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1 OR questi sono i nomi de’ figliuoli d’Israele, che vennero in Egitto: essi vi vennero con Giacobbe, ciascuno con la sua famiglia.

2 Ruben, Simeone, Levi, e Giuda;

3 Issacar, Zabulon, e Beniamino;

4 Dan, Neftali, Gad, e Aser.

5 E tutte le persone, uscite dell’anca di Giacobbe, erano settanta. Or Giuseppe era già in Egitto.

6 E Giuseppe morì, e tutti i suoi fratelli, e tutta quella generazione.

7 E i figliuoli d’Israele fruttarono e moltiplicarono copiosamente, e crebbero, e divennero grandemente possenti, talchè il paese fu ripieno di essi.

8 Or sorse un nuovo re sopra l’Egitto, il qual non avea conosciuto Giuseppe.

9 Costui disse al suo popolo: Ecco, il popolo de’ figliuoli d’Israele è più grande e più possente di noi.

10 Ora procediamo saggiamente intorno ad esso; che talora non moltiplichi; onde, se alcuna guerra avvenisse, egli non si congiunga anche esso co’ nostri nemici, e non guerreggi contro a noi, o se ne vada via dal paese.

11 Furono adunque costituiti sopra il popolo d’Israele commissari d’angherie, per affliggerlo con le lor gravezze. E il popolo edificò a Faraone delle città da magazzini, cioè, Pitom e Raamses.

12 Ma quanto più l’affliggevano, tanto più cresceva, e tanto più moltiplicava fuor di modo; onde gli Egizj portavano gran noia de’ figliuoli d’Israele.

13 E gli Egizj facevano servire i figliuoli d’Israele con asprezza.

14 E li facevano vivere in amaritudine, con dura servitù, adoperandoli intorno all’argilla, e a’ mattoni, e ad ogni servigio de’ campi; tutta la servitù, nella quale li adoperavano, era con asprezza.

15 Il re di Egitto disse ancora alle levatrici delle donne Ebree, il nome dell’una delle quali era Sifra, e quel dell’altra Pua:

16 Quando voi ricoglierete i parti delle donne Ebree, e le vedrete in su la seggiola, se il parto è un figliuol maschio, uccidetelo; ma se è una figliuola femmina, lasciatela vivere.

17 Ma quelle levatrici temettero Iddio, e non fecero secondo che il re di Egitto avea loro detto; anzi lasciarono vivere i fanciulli.

18 E il re di Egitto chiamò le levatrici, e disse loro: Perchè avete voi fatto questo, di lasciar vivere i fanciulli?

19 E le levatrici dissero a Faraone: Le donne Ebree non sono come l’Egizie, perciocchè sono vigorose; avanti che la levatrice sia venuta a loro, hanno partorito.

20 E Iddio fece del bene a quelle levatrici; e il popolo crebbe, e divenne grandemente possente.

21 E perchè quelle levatrici temettero Iddio, egli edificò loro delle case.

22 Allora Faraone comandò a tutto il suo popolo, dicendo: Gittate nel fiume ogni figliuol maschio che nascerà, e lasciate vivere tutte le figliuole femmine.


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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Arcana Coelestia#6692

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6692. 'And Pharaoh commanded all his people' means a general influx into factual knowledge opposed to the Church's truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'commanding' as an influx, dealt with in 5486, 5732, here a general influx since the command came from Pharaoh, who represents factual knowledge in general, 6015; and from the meaning of 'his people' as factual knowledge opposed to the Church's truths. The meaning of the Egyptians, to whom 'people' refers here, as factual knowledge has been demonstrated often, see 6638. The reason why factual knowledge opposed to the Church's truths is meant by 'the Egyptians' is that the representative forms and meaningful signs of the Ancient Church, a Church which had existed also among them, had been turned there into magic. For through the Church's representative forms and meaningful signs there was contact at that time with heaven. This contact existed among those who led lives filled with the good of charity, and among many it was open contact. Among those however who did not lead a good charitable life but acted in ways contrary to it, open contact sometimes existed with evil spirits who perverted all the Church's truths, and along with them destroyed all that was good, from which magic arose. This may also be recognized from the hieroglyphics among the Egyptians, who also used them in their sacred rituals. They used them as signs of spiritual things, and they used them to pervert Divine order.

[2] Magic is nothing else than the perversion of order; in particular it is the misuse of correspondences. If true order is to exist, goodness and truth as they emanate from the Lord must find acceptance in a person. When they do, true order is present in every particular aspect of the person's intentions and thoughts. But when they do not find acceptance in him as true order originating in the Lord requires and he instead believes that everything is a purposeless stream of events, or if anything does have purpose, that it is attributable to his own prudence, he perverts true order. For he makes use of what belongs to order solely for his own interests and not those of his neighbour, except insofar as his neighbour is favourably disposed towards him. This accounts for the astonishing fact that all who have become firmly convinced that everything is attributable to their own prudence and nothing at all to Divine providence are very much inclined towards magic in the next life, and also involve themselves in it as much as they can. This is especially so with those who, trusting in themselves and ascribing everything to their own prudence, have worked out many sly and cunning ways of gaining superiority over others. Once people like this have undergone judgement in the next life they are sent off to the hells of those who work magic. These hells are on the right on a level with the soles of the feet, a little way out in front and extending to a considerable distance; and the Egyptians are in the deepest ones. Here then is why 'Pharaoh', 'the Egyptians', and 'Egypt' mean factual knowledge opposed to the Church's truths.

[3] To prevent therefore any further perversion of the Church's representative forms and meaningful signs into forms of magic, the Israelite people were selected, and among them the Church's representative forms and meaningful signs were to be re-established. The nature of this people was such that it could not create magic out of them, for they were interested solely in external things and had no belief in anything internal, let alone anything spiritual. Among people like this no magic can arise such as existed among the Egyptians.

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