The East Timorese believe a curse plagues the families of people who die without a proper burial, so this ceremony is to symbolically put Fernando's soul to rest, and bring peace to his bereaved relatives.

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These sources preserve different traditions on the number and the nature of the plagues, as well as the principal actors in the drama: God, Moses, Aaron.

这些素材都保留了不同的风格,不同瘟疫的数量，内容,关于三个主角，上帝，摩西，主角的描述也不相同。

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They have a quarantine house where they would put people who were travelers arriving there, because walls kept out plagues.

杜布罗夫尼克有一个检疫处,想进城的人若被查出生病,将会在此被隔离

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His people are troubled by disaster, plagues, famines, the men die, the women are barren.

他的人民遭受灾难,瘟疫,饥荒,男人性命不保,女人无法生育

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So according to the source critical analysis, no source contains ten plagues.

所以，通过材料批评分析，没有材料包括十次瘟疫。

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So each of the first plagues in the sets of three is introduced this way.

每三组的第一次瘟疫都是这样开始。

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Some scholars have noticed that the plagues are organized in three sets of three.

许多学者发现,瘟疫是三个一组，总共三组。

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The Egyptian magicians who are initially able to mimic some of the plagues that are brought on by God--they are quickly bested, and Yahweh's defeat of the magicians is tantamount to the defeat of the gods of Egypt.

埃及的巫师最初只会模仿,上帝制造的瘟疫，巫师们随后就被打败了，耶和华战胜了巫师相当于,打败了埃及的众神。

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