When we read the flood story in Genesis 6 through 9, we're often struck by the very odd literary style.

当我们在《创世纪》中读到关于大洪水故事时，会觉得文风非常奇怪。

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And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.

这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴，他如此激怒他们，他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号，像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。

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Sometimes the flood seems to be the result of very heavy rain, but in other descriptions it seems to be a real cosmic upheaval.

有人说，大洪水是大雨导致的，还有人说，是因为宇宙变动引起的。

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And sometimes it occurs in one passage, as in the flood story here, and sometimes it occurs in stories or passages that are separate from one another, for example, the two creation stories.

有时，会出现在一段文章中，就像大洪水的故事，有时，会出现在完全不相关的两个故事或者文章中,比如说，两个创世纪的故事。

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You might want to get that out in front of you because we're going to talk a little bit about the flood story in Genesis 6 through 9.

你们也许急于摆脱它，因为基于你们对,《创世纪》6到9章的阅读，谈谈对大洪水故事的想法。

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