So, in the second creation story just as in the first, That distinguishes the human creation from the other creatures.

就如在第一个创造故事中，第二个创造故事，它当人类与其他动物区别开来。

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The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.

第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏，有几分严肃，第二个故事却充满了这些：,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。

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Finally, let's talk about the image of the world That emerges from the creation story in Genesis 1.

最后让我们来谈谈世界的景象,在《创世纪》第一章中所体现的景象。

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Because like Adam and Eve in the first creation story, Noah is told to be fruitful and multiply.

因为就像第一个创世纪中的亚当和夏娃，诺亚被命令多子多孙。

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So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.

在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事，我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。

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The creation story in Genesis 1 draws upon the Babylonian epic known as Enuma Elish.

第一章里创世纪的故事,源于巴比伦史诗《埃努玛-埃利什》

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Now admittedly that comes from the first creation story in Genesis 1; nevertheless in the second creation story when the writer is recounting the creation of woman, the writer refers to the fact that man and woman will become one flesh.

上帝对这对夫妇的第一条命令便是，多子多孙;,然而，在第二个故事当中,当作者描述创造女人的经过时，指的是，男人和女人变成了同一个肉体。

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They also had a creation story. They had a flood story. They did animal sacrifices. They observed purity taboos. Israelite religion was another Ancient Near Eastern religion and they differed from their neighbors only over the number of gods they worshiped: one or many.

他们都有原创的神话，他们都有一个关于洪水的神话,都有动物牺牲，他们都尊崇高洁的竹子,以色列宗教是另一种古近东宗教，它们和别的宗教,唯一不同之处就在于崇拜的神的数量：一个还是多个。

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So, last time I gave a reading of the creation accounts that are in Genesis 1 to 3. These are two very different stories but their placement side by side suggests the possibility of a joint reading. Nevertheless they are very different in character and today I want to focus in on the second creation story.

上次我们读了《创世纪》一到三章中,关于记述创造的，两个不同的故事,尽管他们是不同的两个故事,却经常放在一起阅读,今天，我会着重介绍第二个故事。

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There's a very similar Egyptian creation story Actually in which the god Ptah just wills "let this be."

埃及也有一个类似的创世故事,在这个故事中，上帝Ptahr，意愿仅仅是“就这样吧”

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Now the story of creation in Genesis 1 takes place over seven days, and there's a certain logic and parallelism to the six days of creating.

创世纪》第一章中的创世在七天内完成，它和六天创世的故事在逻辑上有一些对照。

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First, the fashioning of the human from clay is--again--in that story, The final climactic act of creation is the creation of the female from the male.

首先，用黏土创造人类又一次出现在故事中，创物行动中的高潮是,从男人身体中创造了女人。

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