They've managed to procure no more than a burial plot in the Promised Land Even God has left his land, descending with the Israelites into Egypt, so the promises and their fulfillment seem quite remote.

他们只试图在应许之地获得一块葬身之地,甚至上帝也离开了他的土地，与以色列人一起下埃及去，因此许诺和它们的实现似乎相去甚远。

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