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"There is no choice,you must change, because God's divine conduct will change you.
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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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But, in this view, God is so powerful and so transcendent that God will know the heart of the worshipper.
但是，在这个观点里，上帝是强大超群的,上帝会知晓崇拜者的心灵。
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But the view eventually will be that only Israel is obligated to the God of Israel, other nations aren't held accountable for their idolatry in the books of the Torah.
但随后演变为，只有犹太人,有义务崇拜自己的上帝,其他的民族则不用，根据《摩西五经》的记载。
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So, for absolute rulers, the link to religion you can read about, but there's always the sense that he or she is doing God's will by exploiting ordinary peasants, ordinary people and conquering other territories.
所以对于绝对统治者,你会在书本上读到他们与宗教之间的联系,但是存在这样一种观点,即绝对统治者是代天授命,所以他们有理由剥削民众并且扩张领土
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For if I say that this is to disobey the god and because of this it is impossible to keep quiet, you will not be persuaded by me on the grounds that I am being ironic.
因为假设我说那是违悖神意,所以我无法保静默，你们不会被我说服,反而会以为我语带讽刺；
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The blood of sacrificial animals is assigned by God as a detergent, if you will, to cleanse the sanctuary of the impurities that are caused by the sinful deeds of the Israelites.
祭祀动物的血液被上帝指定为清洁剂，如果你想，它可以用来清除圣所中,由以色列人的罪恶行为带来的不洁。
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Jerusalem is the city that is referred to in Deuteronomy when it says God will choose a place to cause his name to dwell In the Deuteronomistic books, that place is going to be Jerusalem.
申命记》中提到耶路撒冷,它说，选择一座以上帝之名命名的城市供人居住,在《申命记》的经书中，这个地方便是耶路撒冷。
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The Priestly conception of god, you will recall, is of an immortal and asexual being.
你们将回顾，祭司的对于神的概念，是一个不朽且无性的存在。
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It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".
这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“
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They're not wholly good, not wholly evil, and no one god's will is absolute.
他们不是完全的善良，也不是完全的邪恶，也没有一个神灵的意愿是绝对的。
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So he asks who God is, God says, "I am who am I am" or "I will cause to be what I will cause to be."
他问上帝到底是谁，上帝回答“我是自有永有的“,或者“我将会是我本该是的模样“
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He does not emerge from some preexisting realm and therefore he is free of all of the limitations of myth and magic--we'll go through these one by one--but a God whose will is absolute and sovereign. All right?
他不从任何既存的空间而来，因而他不受任何,神话和巫术的控制，他是完全独立和至高无上的,这些我们将一点一点来分析？
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We should note that this notion, or this idea of a god who can even make and keep an eternal covenant is only possible on the view that God's word and will are absolute, insusceptible to nullification by some superior power or some divine antagonist.
需要注意的一点是,神可以签订和遵守契约,只有可能是，上帝言语和意愿是不可违背的,并不会因为高级权力和强大对手而受到影响。
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The land is described as a land where milk and honey flow, and if only you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God. This is the kind of language that's used here, and not so much in the other books.
应许之地被描述为流奶与密的地方，并且只要,你遵从了耶和华你神这种语言,仅仅被用在这里，而不是在其它几书中。
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Each of these phenomena he says is transformed by the basic Israelite idea of one supreme transcendent God whose will is absolute and all of these things relate to the direct word and will of God.
所有的这些现象都随着以色列一神论概念的建立而改变,只有一位至高无上的上帝，他的意愿是不能被人改变的,世间万物都随上帝的意愿而生。
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The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.
这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。
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Final point then is...and we're not going to talk about salvation right now...but we're going to talk about the fact that the only supreme law is the will of God, because God is a creator God rather than a created God. He's imposed order, an order upon the cosmos.
最后一点，我们并不准备马上讲救赎,我们准备讲的事实是唯一的,至高无上的法律就是上帝的意愿，因为上帝是一个创造者,而不是被造出来的上帝，他对宇宙发号施令。
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Moses enumerates additional misfortunes and sufferings that will befall Israel if she sins. But he emphasizes the choice is Israel's: God has been clear regarding what's required, and it's not beyond Israel's reach to attain life and prosperity. She needs to only choose.
摩西列举了如果以色列人犯罪，他们所面临的,不幸和惩罚但是他强调了以色列人所拥有的选择：,上帝已经申明他的要求，以色列人,想要的生命和繁荣并不是不可达到的她只需要选择。
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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.
在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。
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