14
E quant’è al maschio incirconciso, la carne del cui prepuzio non sarà stata circoncisa, sia una tal persona ricisa dai suoi popoli; ella ha violato il mio patto.
Genesi 17:14
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.
Eight
![Image by [http://flickr.com/photos/15225700@N06 Ryan Baxter]](/bundles/ncbsw/media/Eight_-_film_start.webp "\"8\" on the start of a film reel for the projection.")
The number eight represents something that is complete within itself in every respect. Two reasons are offered for this. First, eight is the product of two and four, and two and four both relate to conjunction, or things coming together to form units. Such conjunction leads to completeness, so the product of two and four means completeness. The second reason given is that the eighth day is the start of the second week, and as the first day of that week, it contains within it all that that week represents.
