Genesi 37:15

15 Ed un uomo lo trovò ch’egli andava errando per li campi; e quell’uomo lo domandò, e gli disse: Che cerchi?

Genesi 37:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:15

And a certain man found him
Many of the Jewish writers

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 say, this was an angel, the angel Gabriel, in the likeness of a man; but according to Aben Ezra, it was a traveller he met on the road; but it is more probable, as Schimidt observes, that it was some man at work in the field that came upon him and took notice of him:

and, behold, [he was] wandering in the field;
in some field near Shechem, perhaps the same his father Jacob had purchased, and where he expected to have found his brethren, and was looking out for them, going to and fro in search of them; which the labouring man in the field observed:

and the man asked him, saying, what seekest thou?
seeing him walking about, and first looking one way, and then another, concluded he was in search of something, either of some man or of some creature, a sheep or an ox that was lost; and therefore put this question to him, with a view to give him what direction and assistance he could.

F12 Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. Targum Jon. & Jarchi in loc.

Genesi 37:15 In-Context

13 Ed Israele disse a Giuseppe: I tuoi fratelli non pasturano essi in Sichem? Vieni, ed io ti manderò a loro. Ed egli disse: Eccomi.

14 Ed esso gli disse: Or va’, e vedi se i tuoi fratelli, e le gregge, stanno bene, e rapportamelo. Così lo mandò dalla valle di Hebron; ed egli venne in Sichem.

15 Ed un uomo lo trovò ch’egli andava errando per li campi; e quell’uomo lo domandò, e gli disse: Che cerchi?

16 Ed egli disse: Io cerco i miei fratelli; deh! insegnami dove essi pasturano.

17 E quell’uomo gli disse: Essi son partiti di qui; perciocchè io li udii che dicevano: Andamocene in Dotain. Giuseppe adunque andò dietro a’ suoi fratelli, e li trovò in Dotain.