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Genesi 32

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1 E GIACOBBE andò al suo cammino; ed egli scontrò degli Angeli di Dio.

2 E come Giacobbe li vide, disse: Quest’è un campo di Dio: perciò pose nome a quel luogo Mahanaim.

3 E Giacobbe mandò davanti a sè dei messi ad Esaù, suo fratello, nel paese di Seir, territorio di Edom.

4 E diede loro quest’ordine: Dite così ad Esaù, mio signore: Così ha detto il tuo servitore Giacobbe: Io sono stato forestiere appo Labano, e vi son dimorato infino ad ora.

5 Ed ho buoi, ed asini, e pecore, e servi, e serve; e mando significandolo al mio signore, per ritrovar grazia appo te.

6 E i messi se ne ritornarono a Giacobbe, e gli dissero: Noi siamo andati ad Esaù, tuo fratello; ed egli altresì ti viene incontro, menando seco quattrocent’uomini.

7 E Giacobbe temette grandemente, e fu angosciato; e spartì la gente ch’era seco, e le gregge, e gli armenti, e i cammelli in due schiere.

8 E disse: Se Esaù viene ad una delle schiere, e la percuote, l’altra scamperà.

9 Poi Giacobbe disse: O Dio di Abrahamo, mio padre, e Dio parimente d’Isacco, mio padre; o Signore, che mi dicesti: Ritorna al tuo paese, ed al tuo luogo natio, ed io ti farò del bene,

10 io son piccolo appo tutte le benignità, e tutta la lealtà che tu hai usata inverso il tuo servitore; perciocchè io passai questo Giordano col mio bastone solo, ed ora son divenuto due schiere.

11 Liberami, ti prego, dalle mani del mio fratello, dalle mani di Esaù; perciocchè io temo di lui, che talora egli non venga, e mi percuota, madre e figliuoli insieme.

12 E pur tu hai detto: Per certo io ti farò del bene, e farò che la tua progenie sarà come la rena del mare, la qual non si può annoverare per la sua moltitudine.

13 Ed egli dimorò quivi quella notte; e prese di ciò che gli venne in mano per farne un presente ad Esaù, suo fratello;

14 cioè dugento capre, e venti becchi; dugento pecore, e venti montoni;

15 trenta cammelle allattanti, insieme co’ lor figli; quaranta vacche, e dieci giovenchi; venti asine, e dieci puledri d’asini.

16 E diede ciascuna greggia da parte in mano ai suoi servitori; e disse loro: Passate davanti a me, e fate che vi sia alquanto spazio fra una greggia e l’altra.

17 E diede quest’ordine al primo: Quando Esaù, mio fratello, ti scontrerà, e ti domanderà: Di cui sei tu? e dove vai? e di cui son questi animali che vanno davanti a te?

18 di’: Io son del tuo servitore Giacobbe; quest’è un presente mandato al mio signore Esaù; ed ecco, egli stesso viene dietro a noi.

19 E diede lo stesso ordine al secondo, ed al terzo, ed a tutti que’ servitori che andavano dietro a quelle gregge; dicendo: Parlate ad Esaù in questa maniera, quando voi lo troverete.

20 E ditegli ancora: Ecco il tuo servitore Giacobbe dietro a noi. Perciocchè egli diceva: Io lo placherò col presente che va davanti a me; e poi potrò veder la sua faccia; forse mi farà egli buona accoglienza.

21 Quel presente adunque passò davanti a lui; ed egli dimorò quella notte nel campo.

22 Ed egli si levò di notte, e prese le sue due mogli, e le sue due serve, e i suoi undici figliuoli; e passò il guado di Iabboc.

23 E, dopo che li ebbe presi, ed ebbe loro fatto passare il torrente, fece passare tutto il rimanente delle cose sue.

24 E Giacobbe restò solo; ed un uomo lottò con lui fino all’apparir dell’alba.

25 Ed esso, veggendo che non lo potea vincere, gli toccò la giuntura della coscia; e la giuntura della coscia di Giacobbe fu smossa, mentre quell’uomo lottava con lui.

