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1 OR il popolo, veggendo che Mosè tardava a scender dal monte, si adunò appresso ad Aaronne, e gli disse: Levati, facci degl’iddii che vadano davanti a noi; perciocchè, quant’è a quell’uomo Mosè, che ci ha condotti fuor del paese di Egitto, noi non sappiamo che ne sia stato.

2 Ed Aaronne disse loro: Spiccate i pendenti d’oro che sono alle orecchie delle vostre mogli, de’ vostri figliuoli, e delle vostre figliuole; e portatemeli.

3 E tutto il popolo si spiccò i pendenti d’oro che avea agli orecchi; e li portò ad Aaronne.

4 Ed egli li prese dalle lor mani; e, dopo aver fatto il modello con lo scarpello, ne fece un vitello di getto. E gl’Israeliti dissero: O Israele, questi sono i tuoi dii, che ti hanno tratto fuor del paese di Egitto.

5 Ed Aaronne, veggendo questo, edificò un altare davanti ad esso; e fece fare una grida, dicendo: Domani sarà festa solenne al Signore.

6 E la mattina seguente, i figliuoli di Israele si levarono a buon’ora, e sacrificarono olocausti, e offersero sacrificii da render grazie; e il popolo si assettò per mangiare e per bere; poi si levò per sollazzare.

7 E il Signore disse a Mosè: Va’, scendi giù; perciocchè il tuo popolo, che tu hai tratto fuor del paese di Egitto, si è corrotto.

8 Essi si son tosto stornati dalla via che io avea lor comandata; essi si hanno fatto un vitello di getto, e l’hanno adorato, e gli hanno sacrificato, e hanno detto: Questi, o Israele, sono i tuoi dii, che ti hanno tratto fuor del paese di Egitto.

9 Il Signore disse ancora a Mosè: Io ho riguardato questo popolo, ed ecco, egli è un popolo di collo duro.

10 Ora dunque, lasciami fare, e l’ira mia si accenderà contro a loro, e io li consumerò; e io ti farò diventare una gran nazione.

11 Ma Mosè supplicò al Signore Iddio suo, e disse: Perchè si accenderebbe, o Signore, l’ira tua contro al tuo popolo, che tu hai tratto fuor del paese di Egitto, con gran forza e con possente mano?

12 Perchè direbbero gli Egizj: Egli li ha tratti fuori per male, per farli morir su per que’ monti, e per consumarli d’in su la terra? Racqueta il tuo cruccio acceso, e pentiti di questo male inverso il tuo popolo.

13 Ricordati di Abrahamo, d’Isacco e d’Israele, tuoi servitori, ai quali tu giurasti per te stesso; ed a’ quali dicesti: Io moltiplicherò la vostra progenie, come le stelle del cielo; e darò alla vostra progenie tutto questo paese, del quale io ho parlato, acciocchè lo possegga in perpetuo.

14 E il Signore si pentì del male che avea detto di fare al suo popolo.

15 E Mosè, rivoltosi, scese dal monte, avendo in mano le due Tavole della Testimonianza, Tavole scritte da’ due lati, di qua e di là.

16 E le Tavole erano lavoro di Dio, e la scrittura era scrittura di Dio, intagliata sopra le Tavole.

17 Or Giosuè udì il romor del popolo, mentre gridava, e disse a Mosè: E’ vi è un grido di battaglia nel campo.

18 E Mosè disse: Questo non è punto grido di vittoriosi; nè grido di vinti; io odo un suono di canto.

19 E, come egli fu vicino al campo, vide quel vitello e le danze. E l’ira sua si accese, ed egli gittò le Tavole dalle sue mani, e le spezzò appiè del monte.

20 Poi prese il vitello, che i figliuoli d’Israele aveano fatto, e lo bruciò col fuoco, e lo tritò, finchè fu ridotto in polvere; e sparse quella polvere sopra dell’acqua, e fece bere quell’acqua a’ figliuoli d’Israele.

21 E Mosè disse ad Aaronne: Che ti ha fatto questo popolo, che tu gli hai tratto addosso un gran peccato?

22 Ed Aaronne disse: Non accendasi l’ira del mio signore; tu conosci questo popolo, come egli è dato al male.

23 Essi mi dissero: Facci degl’iddii che vadano davanti a noi; perciocchè, quant’è e quell’uomo Mosè, che ci ha tratti fuor del paese di Egitto, noi non sappiamo che ne sia stato.

24 E io dissi loro: Chi ha dell’oro? spiccatevelo d’addosso. Ed essi mi diedero quell’oro, e io lo misi nel fuoco, e n’è uscito questo vitello.

25 E Mosè, veggendo che il popolo era spogliato conciossiachè Aaronne lo avesse spogliato, per essere in vituperio appo i suoi assalitori,

26 si fermò alla porta del campo, e disse: Chi è qui per lo Signore? venga a me. E tutti i figliuoli di Levi si adunarono appresso a lui.

27 Ed egli disse loro: Così ha detto il Signore Iddio d’Israele: Ciascun di voi metta la sua spada al fianco; e passate, e ripassate per lo campo, da una porta all’altra, e uccidete ciascuno il suo fratello, il suo amico, e il suo prossimo parente.

28 E i figliuoli di Levi fecero secondo la parola di Mosè; e in quel giorno caddero morti del popolo intorno a tremila uomini.

29 Or Mosè avea lor detto: Consacratevi oggi al Signore; anzi ciascuno si consacri nel suo proprio figliuolo, e nel suo fratello; e ciò affin di attrarre oggi benedizione sopra voi. E IL giorno seguente, Mosè disse al popolo: Voi avete commesso un gran peccato;

30 ma ora io salirò al Signore: forse farò io che vi sia perdonato il vostro peccato.

