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The assertion is not that there is no other god, but that Israel will have no other god before Yahweh.
这个主张并不是说这里没有其他的上帝,而是说犹太人不能再有除耶和华以外的神。
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So in Exodus 4:22, Yahweh tells Moses to say to Pharaoh "Thus says the Lord, 'Israel is my firstborn son.
所以在《出埃及记》第四章第22节中，耶和华让摩西告诉法老,“犹太人是我的长子“
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Choose this day which ones you are going to serve, but I in my household will serve Yahweh," serve the Lord.
今日就可以选择所要事奉的，至于我和我家，我们必定侍奉耶和华“，侍奉上帝。
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To understand that new beginning, we need to look at the differences between patriarchal religion, and the new Yahwism.
为了理解这种全新开始，我们必须看看,先祖宗教与新的耶和华崇拜之间的不同。
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Now, ancient Hebrew descriptions of Yahweh employ very similar language in the poetic passage here in Exodus 15, but also in other poetic passages.
出埃及记》15，犹太人对耶和华的描述,借用了这段诗的片段，还有其他的。
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Like the storm gods in the myths of Israel's neighbors, Yahweh heaps up the waters with a blast of wind.
就像犹太人邻居的神话，耶和华用狂风卷起巨浪。
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The evolutionary model is, I think, responding to, and picking up on, the fact that in many respects, Yahweh resembles the gods of Israel's neighbors.
进化模型，我认为，回应了或者说挑选了这个事实，在很多方面，耶和华与以色列邻国的神灵相似。
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He presents the Israelites with the following choice: "Now therefore revere the Lord," using the word Yahweh, "revere Yahweh, and serve him with undivided loyalty.
他给以色列人以下选择：,“因此要敬畏上帝“用了耶和华的原话，“现在你们要敬畏耶和华，诚心实意地事奉他。
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And verses 11 to 13: For you own sakes, therefore, be most mindful to love the Lord your God.
在11到13节中：,你们要分外谨慎，爱耶和华你们的神。
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Put away the gods that your forefathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt" put away the gods your forefathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt--"and serve Yahweh.
将你们列祖所事奉的神除掉,在大河那边和在埃及的神“,将你们列祖所事奉的神除掉,在大河那边和在埃及的神“，侍奉耶和华。
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In Deuteronomy 32:10, the image is that of an eagle that bears its young on its wings: He found him in a desert region, In an empty howling waste.
在《申命记》第32章10节，出现在鹰的形象，两翼负着雏鹰：,耶和华遇见他在荒凉旷野，在野兽吼叫之地。
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What's interesting about the Song of the Sea, this poetic fragment in Exodus 15, is that here the Hebrews adopt the language of Canaanite myth and apply it to Yahweh.
关于海之歌那首出现在《出埃及记》15中的残诗,有趣的是，犹太人改编了迦南人的神话,套用在耶和华的身上。
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The most salient feature of the Deuteronomistic School is the conviction that Israel's residence in the land is a function of its obedience or disobedience to the covenant with Yahweh.
申命记学院派最突出的特点是,它认为以色列能居住于土地是因为,他顺从上帝，或者说是不遵从与耶和华的契约。
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The account of the conquest in Joshua 2 through 12, is concerned to express the basic idea that Israel's victories would not have been possible without Yahweh, without his wondrous help.
在《约书亚书》第2到12章中记叙的征服，想要表达一种基本的观点,以色列不可能获胜，如果没有耶和华，没有他神奇的帮助。
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We have the preamble, and the historical background to the covenant in God's summary introduction to the people in Exodus 20: "I am Yahweh who brought you out of the land of Egypt."
我们有开场白，签订契约的历史大环境,就像《出埃及记》20中上帝总结性的介绍：,“我是将你们从为奴之地领出来的耶和华“
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But the introduction, "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy"--being holy in imitation of God is emphasized repeatedly as the purpose of the laws in the Holiness Code especially.
你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的神是圣洁的“,这一引言就是教导人们要效仿上帝保持圣洁,作为法律的目的它被反复强调，特别是在圣洁法典里。
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So in Joshua 23:7-8: ; "Do not utter the names of their gods or swear by them; do not serve them or bow down to them, but hold fast to the Lord your God as you have done this day."
在《约书亚书》23章7到8节中：,他们的神，你们不可提他的名，不可指着他起誓;,也不可事奉，叩拜，只要照着你们到今日所行的，专靠耶和华你们的神“
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You shall not make yourselves unclean through any swarming thing that moves upon the earth. For I the Lord am He who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God: you shall be holy, for I am holy.
你们也不可在地上的爬物,污秽自己，我是把你们从埃及地领出来的耶和华,要作你们的神，所以你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。
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So in Deuteronomy 5:2-3: "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb . It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today."
那么在申命记5章2-3节耶和华我们的神在和烈山,与我们立约这约不是与我们祖先立的,乃是与我们今日在这里存活之人立的“
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The land is described as a land where milk and honey flow, and if only you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God. This is the kind of language that's used here, and not so much in the other books.
应许之地被描述为流奶与密的地方，并且只要,你遵从了耶和华你神这种语言,仅仅被用在这里，而不是在其它几书中。
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If then You slay this people to a man, the nations who have heard Your fame will say, 'It must be because the Lord was powerless to bring that people into the land He had promised them on oath that He slaughtered them in the wilderness.
如今你若把这些人杀了，那听到你名声的国家会说,耶和华因为不能把这些人领进,向他们起誓的应许之地,所以在旷野中把他们杀了。
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So, for example, Psalm 68:5, "Extol him who rides the clouds, the Lord is his name," Yahweh is his name.
比如说，Psalm68：5，中提到“赞美御风而行的人，他的名字叫神，神的名字叫耶和华。
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The covenant with Yahweh will also, we shall see soon, preclude alliances with other human competitors.
接下来我们也会看到，与耶和华缔结的契约，同样阻止了和敌人的结盟。
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Okay, so there are two designations used for God. Yahweh, which is the sacred Tetragrammaton, it's written with four letters in Hebrew, they don't include vowels.
上帝有两个名字，耶和华，犹太人上帝的名字,在希伯来语由四个字母构成，希伯来语没有元音。
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And so the mixed group that would join together to become Israel accepted Yahweh, though perhaps not exclusively, and adopted the national story of the Exodus as its own at some point.
那么这些融合的群体团结起来,成为接受耶和华的以色列，也许并不是排外的，在这时将《出埃及记》纳入变为国家历史故事。
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They are trying to make sense of the tragedy that has befallen them, how a text like Joshua 23 and Joshua 24 would go a long way towards explaining their fate while retaining faith in Yahweh.
他们想要解释降临在他们身上的悲剧，章节如《约书亚书》第23和24章就花很大力气,来解释他们的命运，同时保持对耶和华的信仰。
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If you didn't, perhaps you can raise your hand, and if the TFs have any left you'll want to take a look at these differences between patriarchal religion and Mosaic Yahwism, and this is going to help us.
如果还没有，你可以举手，看助教还有没有剩下的,你们要看看这些不同之处,先祖宗教和耶和华崇拜间的差别，这将对我们很有帮助。
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