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1 E IL Signore disse a Mosè: Entra da Faraone; perciocchè io ho aggravato il suo cuore, e il cuore dei suoi servitori, acciocchè io ponga questi miei segni in mezzo del suo paese;

2 e acciocchè tu racconti al tuo figliuolo, e al figliuolo del tuo figliuolo, ciò che io avrò operato in Egitto, e i segni che avrò fatti fra loro; e che voi conosciate che io sono il Signore.

3 Mosè adunque ed Aaronne entrarono da Faraone, e gli dissero: Così ha detto il Signore Iddio degli Ebrei: Fino a quando ricuserai d’umiliarti davanti alla mia faccia? lascia andare il mio popolo, acciocchè mi serva.

4 Perciocchè, se tu ricusi di lasciarlo andare, ecco, io fo venir domane delle locuste nelle tue contrade.

5 Ed esse copriranno la faccia della terra, talchè la terra non si potrà vedere; e mangeranno il rimanente ch’è scampato, quel che vi è restato dalla gragnuola; mangeranno ancora ogni albero che vi germoglia fuori ne’ campi.

6 Ed empieranno le tue case, e le case di tutti i tuoi servitori, e le case di tutti gli Egizj; il che nè i tuoi padri nè i padri de’ tuoi padri, giammai non videro, dal giorno che furono in su la terra, infino ad oggi. Detto questo, egli si rivoltò indietro, e uscì d’appresso a Faraone.

7 E i servitori di Faraone gli dissero: Fino a quando ci sarà costui per laccio? lascia andar questi uomini acciocchè servano al Signore Iddio loro; non sai tu ancora che l’Egitto è perito?

8 Allora Mosè ed Aaronne furono fatti tornare a Faraone; ed egli disse loro: Andate, servite al Signore Iddio vostro; ma chi e chi son coloro che andranno?

9 E Mosè disse: Noi andremo co’ nostri fanciulli, e co’ nostri vecchi; noi andremo co’ nostri figliuoli, e con le nostre figliuole; con le nostre gregge, e co’ nostri armenti; perciocchè abbiamo a celebrare una festa al Signore.

10 Ed egli disse loro: Così sia il Signore con voi, come io vi lascerò andare con le vostre famiglie; guardate, perciocchè il male vi soprastà davanti agli occhi.

11 E’ non sarà così; andate ora voi uomini, e servite al Signore; poichè questo è quel che voi cercate. E Faraone li cacciò dal suo cospetto.

12 E il Signore disse a Mosè: Stendi la tua mano sopra il paese di Egitto, per far venir le locuste; ed esse saliranno sopra il paese di Egitto, e mangeranno tutta l’erba della terra; tutto quel che la gragnuola ha lasciato di resto.

13 E Mosè stese la sua bacchetta sopra il paese di Egitto; e il Signore fece venire un vento orientale in sul paese tutto quel giorno, e tutta quella notte; e, come fu mattina, il vento orientale avea portate le locuste.

14 E le locuste salirono sopra tutto il paese di Egitto, e si posarono per tutte le contrade di Egitto, in grandissima moltitudine; avanti quelle non ne furono, e dopo quelle non ne saranno giammai di tali.

15 Ed esse copersero la faccia di tutto il paese, talchè il paese ne fu scurato, e mangiarono tutta l’erba del paese, e tutti i frutti degli alberi, i quali la gragnuola avea lasciati di resto; e non rimase alcun verdume negli alberi, nè nell’erbe dei campi per tutto il paese di Egitto.

16 Allora Faraone fece prestamente chiamar Mosè ed Aaronne, e disse loro: Io ho peccato contro al Signore Iddio vostro, e contro a voi.

17 Ma ora perdonami, ti prego, il mio peccato, sol questa volta; e pregate il Signore Iddio vostro, che rimuova d’addosso a me sol questa morte.

18 E Mosè uscì d’appresso a Faraone, e pregò il Signore.

19 E il Signore voltò il vento in un fortissimo vento occidentale, il qual portò via le locuste, e le affondò nel mar rosso; e’ non vi restò una sola locusta in tutti i confini di Egitto.

20 Ma il Signore indurò il cuor di Faraone; ed egli non lasciò andare i figliuoli d’Israele.

21 E IL Signore disse a Mosè: Stendi la tua mano verso il cielo, e verranno tenebre sopra il paese di Egitto, tali che si potranno tastar con le mani.

22 E Mosè stese la sua mano verso il cielo, e vennero tenebre caliginose in tutto il paese di Egitto, per lo spazio di tre giorni.

23 L’uno non vedeva l’altro; e niuno si levò dal suo luogo, per lo spazio di tre giorni; ma tutti i figliuoli d’Israele ebbero luce nelle loro stanze.

24 E Faraone chiamò Mosè, e disse: Andate, servite al Signore; sol le vostre gregge e i vostri armenti saranno fatti restare; le vostre famiglie eziandio andranno con voi.

