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Genesi第32章

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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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4294. Verses 29-32 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. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, [saying,] For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered. And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh. 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.

'Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray, your name' means the angelic heaven and the nature of that heaven. 'And he said, Why is it that you ask my name?' means that heaven was unwilling to reveal itself. 'And he blessed him there' means a joining to the Divine celestial-spiritual. 'And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel' means a state of temptations. 'For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered' means that He suffered the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. 'And the sun rose on him' means when the one kind of good was joined to the other. 'As he passed over Penuel' means a state of truth within good. 'And he was limping on his thigh' means that truths were not yet arranged into such an order that together with good they could all enter celestial-spiritual good. 'Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh' means that no truths containing falsities were assimilated. 'Even to this day' means that, perpetually so, falsities would not be attached. 'Because he touched, in the hollow of Jacob's thigh, the sinew of that which was displaced' means for the reason that they were indeed falsities.

[2] In the internal historical sense, where the descendants of Jacob are the subject, 'Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray, your name' means evil, spirits 'He said, Why is it that you ask my name?' means that they did not acknowledge evil spirits to be the origin. 'He blessed him there' means that so it was done. 'Jacob called the name of the place Peniel' means a state in which they took on representations. 'For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered' means His presence through representations. 'The sun rose on him' means when they entered into representations. 'As he passed over Penuel' means when they entered the land of Canaan. 'He was limping on his thigh' means that with those descendants goods and truths had been destroyed completely. 'Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh' means that those descendants ought to know this. 'Even to this day' means that their nature was perpetually so. 'Because he touched, in the hollow of Jacob's thigh, the sinew of that which was displaced' means because of their heredity which could not be rooted out through regeneration because they would not allow that to happen.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis第32章

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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.