"So they have themselves experienced what it is like to be survivors of a devastating natural disaster."

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So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

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So it will be devastating for a very long time.

所以那会让人难过很久。

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