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Genesi 16

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1 OR Sarai, moglie di Abramo, non gli partoriva figliuoli;

2 ed avendo una serva egizia, nominata Agar, disse ad Abramo: Ecco, ora il Signore mi ha fatta sterile, tal che non posso far figliuoli; deh! entra dalla mia serva; forse avrò progenie da lei. Ed Abramo acconsentì alla voce di Sarai.

3 Sarai adunque, moglie di Abramo, prese Agar egizia, sua serva, dopo che Abramo fu abitato nel paese di Canaan lo spazio di dieci anni, e la diede ad Abramo suo marito, da essergli per moglie.

4 Ed egli entrò da lei, ed ella concepette; e, veggendo che avea conceputo, sprezzò la sua padrona.

5 E Sarai disse ad Abramo: L’ingiuria ch’è fatta a me è sopra te; io ti ho data la mia serva in seno; ed ella, veggendo che ha conceputo, mi sprezza; il Signore giudichi fra me e te.

6 Ed Abramo rispose a Sarai: Ecco, la tua serva è in mano tua; falle come ti piacerà. Sarai adunque l’afflisse; laonde ella se ne fuggì dal suo cospetto.

7 E l’Angelo del Signore la trovò presso di una fonte d’acqua, nel deserto, presso della fonte ch’è in su la via di Sur.

8 E le disse: Agar, serva di Sarai, onde vieni? ed ove vai? Ed ella rispose: Io me ne fuggo dal cospetto di Sarai, mia padrona.

9 E l’Angelo del Signore le disse: Ritornatene alla tua padrona, ed umiliati sotto la sua mano.

10 L’Angelo del Signore le disse ancora: Io moltiplicherò grandemente la tua progenie; e non si potrà annoverare, per la moltitudine.

11 L’Angelo del Signore le disse oltre a ciò: Ecco, tu sei gravida, e partorirai un figliuolo, al quale poni nome Ismaele; perciocchè il Signore ha udita la tua afflizione.

12 Ed esso sarà un uomo simigliante ad un asino salvatico; la man sua sarà contro a tutti, e la man di tutti contro a lui; ed egli abiterà dirimpetto a tutti i suoi fratelli.

13 Allora Agar chiamò il nome del Signore che parlava con lei: Tu sei l’Iddio della veduta; perciocchè disse: Ho io pur qui ancora veduto, dopo la mia visione?

14 Perciò quel pozzo è stato nominato: Il pozzo del Vivente che mi vede; ecco, egli è fra Cades e Bered.

15 Ed Agar partorì un figliuolo ad Abramo; ed Abramo nominò il suo figliuolo, che Agar avea partorito, Ismaele.

16 Ed Abramo era di età d’ottantasei anni, quando Agar gli partorì Ismaele.

   


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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Arcana Coelestia #1890

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1890. Genesis 16

1. And Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no child. And she had an Egyptian servant-girl, and her name was Hagar.

2. And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, now, Jehovah has prevented me from bearing; go in now to my servant-girl; perhaps I shall be built up from her; and Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice.

3. And Sarai, Abram's wife (uxor), took Hagar her Egyptian servant-girl, after Abram had been dwelling ten years in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband (vir) as his wife (mulier).

4. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes.

5. And Sarai said to Abram, May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I am despised in her eyes. May Jehovah judge between me and you!

6. And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your servant-girl is in your hand; do to her what is good in your eyes. And Sarai humiliated her, and she fled from her face.

7. And the angel of Jehovah found her near a spring of water in the desert, near the spring on the road to Shur.

8. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant-girl, where are you coming from, and where are you going? And she said, From the face of Sarai my mistress I am fleeing.

9. And the angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and humble yourself beneath her hands.

10. And the angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply your seed greatly and it will not be numbered for multitude.

11. And the angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, you are with child, and you will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael because Jehovah has hearkened to your affliction.

12. And he will be a wild-ass man; his hand will be against all, and the hand of all against him; and he will dwell in opposition to 1 all his brothers.

13. And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, You are a God who sees me; for she said, Have I not also here seen after Him who sees me?

14. Therefore she called the spring, The spring of the Living One who sees me; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bared.

15. And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

16. And Abram was a son of eighty-six years when Hagar bore Ishmael for Abram.

CONTENTS

The subject in this chapter is the first rational with the Lord which was conceived from the influx of the Internal Man into the External Man's affection for knowledge. The Internal Man is Abram, while the External Man's affection for knowledge is Hagar the Egyptian servant-girl; and the rational born from these two is Ishmael. The nature of this rational is described, and further on, in Chapter 21, it is said that it was 'driven out of the house' after the Lord's Divine Rational represented by Isaac had been born.

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