万军之耶和华说，我必为你们斥责蝗虫(蝗虫原文作吞噬者)，不容它毁坏你们的土产。你们田间的葡萄树在未熟之先，也不掉果子。

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

youdao

这会给挪亚带来三个难题：第一，挪亚从来没有看过下雨，因为在洪水之先，神藉地上的雾气滋润大地。

There were three problems that could have caused Noah to doubt. First, Noah had never seen rain, because prior to the Flood, God irrigated the earth from the ground up.

youdao

我未到埃及见你之先，你在埃及地所生的以法莲和玛拿西这两个儿子是我的，正如流便和西缅是我的一样。

Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

youdao

Because he sort of ahead his time. He often.

因为他走在了他的时代之先。

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