Genesis 30

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DIODATI
1 Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.”	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 Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?”	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 But she said: “I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.”	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 And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.	4 Ed ella diede a Giacobbe Bilha, sua serva, per moglie, ed egli entrò da lei.
5 And when her husband had gone in to her, she conceived and bore a son.	5 E Bilha concepette, e partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.
6 And Rachel said, “The Lord has judged for me, and he has heeded my voice, giving me a son.” And because of this, she called his name Dan.	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 And conceiving again, Bilhah bore another,	7 E Bilha, serva di Rachele, concepette ancora, e partorì un secondo figliuolo a Giacobbe.
8 about whom Rachel said, “God has compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed.” And she called him Naphtali.	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 Leah, perceiving that she had desisted from child-bearing, delivered Zilpah, her handmaid, to her husband.	9 E Lea, veggendo ch’era restata di partorire, prese Zilpa, sua serva, e la diede a Giacobbe per moglie.
10 And she, after having borne a son with difficulty,	10 E Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.
11 said: “Happiness!” And for this reason, she called his name Gad.	11 E Lea disse: Buona ventura è giunta; e pose nome a quel figliuolo Gad.
12 Likewise, Zilpah bore another.	12 Poi Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì un secondo figliuolo a Giacobbe.
13 And Leah said, “This one is for my happiness. Indeed, women will call me blessed.” Because of this, she called him Asher.	13 E Lea disse: Quest’è per farmi beata; conciossiachè le donne mi chiameranno beata; perciò ella pose nome a quel figliuolo Aser
14 Then Reuben, going out into the field at the time of the wheat harvest, found mandrakes. These he brought to his mother Leah. And Rachel said, “Give me a portion of your son’s mandrakes.”	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 She responded, “Does it seem like such a small matter to you, that you have usurped from me my husband, unless you will also take my son’s mandrakes?” Rachel said, “He will sleep with you this night because of your son’s mandrakes.”	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 And when Jacob returned from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and she said, “You will enter to me, because I have hired you for the reward of my son’s mandrakes.” And he slept with her that night.	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 And God heard her prayers. And she conceived and bore a fifth son.	17 E Iddio esaudì Lea, talchè ella concepette, e partorì il quinto figliuolo a Giacobbe.
18 And she said, “God has given a reward to me, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” And she called his name Issachar.	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 Conceiving again, Leah bore a sixth son.	19 E Lea concepette ancora, e partorì il sesto figliuolo a Giacobbe.
20 And she said: “God has endowed me with a good dowry. And now, at this turn, my husband will be with me, because I have conceived six sons for him.” And therefore she called his name Zebulun.	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 After him, she bore a daughter, named Dinah.	21 Poi partorì una figliuola, e le pose nome Dina.
22 The Lord, likewise remembering Rachel, heeded her and opened her womb.	22 E Iddio si ricordò di Rachele, e l’esaudì, e le aperse la matrice.
23 And she conceived and bore a son, saying, “God has taken away my reproach.”	23 Ed ella concepette, e partorì un figliuolo; e disse: Iddio ha tolto via il mio obbrobrio.
24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord has added to me another son.”	24 E pose nome a quel figliuolo Giuseppe, dicendo: Il Signore mi aggiunga un altro figliuolo
25 But when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: “Release me, so that I may return to my native country and to my land.	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 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served you, so that I may depart. You know the servitude with which I have served you.”	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 Laban said to him: “May I find grace in your sight. I have learned by experience that God has blessed me because of you.	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 Choose your wages, which I will give you.”	28 Poi disse: Significami appunto qual salario mi ti converrà dare, ed io te lo darò.
29 But he responded: “You know how I have served you, and how great your possession became in my hands.	29 Ed egli gli disse: Tu sai come io ti ho servito, e quale è divenuto il tuo bestiame meco.
30 You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at sometime I also should provide for my own house.”	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 And Laban said, “What shall I give to you?” But he said, “I want nothing. But if you will do what I ask, I will feed and guard your sheep again.	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 Go around through all your flocks and separate all the sheep of variegated or spotted fleece; and whatever will be darkened or blemished or variegated, as much among the sheep as among the goats, will be my wages.	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 And my justice will answer on my behalf tomorrow, when the time of settlement arrives before you. And all that is not variegated or blemished or darkened, as much among the sheep as among the goats, these will prove me to be a thief.”	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 And Laban said, “I hold favor for this request.”	34 E Labano disse: Ecco, sia come tu hai detto.
35 And on that day he separated the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams with variegations or with blemishes. But every one of the flock which was of one color, that is, of white or of black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.	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 And he established a distance of three days journey between himself and his son-in-law, who pastured the remainder of his flock.	36 E frappose il cammino di tre giornate fra sè e Giacobbe. E Giacobbe pasturava il rimanente delle gregge di Labano
37 Then Jacob, taking green branches of poplar, and almond, and sycamore trees, debarked them in part. And when the bark was pulled off, in the parts that were stripped, there appeared whiteness, yet the parts that were left whole, remained green. And so, in this way the color was made variegated.	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 And he placed them in the troughs, where the water was poured out, so that when the flocks had arrived to drink, they would have the branches before their eyes, and in their sight they might conceive.	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 And it happened that, in the very heat of joining together, the sheep looked upon the branches, and they bore the blemished and the variegated, those speckled with diverse color.	39 Le pecore adunque e le capre entravano in calore, vedendo quelle verghe; onde figliavano parti vergati, macchiati, e viaolati.
40 And Jacob divided the flock, and he set the branches in the troughs before the eyes of the rams. Now whatever was white or black belonged to Laban, but, in truth, the others belonged to Jacob, for the flocks were dispersed among one another.	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 Therefore, when the first to arrive were climbing on the ewes, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams and the sheep, so that they might conceive while they were gazing upon them.	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 Yet when the late arrivals and the last to conceive were let in, he did not place these. And so those that arrived late became Laban’s, and those that arrived first became Jacob’s.	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 And the man was enriched beyond limit, and he had many flocks, women servants and men servants, camels and donkeys.	43 E quell’uomo crebbe sommamente in facoltà, ed ebbe molte gregge, e servi, e serve, e cammelli, ed asini