So Klawans follows earlier scholars in suggesting that the rituals and sacrifices performed in this sanctuary were designed to ensure God's continued residence within and blessing of the community.

克洛文和一些早期的学者一样，认为,在圣所里进行宗教仪式献祭仪式,都是为了确保上帝长久地呆在这个地方,并祝福他的子民。

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God's redemption of the Israelites is a redemption for a purpose, a purpose that doesn't become clear until we get to Sinai, for at Sinai the Israelites will become God's people, bound by a covenant.

上帝对犹太人的救赎是有目的的，直到了西奈，目的才显现出来，在西奈，犹太人将成为上帝的子民，与契约绑定。

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Now, as has long been noted, the Exodus event became the paradigm of God's salvation of his people, and when I say salvation, I don't mean that in the later Christian sense of personal salvation from sin.

就像一直标注的那样，《出埃及记》成为,上帝拯救他子民的范本，这里的拯救,并不是指后来基督教的把人从原罪中拯救出来。

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Human actions determine the degree to which God can dwell on earth among his people.

人类的行为决定着上帝如何,对待他的子民。

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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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But they also serve another very important function, and that was the formation and maintenance of a differentiated ethnic identity or in Priestly parlance, the formation and maintenance of a holy peoples separated out from other nations by rules that mark her as God's people.

但是它们也有另外一个很重要的功能，这个功能形成并维护了,一个分化的种族身份，或者用神职人员的说法，这些规则促使了神圣民族的形成和保持,这个民族和其他的城邦区别开来，被标记为上帝的子民。

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