It's kind of interesting. God tells Adam before the creation of Eve that he's not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that's in Genesis 2:16, on pain of death.

在《创世纪》第2章第16节，谈及死亡的痛苦时,上帝在没造出夏娃之前，告诉亚当,他不能吃智慧果。

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This is why he tells us parenthetically that marriage must not be called a defilement.

这就是为什么他顺便地告诉我们,婚姻不能被称为肮脏。

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