INTRODUZIONE
“A New World” è il primo libro di Mosè, più noto come la Genesi, raccontato in modo unico. Versi scorrevoli in rima baciata ed un incalzante ritmo trasportano il lettore dalle delizie verdeggianti del Giardino dell’Eden, oltre Noè e l’alluvione e le avventure di Abramo e Isacco, fino all’arrivo di Giuseppe in Egitto e la sua ascesa al potere come braccio destro del Faraone. Uno stile scanzonato ma mai irriverente, porta in vita i personaggi di questa storia biblica e fa di ‘A New World’ una lettura molto piacevole sia per bambini che per adulti.
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Isaac
and the
water wells
[Genesis 26:1]
Not long after these events, famine struck again,
So Isaac set out on the road together with his men.
While heading south for Egypt to take a look around,
The Lord appeared and told him of some land that he had found.
Directing him to Gerar, to Abimelech the king,
God said he would guide his hand in this and everything.
So Isaac stopped and settled down among the Philistines,
He sowed the land successfully with barley, wheat and vines.
Soon he was as prosperous as Abe, his dad, had been,
But then the local Philistines started getting mean.
They started going out at night with shovels or a spade,
And filling all the water wells that Abraham had made.
On seeing that the question was getting out of hand,
Abimelech suggested that Isaac left the land.
Since Isaac was a peaceful man and didn’t want a war,
He thought it would be better to move his camp once more.
But every time he dug a well and tried to set up home,
The Philistines would come along and claim it as their own.
Eventually, in Rehoboth, he made a final stand,
By then his foes were weary and let him have the land.
Back in Beersheba, he kneeled down to pray,
Finally he’d found a place to pitch his tent and stay.
While Isaac built an altar, his servants dug a well
To try and find some water, as it was hot as hell.
Abimelech the king rode in to make a deal one day,
Convinced by then that Isaac was God’s own protégé.
Isaac gladly signed the deal, it seemed alright to him,
And later on he found his well bubbling at the brim.
He felt he could relax at last, he’d saved his people’s lives,
The only thing still niggling him were Esau’s foreign wives.