31 Mosè dunque ritornò al Signore, e disse: Deh! Signore; questo popolo ha commesso un gran peccato, facendosi degl’iddii d’oro.

32 Ma ora, rimetti loro il lor peccato; se no, cancellami ora dal tuo Libro che tu hai scritto.

33 E il Signore disse a Mosè: Io cancellerò dal mio Libro colui che avrà peccato contro a me.

34 Or va’ al presente, conduci il popolo al luogo del quale ti ho parlato; ecco, un mio Angelo andrà davanti a te; e al giorno della mia visitazione, io li punirò del lor peccato.

35 E il Signore percosse il popolo, perciocchè avea fatto il vitello, che Aaronne avea fabbricato.

   


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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10393. Exodus 32

1. And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain. And the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, Rise, make us gods to go before us; for this Moses, that man who caused us to come up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

2. And Aaron said to them, Pull away the ear-jewels of gold which are on the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.

3. And all the people pulled away the ear-jewels of gold which were on their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4. And he received [the gold] from their hands, and fashioned it with a chisel, and made out of it a calf of molded [metal]; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who caused you to come up out of the land of Egypt.

5. And Aaron saw it and built an altar in front of it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow there will be a feast to Jehovah 1 .

6. And they rose up in the morning of the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

7. And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go! go down; for your people have corrupted themselves, whom you caused to come up out of the land of Egypt.

8. They have suddenly departed from the way which I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of molded [metal], and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who caused you to come up out of the land of Egypt.

9. And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

10. And you, let Me alone, and let My anger grow hot against them, and let Me consume them; and let Me make you into a great nation.

11. And Moses entreated the face of 2 Jehovah his God, and said, Why, O Jehovah, does Your anger grow hot against Your people, whom You have led out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

12. Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He led them out, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from upon the face of the earth? Turn back from the heat of Your anger, and repent 3 of the evil against Your people.

13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and spoke to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens; and all this land which I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they will inherit it into the age 4 .

14. And Jehovah repented 3 of the evil which He said He would do to His people.

15. And Moses looked back and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand; the tablets were written on across them both, from the edge of one and from the edge of the other they were written on 5 .

16. And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

17. And Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted 6 , and he said to Moses, There is the noise of war in the camp.

18. And he said, It is not the noise of the cry in victory, and it is not the noise of the cry in defeat; the noise of a wretched cry I hear.

19. And it happened, as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dances; and Moses grew hot with anger, and threw the tablets out of his hand and broke them beneath the mountain.

20. And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it up till it was powder, and sprinkled it on the face of the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

21. And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?

22. And Aaron said, Do not let your anger grow hot, O my lord; you know the people, that they [are set] on evil.

23. And they said to me, Make us gods to go before us; for this Moses, that man who caused us to come up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

24. And I said to them, Whoever has gold, pull it away; and they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.

25. And Moses saw that the people had become undisciplined; for Aaron had caused them to become so undisciplined that those rising up against them would annihilate them 7 .

26. And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is for Jehovah, [come] to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him.

27. And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Put everyone his sword on his thigh; go to and fro 8 from gate to gate in the camp, and kill [every] man his brother, and [every] man his companion, and [every] man his neighbour.

28. And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people on that day up to three thousand men.

29. And Moses said, Fill your hand 9 today to Jehovah (for [every] man has been against his son and against his brother), so that He may bestow a blessing on you today.

30. And it happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin. And now I shall go up to Jehovah; perhaps I shall make expiation for your sin.

31. And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, I implore You; this people has committed a great sin, and they have made gods of gold for themselves.

32. And now, if You forgive their sin - and if not, blot me out, I beg You, from Your book which You have written.

33. And Jehovah said to Moses, The one who has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

34. And now, go! lead the people to what I have spoken of to you. Behold, My angel will go before you; and on the day of My visitation I will visit their sin upon them 10 .

35. And Jehovah struck the people because they made the calf which Aaron made.

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The internal sense in this chapter shows that no Church could be established among the Israelite people because their whole interest lay in external things and not in anything internal; and to prevent them from profaning the holy things of heaven and the Church their interiors were completely closed off. The fact that this people's whole interest lay in external things and not in anything internal is meant by the golden calf which they worshipped instead of Jehovah. And the complete closing off of their interiors to prevent them from profaning the holy things of heaven and the Church is meant by Moses' breaking the tablets containing the law, by his grinding up the golden calf, sprinkling the powder on the water, and giving it to them to drink, and also by the killing in the camp by the sons of Levi of up to three thousand men.

脚注:

1. in this chapter Swedenborg does not use a capital letter for the Divine name in this particular expression; i.e. he writes jehovah, not Jehovah.

2. i.e. Moses pleaded with

3. repent is not used here in the sense of being penitent or contrite over personal wrong-doing but in the sense of sorrow or regret over any past decision or course of action.

4. i.e. forever

5. literally, the tablets were written on the two goings across; from here and from here they were written i.e. the writing ran from the edge of one tablet right across, and then continued from the edge of the second tablet right across

6. The word rendered noise (vox) in verses 17-18 means more literally voice; and the word rendered shouting (vociferatio) means more literally raising the voice.

7. literally, And Moses saw the people, that they had been unloosed, because Aaron had made them unloosed, to annihilation by their insurgents

8. literally, go across (or through) and come back

9. i.e. Consecrate yourselves

10. i.e. on the day when I come to punish I will punish them for their sin

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