But this year the Roman Catholic Church is facing a growing crisis amid a flood of accusations of sexual abuse of children by priests over the decades and allegations of a cover up by senior clergy.

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The Israelites march around Jericho for six days with seven priests carrying seven horns and the Ark of the Covenant, and then with a blast and a shout the walls tumble.

以色列人和七位祭司绕耶利哥城六天,带着七支号角和约柜，然后随着爆炸巨响城墙坍塌。

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The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.

这些牧师能够建造新的身份和宗教,强调人们的原罪，宗教圣洁和遵从律法的必要性,强调守法主义是重返上帝的必经之路。

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It's a hint at the malevolent agency of these priests, and it should point us to the true outrageousness of this speech, maybe its irrationality.

这里是暗示牧师们的不怀好意，并且也向我们指出了这个演说真正的惊人之语，在于它的非理性。

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Indeed, all the earth is Mine, but you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel."

因为全地球都是我的,你们要归我作祭司的国度，为圣洁的国家’,这些话你要告诉犹太人“

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So many of them would have gone up to Jerusalem and a real tension is going to develop between the Jerusalem priests and this class of Levites who are newcomers; and we'll see some of that tension played out in some other texts.

他们中的许多人将去耶路撒冷，一次真正的紧张状态,将在耶路撒冷的牧师和这些新来的利未人,中逐渐发展起来;我们将会在其它的经文中,看到一些这种紧张状态。

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This is a gift of flour and oil and incense, which is burned after a portion is removed for the priests as dues to the priests, the rest is burned on the altar again with a sweet smell from the incense.

祭品是面粉、油和香，这香的一部分被掰去，作为祭司的会费,剩下的部分摆在祭坛里燃烧,会发出一股甜甜的味道。

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And we identify this work as Priestly because it deals with matters that were of special concern to and under the jurisdiction of priests: the sanctuary, its cultic rituals, the system of sacrifices, the distinction between the holy and the profane and the pure and the impure.

我们之所以把《利未记》看成是与祭司有关的,是因为其中特别写到了,祭司的一些相关内容，包括至圣所，宗教仪式，供奉体系，以及神圣和世俗、,纯洁与肮脏之间的差别。

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He argued that in 586, with the destruction of Jerusalem and the people were taken into exile in Babylon, that was when, in Babylon, the priests were able to assume control, and they were able to play on the exiles' overwhelming feelings of guilt and failure.

他在586年争论，当耶路撒冷被摧毁,人们被驱逐至巴比伦时，就是彼时彼地，牧师们能够实行控制，他们能利用流放者们汹涌的感情,他们的罪恶感和失败感。

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So according to Wellhausen, the early period of ancient Israel must have been characterized by a free, more natural form of religion, an intimate relationship with God, unencumbered or unsullied by the legalistic cultic obsessions of priests and cult.

据Wellhausen，古代以以列早期,一定是以自由自然的宗教形式为特色的，与上帝关系亲密，不受任何阻碍,牧师和仪式痴迷于遵从律法，造成阻碍。

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