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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The creation story in Genesis 1 draws upon the Babylonian epic known as Enuma Elish.

第一章里创世纪的故事,源于巴比伦史诗《埃努玛-埃利什》

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The story of the first human pair in the Garden of Eden, which is in Genesis 2 and 3 has clear affinities with the Epic of Gilgamesh, that's a Babylonian and Assyrian epic in which a hero embarks on this exhausting search for immortality.

创世纪2至3，里，伊甸园亚当和夏娃的故事,与《吉尔迦美什史诗》有着密切的联系，《吉尔迦美什史诗》是巴比伦人和亚叙人的,一个英雄竭尽全力追求永生的故事。

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In our consideration of Genesis 1 and 2, We first need to consider a Babylonian epic, an epic that is known Enuma elish By its opening words at the top of the column over there, Enuma Elish, which means "when on high," the opening words of this epic.

在我们学习《创世纪》第一章和第二章时，我们首先要了解一部巴比伦史诗,它因开篇第一句被人们所知，它的意思是，当在天国时，这就是开篇的话。

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