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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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Or when they'd get to Jerusalem, they'd see, "Oh, these people worship Yahweh.
如果他们去耶路撒冷，会发现，“原来他们崇拜耶和华。
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They may have understood this to be the work of Yahweh, a god known probably from southern regions.
他们也许认为这是耶和华所为，他是南方宗教中的神灵。
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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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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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At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.
某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。
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Yahweh is doing battle here with a human foe, the Egyptian pharaoh and his army.
耶和华在这里是与人类的敌人战斗，即埃及法老和他的敌人。
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All the people answered as one, saying, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do!"
众人都齐声回答，“凡耶和华所说，我们都要遵行“
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The most important is that Yahweh's battle is a historic battle, rather than a mythic battle. The sea is not Yahweh's opponent, nor is Yahweh's enemy another god.
最重要的一点是，耶和华的战斗，是一场历史意义上的，而不是神话意义上的，大海并不是耶和华的敌人，也不是其他神的敌人。
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He writes, "Convergence involved the coalescence of various deities, and or some of their features into the figure of Yahweh" There's a period of convergence and blending of the deities.
他写到“集合包括多个神灵的合并，他们的一些特别最终集合于耶和华“,有过一段众神集合混杂的时期。
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The jealousy of the suzerain is the motivation for prohibitions against certain intimate contacts with non-Yahweh peoples, because these alliances will end up entailing recognition of the gods of these peoples.
领主的嫉妒成为禁止与非耶和华信仰的人,进行亲密接触的诱因,因为与这些盟国接触，会导致对这些人所崇拜的神的认同。
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Some scholars think this actually was originally a psalm about Baal that was simply adopted and referred to Yahweh.
很多学者认为这一段赞美诗其实是描写Baal的,后来被改编用于指代耶和华。
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