Patriarchal distortions have plagued our planet for lifetimes and we have all gotten caught up in, minus a very small percentage of souls, what is right and wrong based on society's expectations.

家长制对社会的扭曲将我们的星球折磨至今，而我们也深陷其害，仅存那些微的一小部分灵魂未被魔爪触碰，对与错的准则全由社会公认裁定。

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But in all likelihood Hebrews of an older time, the patriarchal period, the second millennium BCE--they probably weren't markedly different from many of their polytheistic neighbors. Archaeology would suggest that.

但很有可能更早的，西元前2000年族长统治时期的希伯来人，他们可能和其他信仰多神论的异邦人,没有什么太大的不同，这一点考古学会帮我们证明。

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And it's true that the resurgence of patriarchal succession in one company does not spell doom for all reform.

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