25 E Mosè disse: Tu ci concederai pure ancora di prender sacrificii ed olocausti, per offerire al Signore Iddio nostro.

26 Anche il nostro bestiame verrà con noi, senza che ne rimanga pure un’unghia; perciocchè di esso noi abbiamo a prendere da servire al Signore Iddio nostro; e noi non sappiamo con che abbiamo a servire al Signore, finchè siamo arrivati là.

27 Ma il Signore indurò il cuor di Faraone, ed egli non volle lasciarli andare.

28 E Faraone disse a Mosè: Vattene d’appresso a me; guardati che tu non vegga mai più la mia faccia; perciocchè nel giorno che tu vedrai la mai faccia, tu morrai.

29 E Mosè disse: Tu hai parlato bene: io non vedrò più la tua faccia.

   


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#1343

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1343. That 'Eber' was a nation, the Hebrew nation, which took its name from 'Eber' as its forefather, and which means the worship in general of the second Ancient Church, is clear from the references to him in the historical sections of the Word. Because a new form of worship began with that nation, all those were called Hebrews whose worship was similar to it. Their worship was like that re-established at a later time among the descendants of Jacob, its chief features being that they called their God Jehovah and held sacrifices. The Most Ancient Church was of one mind in acknowledging the Lord and calling Him Jehovah, as is clear also from the early chapters of Genesis and elsewhere in the Word. The Ancient Church, that is, the Church after the Flood also acknowledged the Lord and called Him Jehovah, especially those who possessed internal worship and were called 'the sons of Shem'. The remainder whose worship was external also acknowledged Jehovah and worshipped Him. But when internal worship became external, and still more when it became idolatrous, and when each nation started to have its own god to worship, the Hebrew nation retained the name of Jehovah and called their own God Jehovah. In this they were different from all other nations.

[2] Along with external worship, Jacob's descendants in Egypt, including Moses himself, lost knowledge even of this fact, that their God was called Jehovah. Consequently they had first of all to be taught that Jehovah was the God of the Hebrews, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as becomes clear from the following in Moses,

Jehovah said to Moses, You and the elders of Israel shall go in to the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now let us go, pray, a three days' journey into the wilderness, and let us sacrifice to Jehovah our God. Exodus 3:18.

In the same author,

Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah that I should hearken to His voice to send Israel away? I do not know Jehovah, and moreover I will not send Israel away. And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, pray, a three days' journey into the wilderness, and let us sacrifice to Jehovah our God. Exodus 5:2-3.

[3] The fact that Jacob's descendants lost in Egypt, along with the worship, even the name of Jehovah becomes clear from the following in Moses,

Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? What shall I tell them? And God said to Moses, I Am Who I Am. And He said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I Am has sent me to you. And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you; this is My name for ever. Exodus 3:13-15.

[4] From this it is evident that even Moses did not know it and that they were distinguished from everyone else by the name of Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews. Hence also Jehovah is elsewhere called the God of the Hebrews,

You shall say to Pharaoh, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you. Exodus 7:16.

Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews. Exodus 9:1, 13.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews Exodus 10:3.

In Jonah,

I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven. Jonah 1:9.

And also in Samuel,

The Philistines heard the noise of the shouting and said, What does the noise of this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean? And they learned that the Ark of Jehovah had come to the camp. The Philistines said, Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness. Acquit yourselves like men, O Philistines, lest you be slaves to the Hebrews. 1 Samuel 4:6, 8-9.

Here also it is evident that nations were distinguished from one another by the gods whose names they called on, and that the Hebrew nation was distinguished by that of Jehovah.

[5] The fact that sacrifices were the second essential feature of the worship of the Hebrew nation is also evident from the words from Exodus 3:18; 5:2-3, quoted above, as well as from the fact that the Egyptians abhorred the Hebrew nation on account of this form of worship, as is clear from the following in Moses,

Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing to Jehovah our God what is abhorrent to the Egyptians; behold, we would be sacrificing what is abhorrent to the Egyptians in their eyes; will they not stone us? Exodus 8:26.

Consequently the Egyptians also abhorred the Hebrew nation so much that they refused even 'to eat bread' with them, Genesis 43:32. From this it is also evident that not merely the descendants of Jacob constituted the Hebrew nation but everybody who possessed that kind of worship. This also was why in Joseph's day the land of Canaan was called the land of the Hebrews,

Joseph said. By theft I have been taken away out of the land of the Hebrews. Genesis 40:15.

[6] The fact that sacrifices took place among the idolaters in the land of Canaan becomes clear from many references, for they used to sacrifice to their gods - to the baals and to others What is more, Balaam, who came from Syria where Eber had lived, that is, where the Hebrew nation had originated, before Jacob's descendants entered the land of Canaan, not only offered sacrifices but also called his God Jehovah. As to the fact that Balaam came from Syria where the Hebrew nation had originated, see Numbers 23:7; that he offered sacrifices, Numbers 22:39-40; 23:1-3, 14, 29; that he called his God Jehovah, Numbers 22:18, and elsewhere in those chapters. And Genesis 8:20 speaks of Noah offering burnt offerings to Jehovah - though this is not true history but made-up history - for 'burnt offerings' means the holiness of worship, as may be seen in that story. These considerations now show what 'Eber' or 'the Hebrew nation' means.

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