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1 OR Israele, stanziato in Sittim, cominciò a fornicar con le figliuole di Moab.

2 Ed esse invitarono il popolo a’ sacrificii de’ loro iddii, e il popolo ne mangiò, e adorò gl’iddii d’esse.

3 E Israele si congiunse con Baal-peor; laonde l’ira del Signore si accese contro a Israele.

4 E il Signore disse a Mosè: Prendi tutti i Capi del popolo, e appiccali al Signore, davanti al sole; e l’ira accesa del Signore si rivolgerà d’Israele.

5 Mosè disse ancora a’ Giudici d’Israele: Uccida ciascun di voi quelli de’ suoi, che si son congiunti con Baal-peor.

6 Or in quel mezzo tempo un uomo d’Israele venne, e menò a’ suoi fratelli una donna Madianita, davanti agli occhi di Mosè, e davanti agli occhi di tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele, i quali piangevano all’entrata del Tabernacolo della convenenza.

7 E Finees, figliuolo d’Eleazaro, figliuolo del Sacerdote Aaronne, avendo ciò veduto, si levò d’infra la raunanza, e prese in mano una lancia.

8 Ed entrò dietro a quell’uomo Israelita, dentro al lupanare, e li trafisse amendue, l’uomo Israelita, e la donna, per lo ventre d’essa. E la piaga fu arrestata d’in su i figliuoli d’Israele.

9 E i morti di quella piaga furono ventiquattromila.

10 E il Signore parlò ancora a Mosè, dicendo:

11 Finees, figliuolo d’Eleazaro, figliuolo del Sacerdote Aaronne, ha acquetata l’ira mia d’in su i figliuoli d’Israele; perchè è stato mosso del mio zelo nel mezzo di loro; laonde io non ho consumati i figliuoli d’Israele nella mia gelosia.

12 Perciò digli ch’io gli do il mio patto di pace.

13 E il patto del Sacerdozio perpetuo sarà suo, e della sua progenie dopo lui; perciocchè egli è stato mosso di zelo per l’Iddio suo, e ha fatto purgamento per li figliuoli d’Israele.

14 Or il nome dell’uomo Israelita ucciso, il quale era stato ucciso con la donna Madianita, era Zimri, figliuolo di Salu, Capo d’una famiglia paterna de’ Simeoniti.

15 E il nome della donna Madianita uccisa era Cozbi, figliuola di Sur, Capo di nazioni, e di famiglia paterna in Madian.

16 Poi il Signore parlò a Mosè, dicendo:

17 Fate guerra a’ Madianiti, e percoteteli;

18 conciossiachè essi abbiano fatta guerra a voi, co’ loro inganni, che v’hanno fatti nel fatto di Peor, e nel fatto di Cozbi, figliuola d’un de’ Capi di Madian, lor sorella, ch’è stata uccisa al giorno della piaga avvenuta per cagione di Peor.

   


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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10652. And his daughters commit whoredom after their gods, and make thy sons commit whoredom after their gods. That this signifies in this manner the profanation of good and of truth, is evident from the signification of “committing whoredom,” as being unlawful conjunction (of which above, n. 10648); from the signification of “his daughters,” or the daughters of the inhabitant of the land, as being the affections of evil; from the signification of “their gods,” as being the falsities of the affections of evil conjoined with truths, for by “their gods” are meant the gods of the daughters of the inhabitant of the land conjoined with sons of the Israelitish nation (see just above at n. 10651), which conjunction is the profanation of good; and from the signification of “making thy sons commit whoredom after their gods,” as being the conjunction of truth with falsities, which is the profanation of truth. (That “gods” denote falsities, see n. 4402, 4544, 7873, 8867; and that “sons” denote truths, n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 3373, 4257, 9807, 10490.)

[2] These things are so said because the first conjunction of the affections of evil with truths, which is signified by “taking the daughters of the inhabitant of the land for thy sons,” is not as yet profanation; but the second conjunction is profanation, because this takes place when evil is applied to truth, and truth to evil, which is done by means of a wrong interpretation of truth, and the application of it to evil, and thus by the insertion of the one into the other. From this, truth no longer remains truth; but is killed and profaned.

[3] This profanation is also signified by “the whoredom of the people with the daughters of Moab,” of which we read in Moses:

Israel settled in Shittim, where the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, and they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people did eat, and bowed themselves down to their gods. Therefore Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun. And the people were smitten; and there died from this plague twenty-four thousand (Numbers 25:1-2, 4-5, 9).

By “Moab” are signified those who adulterate goods (n. 2468, 8315); and by his “daughters,” the affections of this evil; and by “whoredom with them,” profanation; consequently the penalty was the hanging of the heads of the people before the sun, and the death of twenty-four thousand. For the sun of the world denotes the love of self (n. 10584); “hanging before it” denotes the total extinction of heavenly good; and “twenty-four thousand” denotes all the truths and goods of truth in the complex, in like manner as “twelve thousand” (n. 2089, 3913, 7973); their death denotes the extinction of all truths. This takes place with those who profane.

  
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