So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.

在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事，我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。

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He's much more down to earth. He forms the human like a potter working with clay.

这个上帝更现实，他创造人类,就像陶瓷匠制瓷一样。

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First, the fashioning of the human from clay is--again--in that story, The final climactic act of creation is the creation of the female from the male.

首先，用黏土创造人类又一次出现在故事中，创物行动中的高潮是,从男人身体中创造了女人。

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So this idea that the human being is a mixture of clay, Captures that paradoxical mix of sort of earthly and divine elements, dependence and freedom that marks the human as unique.

这便是人类是黏土混合物，具有世俗和神圣因素的奇特混合，同时具有依赖性和独立性就是人类特别之外。

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