Not forgetting my covenant with God, I began to serve Him zealously.

我没有忘记我跟主所立的约，开始火热地服事主。

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This is the evidence of a good man 's signing a spiritual covenant with God and being willing to bear sufferings for others.

这是一个善良的人与上帝之间订立的精神契约，愿意为他人承担苦难的表证。

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Why does it matter that Israel understands its relationship with God, and uses the covenant as a vehicle for expressing its relationship with God, the vehicle of the suzerainty treaty?

这对犹太人理解他与上帝的关系，和用契约作为一个媒介，阐释他与上帝之间的关系,对这个领主条约，有什么意义呢？

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So every generation of Israel is to view itself as standing at the sacred mountain to conclude a covenant with God, and that decisive moment has to be made ever-present. That's a process that's facilitated by the obligation to study, to study the laws, to recite them daily, to teach them to your children: these are instructions that are contained in Deuteronomy.

那么每一代以色列人都将自己看做站在圣山上,与上帝立约的人，于是那个决定性的时刻,被变为了恒久的场景这是通过学习，学习律法,而达成的过程，每天背诵它们，把它们交给你的孩子们：这是申命记中,包含的指示。

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Why does it matter that Israel understands its relationship with God, and uses the covenant as a vehicle for expressing its relationship with God, the vehicle of the suzerainty treaty?

这对犹太人理解他与上帝的关系，和用契约作为一个媒介，阐释他与上帝之间的关系,对这个领主条约，有什么意义呢？

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So in Deuteronomy 5:2-3: "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb . It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today."

那么在申命记5章2-3节耶和华我们的神在和烈山,与我们立约这约不是与我们祖先立的,乃是与我们今日在这里存活之人立的“

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Jews, of course, can argue that God's covenant with Abraham requires them to circumcise their boys, thus making the practice a matter of religious freedom.

ECONOMIST: Banning circumcision

Like the Muslims, the Mormons believe God's covenant with Abraham, and the message of Jesus of Nazareth, were distorted by later generations only to be corrected by their own prophet.

ECONOMIST: The Mormon faith is spreading. But is it a world religion?

From God's covenant with Abraham to his promise to Muhammad, from the Balfour Declaration to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, from Israel's War of Independence to the Nakba, which is the Arabic term for "catastrophe" commonly used for Israel's birth, the role of history as narrative resonates deeply among both Arabs and Jews.

NPR: Historian Robert Satloff