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1 IL Signore parlò ancora a Mosè e ad Aaronne, dicendo: Questo è uno statuto e legge che il Signore ha data, dicendo:

2 Di’ a’ figliuoli d’Israele che ti adducano una giovenca rossa intiera, senza difetto, la quale non abbia ancora portato giogo.

3 E datela al Sacerdote Eleazaro, ed esso la meni fuor del campo, e la faccia scannare in sua presenza.

4 E prenda il Sacerdote Eleazaro del sangue di essa col suo dito, e spruzzine verso la parte anteriore del Tabernacolo della convenenza sette volte.

5 Poi brucisi quella giovenca davanti agli occhi di esso; brucisi la sua pelle, la sua carne, il suo sangue, insieme col suo sterco.

6 Poi prenda il Sacerdote del legno di cedro, dell’isopo, e dello scarlatto; le gitti quelle cose in mezzo del fuoco, nel quale si brucerà la giovenca.

7 Appresso lavisi il Sacerdote i vestimenti, e le carni, con acqua; e poi rientri nel campo, e sia immondo infino alla sera.

8 Parimente colui che avrà bruciata la giovenca lavisi i vestimenti, e le carni, con acqua; e sia immondo infino alla sera.

9 E raccolga un uomo netto la cenere della giovenca, e riponga fuor del campo, in un luogo netto; e sia quella cenere guardata per la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele, per farne l’acqua di purificazione; quell’è un sacrificio per lo peccato.

10 E lavisi colui che avrà raccolta la cenere della giovenca i vestimenti, e sia immondo infino alla sera. E sia questo uno statuto perpetuo a’ figliuoli d’Israele, e al forestiere che dimorerà fra loro.

11 Chi avrà tocco il corpo morto di qualunque persona, sia immondo per sette giorni.

12 Purifichisi al terzo giorno con quell’acqua, e al settimo giorno sarà netto; ma s’egli non sarà purificato al terzo giorno, nè anche sarà netto al settimo.

13 Chiunque avrà tocco il corpo morto d’una persona che sia morta, e non si sarà purificato; egli ha contaminato il Tabernacolo del Signore; perciò sia quella persona ricisa d’Israele; conciossiachè l’acqua di purificazione non sia stata sparsa sopra lui, egli sarà immondo; la sua immondizia rimarrà da indi innanzi in lui.

14 Questa è la legge, quando un uomo sarà morto in un padiglione: chiunque entrerà nel padiglione, o vi sarà dentro, sia immondo per sette giorni.

15 Parimente sia immondo ogni vasello aperto, sopra il quale non vi sarà coperchio ben commesso.

16 E chiunque per li campi avrà tocco alcuno ucciso con la spada, o un uomo morto da sè, o alcun osso d’uomo, o alcuna sepoltura, sia immondo per sette giorni.

17 E per l’immondo prendasi della cenere del fuoco di quel sacrificio per lo peccato, e mettavisi su dell’acqua viva in un vaso.

18 Poi pigli un uomo che sia netto, dell’isopo, e intingalo in quell’acqua, e spruzzine quel padiglione, e tutti que’ vaselli, e tutte le persone che vi saranno dentro; spruzzine parimente colui che avrà tocco l’osso, o l’uomo ucciso, o l’uomo morto da sè, o la sepoltura.

19 Quell’uomo netto adunque spruzzi l’immondo, al terzo e al settimo giorno; e, avendolo purificato al settimo giorno, lavi colui i suoi vestimenti, e sè stesso, con acqua; e sarà netto la sera.

20 Ma, se alcuno, essendo immondo, non si purifica, sia quella persona ricisa di mezzo la raunanza; conciossiachè abbia contaminato il Santuario del Signore; l’acqua di purificazione non è stata sparsa sopra lui; egli è immondo.

21 E questo sia loro uno statuto perpetuo; e colui che avrà spruzzata l’acqua di purificazione lavisi i vestimenti; e chi avrà toccata l’acqua di purificazione sia immondo infino alla sera.

