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1 MOSÈ adunque adunò tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele, e disse loro: Queste son le cose che il Signore ha comandate che si facciano:

2 Lavorisi sei giorni, e al settimo giorno siavi giorno santo, il Riposo del Sabato consacrato al Signore; chiunque farà in esso opera alcuna sia fatto morire.

3 Non accendete fuoco in alcuna delle vostre stanze nel giorno del Sabato.

4 Poi Mosè disse a tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele: Questo è quello che il Signore ha comandato.

5 Pigliate di quello che avete appo voi da fare un’offerta al Signore; chiunque sarà d’animo volenteroso, porti quell’offerta al Signore; oro, e argento, e rame,

6 e violato, e porpora, e scarlatto, e fin lino, e pel di capra,

7 e pelli di montone tinte in rosso, e pelli di tasso, e legno di Sittim,

8 e olio per la lumiera, e aromati per l’olio dell’Unzione, e per lo profumo degli aromati,

9 e pietre onichine, e pietre da legare, per l’Efod, e per lo Pettorale.

10 E tutti gli uomini industriosi che son fra voi vengano, e facciano tutto quello che il Signore ha comandato:

11 il Tabernacolo, la sua tenda, la sua coverta, i suoi graffi, le sue assi, le sue sbarre, le sue colonne, e i suoi piedistalli;

12 l’Arca, e le sue stanghe; il Coperchio, e la Cortina da tender davanti;

13 la Tavola, e le sue stanghe, e tutti i suoi strumenti; e il Pane del cospetto;

14 e il Candelliere della lumiera, e i suoi strumenti, e le sue lampane, e l’olio per la lumiera;

15 e l’Altar de’ profumi, e le sue stanghe; l’olio dell’Unzione, e il profumo degli aromati, e il Tappeto dell’entrata, per l’entrata del Tabernacolo;

16 l’Altar degli olocausti, e la sua grata di rame, e le sue sbarre, e tutti i suoi strumenti; la Conca, e il suo piede;

17 le cortine del Cortile, le sue colonne e i suoi piedistalli; e il Tappeto dell’entrata del Cortile;

18 i piuoli del Tabernacolo, e i piuoli del Cortile, e le lor corde;

19 i vestimenti del servigio, da fare il servigio nel Luogo santo; i vestimenti sacri del Sacerdote Aaronne, e i vestimenti de’ suoi figliuoli, per esercitare il sacerdozio.

20 Allora tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele si partì dal cospetto di Mosè.

21 E tutti coloro, il cui cuore li sospinse, e il cui spirito li mosse volenterosamente, vennero, e portarono l’offerta del Signore, per l’opera del Tabernacolo della convenenza, e per ogni servigio di esso, e per li vestimenti sacri.

22 E tutte le persone di cuor volenteroso vennero, uomini e donne; e portarono fibbie, e monili, e anella, e fermagli; ogni sorte di arredi d’oro; oltre a tutti coloro che offersero al Signore offerta d’oro.

23 E ogni uomo, appo cui si trovò violato, o porpora, o scarlatto, o fin lino, o pel di capra, o pelli di montone tinte in rosso, e pelli di tasso, ne portò.

24 Chiunque potè offerire offerta d’argento, e di rame, ne portò per l’offerta del Signore; parimente ciascuno, appo cui si trovò legno di Sittim, per qualunque opera del lavorio, ne portò.

25 E tutte le donne industriose filarono con le lor mani, e portarono il filato del violato, e della porpora, e dello scarlatto, e del fin lino.

26 Tutte le donne ancora, il cui cuore le sospinse ad adoperarsi con industria, filarono il pel di capra.

27 E i principali del popolo portarono pietre onichine, e pietre da legare, per l’Efod, e per lo Pettorale;

28 e aromati, e olio, per la lumiera, e per l’olio dell’Unzione, e per lo profumo degli aromati.

29 Così tutti coloro d’infra i figliuoli d’Israele, così uomini come donne, il cui cuore li mosse volenterosamente a portar ciò che faceva bisogno per tutto il lavorio, che il Signore avea comandato per Mosè che si facesse, portarono offerte volontarie al Signore.

30 E MOSÈ disse a’ figliuoli d’Israele: Vedete, il Signore ha chiamato per nome Besaleel, figliuol di Uri, figliuol di Hur, della tribù di Giuda.

31 E l’ha empiuto dello Spirito di Dio, in industria, in ingegno, in sapere, e in ogni artificio;

32 eziandio per far disegni da lavorare in oro, e in argento, e in rame,

33 e in arte di pietre da legare, e in arte di lavorar di legno, per far qualunque lavorio ingegnoso.

34 E anche ha messo nell’animo suo il sapere ammaestrare altrui; e con lui Oholiab, figliuol di Ahisamac, della tribù di Dan.

35 Egli li ha empiuti d’industria, da far qualunque lavorio di fabbro, e di disegnatore, e di ricamatore in violato, in porpora, in iscarlatto, e in fin lino; e di tessitore; e di artefice in qualunque lavorio e disegno.

