Genesi 30
1 Rachele, vedendo che non dava figliuoli a Giacobbe, portò invidia alla sua sorella, e disse a Giacobbe: “Dammi de’ figliuoli; altrimenti, muoio”.
And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2 E Giacobbe s’accese d’ira contro Rachele, e disse: “Tengo io il luogo di Dio che t’ha negato d’esser feconda?”
And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
3 Ed ella rispose: “Ecco la mia serva Bilha; entra da lei; essa partorirà sulle mie ginocchia, e, per mezzo di lei, avrò anch’io de’ figliuoli”.
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear on my knees, that I may also have children by her.
4 Ed ella gli diede la sua serva Bilha per moglie, e Giacobbe entrò da lei.
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in to her.
5 E Bilha concepì e partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.
And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
6 E Rachele disse: “Iddio m’ha reso giustizia, ha anche ascoltato la mia voce, e m’ha dato un figliuolo”. Perciò gli pose nome Dan.
And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7 E Bilha, serva di Rachele, concepì ancora e partorì a Giacobbe un secondo figliuolo.
And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
8 E Rachele disse: “Io ho sostenuto con mia sorella lotte di Dio, e ho vinto”. Perciò gli pose nome Neftali.
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9 Lea, vedendo che avea cessato d’aver figliuoli, prese la sua serva Zilpa e la diede a Giacobbe per moglie.
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10 E Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bore Jacob a son.
11 E Lea disse: “Che fortuna!” E gli pose nome Gad.
And Leah said, A troop comes: and she called his name Gad.
12 Poi Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì a Giacobbe un secondo figliuolo.
And Zilpah Leah’s maid bore Jacob a second son.
13 E Lea disse: “Me felice! ché le fanciulle mi chiameranno beata. Perciò gli pose nome Ascer.
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
14 Or Ruben uscì, al tempo della mietitura del grano, e trovò delle mandragole per i campi, e le portò a Lea sua madre. Allora Rachele disse a Lea: “Deh, dammi delle mandragole del tuo figliuolo!”
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of your son’s mandrakes.
15 Ed ella le rispose: “Ti par egli poco l’avermi tolto il marito, che mi vuoi togliere anche le mandragole del mio figliuolo?” E Rachele disse: “Ebbene, si giaccia egli teco questa notte, in compenso delle mandragole del tuo figliuolo”.
And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband? and would you take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with you to night for your son’s mandrakes.
16 E come Giacobbe, in sulla sera, se ne tornava dai campi, Lea uscì a incontrarlo, e gli disse: “Devi entrare da me; poiché io t’ho accaparrato con le mandragole del mio figliuolo”. Ed egli si giacque con lei quella notte.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in to me; for surely I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 E Dio esaudì Lea, la quale concepì e partorì a Giacobbe un quinto figliuolo.
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
18 Ed ella disse: “Iddio m’ha dato la mia mercede, perché diedi la mia serva a mio marito”. E gli pose nome Issacar.
And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
19 E Lea concepì ancora, e partorì a Giacobbe un sesto figliuolo.
And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son.
20 E Lea disse: “Iddio m’ha dotata di buona dote; questa volta il mio marito abiterò con me, poiché gli ho partorito sei figliuoli”. E gli pose nome Zabulon.
And Leah said, God has endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
21 Poi partorì una figliuola, e le pose nome Dina.
And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 Iddio si ricordò anche di Rachele; Iddio l’esaudì, e la rese feconda;
And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
23 ed ella concepì e partorì un figliuolo, e disse: “Iddio ha tolto il mio obbrobrio”.
And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
24 E gli pose nome Giuseppe, dicendo: “L’Eterno m’aggiunga un altro figliuolo”.
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
25 Or dopo che Rachele ebbe partorito Giuseppe, Giacobbe disse a Labano: “Dammi licenza, ch’io me ne vada a casa mia, nel mio paese.
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
26 Dammi le mie mogli, per le quali t’ho servito, e i miei figliuoli; e lasciami andare; poiché tu ben conosci il servizio che t’ho prestato”.
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service which I have done you.
27 E Labano gli disse: “Se ho trovato grazia dinanzi a te, rimanti; giacché credo indovinare che l’Eterno mi ha benedetto per amor tuo”.
And Laban said to him, I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.
28 Poi disse: “Fissami il tuo salario, e te lo darò”.
And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.
29 Giacobbe gli rispose: “Tu sai in qual modo io t’ho servito, e quel che sia diventato il tuo bestiame nelle mie mani.
And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle was with me.
30 Poiché quel che avevi prima ch’io venissi, era poco; ma ora s’è accresciuto oltremodo, e l’Eterno t’ha benedetto dovunque io ho messo il piede. Ora, quando lavorerò io anche per la casa mia?”
For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude; and the LORD has blessed you since my coming: and now when shall I provide for my own house also?
31 Labano gli disse: “Che ti darò io?” E Giacobbe rispose: “Non mi dar nulla; se acconsenti a quel che sto per dirti, io pascerò di nuovo i tuoi greggi e n’avrò cura.
And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me any thing: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flock.
32 Passerò quest’oggi fra mezzo a tutti i tuoi greggi, mettendo da parte, di fra le pecore, ogni agnello macchiato e vaiolato, e ogni agnello nero; e di fra le capre, le vaiolate e le macchiate. E quello sarà il mio salario.
I will pass through all your flock to day, removing from there all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
33 Così, da ora innanzi, il mio diritto risponderà per me nel tuo cospetto, quando verrai ad accertare il mio salario: tutto ciò che non sarà macchiato o vaiolato fra le capre, e nero fra gli agnelli, sarà rubato, se si troverà presso di me”.
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before your face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
34 E Labano disse: “Ebbene, sia come tu dici!”
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.
35 E quello stesso giorno mise da parte i becchi striati e vaiolati e tutte le capre macchiate e vaiolate, tutto quello che avea del bianco e tutto quel ch’era nero fra gli agnelli, e li affidò ai suoi figliuoli.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 E Labano frappose la distanza di tre giornate di cammino fra se e Giacobbe; e Giacobbe pascolava il rimanente de’ greggi di Labano.
And he set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 E Giacobbe prese delle verghe verdi di pioppo, di mandorlo e di platano; vi fece delle scortecciature bianche, mettendo allo scoperto il bianco delle verghe.
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 Poi collocò le verghe che avea scortecciate, in vista delle pecore, ne’ rigagnoli, negli abbeveratoi dove le pecore venivano a bere; ed entravano in caldo quando venivano a bere.
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 Le pecore dunque entravano in caldo avendo davanti quelle verghe, e figliavano agnelli striati, macchiati e vaiolati.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 Poi Giacobbe metteva da parte questi agnelli, e faceva volger gli occhi delle pecore verso tutto quello ch’era striato e tutto quel ch’era nero nel gregge di Labano. Egli si formò così dei greggi a parte, che non unì ai greggi di Labano.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not to Laban’s cattle.
41 Or avveniva che, tutte le volte che le pecore vigorose del gregge entravano in caldo, Giacobbe metteva le verghe ne’ rigagnoli, in vista delle pecore, perché le pecore entrassero in caldo vicino alle verghe;
And it came to pass, whenever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 ma quando le pecore erano deboli, non ve le metteva; così gli agnelli deboli erano di Labano, e i vigorosi di Giacobbe.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43 E quest’uomo diventò ricco oltremodo, ed ebbe greggi numerosi, serve, servi, cammelli e asini.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
