"Mosè in Egitto" translation help

[Nervous Gentleman]

Salve!

A friend of mine is currently preparing English subtitles for the 2011 Pesaro production of "Mosè in Egitto" by Rossini.

We have an English translation of the libretto. Unfortunately, a brief section is missing. I would be very grateful if an Italian-speaker could please translate the following passage into English. With permission from the original uploader, the video will be posted to YouTube with added subtitles.

Grazie!

:)

Paul
Canada


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Ah! Tal saria se partisser gli Ebrei...

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Tu vedi notte ove non e che giorno.

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E' chiaro giorno quel che vegg'io:

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l'arte del Mago ebreo notte tel fa sembrar;

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sotto il pretesto di offrir le ostie al suo Nume entro il deserto

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chi non vede una trama?

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Ognun sa pure, che quaranta e piu lustri or son compiuti

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da che scese Giacobbe a questo regno,

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e ognun pur sa,

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che fin d'allor gli Ebrei adoraro il lor Nume entro l'Egitto;

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come dunque si vuol, ch'ei l'ostie or chieda

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sull'arse solitudini infeconde dell'Arabia Petrea?

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Gia i Medianiti son sull'armi, e della tela ordita

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chi sa che a ricompor le prime fila Mose fra lor non vada,

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onde scagliarsi ad essi unito a devastarci il regno?


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Ma il flagello divin?

[Bardamu]

It's hard to translate a libretto with my poor english skills:

OSIRIDE
Ah! so that would be if jews left..

AMALTEA
You see the night where there is only the day.

OSIRIDE
It's clear day what I see:
the art of the jew mage make you look like night;
with the excuse to offer wafers(?) to his God in the desert
who don't recognize a plot?
Everyone knows that forty and more lustri (lustro/i=5 year period) are past
since Giacobbe descent in this reign,
and everyone knows,
that since that moment the jews praised their God within Egypt;
how do you pretend that he demands the wafers now
on the burned and infertile lonely land of Arabia Petrea?
The Medianti are already at war, and of the machination
who knows if in the first row between them Mose will go,
to, then, dash out with them to destroy our reign?
Such stupidity bring me disdain.

AMALTEA
But the holy scourge?

[Nervous Gentleman]

Grazie! Te ne sono davvero grato!

:respect: