We can go back to ancient Egypt where there khemeia is reference in the hieroglyphs to term khemeia, which, among other things, meant chemical processes for embalming the dead.

我们可以追溯到古埃及,那的象形文字提到了词语,这是，在其他事情当中，意味着,化学过程处理防腐尸体。

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Later writers take this poetic image and fill out the allusion to - drowning in this ancient song, and compose the prose accounts in Exodus 14, in which the metaphor is literalized.

随后，作者利用这个场景,用这个古老的歌谣进行影射，创作了这一段白话诗,《出埃及记》14，在这段文字中的暗喻被文学化了。

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