Genesi 46:2

2 E Iddio parlò a Israele in visioni di notte, e disse: Giacobbe, Giacobbe. Ed egli disse: Eccomi.

Genesi 46:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 46:2

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night
He appeared to Jacob as he lay upon his bed in the night season, and with an articulate voice spoke to him as follows: and said, Jacob, Jacob:
not "Israel", the more honourable name he had given him, but Jacob, putting him in mind of his former low estate; and doubling this name, either out of love and affection to him, as Jarchi intimates; or rather in order to awake him, at least to stir up his attention to what he was about to say to him: and he said, here [am] I;
signifying his readiness to hearken to him in what he should say to him, and to obey him in whatsoever he should command him.

Genesi 46:2 In-Context

1 ISRAELE adunque si partì, con tutto ciò ch’egli avea. E, giunto in Beerseba, sacrificò sacrificii all’Iddio d’Isacco suo padre.

2 E Iddio parlò a Israele in visioni di notte, e disse: Giacobbe, Giacobbe. Ed egli disse: Eccomi.

3 E Iddio disse: Io sono Iddio, l’Iddio di tuo padre; non temer di andare in Egitto; perciocchè io ti farò divenir quivi una gran nazione.

4 Io scenderò teco in Egitto; e altresì te ne ricondurrò fuori; e Giuseppe metterà la sua mano sopra gli occhi tuoi.

5 E Giacobbe partì di Beerseba; e i figliuoli d’Israele fecero salire Giacobbe, loro padre, e i lor piccoli figliuoli, e le lor mogli, sopra i carri, che Faraone avea mandati per levar Giacobbe.