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1 E IL Signore parlò a Mosè, dicendo: Consacrami ogni primogenito,

2 tutto quello che apre la matrice fra i figliuoli d’Israele, così degli uomini come degli animali; esso è mio.

3 E Mosè disse al popolo: Ricordatevi di questo giorno, nel quale siete usciti di Egitto, della casa di servitù; conciossiachè il Signore ve ne abbia tratti fuori con potente mano; perciò non mangisi alcuna cosa lievitata.

4 Oggi voi uscite fuori nel mese di Abib.

5 Quando adunque il Signore ti avrà introdotto, nel paese de’ Cananei, degl’Hittei, degli Amorrei, degl’Hivvei, e de’ Gebusei, ch’egli giurò a’ tuoi padri di darti, ch’è un paese stillante latte e miele, osserva questo servigio in questo mese.

6 Mangia per sette giorni pani azzimi; e nel settimo giorno siavi festa solenne al Signore.

7 Manginsi pani azzimi per sette giorni, e non veggasi appo te cosa lievitata, nè lievito, in tutti i tuoi confini.

8 E in quel giorno dichiara questa cosa a’ tuoi figliuoli, dicendo: Questo si fa per cagion di quello che mi fece il Signore, quando io uscii di Egitto.

9 E ciò ti sia per segnale sopra la tua mano, e per ricordanza fra’ tuoi occhi; acciocchè la Legge del Signore sia nella tua bocca; conciossiachè egli ti abbia tratto fuori di Egitto con potente mano.

10 E osserva questo statuto d’anno in anno, nella sua stagione.

11 E quando il Signore ti avrà introdotto nel paese de’ Cananei, come egli ha giurato a te e a’ tuoi padri, e te l’avrà dato;

12 rassegna al Signore tutto ciò che apre la matrice: parimente, d’ogni primo portato del tuo bestiame, i maschi apparterranno al Signore.

13 Ma riscatta ogni primo portato dell’asino, con un agnello, o con un capretto; e se tu non lo riscatti, fiaccagli il collo: riscatta eziandio ogni primogenito dell’uomo d’infra i tuoi figliuoli.

14 E quando per innanzi il tuo figliuolo ti domanderà: Che vuol dir questo? digli: Il Signore ci trasse fuori di Egitto, della casa di servitù, con potenza di mano.

15 E avvenne che, mostrandosi Faraone duro a lasciarci andare, il Signore uccise tutti i primogeniti nel paese di Egitto, da’ primogeniti degli uomini, fino a’ primogeniti delle bestie; perciò io sacrifico al Signore i maschi d’ogni primo portato, e riscatto ogni primogenito de’ miei figliuoli.

16 Ciò adunque ti sarà per segnale sopra la tua mano, e per frontali fra’ tuoi occhi, che il Signore ci ha tratti fuori di Egitto con potenza di mano.

17 OR, quando Faraone ebbe lasciato andare il popolo, Iddio, non condusse quello per la via del paese de’ Filistei; benchè quella fosse la più corta; perciocchè Iddio disse: Che talora il popolo non si penta, quando vedrà la guerra, e non se ne ritorni in Egitto.

18 Ma Iddio fece fare un giro al popolo, traendo al deserto, verso il mar rosso. E i figliuoli d’Israele salirono del paese di Egitto in ordinanza.

19 E Mosè prese seco l’ossa di Giuseppe; perciocchè egli avea espressamente fatto giurare i figliuoli d’Israele, dicendo: Iddio per certo vi visiterà; allora trasportate di qui le mie ossa con voi.

20 E gl’Israeliti, partitisi di Succot, si accamparono in Etam all’estremità del deserto.

21 E il Signore camminava davanti a loro; di giorno, in una colonna di nuvola, per guidarli per lo cammino; e di notte, in una colonna di fuoco, per illuminarli; acciocchè camminassero giorno e notte.

22 Egli non rimosse dal cospetto del popolo la colonna della nuvola di giorno, nè la colonna del fuoco di notte.

   


To many Protestant and Evangelical Italians, the Bibles translated by Giovanni Diodati are an important part of their history. Diodati’s first Italian Bible edition was printed in 1607, and his second in 1641. He died in 1649. Throughout the 1800s two editions of Diodati’s text were printed by the British Foreign Bible Society. This is the more recent 1894 edition, translated by Claudiana.

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Arcana Coelestia # 8081

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8081. 'And it shall be when your son asks you' means perception springing from truth that belongs to conscience. This is clear from the meaning of 'asking' as knowledge gained by perception, dealt with in 5597, 5800, 6250; and from the meaning of 'son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373. The fact that perception springing from truth that belongs to conscience is meant is evident from the explanation in 7935, where similar words occur. The expression 'springing from truth that belongs to conscience' is used because the conscience of members of the spiritual Church is a conscience composed of truth; for it is acquired from the things taught by the Church which are believed to be truths, whether they are in fact truths or not. But they become matters of conscience when they also become matters of life.

  
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3373. 'And to your seed' means truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'seed' as truth, dealt with in 29, 255, 1025, 1447, 1610, 1940, 2848, 3310, and so truth from the Lord's Divine, which is 'your seed'. Those who understand the Word solely according to the sense of the letter can know no more than this, that 'seed' means descendants - here Isaac's descendants through Esau and Jacob, primarily through Jacob since the Word existed among that nation and so many of its historical descriptions have to do with them. But in the internal sense 'seed' is not used to mean any descendants from Isaac but all who are the Lord's 'sons', and so who are 'the sons of His kingdom', or what amounts to the same, those in whom good and truth which come from the Lord are present. And as these constitute 'the seed' it follows that good and truth themselves from the Lord are 'the seed', for these are what make people His 'sons'. This is also the reason why truths themselves which come from the Lord are called 'the sons of the kingdom' in Matthew,

He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the seed are the sons of the kingdom. Matthew 13:37-38.

And for this reason also 'sons' generally means truths, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623.

[2] Anyone who thinks rather more deeply or inwardly may recognize that the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, mentioned so many times, and spoken of so many times as those who were to be blessed, and more so than all nations and peoples in all the world, cannot in the Divine Word mean the descendants of those three. For among all nations they least of all were moved by the good that flows from love to the Lord and from charity towards the neighbour. Nor indeed did any truth of faith exist with them. Who the Lord is, what His kingdom is, and so what heaven is and what the life after death, they did not know at all. They did not know these things because for one thing they did not wish to know and for another because if they had come to know about them they would have denied them completely in their hearts and so would have profaned interior goods and truths, as they did exterior by becoming on so many occasions open idolaters. This is the reason why any interior truths are rarely visible in the literal sense of the Old Testament Word. Because the nature of those people was such, the Lord therefore said about them, quoting Isaiah,

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and are converted and I heal them. John 12:40.

What He said about them when they declared they were 'the seed of Abraham',

They said, We are the seed of Abraham. Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's sons, you would do the works of Abraham. You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. John 8:33, 39, 44.

Here also 'Abraham' is used to mean the Lord, as in every other instance in the Word. The Lord explicitly states that they were not His seed or sons but came from the devil. From this it is quite evident that 'the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' in both the historical part and the prophetical part of the Word is in no way used to mean such descendants, for the Word is Divine in every detail Instead it means all who constitute 'the Lord's seed', that is, those with whom the good and truth of faith in Him are present. The fact that heavenly seed, that is, all good and truth, comes from the Lord alone, see 1438, 1614, 2016, 2803, 2882, 2883, 2891, 2892, 2904, 3195.

  
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