Genesi 30:33

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".

Genesi 30:33 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:33

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come
Either by the success I shall have, and the blessing of God upon me, making it prosperous; it will appear in time to come, and to all posterity, that I have most righteously and faithfully served thee: or rather, such a separation being made in Laban's flock, all the spotted ones being removed, and only white ones left with Jacob to keep; it would be a clear case hereafter, if any such should be found with Jacob, they were not taken from Laban's flock, but were what in Providence he was blessed with, and came by honestly and righteously: when it shall come for my hire before thy face;
when any spotted ones would be brought forth, it would be plain and manifest to his face, that they belonged to him for his hire or wages; or, as Schmidt, when any complaint should come before Laban concerning his hire, or about any speckled and spotted cattle that were Jacob's hire, as if he had wronged him of it, the action now done, by making such a separation, would be a sufficient vindication of him, and justify him from such an aspersion: and everyone that [is] not speckled and spotted amongst the goats,
and brown among the sheep, that shall be accounted stolen with me;
if any such were found among those that Jacob should hereafter call his flock, as were without specks and spots, or were not brown, he was content they should be reckoned as stolen, and what he had no right unto.

Genesi 30:33 In-Context

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.

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.

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".

34 E Labano disse: "Ebbene, sia come tu dici!"

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.