4274; and the fact that it did come to an end is evident from what follows); and from the meaning of 'the dawn' as the joining of natural good, meant by 'Jacob', to the celestial-spiritual, that is, to the Divine good of truth, also dealt with above in 4275.

[2] The reason why the wrestling began before the dawn came up and why it finished after it came up, and why what happened when the sun had risen is mentioned after that, is that the times of day, like the seasons of the year, mean states, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3785. At present the state of conjunction effected by temptations is meant; for when the joining of the internal man to the external takes place it is 'dawn' to him, because at that time he enters a spiritual or a celestial state. At that time also light like that at dawn is seen by him, if his state is such that he is able to observe it. What is more, the understanding part of his mind receives light and becomes for him like the experience of waking up in the morning from sleep, when dawn first sheds her light and starts off the day.

  
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Genesis 32

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1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

2 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'

10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

12 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

13 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"

19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

25 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."

27 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

29 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

32 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.