Why does it matter that Israel understands its relationship with God, and uses the covenant as a vehicle for expressing its relationship with God, the vehicle of the suzerainty treaty?

这对犹太人理解他与上帝的关系，和用契约作为一个媒介，阐释他与上帝之间的关系,对这个领主条约，有什么意义呢？

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We could think of it as the contractual relation that a writer makes with his reader.

我们可以把它看作一种契约关系,作者与读者之间订立的契约。

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So subservience to a human king, native or foreign, is in these texts considered a rejection of the divine kingship, and it's seen as a breach of the covenant.

在这些文章中，归属于人类的国王，本土的，国外的，都会当做是对神圣关系的抵制，这被看作是违反契约的行为。

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So while the relationship of D to some of the laws in the Covenant Code is often--not always but often--one of revision, the relationship between D and the laws in the Priestly source is more difficult to characterize.

那么，尽管申命记材料和契约法典中的律法的关系,往往是，不是总是而是往往，是修订，申命记材料中的,律法和祭祀派材料的的关系则更难定义。

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According to Levenson, the use of a suzerainty treaty as a model for Israel's relationship to Yahweh, expresses several key ideas. It captures several key ideas.

根据Levenson的观点，领主契约用作于一个,犹太人和耶和华之间关系的范例，表达几个重要的观点。

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