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1 POI disse a Mosè: Sali al Signore, tu, ed Aaronne, e Nadab, e Abihu, e settanta degli Anziani d’Israele, e adorate da lungi.

2 Poi accostisi Mosè solo al Signore, e quegli altri non vi si accostino; e non salga il popolo con lui.

3 E Mosè venne, e raccontò al popolo tutte le parole del Signore, e tutte quelle leggi. E tutto il popolo rispose ad una voce, e disse: Noi faremo tutte le cose che il Signore ha dette.

4 Poi Mosè scrisse tutte le parole del Signore; e, levatosi la mattina, edificò sotto a quel monte un altare, e rizzò dodici pilieri, per le dodici tribù d’Israele.

5 E mandò i ministri de’ figliuoli d’Israele a offerire olocausti, e sacrificare al Signore giovenchi, per sacrificii da render grazie.

6 E Mosè prese la metà del sangue, e lo mise in bacini; e ne sparse l’altra metà sopra l’altare.

7 Poi prese il Libro del Patto, e lo lesse in presenza del popolo. E esso disse: Noi faremo tutto quello che il Signore ha detto, e ubbidiremo.

8 Allora Mosè prese quel sangue, e lo sparse sopra il popolo, e disse: Ecco il sangue del patto che il Signore ha fatto con voi, sopra tutte quelle parole.

9 Poi Mosè, ed Aaronne, e Nadab, e Abihu, e settanta degli Anziani d’Israele, salirono.

10 E videro l’Iddio d’Israele; e sotto i piedi di esso vi era come un lavorio di lastre di zaffiro, risomigliante il cielo stesso in chiarezza.

11 Ed egli non avventò la sua mano sopra gli Eletti d’infra i figliuoli d’Israele; anzi videro Iddio, e mangiarono e bevvero.

12 E il Signore disse a Mosè: Sali a me in sul monte, e fermati quivi; ed io ti darò delle tavole di pietra, cioè: la Legge, e i comandamenti che io ho scritti, per insegnarli a’ figliuoli d’Israele.

13 Mosè adunque, con Giosuè, suo ministro, si levò; e Mosè salì al monte di Dio.

14 E disse agli Anziani d’Israele: Rimanete qui, aspettandoci, finchè noi ritorniamo a voi; ecco, Aaronne ed Hur sono con voi; chiunque avrà qualche affare, vada a loro.

15 Mosè adunque salì al monte, e la nuvola coperse il monte.

16 E la gloria del Signore si posò in sul monte di Sinai, e la nuvola lo coperse per lo spazio di sei giorni; e al settimo giorno il Signore chiamò Mosè del mezzo della nuvola.

17 E l’aspetto della gloria del Signore era simile a un fuoco consumante, in su la sommità del monte, alla vista de’ figliuoli d’Israele.

18 E Mosè entrò nel mezzo della nuvola, e salì al monte, e dimorò in sul monte quaranta giorni e quaranta notti.

   


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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9378. 'And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah' means the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people achieved through the Word in general. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming near' as the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people, dealt with below; and from the representation of 'Moses' as the Word in general, dealt with above in 9372. The reason why 'Moses shall come near' means the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people achieved through the Word is that 'coming near' in the spiritual sense means being joined together through love; for those who love each other are joined together, love being spiritual togetherness. It is universally so in the next life that all are joined together according to their love of goodness and truth received from the Lord. Consequently the whole of heaven consists in such togetherness. The situation is similar with coming near or being joined to the Lord. Those who love the Lord are joined to Him, so intimately that they are said to be 'in Him' when they are in heaven. And all those people love the Lord, and are consequently joined to Him through their love, who lead a good life based on the truths of faith, since the good based on those truths emanates from the Lord, indeed is the Lord, John 14:20-21.

[2] But it should be recognized that a person is unable of himself to come near the Lord and be joined to Him; rather the Lord has to come near the person and be joined to him. Yet since the Lord draws a person towards Himself, John 6:44; 12:32, the appearance is that the person does of himself come near and join himself. This happens when the person refrains from evils, for refraining from evils is left to a person's own decision or free will. At this time good from the Lord is flowing in; and it is never lacking, for it is present within the very life a person has from the Lord. But the good accompanying that life is received only in the measure that evils have been removed. The reason why the Word is the means by which the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people is achieved is that the Word unites a person to heaven and through heaven to the Lord. For the Word is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, and therefore those who adhere to that truth in doctrine and life, or in faith and love, adhere to what is Divine emanating from the Lord, and in so doing are joined to Him.

[3] From all this it is evident that 'Moses alone shall come near Jehovah' means the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people achieved through the Word. The reason why 'coming near' means togetherness and presence is that in the next life distances between one person and another are determined altogether by the dissimilarity and diversity of the interior things which belong to thought and affection, see 1273-1277, 1376-1381, 9104. Also every moving away from the Lord or coming near Him is determined altogether by the good of love and consequently of faith received from Him and shown towards Him. So it is that every heaven's nearness to the Lord is determined by its good and conversely every hell's remoteness from Him by its evil. From all this it is evident why it is that 'being near' and 'coming near' in the spiritual sense mean being joined together, as also in the following places: In David,

Jehovah is near to all calling on Him, who call on Him in truth. Psalms 145:18.

'Near' stands for present and joined together with. In the same author,

Blessed is [anyone] whom You choose and cause to come near; he will dwell in Your courts. Psalms 65:4.

'Causing to come near' stands for being joined together with.

[4] In the same author,

O Jehovah, come near my soul; deliver me. Psalms 69:18.

In the same author,

Jehovah is near to those broken in heart. Psalms 34:18.

In Jeremiah,

Let them cause My people to hear My words, and let them bring them back from their evil way, from the wickedness of their deeds. Am I a God near at hand, and not a God afar off? Jeremiah 23:22-23.

The words 'a God near at hand' apply, it is evident, to those who refrain from evils, and the words 'a God afar off' to those who are immersed in evils. In Moses,

Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, In those who are near Me 1 I will be sanctified. Leviticus 10:3.

'Being sanctified in those who are near' means with those who have been joined to the Lord through the good of love and the truth of faith derived from the Word. In Jeremiah,

At that time their Magnificent One will be one of themselves, and their Ruler will come from their midst; and I will cause Him to come near, and He will come near Me. For who is This [who] has pledged His heart to come near Me? Jeremiah 30:21.

This refers to the Lord, who is 'the Magnificent One' and 'the Ruler'. 'Coming near Jehovah' is being united to Him, for the coming near of [Him who is] Divine to Divine [Being Itself] is nothing other than union.

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1. literally, In My near ones

  
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