Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell says Gates urged both leaders to avoid a repetition of the "painful memory" of the five-month government formation process in 2005.

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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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The Hebrew tribes, themselves, were likely still in the process of formation.

而那些希伯来部落自己，很有可能仍然处于成形的过程。

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