Numeri 25
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Numbers 25
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Or Israele era stanziato a Sittim, e il popolo cominciò a darsi alla impurità con le figliuole di Moab. | Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: |
Esse invitarono il popolo ai sacrifizi offerti ai loro dèi, e il popolo mangiò e si prostrò dinanzi agli dèi di quelle. | For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods. |
Israele si unì a Baal-Peor, e l’ira dell’Eterno si accese contro Israele. | So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel. |
E l’Eterno disse a Mosè: "Prendi tutti i capi del popolo e falli appiccare davanti all’Eterno, in faccia al sole, affinché l’ardente ira dell’Eterno sia rimossa da Israele". | Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel. |
E Mosè disse ai giudici d’Israele: "Ciascuno di voi uccida quelli de’ suoi uomini che si sono uniti a Baal-Peor". | So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor. |
Ed ecco che uno dei figliuoli d’Israele venne e condusse ai suoi fratelli una donna Madianita, sotto gli occhi di Mosè e di tutta la raunanza dei figliuoli d’Israele, mentr’essi stavano piangendo all’ingresso della tenda di convegno. | Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting. |
La qual cosa avendo veduta Fineas, figliuolo di Eleazar, figliuolo del sacerdote Aaronne, si alzò di mezzo alla raunanza e die’ di piglio ad una lancia; | And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand, |
andò dietro a quell’uomo d’Israele nella sua tenda, e li trafisse ambedue, l’uomo d’Israele e la donna, nel basso ventre. E il flagello cessò tra i figliuoli d’Israele. | And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel. |
Di quel flagello morirono ventiquattromila persone. | But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease. |
L’Eterno parlò a Mosè, dicendo: | And the Lord said to Moses, |
"Fineas, figliuolo di Eleazar, figliuolo del sacerdote Aaronne, ha rimossa l’ira mia dai figliuoli d’Israele, perch’egli è stato animato del mio zelo in mezzo ad essi; ed io, nella mia indignazione, non ho sterminato i figliuoli d’Israele. | Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath. |
Perciò digli ch’io fermo con lui un patto di pace, | So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace: |
che sarà per lui e per la sua progenie dopo di lui l’alleanza d’un sacerdozio perpetuo, perch’egli ha avuto zelo per il suo Dio, e ha fatta l’espiazione per i figliuoli d’Israele". | And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel. |
Or l’uomo d’Israele che fu ucciso con la donna Madianita, si chiamava Zimri, figliuolo di Salu, capo di una casa patriarcale dei Simeoniti. | Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites. |
E la donna che fu uccisa, la Madianita, si chiamava Cozbi, figliuola di Tsur, capo della gente di una casa patriarcale in Madian. | And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian. |
Poi l’Eterno parlò a Mosè, dicendo: | Then the Lord said to Moses, |
"Trattate i Madianiti come nemici e uccideteli, | Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them; |
poiché essi vi hanno trattati da nemici con gl’inganni mediante i quali v’hanno sedotti nell’affare di Peor e nell’affare di Cozbi, figliuola d’un principe di Madian, loro sorella, che fu uccisa il giorno della piaga causata dall’affare di Peor. | For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor. |