So, that translation causes people to believe that ; The story is giving me an account of the first event in time forward; But it's actually a bad translation.

因此，这种翻译让人们相信,这个故事将讲述时间存在以来的第一件事;,但事实上这是一个有误的翻译。

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These anachronisms and confused chronologies in the patriarchal stories are the rule rather than the exception in their view, and they are evidence of a very late date of composition.

在他们看来，这些年代错误和混乱的时间线,在族长故事中是普遍现象而不是例外，明显是十分近代的作品。

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We won't come back to it at least for the moment, but you see that it's mercifully short, and as time passes we will do some rather interesting tricks with it.

至少我们这节课用不上，看，这篇故事很短，过一段时间我们会针对它做一些很有趣的练习。

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Our story opens with a temporal clause: "When on high," "when God began creating"; We have a wind that sweeps over chaotic waters, Just like the wind of Marduk released into the face of Tiamat, And the Hebrew term is particularly fascinating.

我们的故事以时间状语开始：,“当在天国时““上帝开始创世“,我们读到了掠过恶水的气流，就像Marduk当Tiamat的面所释放的气流，希伯来语的说法尤其迷人。

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