Well you can read the story, it's in Numbers 20, the incident is described there. But the answer is still not entirely clear, it's not clear what Moses did that was so bad as to deserve this punishment.

你们可以阅读这个故事，在民数记20，讲述了这个事件,然而答案却仍然不是完全清楚的，摩西究竟做了什么,坏事才遭受这样的惩罚，还不完全清楚。

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Well, for the answer to that we have to go back to ancient Greek music theory, and when you read about this--it's really turgid stuff-- but believe it or not, I teach a course on this at the graduate level.

这个,要回答那个问题,恐怕要追溯到古希腊的音乐理论,每次读这些都会云山雾罩的,不管你信不信,我曾在研究生中开过这个课程

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