And we're going to begin with the story of Terah and his family. This is a story that's marked by the themes of divine command and divine promise.

我们将从他拉和他家族的故事开始,这段故事的主题是神的命定和应许。

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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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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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These are contained in Genesis 12 through 50.

这段故事包括在创世纪的第12至50章中。

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Scholars tend to place great emphasis on the deliverance from Egypt as the high point in the Exodus narrative, rather than the more natural literary climax, which is the conclusion of the covenant at Mount Sinai, and the delivery of the Torah.

学者们想强调，从埃及拯救出来这一段,作为这个故事最精彩的部分，而不是自然的文学高潮,就是随后在西奈的契约，即交付《摩西五经》

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