   


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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10083. 'And you shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah' means the life from God which comes as a result of this. This is clear from the meaning of 'waving a wave offering' as endowing with life, thus the life [present in something]; and since it says from 'before Jehovah' the life from God is meant. The fact that 'waving a wave offering' means endowing with life, that is, imparting the life from God, is clear from places in the Word where 'waving a wave offering' is spoken of, as in Moses,

When you bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, so that you may be acceptable; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Leviticus 23:10-11.

'Harvest' means a state when the truth of faith springing from good exists, thus a state when good is present, 9295; 'a sheaf of the firstfruits' means all collectively constituting that state. 'Being waved by the priest' therefore means being endowed with life to receive a blessing; for every blessing, to be a blessing, must have life from God within it.

[2] In the same author,

Aaron shall wave the Levites before Jehovah as a wave offering 1 from among the children of Israel, that they may be used in the service of Jehovah. You shall stand the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave offering to Jehovah. After that the Levites shall go in to serve in the tent of meeting; and you shall purify them, and wave them as a wave offering. And when the Levites had been purified, Aaron waved them before Jehovah as a wave offering, and Aaron expiated them to purify them. Numbers 8:11, 13, 15, 21.

These verses show what 'waving a wave offering' means, namely endowing with life through acknowledgement, which is the first phase of faith, and so the first phase of life from God with a person. Knowledge, it is true, comes before acknowledgement, but knowledge has none of God's life within it until it becomes acknowledgement and then faith. The Levites represented truths serving good, while Aaron represented the good they served; that is why they were 'waved', that is, were endowed with life. This also accounts for its being said that they were to be purified. For truths must have life from God within them if they are to serve good, and that life first flows in through acknowledgement.

[3] Much the same is meant by 'a wave offering of gold' in Moses,

They came, the men with the women ... they brought brooches, nose-jewels, rings, girdles 2 , all vessels of gold; and every man who waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah. Exodus 35:22.

'Waving a wave offering of gold to Jehovah' means endowing with life through the acknowledgement that it was Jehovah's, that is, the Lord's. 'Waving a wave offering' means such things by virtue of what that action corresponds to; for every motion corresponds to a state of thought. In the Word therefore advancing, travelling on, and like movements mean states of life, see 3335, 4882, 5493, 5605, 8103, 8417, 8420, 8557.

[4] In John,

At the pool of Bethesda lay a large multitude of sick people; and an angel went down at a certain time to the pool and stirred up the water. Then whoever stepped in first after the movement of the water was cured of whatever disease he had. John 5:2-7.

'Stirring up the water' here was in like manner a sign of the endowment of life through acknowledgement and faith, and therefore also a sign of purification by means of truths.

'Movement' means states of life, see 2837, 3356, 3387, 4321, 4882, 5605, 7381, 9440, 9967.

'Water' means the truths of faith, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 8568, 9323.

All purification is accomplished by means of the truths of faith, 2799, 5954 (end), 7044, 7918, 9088.

Healings represented the restoration of spiritual life, 8365, 9031 (end).

[5] Since 'the waving on Aaron's palms' means the endowment of life through acknowledgement of the Lord and the acknowledgement that all things come from Him, something brief must be stated with regard to that acknowledgement and resulting faith. The Lord often said, when sick people were being healed, that they should have faith, and, 'Let it be to you according to your faith', as in Matthew 8:10-13; 9:2, 22, 27-29; 13:57-58; 15:28; 21:21-22, 31-32; Mark 5:34, 36; 10:49, 52; 16:16; Luke 7:9, 48-50; 8:48; 17:19; 18:42-43. The reason why He said it was that the very first thing a person needs to do is to acknowledge that the Lord is the Saviour of the world; for unless he acknowledges this no one can receive any truth or good at all from heaven, or therefore receive faith from there. And since it was the very first and most essential thing, therefore in order that He might be acknowledged when He came into the world the Lord questioned the sick, when He healed them, about their faith; and those who had faith were healed. This faith was that He was the Son of God who was to come into the world, and that He had power to heal and save. Furthermore every healing of sickness by the Lord when He was in the world served to mean a healing of spiritual life, thus served to mean the things that belong to salvation, 8364, 9031(end), 9086.

[6] Since acknowledgement of the Lord is the first thing of all belonging to spiritual life and is the most essential feature of the Church, and since no one, unless he acknowledges Him, can receive any truth of faith or good of love at all from heaven, the Lord also often says that whoever believes in Him has eternal life, and whoever does not believe in Him does not have it, as in John 1:1, 4, 12-13; 3:14-16, 36; 5:39-40; 6:28-30, 33-35, 40, 47-48; 7:37-38; 8:24; 11:25-26; 20:30-31. But at the same time He also teaches that they have faith in Him who live according to His commandments, so that the life which results from doing so goes to compose their faith. These things have been stated to cast light on and corroborate the truth that acknowledging the Lord and acknowledging that all salvation comes from Him constitute the beginning of the life from God with a person. That beginning of it is meant by the offering waved on Aaron's palms.

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1. i.e. the Levites were to be offered to Jehovah as though they were a wave offering

2. i.e. bracelets, necklaces, etc

  
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