They're partners in the preparation of Israel for their new life, readying Israel for life in God's land as a nation, as a people.

他们一起合作为犹太人的新生活做准备，为上帝应许的地方建立一个国家，一个民族做准备。

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Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.

甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。

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If the land isn't taken up by large oligarchies life slaveholding class--then the small guy has a chance.

如果土地没有被大的垄断方占有,奴隶阶级,弱小的一方就仍会有希望

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Love and loyalty are mere abstractions, however, without some sort of vehicle for their expression; and the vehicle for their expression then is God's Torah, the sum total of God's teachings and instructions and laws and guidelines, which are supposed to ensure long life and prosperity in the land.

爱和忠诚都是一种无法表述的吸引力,于是律法卷就成了表述它们的方式,即对上帝的教诲，指导，律法和方针的,汇总，它将保证这片土地长久的,繁荣。

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And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

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