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Genesis 16 (RIV) · Opened
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Abram
, person
Sarai
, person
Hagar
, person
Ishmael
, person
Canaan
, place
Kadesh
, place
Shur
, place
Beer-lahai-roi
, place
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Riveduta 1927
Berean Standard Bible
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RIV
Or Sarai, moglie d’Abramo, non gli avea dato figliuoli. Essa aveva una serva egiziana per nome Agar.
BSB
BSB:
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
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RIV
E Sarai disse ad Abramo: “Ecco, l’Eterno m’ha fatta sterile; deh, va’ dalla mia serva; forse avrò progenie da lei”. E Abramo dette ascolto alla voce di Sarai.
BSB
BSB:
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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RIV
Sarai dunque, moglie d’Abramo, dopo che Abramo ebbe dimorato dieci anni nel paese di Canaan, prese la sua serva Agar, l’Egiziana, e la diede per moglie ad Abramo suo marito.
BSB
BSB:
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
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RIV
Ed egli andò da Agar, che rimase incinta; e quando s’accorse ch’era incinta, guardò la sua padrona con disprezzo.
BSB
BSB:
And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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RIV
E Sarai disse ad Abramo: “L’ingiuria fatta a me, ricade su te. Io t’ho dato la mia serva in seno; e da che ella s’è accorta ch’era incinta, mi guarda con disprezzo. L’Eterno sia giudice fra me e te”.
BSB
BSB:
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
6
RIV
E Abramo rispose a Sarai: “Ecco, la tua serva è in tuo potere; fa’ con lei come ti piacerà”. Sarai la trattò duramente, ed ella se ne fuggì da lei.
BSB
BSB:
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
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RIV
E l’angelo dell’Eterno la trovò presso una sorgente d’acqua, nel deserto, presso la sorgente ch’è sulla via di Shur,
BSB
BSB:
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
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RIV
e le disse: “Agar, serva di Sarai, donde vieni? e dove vai?” Ed ella rispose: “Me ne fuggo dal cospetto di Sarai mia padrona”.
BSB
BSB:
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
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RIV
E l’angelo dell’Eterno le disse: “Torna alla tua padrona, e umiliati sotto la sua mano”.
BSB
BSB:
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
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RIV
L’angelo dell’Eterno soggiunse: “Io moltiplicherò grandemente la tua progenie, e non la si potrà contare, tanto sarà numerosa”.
BSB
BSB:
Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
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E l’angelo dell’Eterno le disse ancora: “Ecco, tu sei incinta, e partorirai un figliuolo, al quale porrai nome Ismaele, perché l’Eterno t’ha ascoltata nella tua afflizione;
BSB
BSB:
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
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RIV
esso sarà tra gli uomini come un asino selvatico; la sua mano sarà contro tutti, e la mano di tutti contro di lui; e abiterà in faccia a tutti i suoi fratelli”.
BSB
BSB:
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
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RIV
Allora Agar chiamò il nome dell’Eterno che le avea parlato, Atta-El-Roi, perché disse: “Ho io, proprio qui, veduto andarsene colui che m’ha vista?”
BSB
BSB:
So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
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RIV
Perciò quel pozzo fu chiamato “il pozzo di Lachai-Roi”. Ecco, esso è fra Kades e Bered.
BSB
BSB:
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
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RIV
E Agar partorì un figliuolo ad Abramo; e Abramo, al figliuolo che Agar gli avea partorito, pose nome Ismaele.
BSB
BSB:
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
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RIV
Abramo aveva ottantasei anni quando Agar gli partorì Ismaele.
BSB
BSB:
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
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Riveduta 1927 (1927). Public domain. Text from eBible.org.
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