22 Sia ancora immondo tutto quello che l’immondo avrà tocco; e la persona che avrà tocco lui sia immonda infino alla sera.

   


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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6767. 'Do you intend to kill me . . .' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith ... This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying, dealt with below; and from the meaning of a Hebrew man, to whom 'me' refers here, as one who belongs to the Church. Faith too is accordingly meant, for faith goes together with the Church, and the two are so bound up with each other that a person who destroys the faith present with someone destroys the Church with him. This is also 'to kill him', for by taking faith away he takes spiritual life away, the life that remains being a life that is called death. From this it is evident that 'Do you intend to kill me?' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith?

[2] The fact that 'killing' is taking away spiritual life is evident from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

Drag them away like sheep for the slaughter, and destine them to the day of killing. How long will the land mourn and the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds will be devoured. Jeremiah 12:3-4.

'The day of killing' stands for the time that the Church is laid waste, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. 'The land which will mourn' stands for the Church; 'the plant of every field' stands for all the facts known to the Church that hold truth within them; 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured' stands for the fact that forms of good and truths will be destroyed. For the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, see 566, 662, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3755, 4447, 4535, 5577. The meaning of 'the plant' as factual knowledge holding truth within it is clear from places in the Word where plant is mentioned. And for the meaning of 'the field' as that which is of the Church, see 2971, 3710, 3766, of 'the beasts' as affections for good, thus forms of good, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 1823, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198, and of 'the birds' as affections for truth, 5149. From all this one may recognize what the meaning of these words is, and also that the spiritual sense is present in every detail there. Anyone can see that without the inner meaning there could be no understanding of what 'the day of killing' is, or of what is described by the details 'will the land mourn', 'the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it', and 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured'.

[3] In Zechariah,

Thus said Jehovah my God, Feed the sheep for killing, whose owners kill them. Zechariah 11:4-5.

'The sheep for killing' plainly stands for people whose faith is destroyed by those who are their owners. In Ezekiel,

You have desecrated Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crusts of bread, to kill souls that ought not to die, and to keep alive souls that ought not to live. Ezekiel 13:19.

Here also 'killing' plainly stands for destroying spiritual life, that is, charity and faith. In Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and vastation? They will fall beneath the bound and beneath the killed. Isaiah 10:3-4.

Here 'the killed' stands for those who are in hell, thus for those immersed in evils and falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

You are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, [like] a garment of the killed, [like] those pierced with the sword. You will not be united with them in the sepulchre, for you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. Isaiah 14:19-20.

'The killed' stands for those who have been deprived of spiritual life; 'you have killed your people' stands for his destruction of forms of the truth and good of faith. In John,

The thief does not come except in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that they may have life. John 10:10.

'Killing' stands for destroying the life of faith, and therefore it says, 'I have come in order that they may have life'. In Mark,

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his children, and the children will rise up against parents and kill them. Mark 13:12.

This refers to the last days of the Church when there is no longer any charity and therefore no faith either. 'Brother', 'children', and 'parents' in the internal sense are the Church's forms of good and its truths; and 'killing' is destroying them.

[5] Because one who had been 'killed' meant a person who had been deprived of spiritual life, and 'the field' meant the Church, it had therefore been decreed in the representative church that if anyone on the surface of the field touched somebody who had been pierced with the sword, or who had been killed, he would be unclean for seven days, Numbers 19:16. 'Slain with the sword' means truth wiped out by falsity, see 4507; for 'the sword' is falsity that wipes out truth, 2799, 4499, 653. It was likewise decreed that if anyone was found killed in the land which was their inheritance, lying on the field, and it was not known who had killed him, the elders and judges were to measure the distances to the cities which were round about. Having found out by doing this which was the nearest city, they were to take a heifer and break its neck at a fast-flowing river, and to do many other things, Deuteronomy 21:1-10.

  
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