It also serves a social and political function, because The portrait or picture of the universe or the world and its structure Corresponds to and legitimates the structure of Babylonian society.

它还有社会和政治功能,因为对宇庙或世界的描绘以及它的结构,与巴比伦社会的法律体系是一致的。

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I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.

我对那些参考的理解完全不同，因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。

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But the tribal structure of Israelite society that would develop would be strengthened by the natural division of the land into these separate geographical areas that only reinforced the tribalization of society. And these local tribes probably did assimilate elements of the local population.

但是以色列社会的部落形态却会发展,被不断地加强,因为土地自然划分为分离的地理区域,这加强了社会的部落化，这些当地的部落,很可能同化了当地人口的特点。

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