26 E quell’uomo gli disse: Lasciami andare; perciocchè già spunta l’alba. E Giacobbe gli disse: Io non ti lascerò andare, che tu non mi abbi benedetto.

27 E quell’uomo gli disse: Quale è il tuo nome?

28 Ed egli disse: Giacobbe. E quell’uomo gli disse: Tu non sarai più chiamato Giacobbe, anzi Israele; conciossiachè tu sii stato prode e valente con Dio e con gli uomini, ed abbi vinto.

29 E Giacobbe lo domandò, e gli disse: Deh! dichiarami il tuo nome. Ed egli disse: Perchè domandi del mio nome?

30 E quivi lo benedisse. E Giacobbe pose nome a quel luogo Peniel; perciocchè disse: Io ho veduto Iddio a faccia a faccia; e pur la vita mi è stata salvata.

31 E il sole gli si levò come fu passato Peniel; ed egli zoppicava della coscia.

32 Perciò i figliuoli d’Israele non mangiano fino ad oggi del muscolo della commessura dell’anca ch’è sopra la giuntura della coscia; perciocchè quell’uomo toccò la giuntura della coscia di Giacobbe, al muscolo della commessura dell’anca.

   


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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4232. Genesis 32

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

2. And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's camp. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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

4. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall you say to my lord Esau, Thus says your servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and have stayed until now.

5. And I have oxen and asses, flocks and men servants and women servants; and I am sending to tell my lord, so as to find favour in your eyes.

6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother, to Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.

7. And Jacob was exceedingly afraid, and was distressed; and he split up the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps.

8. And he said, If Esau comes towards one camp and smites it, the camp that is left will escape.

9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who says to me, Return to your land, and to the place of your nativity, and I will deal well with you,

10. I am not worthy of all the mercies 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 camps.

11. Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he comes and smites me, the mother with the children. 1

12. And You have said, I will certainly deal well with you and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea which cannot be counted for multitude.

13. And he spent that night there, and took from what came into his hand a gift for Esau his brother:

14. Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats; two hundred sheep and twenty rams;

15. Thirty milking camels and their colts; forty young cows and ten young bulls; twenty she-asses and ten foals

16. And he gave them into the hand of his servants, drove by drove separately; and he said to his servants, Pass over in front of me and put a space between drove and drove.

17. And he commanded the first, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong; and where are you going; and whose are these in front of you?

18. Then you shall say, They belong to your servant Jacob; it is a gift sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.

19. And he commanded the second also, the third also, and all also following the droves, saying, In this manner 2 shall you speak to Esau when you find him.

20. And you shall also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the gift that is going in front of me, and after that I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.

21. And the gift passed over in front of him, and he spent that night in the camp.

22. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives (femina), and his two servant-girls, and his eleven sons, and passed over at the passage of Jabbok.

23. And he took them and made them pass over the river, and made all that he had pass over.

24. And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until dawn came up.

25. And he 3 saw that he did not prevail against him, and he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him.

26. And he 3 said, Let me go, for the dawn is coming up. And he said, I will not let you go unless you bless me.

27. And he 3 said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

28. And he' said, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for as a prince you have contended with God and with men, and have prevailed.

29. And Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray, your name. And he said, Why is it that you ask my name? And he blessed him there.

30. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, [saying,] For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered.

31. And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

32. Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh, even to this day, because he touched, in the hollow of Jacob's thigh, the sinew of that which was displaced.

CONTENTS

The subject now in the internal sense is a turning round of the state within the Natural, so that good comes to occupy the first place and truth the second. The implanting of truth within good is dealt with in verses 1-23, and the wrestlings involved in the temptations which have to be endured then, in verses 24-32. At the same time the subject is the Jewish nation - how even though it was incapable of receiving anything of the Church, that nation did nevertheless represent things of the Church.

Footnotes:

1. literally, mother over children (or sons)

2. literally, According to this word

3. i.e. the man

  
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