Each of these anniversaries pitted Russia against the peoples affected by its might.

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The jealousy of the suzerain is the motivation for prohibitions against certain intimate contacts with non-Yahweh peoples, because these alliances will end up entailing recognition of the gods of these peoples.

领主的嫉妒成为禁止与非耶和华信仰的人,进行亲密接触的诱因,因为与这些盟国接触，会导致对这些人所崇拜的神的认同。

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You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

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