God's preference for the offering of Abel valorizes the free life of the nomadic pastoralist over urban existence.

上帝对亚伯的优待，肯定了游牧式的生活,甚于定居的生活。

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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.

甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。

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And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

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