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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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Arcana Coelestia #3902

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3902. Genesis 30

1. And Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob [any children], and Rachel was jealous of her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me sons; if you do not, I am dead.

2. And Jacob flared up in anger against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's place, who is withholding from you the fruit of the womb?

3. And she said, Behold, my maidservant Bilhah; go [in] to her, and let her bear [a child] upon my knees, and I too shall be built up from her.

4. And she gave him Bilhah her servant-girl as his wife, and Jacob went [in] to her.

5. And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

6. And Rachel said, God has judged me, and also has heard my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan.

7. And Bilhah, Rachel's servant-girl, conceived again and bore a second son to Jacob.

8. And Rachel said, With the wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.

9. And Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, and she took Zilpah her servant-girl, and gave her to Jacob as his wife.

10. And Zilpah, Leah's servant-girl, bore Jacob a son.

11. And Leah said, A troop comes! And she called his name Gad.

12. And Zilpah, Leah's servant-girl, bore a second son to Jacob.

13. And Leah said, In my blessedness! for the daughters will call me blessed. And she called his name Asher.

14. And Reuben went in the days of the wheat harvest and found dudaim in the field, and brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me now some of your son's dudaim.

15. But she said to her, Is it a small thing for you to have taken my husband? And will you take also my son's dudaim? And Rachel said, Therefore he will lie with you this night [in return] for your son's dudaim.

16. And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must come [in] to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's dudaim. And he lay with her that night.

17. And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

18. And Leah said, God has given me my reward, because I gave my servant-girl to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

19. And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

20. And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; once again my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

21. And afterwards she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.

22. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

23. And she conceived and bore a son, and she said, God has taken away 1 my reproach.

24. And she called his name Joseph, saying, May Jehovah add to me another son.

25. And it happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away and let me go to my own place and to my own land.

26. Give me my womenfolk and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.

27. And Laban said to him, If now I have found grace in your eyes have learned from experience, and Jehovah has blessed me for your sake.

28. And he said, Indicate your wages to me, and I will give them.

29. And [Jacob] said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

30. For you had few before I came, and they have increased into a multitude; and Jehovah has blessed you since I set foot here. And now, when shall I, even I, provide for my own house?

31. And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything; if you will do this one thing for me, I will return, feed, and guard your flock.

32. I will pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted member of the flock, and every black one among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the she-goats; and that will be my wages.

33. And my righteousness will answer for me on the morrow, when you come [to look] over my wages that are before you; every one that is not speckled and spotted among the she-goats, and black among the lambs, is one stolen by me.

34. And Laban said, Behold, let it be according to your word.

35. And he removed on that day the variegated and spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and spotted she-goats, every one that had white in it, and every black one among the lambs; and he gave them into the hand of his sons.

36. And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob was feeding the rest of Laban's flocks.

37. And Jacob took for himself fresh rods of poplar, and hazel and plane, and stripped white strips on them - an exposing of the white which was on the rods.

38. And he set the rods which he had stripped in runners, in the troughs of water where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they came on heat as they came to drink.

39. And the flocks came on heat at the rods, and the flocks brought forth variegated, speckled, and spotted ones.

40. And Jacob singled out the lambs, and set the faces of the flock towards the variegated, and every black one in Laban's flock; and he put his own droves apart and did not put them near Laban's flock.

41. And so it was, whenever those came on heat - those of the flock which came together first - that Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the flock in the runners, so that they would come on heat at the rods.

42. And before [the eyes of those of] the flock which came together later he did not put [the rods] in. And those which came together later were Laban's, and those which came together first were Jacob's.

43. And the man became very very prosperous, 2 and he had many flocks, and servant-girls and slaves, and camels and asses.

CONTENTS

The previous chapter dealt, through Jacob's four sons by Leah, with the state of the Church, that is, of the person who is becoming the Church, as regards the ascent from truth which is the truth of faith towards good which is the good of love. The present chapter deals - through Jacob's sons by the servant-girls of Rachel and Leah, and through those also by Leah and lastly Rachel - with the means by which natural truth becomes joined to spiritual good, and also with the order in which this is effected with one who is being regenerated.

Footnotes:

1. literally, gathered up

2. literally, spread himself exceedingly exceedingly

  
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