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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And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。

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