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1 QUANDO alcuno avrà rubato un bue, o una pecora, o una capra, e l’avrà ammazzata o venduta; paghi cinque buoi per quel bue, e quattro pecore, o capre, per quella pecora, o capra.

2 Se il ladro, colto di notte nello sconficcare è percosso, e muore, non vi è omicidio.

3 Se il sole è levato quando sarà colto, vi è omicidio. Il ladro soddisfaccia del tutto; e se non ha da soddisfare, sia venduto per lo suo furto.

4 Se pure il furto gli è trovato in mano, vivo; o bue, o asino, o pecora che sia, restituiscalo al doppio.

5 Se alcuno fa pascolare un campo, o una vigna; e se manda nel campo altrui il suo bestiame, il quale vi pasturi dentro, soddisfaccia il danno col meglio del suo campo, e col meglio della sua vigna.

6 Quando un fuoco uscirà fuori, e incontrerà delle spine, onde sia consumato grano in bica, o biade, o campo, del tutto soddisfaccia il danno colui che avrà acceso il fuoco.

7 Quando alcuno avrà dato al suo prossimo danari, o vasellamenti, a guardare, e quelli saranno rubati dalla casa di colui, se il ladro è trovato, restituiscali al doppio.

8 Se il ladro non si trova, facciasi comparire il padron della casa davanti a’ rettori, per giurare s’egli non ha punto messa la mano sopra la roba del suo prossimo.

9 In ogni causa di misfatto intorno a bue, asino, pecora, capra, vestimento, o a qualunque altra cosa perduta, della quale uno dica: Questa è dessa; venga la causa d’amendue le parti davanti a’ rettori; e colui che i rettori avranno condannato, paghi il doppio al suo prossimo.

10 Quando alcuno avrà dato al suo prossimo, asino, o bue, o pecora, o qualunque altra bestia, a guardare, ed ella muore, o le si fiacca alcun membro, o è rapita, senza che alcuno l’abbia veduto,

11 il giuramento del Signore intervenga fra le due parti, per saper se colui non ha punto messa la mano sopra il bene del suo prossimo; e accetti il padron della bestia quel giuramento, e non sia l’altro obbligato a pagamento.

12 Ma se pur quella bestia gli è stata rubata d’appresso, facciane soddisfazione al padron di essa.

13 Se pur quella bestia è stata lacerata dalle fiere, portila per testimonianza, e non sia obbligato a pagar la bestia.

14 E quando alcuno avrà presa in prestanza una bestia dal suo prossimo, e le si fiaccherà alcun membro, o morrà, e il padrone di essa non sarà presente, del tutto colui paghila.

15 Ma se il padrone è stato presente, non sia colui obbligato a pagarla; se la bestia è stata tolta a vettura, ell’è venuta per lo prezzo della sua vettura.

16 E quando alcuno avrà sedotta una vergine, la qual non sia sposata, e sarà giaciuto con lei, del tutto dotila, e prendalasi per moglie.

17 Se pure il padre di essa del tutto ricusa di dargliela, paghi danari, secondo la dote delle vergini.

18 Non lasciar vivere la donna maliosa.

19 Chiunque si congiungerà con una bestia, del tutto sia fatto morire.

20 Chi sacrificherà ad altri dii, fuor che al Signore solo, sia sterminato come anatema.

21 Non far violenza al forestiere, e non opprimerlo; conciossiachè voi siate stati forestieri nel paese di Egitto.

22 Non affliggete alcuna vedova nè orfano.

23 Guardati d’affliggerlo in alcuna maniera, perciocchè, se egli grida a me, io del tutto esaudirò il suo grido.

24 E l’ira mia si accenderà, ed io vi ucciderò con la spada: e le vostre mogli saranno vedove, e i vostri figliuoli orfani.

25 Quando tu presterai danari al mio popolo, al povero ch’è appresso a te, non procedere inverso lui a guisa di usuraio: non imponetegli usura.

26 Se pur tu togli in pegno il vestimento del tuo prossimo, rendiglielo infra il tramontar del sole.

27 Perciocchè quello solo è la sua copritura, ed è il suo vestire per coprir la sua pelle; in che giacerebbe egli? se dunque egli avviene che egli gridi a me, io l’esaudirò; perciocchè io son pietoso.

28 Non dir male de’ rettori; e non maledir colui ch’è principe nel tuo popolo.

29 Non indugiare il pagar le primizie della tua vendemmia, nè del gocciolar de’ tuoi olii; dammi il primogenito dei tuoi figliuoli.

30 Fa’ il simigliante del tuo bue, e della tua pecora, e capra; stia il primo portato di esse sette giorni appresso la madre sua, e all’ottavo giorno dammelo.

31 E siatemi uomini santi; e non mangiate carne lacerata dalle fiere per li campi; gittatela a’ cani.

   


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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8906. Thou shalt not steal. That this signifies that no one’s spiritual goods must be taken away from him, and that those things which belong to the Lord are not to be attributed to self, is evident from the signification of “stealing,” as being to take away spiritual goods from anyone. That this is signified by “stealing,” is because riches and wealth in the spiritual sense are the knowledges of good and truth, in general all those things which are of faith and charity, that is, which are of spiritual life in man. Wherefore to take these things away from anyone is “to steal” in the spiritual sense. And because all spiritual goods, that is, all things of faith and charity, are from the Lord alone, and absolutely nothing from man, therefore by “stealing” is also signified to attribute to oneself what belongs to the Lord. They who do this are also called “thieves and robbers” in John:

Verily I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber; but he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. I am the door; by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not but that he may steal, and slay, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have abundance (John 10:1-2, 9-10).

