So this is a myth in the sense that it's explaining some custom or ritual among the people.

这有点神话色彩,它解释了人类中间的一些习俗和仪式。

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Well, like the rest of the ancient world, Israel had a cultic system, and that cultic system featured a sanctuary: a sacred space with holy objects; sacred objects, where priests performed a variety of ritual acts.

和其他古代世界一样，以色列有一个宗教系统，圣所是这个系统的一个特色：,它是一个布满了神圣物体的地方，祭司会在这里举行一系列的仪式。

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And indeed there must be virtually a ritual of that recognition.

实际上还要有承认其地位的某种仪式

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Now, the concept of ritual impurity was a central and integral feature of most, if not all, ancient religions.

现在，仪式上的不洁已经是大部分宗教,主要的，整体而言的特点。

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In Genesis 15,God's promise to Abraham is formalized in a ritual ceremony.

创世纪》15中上帝对亚伯拉罕的应许是通过仪式起效的。

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In fact, a lot of ritual impurity is unavoidable and sometimes even obligatory, right?

事实上，很多仪式的不洁是无法避免的,有些时候甚至是必须的，不是么？

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The covenant is then sealed by a formal ritual.

犹太人发誓他们将遵行在正式的仪式以后，契约被封印。

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This kind of ritual honor all the time I mean after all we have a president who just likes to speak like a Texan, he doesn't do all that honor stuff.

这种走过场的形式到处都是,毕竟我们的总统在讲话的时候,很喜欢装成德州佬的样子,他不喜欢做面子工程

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On the other hand, a Protestant distaste for priest-centered cultic ritual colors scholarly accounts of the temple, and its meaning for ancient Israelites.

一方面，新教徒不喜欢，以神职人员为中心的,狂热祭祀，就庙宇来说，也有不同的歪曲，以及对犹太人的意义。

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The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.

这些牧师能够建造新的身份和宗教,强调人们的原罪，宗教圣洁和遵从律法的必要性,强调守法主义是重返上帝的必经之路。

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You can't approach to offer a sacrifice if you're not in a state of ritual purity already.

如果你不处于仪式上纯洁的状态,你将不能贡献祭品。

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It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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First of all, corpses and certain carcasses at are a source of ritual impurity: sara'at, which is this--we translate it "scale disease," it's been called leprosy. It's definitely not leprosy.

首先是尸体和一些动物的尸体,它们是仪式上不洁的一个来源，sara’,这个词我们翻译过来是“一种大规模的传染病“,也就是麻风病，事实上它并不是麻风病。

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t The hatta't, the purification offering, doesn't rid a ritually impure person of their ritual impurity.

净化祭，hatta’,并不能使一个不洁者摆脱他的不洁。

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So for Wellhausen, the Priestly source, which emphasizes cult and ritual logically it had to represent a late degenerate stage in the evolution of Israelite religion, because priestly ritualistic cultic practices, these are degenerations.

对于Wellhausen，牧师来源强调祭祀和仪式,它代表了一种晚期的退化阶段,在以色列宗教的进化进程，因为牧师仪式的宗教习俗都是一种退化。

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