Sacrifices that purge the sanctuary of ritual impurity, primarily the hatta't, always involve the manipulation of the animal's blood, daubing it on the altar and on Yom Kippur, actually entering the innermost shrine and sprinkling it on the throne of God and the footstool, the ark itself.

能够净化圣所中仪式上不洁的献祭，主要是hatta’t，经常包含着对动物血液的操纵,在赎罪日把血涂在祭坛上，进入最里面的神殿,把血洒在上帝的王座，以及他的脚凳，也就是方舟上。

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We don't have the image of this as a throne with the ark as God's footstool. So it seems to be a greater abstraction of the deity.

我们也没有看到王冠和约柜作为上帝脚凳的画面,因此这似乎是对神的进一步抽离。

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In Deuteronomy we read that it will be deposited for safekeeping in a special ark.

在《申命记》中，我们会读到,立约卷被妥善保管在特制的藏经柜中。

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It's not the same word that's used for Ark of the Covenant, aron by the way: the Ark of the Covenant, the word is aron.

它与契约之舟的用法并不相同，顺便说一下，在契约之舟中所使用的词语是。

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It was a wooden ark covered in gold. On top was a kind of covering.

这是个镀金的木质方舟，顶部有一样东西盖着。

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The Ark was a visible sign of his presence and it marched before them And soon after the conquest representatives of all of the tribes of Israel are going to meet and make a solemn covenant at Shechem to be the people of Yahweh, to worship him alone.

约柜便是他现身的标志，它在他们面前行进,在征服之后，以色列各个支派的代表们,将要会面并且在示剑订立神圣的契约,立约做耶和华的子民，只对他崇拜。

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