“To enter by the door into the sheepfold” denotes to enter by the Lord, for the Lord is the “door,” as He Himself says; “the sheep” are they who are in charity and thence in faith. These enter by the Lord when they acknowledge that from Him is everything of faith and charity, for then these flow in from Him. But to attribute them to others, especially to themselves, is to take them away, thus “to slay and to destroy.” They who attribute to themselves what is the Lord’s, also place merit in works, and make themselves righteousness (see n. 1110, 1877, 2027, 2273, 2340, 2373, 2400, 3816, 4007, 4174, 4943, 6388-6390, 6392, 6393, 6478). This then is “stealing” in the spiritual sense, and this comes to the angels in heaven when man reads in the Word about “stealing,” for the angels understand the Word only spiritually.

[2] The like is signified by “stealing” in Hosea:

When I healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was revealed, and the evils of Samaria; because they wrought a lie; and the thief cometh, the troop spreadeth itself abroad; now do their works encompass them before My faces; they make the king glad by their wickedness, and the princes by their lies (Hos. 7:1-3).

And in Joel:

The day of Jehovah cometh. A fire devoureth before it, and after it a flame burneth; the land is as the garden of Eden before it, but after it a waste wilderness. The appearance thereof is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run, as the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains; they run to and fro in the city, they run on the wall, they climb up into the houses, they enter in through the windows like a thief. The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled, the sun and the moon were made black, and the stars withdrew their shining (Joel 2:1-10).

The subject here treated of is the desolation of the church, when falsities break in and destroy truths; these falsities are the “thieves who climb up into houses and enter in through the windows.” Who can help wondering why it is said that “the day of Jehovah will be as the appearance of horses,” and that then “they shall run like horsemen, they shall run to and fro in the city, they shall run on the wall, shall climb up into the houses, shall enter in through the windows, the earth shall quake, the heavens shall tremble, the sun and the moon shall be made black, and the stars shall withdraw their shining?” He who knows nothing of the internal sense, and who in his heart calls the holiness of the Word into doubt, will say that these are mere words devoid of anything Divine stored up within them, and perhaps will call them worthless sayings. But he who believes that the Word is most holy, because it is Divine, and who moreover knows that there is an internal sense which treats of the church, of heaven, and of the Lord Himself, will confess that every word herein has its own weighty import. It shall therefore be briefly unfolded what the words and sayings in this passage signify.

[3] “The day of Jehovah” denotes the last state, or last time, of the church, when there is no longer any truth, but falsity in the place of truth; “the fire which devours before it” denotes the desire of evil; “the flame which burns after it” denotes the consequent desire of falsity; “the appearance of horses” denotes the intellectual reasoning from falsity as if from truth; “the horsemen who run” denote reasoners; “the chariots” denote doctrinal things of falsity; “a city” denotes the doctrine itself; “the wall upon which they run” denotes essential falsity; “the houses into which they climb” denotes the will of man; “the windows through which they enter in” denote intellectual things; “the thief” denotes the falsity which takes away truth; “the earth which will quake before Him” denotes the church, so also do “the heavens which will tremble;” “the sun” denotes love to the Lord; “the moon,” faith in Him, these are said to be “made black” when they no longer appear; “the stars” denote the knowledges of good and truth which will no longer have light from faith and love, thus from heaven, and this is meant by “withdrawing their shining.” From all this it can be seen what these words involve in general, and also in what sense “that day,” or the last state of the church, is called “a thief who will climb up into the houses, and enter in through the windows,” namely, that it is falsity, which will then take possession of the whole man, both of his will and of his understanding, and thus will take away all truth and good. The like is signified by a “thief” in Obadiah:

The Lord Jehovih said to Edom, If thieves came to thee, if destroyers by night (how art thou cut off!), will they not steal till they have enough? (Obad. 1 (Obadiah 1:1), 5).

In like manner by a “thief,” or “one who steals,” in Zech. 5:1-4; Psalms 50:18-20; Matthew 6:19-20.

[4] As all the statutes commanded the sons of Israel by the Lord were founded on the laws of order which are in heaven, that is, derived their existence and essence from the spiritual world, so for the same reason were the statutes which were enacted concerning theft; as that he who stole an ox and sold it should restore five, if a sheep four (Exodus 22:1); also that if a thief be smitten in breaking in, there shall be no blood; but if the sun be risen, there shall be blood; the thief shall repay or shall be sold; if the theft be found in his hand, he shall restore double (Exodus 22:2-4).

He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, but if he be found in his hand, dying he shall die (Exodus 21:16).

If a man be found who hath stolen a soul of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath made gain in him, while he sold him, that thief shall be killed; that thou mayest put away the evil from the midst of thee (Deuteronomy 24:7).

in the internal sense “the men of the sons of Israel” denote those who are in the truths and goods of faith, thus in the abstract sense they denote the truths and goods of faith (n. 5414, 5879, 5951); and therefore “to steal a man of the sons of Israel” denotes to take these away, and “to sell him” denotes to cast them off, and also to make them serve. For the truths and goods of faith, being from the Lord, are in a free state, and serve the Lord alone; but when they are cast off, they then come into a servile state, for they serve any evil of the love of self or of the love of the world, thus any bodily cupidity; whence come the derivation and correspondence of the above law. And as then from being free the truth and good of the church become servile, thus from being alive become dead, therefore the penalty which is the effect, is “death.”

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.