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Numeri 25

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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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True Christian Religion # 264

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264. XII. Before the time of the Word which we have in the world to-day, there was another Word, now lost.

It can be established from what is recorded in the books of Moses, that before the time of the Word, which was given to the Israelite nation by means of Moses and the Prophets, worship by sacrifices was well known, and that prophecies were given from the mouth of Jehovah. The following passages show that worship by sacrifices was known. It was commanded that the Children of Israel should overturn the altars of the gentiles, break in pieces their statues, and cut down their sacred groves (Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 12:3.) Israel in Shittim began to wanton with the daughters of Moab; they invited the people to the sacrifices offered to their gods, and the people ate of them (Numbers 25:1-3). Balaam, who came from Syria, had altars built and sacrificed cattle and sheep (Numbers 22:40; 23:1-2, 14, 29-30). He also prophesied about the Lord, saying that a star should arise from Jacob and a sceptre from Israel (Numbers 24:17). And he gave prophecies from the mouth of Jehovah (Numbers 22:13, 18; 23:3, 5, 8, 16, 26; 24:1, 13). It is plain from these passages that the gentiles had Divine worship almost exactly like that established for the Israelite nation through Moses. Some words in the books of Moses show clearly that it existed even before the time of Abraham (Deuteronomy 32:7-8); but it is even more obvious from the case of Melchizedek, king of Salem:

He brought out bread and wine, and blessed Abram; and Abram gave him tithes of everything, Genesis 14:18-20.

Melchizedeck represented the Lord, for he is called the priest of God Most High (Genesis 14:18); and it is said of the Lord in the Psalms of David:

You are priest for ever, after the fashion of Melchizedek, Psalms 110:4.

That was why Melchizedek brought out bread and wine, as being the most holy things of the church, just as they are the holy things in the Holy Supper. Apart from these there are extant many indications that there was a Word before the Israelite Word, which was the source of such revelations.

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