So while the relationship of D to some of the laws in the Covenant Code is often--not always but often--one of revision, the relationship between D and the laws in the Priestly source is more difficult to characterize.

那么，尽管申命记材料和契约法典中的律法的关系,往往是，不是总是而是往往，是修订，申命记材料中的,律法和祭祀派材料的的关系则更难定义。

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The Torah laws-- And also, the laws in those collections very often, despite the prologues' rhetoric that they bring justice to the disadvantaged and so on, many of the laws clearly serve the interests of an upper class. Okay, that's the more important point.

尽管《律法》，和那些材料中的法律，在序言中花言巧语，声称自己为弱势群体,带来正义等等，但很明显很多法律都是为上层阶级的,利益服务，记住，这是一个更重要的观点。

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Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.

有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。

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